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The Roaring Twenties: A Time Of Great Advancement And Excitement
Number of words: 724 - Number of pages: 3.... only to enjoy a good meal, but to bask in it’s excitement and glory. At 10 o’clock, after dinner and socializing with the town folk, many would think that the night would be over but it had just begun! The men loosened their shirt collars, and the women took off their hats, it was time to boogie. It was time to swing.
Swing music is a form of jazz, which was first made popular by the first great jazz soloist, the amazing Louis Armstrong. He played vividly dramatic cornet and trumpet solos with his Hot Five and Hot Seven from 1925-1928 and then with a series of big bands. His rhythmic fe .....
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The Beatles
Number of words: 557 - Number of pages: 3.... Army soldier.
The Beatles first two song were "Love Me Do" and
"Please, Please Me." The Beatles starred in two movies, "A
Hard Days Night," and "Help." They also had their own full
length cartoon called "Yellow Submarine." The movie "A Hard
Days Night" earned 1.3 million dollars in its first week.
The Beatles early music was influenced by singers Chuck
Berry and Elvis Presley.
In November of 1963 the Beatles performed in front of
the Queen of England. This was an incredible honor. By the
end of 1963 the Beatles were the biggest music group in
England. The Beatles came to New Yor .....
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Seneca Indians: Allies And Enemies
Number of words: 1170 - Number of pages: 5.... as social and political meeting places. They lived in scattered villages
that were organized by a system of matrilineal clans.
A calendar cycle of ceremonies reflected their agricultural, hunting,
and gathering. The men hunted, cleared fields, traded and made war. The woman
gathered various wild plant foods and tended gardens.
They had a great agricultural economy. Their man crop was corn, but
they also grew pumpkins, beans, tobacco, maize, squash and later on they grew
orchard fruits like apples and peaches.
Crafts were also made. Fine pottery, splint baskets, mats of corn husk .....
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Romanticism In Music
Number of words: 1085 - Number of pages: 4.... and more brilliant sound.
In the musical world, new opportunities were being brought about. Most importantly, music was being brought from the church into the concert hall. There were also more chances for instrumentalists to better themselves since new conservatories were being established in Europe. All of this meant that orchestras could now be larger and the quality of the musicians would be much improved. With larger orchestras and better musicians, composers tended to become more expressive in their works. Rather than being limited to the range of piano to forte the crescendo was .....
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Beginnings Of The Stock Market
Number of words: 267 - Number of pages: 1.... News Agency, a service that distributed handwritten business news to banks and brokers, where he met two fellow financial reporters, Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser. In 1882, the three jumped ship to form a publishing venture of their own.
Poor Bergstresser. Not only did he bankroll Dow Jones & Company with the savings he'd acquired by working his way through college, but he also
gave the company's publication, a daily two-page financial news bulletin called the Customer's Afternoon Letter, a more lasting appellation: The Wall Street Journal. But "Bergstresser" was deemed too long to b .....
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The Red Book And The Power Structure Of Communist China
Number of words: 5770 - Number of pages: 21.... will use a graphical analysis of pictures in this
publication from 1966 to 1973 to show that propaganda was not just a tool of the
Communist party but also a reflection of internal power struggles within the
party during the Cultural Revolution.
The Red Book was written several years before it became the object of
national adoration and a tool for the Cultivation of Mao's personality Cult. The
history of the Red Book and its meteoric rise from a hand book for military
recruits to compulsory reading for all Chinese citizens, is closely tied to its
developer Lin Biao's rise to power. Li .....
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The Progressive Era
Number of words: 995 - Number of pages: 4.... Jetel?) during the Grant administration and
Mugwumps. Citizens were enraged, with big businesses' growing influence in all
branches of government and sought ways to purify it.
Big Business was also a target of progressivism. During this time
presidents like Roosevelt and William Howard Taft tried to regulate and control
big business. Many well educated people of the time, as well as moderately
prosperous businessmen and members of other professions(middle class) felt
threatened by the increasing power of big business and the tycoons. These people
were also disturbed by the Big business' .....
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Killer Angels 2
Number of words: 2537 - Number of pages: 10.... takes historical license with letters, the words of the men, and documents written during the three hellish days of the battle. Shaara avoids historical opinion and provides his own opinion towards the Civil War and the people. The historical account of the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg specifically, in Killer Angels conveys the attitude to toward war, attitude towards the Civil War, and cause for fighting the war of General Robert E. Lee, Joshua Chamberlain, James Longstreet, and John Buford.
General Robert E. Lee gained stoic and legendary status as the heart and soul of the South in .....
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Aquinas And Hobbes
Number of words: 1049 - Number of pages: 4.... could not possibly reason the existence of heaven and hell, so they can only learn of it through God's revelations in the Bible.
Vernon Bourke analyzes Aquinas' moral psychology because he believes that it is an important basis for the Aquinas' entire philosophy and that it was an essential component of Aquinas' bringing Aristotelian ideas to the Christian world view. Bourke states that Aquinas' moral psychology can be broken down to three distinct human functions. The first function is intelligence. Bourke defines Aquinas' view of intellect as the ability to comprehend "universal meaning .....
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