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Immigration To America
Number of words: 652 - Number of pages: 3.... differences among them. This instilled fear within these immigrants. Uncertain of their future, several immigrants saw America has an adventure and a "beacon of hope."
Upon arriving at Ellis Island immigrants underwent questioning, medical examinations, and other upsetting ordeals. Each passenger had to answer a series of about 30 questions that were recorded on lists. These questions included name, age, sex, marital status, occupation, nationality, etc. Several immigrants didn't know how to write or spell their own names, so immigration inspectors created one for them. Passengers were .....
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Racism - After The Civil War
Number of words: 606 - Number of pages: 3.... their whole lives in slavery had little knowledge of the outside world. This lack of knowledge would not be helpful in trying to find work once they were released. Plantation owners with a lack of workforce were eager to offer extremely low pay to their former slaves. In addition, the work force of the plantation would often live in the same quarters they did while enslaved. These living conditions showed little change from the living conditions African-Americans had faced while enslaved. While the former slaves lived on the ideal that they were now free, the fifteenth amendment was under hea .....
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Theatre Review Three Tall Women
Number of words: 600 - Number of pages: 3.... had needed assistance as well as a pillow for her back.
The other characters, B and C, were convincing in their costumes and makeup. However, I didn't truly understand their characters. I couldn't tell if the nurse, B, was annoyed with the old woman or if she felt sorry for her. Character C, the lawyer, didn't really have a defined character except that she exhibited no sympathy for the old woman. Her facial expressions were blank at times and her movements seemed awkward.
After intermission, the play resumed and this time, the old woman was apparently dead. All three characters returned, b .....
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Number of words: 5165 - Number of pages: 19.... schools, restaurants, public
water fountains, amusement parks, and city buses were part of everyday life in
Montgomery, Alabama.
“Every person operating a bus line should provide equal
accommodations...in such a manner as to separate the white people from Negroes."
On Montgomery's buses, black passengers were required by city law to sit in the
back of the segregated bus. Negroes were required to pay their fare at the
front of the bus, then get off and reboard from the rear of the bus. The front
row seats were reserved for white people, which left the back of the bus or no
man' .....
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Themes Of Italian Renaissance Art
Number of words: 854 - Number of pages: 4.... Artists became familiar
with mathematics and the concept of space, as well as
anatomy. Lorenzo Ghiberti studied the anatomical
proportions of the body, Filippo Brunelleschi was
interested in mathematics in architecture, Leone Battista
Alberti, who was skilled in painting, sculpture and
architecture, stressed the study of mathematics as the
underlying principle of the arts (Fleming, 285). Leonardo
also looked at the geometric proportions of the human body
(Calder, 197). In painting, but especially in sculpture,
artists were inspired to express the structural forms of
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Psycho Film Review
Number of words: 328 - Number of pages: 2.... gets killed, and her family and friends try to find out what actually happened to her. That is not the only way the plot goes, though. After the introduction of Norman, we realize that something is wrong inside his head. This develops through the end where we find out what is really wrong with him. This isn't really a side plot, just a developing issue.
This is an excellent movie from all points of review. In all aspects, Hitchcock does an excellent job of making his actors work and fit in exactally where he wants them to. Everthing falls into place in the end, and we understand .....
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Irish Potato Famine
Number of words: 1093 - Number of pages: 4.... to cover. Therefore, in an examination of the "famine", one must begin with the
facts. Once the facts have been revealed, one may move to explore the truth (or falsity) of the history which
developed around the circumstances. This information can lead to a sound judgment in this scenario.
The world was lead to believe that the Irish famine was caused solely by a blight, "which destroyed the potato
crop, the food on which more than half the population lived." Much of the world perceived the situation to be a
great, albeit unavoidable tragedy; the use of the word "famine" in mo .....
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British Society
Number of words: 2328 - Number of pages: 9.... and then there the oppressed, who are the back breaking workers. The factory workers and miners (the oppressed) were denied basic human rights and their opinion and beliefs were discarded as being useless. These workers wanted change and reform, however they did not speak out against their masters or government because of fear of retaliation by the oppressors, of punishment and also because of the lack of leadership skill to organize a revolt. The leadership that was needed was that of Harold Transome, a radical, and of his political agents that began preaching the need for change and .....
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Braveheart
Number of words: 778 - Number of pages: 3.... of his life. He was educated and learned to speak
Latin with his uncle who he also took him on a
pilgrimage to Rome. He returned home to Scotland
while in his late twenties to raise crops and a family.
He soon was married to a girl he knew as a kid in
secret so that none of the guards could enforce the
law of Primal Nuctar, which is to bless the marriage
by sleeping with the bride. He tried to dodge the
law but failed. He fought off the soldiers of the
king for what he knew was right. But his wife was
captured and killed for assault on a king's guard.
This is what ma .....
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The Age Of Exploration: Europe
Number of words: 516 - Number of pages: 2.... He also
explored the coastline of Central America.
Juan Ponce de Le¢n set out to find the Fountain of Youth. He never
did find the fountain, but he discovered the land that he named "Florida".
Vasci de Balboa was the first to push through the jungle of Central America,
On the other side he discovered a vast body of water that he named "South
Sea", because he thought that it was South of Asia. This Ocean was named
the "Pacific".
Magellan, of Portagual, founded the narrow straits at the Southern
tip of South America. It was later named the "Strait of Magellan". He .....
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