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Dali
Number of words: 273 - Number of pages: 1.... the museum as a six-story, circular, glass-domed structure with a spiral ramp surrounding a hollow core. This means art viewers can take the elevator to the top of the building and walk down the ramp to the bottom. There are no stairs to climb, no masses of rooms to get lost in, and no chance of missing a single piece of art.
The Guggenheim -- designed in 1943, but not completed until 1960 -- was one of the last major projects in Wright's remarkable architectural career.
Wright was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, and studied engineering at the University of Wisconsin. After working a .....
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Absolutism And Peter The Great
Number of words: 1015 - Number of pages: 4.... doctrines with the theory of royal absolutism, fourteenth century philosopher Bartolus of Sassoferrato believed that the ruler should not be bound to the laws of the government, but still should obey them whenever possible. In agreement with Bartolus, another fourteenth century philosopher, Lucas de Penna advocated that the ruler is only accountable to divine authority, being responsible to God alone, not the people. Further de Penna believed that law is the articulation of the ethical virtue of justice and reason is the foundation for that law. Thereby debasing the importance of the ki .....
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This Is Audie Murphy
Number of words: 543 - Number of pages: 2.... for basic training. After serving with Company K, 385th Infantry at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland since October 1942, he departed the United States, 8 February 1943, for duty in the European-African-Middle Eastern Theater of Operations. While serving as a Staff Sergeant with Company B, 15th Infantry, he was honorably discharged 13 October 1944 and accepted a combat appointment as a second lieutenant in the Army of the United States on 14 October 1944. He then served as Platoon Leader and Company Commander with the 15th Infantry Regiment to August 1945. Upon his return to the United State .....
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Augusto Pinochet
Number of words: 711 - Number of pages: 3.... abuse of Chilean nationals. His arrest was completely unexpected. He had a diplomatic passport on a Chilean arms purchasing mission. Pinochet had no idea that he could be arrested because no previous head of state had ever been tried in this manner. Pinochet is also being held responsible for offences committed by the Chilean police, even if Pinochet himself was not aware of the police brutality.
Contreras was the mastermind behind many projects and missions, whose main goal was to hunt down leftist enemies. It was his secret police that killed more than two thousand union leaders and .....
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European Crusades
Number of words: 1413 - Number of pages: 6.... importance. The
Crusaders continued an older tradition of the pilgrimage to the Holy
Land, which was often imposed as a penance . Now, however, they
assumed a two roles as pilgrims and warriors. Such an armed pilgrimage
was regarded as a justifiable war, because it was fought to recapture
the places sacred to that of the Christians .
Jerusalem had been under Muslim rule since the 7th century,
but pilgrimages were not cut off until the 11th century, when the
Seljuk Turks began to interfere with Christian pilgrims. For
Christians, the very name of Jerusalem evoked .....
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Ulysses S. Grant
Number of words: 1548 - Number of pages: 6.... during the 1870's-- in many ways the intellectual ancestors of the present historical profession. Although such a minority can sometimes be a source of enlightenment, in this case, it has contributed a monolithic picture of a complex era that is about as depressing as it is inaccurate. Little consideration is given the checkered nature of Grant's eight years of the Gilded Age. Michael Les Benedict observes that Grant "dominated his era, a stronger resident than most have recognized". In both the domestic and foreign realms, President Grant could claim a wide range of achievements. In .....
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Hiroshima 3
Number of words: 511 - Number of pages: 2.... away from the ever-growing fire. As he ran he saw burned bodies and people buried under houses that were on fire. He tried to help them but he could not because the flames were to hot. To me that would be one of the worst feelings's ever because you would want to help these people out but you could not. He finally ended up at the east parade ground, which was filled with people, many were dying. He heard people crying out for water so he found something that he could carry water in. He then proceeded to help out the dying.
He saw boats taking people across the river and he decided to .....
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The Role Of Cooperation In Anc
Number of words: 965 - Number of pages: 4.... and share the food with the group. Frans de Waal, a researcher at the Yerkes Primate Research Center in Atlanta, Georgia, traced this behavior back to chimpanzees. “Chimpanzee groups consist of caring, sharing individuals who form self-policing networks” (pg 13). Despite this fact, chimps share food only when it is to their advantage and cheat whenever they can get away with it. When the cheaters are identified, food is withheld in the next windfall.
Nisa, from From Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman, feels extremely jealous of her newborn brother, Kumsa, and often makes hi .....
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Development Of The Communist T
Number of words: 828 - Number of pages: 4.... (Engels, Marx 86)."
Communists do not form a separate party opposed to other
working class parties. There are ten measures needed to convert to
communism (Engels, Marx 94). 1. Abolition of property in land and
application of all rents of land to the public. 2. Heavy progressive
income tax. 3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance. 4. Confiscation
of the property of all emigrants and rebels. 5. Centralizing of credit
in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with a state
capital. 6. Centralizing of the means of communication and
transportation in t .....
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Jeffersonians Vs. Jacksonians
Number of words: 1844 - Number of pages: 7.... for the welfare of the nation. “ This began the
argument between the “strict constructionists” (Jefferson) who believed in
the strict interpretation of the Constitution by not going an inch beyond
its clearly expressed provisions, and the “loose constructionists”
(Hamilton) who wished to reason out all sorts of implications from what it
said”. Hamilton and Jefferson began to disagree more and more. Hamilton wrote
nasty anonymous articles in John Fenno’s Gazette of the United States and
Jefferson responded to him in Philip Freneau’s National Gazette. Jefferson .....
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