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The Seminoles
Words: 494 / Pages: 2 .... ancestors of .
The ancestors of fought with words, weapons, and with their own blood to protect their world as they knew and understood it. In the end of the American Revolutionary War and the creation of the United States in 1784, white settlers moved south into the Spanish and English colonies. It became obvious that a war between white immigrants and Native Americans of the land would take place soon. The U.S. began a policy of taking or buying land from the Native tribes. By 1813, some of the tribes rose up against white settlers and against other tribes that supported white settlement. The Second Seminole War (1835-1842) was the longest .....
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Sixteen Most Significant Events In US History Between 1789 To 1975
Words: 8699 / Pages: 32 .... is paired against the third seed "Monroe Doctrine".
The purchase of Louisiana from France in 1803 was the most popular and
momentous event of the Jefferson presidency. It had several significant
economic and political implications on this period in history. From an
economic perspective it doubled the size of the United States at a price of
only fifteen million dollars. It allowed settlement beyond the Mississippi
River in a territory that was rich in minerals and natural resources. It
eliminated the United States' long struggle for control of the Mississippi
River and its outlet to the sea, and as Jefferson stated, it freed America
from .....
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Agony Ang The Extacy, Ethical Considerations Concerning Mich
Words: 739 / Pages: 3 .... but to discuss, non-persuasively, the ethical and philosophical situations throughout his life.
I will start with his most well known accomplishment, the Sistine Chapel. At the time of his assignment he made it clear to Pope Julius II that he did not want to undertake such a big project. Not only was he concerned with the size of it; he wanted to have complete freedom with what he was to paint. Considering these facts was it ethical for the Pope to force Michelangelo into devoting years of his life to doing this job that he didn’t want to do in the first place? Or one could ask, was it ethical for Michelangelo to butt heads with the Pope, .....
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New Trend For Horror Films
Words: 788 / Pages: 3 .... Project is the best horror film released in a long time. It's not the standard Slash and hack horror movie that most of us have grown up with, remember the guy with the hockey mask that just would not die. Scary at age of eleven but quit laughable now. This movie puts a new twist on things without the buckets of blood and gore displayed in the horror films of the past. The misleading promotion before the film's release and the prologue at the beginning of the film have us beliving what we see is a true account of three student filmakers that disappeared while making a documentary about a legendary witch. What hooks the audience and draws them .....
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Guitar History
Words: 2166 / Pages: 8 .... is attached directly to a sound chamber. Within the Lute family came two groups. The lutes proper which had rounded backs and the guitar type instruments with their flat backs.
Guitar-shaped instruments appear in stone bas-relief sculptures of the hittites in northern Syria and Asia Minor from as far back as 1350 B.C.
The word guitar also has origins in the middle and far east, deriving from gut, is the Arabic word for four, and tar, the Sanskrit word for string. The earliest European guitars did have four courses of gut strings. A
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course is a pair of strings tuned in unison. These early guitars were distinguished from lutes by body sides tha .....
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A Slave's Life
Words: 1148 / Pages: 5 .... and south. Slavery was so popular that even eight of the first twelve presidents of the United States were slaveowners. Debates were had about slavery in the south but slavery was to stay for some time. Not even a century later between ten and eleven million Africans were sent to the United States to serve as slaves, about forty percent of southern population was made up of slaves. When all of these Africans arrived the legal status of them was poorly defined, and some managed to become free after a period of time, much like the indentured servants. But in the late 1600’s the colonies decided to enact laws that regulated the slaves. The .....
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Blaxploitation
Words: 1456 / Pages: 6 .... of Black people in American film.
“Porter’s tom was the first in a long line of socially acceptable Good Negro characters. Always as toms are chased, harassed, hounded, flogged, enslaved, and insulted, they keep the faith, n’er turn against their massas, and remain hearty, submissive, stoic, generous, selfless, and oh-so-very kind.”(Bogle,4)
The early silent period of cinema introduced five basic archetypes for Black characters: the Tom, the Coon, the Tragic Mulatto, the Mammy, and finally, the Brutal Black Buck. America’s first Black character found manifestation as the aforementioned Uncle Tom in Edwin S. Porter’s, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, w .....
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The Watergate Scandal
Words: 1494 / Pages: 6 .... into the Democratic National Committee's headquarters in the
Watergate Hotel. (Watergate Scandal 1) Immediately following their arrest
many observers thought that these employees of CREEP were breaking into the
Democratic National Committee's headquarters for the first time. In fact
CREEP employees had broken into the Democratic National Committee's
headquarters six times between August 21, 1971 and June 17, 1972. During
their sixth break-in on June 17, they were caught. (Secret Agenda) At
approximately 2:30 in the morning on this date, they were caught by police
in the Watergate Hotel. Police seized a walkie talkie, 40 rolls of .....
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The French And Indian War
Words: 263 / Pages: 1 .... led by General Edward Braddock and the French army, which was led by Captain
Beaujeau. The English army included 1,750 British regulars and 450 colonial
militia. The French army, which included Indians, included less than 1,000 men.
The English army and General Edward Braddock marched through the wilderness
towards the French fort, Fort Duquesne. The uniforms that the British wore were
easy to see through the forest. They were red and very bright. Some soldiers
carried flags, some just marched and carried their guns, some were on horses,
and others played music to which the army marched. General Braddock and his
British soldiers believed that the .....
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It Was For The Best: The Long Island Railroad Massacre
Words: 462 / Pages: 2 .... the commuter train overpowered him. But by then it was too late, the car looked as if it had been painted red. This crazed gunman had shot 25 people. Six of them died and nineteen of them were injured. Carolyn McCarthy’s son Kevin, was among the passengers who were wounded and her dead husband Dennis was found slumped over his lap. Kevin was the most severely wounded of the survivors. He was left partially paralyzed as a result of the Long Island Railroad Massacre.
The mass killing that went on in that commuter train was a tragedy with such extreme dimensions that, yet despite all the misfortune the outcome had an optimistic effect on the life .....
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