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A Tale Of Two Cities
Words: 1032 / Pages: 4 .... would
sacrifice himself for her or anyone she loved in an
emotional conversation. Darnay ended up marrying Lucie.
Darnay's uncle, the Marquiuis St. Evremonde, was
assassinated by the father of a child he ran over and
Darnay inherited the title, Marquiuis St. Evermonde, Now
along with this title came power. Darnay would not take it
because he did not want to exploit the French people as his
uncle did. Around 1790, while the French Revolution was in
full swing, Darnay decided to go to France to save a family
servant. Upon his arrival, he was immediately jailed. Lucie
and Dr. Manette soon showed up in Paris at the doorstep of
Tel .....
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Dave Matthews Band, The Most Compelling Band Around
Words: 2465 / Pages: 9 .... music." (Relix Magazine: “One Nation Under a Groove”) As LeRoi Moore states, “ It is this blend of influence that creates the blend of texture. “ (FAQ) This rich texture from the blend of influence is what creates the most compelling band around, Dave Matthews Band.
The band came to be in April 1991, playing its first gig for an Earth Day celebration. Dave Matthews had always dreamed of starting his own band. He approached his favorite jazz players, (who he also served drinks to as a bartender) LeRoi Moore and Carter Beauford to make a demo tape of the songs he had written. Moore and Beauford liked what they heard and decided to stay .....
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The Anti-Vietnam Movement
Words: 2770 / Pages: 11 .... during the spring of 1965, the massive antiwar efforts centered on the colleges, with the students playing leading roles. These teach-ins were mass public demonstrations, usually held in the spring and fall seasons. By 1968, protesters numbered almost seven million with more than half being white youths in the college. The teach-in movement was at first, a gentle approach to the antiwar activity. Although, it faded when the college students went home during the summer of 1965, other types of protest that grew through 1971 soon replaced it. All of these movements captured the attention of the White House, especially when 25,000 people marched on Washin .....
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He Got Game - Cinematography And Film Techniques
Words: 2608 / Pages: 10 .... compares their personalities and attitudes, and he illustrates the dissonance between the two men through the use of these techniques.
In Jesus and Jake's first meeting on the ball court, Lee makes use distance and space to increase the sense of separation between them. Empty space here is exaggerated through the use of a wide-angle lens. Jake is seen here in the foreground with Jesus and Booger in the background. All three men keep a healthy distance apart. When Jake approaches Booger to give him love, Booger backs away, reacting to the violation of the space that the director has created between these characters. This distance between Jake and .....
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Articles Of Confederation
Words: 460 / Pages: 2 .... of the Articles required a unanimous vote
throughout the colonies. Since this was almost impossible, there always being
two sides to everything [a pro and a con], changing the Articles to eliminate
the ideas that did not function properly was near impossible. Another factor of
the Articles' ineffectiveness was that Congress was in essence tied in its
authority. After the war, the colonists trusted no ultimate authority; not even
one they designed. It could not regulate commerce, so what resulted was
thirteen colonies with different taxations and tariff laws. This only added to
the already present feelings of dislike and distrust which ha .....
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A Brief History Of The Blues
Words: 2459 / Pages: 9 .... first began to merge to create what eventually became the blues, the slaves sang songs filled with words telling of their extreme suffering and privation. (Tanner 36) One of the many responses to their oppressive environment resulted in the field holler. The field holler gave rise to the spiritual, and the blues, "notable among all human works of art for their profound despair . . . They gave voice to the mood of alienation and anomie that prevailed in the construction camps of the South," for it was in the Mississippi Delta that blacks were often forcibly conscripted to work on the levee and land-clearing crews, where they were often abused and t .....
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The History Of The Automobile
Words: 856 / Pages: 4 .... at the age of 15 and by the age of 16 he had created a steam threshing machine. By the age of 17 he had moved to Detriot, intent on becoming a machinist and from there he was on his way to create the steam engine. His creation of the steam engine wasn’t excepted at first. It was able to give the power of a couple of horses, but people were not ready to accept the fact. Henry Ford realized his dream of producing an automobile that was reasonably priced, reliable, and efficient with the introduction of the model T in 1908. This vehicle initiated a new era in personal transportation. It was easy to operate, maintain, and handle on rough roads, .....
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Baroque Architecture
Words: 968 / Pages: 4 .... By mid-century the carefully controlled and subtly refined Classical Baroque trend was clearly established. In France, its pre-eminent position was never seriously challenged. French was more restrained in its expression than its Italian counterpart. The most common and remembered details that made the two styles different were its culture, economy, religion, government, and economics. These can make one style very different from the other, but there were also other reasons why.
Italians were the first to come up with , they became very interested in the surroundings of their buildings. They placed elaborate gardens around places. They set .....
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Why The North Won The Civil War
Words: 2835 / Pages: 11 .... everything that the South did not, boasting resources that the Confederacy had even no means of attaining (See Appendices, Brinkley et al. 415). Sheer manpower ratios were unbelievably one-sided, with only nine of the nation's 31 million inhabitants residing in the seceding states (Angle 7). The Union also had large amounts of land available for growing food crops which served the dual purpose of providing food for its hungry soldiers and money for its ever-growing industries. The South, on the other hand, devoted most of what arable land it had exclusively to its main cash crop: cotton (Catton, The Coming Fury 38). Raw materials were almo .....
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Socrates
Words: 1046 / Pages: 4 .... about political life but replaces it with nothing. This is the vital stem from which the "Apology of " is written. Because of the stinging attack on Athenian life, and the opinions which they revere so highly, is placed on trial for his life. The question now becomes why and in what manner did refute the gods and is he quilty? , himself, speaks out the accusers charges by saying " does injustice and is meddlesome, by investigating the things under the earth and the heavenly things, and by making the weaker the stronger and by teaching others these things" (Plato, 19b;c). This is the charge of the "old" accusers. It is seen from an example in "T .....
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