... elements from different architectural periods that had little or no relation to the building's functions. The second was the development and use of iron, steel, glass, and reinforced concrete, and thirdly the economical creation of mass numbers of office buildings. These three phenomena basically outlined the ... that every item would serve a function. Thus there would be absolutely no decorations. Bauhaus buildings have flat roofs, smooth facades and cubic shapes. Simple metals were used, such as steel and iron, and basic colors of black, white, and grays were used. This "International ...

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... over the last 25 years. They each approached Impressionism in their own unique and individual ways. Although they did associate with each other on a professional and sometimes personal basis, they never formed a group based on gender. They also worked alongside some of the best-known male Impressionist artists, such ... reaction to Impressionism as a whole, and these women artists were even more so ridiculed by the critics of that time. The challenges of their professional and personal lives proved to be too heavy a burden for the majority of these women, Mary Cassatt was the only one w...

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... television room to watch Grace posing with the latest offering from Electrolux. In Graces last year at the Academy the students were organized into acting companies under the supervision of professional directors. In Graces group the director was Don Richardson, a thirty-year-old protégé of Jelinger's who had been a student at the Academy, and who had several grounds breaking ... professional productions to his credit. Grace got involved with Richardson who was married at the time and when her parents found out they were furious. They told Grace she was never ... . She did not partic...

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... the winter. Stripped walls show the original construction of wooden slats filled with handmade bricks and mud. The house, which is now on display, contains its original mauve and white ceramic fireplace tiles that were imported from Holland. You can also find a Dutch cupboard, a spinning wheel, and a 17th century pistol. This house remained in the Wyckoff family until 1901. It became ... ...

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... at Alice Dean's, the Baltimore "house of ill repute" where she ran errands and scrubbed floors as a young girl. She made her singing debut in obscure Harlem nightclubs (borrowing her professional name from screen star Billie Dove), then toured with Count Basie and Artie Shaw before going solo. Benny Goodman dragged the frightened singer to her first studio session. Between 1933 ... and politically charged artworks. Lawrence was a very skilled colorist. He used vivid and bold colors as did Matisse, whereby the colors would not be manipulated to look three-dimensional. This flat appearanc...

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Francis Phelan, part-time gravedigger, ex-professional baseball player, murderer, and full-time bum, returns to his home town of Albany, New York. In the novel, Ironweed, by William Kennedy, the main character, Francis Phelan, must return ... time practiced the official religion, but some still struggled with what it meant to be truly Catholic. The title of the book "ironweed" is very symbolic in itself. The word "iron" is referring to the strength of the stem of the weed. Francis is like a weed in society but he is strong at the same time. Even though he has committed ... ...

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... of letters. Many additional works have been published posthumously. His most notable books include The Call of the Wild (originally entitled "The Sleeping Wolf") which was published in 1903, The Iron Heel, White Fang, The Sea-Wolf (originally entitled "Mercy of the Sea"), The People of the Abyss (a sociological treatise about the slums of London, England), John Barleycorn Martin Eden, and ... long, had earned the title of "Prince of the Oyster Pirates"; he made more money in one week than he was able to earn in his first full year as a professional writer. Realizing that the life of an ...

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... of citizens, with a few exceptions (Hatch 3). The CSGV is trying very hard to put gun banning legislation in the law (Hatch 3). They believe that if there are fewer guns out ion the streets, then there will be fewer gun crimes committed (Hatch 3). To save more lives from death by firearms, some compromise must be made between these groups. Losing some time ... ...

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... transformed by the use of the industrial materials. "One of the first cotton mills with a complete internal skeleton of iron appeared in New York, The Haughwout Building was divided on each floor by two ranges of cast-iron columns carrying a grid of cast-iron ceiling beams running to the walls. They supported segmental brick faults that were leveled to the above lying floor ... ...

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... average of over .400, and produced baseball's first left-handed pitcher, Bobby Mitchell. The Red Stockings' success against the amateur teams provided incentive to create America's first professional baseball league, the National Association of Baseball Players in 1858. It was formed by representatives of twenty-five clubs for the purpose of codifying rules and establishing guidelines for organized ... Louisville in 1876, Hubert, Spalding, and representatives of the St. Louis, Cincinnati, and Louisville baseball clubs designed a set of guidelines for the new league, named The National Le...

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... of these three to four stories to two to three story homes have an Italian style incorporated in them. They all have "brownstone, brick facades, high stoops with cast iron handrails, and deeply recessed doorways with heavy protruding door hoods and console bracelets. They also have round-headed double leaf doors with molded arched panels, heavy protecting stone window Lintels ... live in one now. The new large new law tenements in East Harlem are decorate with either cast stone terra cotta in a Beaux Art style. Many decorated buildings includes cast iron store fronts in areas located ne...

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... for one million jobs in the 1990's, making it the second largest employer in Pennsylvania. Throughout the Untied States history Pennsylvania has been one of the main producers of ships, iron, chemicals, lumber, oil, textiles, glass, coal and steel. Pennsylvania is still one of the main manufacturing centers in the United States despite the decrease of productivity in the 20th century ... public. During the 1800's Pennsylvania prospered in textile mills, leather making, lumbering, ship building, publishing and tobacco and paper manufacturing. During the early 1900's Pennsylvania was the ...

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... thought to be liquid. Like most of the terrestrial planets at birth, the Earth has been molten and undergone some differentiation allowing the heavy materials which consist mostly of an iron, nickel, and cobalt core making its density five and a half times the density of water. Earth perhaps has the most unique surface with all its various landmasses and water structures ... effect" that warms our atmosphere and its surface. The Moon is the only satellite known to exist to Earth. The Earth has a superior magnetic field due to a core consisting of iron and nickel. Currently the rotation ...

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... the War Department under Scott, who was in charge of transportation for the military and a government telegraph service. After the war Carnegie left the railroad and formed a company to produce iron railroad bridges. He later founded a steel mill and was one of the earliest users of the "Bessemer" process of making steel. Carnegie was an extremely successful businessman, acquiring a controlling interest ... in other large steel plants. By 1899, when he consolidated his interests in the Carnegie Steel Company, he controlled about 25 percent of the American iron and steel production. In 1...

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... for high standards and accountability, demands for employee involvement to facilitate improved organizational performance, and an increasingly diverse student population require teachers to develop and maintain high levels of professional instructional skills, as well as management and leadership roles within schools. Despite its advantage (fairness, equity, and ease of administration), the single salary schedule does not focus ... knowledge and skills needed for today's schools. These changes in schools and society suggest the potential for another wave of teacher compensation reform, w...

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... way to store images, it, like a CD or DVD, can be easily scratched and ruined. Magnetic Tape Technically, magnetic tape is a plastic, paper, or metal tape that is coated with iron oxide on which information is stored as a patter of polarized spots. These are then read using magnetic tape drives. Access times with magnetic tapes are slower than those associated with ... small, independently owned companies and other large corporations may not have the room that is needed or desired to store their own records effectively and efficiently. Many companies, such as Iron Mountain, provide such...

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... at the business that is performing. Everything about it may seem appealing- money, recognition, admiration, but once the choice is made to become a professional performer, the clouds must dissipate from around your head and your feet become firmly planted in a business. A business that, while glamorous, can ... . Acting Professionally, by Robert Cohen, is a wonderful inside look at what a dedicated performer must expect, prepare for, and sacrifice to be a professional actor/actress. A staple for anyone involved in the industry, Cohen does a wonderful job illustrating the harsh but reward...

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... I mean. In 1902, he was born February 27th in the Salinas family home. He wrote his first stories there, including sections of various works like "The Red Pony" and "Tortilla Flat". In 1919, he graduated from Salinas High School and then relocated to West Alisal Street, which was across from the post office. That same year, he began studying at Stanford ... in Salinas is pretty haunted now. I see things walking at night that it is not good to see." That same year, 1935, he had his first commercial success with "Tortilla Flat". It was an instant hit. In 1936, "Of Mice and Men" whick was ...

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... the U.S. and Ms. Burana clearly missed 41 of them. Two of the 41 states she never visited were Pennsylvania and Delaware. Although Ms. Burana grew up in Northern Jersey, her professional experiences in New Jersey are limited to a one‑day North Jersey Turkey‑Rama tour on the day before Thanksgiving. Nonetheless, I recall a lengthy phone conversation with the author when ... who has written for the NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, GQ, NEW YORK magazine, VILLAGE VOICE, SPIN, and SALON. But before she became a professional writer, Lily was an exotic dancer who spent the early years of her pr...

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Jackie Robinson forever changed the face of American history on Opening Day 1947, as he became one of the most influential athletes to break the color barrier in professional sports, and in several ways, the color barrier in America. Born into a poor black family in the South, Robinson had to deal with a racist nation growing up. Robinson also dealt ... , 2 Angeles), where he again excelled in football, basketball, baseball and track. After college, he was drafted in the Army and served in World War II. Upon his return, he played professional basketball for the Los Angeles Red Devils for a ye...

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... and dreary look than Superman, but both comics were instant successes among young boys10. Perhaps the most popular athlete of the 1930s was boxer Joe Louis. Louis won his first professional contest by a knockout in 1934. He won the professional heavyweight championship of the world in June 1937, defeating the American boxer James Jack Braddock by a knockout. During his ... professional boxing career, Louis compiled 68 victories and three defeats. His 68 victories included 54 by knockout and 14 by decision, while his three losses included two by knockout and one ... ...

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... pierced, and I was pissed because I didn't know it cost so much. Well, I guess it costs money to pierce your skin; and besides I really wanted it done. I waited patiently as the professional got his station together. While he was doing so, all I seen was a long, thick needle. Now, I was scared and I was ready to run out of the room. After coming all ... a piercing there are risks that come with the factor. When getting your body piercing there is a healing process that you must abide by which is given to you by the professional? Is there such a thing as safe body piercing? One would say...

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... aim enabled her to meet. With no such facilities from extended acquaintance and gradual entrance upon the work as subsequently favored Mrs. Lozier, she found a "blank wall of social and professional antagonism facing the woman physician which formed a situation of singular loneliness, leaving her without support, respect, or counsel." The title had been appropriated by such a class, that the sign was ... the elder physician, and for some reasons the more prominent, the special subject of our notice. In our further statements, however, we shall find them so thoroughly identified in their...

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... a term used to describe anything that causes a person to remember a traumatic event or switch to another personality. There are many different reasons why a person with Multiple Personality Disorder would seek professional help. Some of these reasons are 1.) usually out of sheer depression 2.) complete mental and physical exhaustion 3.) inability to sleep 4.) problems with drug or alcohol abuse 5.) suicidal thoughts or actions 6.) fear ... of a traumatic event followed by the release of related emotion and the recovery of repressed or dissociated aspects of that event ( Steele and Colra...

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... -peels to fat transfers, Botox injections to laser resurfacing, browlifts to liposuction. But exploring the plastic-fantastic realm can be a stab in the dark, and with increasingly devastating results. A new professional has emerged to help patients make sensible choices: the cosmetic-surgery consultant. Wendy Lewis has been called "the Zagat guide to cosmetic surgery", yet she acts more like a Sherpa to ... of the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS; www.surgery.org),For every board-certified plastic surgeon, there are eight to nine othercosmetic surgeons? who are not c...

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