... , or tiny triangles as well as dashes and lines "was enclosed within a rectangular field. For example, Whispering (1963), a watercolor on paper, is composed of white spindle-shaped objects with blue ends, arranged in rows against a lighter blue ground. The artist also experimented with collages constructed of small pieces ... of her watercolors and reverted to the monochrome tints of her earlier works, particularly a whitish gray that, in the view of Mark Stevens, is the most suitable tone for this artist's ongoing search for classical perfection. In these paintings the variations come f...

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... which would have to choose the presidential electors in two-thirds of the states. While presidential electors were popularly elected in only five of the sixteen states in 1800, it is apparent that state elections were dominated by the presidential contest. By the fall of 1800, political leaders on both sides arrived at similar conclusions about the outcome of the election ... ...

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... raise a large family with little money and deteriorating health. In one letter, the woman spoke of her four children as "puny little things, [that] need so much care and [she] is not strong enough to care for them." She only weighs a meager 100 pounds and could not bear to bring another child into the world. She was not alone with her ... ...

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... 's years of effort paid off when President Roosevelt created the first federally funded public housing project in Marysville, California. It was one of Lange's photographs entitled "Migrant Mother" (fig. 3) that is credited with convincing the president to rush the migrant farm workers an additional 20,000 pounds of food. This photograph would go on to have a life beyond both the FSA ... ...

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... 's years of effort paid off when President Roosevelt created the first federally funded public housing project in Marysville, California. It was one of Lange's photographs entitled "Migrant Mother" (fig. 3) that is credited with convincing the president to rush the migrant farm workers an additional 20,000 pounds of food. This photograph would go on to have a life beyond both the FSA ... ...

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Woodstock 1969 Some people thought that Woodstock was a corruption of society while others thought is was a place to express individuality. The festival was originally supposed to take place in Woodstock, New York but plans fell through so it was held in Bethel, New York (Yildez, 1). ... from Yasgur's widow and put up a five and a half ton cast iron marker on the land. This became a shrine for people to stop at. Elliot Tiber said, "The magic that is Woodstock continues it's in the air" (Tiber 1-2, Pt.8). After twenty-two years of people gathering at the site, the Town Supervisor, Alan Scott ...

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Woodstock 1969 Some people thought that Woodstock was a corruption of society while others thought is was a place to express individuality. The festival was originally supposed to take place in Woodstock, New York but plans fell through so it was held in Bethel, New York (Yildez, 1). ... from Yasgur's widow and put up a five and a half ton cast iron marker on the land. This became a shrine for people to stop at. Elliot Tiber said, "The magic that is Woodstock continues it's in the air" (Tiber 1-2, Pt.8). After twenty-two years of people gathering at the site, the Town Supervisor, Alan Scott ...

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... at last" from restraint. There are times when an entire culture takes the shape of a single event, like rows of iron fillings lined up by the force of a magnet. What is assassination, after all, if not the ultimate reminder of the citizen's helplessness - or even repressed murderousness? Instantly the killing creates an abrupt contest between Good and Evil, albeit with a wrong ... . Critics argue that Woodstock represented much of what was wrong with the 60's: a glorification of drugs, a loosening of sexual morality and a socially corrosive disrespect for authority. Whether one is a supp...

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... American defence alliance. In 1948, meeting for the ninth time, the countries set up the Charter of the Organization of American States (OAS). Their mission being, to understand that there is a: Desire of the American people to live together in peace, and, through their mutual understanding and respect for the sovereignty of each one, to provide for the betterment of all ... United States was aggressively pursuing their objectives of halting the spread of communism. In 1947, President Henry S. Truman stated that " [the] objectives of the foreign policy of the United States is the creati...

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... venturing uptown: Kelt Fay- white person Bolido - the gambling game on the New York clearing house numbers Dicty - describes a high class man or woman Sweet man Honey man - a man who is kept by a woman Passing Passer - the act of passing/ a person who can pass for white Scronch Skip- a dance Eight ball Gigwatny - dark colored person Juice Joint - speakeasy Lap - liquor Knowing ... War II." Gold also attributes the closing to racial separation and cultural subordination in a racist society. Although, the Savoy was originally investigated for prostitution in January of 1943, the rumor is ...

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... to colonize. Religious conflict disrupted England when King Henry VIII broke away from the Roman Catholic Church. Protestant Reformation was launched. Elizabeth ascended to power in 1558, England is Protestant and the rivalry with Catholic Spain intensifies. 2. Ireland fueled the rivalry. Catholic Irish sought Spanish aid in overthrowing Elizabeth. Elizabeth crushed them. Catholic Irish lands were ... While England failed at colonization, Spain thrived. Philip II used the profits from his colonies to build the "Invincible Armada." 1588, English ships defeat the Spanish fleet. "Invincibl...

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... . - Unemployment- There were not enough jobs in England and debtor prisoner were becoming overcrowded. - Businessman looking for investments, raw materials, and new markets. - Mercantilism- an economic system where a nations power is measured by its wealth in gold and silver. In order to make mercantilism work, countries competed with one another to acquire gold and silver. The colonies were very important to ... didn't, other would follow their example, destroying all they had hoped to accomplish. - General Court- the lawmaking body of Massachusetts. Only members of the Puritan church c...

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... . I was the youngest of four siblings. My oldest sister named Paulette was the quiet one. The second oldest sister named Pelrique was mean. The third oldest is my brother named Clyde, who taught me tough love by beating me up on a daily basis. My only defense from getting beat up from them was to ... bullies beating me up, so I asked my brother to come to school with me. He told me he is not going to fight for me and the only way for me to deal with my problem is to fight back. So from then on, I started to fight back. At the age of eight my parents ... , and I had plenty of both. While ...

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... citizenship. "Pregnancy and passing indisposition' were no more a barrier of exercising rights on the part of women that were 'gout and the common cold on the part of men' (2). It is, therefore, absurd to exclude women from rights on the grounds of alleged inferior intelligence, because huge numbers of dim-witted men would be eliminated if this principal were applied to ... determined which issues she chose to embrace and fight. Women were denied representation in the Estates-General, but they made certain that their concerns were included in the cahiers. It is in these notebooks that t...

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... of farming. The railroad enterprise was one of the most important aspects of the history of the West since the Civil War, and the reason the story is not emphasized more in summary accounts is that the story has so far been told only for individual railroads. "In and all-out campaign to lure settlers, railroad land offices churned out reams of ... as Jay Cooke's Banana Belt. Lack of rainfall was known to be a crucial problem on the Western Plains. The whole region is an area of semi-aridity and of climatic cycles. A series of wet years occurs when the annual rainfall is somewhat more th...

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... some of McCarthy's more extreme attempts to curb civil liberties, but in general, he voted with the Wisconsin senator on most issues. Nevertheless, it is difficult to blame JFK--McCarthy held immense influence for a time, and he attracted strong support among the working class Irish Catholics who had voted JFK ... trying desperately to hold on to their colony in Vietnam. "No amount of military assistance in Indochina," he warned, "can conquer an enemy which is everywhere and at the same time nowhere, 'an enemy of the people' which has the sympathy and covert support of the people." It wa...

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... mainstream society. The blacks were still no part of this society other than to create the 'rhythm'. Prohibition If any one theme describes the mystique of the 1920's that word is prohibition: the forbidding of the production, consumption and selling of alcoholic beverages, all associated with the inferno of gambling, prostitution and cigarette smoke. As drink was "destroying the minds and ... that was the Wall Street Crash of October 1929, was inconceivable right up until it happened. The hire purchase scheme or use-now-pay-later idea transformed their economy and is the major reason b...

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... to school because of his sickly nature, and was instructed by his Aunt Annie that lived with the family. He spent much time reading, and is this is where he became obsessed with natural history, a passion that stayed with him throughout his lifetime. Theodore wanted to attend Harvard in the fall of ... was suffering from inflammatory rheumatism and the infections from his leg. He died in his sleep on January 5, 1919, as people said "The old lion is dead" The Priest Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Va., on December 28, 1856. He was profoundly influenced by a devoutly religious...

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... to school because of his sickly nature, and was instructed by his Aunt Annie that lived with the family. He spent much time reading, and is this is where he became obsessed with natural history, a passion that stayed with him throughout his lifetime. Theodore wanted to attend Harvard in the fall of ... was suffering from inflammatory rheumatism and the infections from his leg. He died in his sleep on January 5, 1919, as people said "The old lion is dead" The Priest Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Va., on December 28, 1856. He was profoundly influenced by a devoutly religious...

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... through the excitement of boogie-woogie, and was rapidly moved to emulate his new piano heroes. Later he said, "I started playing boogie-woogie, which is good it's the blues, and what better way to start playing jazz?" (Marion McPartland radio interview, 1979). As a teenager Evans played with a band ... I should have learned them for myself. Finally, instead of thinking of them as isolated changes, I worked out a system upon which traditional theory is based and I gradually began to understand how the music was put together" (Jazz Journal, March 1985). In 1946 at the age of seventeen Ev...

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... of alternating current. Tesla used his imagination to prove and apply this hypothesis." An alternating current motor alternates the current from negative to positive. It is very hard to understand the concept. He worked as an electrical engineer in Germany, Hungary and France, before emigrating to the U.S. in 1884. ... but it didn't work. Marconi denied using the Tesla Oscillator. Tesla's Oscillator was a common household word in the U.S. and Europe. No patent is truly safe as Tesla's career demonstrated in 1900. The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company began thriving in the stock market d...

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... many brave goals (Kent 151). A number of women in England became inspired and decided to become doctors (Women's History). Perhaps the most famous woman who was touched by Blackwell's achievements is Florence Nightengale. After they became friends, Nightengale and Blackwell worked together to open a medical clinic and school (Levin 89). Elizabeth's sister, Emily, was inspired to pursue medicine after she saw ... in the same manner that they did one hundred-fifty years ago. But nonetheless, despite society's view on her, Blackwell was determined to leave women a legacy today. Elizabeth Bl...

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... crucified, drowned, and beat to death. Imagine if we still had and enforced these types of deaths today, and you think a firing squad is bad. The most notorious death during this time was that of Socrates, who was accused of heresy, or belief in something different than your superiors ... of the prisons. A huge leap forward was made when Dr. Benjamin Rush, a Philadelphia Resident, published An Enquiry How Far the Punishment of Death is Necessary in Pennsylvania. In his book he made a case that the death penalty shouldn't be completely abolished, but as for certain crimes it proved ... ....

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... on to the arena, as in modern bull rings, absorbing the blood of slaughtered men and beasts. The first permanent amphitheater known to us is not in Rome but in Campania, the country which inherited the gladiatorial games from Eturia and passed them on to the Romans. (Hopkins p. ... space for the arena itself comprises 86 by 54 meters. There was accommodation for perhaps 45,000 sitting spectators.(Quennell p.36) Underneath the arena is a labyrinth of passages for stage effects, pens for wild beasts, storage rooms and the mechanism by which scenery and other apparatus were hoisted into ......

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... the Iroquois population was a very close group who purported to know one another very well. The closeness, as it relates to the longhouse is visible when one looks at the Iroquois confederation with greater scrutiny. Though the federation was consisted of five, and later six, unique Indian ... Americans unfairly, and mistrusted and discriminated against them, there were a few people who did not see them that way. In addition, it is obvious that though the European colonists involved in the American Revolution were wary of the Iroquois, they did see them as a strong nation. ... patriots...

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