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Abstract Expressionism

Essay Title What would you judge to be the most significant decade or era in fine art or design in the 20th century and why? Abstract Expressionism - 1940 – 1950 Contents Page 1. Essay Title 2. Contents Page 3. List of Illustrations 4. Introduction (Beginning of essay) 5. The ...

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Estimate Of Intrinsic Value With Security Prices

This paper will seek to examine to what extent security prices are a good estimate of "Intrinsic Value" on modern developed capital markets. Eugene Fama made the argument that Security prices are a good estimate of Intrinsic Value. This was based on his philosophy of an efficient market. The ...

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Boxing: Down For The Count

The tenth edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines boxing as "the art of attack and defense with the fists practiced as a sport." I could be mistaken, but there is a certain emphasis placed on the idea that boxing is practiced as a sport. It is rather ambiguous. Is boxing a sport ...

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Socialism

The term is commonly used to refer both to an ideology--a comprehensive set of beliefs or ideas about the nature of human society and its future desirable state--and to a state of society based on that ideology. Socialists have always claimed to stand above all for the values of equality, social ...

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Alchemy

: The science by aid of which the chemical philosophers of medieval times attempted to transmute the baser metals into gold or silver. There is considerable divergence of opinion as to the etymology of the word, but it would seem to be derived from the Arabic al=the, and kimya=chemistry, which in ...

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Alchemy

The science by aid of which the chemical philosophers of medieval times attempted to transmute the baser metals into gold or silver. There is considerable divergence of opinion as to the etymology of the word, but it would seem to be derived from the Arabic al=the, and kimya=chemistry, which in ...

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Origins Of Communism

Throughout the history of the modern world, man has sought out the perfect government. An invincible system of order. And in our search for this ideal system, the idea of holding property in common has been a reoccurring thought. From early Christian communities to modern Marxist states, socialism ...

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Shamanism

Witch doctors, psychics, mediums, spiritualists are but just a few of the many names associated with Shamans. Many of us have heard these names echoed since childhood, but do we really know who these people are? In the United States these people are viewed as outcast; there hasn’t been a ...

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Alchemy

The science by aid of which the chemical philosophers of medieval times attempted to transmute the baser metals into gold or silver. There is considerable divergence of opinion as to the etymology of the word, but it would seem to be derived from the Arabic al=the, and kimya=chemistry, which in ...

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Language

Teaching Cultural Identity through Modern Language: Discourse as a Marker of an Individual’s Cultural Identity Pavel V. Sysoyev Associate Professor of American Studies and Applied Linguistics Tambov State University Tambov, Russia (JFDP) Lyn R. Donelson Visiting Lecturer of English as ...

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Gregory Hines

Gregory Hines - Tap Dance Pioneer: Understand the Influence of a Significant Tap Practitioner Tap, as a dance form, has been around for many generations and centuries and through different points in history, has undergone changes due to the many practitioners that have made their metaphorical ...

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Honorable Qualities Such As Wisdom, Social Acceptance, Courage and Temperance

Objectively Honorable Qualities The issue of human emotions like honor and self esteem has been a topic of intense debate right from the period when man went beyond the limits of the native hunter food gatherer and started to think about philosophical concepts in life. Social development and ...

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Dante's Inferno Analysis

Pastiche of Dante's Inferno The City ( from Dante's Inferno) The entrance to the dark hole in the ground filled me with rapid fear, I fainted, but there was no other way. The sound of rumbling carriages thrashed like maddened beasts thought the dark night. The city was alive with ...

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The Inverted Pyramid And The E

Newswriting, as it exists today, began with the adoption of the telegraph, which roughly coincided with the start of the American Civil War. The necessity of getting at story through before the telegraph’s occasional malfunction forced a radical change in the style of writing used in reporting. ...

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The Making Of The Cat

------------------------ Soup or Sandwich IN THE VERY BEGINNING, about 4.6 billion years ago (give or take a few years), a small ball of rock, water and gas had come to be and immedi- ately set about the process of combining its atoms into more and more complex arrangements. Thus began that ...

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Dance 2

1. What are the innovations of Isadora Duncan, Denishawn, Martha Graham, and Cunningham. Discuss these in relation to style, technique and theory. Many Historians say that Isadora Duncan was the first dancer to present “modern dancing” to the public. Duncan felt that the pointe shoes and ...

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The Neandertals

Staring into the gloom, I imagine the cave's ancient inhabitants, wrapped in bear skins, huddled near a fire. The haunches of a reindeer roast in the fire. A mother nurses her infant. Children playfully throw pieces of bone into the flames. An old woman tends the wounds of a hunter ...

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The Electronic Computer

One of the most important themes in the history of civilization is our ever increasing use of tools to shape and control the world around us. These tools range from the simple hammer and saw of the carpenter to all the complex machine of our modern civilization. We use tools to extend our power. ...

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Franco Zeffirelli And Baz Luhrmann's Romeo And Juliet

Sex, drugs, and violence are usually a potent combination, and only William Shakespeare could develop them into a masterful, poetic, and elegant story. In the play, "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," all these aspects of teenage life absorb the reader or watcher. It is understood that ...

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"Afrofornication", The New Black Culture Of Indiscriminate S

Does anyone notice, when you see the way most young Negro males behave these days it seems like they are constantly thinking about fornication, almost obsessed by it? I have noticed this. When one attempts to converse with one of these people the conversation will rarely end without some reference ...

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