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World Art
Words: 1930 - Pages: 8.... used for that time. Stone was used in the Old and New Stone age, bronze in the Bronze Age, and iron in the Iron Age.
The Great Ages began with The Old Stone Age starting at 100,000 BCE. The people lived in tribes and clans and often moved from place to place, hunting and gathering to live. They believed all life was sacred and all beings were divine, including animals. The tribal teachings taught that man and nature are one. Hunting and gathering was a sacred ritual because they would often believe they were at one with the animal being hunted. Shamens and shamenesses, spiritual healers and seers between the people and spirits of an .....
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The Korean War And The Damage
Words: 1338 - Pages: 5.... and insecurity that continues
even now to affect the two Koreas both in their internal development and
in their relations with each other.
Fighting began on June 25, 1950, when the North Korean army,
substantially equipped by the Soviet Union, invaded South Korea. South
Korean positions along the 38th parallel, which marked the frontier
between the two republics, were swiftly overrun, and the Communist forces
drove southward. North Korea was aided during the war by personnel and
equipment from both China and the Soviet Union. The UN Security Council,
with the Soviet delegate voluntarily absent, invoked military sanctions
against North .....
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Report On Historical Fiction B
Words: 618 - Pages: 3.... would be possible to reconstruct exactly what they did, and the author did this in such a way that the book is never boring and I was never compelled to skip parts. An example of the amazing description is on page 70, where Torka and his family, Lonit, Umak, and Karana, build a pit hut in the snow with mammoth bones and animal skins. The many hunts the characters go out on are shown in great detail, as in the first hunt when the hunters prepare by clothing themselves in caribou hide and antlers, soak their skin in caribou juice from the hides, and stalk the prey across miles of barren terrain in the Times Without Light (when the sun would no .....
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World Wars Of The 20th Century
Words: 1009 - Pages: 4.... at the start of the war.?????dont under stand sentence????
By 1917 the British Army had increased tenfold the French land forces had
been enlarged to 2,600,000 and in 1918 the American Army in France numbered
1,200,000. It was the addition of troops from the United States that made
it possible to defeat German forces numbering about 2.5 million.
Army organization for all the belligerents remained the same as it had been
throughout the 19th century. They all had similar infantry and cavalry
divisions, artillery brigades, engineering companies, supply units, and
medical units.
The advances in technology that had been made since the Americ .....
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The MANDAN INDIANS
Words: 1292 - Pages: 5.... one land approach. The Mandan lived in earth lodges, which are extremely large, round huts that are 15 feet high and 40-60 feet in diameter. Each hut had a vestibule entrance, much like the pattern of an Eskimo igloo, and a square hole on top, which served as a smokestack. Each earth lodge housed 10-30 people and their belongings, and villages contained 50-120 earth lodges. The frame of an earth lodge was made from tree trunks, which were covered with criss-crossed willow branches. Over the branches they placed dirt and sod, which coined the term earth lodge. This type of construction made the roofs strong enough to support people on nights .....
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The History Of Slave Labor
Words: 976 - Pages: 4.... 141) But as the economy began to thrive once again back in England, more people were resistant about traveling to the New World as a servant rather than an investor in the "tobacco game." Because white labor inevitably became inadequate due to its transient nature, and the costs of indentured servitude began to rise, planters turned their eyes toward the cheaper and indefinite service of black laborers. Although it may have not been as socially desirable, African s figured into this "problem" in that they represented skilled labor and were a proficient in tropical agriculture. With a high immunity to diseases such as malaria and .....
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Demystifying The A-Team Formula
Words: 3264 - Pages: 12.... Producer and the man who
started the show going) tap into to get the audience to bite? Why was everyone so turned
on to, and tuned in to The A-Team in its first few seasons? Were the Am erican audience
that thrilled hearing B.A. Baracus (Mr. T) say "Shut up fool!"; were they that interested
in seeing if Hannibal's (George Peppard) plan always comes together, or was it truly
the violence that sold the show?
Compared to NBC's new experimental shows like Hill Street Blues, and St. Elsewhere, whose
innovative use of realism sparked the Third Golden Age of Television and quality TV as
we know it; The A-Team (TAT) is jus .....
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Slavery - Underground Rail Road
Words: 642 - Pages: 3.... was to get you from one place to another. The "Liberty Line" was another for the system.
Help was given to the slaves from one transfer place to another ensuring the slaves journey to be safely executed. Once a slave reached their final destination, Canada or New England they would still have to keep quiet about how they reached the north without being discovered. The people that were most into helping slaves escape by means of the railroad were northern abolitionists and other anti-slavery groups who disliked what was going on in the south.
These included several Protestant especially Quakers, Methodists, and Mennonites. There was a Quak .....
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Pearl Harbor
Words: 571 - Pages: 3.... Observing radio
silence, it reached a launching point at 6 AM, December 7. At 7:50 AM, the
first wave of Japanese planes struck Pearl Harbor, bombarding airfields and
battleships moored at the concrete quays. The U.S. totally taken off guard had
to defend themselves in pajamas. They used anti-aircraft guns in an attempt to
stop the Japanese. A second wave followed. The surprise attack was over before
10 AM. The results were devastating; 18 U.S. ships were hit, and more than 200
aircraft destroyed or damaged. The battleship Arizona was a total wreck; the
West Virginia and California were sunk; and the Nevada was heavily damag .....
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Gulf War
Words: 439 - Pages: 2.... threat to the environment. Hussein alone is a very dangerous man and one of the missions of the war was to kill him. However, we were unsuccessful, and today he is a huge threat.
Hussein’s control of Kuwait affected the U.S. economically. All of Kuwait’s oil was in Hussein’s power and the U.S. was unable to trade with him because of sanctions. Therefore, oil based product prices raised 50 percent due to the lack of oil and a high demand for it. The U.S. was also giving financial aid to the Middle East to help drive out Hussein. These attempts were hopeless which gave the U.S. even more reason to send military aid into Persian .....
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