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Bauhaus
Words: 917 - Pages: 4.... Secondly, the students were to design everyday objects as works of art. This would advance modern art into the sense of functional design. The third goal was to maintain contact with the leaders of industry so the students could be their consultants.
Ilkka Huovio stated in , The New Man - The New Technique that "The idealistic basis of was a socially orientate programme. An artist must be conscious of his social responsibility to the community. On the other hand the community has to accept the artist and support him" The movement achieved their believed responsibility to the community of Weimer, in 1924 ,with their mass housing pr .....
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Apostle Paul
Words: 998 - Pages: 4.... left Jerusalem with the knowledge and experiences he learned from Gamaliel's school.
Saul did not believe Jesus was the Messiah because Jesus often denounced the Pharisees and seemed to oppose all their rules. He had once heard that Jesus taught the people to disobey the rabbis and had caused chaos in the synagogues. All true Jews accused Him as enemy of Israel. Saul believed that anyone who followed Jesus should be put to death. With this thought in mind he returned to Jerusalem and offered his service to the high priest to persecute anyone who is opposed to the way of the synagogue. Saul took his job so fiercely that every worshippin .....
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JFK Assination - Conspiracy
Words: 3026 - Pages: 12.... They concluded that John Kennedy was assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. There are many reasons why the HSCA came to this verdict, but firstly it was important that the American people understood why this case was re-opened over a decade later!
The investigation was set up as direct result of the assassinations of two other major political figures; the civil rights leader, Dr Martin Luther King and the Presidents brother Robert Kennedy, in 1968. Naturally this aroused immense suspicion and the American public started questioning why so many key US figures had been assassinated in the space of just four years when previously this type .....
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The Evolution Of The World
Words: 513 - Pages: 2.... Boorstin. The Hindus placed Mount Meru, a mythological 70,000 foot
high mountain at the center of their map. In the Muslim faith, the Ka'bah
in Mecca was the highest point on earth and the polestar showed the city
of Mecca to be opposite the center of the sky. As one can clearly see,
many maps, had different centers. Each map had a different center, each
based on a different religion.
Many years before the birth of Jesus Christ, the Greeks theorized
that the earth was a globe. But after that, there was a period in history
called "The Great Interruption." This period was categorized by a complete
silence where people in general, forgo .....
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Jimmy Carter
Words: 1476 - Pages: 6.... 76th governor on January 12, 1971. He was the Democratic National Committee campaign chairman for the 1974 congressional elections (Hochman html). After only serving one term as governor of Georgia he announced his candidacy for president of the United States on December 12, 1974. He won his party’s nomination on the first ballot at the 1976 Democratic National Convention, and was elected the 39th president of the United States on November 2, 1976. During his presidency, made many important foreign policy accomplishments, including the Panama Canal treaties, the Diplomatic relations with China, and the Salt II treaty with the Soviet U .....
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Kosovo 3
Words: 8504 - Pages: 31.... se repartieron entre el Imperio Otomano (Serbia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Montenegro y Macedonia), los Habsburgo (Croacia, Eslovenia, Eslavonia, parte de Dalmacia y Voivodina) y la República Veneciana (Istria y Dalmacia). Después que fuera aplastada la insurrección de 1690 en la vieja Serbia, unas 70 mil personas se refugiaron en territorios de los Habsburgo. El Imperio Otomano trasladó a musulmanes albaneses a los territorios abandonados (Kosovo y Metohija).
A principios del siglo XX continuaron los conflictos: la resistencia serbia al Imperio austro - húngaro provocó el asesinato del archiduque Francisco Fernando de Austria, hecho q .....
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Chivalry
Words: 329 - Pages: 2.... thought by most to have been reserved for royalty, this was not the case. Common folk also exhibited chivalrous conduct, though in less glamorous ways.
has greatly diminished since the Middle Ages. Respect, courtesy, and honesty have little meaning to today’s youth. There are exceptions to this. Helping the elderly, family, and friends are just a few things young people can do to resurrect . I don’t think it’s possible to be as chivalrous as the knights in the Middle Ages were because our lifestyles have changed so drastically.
As of now, the future of looks bleak. If society doesn’t change its ways soon, th .....
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Andrew Carnegie
Words: 1156 - Pages: 5.... where relatives already existed and were there to provide help. Allegheny City provided Carnegie’s first job, as a bobbin boy in a cotton factory, working for $1.20 a week. His father also worked there while his mother bound shoes at home, making a miniscule amount of money. Although the Carnegies lacked in money, they abounded in ideals and training for their children. At age 15, Carnegie became a telegraph messenger boy in Pittsburgh. He learned to send and decipher telegraphic messages and became a telegraph operator at the age of 17. Carnegie’s next job was as a railroad clerk, working for the Pennsylvania Railroad. He worked his .....
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Avarice In America
Words: 456 - Pages: 2.... so that they could gain even more money. This often put the common working people out of a job because the owners could get children and poor European and Asian immigrants to do the same menial factory jobs for pennies a day. This angered the Unions of America because their livelihood depended on the American working class. The Unions then persuaded the government to regulate the business giants and control the amount of money the companies could take in by disallowing monopolies and child labor. The "Kings of Capitalism" disregarded the impact their actions had on the lives of the working class men and their families. Many went hungr .....
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