|
Papers on History
David Garrick
Number of words: 1195 | Number of pages: 5.... tragedy, but simply speak the passage as you would in common life and with more emotional force (Cole and Chinoly 121). The term used to describe this new style of speech is called broken tones of utterance. It is a method of speech which concentrates more on the emotion in a verse rather than its meter. was a opportunistic actor who borrowed from many different acting techniques (Stone and Kahrl 345). Garrick’s naturalism was concerned more with the feeling of true emotion , the uniqueness of character, combined with the physical representation of the passions.
Representation of the passions was an accepted artistic c .....
Get This Essay
|
|
The French Revolution
Number of words: 321 | Number of pages: 2.... dissatisfaction of groups such as the Jacobins toward the constitutional monarchy. These groups were interested in forming a republic, allowing for more radical reformation at the hands of the people. The Jocobins themselves soon became divided, however, between the Girondists, who wanted a representative and more conservative republic, and the Mountain, who wanted a more direct repuplican government and who worked with the sans-culottes to achieve their goals. The sans- culottes were influential because they were comprised of the masses and wanted immediate economic reform. In the Terror they served as an important catalyst in .....
Get This Essay
|
|
Easy As Pi Maybe Not...
Number of words: 999 | Number of pages: 4.... actually looking for. On a daily basis, Max used his supercomputer, Euclid, (which spanned his entire Chinatown apartment) to make attempts at computing this value. Some days he would make accurate predictions, others he might not have been so lucky, but he never considered it luck – it was all math.
Two groups apparently had been following Max at this point – a group of Hasidic Jews and a stock market trading house. They were both also seeking this 216-digit number for their own reasons. The Jews needed it because in their language each letter is given a corresponding number. This 216-digit number is supposedly God’s re .....
Get This Essay
|
|
Essat On Taiwan Now And Then
Number of words: 770 | Number of pages: 3.... Christianity; (5) Complications between the natives and foreigners should be jointly judged by Ch'ing authorities and the British Council.
In 1871 an incident occurred where sixty-six Miyakojima residents of Ryukyu drifted into southern Taiwan, where fifty-four were killed by aborigines. This became known as the "Botan Incident", which Japan quickly used to try and win recognition of its territorial right to Ryukyu. The following year the Japanese government set up a consulate in Fuchow and sent a consul to spy on Taiwan. Japan also hired ex-American consul of Amoi, C.W. LeGendre, who was well acquainted with Taiwan affairs, .....
Get This Essay
|
|
The Art Of Italy And Northern Europe From 1300 To 1520
Number of words: 1658 | Number of pages: 7.... the Middle Ages and the other in the emerging Renaissance (Fleming, 248)."
In approximately 1305, the visionary Giotto began his frescos at the Arena Chapel. Giotto looked at his surroundings; he saw how things appeared in nature, and painted these objects in the same way. The impression of depth is found in his works, as was the appearance of focal points. In his masterpiece, Miracle of the Spring, Saint Francis is made the focal point. This is achieved by the coming together of the two mountains in the background in a crisscross fashion and meeting where the Saint is, simultaneously. Giotto uses the image of a sloping mount .....
Get This Essay
|
|
The War Between The States
Number of words: 3671 | Number of pages: 14.... deep into the soil of the lowcountry. His Whilden ancestors had
settled in the Charleston area in the 1690's, and an ancestor on his
mother's side, the Rev. William Screven, had arrived in South Carolina
even earlier, establishing the First Baptist Church of Charleston in 1683,
today the oldest church in the Southern Baptist Convention. Like many
Southerners who came of age in the late antebellum period, Charles Whilden
took pride in his ancestors' role in the American Revolution, especially
his grandfather, Joseph Whilden, who, at 18, had run away from his
family's plantation in Christ Church Parish to join the forces und .....
Get This Essay
|
|
Mission Days Report
Number of words: 1229 | Number of pages: 5.... carefully chose two men to lead the expedition. The first, Gaspar de Portola was to lead the soldiers. The second, Friar Junipero Serra, was to lead the Franciscan priests and teach the Indians about God. Many supplies were needed for the trip and for the future missions, such as horses, cattle, seeds to plant and tools to work with the land. The considerable amount of planning for the expedition was completed.
The trip was divided into two parties. Two sailed by sea and two traveled by land. There were many difficulties along the way. Father Serra had trouble walking because he had been bitten in the leg. He asked th .....
Get This Essay
|
|
The Industrial Revolution That Shaped The United States Into A Leading Econom
Number of words: 456 | Number of pages: 2.... to give loans to farmers for farm land and equipment. He also added a program for "social security" submitted by President Roosevelt and accepted bt Congress in 1935. This program included federal assisitance for states in forming old-age pensions and insurance for the unemployed. Among the Bills passed by Congress at its 1935 session were many laws touching nearly every part of domestic and foreign affairs. The rights of labor to organize freely and bargain for fair wages was reasserted in the National Labor Relations Act.
Electric utilities involved in interstate transmission of power were brought under government sup .....
Get This Essay
|
|
Holocaust 8
Number of words: 824 | Number of pages: 3.... justifiable to the Nazi’s. One experiment that was conducted
on a pair of Russians describes the torture that many
victims went through. The experiment of the twins is
graphically described, “the next part of the examination
consisted of tubes being forced through their noses and into
their lungs. They were then ventilated with a gas which
caused them to cough so severely that they had to be
restrained. The sputum from the lungs was collected for
examination.” (Medical Experiments of the Holocaust and Nazi
Medicine) These sort of things went on throughout the camps
and the victims were just being used as lab rats. .....
Get This Essay
|
|
England's Territorial Expansion
Number of words: 523 | Number of pages: 2.... The opposition to these acts led to England passing even more laws, but this time they were in order to control, rather than tax, the colonists. The first of these decrees was the Declaratory Act in 1766. This law stated that England had the right to pass any laws they wanted and the colonists would have to obey them. In order to test this mandate, Maritime courts and the Writs of Assistance were used. These institutions were restricting the civil liberties of the settlers and the people were not happy with this. A lawyer named James Otis wrote a criticism on the Writs of Assistance, which caused quite a stir throughout the publ .....
Get This Essay
|
|
|