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... as being handsome, strong, and agile. He had keen powers of observation, an imagination, and the ability to detach himself from the world around him. At an early age Leonardo became interested in subjects such as botany, geology, animals (specifically birds), the motion of water, and shadows (About Leonardo). At the age of 17, in about 1469, Leonardo was apprenticed as a garzone (studio boy) to Andrea del Verrocchio, the leading Florentine painter and sculptor of his day. In Verrocchio's workshop Leonardo was introduced to many techniques, from the painting of altarpieces and panel pictures to the creation of large sculptural projects in marble a ...
... Rifle Association supported President Clinton’s proposals of tougher federal enforcement of existing gun laws and placing more federal prosecutors and law officers on gun cases. Many agree that both areas are major problems. Many of the points made on the need for more gun bills have been in reference to the Columbine Massacre. Colorado governor, Bill Owens, wants to require criminal background checks at gun shows, including juvenile records. He also wants to allow for the local prosecution of people who buy guns for criminals or children, raise the minimum age of buying hand guns, and require parents who keeps guns in the house to store them safely. He made all of these request ...
... to mount for a stolen ride to a witches’ Sabbath (Robbins 56). In the Massachusetts Bay Colony, a strong belief in the Devil, factions among Salem Village fanatics and rivalry with nearby Salem Town, a recent small pox epidemic, and the threat of attack by warring tribes created a fertile ground for fear and suspicion (S.W.M. Ed.1). The dramatic story unfolds through the influences of a slave girl from the West Indies. The slave to Reverend Samuel Parris and his family, Tituba, liked to tell Voodoo stories of her native islands to the young girls of Salem (Carpenter 25). The aging Tituba was not an enthusiastic worker, but she liked taking care of the children, and she spent much of he ...
... fort Duquesne had a quite a strong hold over the Ohio River Valley. The British had many strategic advantages over the French and Indians. They had a strong militia in their colonies that could fight at any given time. They also had many more people, about one million. They also had a very strong navy and control of the Atlantic Ocean. Having control over the Atlantic Ocean meant destroying French supply ships that tried to enter North America. The British colonies were self-supporting and did not need supplies shipped over from Europe. The British situation had its disadvantages. They had more land to keep under control than the French and Indians and their few forts were spread out ...
... employees had broken into the Democratic National Committee's headquarters six times between August 21, 1971 and June 17, 1972. During their sixth break-in on June 17, they were caught. (Secret Agenda) At approximately 2:30 in the morning on this date, they were caught by police in the Watergate Hotel. Police seized a walkie talkie, 40 rolls of unexposed film, two 35 millimeter cameras, lock picks, pen-sized tear gas guns, and bugging devices. (Gold 75). The burglars and two of their accomplices, G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, were indicted in September of 1972. They were charged with burglary, wire-tapping, and conspiracy. They were subsequently convicted of these charge ...
... its predecessor, the new Klan burned fiery crosses and employed violence to scare its enemies. After 1921 the Klan grew rapidly in membership and influence, “In a six month period from 1920 to October 1921 the Klan added 100,000 new members, And made one and a half million dollars from the sale of robes, ritual equipment and other paraphernalia.” It was only ten dollars for a membership. “A 1924 estimate of its membership was as high as 3 million.” In 1944 the Klan formally split up when it was unable to pay taxes owed the federal government. After World War II, widespread public sentiment developed for the suppression of the organization. It broke down into numerous, independent units. T ...
... only my opinion.” Kyle has listened to rap since he was 13, and he actually got me interested into it. I never liked rap until I started to hang out with him, and I am now starting to enjoy it because of its’ diversity that is involved in making the music. Each rapper has their own version of the world, and they express it through their music. -2- Not all rap music is good according to a Texas widow, who filed a lawsuit against Tupac Shakur. Her husband, a Texas state trooper, was allegedly shot to death by a man who stole a car. In the man’s car a Tupac tape was found in the cassette player, and Tupac’s music was allegedly to blame (Damean). Some people tend to take music too seriously, ...
... struggle is about survival of the fittest. This is made plain by three words spoken by O’Neals words that become sort of the mantra for the movie “Suck my - - - -“. What these words means is that O’ Neal has become fully assimilated, she has transformed into a lean mean fighting machine. What DeHaven and O’Neal’s superiors and peers did not realize was that she dose not just try but she succeeds. She makes it through the horrifying grueling rigors of multilevel training despite the distrust and animosity of some of the men and without gender-based aids. She encounters a great deal of sexism and discrimination among the troops. Just as naturally, she shaves of her hair, gets buff, pe ...
... the dark road that would end in the War of the Rebellion. Extension of slavery next became an argument and hot topic at the Philadelphia Convention in the fall of 1787. The northern delegates “ detested the slave trade and wanted it to end” (pg. 187). The slave states came out ahead in this battle as they got congress to agree that they would not interfere with the slave trade until 1808 and the south obtained a fugitive slave law. The only victory the north received was that the Union remained intact. The slavery extension issue took a back seat to other pressing problems and states were admitted to the Union usually in pairs with one entering as a free state and one as a slave state. ...
... advantage was that it had only to defend relatively short interior lines against invaders who had to deal with long lines of communication and to attack a broad front. The Confederacy also had no need to divert fighting men to tasks such as garrisoning captured cities and holding conquered territory. In a short war, numerical superiority would not have made much of a difference. As the war continued, however, numerical strength became a psychological as well as a physical weapon. During the closing years of the conflict, Union armies, massed at last against critical strongholds, suffered terrible casualties but seemed to grow stronger with every defeat. Any staggering Confederate ...
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