3 turning points in history of Western Europe 20th century was an eventful period‚ which influenced the development of history and brought huge amount of turning points. In my opinion‚ the largest number of defining events were concentrated in Western Europe. Among thousands of significant historic moments it is almost impossible to determine top three. But next events deserve special attention because of impact on the lives of many people. To my mind these events are: creation of the International
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The History of Pop Art Pop art was first created in Britain in the 1950’s by a gathering of artists called the Independent Group (Kuberski 1). Pop art was first introduced in the 1950’s but became more popular through the mid 1950’s and hit its peak in the 1960’s. Pop art was something new and vibrant to appeal to a younger audience post World War II. Pop art is a simple form of art that uses distinguishable imagery from objects found in everyday life. Although Pop art was a major change from the
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WHY COMPUTERS ARE THE BEST INVENTION OF THE CENTURY Computers are perhaps the greatest invention in the field of microelectronics that has suited well with the advancement in the new century . They have moved centre stage in the achievement of major operations world over with their use in every aspect of life . Computers are the building blocks to the resent advancement in knowledge creativity and invention . Through use of computers designs have been manufactured and so much has been
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BLACK LEADERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY CHAPTER 1-3 In the time after the fall of radical black reconstruction of the nineteenth century‚ African Americans were being oppressed by rural farming‚ civil rights‚ economical advancement and sharecropping. Booker T. Washington charged the fight for economical and political accommodation with his dream of equal civil rights. Timothy Thomas Fortune was an influential black journalist that fought for the rights of African Americans through literal resistance
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The 20th century was a time filled with much racial tension between blacks and whites in the United States. Slavery had already ended in the 1800’s by the Emancipation Proclamation‚ but blacks were still treated unfairly by their white counterparts. From 1940-1968 blacks went through much turmoil and hardship trying to fight for the many rights they had been denied‚ such as voting rights and basic civil rights. This time period was extremely difficult for blacks‚ lives were lost and many people were
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them hard to use. Film does not simply suggest a worldview; it states‚ and we experience‚ its existence as truth‚ which is the fundamental power and danger it poses to the observer. One cannot deny‚ however‚ film’s phenomenal impact in the twentieth century‚ drastically changing the way we see the world and how we absorb information. In this way‚ film is best considered as one stage in the ongoing history of communications. As a historical medium‚ therefore‚ fiction film can be very valuable‚ as despite
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CHAPTER I The Problem INTRODUCTION Computers are considered to be one of the greatest discoveries of the 20th Century. As time goes on‚ computers have become more and more important in our lives. We use computers at school‚ at home‚ and at work and most of us can’t imagine life without them. One of the many uses of computers is used in communicating within the country or even around the world where there is Internet access. The Internet has become a fully integrated part of our
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Session 6 20th Century To be specific - focusing on five performances: First one comes before this period. Laying down framework that comes later: A concert at the Carnegie Hall‚ 1938‚ called Spirituals to Swing. Second one‚ in 1939 another concert-same title. Then we come to Post war period - A concert‚ in 1953 that became known as Jazz - Massey Hall‚ Canada. Referred to at times as the quintet of the year - the five musicians that played were some of the foremost Bebop musicians at the time
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generations. In the timespan of 1820 through 1929‚ oppressed by economic hardship‚ persecution‚ and the great social and political discrimination of the nineteenth century‚ increasingly steady flows of Jews and Hispanics journeyed to America and the massive amounts of immigrant counts spiked near the beginning of the twentieth century. Due to Industrialization‚ overpopulation‚ and urbanization‚ millions of immigrants
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wrote memorable poetry and philosophical essays. Towards the end of the 18th Century and the beginning of the 19th‚ a distinctive criollo literary tradition emerged‚ including the first novels such as José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi’s El Periquillo Sarniento (1816). The "libertadores" themselves were also often distinguished writers‚ such as Simón Bolívar and Andrés Bello. [edit]Nineteenth-century literature The 19th century was a period of "foundational fictions" (in critic Doris Sommer’s words[citation
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