One of Johannes Vermeer’s mysterious artworks which are universally recognized is the Girl with a Pearl Earring. This piece of artwork still poses a few unanswered questions and wonders after more than a century of studies. The identity of the sitter in the portrait‚ who is she? What significance did the pearl earring have? When was the exact date of the painting? Vermeer was born and raised in the Dutch town‚ Delft and began his genre paintings in the late 1650s. Although Vermeer produced only
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it had to endure and overcome. The largest reason why the 14th century coined this phrase was because of the black plague. Too many‚ the years of the black plague were the darkest days in Europe’s history. At first‚ the plague only attacked mice and rats. But due to the insanitary conditions of the 14th century‚ the virus mutated and a strain of the virus began attacking humans. The black plague was deadly and the normal person had a 80% mortality rate. The disease spread quickly throughout Europe
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Pearl Harbor: Movie vs. Reality “December 7th‚ 1941‚ a date which will live in infamy‚ the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan” (Roosevelt). Japan surprise attacked the Hawaiian naval base‚ Pearl Harbor‚ approximately at 7:55 am. The intent of the Japanese strike was to prevent the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with plans to seize overseas territories belonging to United Kingdom‚ the Netherlands and the United States
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On May 7th Germany had surrendered unconditionally but the war with Japan raged on in the pacific. The Americans were war weary. They had seen the bombing of Pearl Harbor‚ Kamikaze attacks‚ and horrible casualties in Okinawa and Iwo Jima. There had been reports on things like the Bataan death march. Newspaper photos had shown American POWs beheaded by Japanese soldiers. Ending the war and preventing further loss of life is all that mattered at this point. With the surrender of Germany at the beginning
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Teatro Norteamericano GROUP B-3 Flying West is a play set in the town of Nicodemus‚ Kansas in 1898‚ and this play tells the story of black women (Miss Leah‚ Sophie‚ Fannie and Minnie) who have come west to build a new life for themselves‚ free from the racism and oppression of the South. Problems begin when Minnie returns from Europe where she has been living with her husband‚ Frank. Frank is waiting for an inheritance which will never receive. He mistreats Minnie and Miss Leah wants to protect
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Black Hole Talking about the universe is always a mysterious subject for us. There are lots of theories about the universe by different scientist. Nobody actually knows the reality. Like the universe the topic‚” Black Hole”‚ is also mysterious. We know what black hole is but we are not able to give the detail information about it. As everybody says that‚” black hole is a region in space that has an indefinite density and the gravitational force that does not let anything escape from its influence
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and describes Black studies as a critical body over time that has dismantled powerful racist intellectual and white supremacy. Included are views from a variety of African Americans defining “Black studies‚” describing the history‚ and politics of influential people involved in the development of the Black studies programs. This includes background information regarding the history of American Africans and “Black studies‚ “Black life‚ and experiences from the point of view of Black people over the
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vast‚ intriguing movement blossomed out of the Civil Rights Movement nicknamed “Black power” until full categorized as the Black Power Movement. Stokely Carmichael‚ former leader of the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) introduced the term “black power” in a rally in Mississippi. The movement itself tied its roots from the philosophy of the UNA‚ which was developed by Marcus Garvey. One can infer the Black Power Movement‚ was a positive movement because it came out of the Civil Rights
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Black holes are some of the most fascinating and mysterious parts of space. It has so much gravitational pull that nothing can escape from it‚ even light if it gets close enough. Albert Einstein predicted black holes back in 1916. The term “black hole” was made up in 1967 by an American astronomer John Wheeler. The first black hole was discovered in 1971 by rockets that were carrying Geiger counters that came across eight new x-ray sources. Scientists that detected radio signals coming from it found
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Frazier’s Black Bourgeoisie was more prophetic than many realized. Frazier‚ who addressed the burgeoning black middle class‚ expressed concern about the intra-class conflict vis-a-vis socioeconomic status of black folks. Frazier notes that the black middle class was in a rush by the 1960s to assimilate. During the Harlem Renaissance‚ even W.E.B. Du Bois “strategically included white judges on panels for their black literary competitions‚ in hopes that white approval would add luster to black achievements
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