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    The History of 2D Animation Animation dates back over 12000 years‚ as ancient cave drawings appear to be drawn‚ in such a way‚ as to create the illusion of movement. At the beginning of animation‚ there was the zoetrope – or the “Wheel of Life”. The zoetrope is a small drum-type contraption‚ with slits around the side‚ and pictures on the inside‚ beneath the slits. These slits let people look through the slits to see the pictures move when the zoetrope was spun around – by hand! Since

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    History of Radio and Tv

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    History of Radio and TV In past time all people had to communicate was a printing press for local newspapers. It must’ve taken a long time for everybody to get their newspaper. Then with the discovery of radio waves‚ a new invention evolved called the radio. The first former radio-communication was the telegraph. The telegraph was used for long-distance messages‚ but for these messages to be understood a creation of a secret language was formed; called Morse code. The United States military often

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    Andrea Atkinson History 140 Marcus Bussey Research Essay Why Human History Cannot be Understood in a Vacuum When trying to decipher what Clive Ponting meant when he said‚ “Human history cannot be understood in a vacuum‚” I have deemed it is necessary to break the explanation up into three different parts. The first being‚ what does human history look like through a vacuum? What is it comprised of‚ what are its characteristics? The second being if human history is not understood in a vacuum

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    Emily L. Estes MAR 465 Final Paper 6 December 2012 Over the past decade‚ several contemporary Westerns have emerged‚ presenting a new take on the iconic American Southwest. Some‚ rather than reinforcing the late 19th century image of fearless cowboys and manifest destiny‚ have elected to show a grimmer‚ more realistic depiction of life on the frontier. That is‚ the west during the second half of the 20th century. This west lacks the promise and freedom of the earlier west; it displays a world

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    Why Do We Study History?

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    Why do we study History? We study History today to learn about certain things that occurred in the past. History is important because it tells you when things happened‚ how they happened‚ and what contributed to it. Without History‚ we wouldn’t be organized and people would have no idea of events that occurred before our time. You can use History as a guideline to relate things to your own personal experiences and everyday life. If people did not know about history‚ the world would clueless

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    Daniela Mota Exam 1 Chapter 1) Before the arrival of the Europeans to the Americas‚ Indians had lived and eventually developed different types of societies. The first and most simple of the type of society were called “nomadic societies”. These usually consisted of about fifteen to fifty people and usually no more than that. Men were primarily the hunters and women were the gatherers. These societies were also equalitarian which was a system based on everyone in the community contributing equally

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    Representation and the History of Buganda Guweddeko Fred May 2012 Abstract Scholars concerned with the challenges of method in studying the past and reflecting it in later periods are torn between intellectual veracity and the problem of multiple discourses on historicity and history. On this premise‚ this essay examines the problematics of the history of Buganda; the problems of historiography in its compilation and in the factors that have intermediated in the representation of this history before‚ during

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    How Reliable is Oral History and/or Memory as a Historical Source for War? Oral history is a relatively new method of studying history and one which has the most scope to be used more frequently by modern historians. The age of technology is enabling more accurate recordings to be used as sources‚ rather than just a transcript of what happen which could be less likely to be regarded as a definite fact. For war specifically‚ it has only been very recently that historians have been able to use other

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    The History of Jazz Dance

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    Maggie Miller Dance Appreciation Erin Leigh 11-10-2005 Jazz Dance "Jazz dance mirrors the social history of the American people‚ reflecting ethnic influences‚ historical events‚ and cultural changes" (Kraines‚ 2005‚1). When I was younger I used to take dance. I hated ballet‚ liked gymnastics‚ and thought tap was okay; but I loved jazz. I took jazz dance three times a week and never complained; it was my life. People all over the world are familiar with

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    Liberty by Sara M. Evans is the written path of being informed of the History of Women in America. As it is mentioned in the first few pages of this book‚ there is a lack of information that we need to fill in ourselves. We have all heard from many historians specially‚ that our World cannot take the right direction if it finds its past obscured and hard to be seen! I believe a lot of things are connected to each other‚ and history is one of the most relevant part of our globe and the reason being is

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