http://www.flickr.com/photos/t-a-a/5340663023/ The Virgin of Vladimir Byzantine painting was not realistic in its representations of the divine and super natural. (Online Lectures) The final results were paintings and mosaics that had a blending of some naturalistic elements and abstractions. (Online Lectures) The unifying element was that the works were depictions of the Divine for the Church. (Online Lectures) The Virgin of Vladimir an image depicting a mother and child was given to the Russian
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Germany‚ Ottoman empire‚ Austria-Hungary‚ and Bulgaria. The US still believing in what Washington said in his farewell address remained out of the war until 1917. Woodrow Wilson wanted to keep the US out of World War 1 nut he couldn’t anymore. Wilson entered the US into World War 1 with the purpose to make the world safe for democracy‚ and soon afterwards the Allies won the war. The world powers at the
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Lenin‚ Stalin‚ and Trotsky were all very influential people to the life of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics‚ the USSR‚ and how it industrialized. In ways they improved the USSR by trying to industrialize it and increase agricultural production‚ but they also killed many people and used terror to gain obedience from their people. Lenin started the Red Terror that tried to destroy the monarchy and anti-Bolshevik groups to secure his power. Stalin caused a widespread famine because he focused
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Did Hoover deserve the label of ‘The do nothing President’? As the American boom turned to bust President Hoover didn’t act upon the change but instead predicted that this negative change would not last the country would Boom once more. Unfortunately as the depression spread and began to affect everyone in the country he realised that his government would have to take charge. Hoover and his government are famously accused for having done nothing however this claim may not have been completely
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interests are set aside come together and fight for what they believe they are due. And in extreme instances‚ when the conflict spans years‚ drastic change is called for often resulting in a bloody laborious struggle. From the crowd leaders emerge‚ the intelligent‚ the most powerful‚ and the ones who can get the job done. In two of history’s more renowned revolutions‚ the French and Russian‚ two great thinkers pushed the revolution onward‚ Robespierre and Lenin‚ respectively. Maximilien Robespierre was
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Germany for the winning nations‚ demilitarized Germany‚ and created the League of Nations. Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points is the more interesting of the two documents. Under the Fourteen Points‚ Woodrow Wilson proposed a policy of open trade and
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"What Rights Did Women Have" What rights do you bealive a women has compared to a man? Do you think they have just as much or less than a hard working respectable man. If you aren’t sure about your answer then continue reading about an officer of the Women’s Rights from 1848-1928. Today it is November of 1903 and there are me‚ and many other guards and police officers waiting on the landing dock of Plymouth‚ England. Around noon the steam boat appeared out of the misty
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W O R K I N G K N OW L E D G E R E S E A R C H R E P O RT Competing on Analytics THOMAS H. DAVENPORT‚ DON COHEN‚ AND AL JACOBSON MAY 2005 Executive Summary This report describes the emergence of a new form of competition based on the extensive use of analytics‚ data‚ and fact-based decision making. The analytics— quantitative or statistical models to analyze business problems—may be applied to a variety of business problems‚ including customer management‚ supply chains‚ and financial performance
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socialists and Lenin but failed. Unconsciously‚ Kornilov brought back the Bolshevicks on the scene of the Russian Revolution. The picture of Kornilov‚ shows him in front of his army ready to attack Petrograde as the photograph was taken in summer 1917. He looks determined but his army looks small and quite weak compared to the Bolshevik’s troops and the Kerensky’s troops. The fact that the Bolsheviks helped Kerensky only restored the Bolsheviks as patriots in the eyes of the Russians and enabled
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from wage cuts around 50% and those who lived in the mid-west were subject to regular dust storms and droughts that amplified the suffering compared to those who lived elsewhere 1 . The president at the time‚ Herbert Hoover‚ was struggling to alleviate the great depression with some programs that resembled what FDR later expanded on. Hoover’s economic policies‚ were seen in the public as hurting‚ or at least not helping the economy during the great depression 2
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