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    Internment Camps vs. Concentration Camps There were two types of camps during WWII‚ internment camps and concentration camps. They each were created in a different place‚ the United States‚ and Europe. They have many differences‚ but also some similarities. Internment camps were created in the United States. They were created for the purpose of containing Japanese-Americans. The United States became fearful after Pearl Harbor got attacked by Japan‚ so they created these camps. The camps were like

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    Nine Characteristics of Wisdom from Above (James 3:17‚18) "But the wisdom from above is first of all pure (undefiled); peace-loving‚ courteous (considerate‚ gentle); it is willing to yield to reason‚ full of compassion and good fruits; it is wholehearted and straight forward; impartial and unfeigned (free from doubts‚ wavering and insincerity). And the harvest of righteousness (Of conformity to God’s will in thought and deeds) is the fruit of the seed sown in peace by those who work for and make

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    San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle Thursday‚ January 3‚ 2013 Zero Dark Thirty "Zero Dark Thirty" arrives in theaters already surrounded by controversy. Three U.S. senators (John McCain‚ Carl Levin and Dianne Feinstein) have called the film "grossly inaccurate and misleading" for its suggestion that the CIA’s use of torture led to the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden. Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal have countered that their movie does not favor torture but does accurately

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    The Thirty Year’s War in Europe occurred from 1618-1648 on the issue of clashing and freedom of religions. It was a lengthy war with devastating loses on all sides that only ended with the Treaty of Westphalia‚ 1648. France came out as an all-powerful force‚ Germany and the Netherlands became independent‚ and the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved. The time of Absolutism (when one leader/monarchy has absolute power of their country) followed shortly after. The Thirty Year’s War led to an age of Absolutism

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    The Piano Lesson In class we watched this movie called The Piano Lesson. The Setting of the production took place in 1936‚ in Pittsburg with all the exploit mainly taking place in two locations. The living room and the kitchen of Berenice and Doaker home surrounding a 17-year-old‚ upright Piano. This drama was essentially about an African- American family whose life history was imbedded inside a Piano and the Piano was not to be sold. There was a sister and a brother who have different point of views

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    5. “eight dancers dressed as swans.” – Mary Cornish Numbers 6. “Always wants a hug and never gets enough”- Ronald Koertge Sidekicks 7. “whose perfume swayed in the air‚ turning the modest flowers scarlet and loose.” –Peter Meinke Love Poem 8. “Their whisper rises from beneath the stones to fuse into a single… light.” – Yves Bonnefoy Passer-By‚ These are Words… 9. “He wanted to go inside them and live.” Naomi Shihab Nye Rain 10. “But listen harder‚ use your imagination…”

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    Auden convey the negative effects of war in their poems ‘Disabled’ and ‘Refugee Blues’’? In the poems Disabled and Refugee Blues‚ the writers‚ Owen and Auden respectively‚ convey the negative effects of war in a variety of ways. Through the use structuring‚ literary and figurative devices‚ Auden subtly shows the negative effects of war‚ whereas Owen does this it more explicitly‚ showing the de-humanizing‚ gruesome effects of war. In the poem Disabled‚ Owen displays the more gruesome‚ horrendous

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    Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Online): For this concert report‚ I viewed and listened to the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 as listed on the syllabus. The concerto is composed of three movements‚ Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso‚ Adantino semplice‚ and Allegro con fuoco. The entire piece was quite interesting‚ being the most unique sounding of the concerts I have listened to this semester. One characteristic that sets this concert apart is the piano‚ which was not featured prominently

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    The Dreaded Story of Dachau A concentration camp refers to a camp or closed area where people are detained under brutal conditions usually having no access to legal rights of arrest and imprisonment that would normally be accepted in a democracy. Concentration camps played a large part in the mass killing of Jews in Europe lead by Adolf Hitler. An example of a concentration camp is Dachau. During the World War II‚ Jews were separated into two groups the healthy and the unhealthy. The unhealthy

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    Piano‚ stringed keyboard musical instrument‚ derived from the harpsichord and the clavichord. Also called the pianoforte‚ it differs from its predecessors principally in the introduction of a hammer-and-lever action that allows the player to modify the intensity of sound by the stronger or weaker touch of the fingers. For this reason the earliest known model (1709) was called a gravicembalo col pian e forte (Italian for “harpsichord with soft and loud”). It was built by Bartolomeo Cristofori‚ a harpsichord

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