By romanticized I mean the images are from a subjective perspective‚ appealing to the imagination of the artist‚ and provoking emotions through the spectators with the use of exaggeration or partiality. The Massacre of Chios is a response from Delacroix to an actual event in 1822 during the Greek’s struggle for independence from the Ottomans. The Turkish troops took revenge for the rebellions by killing 20‚000 innocent people on the island of Chios while selling
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WHAT ECONOMISTS DO Economists have an image of practicality and worldliness not shared by physicists and poets. Some economists have earned this image. myself and many of my colleagues here at Chicago--have not. Others-- I’m not sure whether you will take this as a confession or a boast‚ but we are basically story-tellers‚ creators of make-believe economic systems. Rather than try to explain what this story-telling activity is about and why I think it is a useful--even an essential--activity
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On April 16‚ 2007 a student‚ Seung Hui Cho‚ at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg‚ went on a shooting rampage and opened fire on his fellow students and Virginia Tech community members. The shooting took place in the early hours of the morning when many students were preparing for classes. The first two shootings occurred at 7:15 am at West Ambler Johnston Hall. 21/2 hours later after Cho had changed his blood stained clothes‚ deleted his e-mails‚ removed
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• This documentary focuses on the accounts of the Central Park Five‚ Raymond Santana Jr.‚ Kevin Richardson‚ Antron McCray‚ Korey Wise‚ and Yusef Salaam; who were all accused of assaulting‚ raping and sodomizing a women in 1989 who was out for a jog in Central Park. At the time of the crime all 5 men were between 16 and 14 years old. The boys at the time had gone out together with their friends to Central Park and were causing ruckus‚ the friends who were about a group of 25 boys were assaulting
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Due to the frustration‚ lack of belief and low morale of US soldiers in post-Tet Vietnam‚ a village named My Lai had been massacred in March 1968. The village had been a stronghold for Vietcong troops and most of the villagers had been communist‚ Vietcong sympathizers. During a routine search and destroy mission‚ Charlie Company‚ led by Lieutenant William L. Calley‚ was ordered to destroy the village. Charlie Company had lost a total 28 men which is almost 1/5 of the companies original size. While
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The Columbine Massacre‚ the most gruesome school shooting in U.S. history‚ plagued the town of Littleton‚ Colorado. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold‚ the shooters‚ have very diverse backgrounds. Eric was intelligent while being cool at the same time. He manages to get superior grades‚ while doing shameful things. However‚ “Dylan Klebold was a meek‚ self-conscious‚ and authentically shy. He could barely speak in front of a stranger‚ especially a girl” (Columbine 6). Judgment Day‚ the most tragic
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Cat on a Hot Tin Bed Space is an important element in drama since the stage itself represents a space where action is presented. Plays can differ significantly with regard to how space is presented and how much information about space is offered. The analysis of places and settings in plays can help one get a better feel for characters and their behavior but also for the overall atmosphere. The layout and overall appearance of the set is usually described in stage directions or descriptions
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then themselves under the direction of just one man‚ Jim Jones‚ seems hard to believe. Although it is technically a suicide‚ the people were by no means emotionally stable enough to all make this decision willfully. Jim Jones carefully planned this massacre‚ which is shown through his treatment of the members of his temple‚ his mental state‚ and the timing in which everything was carried out. In order to understand Jones’ motives‚ one must look back into his childhood. He was born in indiana to James
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capital. By the time the IJA entered an already-bombarded Nanjing on December 13‚ the KMT had withdrawn its army‚ leaving the city officially defenceless. Source: Kinney‚ D. (2012). Rediscovering a massacre: The filmic legacy of Iris Chang ’s
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I Love My More greatest Cat because he is ugly and rude too me all days longed. Me will not eat neighbors our children when they are playing in my sand box. I also thinks Mario is very badly friend! Brother is very tall and fat but still dietaries him friends in catapult me friend.I Love My More greatest Cat because he is ugly and rude too me all days longed. Me will not eat neighbors our children when they are playing in my sand box. I also thinks Mario is very badly friend! Brother is very tall
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