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    The Treaty of Versailles was signed between Germany and the Allied Powers, including Britain, France, Russia, and Italy. This officially ended WW1. Germany had lost the war, and therefore the allies who had won the war, decided to hold a conference in Paris, this conference was called the Paris Peace Conference and it was to decide what they should do now having won the war. The countries represented in the Conference were France by their prime minister George Clemenceau, England by their prime minister David Lloyd George and America by their president Woodrow Wilson. The prime minister of Italy Vittro Orlando was not present at the place where the treaty was discussed, even though Italy was part of the winning side. This was because before the war Italy was part of the Triple Alliance, when the war broke out Italy decide to withdraw from the Triple Alliance and therefore she joined the allies, for this reason Italy was deemed not trust worthy. Germany was not invited to this meeting. This was because England and France wanted to the war on Germany and this would be harder to do if Germany was there to defend themselves. In this essay, I, will explain how the treaty was both fair and unfair. The fair clauses of the treaty include war guilt and disarmament, whilst the unfair clauses include territorial clauses and reparations.…

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    ” Will believes that “the general shortening of sentences reflects, in part, a change in nature of Inaugural Addresses.” He refers to Teddy Roosevelt who called the presidency “a bully pulpit.” Later addresses have had an incentive to tell Americans how to behave with phrases such as “The only thing we have to fear…” and “Ask not…” A more popular phrase which was used by Kennedy and Nixon was “Let us…,” which according to Will means, “For Pete’s sake, pull up your socks and shape up.” The…

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    Ruin A Child Analysis

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    How to ruin a child In the article it’s told that “the theory that praise, self-esteem and accomplishment increase in tandem is false” (George F. Will). Which is why some children soccer teams stopped counting goals and shower trophies on everyone, or that they even in physical education classes’ students are jump roping without rope. He says children are jumping rope without ropes because of self-esteem obsession and the list goes on, such as opening lunchboxes to find handwritten notes…

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    I had to understand why Seurat used such a difficult technique for his work. I then came upon the theory that perhaps he wanted to produce a deeper sense of life in his paintings. All things in the world are composed of millions of cells, and these cells create objects, color, and everything that practically exists. I imagine that Seurat's motive was to utilize this scientific law in his work to give an atmosphere of life, texture, and movement in the scenes that he…

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    American Born Chinese is a graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang about various characters dealing with stereotypes, and prejudices. Two main characters that seem to struggle with this are the monkey king and Jinn. The monkey king is the king of all monkey's on his island. He is looked at as a god and respected by every monkey on the island. But when he is invited to a dinner party for all the gods, he realizes that nobody else has respect for him. By everyone else he is looked at as a dirty monkey.…

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    The Beatles mostly sang about peace and love, experimenting with different concepts on the subject and various instruments. George Harrison introduced the sitar in some of their later albums. Originally, they started as a simple pop band and eventually grew and developed into a rock and roll band. Most of their fan base was composed of teenage girls, while the Rolling Stones attracted every one of every age. They would have to think of creative and clever ways to sneak lyrics about sex and drugs…

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    The Effects of the French and Indian War During the 1754-63 the French and Indian War significantly altered the political, economic, and ideological relations between Britain and its American colonies. Political of effects the war included Britain 's disbandment of the salutary neglect policy. Economics is how the economy was doing and if the money was doing good in the region. During the and after the war the economy was chaotic and had an enormous debt that needed to be payed. Finally, an…

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    Samuel Hughes Biography

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    Among the British commanders he received a reputation of being a first class leader of irregular forces. Hughes was appointed to a political post as Minister of Militia and Defence in October 1911, even thought he had set a reputation for he is utterly intolerant of those who are religious. He was very much disliked by the French Canadians because of his reputation. Hughes supported the importance of clothing, arms, and munitions. Hughes sponsored the progression of the long and heavy Ross rifle…

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    Beatles Let It Be Analysis

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    The Beatles bade their affiliated careers goodbye with the releasing of the album and single “Let It Be” in 1970, shortly following the announcement of the dissolution of the group. For many, the song, “Let It Be”, not only represents keeping hope through difficult times but additionally symbolizes the four members moving on from the group. The mixture of the instrumental and vocal makeup of “Let It Be” formulates to constitute a gospel ambience. With context in mind, the meaning of the song has…

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    it moved away from the general art form of that time. Not fully abstract but abstracted from the norm, cubism went against the traditional view of the artist subject. There was a sense , to quote Picasso, to realize forms which will have their own life to live, the painters moved away from the idea of following the traditional techniques of perspective and modeling. They worked with the two-dimensional plane, used geometric shapes and forms, contrasts of shadows, and space. Although vastly…

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