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    Chuck Close Who is Chuck close? Chuck close is an amazing artist that uses multiple different ways to make art. But he also has prosopagnosia, dyslexia and is partially paralyzed, but he does not let these obstacles stop him. Close was born on July 5, 1940 in Monroe Washington, and his name was Charles Thomas Close. Close was born with severe dyslexia making it challenging for him in school. When Close was 11 he had a kidney infection landing him in bed for a little more than a year. During his early works Close was also diagnosed with prosopagnosia or face blindness making him unable to recognize 3D images of people's faces, but was still able to recognize 2D images of people.At age 24 Close attended Yale University, later he also went to…

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    standards forced onto them for hundreds of years; through being dominated in the workforce to being made to feel self conscious with everything they do, to every opinion they express. In 2015, feminism is a prominent movement that is both ridiculed and supported around the globe; people in today’s society still tend to criticize it by claiming that women hate men, and that instead of fighting for gender equality they are fighting for the domination of women. However, in 1892 feminism was not…

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    New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad Company 1893-1902 New Orleans City Railroad Company 1860-1883 New Orleans City and Lake Railroad 1883-1892 New Orleans Traction Company 1892-1899 New Orleans City Railroad 1899-1902 Magazine Street Railroad Company 1866 Crescent City Railroad Company 1866-1892 New Orleans Traction Company 1892-1902 St. Charles Street Railroad Company 1866-1904 Canal and Claiborne Streets Railroad Company 1867-1899 absorbed by the NO&CRy New Orleans and…

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    Old Art Education Analytic Research Paper: Light And Shade With Chapters On Charcoal, Pencil, And Brush Drawing: A Manual For Teachers And Students Understanding the basic concepts and fundamentals of art is essential to creating good art work. Instruction in drawing must be built upon the principles which underlie the most successful in art (Cross, 1892). It is crucial to a student's development to show them how to visualize, imagine, and work independently. As an individual the arts can…

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    Depictions of Mental Illness in Literature The depiction of mental illness in literature has been written in several different forms, including short stories. The various types of mental illness described in these stories affect each character differently depending on the theme, setting, and social situation they are in. Short story literature such as, The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892), and The Masque of the Red Death, by Edgar Allen Poe (1842), depicts characters that…

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    crusade was created by Ida B. Wells, due to her passion for justice. Well’s was born during the Reconstruction period, which was the transition from slavery to freedom. The changes Ida endured, increased the evolution of racial equality. The background information on lynching, established by Well’s is one of the leading reasons for the evacuation of Memphis in 1892. The decision Ida B. Wells made to leave Memphis was more of a social and political circumstances during this time period.…

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    when it all started in early October. On October 1, 1892 Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison was born. She had grown up with two sisters with the names of Elizabeth and Mary, and two brothers by the names of John and Henry. Her father was a professor at the Miami University in Oxford. He wanted to make sure that her and her sisters had a good education as her brothers did. Caroline grew up with reading and literature skills which made it easier for her to learn at school. But in…

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    The narrator detested the summer house her husband picked along with the horrid yellow wallpaper and barred window in the room she was held. The woman’s detest becomes apparent when stating, "The color is repellent, almost revolting: a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight. It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulfur tint in others" (Gilman, 1892). Solemnly, her excessive rest pushes her slight depression into a full psychosis, complete with…

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    Homestead Strike Thesis

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    The Homestead Strike of July 1892 the American Federation of Labor of Iron and Steelworkers had refused to take the pay cuts and went on strike in Homestead, Pennsylvania. In return the president of the Carnegie Steel Company Henry C. Frick decided to close the plant and hired three hundred guards from the Pinkerton Detective Agency to protect the factory. After five long months the strikers of Homestead gave in and returned back to work. The Homestead Strike of July 1892 was an important event…

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    Throughout centuries, newspapers have being one of the most popular ways of sharing and getting information for what happens nationally and around the world. Every day this pamphlets were filled with events, and for month they accumulated to become the yearly historical context of every state. Fortunately these are available in different web pages and store tons of informational texts as the article in which this paper is based, “After The Battle ˮ, from The Morning Call. Written in November 8,…

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