firing of the pot in three stages. The temperature was never greater than 950 degrees C. The appropriate oxidation during the firing gave the red colour to the areas of the pot not covered by the varnish due to the large concentration of iron in Attic clay‚ and resulted in the black shiny colour in the ’painted’ areas from the mixture of clay with the alkaline earth. It was by such a simple process of experimentation in firing that the Greek vases were moulded‚ those vases and works of art which
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Horror films have been around since the 1920’s when Frankenstein and Dracula were created‚ Horror is a good genre to analysis because there are many sub-genre’‚ Slasher is a popular genre ‚ recent slasher films are popular amoungst a younger audience. The American slasher film has its roots in an Italian genre called giallo which usually combines elements of the crime thriller with stalk and slash style scares. John Carpenter got the sub-genre off the ground with Halloween in 1978‚ and pretty soon
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and wishes she had. They are staying in a secret attic of the office building where Mr. Frank used to work in order to escape from the Nazis during World War II. During their stay in the annex‚ they are supported by several people in the office building‚ who risk their own lives to insure the secrecy of the Jewish hideout and to provide them with food and basic supplies. Much of Anne’s diary tells about the daily routine of the occupants of the attic. It also describes in detail the characters of
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Richard is brave. He is willing to find out who really he are although he already have adoptive family that love him so much. Other than that‚ Richard also shows his obey characteristic with his adoptive father‚ Joe. When Joe asked him to clean up the attic‚ he is willing to do that. The second main character is Tom‚ Richard adoptive brother. Tom shows his helpful characteristic to Richard. He accompany Richard go to Alice Springs to find out Richard background. Besides that‚ Tom worried Richard career
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Imagine not being able to go outside for over two years and living with another family you have never met. As difficult as this may seem to believe‚ this is exactly what the Frank family and the Van Pels family had to go through‚ along with many other restrictions on their daily life. After the innocent killing of Jews during the Holocaust began‚ thousands of Jewish families were forced into hiding just like the Franks and Van Pels. Miep was one non-Jew who helped these families stay hidden by
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succeed from the union which was unconstitutional and against the law. The start of the war was fought at Fort Sumter where the south invaded this Union fort to stop supplies from getting to it. It was the first confederate win. In the end the war was a Union victory after the Confederate army surrendered. After Lincoln gets elected a second time‚ reconstruction begins. Lincoln wanted to be lenient on the south while a group in the senate called Radical Republicans wanted to punish the south. Soon
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ULYSSES S. GRANT "Grant: a biography" by William S. McFeely. Published by: Norton‚Ww Copyright 1981 Ulysses Simpson Grant‚ (1822-1885)‚ American general and 18th President of the United States. Grant‚ the most capable of the Union generals during the Civil War‚ was a master strategist. He won the first major Union victories. President Abraham Lincoln staunchly defended him against critics and promoted him to command all Union forces. Grant accepted Gen
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The Yellow Wallpaper The Yellow Wallpaper uses symbols to show the hardship that women had to endure to fight oppression. By showing these hardships‚ we gain the knowledge that we don’t always make the right decisions. We believe that we are giving people freedom when in turn we are oppressing them even more. Gilman uses symbols throughout her story in a variety of ways. In The Yellow Wallpaper Gillman uses the house to symbolize a body. The speaker describes the outside as “beautiful and delicious
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particularly after the Civil War. This text successfully investigates the ideas of southern politicians‚ generals‚ novelists‚ and journalists who all in the face of defeat combined to form a Lost Cause generation who attempted to justify and explain the Confederate experience. Connelly and Bellows offer the reader a unique perspective regarding two different definitions of this lost cause phenomenon; The Inner Lost Cause and the National Lost Cause as they both respectively originated to capture the opinions
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celebrity for his actions at Chickamauga‚ armed with a musket sawed down small enough for him to carry and riding a caisson‚ Clem joined the 22nd Michigan in the defense of Horseshoe Ridge on the afternoon of September 20. As the Confederate forces surrounded the unit‚ a Confederate colonel spotted Clem and shouted either “I think the best thing a mite of a chap like you can do is drop that gun” or called him a “damned
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