Omai Ojobi March 9, 2011 COM 108 Professor Marcia Hair Outline for Informative Speech General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To educate/inform my audience about the history of dance and how it has become a well know craft. Thesis Statement: Dancing is an art that goes way back, before records were recorded. Way back into the early days of human beings on this earth. It has shaped lives and built character. I. Introduction: (What dance really is?)slide 1 A. Many of us have believed
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notion. As such, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. neglected to include Asian modern art in his seminal 1936 map, The Development of Abstract Art, and consequently, I have provided a revision. Barr’s depiction epitomizes a European-dictated arrangement of art history, which excludes all versions of modernity not part of ‘his’ visual. I question the legitimacy of this omission. Modernity is not a singular definition, not solely manifested in one structured European interpretation. It is not necessarily residing
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Vietnam, planning and conducting more effective learning and teaching strategies for History is considered as one of the most challenging task for educators (Mr. Truong Tan Sang 2012). The quality of teaching and learning History has stood low and even had tendency to get worse in the past few years. A report in Tuoi tre (July 26, 2011) revealed that the year 2011 witnessed an unprecedentedly disappointed result in History of the entrance exam, approximately 80-90% of candidates got the mark below five
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Why should we preserve history? We should preserve history for several reasons. The first reason is because we will learn from the mistakes people made in the past and try not to repeat them. The second reason is so we will understand civilizations got to where we are today. The third reason is to learn about what causes conflicts and wars so we can help identify when they might be occurring. We should preserve history so we don’t make the same mistakes we did in the past. Things would not reoccur
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5. The task of writing a history （撰写历史的使命） The task of writing a history of our nation from Rome’s earliest days fills me, I confess, with some misgivings and even though I was confident in the value of my work, I should hesitate to say so.（我承认，尽管有着些许担忧，但我仍肩负着从罗马时代早期就沿袭下来的记录历史的使命。尽管我坚信这项工作富有价值，我却无法毫不犹豫地说出来。） I am aware that for historians to make extravagant claims is, and always has been, all too common: Every writer on history tends to look down his nose at his less cultivated predecessors,
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The documents about early Christian life depicted how important religion was to society and how polarizing it was. Religion has been at the core of societies throughout history and through our country is “secular” many values and core principles are deeply rooted in our Christian heritage. This has polarized our country and created a government founded on religious biases. In our contemporary world, the battle between religion
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the House of Commons, becoming law from 1 May 1807. That same year the African Institution was formed to seek the enforcement of the Abolition Act and to further the market for trade with Africa in commodities other than that of human beings. In the same year the United States Slave Trade Act prohibited American citizens from participating in the African Slave Trade. Yet Rio de Janeiro recorded its largest annual import of African Slaves (18, 677) in 1810 and total slave imports to the Americas rose
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Hogarth Blake Presents: Wonderful Ethiopians Of The Ancient Cushite Empire By Drusilla Dunjee Houston First published in 1926 This e-book was edited by Hogarth Blake Ltd Download this book and many more for FREE at: hh-bb.com hogarthblake@gmail.com ‘Wonderful Ethiopians Of The Ancient Cushite Empire’ by Drusilla Dunjee Houston Reproduction & duplication of this work for FREE is permitted. Refer to the terms & conditions page for more details. Terms & Conditions Scanned at sacred-texts
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European History After 1500 there were many signs that a new age of world history was beginning, for example the discovery of America and the first European enterprises in Asia. This new age was dominated by the astonishing success of one civilization among many, that of Europe. There has certainly been “progress” in Western history since 1500. Europeans eventually became masters of the globe and they used their mastery to make the world one. That resulted in a unity of world history that can
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Middle Ages theorist, Shulamith Shahar, thought that good parentage was important as well as grading curriculum to keep a check on students’ intellect and acknowledgement of life cycle stages. [What does this mean] Lloyd de Mause recounts the history of childhood by acknowledging massive damage of children at the hands of their parents and caretakers. His emerging concepts were ones proposing a child’s innocence; child development was the basis of children becoming adults. ( , year) Francesco
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