Of all the paintings that I saw today, two landscaped pieces seemed to stick out in my mind; Andre Derain's The Turning Road and Thomas Hart Benton's Haystack. ... Derain's painting of The Turning Road and Benton's painting of the Haystack depict similar subject matter. The images in the two paintings that are similar are the curving road, the trees, the workers and also the horse which is seen in both images. Both The Turning Road and the Haystack show an outdoor scene from the daytime with workers going about their busy everyday lives. ... In both paintings, the artists d...

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Today it could take decades to build bridges, roads, dams or other such needed fundamental foundations, including the planning and development stages, costing upwards of ¼ of a billion dollars (statistics of Sunshine Skyway Bridge, St. ... Before the Project was terminated during World War II, it left permanent monuments on the landscape in the form of buildings, bridges, dams, hard-surfaced roads, airports, and schools. ...

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His plan was to provide the unemployed jobs, conserving national forests and parks, restoring Civil War battlefields, building roads, and generally improving many of America's natural resources. ...

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Oscar Wilde, an Irish writer, once said "to do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual." While the most intellectual people are believed to be in charge of our world's financial systems, those who have supported big-money stimulus's flood...

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Though The Hall of People in Berlin, the construction and expansion of roads and thoroughfares, and the implementation of state measures to control hygiene and traffic, militaristic planning of cities are evident of attempts for Haussmanesque transformations and plans of war, the Fascists in Germany, Italy, and Russia were unable to fully execute a complete concrete embodiment of their political system largely due to interruptions in construction during the Second World War. ... This was accomplished by building roads, schools, bridges, dams, and public buildings. ...

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The New Deal was a political and social plan that was the presidential campaign platform of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Although Roosevelt was very vague about what it was and actual measures to be taken while running for president, the New Deal was the shinning hope for many Americans who had lost t...

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The Grapes of Wrath: A True Depiction of a Terrible Depression The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl of the 1930's drove many farmers west in search for jobs and put many others on the streets. In this time of pain and suffering the Joad family in John Steinbeck's classic novel, The Grapes of W...

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