The first piece included in this exhibition is Painting 1977 by Peter Booth, who is a contemporary Australian figurative and surrealist painter born in 1940 in Sheffield, England. ... Booth used oil on canvas to create this piece, with heavily applied brushstrokes and impasto paint being used to create the harsh texture of the artwork. ... Her photography piece, Bind, is the second piece included in this exhibition. ... This installation piece also represents the starting point of the artist's transformation from child to woman. ...

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The main reason the treaty failed to keep the peace is because the Allies all had separate agendas. ... All of the othe smaller Allied countries wanted more land or more people, mostly wanting a piece of the spoils.(2) The meeting where they decided on the terms of the Treaty of Versailles as well as many other items was called the Paris Peace Conference. ... Some countries such as Italy, Poland and Greece all wanted a piece of the action. ... The colonies were split up between the Allies; Britain, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand and Japan all got a piece of the action. Germany lost a lit...

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The basic idea of gaining territory is when a country conquers a region or island or even piece of waterway, there is usually some significance to what the territory holds, be it natural resources, or a connection to a trade route. ... Again, this dispute is not over a strategic point or a possible new trade route, it is over a piece of land that two countries think have both claimed sovereignty over it in the past. ...

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TEN MAJOR EVENTS THAT SHAPED THE UNITED STATES Over time instances occurred throughout history that affected the United States, for the good and bad. They affected many people emotionally and physically. The following ten events have affected the nation culturally, politically, economically, ...

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Like many Maori, Rua was also upset by the way in which the British ignored the treaty, seeing it as nothing more than a piece of paper. ... However, what angered Rua the most as seen though his resistance in the First World War, was the way that the Crown had separate laws for Maori and Pakeha, reinforcing not only how the crown neglected the Treaty, but also how they discriminated against Maori. ...

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One such piece of evidence comes from a letter from Syngman Rhee, an exiled Korean conservative, written in the summer of 1945 to President Truman. ... When the Japanese surrendered in August 1945 there was no clear cut manner to adopt trusteeship in Korea, so on August 11, 1945 Korea was split into two separate occupied zones along the thirty-eighth parallel (Lee 2001:21). ...

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF ASIA "This is the only region in the world where so many combinations and permutations of two- three and four- and even two plus four or three plus three- power games can be played on the regional chessboard with all their complexities and variations." introduction T...

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Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. The parts dealing with World War II are most closely associated with actual events. Twenty-three years have passed since the end of the war, and for much of that time the narrator has been trying to write about the bombing of Dresden. He was never able to write the book. When he thinks about Dresden's place in his memory, he always recalls two things: a dirty limerick about a man whose penis has let him down, and "My Name is Yon Yonson," a song which has no ending. ...

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