Hairwork Jewelry as Sentimental and Mourning Art Hairwork jewelry was not an invention of the Victorian Age because the art form started being popular in the 1600s but it gained extreme popularity in the 1800s. During the Victorian Age, as a reaction to rapid industrialization, the art form reemerged. ... Artwis.com commented on the art of hairwork, saying The custom of giving and receiving hairwork can be for mourning or sentimental purposes, but its singular theme is love. ... In the United States, the Civil War gave the same impetus to the art of hairwork, particularly memorial lockets...

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These methods of tattoo application are the reason for the name of this form of body modification. ... Some ````cultures simply used them to as a permanent decoration, or are simply an art medium. ... I love everything about the art form and I am so blessed to drive to work every morning and be genuinely excited about my day. ... It is about the challenge of the art form. ... The visual aspect to the art is apparently beautiful. ...

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The art of negotiation is basically conflict resolution being played out in a skillful manner. It is the art of using the problem solving process in which two parties are attempting to resolve a conflict or disagreement through a process that has some general guidelines and rules of etiquette. ...

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In its broadest sense, popular music is an umbrella term referring to a vast range of commercially mass-marketed musical genres contrasting with classical or art music and intended to appeal to the masses (e.g., rock, rock and roll, hip-hop, grunge, heavy metal, rhythm and blues, punk, soul, techno, funk, rap, house). ... Characteristically, popular music is a global cultural phenomenon and an accessible form of commercial music aimed at a worldwide audience. Traditionally, British and American forms of popular music have tended to dominate the industry. ... Different forms of popular music ca...

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While the shift to landscape painting in Europe at about the same time was seen as a move away from the more eminent topics of historical painting, in America the representation of landscape by the Hudson River School was understood as a form of historical painting in which the landscape was filled with culturally rich iconographic and symbolic meaning. ... The Hunter's Return was specially made for New York art collector George Austen, and the painting was displayed only once between its creation and its rediscovery a century and a half later. ... Progress is definitely one of his most ...

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Hip-hop is a form of art and culture, style and language, an extension of commerce, and for many, a natural means of living. ... The lost of this man is tragic because he helped begin the hip-hop art form, when it was merely a few guys rhyming captivating words in the early nineteen eighties in Queens, New York. ... Run-DMC made rap emerge out of hip-hop to be the signature art." ... This form of music has crossed all color barriers and can be heard in almost every country around the world. Some would argue that hip-hop, in some form or fashion, has impacted the lives of every American under t...

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.), were granted a limited form of U.S. citizenship by Congress via the Organic Act of 1950. ... Constitution, concerns the forming of states within the Union: SEC. 3. New States may be admitted by Congress into this Union; but no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States; or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress. ... And as is usually the case with colonized peoples (for instance; Italy, Ireland, the Philippines, etc.),...

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However, perceptions are formed by a complex set of cultural rules which sway people to distinguish what is striking to them and what is not, more precisely, what actually makes an ideal woman" (Sultana 55). ... American culture has not only helped create the anorexic young woman whose eating disorders are tied to a low sense of self-esteem--approximately 90 percent of sufferers are female; various polls have revealed that young women see themselves as "too fat" while in fact they are often below standard norms for body size[40]--but fashion has served up the newest ideal of "heroin chic": a f...

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Immigration of various populations into the United States and other parts of the globe occurs as one of the topics that has and continues to be explored by various scholars. Worth noting is the fact that after the World War II, there are various factors that offered a comprehensive platform that enh...

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By the 1980s, the debate had shifted to the implications of the increasing participation of women as the economy was restructured and the balance changed form manufacturing to service occupations. ... Age groups from five to eleven are taught subjects such as English, Math, Science, Design and technology, Information and Communication technology, History, Geography, Art, and Physical Education. ...

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Acupuncture is an ancient art of healing that dates back to at least 2,500 years. ... Now a days, acupuncture is being used to "treat" a number of current issues from a simple migraine or back pain to various forms of addiction, such as alcohol, nicotine, or cocaine addiction. ... This involves the practitioner consciously understanding that the treatment he or she is providing is ineffective and that there is almost no scientific data to support the form of treatment, giving it a name many refer to as pseudoscience. ... The difficulty with such a statement though is that the scienc...

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The discovery of gold g forming around the Indian people, so that expansion from the East was equaled by expansion from the West. ( Brill, The Trail of tears: The Cherokee journey from home.) ... Manifest destiny had to be a real strong belief of Jackson because he said What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 12,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the blessi...

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Country folk and African American slaves mainly formed the regiments. ... The Civil War brought turmoil and complexities for the folk of Appalachia, but it also brought many to a form of religion that was circulating in the region. ...

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They committed various forms of theft and robbery, along with extortion and rape. ... During the 1920's gangs evolved to form major crime organizations. ... Both language and socioeconomic barriers inspired them to form Southeast Asian gangs. ... These alibis normally take the form of accusations against society in general. ... Participants use music, art and dance to reach their goals. ...

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Yoruba People An Overview: History, Geography, Ecology, Subsistence, Technology The Yoruba People, of whom there are more than twenty-five million, occupy the southwestern corner of Nigeria along the border with Benin Republic and extends into Benin Republic itself. To the east and north the Yoruba culture reaches its approximate limits in the region of the Niger River. However ancestral cultures directly related to the Yoruba once flourished well north of the Niger. Portuguese explorers "discovered" (for the Europeans) the Yoruba cities and kingdoms in the fifteenth century, but citie...

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The students in attendance then formed an independent organization called the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to lead in the effort. ... To maintain the protest, members of CORE, SNCC, and SCLC formed the Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee. ...

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This was because since women were prevented form gaining a good education they could not obtain a high-income job since this usually required academic success. ... In 1865 the Kensington Society was formed. ... Many feminists agreed with this, since any education that girls could receive concentrated mainly on music and art. ...

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What Is Manifest Destiny? In 1845, an influential magazine editor by the name of John L. O"Sullivan wrote in the "U.S. Magazine and Editorial Review" regarding the annexation of Texas as a new state. Explaining the American thirst for expansion that had existed from the day of its creation in 1...

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This form of exploitation of women has been a patriarchal tradition since the tenth century. ... A Swiss tour operator describes Thai women as "slim, sun-burnt and sweet masters of the art of making love by nature" (P. 496, Robinson). ...

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The Black Panther Party is formed in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. ... In 1966, women formed the National Organization for Women. ... One type consisted of the small, informal women's liberation groups, which were first formed by female students active in the civil rights movement and in radical political organizations. ...

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"Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! ...

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Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. ... The Republican Party, dominant in the North, secured a majority of the electoral votes, and Lincoln was elected the first Republican president, but before his inauguration, seven slave states with cotton-based economies formed the Confederacy. ... These states agreed to form a new federal government, the Confederate States of America, on February 4, 1861. ...

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Parallel to that phenomenon European States, during their colonial expansion over all continents, authorized two other forms of similar violence by non state actors: the corsairs and the colonial merchant companies, such as the East India Company or the Hudson Bay Company. ... It is interesting to note that in the resolution8 creating the the Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries, the UN Commission on Human Rights is "convinced that notwithstanding the way in which mercenaries or mercenary-related activities are used or the form they take to acquire some semblance of legitimacy, they ar...

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Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. ... The Republican Party, dominant in the North, secured a majority of the electoral votes, and Lincoln was elected the first Republican president, but before his inauguration, seven slave states with cotton-based economies formed the Confederacy. ... These states agreed to form a new federal government, the Confederate States of America, on February 4, 1861. ...

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American Foreign Policy / POLS 4690 A paper submitted to Dr. Galatas of the History and Political Science Department at Georgia South Western State University The Era of Good Feelings: An Era of Idealism or Realism? The Era of Good Feelings was the national mood of the United States from 1815 to 1825, as first described by the Boston Columbian Centinel on July 12, 1817. The "era" generally is considered coextensive with President James Monroe's two terms (1817-25), it really began in 1815, when for the first time American citizens could afford to pay less attention to Europ...

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