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    Spike Lee Cop Scene

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    emotional impact. From lateral panning and jumpy camera sequences to his use of perspective, Lee inspires intensity and apprehension. An odd synchronicity between the camerawork and subject matter fosters these emotional reactions and inspires inquisition; the viewer conceptualizes the camerawork to uncover a significance the narrative cannot deliver. The cop sequence retains suspense and effortlessly transfers Flipper’s inherent anxiety; a “voyeuristic” perspective stimulates the former while…

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    he sees the treatment of a British admiral. It is seen that powerful groups do no good. They harm and hurt the innocent, and foster corruption and evil. Candide heavily disagreed with the concept of noble thesis and was very negative about the inquisition. He believed that enlightened despotism was sufficient. In other words, he thought a king or emperor should impose enlightenment reforms on there kingdoms to improve. In addition, Candide was very anti-clerical and anti-noble. He did not…

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    religion, or holy wars, is not a particularly new idea. Since the dawn of time, various groups with opposing viewpoints have commonly struggled to spread their own influence over each other. Such examples of holy war include the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, and of course, the highly controversial “modern-day” jihad.…

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    Cracking the Maya Code, we follow the process of how the glyphs were deciphered by a team of archaeologists, artists, adventurers, and linguistists. The reason why nobody could understand the glyphs stemmed in the 16th century when the Spanish Inquisition came to the “New World”. Diego De Landa played a major role in the destruction of the Maya code, his mission was to convert the Mayan to Catholicism. However, he saw them as “devil worshipers” as they believe in making offerings to their many…

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    Potato History

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    French fries, Hash browns, Vodka, these are just some of the fantastic uses for potatoes. The Potato is a fantastic starch and a very versatile vegetable. Where did they come from? Where are they Grown? How do we store and eat them? These are just some topics I will be discussing in this paper. Staring with the history we will find where and when the first potatoes had been farmed and cultivated. The history of the potato begins in the high Andes Mountains of South America at elevations often…

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    The Witches Hammer/Hammer of Witches The Witches Hammer is the English Translation for the Malleus Maleficarum (Latin) or Der Hexenhammer (German) this is the infamous book which was written in 1486 by two monks and theology professors, Heinrich Kramer, an inquisitor of the Catholic Church, and Jacob Sprenger, it was first published in 1487 in Germany. It is now believed by many that Sprenger was not an author of the book, with his input being more symbolic than it was active. The Witches…

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    is significant, because it shows the isolation the Jews had to face during the Holocaust. Elie describes the day that the Jewish people were driven out of their homes “like a page torn from a book…dealing with the captivity in Babylon or Spanish Inquisition. They passed me by, one after the other…all those lives I had shared for years. There they went, defeated, their bundles, their lives in tow, having left behind their homes, their childhood” (Wiesel 17). Elie and his community face extreme…

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    Michelangelo Biography

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    Michelangelo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo https://www.michelangelo.org/ Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarotti Simoni was born on March 6,1475 in Caprese near Arezzo, Tuscany. Died on February 18, 1564 at the age of 88 in Papal States, Rome. He was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. He was the first artist who was recognized during his life…

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    Galileo’s Contributions Galileo Galilei, an Italian astronomer, played a major role in the scientific revolution. He laid the foundation of modern physics and astronomy. Initially, he studied medicine at the University of Pisa, but lost interest. Soon after that, Galileo developed an interest in mathematics and physics and began observing our solar system. While observing the solar system, he developed his own scientific method.. He later helped develop the modern scientific method, which…

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    know if he's going to make it out and live or not, “I saw them fashion the syllables of my name.” This story shows fight or flight bc the story is about him trying to escape his death from this dungeon type thing. “Free!- and in the grasp of the inquisition! I had scarcely stepped from my wooden bed of horror upon the stone floor.” The madness of this story is pretty much the whole thing bc he's tied down…

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