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The first source that I read was a Wikipedia page created by several people who had gathered information about Gothic Cathedrals. There was no specific date when this Wikipedia page was created. The point of view from this source gives the reader the impression that the Dark Ages weren’t too “dark”. This point of view is shown through the quote, “Common features of gothic cathedrals included architectural innovations, including: large columns, high ceilings with ribbed vaults, flying buttresses,…

Nathan Sawaya Nathan Sawaya is a Lego artist. He has an exhibit at the Cincinnati Museum center called the art of the brick. He builds massive life size (or larger than life size) Lego models out of his downtown New York studio. Nathan has exhibits touring the world. He needs to follow them around, meaning he takes a lot of flights from country to county. When booking flights, they would always ask “your occupation?” He would always say “Lego artist”. This is an uncommon occupation, so they…

Jessica Lange”). She also provided the vocals for the songs that are featured in Sweet Dreams (“Jessica Lange Trivia”). In 1990, she starred in a movie called Men Don’t Leave and it was well received by the audiences who saw it (“Jessica Lange” Wikipedia). She performed in Prozac Nation in 2001 with Christina Ricci (“Jessica Lange” Famous Birthdays). She starred in Grey Gardens as Big Edie, which was not a huge role. She was in this movie with Drew Barrymore in 2009. Grey Gardens is an HBO movie…

Created by the People’s Temple and lead by Jim Jones, “Jonestown” was a religious society located in northwestern Guyana. On the date of November 18, 1978, 918 died in Guyana’s capital, Georgetown, in Port Kaituma, a close-by airstrip (Wikipedia). According to Adst, “Jonestown was the scene of one of the most harrowing tragedies in American history.” The People’s Temple was created in Indiana by Jim Jones who formed this so called church because he was aggravated by the persecution of…

could really buckle down and start working on her next album. Underwood also stated she had also begun planning another tour but that she hadn’t thought much about how she wanted it to sound. She admitted to loving the energy that rock concerts had (Wikipedia,…

Radcliffe College, which allowed her to gain access to the Harvard College Observatory; in 1896, the director of the observatory appointed her to a group called “Pickering’s Women” to aide in the completion of the Henry Draper Catalogue of stars (Wikipedia). In this time period, women solely dealt with data and calculations and did not have the privilege to manage telescopes like men.…

overthrow of the slavery system. John moved to Plainfield Massachusetts and enrolled in school. He transferred to an academy in Litchfield, Connecticut. First, John Brown was an American abolitionist. According to “John Brown (Abolitionist).” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 6 Dec. 2017, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist). “John Brown was an American abolitionist who believed and advocated that armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the…

and roll was born in the United States in the mid 1950's, crossing racial and geographical lines. This major music genre has spawned many kinds of rock such as: hard, soft, acid, metal, Southern, jazz, blues, punk, pop, gospel, etc. as listed on Wikipedia website of List of rock genres. (Wikipedia.org). According to our textbook, The World of Music, rock and roll was influenced by "R & B and country and western - one especially black, the other white." (123). The original rock and roll…

hundreds of thousands of people, making it the 3rd most populated city in the U.S.(“Wikipedia”). Chicago is called the “Windy City” because of the cold gusts of wind that blow from Lake Michigan, it’s called the “Second City” because that’s what it was often called during the battle with New York. Chicago is an adored location because it is a major city for finance, commerce, industry and telecommunications(“Wikipedia”). It is important for us to know about Chicago because so many people live…

By exploring the user generated content posted on 25 different Wikipedia language editions, the authors demonstrate that the diversity between languages and their relationship has a great impact on our online source of knowledge. Wikipedia is meant to inspire agreement around a single neutral viewpoint. However, this principle broke down “in the face of one daunting obstacle: language,” (291). The authors…