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    style to that of Wolfe’s but she had a twist on it. She added Directoire and English Regency intermixing the periods and styles together allowed for her to have a different perspective. Eleanor cared for the interior background of the room, the architecture. She was always considering good

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    willing to expire me to new things. We are a very open country. Americans do not feel constrained by the past. America believes they are exceptional. We believe we represent the best the world has ever seen. 2. The Great Awakening was many emotional revivals ignited by a huge sense of religious decline, fear of erosion of religion and the necessity of “rebirth” during the

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    Modernist Mexico City

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    background. Another building, which is perhaps the most important in all of Mexico City, as it brings tourists and foreigners daily, is Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM). UNAM is a “campus that functions as a survey course of modern Mexican architecture.” According to reports, “politicians in the middle of the 20th century decided that having liberal students prone to protest conveniently massed in the city center campus wasn’t a great idea, so they asked architects to start from scratch and build

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    Health centers are a necessary part of all campuses across the nation. To have a health center on campus is a promise to all the students to provide them with quality health care that will help one maintain a physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual state of health. On the Sweet Briar College campus, that has always been a health center, however it has been moved from building to building from 1906 to 1925, where the infirmary was located in various buildings on campus, including the Sweet

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    The House & Home Exhibit

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    resonates with visitors of all ages and backgrounds. A visit to any of the Washington, D.C. based National Building Museum’s exhibit starts with taking in the grandeur of the museum itself. Located in the historic Pension Building, a towering Italian Revival structure, the museum opened in 1980, with a mission to “to advance the quality of the built environment by educating people about its impact on their lives (About the National Building Museum, 2016).” The museum 's great hall features 75 foot high

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    cases of fighting, the English nearly killed off the tribes they fought Seeds of Colonial Unity and Independence • 4 colonies banded together to form the New England Confederation • England was distracted in English Civil War, so colonist had to supply themselves • The confederation was essentially an exclusive Puritan club Andros Promotes the First American Revolution • Dominion of New England formed, added colonial defense to the New England colonies run by the English government • The Dominion

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    Essay on Indigenous Religions of the World

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    Indigenous religions exist in every climate around the world and exhibit a wide range of differences in their stories, language, customs, and views of the afterlife. Within indigenous communities, religion, social behavior, art, and music are so intertwined that their religion is a significant part of their culture and virtually inseparable from it. These religions originally developed and thrived in isolation from one another and are some of the earliest examples of religious practice and belief

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    Naval Training Center

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    NTC: Helping Shape “America’s Finest City” San Diego has been home to a multitude of stupendous sites over the decades: Seaworld, San Diego Zoo, San Diego Safari Park, and Balboa Park. However, there is a place that has immense amounts of history and culture in our own backyard. It is a place formerly known as the Naval Training center (NTC); it is now known as Liberty Station. It is a beautiful sight, and wealth of knowledge and history, that seeks to actively engage the community in teaching

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    1. Buffer zone and shatter belt of geography: Southeast Asia has been a buffer zone between powerful adversaries, as it is situated on the periphery of two of the world's largest states, India and China. It is also in the shatter belt where the stresses and pressures from within and without continues to have a fractured political adversaries. Southeast Asia has a variety of cultural diversity, containing hundreds of cultures, ethnicities, languages, religions, and economies. 2. Physiographic

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    The Country Of Puerto Rico

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    miles of this island is about seventy-five percent hills or mountains (Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States b). With the large amount of land consisting of hill or mountains, Puerto Rico has limited amounts of natural resources. While under Spanish colonial rule, the island was largely neglected because of its limited mineral resources. Following the Spanish-American war in 1898, the U.S. took over control of the island. The U.S. found itself in control of an island that produced small scale amounts

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