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    Julissa Knapinski CBA- Everett Massacre February, 2016 What Caused the Everett Massacre? Did you know, the bloodiest labor confrontation (The Everett Massacre) occurred in Washington state, on November 5th, 1916? Well, it’s true! That Sunday, a group called the Wobblies went on ships from Seattle, Washington to Everett, Washington. The biggest causes of the Everett Massacre are assumptions, fear, and most importantly, dissatisfaction. First off, assumptions was a big contributor to the occurrence

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    During 1852, John Everett Millais created an astounding masterpiece, of oil on canvas, called Ophelia.The primary focus is the character of Ophelia from Shakespeare's play Hamlet. The painting is made to illustrate the tragic death of Ophelia in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, where she fell in the stream and drowned. In the painting, Ophelia is observed lying down in the middle of a running, narrow, river. She is painted with a long white dress layered with lace and beads highlighting her importance

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    Ernest Everett Just, the son of Charles and Mary, was born in Charleston, SC August 14, 1883. During this time Cholera and diphtheria epidemics broke out, and black children were the main ones being affected by it. Soon after the birth of Ernest, his two year old brother and four year old sister passed away as a result of these diseases leaving him as the only child in the family for a short time. During his earlier years, the Just household was a very hectic and tense one. Many deaths were occurring

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    The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and William Holman Hunt who were students at the Royal Academy. Millais, Rossetti, and Hunt were dissatisfied with the academy teaching students to mimic renaissance masters like Raphael, and sought to create art reminiscent of the medieval period. In addition for their distaste for renaissance perfection in art the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were inspired by the theories of writer and art critic, John Ruskin

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    Sir John Everett Millais was born on June 8, 1829 in Southampton, England to John William Millais and Emily Marie Millais. Their family had a French background and were wealthy people in the middle class, partly due to the fact that the mother's family were very successful saddlers, which are people who were skilled at making saddles (Artmagick 1, Tate 1). When Millais was little he was considered a child prodigy when it came to painting and his family moved to London in 1838 to improve contacts

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    by Sir John Everett Millais Ophelia is a piece of art that was painted by Sir John Everett Millais. It was painted in the Tate Britain, and completed in 1852 (Lewis par. 2). The painting shows a fictional actor from Shakespeare’s theater piece Hamlet. William Shakespeare’s work was a great inspiration for Sir John Everett (Lewis par. 2). The fictional character is called Ophelia. This painting by Sir John has since been celebrated for its uniqueness and attention to detail. John Everett Millais and

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    Smokestacks', Everett, Washington was booming with blue-collar jobs, with over two dozen saw and shingles mills making home there throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. However, the workers of Everett (and indeed, the entire United States at the time) dealt with extensive labor hours and hazardous working conditions. In response to these conditions, much of the city's workforce began to unionize, which was readily accessible with Everett's twenty-five local unions. In 1914, the city of Everett was recovering

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    The Mystical Moon of Manchester “Wake up Jackson, my little werewolf,” said Barbara languidly. “But Mum, it is only 7 a.m. on a Saturday,” complained Jackson. “Also why do you have to use nicknames like that, I’m not going to any exciting trick or treating today anyway.” “Oh honey I am sorry but you know that I have an interview with Mr.Charles today to work a really rewarding office. You know that if I get this job then life will not be as stressful as it is now, and is just one missed Halloween

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    and but, hate/death threats. I always see at least one comment or tweet about how I “don’t deserve to be Niall’s sister” or “You only want the fame”. Traveling from place to place without my best friend, Summer Everett was hard, but i did have a family with me, the 1D Family. Summer Everett, my “sister” is always there for me. When I turned 18, I decided to move to the sunny Southern California. We live in LA together, while my parents, Bobby Horan and Maura Gallagher, divorced, lived in separate

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    Everett Shinn

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    Outdoor Stage, France by artist Everett Shinn is 24 ¾ in. by 21 ½ in., or approximately 2 ft. high by 1 ¾ ft. wide. The painting is not imposing on the gallery floor, and has only a few feet of space on either side between two other paintings. The painting is on canvas, and is framed in a thick, gold frame with no glass. The media is oil paints, and the lighting in the gallery is such that there are no reflections in the paint when viewing from different angles. The subject matter of the painting

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