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Research Paper On The Boston Tea Party

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The Boston Tea Party While researching images of ships and seascapes, I found several different artworks and decorative objects that voiced a kind of story involving the adventures on the ships and on the seas. Many artists create their artwork in a manner to express emotions and feelings by using colors, lines, styles and other elements of art and principles of design. The feeling becomes the narrative or attention of the artwork, which could lead to artists being inspired by a variety of historical events, myths or legends. My goal in this paper is to visually describe in words the artwork that illustrates the historical event of the Boston Tea Party. The image being discussed is entitled Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor created by

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