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- 3121: Report On Opera
- ... endowed with magic. -Mary Jane Matz, Opera: Grand and Not So Grand Opera was originally a pure art, surviving on subsidies from royalty, nobility, and aristocracy. But with the opening of the first public opera house in Venice in 1637, opera has gradually become a marketable commodity, competing with popular entertainments. Today, this art form carries numerous stereotypes that mildly retard the spreading of its popularity. Younger generations often perceive opera ... 1993. Harries, Susie & Meirion. Opera Today St. Martins Press, New York; 1986. Matz, Mary Jane. Opera: Grand and not so Grand William Morrow & Company, Inc. New York; 1966. Simon, Henry W. Festival of Opera Hanover House, New York; 1957.
- 3122: The Bay of Pigs Invasion
- ... when the brigade hit the beach, and that if the exile force got into trouble, its members would simply melt into the countryside and become guerrillas, just as Castro had done . . . . As for senior White House aides, most of them disagreed with the plan as well, but Rusk says that Kennedy went with what the CIA had to say. As for himself, he said that he ". . . did not serve President Kennedy ... unrest." The CIA also now came under the supervision of the president's brother Bobby, the Attorney General. According to Lucien S. Vandenbroucke, the outcome of the Bay of Pigs failure also made the White House suspicious of an operation that everyone agreed to, made them less reluctant to question the experts, and made them play "devil's advocates" when questioning them. In the end, the lessons learned from the Bay ...
- 3123: Franks Connelly
- ... stand for? No paper on a political campaign is complete without taking a look at the backgrounds of the candidates. Going into the election Bob Franks was a third term congressman who served on the House Budget Committee which prides itself on producing the first balanced budget in years and serves the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. He co-chairs the Northeast Midwest Congressional Coalition, the Congressional Task Force on Manufacturing, and the Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus. Prior to his congressional career he served in the ...
- 3124: Rahotep And Nefret
- ... kings dependent. The columns of hieroglyphics are symmetrical and add balance to each statue. These two statues would have been placed in the mastaba, or rectangular tomb chapel, of the owners where they would house the ka (manifestation) of the deceased that would receive offerings from the living. Often, a serdab, or an enclosed niche, located behind a false door would house the statues and separate them from the people making the offerings. The main function of the statues was not to portray the couple in an artistic sense, but shelter their ka after their deaths. The ...
- 3125: The Effects of the French and Indian War
- ... soldiers acquired that let them go into anyone's home whenever; this took away the right of privacy of the colonist. Another of these was the quartering acts, this made the colonists take in and house British soldiers; this act implied that the colonists did not even own nor have control over their own houses' but rather England did. The third circumstance was admiralty courts, where criminal cases were transferred to ... in fear of creating a strong tyrannical national government. They also did not include an executive branch so no one person or people would be in control of the government. It also include a one house legislature where each state got only one vote in fear that the larger states would eventually take control of the smaller ones. There was no judicial branch of government because they wanted state law to ...
- 3126: Causes of The Great Depression
- ... 24). In addition, "tourist homes" (hotels and motels) opened up everywhere. With such a wealthy upper-class many luxury hotels were needed. In 1924 alone, hotels such as the Mayflower (Washington D.C.), the Parker House (Boston), The Palmer House (Chicago), and the Peabody (Memphis) opened their doors(end note 25). Lastly, and possibly most importantly, the construction industry benefited tremendously from the automobile. With the growing number of cars, there was a big demand ...
- 3127: Impact of the Spanish American War
- ... the Isthmus of Panama. In 1900, congress passed the Foraker Act, which denied US citizenship to Puerto Ricans and gave the president the power to appoint Puerto Rico's governor and members of the upper house of its legislature. Puerto Ricans Could elect only members of the legislatures lower house. In 1091 in the Insular Cases, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution did not automatically apply to people in acquired territories, Congress retained the right to extend United States' citizenship, and it granted ...
- 3128: The Cause of the War Between Britain and America
- ... money away from the Colonist. This enraged the industrial and agricultural colonists. Britain took it too far when it passed the Quartering Act. The act gave British troops the right to stay at any colonist house. Colonist where not only to house the troops, but provide food as well. British General Thomas Gage asked the New York assembly to convince colonists to agree to these terms. The assembly refused the General's request. "If England had the ...
- 3129: Comparison of The American Revolution and the French Revolution
- ... death penalty meted out to those who refused to sell at the government's prices. Every citizen was required to carry an identity card issued by his local commune, called, Certificates of Good Citizenship. Every house had to post an outside listing of its legal occupants. The Revolutionary Communes had committees that watched everyone in the neighborhood and special passes were needed to travel from one city to another. The jails ... A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Vol. 1 (New York: Bureau of National Literature, 1897), p. 367. 10. Roche, George, Charles, Frederic, Basiat. A Man Alone. (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1971), pp. 146-147. 11. Scott, Otto, J. , Robespierre: The Voice of Virtue. (New York: Mason and Lipscomb Publishers, 1974), pp. 59-61. 12. So strong were the connections between the Physiocrats and Adam Smith ...
- 3130: The Bay of Pigs Invasion
- ... when the brigade hit the beach, and that if the exile force got into trouble, its members would simply melt into the countryside and become guerrillas, just as Castro had done . . . . As for senior White House aides, most of them disagreed with the plan as well, but Rusk says that Kennedy went with what the CIA had to say. As for himself, he said that he ". . . did not serve President Kennedy ... unrest." The CIA also now came under the supervision of the president's brother Bobby, the Attorney General. According to Lucien S. Vandenbroucke, the outcome of the Bay of Pigs failure also made the White House suspicious of an operation that everyone agreed to, made them less reluctant to question the experts, and made them play "devil's advocates" when questioning them. In the end, the lessons learned from the Bay ...
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