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- 1611: Time And Technology
- ... not minutes. Business deal could be closed quicker and markets could grow with international influence. Then in about 30 years or so in the mid 1870’s the telephone was invented. This was a new revolution because it could be used for both listening and speaking. The first major use for the telephone though was during the First World War when directives were sent to the front from distant headquarters. Certain ... they are happening, that is in ‘real time’. The TV is the leading mass medium but it cannot stimulate our need to be interactive with the medium, only a few years ago a new communications revolution took place: the virtual space, Internet. The Internet is the ultimate medium… so far. It is so large that it is almost unconceivable to the average person, but yet anyone and everyone can add to ...
- 1612: The Life Of Ludwig Van Beethov
- ... style; many older composers and music pedagogues, not able to accept his new style, called it "fantastic," "hare-brained," "too long, elaborate, incomprehensible, and much too noisy." In fact the style drew much from contemporary French music-the driving, ethically exalted, "grand style" elements combined with the highly ordered yet flexible structure of sonata form.It seems undeniable then that the Heilingenstadt Testament in which Beethoven came to terms with and ... his skills before death should take him. This quest coincided with and perhaps led to his graduation from the Viennese hi-Classic style to the development of his own unique heroic style, a blend of French and Viennese elements. The "Eroica" can be viewed as a deliverance of both his life and his career from despair and futility. Beethoven recreates himself in a new guise, self-sufficient and heroic. The Testament ...
- 1613: Maya Angelou - Tragedy To Triu
- ... for President Bill Clinton. Maya Angelou is a decorated author. She has been nominated for two Emmy awards and has won a Pulitzer Prize. She is also a highly cultured person. She can speak English, French, Spanish, Italian, and West African Fanti. And many of her poems can inspire people today. Knowing something about Angelou’s life can help one to understand her poetry. In one of Angelou’s poems, “Unmeasured ... There are many words that rhyme like quauter and daughter, said and head, and pie and lie (Angelou 65). A third and final poem of Angelou’s is “ Avec Merci, Mother” (“avec” means “with” in French). This poem uses very simple language, but it is very complicated. The subject seems to change in the middle of the poem. She first talks about her mother being this perfect beauty who was polite ...
- 1614: The Life And Times Of Karl Mar
- ... He decided to head for Brussels, where he and Engels joined, in 1847, a group called the Communist League. At the leagues request Marx and Engels drew up the Communist Manifesto in 1848. Once the Revolution of February 1848 took place, Marx was again banished, except this time from Belgium. He briefly returned to France for the March Revolution, and then traveled to Germany where he published the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, from June 1, 1848 to May 19, 1849. Again Marx was banished from Germany, and again he returned to Paris. After the demonstration ...
- 1615: The Downfall of Communism in Eastern and Central Europe
- ... Article 146 of the Basic Law, put simply, allowed for the annulment of the Basic Law, to be replaced with another governing system, without previously binding the people to any specific rules. Seemingly, it sanctions revolution, and, "as proved to be the case in 1990, this is not a purely theoretical conclusion" (Preuss 52). Some suggest that, by unifying through accession, Germany has made problems which could end up overshadowing the ... German Unification: Political and Constitutional Aspects." United Germany and the New Europe. Heinz D. Kurz, ed. Brookfield: Elgar, 1993. 47-58. Welsh, Helga A. "The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the GDR: Evolution, Revolution, and Diffusion." German Unification: Processes and Outcomes. M. Donald Hancock and Helga A. Welsh, eds. Boulder: Westview, 1994. 17-34.
- 1616: John Dalton
- ... Dalton return to work the land for his rich uncle. In 1785 Dalton and his brother opened another school this time at Kendall where Dalton had recently moved in. The school offered English, Latin, Greek, French, along with twenty one mathematics and science subjects. Although they were sixty students attending, Dalton and Charles had to borrow money and take outside jobs to support themselves. John Dalton was very smart, but he ... lightest element known, and assumed to be a fundamental value, Dalton assumed by research that hydrogen should have an atomic mass of one. In 1830 Dalton because one of the eight foreign associates of the French Academy of Sciences. And one July 27,1894 John Dalton died of normal reason. He was really old when he died. In conclusion John Dalton was one of the greatest thinkers. He was an English ...
- 1617: Arab-Israeli Wars
- ... than a week; its forces reached the eastern bank of the Suez Canal in about 100 hours, seizing the Gaza Strip and nearly all the Sinai Peninsula. The Sinai operations were supplemented by an Anglo-French invasion of Egypt on November 5, giving the allies control of the northern sector of the Suez Canal. The war was halted by a UN General Assembly resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire and withdrawal ... The General Assembly also established a United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) to replace the allied troops on the Egyptian side of the borders in Suez, Sinai, and Gaza. By December 22 the last British and French troops had left Egypt. Israel, however, delayed withdrawal, insisting that it receive security guarantees against further Egyptian attack. After several additional UN resolutions calling for withdrawal and after pressure from the United States, Israel's ...
- 1618: Vote No For Quebec To Be Separate From Canada
- ... will want to separate. It therefor causes a problem for those who want to stay because they would be compelled to leave. Also, it is not only an issue that will affect English Canadians and French Canadians but also the Native Canadians and their land claims. In conclusion a NO vote is in the best interest of both English Canadians and French Canadians. There are few benefits that can be obtained but the negative consequences outweigh them. Quebec should support a unified Canada since they helped establish it. Quebec is a very important part of Canada's ...
- 1619: Philosophy - Davide Hume
- ... minor Scottish landowner. His family wanted him to become a lawyer, but he felt an "insurmountable resistance to everything but philosophy and learning". Mr. Hume attended Edinburgh University, and in 1734 he moved to a French town called La Fleche to pursue philosophy. He later returned to Britain and began his literary career. As Hume built up his reputation, he gained more and more political power. Hume's Philosophy HUME'S ... its importance, this work was ignored by the public, probably because of its complex style. From 1762 to 1765 Hume served as secretary to the British ambassador in Paris. There he formed a friendship with French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau, which later dissolved after public denunciations between the two men. Hume's philosophical position was that reason and rational judgments are merely habitual associations of distinct sensations or experiences. In a ...
- 1620: The Metis
- The Metis were partly french and partly indian. Their leader wascalled Louis riel. Following the Union of the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company in 1821, trading had been reorganized in order to reduce expenses. Since there ... the future support of education. The idea to sell these sections at a later date and use the money for the construction of schools.) When the survey began, friction occured in those areas where the french specking Metis had settled along the river, occupying long narrow strips in the manner common in New France. Attempts were made by the surveyors to avoid disturbing the pattern, but in some cases the survey ...
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