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- 761: The Emotional Creativity Of Ludwig Van Beethoven
- ... without substance, as in a purely spiritual world.”(The World of Music 136) In Symphony number three, called “eroica”, you can see the theme of heroism. This symphony was written at the height of the French Revolution when Napoleon Bonaparte stood for the freedom of the French people. When Napoleon declared himself emperor of all he had won in battles Beethoven was very angered and changed the dedication from “Dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte” to “In memory of Napoleon Bonaparte” to show ...
- 762: A Tale Of Two Cities
- ... of mutilated earthenware, or even with handkerchiefs from women’s heads, which were squeezed dry into infants’ mouths. The metaphor is well taken. Their hunger, their need for vengeance and relief confirms the inevitability of revolution. The French Revolution was inevitable because the aristocracy had exploited and plundered the poor until they were driven to extreme measures. The Marquis St. Evremonde is uncaring and has no respect for life. This is especially apparent ...
- 763: The Movie Industry Analysis
- ... ten years there has been an overall increase of at least 30% in many ancillary markets and over 200% in the case of home video. Today much of the world is undergoing a mass communications revolution; hence, new movie markets such as home video, cable and pay-per-view have been growing so rapidly that they are no longer just ancillary markets to the basic theatrical market but have become basic ... complain about the spread of American culture due to the movie industry. In order to soothe these complaints, Disney and Miramax announced in October 1994 the creation of a company to promote the distribution of French films in the United States and increased funding to French filmmakers. Relaxed enforcement of the 1948 antitrust decree under Reagan administration which allowed Universal, Paramount, and Columbia to acquire interests in various theater chains. Rapidly changing demographics. Shrinking population of 13 to 25 year ...
- 764: Karl Marx 2
- ... had gone through the German philosophic school and whilst abroad they came to the same conclusions but while Marx arrived at an understanding of the struggles and the demands of the age basis of the French Revolution, Engles did so on the basis of English industry. (The Story of His life, Mehring, page 93) Friedrich Engles was born in 1820 in the Rhine Province of the Kingdom of Prussia. Like Marx he ... he discussed the issues in the manifesto with Engles. It documents the objectives and principals of the Communist League, an organization of artist and intellectuals. It was published in London in 1848, shortly before the revolution in Paris. The manifesto is divided into four parts, and the beginning of the entire document reads "A specter is haunting Europe" The first part outlines his ideas on history and a prediction on ...
- 765: The Cost Of Change
- ... greater than the change itself. People learn off of other people s torment and anguish.In the midst of the 1790 s in France, a change was taking place. It was the height of the French Revolution, as the people of France refused to be ruled by a monarch. The 3rd Estate created a Committee of Public Safety , led by Maximilien Robespierre. France had dominated it s surrounding countries, and forced them ... slaughters of thousands of men and women worth the change? People of France did become loyal to the Republic, and politically, France finally had a powerful government system. It s a shame that thousands of French Citizens had to die for it to become so.
- 766: Nazism
- ... sprawling Bürgerbräukeller, some 600 Nazis and right-wing sympathizers surrounded the beer hall. Hitler burst into the building and leaped onto a table, brandishing a revolver and firing a shot into the ceiling. “The National Revolution,” he cried, “has begun!” At that point, informed that fighting had broken out in another part of the city, Hitler rushed to that scene. His prisoners were allowed to leave, and they talked about organizing ... 23 the Seine was reached southeast and northwest of the capital, and two days later the great city, the glory of France, was liberated after four years of German occupation when General Jacques Leclerc’s French 2nd Armored Division and the U.S. 4th Infantry Division broke into it and found that French resistance units were largely in control.
- 767: Portraits Of Ingres And Reynolds
- ... well. These colors working together allow you to make certain assumptions about him. He looks like a working man, which he was. “Louis-Francois Bertin (1766-1841), was one of the great leaders of the French upper middle class, a businessman and a journalist” (Rosenblum, 134). This would explain the one striking color in the piece, the red. Bertin is sitting on a red cushion, red being a color classically associated ... background, especially of the battle in the lower left. By the red of his coat, you can probably tell that the General was a member of the British army in the era of the American Revolution or during the colonization of America. This color matches the color of the blood in the background. The gray complexion of the General is also like the smoke and the sky in the background, but ... much upheaval due to new ideas such as physics and enlightenment. Bertin, on the other had, lived in the late 1700’s and early to mid 1800’s, a time when economy and the industrial revolution made warriors out of regular men just to survive everyday life. They are two different people with two different ideas being portrayed in their masterpieces. Bibliography Bird, Harrison. March to Saratoga. Oxford University Press. ...
- 768: Thomas Jefferson
- ... labored to make its words a reality in Virginia. Most notably, he wrote a bill establishing religious freedom, enacted in 1786. Jefferson succeeded Benjamin Franklin as minister to France in 1785. His sympathy for the French Revolution led him into conflict with Alexander Hamilton when Jefferson was Secretary of State in President Washington's Cabinet. He resigned in 1793. Sharp political conflict developed, and two separate parties, the Federalists and the Democratic ... of American merchantmen. Jefferson's attempted solution, an embargo upon American shipping, worked badly and was unpopular. Jefferson retired to Monticello to ponder such projects as his grand designs for the University of Virginia. A French nobleman observed that he had placed his house and his mind "on an elevated situation, from which he might contemplate the universe." He died on July 4, 1826. Bibliography www.22savenue.com Word Count: 533
- 769: Biography of Benjamin Franklin
- ... This proved that lightning was electricity. This led to other experiments with electricity and to a book about electricity. He won many awards for his work in the field of electricity Long before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin worked hard to try to bond the colonies together. As the French and Indian War came near, Franklin was chosen as a delegate from Pennsylvania to the Albany Congress of 1745. He proposed the Albany Plan of Union which was a plan for unity of the colonies ... preparing defenses. Benjamin Franklin was sent to England in 1757 to represent Pennsylvania to try to persuade the sons of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, to pay their share of the expenses of the French and Indian War. He was received in England with praise and was able to help put a bill through taxing the Penn family for its lands. When the Stamp Act was passed, the colonists ...
- 770: History of Turkish Occupation of Northern Kurdistan.
- ... women." A great amount of the P.K.K military force were female. The P.K.K also believed the only way to attain freedom and independence were through violence, much like the American and French revolution of mid 1700s. To conceive the P.K.K as completely leftist is untrue, they have adapted the Communist theme of ideology to counter-weight the Turkish entity as a NATO state, so it is ... abolish it, and to institute a new government.." It is the very example the United States has set, that the Kurdish people wants to declare their independence. For, the only thing different between the Kurdish revolution and the U.S one, is only two hundred and nine years. All oppressions are bad, all occupations are wrong, every nation has the right to decide their own fate.
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