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- 3151: Similarities Between Franz Liszt and Kurt Cobain
- ... many classical composers. In some ways, he can be compared to a modern rock and roll star. Franz Liszt was born in Raiding, Hungary, on October 22, 1811. Much like Mozart, he was a very great piano player at a very young age. Liszt composed an opera called Don Sancho at the age of fourteen. Professionals of Liszt's time thought that he was only a genius with the piano, which was not enough to give his ideas the great recognition they deserved. Many people thought that Liszt was a mover and a shaker, a rebel, chased women, and had much talent and personality." He had invented the solo recital. When Liszt had a concert ... Classical Music New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1992 Rosen, Craig, Cobain death spurs rush at retail; biz talk turns to bands unreleased work. Billboard April 23 1994. Pg. 9 Schoenberg, Harold C. The Lives of the Great Composers. New York, London: WW Norton & CO., 1981 Seidenberg, Robert, The Day the Demons Won. Entertainment Weekly April 7 1995. Pg. 108
- 3152: Confucius
- ... of propriety. "Among the functions of propriety the most valuable is that it establishes harmony. The Way of the ancient kings from this harmony got its beauty. It is the guiding principle of all things great and small. If things go amiss, and he who knows the harmony tries to achieve it without regulating it by the rules of propriety, they will still go amiss."6 Confucius explains what can happen ... immediate duty of serving one's father, and the remoter one of serving one's prince. From them we become largely acquainted with the names of birds, beasts, and plants."25 Confucius was also a great lover of music and played some himself. However, the teaching of this art was apparently handed over to the Grand music master to whom Confucius gave his ideas on how music should follow the ideal ... times, there were over three thousand songs, but Confucius took out the duplicates and selected those that were suited to good form. The collection began with the songs of Ch'i and Houchi, covered the great period of the Shang and Chou kings and carried it down to the times of the tyrants Yu and Li. It begins with a song of marital love, and therefore it is said "the ...
- 3153: MICKY MANTLE
- Mickey Mantle was a stupendous ball player. He was great at playing baseball because he practiced a lot. His whole baseball career, is the career that I dream of having. He played in 12 of his 18 career years in the World Serieswith the Yankee ... league baseball players of all time. Mantle usually played shortstop, but when he got to the Yankee's, theposition was taken, so he played centerfield. He was a rookie in 1951, when he replaced the great Joe DiMaggio at the position centerfield. Mantle was a switch-hitting batter who combined a powerful combination of batting power and speed. n 1956, Mantle won baseballs "Triple Crown Leader", leading the league in batting ... about Mickey after you say he was one of the greatest? He had talent he didn't even realized he had. If he had DiMaggio's serious bear-down attitude, there's not telling how great he could have been. With his onegood leg, he could outrun everyone." (Former teammate Gene Woodix) ( Yahoo) "Mickey meant an awful lot to me. He was a tremendous athlete. People dn't understand him ...
- 3154: Teenage Years
- ... room to room, chewing on our cud, while the hay of knowledge is force fed to us as we are trying our hardest to gulp it down as more and more is shovelled in. Another great source of pressure is ourselves. We try our hardest to be accepted among a certain group or circle. Whereas most of the time we are rejected and we become depressed. Depression, another problem, along with ignorance and apathy that thwarts our lives. A wise man when questioned about his view on ignorance and apathy, said "I don't know, and I don't give a damn ...
- 3155: Dissociative Identity Disorder
- ... Disorder. All dissociative disorders are trauma-based, and result from the constant dissociation of traumatic memories. For example, a rape victim with Dissociative Amnesia may have no conscious memory of the attack, yet they experience depression, numbness, and distress resulting from environmental stimuli such as colors, odors, sounds, and images that recall the traumatic experience. The memory really isn't forgotten, its active and alive, but submerged. The origin of DID ... survivors experience flashbacks and intrusion of trauma memories, sometimes this will not accrue until years after childhood. The symptom of an adult who was abused as a child include posttraumatic and dissociative disorders combined with depression, anxiety syndromes, and addictions. These symptoms may include; depression, mood swings, sleep disorders (insomnia, night terrors, and sleep walking), panic attacks, phobias, flashbacks (reactions to stimuli or "triggers"), alcohol and drug abuse, compulsions, rituals, psychotic-like symptoms (including auditory and visual hallucinations), eating ...
- 3156: Immigraton Laws
- Immigraton Laws The first immigrants to the territory now the United States were from Western Europe. The first great migration began early in the 19th century when large numbers of Europeans left their homelands to escape the economic hardships resulting from the transformation of industry by the factory system and the simultaneous shift from small-scale to large-scale farming. At the same time, conflict, political oppression, and religious persecution caused a great many Europeans to seek freedom and security in the U.S. The century following 1820 may be divided into three periods of immigration to the U.S. During the first period, from 1820 to 1860, most of the immigrants came from Great Britain, Ireland, and western Germany. In the second period, from 1860 to 1890, those countries continued to supply a majority of the immigrants; the Scandinavian nations provided a substantial minority. Afterwards the proportion of ...
- 3157: Pierre Auguste Renoir
- ... has become for English audiences one of the most familiar and best loved of all Renoir's works. "The Umbrellas is also one of Renoir's most modern paintings in structural terms, and reveals a great deal about his changing styles between the beginning and middle of the 1880's" (Cogniat, 136). Renoir used his future wife, Aline, for the model. The colors of this picture are full and varied. Each ... to men, uncharacteristic of some of his life. Renoir left his mark on the twentieth century. Many people from around the world will be able to view his paintings and find out what made him great. That is, painting people who are happy Choice of Artist I chose this painter for a variety of reasons. First, I learned a little about Renoir in my French class, and I wanted to follow ... Bibliography Barnes, Rachel. Renoir by Renoir. New York: Borzoi Books, 1990 Cogniat, Raymond. Impressionism. New York: Barron's Educational Series, Inc., 1979. De Grada, Raffaele. Renoir. New York: Arch Cape Press, 1989 Guillou, Jean-Francois. Great Painters of the World. New York: Smithmark Publishers, 1993 Jennings, Guy. Renoir. New Jersey: Chartwell Books, Inc., 1988. Pritzker, Pamela. Renoir. New York: Leon Amil Publishers, 1985 Stevenson, Lesley. Renoir. New York: Smithmark Publishers, ...
- 3158: HighSchool Vs College
- ... emphasize that everything in life brings about change. Attending high school and college is a decision that brings about consistency as well as change. Even though they both serve the purpose of educating, there are great differences and similarities in the high school and college experience. Honors and advance placement classes in secondary school prepare one for the challenge of higher educational opportunities in college. On the other hand, the freshmen ... Several high school teachers, as well as some college professors go beyond reading, writing, and arithmetic. They teach you about life in general, all its hardships and all its rewards. Receiving a good education is great, but enhancing your individuality and growing as a person is just as important. Some teachers and professors discuss their own personal experiences and lessons, which they have encountered throughout life. These lessons in life could ... course. It is the students responsibility to refer back to the syllabus. You have little or no freedom in high school, whereas in college, you experience much more freedom. Along with this freedom comes great responsibility. College professors refer to the students as mature adults, and they have high expectations from each student. High school and college vary in other areas as well. There is a wider age range ...
- 3159: The Cold War
- ... Germany and taking them and their dependents to the Soviet Union. The political conflicts of the 1930's and World War II left many educated people with the impression that only communism could combat economic depression and fascism. It was easy for Soviet agents to recruit men who would later rise to positions of power with access to sensitive information. 'Atom spies' were well positioned to keep the Soviets informed of ... for secret packages were imaginative to say the least and ranged from trees, to ruined walls, to mail boxes. Listening devices were not restricted to telephone bugs, and on one occasion there was a handcarved Great Seal of the United States presented to the US ambassador in Moscow by the Soviet Union. It turned out that hidden inside was a listening device. Microwave receivers exist all over the world for the ...
- 3160: Polygamy
- ... smaller Territory of Utah was approved with Brigham Young as Territorial Governor. (Ivins, p. 95.) 1852 August 29, The revelation on celestial marriage was first made public. It was read in the conference held in Great Salt Lake City, and Apostle Orson Pratt delivered the first public discourse on that principle. (Andrew Jenson, Church Chronology, August 29, 1852 ,Sunday, Journal of Discourses, Vol.1, p.53, Orson Pratt.) 1853, Orson Pratt ... the heads of the various departments of the national government, the high-minded governors and legislative assemblies of the several states and territories, the ministers of every religious denomination, and all the inhabitants of the great republic will patronize this periodical." ("The Seer", Orson Pratt, January 1852 issue, p.7, see also Doctrine & Covenants section 132. 1st published 1876 SLC.) 1856, The new Republican party selected for it's national platform ... a Mormon in good standing, asked the president what course he intended to pursue with reference to the Mormons, Lincoln replied, "Stenhouse, when I was a boy on the farm in Illinois there was a great deal of timber on the farms which we had to clear away. Occasionally we would come to a log which had fallen down. It was too hard to split, too wet to burn and ...
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