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- 3261: History Of Music
- ... kindness of strangers. The people that used to be bards are now what we call musicians, but musicians in this day and age would rather have money than any thing else. Queen Elizabeth had a great impact on England when she died in 1603, aside from the grief of her country. When she died the composers in England had stopped composing and singing their music. Her death caused a great slump in England’s music. After the death of Queen Elizabeth when King James II came into power the music world changed forever. His rule over England made the music world come alive with new ... hated the king so they wrote about that. A French man by the name of Franco invented the notes and bar graphs we have today four hundred years ago. He was a person with a great impact on the world by making it easy to read music in the twenty-first century. The way music has changed is on such a large scale. The instruments of the past have changed ...
- 3262: 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
- 3263: The Hippie Movement That Arose From Vast Political Changes
- ... if not the ultimate reminder of the citizen's helplessness - or even repressed murderousness? Instantly the killing creates an abrupt contest between Good and Evil, albeit with a wrong ending. With the enlightened establishment's great men gunned down, a self-proclaimed black revolutionary gunned down, there was an eerie feeling among the common people, a democracy of sudden death. The southern civil rights movement had been deeply bloodied, of course ... far from elite, the very type of campus where Nixons "silent majority" was supposed to be training. After these and many other violent incidents at protests, the intensity of the movement began to dwindle. The great changes that they were fighting for were not coming about. The protests were not getting any sympathy or support, and greater numbers of hippies left the protests and adopted a "peace and love" side of ... Oakley, Ronald. God's Country: America in the Fifties. New York: Red Dembner, 1986. Rosen, Obst. The Sixties: The Decade Remembered Now, by the People Who Lived Them. Toronto: Random House Publisher, 1977. Roy, Andy. Great Assassinations. New York: Independent Publishing, 1994. Stern, Jane, and Micheal. Sixties People. New York: Knopf, 1990. Tucker, Ken, and Stokes, Geoffrey, and Ward, Ed. Rock of Ages: The Rolling Stone History of Rock and ...
- 3264: ABOUT HEALTH CARE
- ... many causes which have permitted in the last years increase people´s life expectancy. I consider people are living longer thanks to government policies on public´s health and due in most part to the great medical and technological advances that have been made in the last decades. Cures and immunizations against many diseases have been found. Research has provided valuable information about the human body and the human mind. Even ... which have contributed to people´s health, so now the live longer than in past times. In many ways, people of all ages and in every race have better health. We have achieved a very great progress in preventing disease and promoting health, but there´s still a great effort to do in such many areas as nutrition, child and adult health, etc. I think life expectancy rates have increased substantially and people live longer basically due to progress in medical science and ...
- 3265: Collective Farms of the Soviet Union
- ... for a collective farm owned by all of its members, was a model of the inefficiency and tyranny of Joseph Stalin, their originator. Introduced as a way to industrialize Russia, they alternated between being a great success and being a utterly complete failure. Although Stalin's plans did in the end industrialize Russia, the costs were unjustifiable. An entire class of people was eliminated and famine was wrought on an entire ... plots, the government had succeeded in winning support during the revolution, but made the land less productive. Now that the small families that previously worked he land owned the land, the output wasn't as great as that of before the revolution. The farms only produced enough to feed their owners. Stalin greatly increased the rate of collectivization in order to combat the famines maintaining that the best way to raise ... I.. The Soviet Union. Evanston, Illiois: McDougal, Littell & Company, 1989. Deutsher, Isaac. Stalin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. Mace, Dr. James E. The famine: Stalin Imposes a Final Solution. http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/Great_Famine/index.shtml Reiber, Alfred J. and Robert C. Nelson. A Study of the USSR and Communism. Chicago: Scott Foresman and Company, 1962 Riasoanovsky, Nicholas V.. A History of Russia. New York: Oxford University ...
- 3266: Medea: Guilty as Charged
- ... did not contribute to the tragic deaths we speak of today. He has always tried to help Medea. Soon after they met, he relieved her of a wretched, barbarian life and introduced her to our great Greek land, teaching her “how to live by law instead of the sweet will of force” (line 538). When he arrived in Corinth, he further extended his generosity. An opportunity arose to preserve Medea and breed a royal progeny to be brothers to his children by marrying the daughter of our great king Creon (595-7). Medea refused to accept all that Jason offered and labeled him disloyal for seeking another wife. However, our great society allows men to pursue other relationships when they grow tired of their current companion. Therefore, Jason did not act beyond his given rights. He actually showed Medea additional loyalty when he went out ...
- 3267: A Sword in the Stone
- ... on his head. After some begging by Arthur, Merlyn took advantage of what was happening to give him the lesson by turning him into an ant. During this experience, Arthur learns not one, but a great deal of things. First, he learns that he has to learn to make decisions by himself when he is trying to choose a tunnel to go into. Then, once in the adventure, he learns that some people like to fight not for satisfaction but for territory and survival. Great professors and tutors like Merlyn, play an important role on what I believe an education should be. They should know what to tell and how to advise their students in order to encourage them to keep learning. In The Sword in the Stone, Meryn tries to incorporate his great philosophies into Arthur, like when he told him, "the best thing for being sad is to learn" this kind of worked for Arthur. Not everything in Arthur's education agreed with my believes on ...
- 3268: A.A. Milne
- ... Alan Alexander Milne, more commonly known as A. A. Milne. Besides his creation of Winnie the Pooh short story and poetry books he was a very accomplished man through out his whole life. He showed great affection to family members, friends, and to his wife and child. He was also dedicated to his work and set his mind to whatever task he was facing. Family life for Milne was very unusual ... in charge of a new signaling school and stayed there until he was released from the army on February 14, 1919. (WWW) Milne’s wife and child began his immeasurable amount of success. They had great love for one another and Milne adventually began writing books plotted around family events. Before Milne went to war he met a woman named Dorothy de Selincourt. She and Alan met at a coming out ... the were also there last to each other although Dorothy lived for 15 more years. After his father’s death, Christopher forgave him and he too became a writer. (WWW) Alan Alexander Milne was a great influence on society then and society today. His books have continued to be best sellers and people all over the world love and cherish the cuddly bear, Winnie the Pooh. Throughout his life he ...
- 3269: Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass was born in or around 1817 into slavery in Maryland. He escaped in 1838. He was a great orator and writer, and he was a leading figure in the abolitionist m movement. He was the son of Harriet Bailey and an unknown white man. His mother was a slave so therefore he was ... the Union army, afterwards supporting Reconstruction and campaigning for Republican Presidents. He was a leading figure in the abolitionist movement. Frederick Douglass created a big impact on society. He influenced events greatly by being a great speaker and writer and showing evils of slavery. Frederick Douglass is still revered today for his contributions against racial injustice. He started the Antislavery movement. His great speeches made deep impressions, and influenced others such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King to speak out against oppression and racism. By writing his autobiographies, he exposed the evils of slavery. People saw ...
- 3270: A. A. Milne
- ... Alan Alexander Milne, more commonly known as A. A. Milne. Besides his creation of Winnie the Pooh short story and poetry books he was a very accomplished man through out his whole life. He showed great affection to family members, friends, and to his wife and child. He was also dedicated to his work and set his mind to whatever task he was facing. Family life for Milne was very unusual ... in charge of a new signaling school and stayed there until he was released from the army on February 14, 1919. (WWW) Milne’s wife and child began his immeasurable amount of success. They had great love for one another and Milne adventually began writing books plotted around family events. Before Milne went to war he met a woman named Dorothy de Selincourt. She and Alan met at a coming out ... the were also there last to each other although Dorothy lived for 15 more years. After his father’s death, Christopher forgave him and he too became a writer. (WWW) Alan Alexander Milne was a great influence on society then and society today. His books have continued to be best sellers and people all over the world love and cherish the cuddly bear, Winnie the Pooh. Throughout his life he ...
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