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- 5231: Luther And The Reformation
- ... pitch to the priest and choir. And it was used with chorales in alternation with the choir, one verse played by the organ and the next sung. Martin Luther did not pretend to be a great composer, but he was a practical musician who possessed considerable skills. He had the good sense to call upon professional composers for help when the need arose. His role as a musical Reformer is generally ... he wrote over one hundred hymns. The degree to which Luther composed is only moderately important, for his greatness lies in the freedom and elasticity with which he established the Lutheran service and in the great importance he attributed to music. The Reformation brought into existence a new Church, a new liturgical service, and many new musical practices. Luther modified the Mass and changed it from a liturgy sung by the ...
- 5232: Love Canal
- ... Louisiana was of diminishing importance to France. The costly revolt in Haiti forced the French emperor Napoleon I to reconsider his plan to make Hispaniolia the keystone of his colonial empire, and impending war with Great Britain made him question the hardness of holding Louisiana against that great naval power. He decided to sell Louisiana to the United States. On April 11, 1803, the French foreign minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand opened negotiations by asking the surprised Livingston what the United States would ...
- 5233: Liberalism And Anticlericalism
- Why was anti-clericalism such an important aspect of liberalism in France and Italy in the second half of the nineteenth century? The mid-nineteenth century was a time of great change throughout Europe. Revolutions and social upheavals meant new ideologies and perspectives coming to the forefront as existing social orders began to crumble under popular pressure. Liberalism was one of these new causes, designed to ... anti-clericalism become such an integral part of their regime? In France one of the foremost reasons for this was the churches' views with regard to social change. The Catholic Church had always been a great advocate of traditionalism. They looked back to the ancien regime when the church had been all-powerful, and though since 1789 its influence had been in decline, it continued to believe in the rigid class ...
- 5234: Leonardo Da Vinci
- Leonardo DA Vinci (1452-1519), Florentine artist, one of the great masters of high Renaissance, celebrated as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist. His profound love of knowledge and research was the keynote of both his scientific and artistic endeavors. His innovations in the field ... course of the fifteenth century a long chain of early Renaissance artists, mainly of Florentine decent, had concentrated on a visual as well as theoretical conquest of nature. Their work formed the basis for a great idealistic style, which began to emerge from about 1490 onwards and was nearing its end at the time of Raphael΄s death in 1520. It was given fullest expression during the decade 1500 to 1510 ...
- 5235: Ku Klux Klan 4
- ... there were anti-Klan acts also. However, after all this against the Klan they still managed to stay alive as did their prejudices. (Ingalls, 65 and 69) The Klan fell into what is called the depression years. With the growing poverty in America, Klan members fees became a luxury which only a few Americans could afford. Even though it looked like everything was going all wrong for the KKK they stayed ... Klansmen would invade black sections of cities and leave messages on cards for blacks to stay away from the voting polls. (Meltzer, 66) By 1936, the Klan started calling communism the main enemy. During this depression Florida's Realm became the biggest KKK movement, with around 30,000 members and the Klan started to show light of coming back again. In the fall of 1946 the Klan burned its first cross ...
- 5236: Ku Klux Klan 3
- ... deeply entrenched in the Southern states. Though the growth of the Klan was steady, it was undirected and undisciplined causing many of the dens to become violent and unruly. The Ku Klux Klan had a great deal of external help in outgrowing the small town of Pulaski. Newspaper and magazine articles added fuel by publishing propaganda and stories about the mysterious order which had taken over the south. Indeed the Ku Klux Klan had surpassed the expectations of the original members. Members of the Ku Klux Klan saw the great increase in growth of the group and decided to have a national convention to help maintain order within the group. The Ku Klux Klan National Convention was held in April of 1867 at the Maxwell ...
- 5237: King Arthur Versus Zeus
- ... about adventuring out to enforce laws, but he desired passion. Though Zeus only journeyed on crusades very few times, he and Arthur are known for the ways they both mythically adventured on quests. The two great figures, Arthur and Zeus, have many similarities; yet the pair is very different on their attitudes of ruling their subjects. The King of the Logres had a very laid back ruling style. He enforces laws ... Both Arthur and Zeus had mysterious origins, moral flaws, and their everlasting pursuit of quests. They also had distinctive and opposite styles of ruling their people. The attributes match up very closely for these two great mythical figures, yet they both had different outcomes in their lives.
- 5238: Karl Marx 2
- ... way in which people think. He created an opportunity for the lower class to rise above the aristocrats and failed due to the creation of the middle class. Despite this failure, he was still a great political leader and set the basis of Communism in Russia. His life contributed to the way people think today, and because of him people are more open to suggestion and are quicker to create ideas ... suffered from Bronchitis and made it almost impossible to swallow. The next month a tumor developed in his lung and soon manifested into his death on March 14, 1883. Although Marx's influence was not great during his life, after his death his works grew with the strength of the working class. His ideas and theories became known as Marxism, and has been used to shape the ideas of most European ...
- 5239: Italian Renaissance Vs.
- ... da Vinci was one of the most famous painters of this time. He painted the Last Supper, which portrays Christ and his disciples around a large table. On top of this he was also a great inventor. Raphael another great artist did madonnas of young Italian women. Michelangelo, probably the most famous to this day, was known for painting huge life like scenes in which the attributes of humanity invade heaven itself. His most well ...
- 5240: Islamic Terrorism
- ... Most of the Islamic world view the West, especially the United States, as the foremost corrupting influence on the Islamic world today. The Hizballah have taken this further by labeling the Unites States as "the Great Satan."(22) This growing animosity the Islamic nations feel toward the Western world has been continually demonstrated by the increase in international terrorism. However, Muslims do not view their actions as acts of terrorism, but ... still spreading their ideology and advancing their political agenda. However, defending against terrorism is very expensive; the United States spends approximately five billion dollars annually to guard against terrorism.(11) Random terrorist acts cause a great amount of psychological damage to the target area. Even though terrorism kills relatively few people, the random nature by which innocent civilian are killed evokes a deep fear and insecurity upon the population. This form ...
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