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- 8521: Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 to 1827)
- ... with a higher social rank. Beginning in 1798, Beethoven experienced a continual humming in his ears that was gradually growing stronger. He eventually realized that he was going deaf. He began to drop into a depression, and in 1802 he almost committed suicide. However, after being secluded for some time, he made a new effort towards his music. The next ten years brought forth masterpiece after masterpiece. One of his best ...
- 8522: East Timor. Do They Have A Rig
- ... on December 7 1975 was one of the bloodiest slaughters in recent history killing hundreds of thousands. The invasion commenced at dawn with an Air, Sea, and Land attack on the East Timorese. "There are great black crosses etched against the sky -- crosses on peaks, crosses in tiers on the hillsides, crosses beside the roads. In East Timor they litter the earth and crowd the eye. Walk into the scrub and ...
- 8523: Ebonics
- ... use of Standard English. Although many Americans tend to scorn any careless variation of the Standard English, flexibility of the language is, perhaps, a main reason for its survival. In 1905, a Danish scholar and great authority on English, Otto Jespersen, wrote: English is like an English park, which is laid out seemingly without any definite plan, and which you are allowed to walk everywhere according to your own fancy without ...
- 8524: Economincs
- ... fast food chain, did not cost five dollars or more? When was the last time premium gas was under a dollar a gallon? It's hard to remember, isn't it? Wouldn't it be great if everything cost a nickel, like back in the good ol' days? According to the laws of economics, it's not logical for things to have gotten more expensive competition should drive prices down. Then ...
- 8525: Martin Luther and his Teachings
- ... and his Teachings Martin Luther was German preacher whose own spiritual crisis led to a revolution in religious thought and practice. His belief in the concept of sola fides, which means by faith alone, caused great controversy among the people of the time. He believed that in order to reach a true state of religiosity one had to believe in God's grace and blessings, that it was faith alone and ...
- 8526: Education And Class- A Class A
- ... on society and use this advantage to manipulate society to serve their values and suit their needs. This is no where more evident than in the social institution of education. Education is one of the great dividers amongst classes. The school you go to often determines what sort of qualifications you obtain, what job you get and, thus, how much money you earn and what class you move into. Education is ...
- 8527: Efficient Market Hypothesis An
- ... of financing. But still it is possible to make arrangements that financial leases appear as operating leases in the balance sheet of the leaser. If these issues could be solved, accounting would have made a great step towards more accurate financial reports and performance evaluations, and would receive more trust by the public Theoretically I do agree with the quote but for an overall evaluation the following issues must be solved ...
- 8528: Pablo Picasso
- ... the Spanish republic and set up its fascist regime. These two events had a profound effect on Picasso. He thereafter openly expressed his negative feelings towards Franco's regime and used his paintings, especially his great mural Guernica to "clearly express [his] abhorrence of the military caste which", he believed, had "sunk Spain [into] an ocean of pain and death (Finke 52). When the German air force bombed Guernica on April ...
- 8529: Elian Gonzales, The Way Socrat
- ... he decide to stay in prison and die rather than run away, Your death means a double calamity form. I shall not only lose a friend whom I can never possibly replace but besides a great many people who didn t know you and me very well will be sure to think that I let you dawn, This is more like a personal reason which is followed by his second argument ...
- 8530: Herman Melville
- ... Melville was an extraordinary author in giving nature such amazing detail and being able to rant on about a subject for nearly 100 pages and still keep you interested in the main story. With this great talent for writing and that is why he is celebrated as a transcendentalist author.
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