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- 6021: Amadeus
- ... his operas. Imperial commands such as this are not to be interpreted in any way, in other words, they are to be merely obeyed without any dispute. Since operas tend to the needs of the high society in order to obtain recognition, the operas must communicate through the language of the nobility, that is, Italian. In addition, since the majority of the audience is made up of the upper class, the ... of ballet, but rather it is a dance and the king does not disallow dancing when it is a portion of the story. Mozart continues opposing the Age of Enlightenment and the commands of the high society by abandoning them through language and themes of his operas. Despite the fact that the nobility will be upset, Mozart aspires to do pieces about real people set in a real place and in ...
- 6022: American Prohibition
- ... country through the 1920s. Additionally, the illegal liquor industry was under the control of organized gangs, which subdued most authorities. Many bootleggers shielded their business by bribing the authorities, namely federal agents and persons of high political status (Bowen 160). As a result of the lack of enforcement of the Prohibition Act and the creation of an illegal industry, an increase in crime transpired. The Prohibitionists hoped that the Volstead Act ... nearly 13 percent, while other crimes involving victims increased 9 percent. Many supporters of prohibition argued that the crime rate decreased. However, the only true decrease was in minor crimes like swearing, mischief, and vagrancy. High crimes, such as homicide and burglaries, increased 24 percent between 1920 and 1921. In addition, the number of federal convicts over the course of the prohibition period increased 561 percent. As a result of one ...
- 6023: Horace Mann
- Horace Mann was the father of the American School System. Horace Mann s had many reforms on education. He was born in 1796. Mann determined what the purpose of education should be based on his own experience and observation. Mann also had many ideas ... Mann thought also that schools should have nothing to do in their religion and politics. Ideally, this is what public schools and teachers try to do today. Religion is not a part of the public school today. During Mann s twelve years as secretary of the Massachusetts board of education he sent back reports to the board as to the condition of schools and what he thought should be taught in ...
- 6024: UFOs
- ... to all of the other sightings that do not turn out to be such things. "Its only when 'Venus' suddenly executes an abrupt right-angle or divides into two smaller lights that streak away at high speed that we find our attention attracted and realize we may, in fact, be in the middle of a UFO sighting (Huyghe 50)." "During World War II, especially after 1943, there were many reports of ... I realized the light was coming from overhead [Fig. 1 ] . I looked up andsaw the outline of an object moving out past the pitch of my roof, approximately two-hundred fifty to five-hundred feet high. The red glow was coming from beneath the object, about center. It appeared as a stream of light coming from inside a hole (Huyghe "UFO Crime Lab" 60)." Many UFOs are described such as this ...
- 6025: The Immortal Artist
- ... the self, the ripples which are left to be remembered. It is in this moment that we achieve immortality and imagine what goes well with corn flakes
." The visual Arts students at The North Carolina School of the Arts have utilized this knowledge in such a way so that their class has remained immortal. As a class, the class of 1986, the students composed a mural. Dr. Chaplin created the mural ... a since on immortality though art. Whatever they do or wherever they go in their lives they will always be reflected on and noted as once and still bieng present here at the North Carolina school of the Arts.
- 6026: UFO Crash Near Roswell, NM
- ... the size of a small child with slender long arms, a large head, greyish skin with greyish silk-like material coveralls. These aliens were kept under a tarp within a tent on the site. Several high ranking military officials were at the site. The bodies were eventually placed in dry ice and transported to the Roswell base, then to Fort Worth (Schmidt). The material from the crash site was described by ... He forced the Air Force to drop the cover story it had maintained since 1947. Two years ago the Air Force revealed that the crash in Roswell had been that of "Operation Mogul," an experimental high- altitude balloon designed to monitor the first tests of Soviet Atomic bombs. That still leaves many unanswered questions. Schiff and many others have tried to get several branches of the government to reveal further information ...
- 6027: Shakespeare and His Plays
- ... held on April 23, and he was baptized on April 24, 1564. He was the third of eight children, and was the eldest son of John Shakespeare. He was probably educated in a local grammar school. As the eldest son, Shakespeare would of taken over his father's business, but according to one account, he became a butcher because of reverses in his father's financial situation. According to another account, he became a school master. That Shakespeare was allowed considerable leisure time in his youth is suggested by the fact that his plays show more knowledge of hunting and hawking than do those of other dramatists. In 1582, he ...
- 6028: Archibald Macleish
- ... middle class family. His father, Andrew MacLeish, was a businessman. His mother, Martha Hillard MacLeish, was a homemaker. His parents soon realized they had a very gifted son so they sent him to the Hotchkiss School. This school catered to his many different interests. Of all the things MacLeish excelled at he was the best at writing. Archibald graduated at the top of his class and was accepted to Yale University. While at ...
- 6029: A New Day On Wall Street. The
- ... the Internet the discount brokers were able to open the door even further by reducing trading costs and developing user friendly platforms for investors. The Brokerage industry is one driven by quality customer service and high profits. Investors want to maximize there investments at a reduced cost but still receive the highest level of service and information available. In the past investors were restricted by the amount of control they had ... recently Merrill Lynch is has maintained its role as a full service provider without the addition of online trading. Although they have decided to enter the online trading segment they still want to maintain their high broker network and personal service. Merrill feels the Internet should be an extension of their services and not just a service in itself. They have elected to only offer online trading to a select few ...
- 6030: AZTECS
- ... San Luis Potosi which is in Central and Southern Mexico and extended 800 miles along a northwest-southeast axis. The Aztecs conquered many cities and all became part of the empire which was wedged between high mountains and surrounded by lakes(Aztecs of Lost Civilization/ Azetc Empire History). The three social classes of the Aztecs were slave, commoner, and nobility. The slaves (lowest class) were basically servants, although they could buy ... Encarta Encyclopedia). In 1519, Hernando Cortes, a Spanish explorer, landed on the East Coast of Mexico and wanted to conquer Tenchtitlan. The Spaniards were joined by many Indians who were conquered and forced to pay high taxes to the emperor. Montezuma II did not stop Cortes because he thought Cortes was Quetzalcoatl, the god of civilization and learning. An Aztec legend said that Quetzalcoatl was driven away by a rival god ...
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