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- 2131: Ch.23 Study Guide
- ... Salvador allowed right-wing death squads to assassinate farmers, priests, nuns, students, and labor leaders. 16. Small-town life, the clash of cultures, and living under a dictatorship were all major themes of Latin American literature. 17. Latin America has produced a variety of popular music and dance styles. Often a certain kind of music is linked to a particular dance step. In Argentina the tango is both a sad song ...
- 2132: Chinese Dynasties
- ... The Sung re-organized the imperial government, centralizing the control of the dynasty at the capital. The local government was left pretty much the same. Education flourished and the economy also continued to expand. The literature that was being created in the late Tang dynasty continued to flourish as well. However, even with such improvements, there was one major flaw, a weak military. The Sung's military was not very powerful ...
- 2133: Hee
- ... not until college that Stephen King received any kind of real recognition for his writings. In the Fall of 1967, King finished his first novel, The Long Walk, and turned it into his sophomore American Literature professor for review. After a couple of weeks and a couple rounds around the department, the English professors were stunned. They realized that they had a real writer on their hands. From then until he ...
- 2134: Rabindranath Tagore
- ... Tagore wrote primarily in Bengali, but translated a number of his works into English himself. Tagores writing is full of imagination, religion, and his love of his homeland and nature. The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to him in 1913. He was knighted by the British king, George V in 1915, but renounced his knighthood in 1919 following the massacre of almost 400 Indian demonstrators by British troops. Rabindranath ...
- 2135: Origin Of Heiroglyphics
- Ancient Egypt conjures up thoughts of a great civilization, one very advanced for its time. The Ancient Egyptians invented all different forms of literature, including poetry and short stories, and they were extremely advanced as far as art, medicine, science, and religion went. One of the more mysterious aspects to Ancient Egyptian civilization was their use of hieroglyphics. Very ...
- 2136: Early History Of Judaism
- ... religion(s) is an obvious one, depending upon how you choose to look at it. Every religion has many pieces, but as long as there are a few constants (such as the birthplace, the language, literature, etc) it is possible to view the whole as a single force, and still acknowledge variations that will inevitably spring-up.
- 2137: A Consise History Of Germany
- ... The lofty cathedrals of Bamberg, Strasbourg, Naumburg, and Cologne were richly decorated with sculpture, and they were filled with light from the stained glass in their large, pointed-arched windows. French culture also affected German literature. Wandering nobles and knights, called Minnesinger, wrote and recited courtly love poems in the tradition of Provenηal troubadours and French trouvθres . Foremost among them were Reinmar von Hagenau and Walther von der Vogelweide. Other poets ...
- 2138: Persian Influence On Greco-rom
- ... a deep mark into not only Greek thinking and culture, but also the "Western" idea and life. Many people do not realize it, but much of today's culture can be found in ancient Persian literature, art, and architecture. Much has been made of the Greco-Persian Wars, and rightfully so. The Greco-Persian Wars were a series of wars between the Persians and the Greek coalition. The number of victories ...
- 2139: Women In Western Society
- ... in the first industrialization; the second industrialization demanded skilled workers. The boys and girls with education had a new road up a head for them. In school they were taught to read and write, math, literature and singing and some drawing. But girls did less math and no science instead they were taught to wash, sew, cook, all prerequisites for a housewife. This education led for a demand for teachers. Most ...
- 2140: Luther And The Reformation
- ... of Christianity into Europe. Primarily, this revolution was neither political, philosophical, nor literary. It was a revolt that was centrally religious and idealistically moral in its motivation. It did, however, achieve revolution in politics, philosophy, literature, art, and music in the end, although it was not begun for the sake of these aims. The German Reformation was directed by a man of genius and energy, Martin Luther. Luther was born November ...
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