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- 2451: Duke Ellington: An American Legacy
- ... was finally rubbing shoulders the upper class. However he was not allowed to share his talent with his own kind. His inspiration for all his wonderful compositions never were heard by them. It's like writing a love song for someone and not being allowed to share it. His feelings and ideas were never expressed to the people that meant the most to him, his people(Johnson,59). At the time ... classical style. What makes his music so interesting is how it sounds so much like Beethoven yet, there is an underlying jazz feel to the music. This is something that is very unique to his writing. What is even more amazing is knowing that Duke basically taught harmony to himself and that his vast knowledge of arranging music came from experimenting with his band(The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz,331 ... Just as a chemist learns and creates in a lab, Ellington used his band to learn and create. Duke was no match for Father Time though. As death crept up on Duke Ellington, he began writing liturgical music. His most famous piece was, "In the Beginning God," which was written for orchestra chorus and soloist. Again he was still able to keep an underlying jazz feel. People began to take ...
- 2452: Charlemagne
- ... the Latin language, and the decline of power of the Pope or Papacy all contributed to the need for a leader to bring about reformation. Charles Martel, Pepin, and ultimately Charlemagne all took as their personal responsibility the reorganization of the Church. Each one, as king of the Franks, saw it his duty to better the state of his churches. (Ganshoff 205) Charlemagne, through the monasteries and ultimately the "Palace School ... given by nobles and the Church and power based on a contract - the oath of fidelity pledging allegiance by the king's subjects. (Boussard 42) "The oath brought two immediate advantages. It created a direct, personal link between the subject and the king. But more important still, anyone who broke it became guilty not only of infidelitas but also of perjury; if his infidelity was not great enough to attract the ... Church and State. Charlemagne recognized the importance of education, not only of spreading it throughout his kingdom, but also of learning for himself the ability to read and write Latin and Greek. His desire for personal knowledge, and to educate the people, lead him to found the "Palace School" at his home, Aix-La-Chapelle. To staff his school, Charlemagne turned to the monasteries. During the Dark Ages preceding the ...
- 2453: A Reflection On Herman Melville's Accomplishments
- ... no fame. How many remarkable artist have lived and died never receiving due credit for there work. Herman Melville is clearly an artist of words. Herman Melville is certainly a prodigy when it comes to writing. Herman Melville never received hardly any credit for any of his works. Melville wrote such novels as Moby-Dick, and Billy Budd. Melville wrote about things that he knew about. He wrote about his own ... to see Lama, "the city of king's," which Melville called, "the strangest, saddest impression on Melville than anything Melville would ever see again. It also probably made a bigger effect in all of his writing than any of the rest of his whaling cruises. Melville never wrote about what ever happened in Lima, the way that he wrote about the cruises he took around the Southern Pacific Islands, but it ... text in particular are like another of his most famous images - the coffin lifebuoy that empress such opposites as life and death."(Pg. 516, A Companion to Melville Studies). Melville had his own way of writing. Who else but Captain Ahab would have said of the Great White Whale "he tasks me, he heaps me"? Who but a true artiest such as Melville would have invented his own verbs? "That ...
- 2454: John Muir's Trail in History
- ... well known throughout the country. Famous men of the time Joseph LeConte, Asa Gray and Ralph Waldo Emerson made their way to the door of his pine cabin. In later years he turned seriously to writing; publishing 300 articles and 10 major books composed of his travel journals. They recounted his travels, expounded his naturalist philosophy, and beckoned everyone to "climb the mountains and get their good tidings"(Muir, Life and ... s most famous and influential naturalist and conservationist. He taught the people of his time and ours the importance of experiencing and protecting our natural heritage. His words have heightened our perception of nature. His personal and determined involvement in the great conservation questions of his time was and remains an inspiration and stepping stone for today's environmental activists. Richard Hawley, an active environmentalist and executive director and co-founder ...
- 2455: Jane Austen: Her Life and Work
- ... about her neighbors whilst the Dynasts were tearing the world to pieces and consigning millions to their pieces. (Tucker, pg. 69) Others loved Jane's novels. Jane wrote many novels in her life. She started writing early. The first novel written, Love and Friendship, was written in 1789 when Jane was only fourteen. Next Jane wrote A History of England, when she was fifteen. A Collection of Letters and Lesley Castle were written when Jane was sixteen. Elinor and Marianne was written in 1795 and First Impressions was written in 1797. Jane began writing The Watsons in 1804 but stopped writing it after her fathers death. (Drabble, pg. 52) The Watsons "social picture is one of the unrelieved bleakness, its heroine distressed, and it's satire sharp to the point of cruelty. It signals a ...
- 2456: The Life and Work of Washington Irving
- ... is a account of New York State during the period of Dutch occupation which was from (1609-1664). Irving's mocking tone and funny descriptions of early American life offset the nationalism in much American writing of the time. Generally considered the first important contribution to American comic literature, and a great popular success from the start. The work brought Irving lots of fame and financial reward. In 1815 Irving went to Liverpool, England, as a silent partner in his brothers' commercial firm. When, after a series of losses, the business went into bankruptcy in 1818, Irving returned to writing for a living. In England he became the good friend of several leading men of letters, including Thomas Campbell, Sir Walter Scott, and Thomas Moore. Under the alias of Geoffrey Crayon. Irving wrote the essays ... in (1836), and "The Adventures of Captain Bonneville", in U.S.A. (1837). In 1842 Irving was appointed U.S. minister to Madrid, he lived there until 1846, going on with his historical research and writing. He returned to the United States again in 1846 and settled at Sunnyside, his country home near Tarrytown, New York, where he lived until his death. Irving's popular but elegant style, based on ...
- 2457: Marilyn Monroe: Suicide or Murder
- ... Marilyn Monroe was the All- American Sex Goddess, a superstar legend with magnetic energy so strong she captured the world and her heels with her woman-child charm.On Her own, against almost all impossible personal and professional odds, she had created something brilliant and magical-Magical Monroe. (Marilyn Monroe, Internet excerpt) There is many different stories about Marilyn's death. I have chosen two very important references. These references have ... other guests and into a corner where Robert Kennedy soon joined them. The three talked for about fifteen minutes. Later, the Attorney General appeared uneasy as White House journalist Merriman Smith chatted with Monroe while writing in a small notebook. When a secret service agent informed Bobby that a candid photo had been taken of Marilyn and the Kennedy brothers, his face grew stormy. Shortly after one a.m., secret service ...
- 2458: The Life of Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
- ... he began correspondence with Bessel, whom he did not meet until 1825, and with Sophie Germain. Gauss married Johanna Ostoff on October 9, 1805. It was the first time that he would have a happy personal life. A year later his benefactor, the Duke of Brunswick, was killed fighting for the Prussian army. In 1807, Gauss decided to leave Brunswick and take up the position of director of the Gottingen observatory ... and although they had three children, this marriage seemed to be one of convenience for Gauss. It is obvious through many of Gauss's accomplishments that his devotion to his work never faltered even during personal tragic moments. He published his second book, Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis Solem ambientium, in 1809. The book was a major two volume dissertation on the motion of celestial bodies. In the first ... area in E can be developed (i.e. mapped isometrically) into another area of E , the values of the Gaussian curvatures are identical in corresponding points. During the years 1817-1832 Gauss again went through personal turmoil. His ailing mother moved in with him in 1817 and remained with him until his death in 1839. It was also during this period that he was involved in arguments with his wife ...
- 2459: Review of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
- ... through grammar school. His father intended for the knowledge learned in grammar school to be used in his future life of services for the church. Franklin progressed quickly and was transferred to a school for writing and arithmetic. Due to his progress in writing but failure in arithmetic, Franklin was withdrawn and engaged in his father's business as a tallow chandler and soap boiler. Disliking the business and loving the nature of the sea, Franklin spent his leisure ... king retaliated and the colonies were ready to establish a defense. Later on, Franklin was set up to meet with the proprietors, where he stated the colonies' concerns and was asked to put them in writing. As the complaints were reviewed, the proprietors ruled out Franklin as a person of candor. Later, a court date was set up, where Franklin's assistant lawyers proposed the act of taxing the proprietary ...
- 2460: The Life of Alexander Hamilton
- ... company was with Washington, Hamilton was making an indelible impression on the General. His efficiency, intelligence, and natural air of authority made him a prime candidate for staff officer. Washington, who was building up his personal staff as administrative details became ever more cumbersome, offered Hamilton the position of aide-de-camp with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. The primary qualification, as Washington himself explained, was to be able to "think ... in the same disposition"), and, working out a favorite theme, ended his letter with a detailed plan for a national bank. Then, no longer content to keep his ideas in the private realm, he began writing his first formal essays on American government. "The Continentalist," as he named his six-part series, was published in the New York Packet and the American Advertiser, and treated the public to their first taste ...
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