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- 28661: Romanticism In The Aspect Of N
- ... art. In literature, Romanticism was to some extent a reaction against the strict rules formulated by the Neoclassicists. The first fully Romantic poetry was Lyrical Ballads (1798) by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Wordsworth's The World is Too Much With Us (1802) emphasizes a world being plagued by materialism while steadily losing its spirituality. He used Greek mythological figures to symbolize that the nature the ancients enjoyed could not ... composure of the prevailing Neoclassic style. The art is colorful, expressive, and full of movement. Though we have not read or talked about John Constable I thought he was a very interesting artist. John Constable's Wivenhoe Park, Essex (1816), is a pristine example of his scientific approach to capturing the qualities of atmosphere, light, and sky. Constable used God in nature, creativity, and the peaceful aspects of nature in this ...
- 28662: Industrial Revolution 3
- The second industrial revolution started in the late nineteenth century and continued through the 1930's. The revolution provided great opportunities as well as troubling times. The United States citizens struggled to gain control over their lives in an industrialized economy. Moreover, the second industrial revolution changed the lives and attitudes ... abolishment of child labor. Roosevelt claimed that this would raise consumer purchasing power and increase employment. However, the NRA did not succeed because of the decline in industrial production in the months after the agency's start. Through the efforts of the thousands of hard working Americans and the support of most of the presidents, it seemed as though the working man finally had some rights. With a minimum wage and ...
- 28663: Healing Health Care
- ... stands, America is the only civilized country where access to basic health care depends on where one works and how much one is paid. For many well insured people there is debate about our nation¹s stance on the separation between the individual and the state, but the fact of the mater is that if our friend Grant had been born five hundred miles to the North he would still have ... life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,² and then let its workers toil without hope of an end to their toil is idiotic. The question of national health care is really a test of America¹s intentions, of whether or not we are willing to sacrifice the good of the many for the good of the few. Let us choose to come together as a nation and beat this thing, so ...
- 28664: Arnold Schönberg
- ... died on Los Angeles July 13, 1951. Arnold was an American citizen as of 1941. He began violin lessons when he was eight and almost immediately started to compose. Berlin was very important for Schönberg's further artistic development. In 1902, he received on Richard Strauss' recommendation the popular Liszt-scholarship as well as a, apprenticeship at the Stern conservatory. Before returning to Vienna in 1903, he composed the symphonic poem ... the war, Schönberg founded the "Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen" (society for private music performances), a new forum for modern music. The goal was to create ideal preconditions for the performance of contemporary works. After Hitler's take-over in 1933, Schönberg was dismissed from the Berlin academy. He emigrated with his wife and his daughter at first to Paris, where he was converted to Jewish faith (Marc Chagall was his witness ...
- 28665: Shakespeare - Globe Theater
- ... could understand the play. Not having a lighting technician to work the control panels, Shakespeare had to indicate wether it was dawn or nightfall by using a speech rich in metaphors and descriptive details. Shakespeare's theater was far from being bare, the playwright did have some valuable technical sources that he used to the best of his ability. The costumes the actors wore were made to be very elaborate. Many ... plays included passages of subtle poetry, of deep philosophy, and scenes of terrible violence. Shakespeare was an actor as well as a playwright, so he new well what his audience wanted to see. The company's offered as many as thirty plays a season, customarily changing the programs daily. The actors thus had to hold many parts in their heads, which may account for Elizabethan playwrights' blank verse writing style.
- 28666: Borderline Personality Disorder
- ... they themselves are diagnosed or are friends of a borderline patient. In this world, there are many different types of disorders, both physical and mental. It is the mental disorders, however, that many people aren’t knowledgeable about. One disorder in particular has both psychiatrists and the general public confused - Borderline Personality Disorder. According to The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Press, 1994), “Adolescents and young adults ... treatments, such as Ritalin for Attention Deficit Disorder and Prozac for depression, there are no known medications for Borderline Personality Disorder. In a personal interview with Kim Steggles, a limited licensed psychologist (someone who can’t prescribe medications), she told me that, “Most patients are treated for their other disorders, such as A.D.D., and then they are treated with either psychotherapy or ‘reparenting’.” Reparenting is a method that sets ...
- 28667: The Concept And Antilogy Of Ne
- ... necessity," (2). The most important necessities can be easily argued as those of survival, and to establish their importance, these necessities appear first in the story. But in the descriptive account of the Alpha Company s soldiers necessities, comic books and drugs are placed in the same paragraph. They are masked as necessities and placed on almost the same level as food and weapons. This defines the intense pressures of war ... This is despite some traces of jealousy that remain inside them. These descriptions may give the illusion that these internal burdens the men carry are keeping them alive, are necessary. Yet, in light of Lavender s death, this could hardly be the case.
- 28668: How Does A Bill Become A Law?
- ... debate often can pose as a problem since it could cause a practice called filibuster. This means that a Senator could talk a bill to death. To correct this problem, a closure or 3/5's vote is needed and it is very hard to get. Such things like this, are what attribute to the time it takes to pass these bills proposed. At this time, if the House version is ... but dislikes the bill, he can cease any action for 10 working days. There are 2 outcomes to this type of veto. First, if Congress is still in session it becomes a law without President's signature or if Congress is adjourned (not meeting) it is dead. At this point, a bill could be an official law. However, if anyone feels they are harmed in anyway by the law, they can ...
- 28669: Advertisers Take Us For Spend-
- ... as well as direct response, sales promotion, and other communications vehicles in the course of a single campaign. From its unsophisticated beginnings in ancient times, advertising has flourished into a worldwide industry. In the U.S. alone in the early 1990s, about $138 billion was spent in a single year on advertising to influence the purchase of products and services. Advertising falls into two main categories: consumer advertising, directed to the ... All forms of sales appeals (except mail-order appeals) that are sent through the mails are considered direct-mail advertising. The chief function of direct-mail advertising is to familiarise prospective buyers with a product’s name, its maker, its merits, and its local distributors. A direct-mail appeal is designed to support the sales activities of retailers by encouraging the continued patronage of old and new customers. When no personal ...
- 28670: Carl Friedrich Gauss
- ... contributions to both theoretical and practical astronomy, his principle work was in mathematics, and mathematical physics. About 1820 Gauss turned his attention to geodesy -- the mathematical determination of the shape and size of the Earth's surface -- to which he devoted much time in the theoretical studies and field work. In his research, he developed the heliotrope to secure more accurate measurements, and introduced the Gaussian error curve, or bell curve ... developed results he needed from statistics and differential geometry. Most startling among the unpublished discoveries of Gauss is that of non-Euclidean geometry. With a fellow student at Göttingen, he discussed attempts to prove Euclid's parallel postulate -- Through a point outside of a line, one and only one line exists which is parallel to the first line. As he got closer to solving the postulate, the closer he was to ...
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