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The Baroque Era
Number of Words: 1270 / Number of Pages: 5
... of these themes that I have discussed are also clear in the music
of the Baroque period. It paints pictures of vibrant colours and triggers
strong emotions. The desire to discover these themes is evident in the
invention of the exciting new form music, opera, and in the use of operatic
techniques in dramatic music for the church.
Important Musical Developments
Composer-performers would strive at becoming Kapellmeisers in this
Era. A Kapellmeister is a music director at one of the great courts. They
were responsible for all the music performed in the court. These positions
were ve ...
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Heart Of Darkness And Apocalyp
Number of Words: 1978 / Number of Pages: 8
... one of the scariest occurrences of this century. Adolf Hitler and his Nazi counterparts conducted raids of the ghettos to locate and often exterminate any Jews they found. Although Jews are the most widely known victims of the Holocaust, they were not the only targets. When the war ended, 6 million Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists, and others targeted by the Nazis, had died in the Holocaust. Most of these deaths occurred in gas chambers and mass shootings. This gruesome attack was motivated mainly by the fear of cultural intermixing which would impurify the "Master ...
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Romanticism 2
Number of Words: 348 / Number of Pages: 2
... The Arts, composed of many types of genre, are composed and interpreted very different. Some people may look at a painting and imagine extremely different attitudes than the artist who painted it had intended. Another area that the Romantic attitude has drastically affected is fashion. As you glance around you’ll probably observe that very few people dress similar and each person has developed their own style of dress. Fashion often reflects a person’s attitude towards life and may express the mood that the particular person has, this gives each person a unique quality to distinguish them from the ...
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Buffalo Soldiers
Number of Words: 242 / Number of Pages: 1
... the Civil War. The initial all-black regiment, the 54th
Massachusetts, trained by its white commander, Col. Robert G. Shaw, suffered
heavy casualties in a heroic, though unsuccessful attempt to capture Fort Wagner
at Charleston (S.C.) harbor in July 1863. In all, about 209,000 ex-slaves and
free blacks served in the Union Army, and more than 68,000 of them died in
battle or from wounds or disease. After the Civil War, Congress authorized two
cavalry regiments and four infantry regiments of black troops, who were led by
white officers. The 9th and 10th cavalry regiments were formed in 1866 and wer ...
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Amistad 3
Number of Words: 785 / Number of Pages: 3
... symbols with larger meanings.
Power and authority is the first symbol presented in the story. Who had
it in the beginning and who ended up with it in the end. The superior attitude
of the ‘La Amistad’s’ crew and the harsh and cruel treatment of the passengers,
implies how primitive and unrefined society was.
In addition to power and authority, characters were used as symbols.
Treated like objects from the beginning, a metaphor for the ideals and principles of European society. In contrast, blacks traditionally were even more simple than whites because they were viewed merely as objects ...
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That The Beatles Acclerated The Change In Society.
Number of Words: 1456 / Number of Pages: 6
... openly adopted the use of drugs or questioned religion, the whole of the rock world would do the same. If they took a guru or abandoned one, gave peace a chance or even did it in the road (Abbey Road), the world of rock took notice and did the same, tried to do the same or just wanted to do the same.
The origin of the phenomenon that became the Beatles can be traced back to 1957. Paul McCartney was picked from an audition for a position in John Lennons then band "The Quarrymen". Another member of this band was a 15-year-old guitarist, George Harrison. Within a few years, after a number of differe ...
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Women's Roles In The Revolution
Number of Words: 1886 / Number of Pages: 7
... them
3. carried orders and information
c. women
1. listened to what British said
a. while serving food/drink
b. officers spoke freely
1. thought women were not
interested
2. they were wrong
2. Lydia Darragh
a. of Philidelphia
b. carried important information
1. to General Washington
2. at Valley Forge
E. After the war
1. Women continue to be interested in politics
2. Spoke of themselves as Republican Mothers
3. strengthening of a nation
a. Marcy Otis Warren
b. Abigail Adams
c. John Adams and Benjamin Rush
d. position ...
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Number of Words: 5165 / Number of Pages: 19
... amusement parks, and city buses were part of everyday life in
Montgomery, Alabama.
“Every person operating a bus line should provide equal
accommodations...in such a manner as to separate the white people from Negroes."
On Montgomery's buses, black passengers were required by city law to sit in the
back of the segregated bus. Negroes were required to pay their fare at the
front of the bus, then get off and reboard from the rear of the bus. The front
row seats were reserved for white people, which left the back of the bus or no
man's land for the black's. There was no sign declaring the seati ...
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United States Enter War!
Number of Words: 356 / Number of Pages: 2
... worse, the tension is what has grown the most between these two countries. This is due to a recent cartoon that was included when the American newspaper published the German foreign minister, Arthur Zimmermann. The British had gotten the note and passed it on here, to the Americans. This telegram included Zimmermann proposing a deal with Mexico. It was understood that Zimmermann had propose a deal that stated if Mexico would join Germany in the Great War, Mexico would receive a few states. These states included New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona, but this was only after a German victory.
That same mont ...
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Michelangelo The Sistine Chapel Frescos
Number of Words: 1455 / Number of Pages: 6
... has chosen the right man for the job
I sent to Florence for a number of assistance to help me with the fresco’s and thetechnique since I am somewhat hazy with the technique involved. I started my work onthe cartoons for the frescos. These 12 Apostles that I am commissioned to paint are soboring I must find a way around painting them in such a dull fashion. As we started to
paint the fresco’s I became very uninspired by the idea of the 12 apostles I was upset andconfused. I knew that this was not the right idea for the ceiling.(Redig De Campos, 170).
I talked with Julius today and we discussed ...
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