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Popular Music Revolution
Number of Words: 1491 / Number of Pages: 6
... styles, and by a variety of other music conventions” (Belz vii). This variety reflects the varied backgrounds of young people at the time. Early successes in this new music genre included Bill Haley, Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, and Chuck Berry. This music only succeeded because the conditions in society and the opinions of the youth in that time period allowed it to succeed. This music revolution is not unique. Similar revolutions will occur if and when the circumstances permit. Modern music is going this direction, but has not reached the point of a new genre as of yet because conditions in ...
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Assassination Of JFK: Conspiracy Or Single-Gunman?
Number of Words: 1383 / Number of Pages: 6
... booked for the murder of President John F. Kennedy. Two days later, Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner, while he was being moved from the city to the county jail.
At a glance, the above story sounds as if this should be an open-and-shut case. After all, according to the facts above, Oswald must have killed Kennedy. However, you must take a deeper look into this case. Many people who witnessed the murder of John F. Kennedy dispute the facts above, saying that they heard shots from places besides the book depository, and other things that may contradict what is stated above. O ...
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Benjamin Franklin's Albany Plan Of Union
Number of Words: 1713 / Number of Pages: 7
... of the
French Fort Duquesne, he built Fort Necessity. Fort Duquesne was located
where the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers join to form the Ohio River.
There was a battle fought at Fort Necessity on July 4, 1754 in which a
small force of French and Indian Troops defeated Washington and his troops.
The French were now securely established along a line of spread out
points from the Great Lakes south to the Ohio River. They also had camps
in the Allegheny Mountains. The whole northern frontier of the British
colonies was exposed to attack from the Indian allies of the French. In
addition, the w ...
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Les Miserables
Number of Words: 469 / Number of Pages: 2
... has been waiting for for support and stability. The time they spent together warmed both of their hearts with the feeling they longed for. “Jean Valjean felt his own happiness grow with the happiness which he caused Cosette”(139). Cosette’s influence on Jean made both his feelings and life better and more barable. Jean found the love he has been without for so long, it warmed his heart and the people around him. Cosette influenced Jean’s feelings for love, life, and his sense of well being.
Marius’s influence on Jean Valjean is rather a love-hate respect. Marius influenced Jean in a way that was not ...
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Reservoir Dogs
Number of Words: 618 / Number of Pages: 3
... control of the situation. At the same time he was acting out this concept, he was actually totally out of control. He went fucking crazy in the store. He slaughtered the people lined up in the store like he was shooting clay ducks in a local carnival shooting gallery. I know this is a contradiction, but Mr. Blonde was a contradiction of himself.
He had double standards. He hated the cop just because he was a cop. He didn't recognize him as a real person. Mr. Pink and Mr. White confirm this at the warehouse when they discuss him shooting REAL people, which cops are not. They say he just went crazy. ...
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A Post-Modern Age
Number of Words: 2815 / Number of Pages: 11
... is merely the sense that the present is a transitional point, not focused on a clear goal in the future but simply changing through forces outside our control. I will first describe how "Modernity" came about, and then to indicate some of the features for which "Post-Modernity" is meant to be a reaction, response or addition to modernization.
Beginnings of Modernity:
First, I aim to give a broad historical picture against which we may understand the rise of Modernity as an idea related to science and society or as a framework for a view of rationality. We know that we experience change a ...
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Romanticism
Number of Words: 224 / Number of Pages: 1
... beliefs introduced at this time were love, faith, religion, reality versus illusion, and artistic creativity. Allegory took a major role in its literary characteristics. Much of the is reactions against forms and rules. is an attitude of imagination and vision, which values a vast freedom in style!
Romantics of this period saw the imagination as the means for tapping into the universal truth and finding knowledge. Many objects of the physical world became symbols of spiritual or intellectual truth. For example, Edgar Allen Poe pursued with great intensity the Gothic mood. He made material ...
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Schindler’s List
Number of Words: 852 / Number of Pages: 4
... recognizes this tragedy, he puts his on life in danger to save all of the Jews that he can. He is so generous that people ask him to let people work in the factory so they will live. He does so. He has a heart but he also does it for his personal gain. At first, he just opens the factory to gain money. In the end, we see him spending all of his money to save the Jews. The courageous man makes up a list containing thousands upon thousands of Jews that he requested to come and work in an artillery manufacturing plant. His main goal is not to produce massive amounts of artillery, but rather to sav ...
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
Number of Words: 399 / Number of Pages: 2
... for piano and orchestra, and this in spite of the fact that the solo is often sonically buried in unyielding orchestral textures. There are, to be sure, virtuosic flights aplenty for the piano, and lyrical ones, too, but the work is hardly all the pianist’s show.
The Concerto opens with a series of rather ponderous, static, unaccompanied piano chords which lead to the orchestras statement of a sardonic main theme taken by the strings while the keyboard spills out continuous cascades of harmonic embellishment. Finally a martial answer by the piano – on the first two notes of the main theme – le ...
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Jujitsu - The Gentle Art
Number of Words: 820 / Number of Pages: 3
... of Japan. This was the era of the Samurai. Jujitsu was the Samurai’s main set of combat techniques, after the sword. Jujitsu was a part of the Samurai’s fighting skills, something he could use when he was unable to use his favourite weapon.
There are many different styles of Jujitsu that exist around the world, and many different ways to actually spell the name. The original spelling derived directly from the Japanese was Jujitsu. As the popularity and practice of this martial art spread across Europe, the spelling and pronunciation was forced to change. This occurred during World War II, wh ...
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