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History Of The Guitar
Number of Words: 2133 / Number of Pages: 8
... back as 1350 B.C.
The word guitar also has origins in the middle and far east, deriving from gut, is the Arabic word for four, and tar, the Sanskrit word for string. The earliest European guitars did have four courses of gut strings. A
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course is a pair of strings tuned in unison. These early guitars were distinguished from lutes by body sides that curved inward to form a waist and by four courses of strings. Some but not all early guitars had a flat back, while lutes always had a flat back. In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance the lute was the dominant fretted instrument ...
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Oriental Art
Number of Words: 495 / Number of Pages: 2
... form of picture- making. As a result, the tradition of Sung Chinese flower-and-bird painting made itself felt though out Asia.
Among the Chinese themselves, flower-and-bird painting is a major form of pictorial expression, which for thousands of years has exercise their aesthetic imagination to extent comparable with, say, our European nude.
Assembly of Birds can best be described in Rowland¡¦s words ¡V a habitat group with a painted black cloth. For despite the beauty of its execution, it is as airless as a showcase in some provincial museum of natural history, in which someone has att ...
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Salvidor Dali
Number of Words: 548 / Number of Pages: 2
... Burnel on motion pictures enabling him to create jarring juxtapositions, these films were Un Chien Andalau (1929) and L’age’d’or (1930). These films were considered the surrealist style and L’age’d’or caused riots in the streets of Paris (BBC). It was around this time that he met and eloped with Gala Eluard, it is rumored that they never consummated their marriage, as Dali could not stand to be touched. Never the less they remained together for fifty-three years (BBC).
In the 1930’s Dali expanded upon surrealism calling his work “critical paranoia”. According to this theory one should cultivate ge ...
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The John Scopes Trial
Number of Words: 1552 / Number of Pages: 6
... a schoolteacher in the south decided to stray from the norm by teaching a new and controversial theory of evolution, it was no surprise that there was considerable backlash from religious groups.
The supporters of literal interpretation of the Bible were alarmed at Darwin’s theories because it showed humans in an unfavorable light. Suggesting that all life forms evolved from more primitive beings appeared to lower the significance of man in the greater scheme of things. This was considered an attack not only on the power of God but on the credibility of Biblical teachings as well. The resident ...
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La Amistad 2
Number of Words: 579 / Number of Pages: 3
... of the slaves, Cinque, took a boatload of slaves ashore and unloaded. They refilled their water buckets, which had recently been emptied. One of the men on the ship catches their attention and they see another ship coming up along side of theirs. They jump in their boat and row back to their ship. They are captured and taken to shore. They are thrown into jail. After this, it is a fight to free the slaves and in turn, bring an end to slavery all together.
One of the most moving scenes in the movie happens on board the slave ship. A woman has just had a baby, she knows that it will not be taken ...
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The JFK Assassination: Conspiracy Or Single-Gunman?
Number of Words: 1375 / Number of Pages: 5
... 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. One of th ...
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Agony Ang The Extacy, Ethical Considerations Concerning Mich
Number of Words: 739 / Number of Pages: 3
... he concerned with the size of it; he wanted to have complete freedom with what he was to paint. Considering these facts was it ethical for the Pope to force Michelangelo into devoting years of his life to doing this job that he didn’t want to do in the first place? Or one could ask, was it ethical for Michelangelo to butt heads with the Pope, the ruler of the entire Holy Roman Empire. I will start by defending the Pope, Julius II merely recognized the extreme beauty that was the end result in Michelangelo’s work and felt that it would be cheating the rest of the world not to share it. Considering ...
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Tupac And The Outlawz History
Number of Words: 936 / Number of Pages: 4
... for success in his name.
Kadafi was known as Yak when a member of a group called "The Plague." This gruop had nearly 30 members including Fatal. Kadafi and Hussein Fatal were, along with Pac, the first origional members of the Outlawz. But before joining the Outlawz, Kadafi was a member of the group "Dramacydal" which included three other current Outlawz Kastro aka K-Dogg,EDI aka Big Mal, and Napoleon aka Mutah were all members of Dramacydal. On the night that Tupac Shakur was shot in Las Vegas, Kadafi was the only one reported out of Tupac's thirty car entourage that could identify the shooters if ...
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The Reasons Why The South Went To War
Number of Words: 692 / Number of Pages: 3
... slave trade to be abolished which went in favour of
the North. The Compromise also went with the South when it included
stricter fugitive slave laws and New Mexico and Utah were created without
slave restrictions. A book called, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was also published
at this time emphasising the evils of slavery. This added tension between
the North and the South. The compromises seemed to have settled the issue
of slavery but it was just putting back the problem. The North and the
South were far from settling the slave issue.
Another reason that caused the South to go to war was the
diffe ...
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The Colonial Economy
Number of Words: 3290 / Number of Pages: 12
... World. The governments they created were patterned after those in Europe; ultimately all were based on England's. In New England they followed the English pattern established in the Feudal period of farmers living in villages. Most of their trade was with England and other European countries, although they also traded with Asia and Africa.
For several decades their survival depended on imported goods, and they were unable to export enough to pay for them.. A century after colonization began in the North American English colonies, they had developed an economy based on the export and imports between th ...
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