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Franz Joseph Haydn
Number of Words: 2426 / Number of Pages: 9
... interest in music. Participation in a choir gave him the opportunity to go to Vienna and there, he studied the piano sonatas of Emanuel Bach and was given the chance to finally get a chance to compose; something he had always wanted to do. This is when the first string quartet was developed. Later on, he was employed by the Esterhazy family and was given the chance to conduct an orchestra and write symphonies. It was at this time and place that Haydn was "completely isolated from the world…he could experiment…improve, alter, add, or cut as boldly as he pleased." This was the start of ...
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Duke Ellington
Number of Words: 572 / Number of Pages: 3
... His opening solo is repetitive, going over the same set of notes over and over again. The overall feeling is as if the music is wooing the listener.
Ellington's other innovations include the use of the human voice as an instrument, such as in "Creole Love Call" (1927). He also placed instruments in unusual combinations, illustrated in the piece "Mood Indigo" (1930). When the orchestra performs this piece, three soloists stand out in front of the stage, playing three different instruments. Improvisation was a big part of Ellington’s music.
One of Ellington orchestra’s signature tune ...
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Ben Franklin 2
Number of Words: 1270 / Number of Pages: 5
... so Ben not only learned how to print but he read everything in the shop. When Ben was seventeen, he left his family and moved to Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Ben was on his own and became very accomplished. He did a little bit of everything.
Ben Franklin as a scientist and inventor is perhaps the most interesting. "Flying a kite in a lightning storm is dumb. But the first person to try that dangerous experiment was brilliant." Aside from the famous kite experiment, Franklin did more. The direct effect of Franklin's work with lightning as electricity was his invention of the lightning r ...
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Prince William
Number of Words: 4966 / Number of Pages: 19
... "Tiggy" Legge-Bourke. "History-to-History" will include another member of the royal family born in 1066 named William I "the Conqueror," who was as famous during his ruling period as much as is in the 1990s. This essay will cover the above topics.
of Whales is second in line of inheritance to the British throne after Prince Charles of Whales, who is first. He was born June 21, 1982 at 9:03 p.m. weighing seven pounds, ten ounces at Saint Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London after his mother endured seventeen hours of labor. When he was born, his father, Prince Charles said "Nearly seventeen hours ...
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Hugh Of Balma
Number of Words: 571 / Number of Pages: 3
... These movements would then build up and maintain the desire of tending toward God. This type of anagogic prayer and the Cloud of Unknowing, which was also written by , is evident. The works of that teach the way of unitive prayer have inspired many teachings of known people like Henry of Herp, Bernardino of Laredo, Jean Gerson, and many others.
, thoroughly influenced by Gallus and perhaps the most immediate source of the Cloud, stresses the importance of the intellect in the first two stages of the mystical ascent, like virtually everyone else in the tradition. For both Gallus and Balma, sapi ...
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MARGARET ATWOOD
Number of Words: 1256 / Number of Pages: 5
... divisions or chapters, each named for a particular pattern of quilting). The events leading up to the murders are revealed through narrative, letters, newspaper accounts, excerpts from Susanna Moodie's journal, notes by doctors and wardens and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, and Alfred Lord Tennyson. Atwood maintains an ironic distance that manages simultaneously to reveal the character of Grace in her own words and to paint a broad picture of mid-19th century Canada as a nation experiencing the passionate explosions of science colliding with spiritualism. This is the age of scientific d ...
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Benjamin Franklin Autobiography Analytical Essay
Number of Words: 607 / Number of Pages: 3
... He also used this as a vehicle to send information to people. He solicited out the bad things, “IN the conduct of my newspaper I carefully all libeling and personal abuse….” He tried to display just the good in society. But in the same right he mentions his newspaper as a stagecoach, saying, “in which anyone who would pay had the right to a place.” This shows his ideals on writing and the conveying f information to the people.
In similarity his views also agreed with that of the enlightenment on politics and power. He believed that centralized power was not a good thing. He comments on a political p ...
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Hitler's Legacy Still Haunts The World
Number of Words: 700 / Number of Pages: 3
... of the time. However, they also knew that the democratic nations
were a threat and that the democratic nations felt the same about them. As
a result the fascists signed a treaty known as the Triple Alliance. This
treaty was pushed by Hitler and wouldn’t have happened without him. With
Hitler’s help Fascism united world wide.
Hitler’s government was considered a fascist regime. Hitler’s
government was actually much more than that. It was essential to Hitler
for himself and his beliefs to have total authority. He eliminated anyone
or any group who stood in his way. He singled out the Jewish ...
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Simon Bolivar
Number of Words: 573 / Number of Pages: 3
... and Joseph Bonaparte. That year Caracas, Bolivar hometown, declared independence from Spain.
BACK IN S. AMERICA
In 1808 Bolivar, Bello and Mendez were sent to England on a diplomatic mission. It was a failed attempt to gain an alliance. He returned to Venezuela in 1811 and won a battle in Valencia. Quickly he looses the port of Puerto Cabello to the Royalists during the First Republic. However he was able to recoup his troops in 1813 and institute the Venezuelan Second Republic with himself as the ruler. By this time Bolivar had not fully established himself as a leader from the warlords and othe ...
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Thomas Jefferson
Number of Words: 748 / Number of Pages: 3
... who was born into a slave holding society, whose family and admired friends owned slaves, who inherited a fortune that was dependent on slaves and slave labor, decide at an early age that slavery was morally wrong and forcefully declare that it ought to be abolished?" (Wilson 66).
Wilson also argues that Jefferson knew that his slaves would be better off working for him than freed in a world where they would be treated with contempt and not given any real freedoms.
Another way that shows his moral character is in his most famous achievement, the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. This docume ...
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