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Johann Sebastian Bach
<view this essay>.... and at 19 organist at Arnstadt.
Subsequent appointments included positions at the courts of Weimar and
Anhalt-Kother, and finally in 1723, that of musical director at St Thomas's
choir school in Leipzig, where, apart from his brief visit to the court of
Frederick the Great of Prussia in 1747, he remained there until his death.
Bach married twice and had 21 children, ten of whom died in infancy. His
second wife, Anna Magdalena Wulkens, was a soprano singer; she also acted
as his amanuensis, when in later years his sight failed.
Bach was a master of contrapuntal technique, and his music marks the
culmination of the Baroque polyphonic style.
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Comparison: Caesar And Fidel Castro
<view this essay>.... attack on the Moncada army barraks which gained him national attention. Both men continued to reach the top of the ladder.
To become the sole leaders of their country's both men had to get rid of the old leaders. Both men had to drive leaders out of office. Fidel led a revolt against Falgecio Batista, who when lost the support of the U.S. backed away and let Fidel in. Caesar had problems to, he had to defeat the famous Pompey. Caesar chased him into Egypt and then had to fight Pompey and Cleopatra.
Both Fidel and Caesar where geniuses. Not only where they great military leaders, they were great politicians. Both used propaganda to help become dicta .....
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Emersons Self-reliance
<view this essay>.... particular being is contained and made one with all other; that common heart, of which all sincere conversation is the worship, to which all right action is submission; that overpowering reality which confutes our tricks and talents, and constrains every one to pass for what he is, and to speak from his character, and not from his tongue, and which evermore tends to pass into our thought and hand, and become wisdom, and virtue, and power, and beauty(52). In this quotation Emerson says that the common instinct instilled in man lets him see the truth for himself. This reality found from the shared over-soul, is the purest form of truth. All men have this ability .....
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Francisco Jose De Goya Y Lucientes
<view this essay>.... (designs) for the royal apestry factory in Madrid. This was the most important period in his artistic development. As a tapestry designer, Goya did his first genre paintings, or scenes from everyday life.
The experience helped him become a keen observer of human behavior. He was also influenced by neoclassicism, which was gaining favor over the rococo style. Finally, his study of the works of Velazquez in the royal collection resulted in a looser, more spontaneous painting technique.
At the same time, Goya achieved his first popular success. He became established as a portrait painter to the Spanish aristocracy. He was elected to the Royal Academy of San .....
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Michelangelo
<view this essay>.... stone and tried cutting it. Eventually, he would move back to Florence, which at the time, was the flowering city of the Renaissance. This meant there was a strong influence of humanism in the city, which influenced and captured his thoughts.
Although he had no artistic background, decided he wanted to be an artist. At first, this angered his father, who really was just in search of money. Then, after many debates, 's father gave in and allowed him to take an apprenticeship under Domenico Ghirlandaio. His work at the hands of his teacher caught the eye of Lorezno Medici the Magnificent, the power in Florence. Lorenzo invited to sculpt for him. This visit al .....
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Booker T. Washington
<view this essay>.... ancestors, form his
mothers side, suffered in the middle passage of the slave ship
while being conveyed from Africa to America.
Washington and his family lived in a typical log cabin,
which was fourteen by sixteen feet square. The log cabin was not
only their living space, but also used as the kitchen for the
plantation. His life went fast and devoted all of his time into some
kind of labor each and everyday and no time for sports. After the
civil war was over, all blacks were free and they felt that they
should change their names and leave their plantations either for a
couple of days or weeks in order to really feel free.
As Washington g .....
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George Frederick Handel
<view this essay>.... to Hamburg, the operatic
center of Germany; here, in 1704, he composed his own first opera, Almira, which
achieved great success the following year. Once again, however, Handel soon felt
the urge to move on, and his instincts led him to Italy, the birthplace of
operatic style. He stopped first at Florence in the autumn of 1706. In the
spring and summer of 1707 and 1708 he traveled to Rome, enjoying the backing of
both the nobility and the clergy, and in the late spring of 1707 he made an
additional short trip to Naples. In Italy, Handel composed operas, oratorios,
and many small secular cantatas; he ended his Italian visit with the stunning
success of his fi .....
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Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream Speech
<view this essay>.... of his exceptional oratorical skills and personal courage. Despite attempts to suppress the movement, Montgomery buses were desegregated in December 1956, after the United States Supreme Court declared Alabama's segregation laws unconstitutional. King's leadership took place during the most tumultuous period in America's recent past. Under his guidance, the unfathomable goal of abolishing federal and state-sanctioned segregation and discrimination was accomplished in only a few short years.
King was asked by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to aid in the struggle for civil rights in Birmingham, Alabama. Thus, he was there because injustice was pres .....
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