.... of his predecessor, but he was unusually talented, learning the piano, organ and violin at an early age. At 14, he was already proficient enough on the organ to receive a professional appointment. His family life was chaotic; his father was an alcoholic, and his mother died suddenly when he was only 17. After that tragedy, his domestic situation declined even more, and this condition - combined with support from Haydn - compelled him to leave home in 1790 and travel to Vienna to study composition. In Vienna, Beethoven first studied with Haydn, but eventually became frustrated with that great composer's teaching methods, moving on to study with other compose .....

.... support in the Republican cause; the formation of a unified nation without slavery. Lincoln builds an appeal to emotion with the first statement of the speech, “Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention.” This statement gives each member of the audience a sense of importance and captures their attention by personally addressing the delegates in an honorable and professional manner. Lincoln emotionally involves his audience throughout the speech through rhetorical questions. Lincoln uses these questions to imply that slavery is an unethical and immoral practice that must be eliminated. An example of this would be when Lincoln states that the nation as .....

.... play. Booth jumped into the box and shot Lincoln in the head with a derringer. Lincoln was carried over to The Peterson House across the street. He died there at 7:22 the next morning. Booth got away on a waiting horse outside. He was chased by the calvary and was found in a barn. He was captured by setting the barn on fire and flushing him out. 2. “Assassination Of Lincoln” Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia. Computer software. Buffalo, New York: Encarta 97 Encyclopedia, 1993-1996. CD-ROM. This article is a summary of the events leading up to, the assassination, and the events after Abraham Lincoln's death. He was killed April 15, 1865. His assassi .....

.... con mayores derechos que los Indios. El acta fue reprochada por la mayoría de los Indios. La India a finales del siglo 19 y a comienzos del siglo 20 no era como el país que hoy conoce en esta época la India no era todavía un Estado, sino un enorme territorio dividido en numerosos territorios feudales. La India había estado dominada por Musulmanes, Mongoles, compañías europeas y a los imperios coloniales. Dado el hecho de que nunca habían tenido una historia propia, no tenían noción de una verdadera conciencia nacionalista. Después del Acta, la gran disconformidad del pueblo hindú encontró su representante, ¨ El Mahatma ¨ Mohandas K. Gandhi, este increíble l .....

.... has been performing for over twenty-six years. In that time, they have sold over ninety million albums, amassed legions of fans, and sold out stadiums around the world. There is a reason for the extraordinary success of Kiss. It has something to do with their music, but it has more to do with the way they are hyped and packaged. So lets unwrap that package. In 1972, Gene Simmons was a sixth grade school teacher in New York City. With guitarist Paul Stanley, he formed a band called Wicked Lester that played in small clubs and bars around New York. That band quickly failed. "Wicked Lester just wasn't the deadly rock n' roll assault squad they had always wa .....

.... and Manifest Destiny. Each symbolizing the uniqueness of our country and obviously, highlighting the theme of change. Between 1607 and 1783, during the Colonial Period, one evident example of change is the production of the Declaration of Independence. The purpose of this document was to declare independence over Britain (p110). I am convinced that symbolizes change because the Americans wanted to have a new form of government. They were fed up with the British's way of running things they decided to take matters into their own hands. By demanding the British to step aside, they were changing their form of government, and symbolically, a whole lo .....

.... Bound and The Seven Against Thebes. Agamemnon is the first of a trilogy, called the Oresteia, which continues with The Libation-Bearers and concludes with The Eumenides. The trilogy--the only such work to survive from Ancient Greece--is considered by many critics to be the greatest Athenian tragedy ever written, both for the power of its poetry and the strength of its characters. Agamemnon depicts the assassination of the title character by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover; The Libation-Bearers continues the story with the return of Agamemnon's son, Orestes, who kills his mother and avenges his father. Orestes is pursued by the Furies in .....

.... have caused the fall of what was, unquestionably, the most powerful empire in history. I feel that I must begin with the explanations given by Edward Gibbon. While few agree entirely with his logic, his Decline and Fall on the Roman Empire is certainly unavoidable in a paper such as this. His work could be best summed up by the word confusing. According to David Jordan, ‘the causes for Rome's fall march across the pages of the Decline and Fall, seemingly without pattern, and seemingly unrelated to each other. This quote taken from the seventh chapter of Jordan's Gibbon and his Roman Empire sum up my feelings concerning the work; however, I will atte .....