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History Of Western Music
<view this essay>.... and performance of secular music, which became the music of choice for composers of that day.
Many of the songs we have today of the Middle Ages were in Latin, and are by anonymous composers. Many were written by wandering people, many of them men and churchmen without permanent residences of their own. Men who could not obtain a position in the Church and had to drop out were called goliards. These goliards wandered around the land, composing and performing for people. Their music was mostly comprised of the "’eat, drink, and be merry’ type, appropriate to the wanton kind of life the goliards lived" (Stolba, 99). Carl Orff, the composer of the Car .....
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Chuck Close
<view this essay>.... friends, all of whom were fairly unknown at the time. He enlarged and transferred the photographic images to canvas by a process of grids. Close didn't want to make Pop posters of famous people. liked to use a grid method where he drew each portion of the paintings on a grid, block for block making near perfect replicas of the photo or he would make abstract pictures.
Linda is a very realistic piece made with acrylic and pencil on canvas. Close drew it exactly as a photo very clear around the face, eyes, nose, and mouth. However the outside of the hair, the cheek, the neck and below are all blurred. Just as in a photo. Linda is a middle age woman with brown .....
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Use Of Fairy Tales In Germany Pale Mother
<view this essay>.... betrothing his daughter to the first suitable man who comes along. The man choosen happens to live deep in the forest, and fills the daughter with dread everytime that she sees him. One day, the suitor demands that his bride come visit him at home. When she tells him she does not know the way, he says he with spread the path to his house with ashes. Nodoubt this fictional element is meant to invoke sadistic images of Nazi Germany and the use of ashes of cremated concentration camp inmates for road construction. The daughter does follow the path with great unease, however, as she follows the path she marks it with peas. She finally comes to the house, and is p .....
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How World Conflict Start
<view this essay>.... meant was, a rephrase of one of United States Article codes of conduct. Article 6 says, "I will never forget that I am an American, Fighting for freedom, responsible for my action and dedicated to the principles
which made my country free, I will trust in my God and the United States of America." So basically Serbia was protecting it's people for what the nation though was right. I mean, in my opinion, If I shot Hussain or Melosavitch(spell?) U.S. Government would probably not turn me in. Even if they say that they do not participate in assassination, because of the Geneva Convention. This almost or is
the same with Serbian at that time. They protect the .....
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Russia
<view this essay>.... quo. Many artists may have wanted to expand their work but were mostly kept n check until the reactionary movement in the late 20th century.
In this period there were some tremendous works of art that were completed. Lev Efimovich Kerbel finished his monument to Karl Marx, which was made of granite. He later would when the Lenin Prize for it a year later in 1962. Also a great limestone sculpture of B.L. Pasternak which is located at the Tret'iakov Gallery was finished by Sarra Lededeva. These exhibits helped make 1961 a great period for art. There were other publications that helped characterize this time. Many great works were done in architecture. .....
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New Jersey During The Revolution
<view this essay>.... the first battle of Trenton, on December 26th, 1776, the battle of
Princeton, on January 3rd, 1777, the battle of Monmouth, on June 28th, 1778,
the Battle of Connecticut Farms, on June 6th, 1780, and the Battle of
Springfield, on June 23rd, 1780, which was one of the larger battles of the
war, for numbers of troops involved. In addition, there were hu ndreds of
smaller battles, engagements, skirmishes, raids, etc. involving regular
troops, militia units and loyalist units, and many actions off the coast of
sea vessels.
Washington's troops crossed NJ from NY in 1776, chased by the
British after the fall of NY to the British. In late December 1 .....
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Slavery - Life On The Plantations
<view this essay>.... and take away human dignity (Starobin 101). Slaves led a hard life on the Southern plantations. Most slaves were brought from Africa, either kidnapped or sold by their tribes to slave catchers for violating a tribal command. Some were even traded for tobacco, sugar, and other useful products (Cowan and Maguire 5:18). Those not killed or lucky enough to escape the slave-catching raids were chained together (Foster). The slaves had no understanding of what was happening to them. They were from different tribes and of different speaking languages. Most captured blacks had never seen the white skinned foreigners who came on long, strange boats to journey them acr .....
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Articles Of Confederation 3
<view this essay>.... through these articles, the United States government lacked a sufficient system of taxation. Under the Articles of Confederation the Congress had no power to tax the states, instead it depended on donations by the states. The states desired moderate government involvement and thus, were repulsed by the idea of federal taxation. Lacking in adequate funding, inflation soon overwhelmed the nation. Another obstacle in effective governing was that The Articles did not grant Congress the power to enforce its laws, instead depending on voluntary compliance by the states. In place of executive and judicial branches, The Articles created an inefficient c .....
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