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Jazz
<view this essay>.... any cord.
The twenties were a crucial period in the history of music.
Revolutions, whether in arts or matter of state, create a new
world only by sacrificing the old. By the late twenties, improvisation
had expanded to the extent of improvisation we ordinarily expect from
jazz today. It was the roaring twenties that a group of new tonalities
entered the mainstream, fixing the sound and the forms of our popular
music for the next thirty years. Louie Armstrong closed the book on the
dynastic tradition in New Orleans jazz.
The first true virtuoso soloist of jazz, Louie Armstrong was a dazzling
improviser, technically, emotionally, and intellectual .....
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Franklin Roosevelt And The Holocaust
<view this essay>.... and gave millions of Jews hope for survival. Although some historians and Holocaust survivors believe FDR betrayed the Jews by not bombing death camps such as, Auschwitz and Buchenwald; FDR did more than anyone else to save the Jews.
During his presidency, FDR had publicly condemned anti-Semitism more than any other public official in the nation. He was opposed to Hitler from the beginning and challenged anti-Semitism in 1938 by proposing the Evian Conference; a meeting attended by the Allies to determine how to deal with Hitler and the SS (Catledge, 1974). FDR was also a firm believer of the WagnerRogers bill, which if passed by congress would hav .....
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French Nuclear Testing
<view this essay>.... their ambassadors from France and the Japanese are presently protesting outside of their French embassy. 56% of the citizens in France polled oppose the tests and 60% want Chirac to reconsider his position. Stung by the criticism, France may cancel one out of the eight scheduled nuclear tests. Even the renowned Jacques Cousteau has publicly asked Chirac to rescind the tests. Cousteau has even resigned from the government agency Council for the Rights of Future Generations, in protest.
France, along with the United States and Great Britain, has not signed a treaty completely prohibiting the detonation of any nuclear device in the South Pacific. Many of the prot .....
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Son Of Dallas Cop Says Dad Was 1 Of 3 Who Shot Kennedy
<view this essay>.... uncomfortable just telling it to strangers," White said during a
recent interview with the Austin American-Statesman.
Monday in Dallas, White is scheduled to show reports material
implicating his father, Roscoe Anthony White, in the 1963 assassination. It
suggests that White, who died in 1971, was a member of an assassination
team of three shooters, that he fired two of the three bullets that killed
the president, and that he also killed Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit
during the manhunt for Lee Harvey Oswald.
Among the material: a rifle with telescopic sight that uses the same
kind of ammunition as Oswald's gun; records showing that Oswald and .....
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Open Arms
<view this essay>.... herself. At what moment and by what means her spell was broken it is difficult to ascertain. Some people
attribute it to the publication of her Life. Perhaps George Meredith, with his phrase about the ‘mercurial little
showman’ and the ‘errant woman’ on the daïs, gave point and poison to the arrows of thousands incapable of aiming
them so accurately, but delighted to let fly. She became one of the butts for youth to laugh at, the convenient
symbol of a group of serious people who were all guilty of the same idolatry and could be dismissed with the same
scorn. Lord Acton had said that she was greater than Dante; Herbert Spencer exempted her novels, as if .....
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Noh Play Tsunemasa And Youchi Soga
<view this essay>.... of the woes that consumed him.
Another Noh play "Youchi Soga" was about Soga Goro and Soga Juro decided to carry out their revenge at the night when they went hunting. They ordered their servants, Danaburo and Onio, to return to Soga to deliver their letters and mementos to their family. At first their servants refused their request because they wished to die with their masters. However, in the action of the assassination, Juro was killed by the Shogun’s soldiers and later Goro was also bound the soldiers.
In these two Noh plays, both protagonists also deal with the lives and sufferings of warriors. For example, according to the story of "Tsunemasa", Tsunema .....
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Interest Groups
<view this essay>.... tried to conform to the moderate view, but this makes it hard for voters to commit to one party. Many people are split-ticket voters. Both candidates and parties are hard to agree with totally because there are so many different issues. give people the chance to support specifically what they care about most. These groups are significant to the democratic system because they allow the public to get involved and in their political system.
Political parties (policy generalists) have a great amount of issues on their agenda to be concerned with while get to concentrate on a single issue. can call attention to an issue that could be ignored otherwise. Sinc .....
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Cuban Missile Crisis: The Edge Of War
<view this essay>.... was the first time any such weapons had been placed outside of Eurasia (Hersh 345). Several explanations for his actions have been offered by historians. One factor in Khrushchev’s decision was a strategic one (Hersh 346). A year earlier, the United States had placed several medium-range nuclear missiles in Turkey ("Cuban 774). The missiles were just across the Black Sea from the Soviet Union, within sight of Khrushchev's summer home (Hersh 346). President Kennedy had earlier ignored his advisors and placed nuclear missiles in Turkey. Another factor was a threat by the US to one of the Soviet Union's satellite countries, Cuba (Hersh 346). The United State .....
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