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Notre Dame Maurice De
1,446 words... el organum. Free organum was a style of note against note. There were many notes per syllable between the two voices. It is syllabic in each voice as its own. The phrases ended in unison or in the octave. The voices were independent within the phrases. Organum was usually a nematic and metastatic chant section sang by the choir at the beginning and the end of a piece. The number of voices greatly classified organum. As in if there were two voices it would be organum duplex. If there were thr...
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Feast Of San Celebrate The Feast Day
605 wordsThe Spanish Culture has many holidays. They celebrate a lot of different occasions throughout the year. Many of their holidays are celebrated in a different way then those celebrated in America. They celebrate some of the same holidays as us, but they also have a lot of different ones. They celebrate New Years on January 1 st just like us, Mothers day on May 10 th, and Christmas on December 25 th. We also celebrate them on the same day, but in a different way. They have village fiestas, with mus...
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Birth Of Christ Myths And Legends
1,551 wordsCenturies before the birth of Christ, earth-based pagan religions claimed the loyalties of the known world. These pagan religions, worshipping many gods and goddesses, had their own myths and legends to explain the turning of the seasons. The Christian Church has, since its arrival in pagan England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, campaigned against the popularity of magic and magicians. The clergy forbade soothsaying, charming, love philtres, as well as worshipping wells and trees. Attempts to he...
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Montague And Capulet Mercutio And Benvolio
1,801 wordsScene 1 Act 1: Scene one opens with a fight on the streets of Verona between servants from the Montague and Capulet households. While attempting to stop the fight, Benvolio is drawn in by Tybalt. The heads of both houses (Montague and Capulet) arrive on the scene. Prince Escalus arrives and stops the fight, forbidding any further brawls. Montague and his wife discuss Romeos strange behavior with Benvolio and ask him why he is acting that way. They find Romeo and have Benvolio talk to him. Benvol...
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How People Remember Events
987 wordsThe world we live in is not exactly an anodyne place due to violence, wars, racism, and conflicts towards others. Some groups such as Neo Nazis bring back a memory of Hitler as they perform their hatred acts towards Jewish and minorities. Some people try to remember past events as they wanted them to have happen and some remember past events as they actually happened. Though some people and some authors remember events as they would like them to happen, some authors such as Ernest Hemingway reme...
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Christmas Tree Gift Giving
780 wordsChristmas The year's most celebrated holiday is celebrated on December 25 th, both in homes and churches worldwide. The meaning for Christmas is to recognize Christ's birth, of which the exact date is not known. During the fourth century the Bishop of Rome set December 25 th as Christ's birth date. Some authorities claim that the choice of December 25 th was made because it coincided with Chanukah, Mithraic's feast of the sun god, and the people of northern Europe's winter solstice feast. The wi...
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Birth Of Christ Santa Claus
1,682 wordsMonth Date Day Festival January 1 Monday New Year's Day January 6 Saturday New Year's Day February 2 Friday Deva Madha Parisuthamaana Thirunal (candlemas) February 28 Wednesday Ash Wednesday March 4 Sunday First Sunday March 17 Sunday St. Patricks Day March 25 Sunday Lecture Sunday March 26 Monday Annunciation April 8 Sunday Palm Sunday April 12 Thursday Maundy Thursday April 13 Friday Good Friday April 14 Saturday Holy Saturday April 15 Sunday Easter May 24 Thursday Ascension June 3 Sunday Pent...
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Grendel Mother Long Time
1,529 wordsThe poem begins with a brief genealogy of the Danes. Scyld Showing was the first great king of the Danes, known for his ability to conquer enemies. Scyld becomes the great-grandfather of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes during the events of Beowulf. Hrothgar, like his ancestors before him, is a good king, and he wishes to celebrate his reign by building a grand hall called Heorot. Once the hall is finished, Hrothgar holds a large feast. The revelry attracts the attentions of the monster Grendel, ...
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Lady Macbeth Kill Macbeth
549 wordsMacbeth was a general of King Duncan's Scottish Army, he started off to be a great and devoted man to King and country but many events occurred that lead to the development of many enemies and his death. Macbeth sends a letter to Lady Macbeth telling her of the witch's policies in which they said he would be king. After reading the letter a messenger came and told Lady Macbeth that King Duncan will be coming to dinner that evening, she quickly concludes that in order of Macbeth to be King, Dunca...
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Give Some Money Groom And Bride Wedding
490 wordsFirst of all, the man who is going to be the groom and his parents or his respected elders must go to the bride's house and ask the bride's parents for permissions to marry their daughter. Then they will make a deal of how much money the groom has to give to the bride on their wedding day. After that they will go to a monk to ask for an appropriate wedding date. And when the date is arranged, the wedding will be prepared by the parents and relatives of both sides. On the morning of the wedding d...
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Grand Rapids Inter Textual
2,200 words... three-part grouping (feast, new moon, and Sabbath) instead of four or even more found in the other texts (all remaining passages include daily, annual, monthly, and weekly cycles). Secondly, the sequence is the same, while the other eight texts are constructed in the ascending order (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly). Next, both triads are in singular, while the other eight texts - in plural. Similar to Colossians 2. 16, Hosea 2. 11 deals with days per se, instead of sacrifices. Moreover, Paul...
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Nation Of Israel Jesus Christ
1,147 wordsPhilosophy of Religion There are two very simple and easy facts. One of them is felt by reverence and the other by experience. The fact which is felt by reverence is that god always pervades everywhere without any change. Several ages pass away, several Brahmas (creators of god) change, but the supreme essence remains the same. The fact which is felt by experience is that the whole world is kaleidoscopic; it is changing every moment and is turning to naught. Thus there are two facts: 1) God who ...
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Yom Kippur Rosh Hashanah
1,548 wordsSymbolism and Judaica Jewish history began about 4000 years ago in the part of the world that today we call the Middle East. No one person ever began Judaism. The beliefs that became the Jewish faith came about gradually. However, some people were important in making it happen. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, known as the patriarchs are both the physical and spiritual ancestors of Judaism. They founded the religion known as Judaism and their descendants are the Jewish people. According to the Jewish t...
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Gawain And The Green Knight Sir Gawain And The Green
2,715 wordsGawain and Binary Opposition As a contemporary American reader, it is all right to assume that the first scene in which the particular character is involved drastically shapes our opinion of characters in a particular novel or poem. Immediately we jump to conclusions about what is right and what is wrong, who is the good guy and who is the bad guy. In fact, once we get an initial impression from a character, it is unlikely that this opinion will change as we continue to read on, unless of course...
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Feast Of Fools Pagan Ritual Church
517 wordsEuropean Theater diminished drastically during the Middle Ages. This was due to the harshness of living during these times. The common people were tillers of the soil, unlearned, with short life spans. The Roman Catholic Church had considerable power. The church has never been a big supporter of things theatrical. But some primitive types of Theater did emerge in this time. The scop was found in the Germanic or Teutonic territories. The scop was a singer and storyteller who would tell about anci...
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12 Th Century 13 Th Century
2,894 wordsLeonin and Perotin Through my research of Leonin and Perotin I felt like I was conducting a highly magnified genealogy report. A lot of the information I found, went against each other and was estimations. The only reason we know of these two composers were due to a monk from Bury St Edmunds. He signed his writings anonymous roman numeral four. He was an English theorist who was familiar with the Cathedral of Notre Dame in some shape or form. It is not known to anyone his role with the cathedral...
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Medieval Times Middle Ages
1,099 wordsCooking in the medieval times was performed on very big scale, and food was cheap and plentiful. Foreign goods had to be bought at the nearest large town. Food trade was a primary business. It was also a way of determining class. The nobles would eat meat, white bread, pastries, and drink wine. This sort of diet caused many health problems, such as skin troubles, digestive disorders, infections from decomposed proteins, scurvy, and tooth decay. A peasant would eat porridge, turnips, dark bread, ...
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Roman Catholic Church Death And Resurrection
3,526 wordsThe True Meaning Of Christmas Except for Christ in the name, Christmas is pagan. The word mass is pagan and the customs surrounding it and Christmas are pagan. The very celebration without the rituals surrounding it is pagan. Pagan simply means that it is not from God. What is from God is easily proven. You can find it in your own Bible. The only mention of a yearly birthday celebration other than the actual day of birth is in the book of Job. Even then it is somewhat speculative. Jobs children ...
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Cambridge Cambridge University Ancient Greek
1,522 wordsWomen in Celebration There is a saying that is well known, What is good for the gander is good for the goose. Ancient Greek religious festivities seem to only concern what is good for the gander, or in their case the men. The Greek civilization was extremely male dominated and Greek religion and its activities are looked upon as being andro centric. Very little is known about women s festivities in the ancient Greek religion, even though women were prominent in religious activities and had celeb...
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Three Or Four Hundred Dollars
5,417 wordsIt was four oclock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive. There had been a crowd following all the way, owing to the exuberance of Marija Berczynskas. The occasion rested heavily upon Marija's broad shoulders? it was her task to see that all things went in due form, and after the best home traditions; and, flying wildly hither and thither, bowling every one out of the way, and scolding and exhorting all day with her tremendous voice, Marija was too eager to see that others...
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