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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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Economic Indicators Labor Statistics
1,953 wordsWhen one speaks of the economy they should speak of it as if it were an animate object. An economy may healthy, productive or efficient. Likewise, an economy may be weak, slow or inefficient. The question is how do we know how to classify our economy? GNP -GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT. Economists have devised numerous statistics designed to ascertain the overall health of our economy. Historically, the most quoted measure of economic activity is what is called Gross National Product (GNP). The Gross N...
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Canada Michelangelo The Life Of Guido Nincheri
1,475 words"I'm tired of people coming back from Europe and telling me how beautiful the churches are. We " ve forgotten what we " ve got here. " mac 1996 Between 1915 and 1973 the Italian-Canadian painter Guido Nincheri devoted his life to producing stained glass windows and frescoes for more than one hundred churches across North America. Although honoured in Montreal's three hundred and fiftieth anniversary as a builder of the city, few Canadians know of the identity of this craftsman. The purpose of th...
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Environmental Science Issue On Urban Sprawl
1,684 wordsENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: ISSUE ON URBAN SPRAWL Urban sprawl or suburban sprawl has been defined as the rapid and expansive growth of a greater metropolitan area and is used to describe urban growth. This paper looks into this issue and examines three implications that has to do with urban migration pointing to the deterioration of the quality of life in the developing world in general and in urban areas in particular as well as the environmental problems it can lead to. Three solution approaches s...
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Left Hand Side Orson Welles
1,372 wordsRobert Robert Aldrich Robert Aldrich Robert Aldrich was born into an extremely wealthy family. He became an assistant director in Hollywood, working in the 1945 1952 period with many directors. A notably high percentage of these were in the extreme left: Jean Renoir, Lewis Milestone, Robert Rose, Joseph Love, Charles Chaplin. Kiss Me Deadly Kiss Me Deadly (1955) is Aldrich's most remarkable film. Aldrich began directing in 1953, and by then, the film noir cycle had run its course as a Hollywood ...
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Johann Sebastian Bach One Of The Greatest
1,348 wordsJOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Johann Sebastian Bach was born in 1685 in the town of Thuringia, Germany where he was raised and spent most of his life. Due to a shortage of expenses, he was confined to a very limited geographical space, as was his career. This greatly affected his, in that his music was not as wide known as other composers of the time. On traveling he never went farther north than Hamburg or farther south than Carlsbad. To look back on the life of Bach many have referred to him as? one o...
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Trade Union Movement Union Membership
1,731 wordsTOPIC The major issue tody facing the Australian trade union movement has been the decline in union density. What have been the causes, and how have the unions responded to the challenge. Figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) in 2000, show that the decline in Australian union membership continues, despite the efforts of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), to stop the slide. The ABS reports that trade union membership has dropped to 28 percent of the total workf...
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Trade Union Movement Union Membership
1,704 wordsFigures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) in 2000, show that the decline in Australian union membership continues, despite the efforts of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), to stop the slide. The ABS reports that trade union membership has dropped to 28 percent of the total workforce, compared to 1992, where there was 40 percent. (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2000. ) Previous ABS findings show that these recent figures are part of a general trend, with no sligh...
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Color Of Fire Drunken Santa State
544 words(oil Drunken Santa Drunken Santa (oil painting by Jaisini) Drunken Santa is a work that creates a miracle of equilibrium. What seemed like a clash of an opposite spectrum's colors became the unlikely harmony in this painting. Jaisini's artistic vision here is formed from two components of physical and emotional states of being. Freezing and heating serve as a symbol to a human need for warming up from the chill of solitude by means known to people at all times. The artist pursues his art philoso...
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20 Th Century Duke Ellington
1,678 wordsDuke Duke Ellington Duke Ellington Duke Ellington's pre-eminence in jazz is not only because of the very high aesthetic standard of his output and not simply due to his remarkable abilities as a pianist, composer and bandleader, but also to the fact that he has extended the boundaries of jazz more than any other musician, without abandoning the true essence of the music. Perhaps no other American musician left such a massive and challenging legacy in composition and performance. Edward Kennedy D...
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Edgar Allan Poe State Of Mind
1,159 wordsCreating the Melancholic Tone in? The Raven? Edgar Allan Poe? s The Raven, representing Poe? s own introverted crisis of hell, is unusually moving and attractive to the reader. In his essay entitled The Philosophy of Composition, Poe reveals his purpose in writing? The Raven? and also describes the work of composing the poem as being carefully calculated in all aspects. Of all melancholy topics, Poe wished to use the one that was universally understood, death; specifically death involving a beau...
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20 Th Century Lucie Smith
2,385 wordsHave you ever seen a painting of two fighters going at it hot and heavy on a stag night? If you have, then chances are that you have just seen a painting of George Bellows? s from Tom Sharkey? s Athletic Club in New York City. Prizefights were among some of his favorite subjects, although he only did few paintings of them. George Wesley Bellows was an American realist painter in the 20 th century. He was thought of as an artist of the Ashcan school, although he wasn? t one of? The Eight, ? which...
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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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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Twain
1,252 wordsThere have been a number of influences that have shaped American literature. From the time that Western Europeans founded the country to the inclusion of Native American lore to the contributions of such literary giants as Mark Twain and Carol Sandburg, the composition of American Literature has been both constant and ever changing. In deed as much as America, itself, is a melting pot of diversity within a cultural concern, so too is this considerable diversity a significant aspect of its emergi...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Leopold Mozart
2,537 wordsWolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Early Years European Tours (1756 176 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as he is generally known, was baptized in a Salzburg Cathedral on the day after his birth as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgang Theophilus. The first and last given names come from his godfather Joannes Theophilus Pergmayr, although Mozart preferred the Latin form of this last name, Amadeus, more often And, or the Italiano Amadeo, and occasionally the Deutsch Gottlieb. Whatever the case may be, he rarely if ever us...
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San Francisco Open Field
1,580 wordsLets begin with the thought that Duncan, in his poetics, embodies a series of paradoxes that at once reflect and reflect upon the antecedent poetics of what he called his " modernist masters. " Such paradoxes were what struck me when I first encountered Duncan at the Vancouver Poetry Conference, staged at the University of British Columbia in 1963. I had come to know Duncan's work initially through Donald Allens pathbreaking anthology, The New American Poetry, then through The Opening ...
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U S Senate Rainy River
1,475 wordsShould I stay or should I go? The Vietnam War was the subject matter of many debates during the 1960? s and the 1970? s. War advocates and anti-war activists voiced their opinions all throughout the nation about our country? s involvement in Vietnam. People from all walks of life spoke out about the war, from politicians to hippies, making it clear that everyone had their own view on the war, although, not everyone agreed with one another on the decisions and outcomes that were made for our coun...
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World War Ii Persistence Of Memory
2,484 wordsIn 1924 a French poet and critic Andre Breton published The Surrealist Manifesto, which lead as a starter to the surrealist movement. Nicolas Pioch, a famous art historian, maintains that the surrealist movement represented a reaction against what its members saw as the destruction wrought by the rationalism that had guided European culture and politics in the past and that had culminated in the horrors of World War I. Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of exper...
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Million Years Ago Endocrine Glands
1,421 wordsHuman Biology and Evolution Humans are Alive The earliest human life form can be traced back more than 3. 5 billion years ago. Humans are said to be descendants of a single celled ancestor. Although they are different in size and shape all basic functions are alike. The more complex the organization of the cell became the more successful and developed it became. As these single celled organisms developed they became known as pre-humans. We share many characteristics with these pre-humans. Some o...
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Angular Momentum Los Alamos
1,597 wordsTheories of The Origin of the Moon The Moon is the only natural satellite of Earth. The distance from Earth is about 384, 400 km with a diameter of 3476 km and a mass of 7. 35 1022 kg. Through history it has had many names: Called Luna by the Romans, Selene and Artemis by the Greeks. And of course, has been known through prehistoric times. It is the second brightest object in the sky after the Sun. Due to its size and composition, the Moon is sometimes classified as a terrestrial planet along wi...
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