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Twenty First Century Twentieth Century
1,110 wordsPoised motionless near the back door of the twentieth-century, we ponder memories of the past with a daydreaming stare. Before we turn off the lights and lock the doors of the twentieth-century, we take one last look through the century in which we were nurtured and our world lived for so long. The deep engraved scratches upon the walls of the twentieth century serve to jog our national memory to painful events as well as amazing accomplishments. After much reflective thought, we began to grasp ...
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Eighteenth Century Hudson River
1,095 wordsArtwork during that Americans did were brought on by the European style of artwork. America eventually warped that style into their own personal style concerning the type of people from different cultures who had settled in America. Spanish and Indian cultures were where folk art came from. They were mainly of church and other religious focused artwork. The painting style from the English was also a hand in the definition of the nations artwork. Also before cameras were invented an artist would ...
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Style Of Music Slave Trader
1,265 wordsAmazing Grace: The Journey of an Unforgettable Hymn How does a hymn become so universal? Where does it gain its ability to be transformed into almost every style of music known to man? The hymn Amazing Grace is such a hymn. Its existence has been marked by evolutions upon evolution in its use, but has always remained the same in its meaning and effect. To trace the path of this hymns existence, one must begin in England. From there it has blossomed and spread out from the English way of life and...
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Symbolic Interaction Easily Understood
1,036 wordsEthnomethodology is a recently developed sociological approach that seeks to analyze the full range of rules that people follow in everyday social interaction. According to ethnomethodologists, all common social interaction between members of a group is governed by certain folk rules. The members of the group (ethno) have available to them a body of common sense knowledge and assumptions about the world (methods), which they use to make sense of their world. Harold Garfinkel coined the term ethn...
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Three Or Four Fifteenth Century
358 wordsThe strongest composers of the fifteenth century were primarily located in the north. So the best musicians tended to come from countries like France, England, and Germany. Since Florence was an "international headquarters" it had strong commercial links with the north. This made it very easy to trade ideas and because of this a new musical expression made its way to Italy. The frottola was a popular form of music that was primarily developed in Florence. It was a setting of an entertaining or s...
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Obeah And Amerindian Practices Obeah And Amerindian Orisha
762 wordsObeah is one of the more unknown and obscure African traditions of sorcery. It is said to be traditionally started in west and north Africa by slaves. Soon moving it on to Jamaica and Trinidad- Tobago. It is assumed that the Ashanti and the Dahomeyeans are the carriers of the wisdom of Obeah. (Kalafou 1) Obeah or Obi is it self a word shrouded and obscured in secrecy. The most understandable meaning of the word can be translated into occult power meaning a powerful engine used to empower spells ...
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King Lear One Source
1,013 words... ear and simple and no characters in either show any respectable moral values. There are practically no differences between Shakespeare and Chaucer's version, only that Shakespeare added in many new scenes, making his more descriptive and longer. (Thompson 13 - 17, 64 - 68) Boccaccio's Decameron, specifically Day III, Story 9, is almost certain to be the chief source used by Shakespeare in writing All's Well That Ends Well. However, Shakespeare probably used the English translation of the sto...
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Flamenco Dance Art Form
1,347 words... in temples during religious rites the sacred Indian dances eventually began to be performed outside the temples in India. As the dances were performed publicly more often, laypersons adopted and modified the movements. Through caravans and trading vessels different cultures witnessed the simplified dances and returned home with a new and exhilarating form of movement dedicated to personal expression. The more simplified dances also dispersed throughout Spain when Indian gypsies followed Moor...
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Janis Joplin Port Arthur
1,324 wordsBlues legend Janis Lyn Joplin was born on January 19 th 1943, the eldest child of parents Seth and Dorothy Joplin. Janis was born and raised in the small Southern petroleum industry town of Port Arthur, Texas. Her father was a canning factory worker, her mother a registrar at a local business college. Her non-abbe rational upbringing coupled with the atmosphere of Port Arthur at the time; generally restrictive, intolerant, and un nurturing must " ve made even Janis' early childhood difficult. By...
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Poetic Devices Line Twenty
880 wordsFolk singer and writer Jewel Kilcher was born on May 23, 1974, in Homer, Alaska, to Near and And Kilcher. Her parents were folk singers who incorporated Jewel into their act at age 6. Jewel and her family lived in a very small-populated town and had no running water, toilets or television. For her last two years of high school, Jewel traveled to Michigan and the Interlochen Arts Academy where she took arts and music classes. In 1994, Jewel was signed as a signer. Jewel was not immediately a star...
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George Lucas Star Wars
1,837 wordsComputer technology: That's entertainment, 2000 CNN NewsStand's James Hattori finds out what entertainment might look like in the year 2010 Web posted at: 4: 00 p. m. EST (2100 GMT) (CNN) -- As we reach the year 2000 and the next phase of the Information Age, it's easy to forget that just 10 years ago, the Information Age was stuck on its launching pad. The Internet was unknown to nearly everyone except university researchers; TV was still patting itself on the back over cable success; films wer...
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Ethnic Diversity Global Perspective
858 wordsThe global perspective of music: we live in an increasingly smaller global village. With advance in worldwide transportation and communication and with increasingly mobile societies, it seems not only appropriate but also necessary to develop a global perspective of music. A global perspective of music is a sense of the lifestyles, traditions, values and the music of several nations and cultures throughout the world. An awareness of the diversity within our national boundaries that has contribut...
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Pakistan The Land Of Adventure And Nature
766 wordsFrom the mighty stretches of the Karakoram's in the North to the vast alluvial delta of the Indus River in the South, Pakistan remains a land of high adventure and nature. Trekking, mountaineering, white water rafting, wild boar hunting, mountain and desert jeep safaris, camel and yak safaris, trout fishing and bird watching, are a few activities, which entice the adventure and nature lovers to Pakistan. Pakistan is endowed with a rich and varied flora and fauna. High Himalayas, Karakoram and th...
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Lay Dying Dewey Dell
1,221 wordsThe action of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is simple: Addie Bundren dies; and in answer to her wishes, the body is taken for burial to Jefferson, some forty miles away. But the weather intervenes, and floodwaters require that the cortege take detours. Some nine days pass before the coffin, which before long clearly announces its passing to neighboring places, is finally laid to rest. These days involve battling flood water and a fire set by one of the children, the threat of buzzards, the h...
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Anglo Saxon Sir Walter
1,503 wordsQuestion: Show how the voices of writers through many centuries of literature have depicted a variety of mentalities and lifestyles... Centuries could pass, and not many changes could be easily perceived by the common man, as those changes came gradually. Yet those changes can be readily discerned when looking at England as a whole, not looking at parts of history individually. The alterations of life, when looked at from a certain literary viewpoint, can be explained when one looks at the diffe...
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Person Or Place Made You Feel Photograph
567 wordsDifferent people interpret photographs in many different ways. The way the photo is interpreted by a person can depend on what kind of job they have, how old they are, and how or where they grew up. Photos can also have an emotional effect on a person and bring back memories. How do you interpret the photograph on page one? Does it bring back any memories? How does the photograph make you feel? Jean Mohr says what is happening is Great Britain, in the country. A small girl was playing with her d...
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19 Th Century Role In The Development
1,411 wordsRomanticism was a European cultural revolt against authority, tradition, and Classical order (the Enlightenment); this movement permeated Western Civilization over a period that approximately dated from the late 18 th to the mid- 19 th century. In general, Romanticism is that attitude or state of mind that focuses on the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the creative, and the emotional. These characteristics of Romanticism most often took form in subject matters such as history, nation...
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Scout And Jem Jem And Scout
1,235 wordsA Untitled The Mortal Mockingbird A songbirds melody can evoke happiness in anyone, as can the smiling face of a child. The mockingbird sings for the sake of singing, and an innocent child possesses an innate joyfulness, as natural as instinct. Yet a mockingbirds song dies as easily as innocence. In the beginning of the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout and Jem are portrayed as innocents, uncorrupted by our world of prejudice and racism. Their world is simple, sensible, a childs world. However...
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Symbolic Interaction Easily Understood
1,087 wordsEthnomethodology is a recently developed sociological approach that seeks to analyze the full range of rules that people follow in everyday social interaction. According to ethnomethodologists, all common social interaction between members of a group is governed by certain? folk? rules. The members of the group (? ethno? ) have available to them a body of common sense knowledge and assumptions about the world (? methods? ), which they use to make sense of their world. Harold Garfinkel coined the...
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Korean Culture South Korea
682 wordsSouth Korea is a one-race country, and they speak one language. That language is Korean. In South Korea they have little to none diversity. In Korea people s habits vary depending on where they live. If a person lives in the country they tend to be farmers of some kind, mainly rice farmers. Rice was grown on more then one half of the agriculture land. If a person lived in the city they tend to be a businessman of some type. Koreans often use extreme modesty when speaking about themselves. They r...
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