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Gilded Age Second Term
769 wordsDiscuss Politics in the Gilded Age. Include major political events and issues, and the roles of the "bloody shirt, " corruption, patronage, and reform movements. The term Gilded Age was named for a Mark Twain book. It meant covered with gold, and was applied to this period as a whole. This was a period of corruption in sordid politics. The Republicans and Democrats didn't really have strong opposing beliefs during this period. The Republicans supported high tariffs and sound money. The Democrats...
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19 Th Century Symphony Orchestra
1,690 wordsfounded in 1895, gave its first concert the following year under the direction of Frederic Archer. Victor Herbert was the chief conductor from 1898 to 1904; he was succeeded by Emil Page (190410). The orchestra was then disbanded. It was revived in 1926, and over the next decade it was led by Elias Bree skin (192730) and Antonio Modarelli (193037). The orchestra was reorganized by Otto Klemperer in 1937. Fritz Reiner was chief conductor from 1938 to 1948, followed by William Steinberg (195276), ...
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Tammany Hall Political Machines
1,853 wordsDuring the 19 th century there was a rapid growth of American cities due to immigration and migration from rural areas. This rise in the population created enormous problems for city governments, which were often unable to provide for the people and lacked any type of structure. In these conditions we begin to see the emergence of political machines, such as Tammany Hall in New York City. These groups were able to build a loyal voter following, especially among immigrant groups, by performing su...
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Calculating Machine Duc De
747 wordsBorn: Clermont-Ferrand, 19 June 1623 Pascal's ancestors were rich merchants that attained the highest ranks of the burgess class. His father, Etienne, was a royal tax officer and a member of the petit noblesse. Although there is no explicit word about the financial status of the father, that ancestry of rich merchants, together with all the circumstances of Pascal's life, seem clearly to state that he grew up in wealthy circumstances. Pascal appears to have had no formal education. As a young ch...
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Main Character Five Categories
676 wordsNoh is a classical Japanese performance form which combines elements of dance, drama, music and poetry into one highly aesthetic stage art. Largely based in the cities of Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto, it is performed throughout the country by professional artists, mainly men, who have passed down the art among family members for numerous generations. There is also a wide following of both male and female amateurs who practice and perform its chant, dance, and instruments Kyogen is the classical comic...
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Indonesian Conglomerates And The State Logistics Board Bulog
1,609 wordsThe price of rice Bulog had to feed Indonesia, pacify farmers, and support Suharto's industrialisation policy. What will happen to it now? Jeremy P Mulholland & Ken Thomas Bulog, the national logistics board that controls the supply of rice and other basic commodities, has as many enemies as it does friends. Some praise it for maintaining rice supplies in difficult circumstances while keeping the price down. Others (including the IMF) criticise it for monopolistic practices. Some argue that Arti...
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Enron A History And How The Company Imploded
1,282 words... and Electric Company is one of the three major utility companies in the region, along with Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric Company. August 14, 2001 CEO Jeff Skilling resigns stating "personal reasons. " October 12, 2001 Enron announces that it made a US $ 638 million loss during the third quarter of the fiscal year 2001. October 24, 2001 Andrew Fastow is ousted as the chief financial officer because of his involvement into questionable business transactions and pa...
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Creation Of Adam Italian Renaissance
719 wordsThe Italian Renaissance was one of the most productive periods in the history of art, with large numbers of outstanding masters to be found in many centers and in all the major fields painting, sculpture, and architecture. Most artists created their masterpieces under the influence of the wealthiest institution and people of their time. But the artists would have made great work no matter what the patrons wished them to create. Italian renaissance started to develop in the Late Middle Ages. Brin...
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Leonardo Da Vinci 15 Th Century
1,126 wordsMedici in the Renaissance During 1300 and 1600 there was a time which people called the Renaissance. At that time the Western world was changed. People no longer wanted to take the teachings of the church. They wanted to study the secrets of the Universe, to study human anatomy. During the Renaissance printing was invented, and writers and thinkers were able to exchange their ideas. The innovations covered all spheres of life. In art new genres appeared. They discovered how to paint in three dim...
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Jim Crow Laws Ulysses S Grant
2,986 wordsChester Alan Arthur was born on October 5, 1830 in Fairfield, Vermont. The son of Malvinas Arthur and the Reverend William Arthur, a passionate abolitionist, young Chester and his family migrated from one Baptist parish to another in Vermont and New York. The fifth of eight children, Chester had six sisters and one older brother. Before beginning school in Union Village (now Greenwich), New York, he studied the fundamentals of reading and writing at home. In 1845, young Arthur entered Union Coll...
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Fallen In Love Love Letters
1,386 wordsCyrano's Inevitable Destiny Who should take the blame for this tragedy? In Edmond Rostand s Cyrano de Bergerac, Cyrano is portrayed as a valiant hero who exhibits humorous intelligence as well as great generosity. However, if we examine the play more carefully, we would find that Cyrano is personally responsible for his downfall; his constant aspiration for perfection and excessive deception eventually leads to his death. Such ornery behavior is exhibited when he adamantly insists on being himse...
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Zora Neale Hurston Eyes Were Watching God
2,295 wordsI Define Myself Zora Neale Hurston, I Define Myself Zora Neale Hurston, Renegade Of The Harlem Renaissance Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural. There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every mans spice-box seasons his own food. Zora Neale Hurston Frequently trammeled by both her contemporaries and todays black reading audience as a sell out, even reviled as the perfect darkie (Hughes ...
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Quot Quot Benito Mussolini
8,848 wordsLawrence Rainey It should come as no surprise that the motif of patronage is explicitly taken up in Pounds principal composition of this period, the so-called Malatesta Cantos, or Cantos 8 - 11. To oversimplify, they depict the life and times of Sigismondo Malatesta, the quattrocento ruler of Rimini, a small town just south of Ravenna on the Adriatic coast of Italy. Sigismondo sponsored the reconstruction of the church of San Francesco, a building long regarded as a landmark in architectural his...
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