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Sonata No 1 Trombone Quartet Ensemble
601 wordsOn the evening of November 11, 1999, the Southwest Texas Trombone Ensemble provided an apprehensive crowd with a truly wonderful performance. Starting with Sonata No. 1 for Trombone Choir by Evan Copley, the ensemble exhibited fabulous variety in both the note and the speed in which they were playing. This skill mindfully produced a range of emotions, including anxiety and uneasiness. Charles R. Hurt, the conductor of the ensemble, skillfully piloted the ensemble in formulating an eerie feeling....
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Newspaper To Read Began To Read Train
886 wordsHe did not know why he was reading the pamphlet that was handed to him when he boarded the train. He had often seen people handing out these little booklets to passers-by. The man had even taken a few in the past to be polite, but they were always filed in the nearest wastebasket. This one was entitled The Gospel of John. He had forgotten to purchase a newspaper to read during the ride home for this long awaited three-day weekend. So rather than sleep or view the passing scenery, the man decided...
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Conductors As Egotistical Comparing Conducting To Politics Stravinsky
742 wordsIn the passage about conducting, Igor Stravinsky expresses his total disrespect for conductors and their personalities. He exposes this irreverent attitude by his comparisons of conducting to such deceiving professions as politics and acting. Continuing his attack on conductors, he also presents the actual flaws in their character and outlook. Relentless in his criticism, Stravinsky uses his images throughout the passage to reveal his own disrespectful and scornful attitude toward the art of con...
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Horrors Of War Decorum Est
923 wordsThere is no single event that evokes more emotion than a war. It has the power to bring together a nation or tear at its very fabric. It has the power to give a nation its standing, as easily as it can take it away. It has the power to move men to acts they thought themselves unsalable of. It gives its participants a view of the world some will never understand. War is an inevitable result of a world diversified in its beliefs. However it is the view of the solider that is often ignored, the lab...
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Harriet Tubman Florence Nightingale
1,359 words... York Infirmary for Women and Children. With the help of her sister Emily Blackwell, (also a physician, and Dr. Marie Zakrzewska) In 1868 Blackwell opened the Women's Medical College of the New York. In 1869, she helped establish the National Health Society in England. In 1875 she became a professor at the hospital of the London School of Medicine for Women. She was also a part of the anti-slavery society and a member of the Semi-Colon club. She opened the doors for future women who wanted to...
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Held Liable Reasonable Care
1,001 wordsHarm is easily defined when it is intentional; after all, no one would push you down the steps or purposely cause you to wreck your car. Negligence is an area of tort law that involves unintentional acts that can cause harm and is just as easily identified. The boundaries governing liabilities for negligence, however, are much narrower than that of intentional torts. The difference is that the respondent in a negligent action is performing a task, which is considered perfectly acceptable in ever...
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Coal And Coke Diamond And Graphite Carbon
448 wordsCARBON AND HOW IT EFFECT OUR LIVES Although widely distributed in nature, carbon is not particularly plentiful (it makes up only about 0. 025 percent of the Earth's crust). Yet it forms more compounds than all the other elements combined. In 1961 the isotope carbon- 12 was selected to replace oxygen as the standard relative to which the atomic weights of all the other elements are measured; carbon- 14, which is radioactive, is the isotope used in radiocarbon dating and radio labeling. Elemental ...
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Magnetic Field Large Amount
1,319 wordsA transformer is a device that raises or lowers voltage and is used mostly with alternating current, or ac. A transformer has no moving parts, is simple, rugged, durable, and can be up to ninety-nine percent efficient. Cities use a large amount of power, and power is based on the amount of current in electricity. A transformer works by changing the amount of voltage and current of electricity. When voltage is increased current in electricity is decreased or if voltage is decreased current in ele...
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Comparison And Contrast Point Of View
531 wordsIn the passage by Igor Stravinsky, he uses not only comparison and contrast, but also language to convey his point of view about the conductors of the time and their extreme egotism. Stravinsky believes that conductors exploit the music for their own personal gain, so rather, he looks on them in a negative light. To show his aggravation and irritation, Stravinsky uses the rhetorical device of comparison and contrast to convey his opinion of conductors. He compares the "great" conductors to "grea...
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Sojourner Truth Civil War
1,165 wordsOur nation has come about through a series of changes, sort of like an evolution to the powerful nation we have become, and even greater nation we perhaps will be one day. It takes the acknowledgement and courage of people to bring about a change in society from what was known to what will be. Such a humanitarian hero was Sojourner Truth. Sojourner Truth was born a slave named Isabella Baum free sometime in 1797 in Ulster county, New York. The exact date of her birth is to this day unknown, but ...
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United States Army Harriet Tubman
1,137 wordsHarriet Ross Tubman was an African American who escaped slavery and then showed runaway slaves the way to freedom in the North for longer than a decade before the American Civil War. During the war she was as a scout, spy, and nurse for the United States Army. After that she kept working for rights for blacks and women. Harriet Tubman was originally named Araminta Ross. She was one of 11 children born to Harriet Greene and Benjamin Ross on a plantation in Dorchester County, Maryland. She later t...
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Underground Railroad Slave Catchers
1,305 wordsOne hot day in 1850, a man named Jeb staggered out of the woods, looked about him to get his bearings, and plunged down a lane toward the river. He only had a few moments of freedom before he heard the baying of hounds. He splashed up to his knees in the shallow stream and wade. The dogs tried desperately to pick up the scent but the water had destroyed it. He had no time to waste. All he could think of was the North Star. That was his hope. That was where his freedom lay. (Flight to Freedom, He...
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Code Of Honor Roman Empire
1,332 wordsIf I were to ask half a dozen people at random to tell me what they meant by the word honor, I think that I would probably receive very different answers. One of the reasons for this is that it often means different things in the minds of different people. For instance, we say that it was a great honor for Jim Smith to be elected captain of the football team; and then, on the other hand, we talk about a code of honor, or the laws of honor. What does Jim Smiths being captain of the eleven have to...
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Harriet Tubman Fugitive Slaves
1,080 wordsHarriet Tubman was an African American who fled slavery and then guided runaway slaves to freedom in the North for more than a decade before the American Civil War (1861 - 1865). During the war she served as a scout, spy, and nurse for the United States Army. In later years she continued to work for the rights of blacks and women. Harriet Tubman was originally named Araminta Ross. She was one of 11 children born to slaves. She later adopted her mothers first name. Harriet was put to work at the ...
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Conductor Ette Uncle Willie Children
795 wordsIn the book I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou, Marguerite, Uncle Willie, and Vivian are faced with many defeats but are never defeated. There are many times in which Marguerite is faced with difficulties that she overcomes. Growing up in the poor South as a black and yet triumphing despite that fact is her biggest achievement. At about eight, she and her brother are moved to St. Louis to live with their mother. Moving from the South they are expected to be ignorant, but much to th...
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Power Supply R R
1,665 wordsInvestigating The Factors Which Affect The Resistance Investigating The Factors Which Affect The Resistance Of A Wire Background KnowledgeRESISTANCEElectrons move more easily through some conductors when a potential difference is applied. Resistance is determined by how good or bad a conductor a material is. A good conductor has a low resistance while a poor conductor has a high resistance. THE OHM Resistance is defined by: R = V/I? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?...
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West Side Story York Philharmonic
523 wordsLeonard Bernstein was born on August 25, 1918 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He? s family emigrated to the United States. They were Russian Jews. As a young child, Leonard learned to play the piano and he attended Harvard University. He attended courses and lectures held by Edward Birmingham Hill, Water Piston, and Arthur Tillman Merritt. He received his diploma in 1939. He studied under Isabella Vengerova, a talented piano player at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, Fritz Reiner, an orchestral...
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Hercule Poirot Agatha Christie
1,917 wordsMurder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie &# 61656; Introduction &# 61623; Author- Agatha Christie was born in 1890 in England and raised by a wealthy American father and English mother. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in 44 foreign languages. She is the author of 78 crime novels and was made a dame in 1971. She was married twice, her second husband being an archeologist whom she often traveled with on his archeological exhibitions to the Middle East. ...
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Light Bulb R 2
861 wordsABSTRACT Ohms Law and Kirchhoff's rules is fundamental for the understanding of dc circuit. This experiment proves and show how these rules can be applied to so simple dc circuits. INTRODUCTION In the theory of Ohms Law, voltage is simply proportional to current as illustrated in the proportionality, V = RI. As shown in this relation, V represent voltage which is the potential difference across the two ends of a electrical conductor and between which an electric current, I, will flow. The consta...
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Primary And Secondary Magnetic Field
1,373 wordsPES Physics Information Search A Tesla coil is a device that produces a high-frequency, high voltage current. When working at such high frequencies it can generate spectacular lightning-like discharges in to the air. The most popular use for the Tesla coils has been in the film industry, where they are used whenever lightning or electrical arcs are required. Scaled down versions of the tesla coil are also used in television sets. The Tesla coil was invented over 100 years ago. By Nikola Tesla. (...
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