.... In 1902, he received on Richard Strauss' recommendation the popular Liszt-scholarship as well as a, apprenticeship at the Stern conservatory. Before returning to Vienna in 1903, he composed the symphonic poem "Pelleas und Melisande" op 5, where the limits of tonality were appreciably extended. Schönberg revolutionized modern music by establishing the 12-tone technique of SERIAL MUSIC as an important organizational device. After the end of the war, Schönberg founded the "Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen" (society for private music performances), a new forum for modern mus .....

.... with "learning would spoil the bestnigger in the world". The masters felt that an ignorant slave formed a choice slave andany beneficial learning would damage the slave and therefore be futile to his master. His next step on the road to success was during his seven years living withMaster Hugh’s family. Frederick would make friends with as many white boys as hepossibly could on the street. His new friends would be transformed into teachers. Whenhe could, Frederick carried bread on him as a means of trade to the famished kids forknowledge. He would also carry a book anytime he had an .....

.... but his major interest were the High Sierra Mountains. From that time on, Ansel returned to Yosemite National Park every summer. While he was there in 1919, he joined the Sierra Club. The purpose of this club was to explore and protect the wilderness areas of the Sierra Nevada. Ansel eventually worked in the park for four summers as the caretaker of the club's headquarters. While his time there, Ansel became an expert mountaineer and conservationist. He also gained a lot of experience shifting conditions as a photographer of landscape. During this time until 1920, photography was jus .....

.... castles." (p. 53) The genocide that took place throughout Europe was the Devil at work. Assuming, of course, that the Devil is the epitome of evil, Hitler could easily be called Satan in human form. The immense torture that Hitler inflicted cannot even begin to be expressed in words. This evil and hatred was the seed of all slaughter, rape, and injustice in the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler, a man responsible for creating enough tears to form new oceans, and for causing enough bloodshed to turn those oceans dark red, was pure evil in the flesh. A man so wretched I question if even my"all- .....

.... stories. It provided a huge source of literary material. Shortly after the death of his father in 1847, he ended the brief period of his schooling to become a printer’s apprentice. Like many nineteenth century authors, he was preparing for his writing career later in life. Working as a Printer’s apprentice he got practice as a typesetter and miscellaneous reading. The first thing Samuel wrote as a used piece was a few skits for his brothers Orion’s Hannibal newspaper and a sketch, for The Dandy Frightening The Squatter, published in Boston in 1852. The first real book ever publi .....

.... join the order, even though his family opposed the idea. His brothers captured him and imprisoned him at Roccasecca. There he was imprisoned for nearly two years. His parents, brothers, and sisters attempted to force him to change his mind, they threatened him and forced temptations on him, but he eventually escaped and joined the Dominicans. The Dominicans then sent Thomas to Cologne to study with Albertus Magnus, the smartest man of the time. In 1252 Thomas was in Paris composing 'Commentaries on the Books of Sentences of Peter the Lombard'. He was later admitted as master of theology .....

.... hood was not very different from that of a normal child, the only exemption is that Gandhi always felt a sense of responsibility and duty. When Gandhi was seven years old his father got a new job as prime minister of Rajkot. Gandhi continued his education and his life as if nothing had ever changed, until he was married at the age of thirteen in 1882. Kastura Makinji was Gandhi’s first wife. They were both the same age, and just like Gandhi’s’ mother Kastura could not read or write. She was the daughter of a merchant and like Gandhi lived a rather comfortable li .....

.... descriptive; however, no reader could actually feel exactly what a slave felt, and sympathize completely with a slave. "... I say, let him be placed in this most trying situation, -the situation in which I was placed, -then, and not till then, will he fully appreciate the hardships of, and know how to sympathize with, the toil-worn and whip-scarred fugitive slave." (70) Douglass felt that no one would ever know what slavery was like unless he or she had been a part of it. As a slave, Douglass was not given many opportunities; although, through intellectual and physical struggles, Douglass .....

.... Vernon estate. Washington first gained public notice in October 1753 when he was dispatched by Gov. Robert Dinwiddie to warn the French commander at Fort Le Boeuf against further encroachment on territory claimed by Britain. Washington at the age of 22, was promoted to lieutenant colonel. Although he lacked experience, he learned quickly, and dealt with the problems of recruitment, supply, and desertions. This helped him earn respect from his superiors. In April 1754, on his way to establish a post at the Forks of the Ohio (the current site of Pittsburgh), Washington learned t .....

.... questions this is perhaps the most important. There will be no stability in the state until there is a body of teachers with fixed principles. Till children are taught whether they ought to be Republicans or Monarchists, Catholics or Unbelievers, and so on, there may indeed be a state, but it cannot become a nation. It will rest on vague uncertain foundations. It will be constantly exposed to changes and disorders...." Religion: "...Modern philosophers have sought to persuade France that the Catholic religion is the implacable enemy of every democratic system and every repub .....