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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Number of words: 927 - Number of pages: 4.... giving the action inflections of meaning the words alone couldn’t reflect. Furthermore, until Mozart’s emergence, operatic characters where generalized and typical. Mozart was the first to put real people up on the stage, people who had real emotions that were inconsistent and whose personalities were evolutionary.
In 1767, the Mozarts went to Vienna where Wolfgang was commissioned to compose his first opera, La finta semplice, K. 51. Intrigues created by envious composers, prevented this first opera from being performed. However, another charming early theatrical work of Mozart, B .....
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Walt Disney
Number of words: 1140 - Number of pages: 5.... fields, so he got a job at a local studio. At the age of 18 Disney already had basic training in animation. He started making Laugh-O-Grams, which were short commercials and illustrated jokes. Walt then started his own company called Laugh-O-Grams. This is were Walt produced a series of updated fairy tales some of these included: Cinderella, Goldie Locks And The Three Bears, and Puss in Boots. These productions demonstrate how talented Disney really was. Despite Walt’s talent this company was not very successful (Finch Pg.41).
Walt decided to move out to California and stay with his .....
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Franz Joseph Haydn
Number of words: 2426 - Number of pages: 9.... from his uncle where he gained more of an interest in music. Participation in a choir gave him the opportunity to go to Vienna and there, he studied the piano sonatas of Emanuel Bach and was given the chance to finally get a chance to compose; something he had always wanted to do. This is when the first string quartet was developed. Later on, he was employed by the Esterhazy family and was given the chance to conduct an orchestra and write symphonies. It was at this time and place that Haydn was "completely isolated from the world…he could experiment…improve, alter, add, .....
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Henry Ford
Number of words: 998 - Number of pages: 4.... success came from it’s attractive price, at $850, and more than 10,000 were sold in the first year alone. It was easy to operate, maintain, handle on rough roads, and immediately became a success. Along with success came expansion, and in 1910 he established another assembly plant in Highland Park, Michigan. Through interchangeable parts, standard manufacturing, and a division labor, the demand greatly increased for the Model T. It was at this time in 1913 that Ford introduced the assembly line and forever changed our economy, our industry, and our culture.
Ford’s concept of .....
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Twiggy
Number of words: 1263 - Number of pages: 5.... was featured in the London Daily Express with a caption that read “This is the face of 1966” (Wilson). Davies, who preferred to be called Justin De Villeneuve, was quite an interesting character with his past resume containing ex-model, ex-antique dealer, and ex-hairdresser. After he discovered her, he (age 25) became ’s (age 15) agent and boyfriend. He took her to Paris and a short while after her popularity grew, she was put on the cover of Elle Magazine, as well as Paris Match and the British edition of Vogue. During ’s peak success in Europe, De Villeneuve set up Enterprises Ltd. .....
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Alfred Nobel
Number of words: 1812 - Number of pages: 7.... the will he composed in Paris.
The fields embraced by the prizes stipulated by the will reflect Nobel's
personal interests. While he provided no prizes for architects, artists,
composers or social scientists, he was generous to those working in physics,
chemistry, physiology and medicine—the subjects he knew best himself, and in
which he expected the greatest advances.
Throughout his life he suffered from poor health and often took cures at
watering places, “less to drink the water than to rest.” But he expected great
improvements in medicine, and the profession has since realized many .....
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Comparing Hitler And Stalin In Their Rise To Power
Number of words: 1794 - Number of pages: 7.... the power back in to their countries. These three reasons will prove that Hitler and Stalin were similar in many ways.
The names Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin are synonymous with the word propaganda. In order to understand how Hitler and Stalin used propaganda, an understanding of what the word means, is required. According to Merriam-Webster, "propaganda is the spreading of ideas to further or damage a cause; also the ideas or allegations spread for a purpose". Hitler and Stalin each used propaganda as their tool to further their ideas and help them gain the backing of the people in .....
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The Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte
Number of words: 3080 - Number of pages: 12.... Italian was spoken on Corsica where he grew up. He studied very hard so that he could do better then those who snubbed him.
Napoleon attended the Ecole Military School in Paris in 1784 after receiving a scholarship. This is were he received his military training. He studied to be an artillery man and an officer. Napoleon finished his training and joined the French army when he was 16 years old. He was appointed to an artillery regiment , and commissioned as a lieutenant. Once again he was not well liked by his fellow officers because he was short, spoke with an Italian accent, and h .....
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Zora Neale Hurston
Number of words: 1907 - Number of pages: 7.... member of Eatonville he had is faults as well. His eye for other women often left his family home alone for months out of a time (Lyons 1). Zora's mother, Lucy Potts Hurston was the "hard-driving force in the family."(Lyons 2) Lucy was a country schoolteacher, who taught all her children how to read and write, which lead to six out of her seven children earning a college degree (Lyons 2-3). Unfortunately, Lucy Hurston died when Zora was nine years of age (Otfinoski 46). Zora was the seventh child out of a family of eight (Otfinoski 45). During her childhood she felt unloved by her fa .....
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Hemingway
Number of words: 2581 - Number of pages: 10.... his mother, wished to make him a professional musician. His upbringing was very conservative and somewhat religious. He attended Oak Park and River Forest High School, where he distinguished himself in English. His main activities where swimming, boxing, and of course writing. In 1917, turning his back on University, he decided to move to booming Kansas City where he got a job as a cub reporter on the Kansas City Star. At the train station, his father, who later on disgusted Ernest by committing suicide, kissed his son tenderly good-bye with tears in his eyes. This moment was eventually capt .....
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