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Jazz 2
Number of words: 496 - Number of pages: 2.... texture stayed the same most of the time. It starts out with a very slow tempo. It is like walking in a desert without water. The tempo keeps on dragging you to a faster and more dynamic sound. When that happens it is like taking the first taste of water after a long walk in the desert. The violin plays as the main instrument when it comes to the faster tempo and dynamic part. The clarinet on the other hand takes the slower mood in the piece. The volume would get louder as the tempo picks up. What I liked about this particular piece is the way it changed its tempo from vary slow to vary fast. .....
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
Number of words: 399 - Number of pages: 2.... took its place as one of the quintessential romantic showpieces for piano and orchestra, and this in spite of the fact that the solo is often sonically buried in unyielding orchestral textures. There are, to be sure, virtuosic flights aplenty for the piano, and lyrical ones, too, but the work is hardly all the pianist’s show.
The Concerto opens with a series of rather ponderous, static, unaccompanied piano chords which lead to the orchestras statement of a sardonic main theme taken by the strings while the keyboard spills out continuous cascades of harmonic embellishment. Finally a martial .....
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Assassination Of President McKinley
Number of words: 702 - Number of pages: 3.... and the President was escorted away (Assassin Arrived… 1).
The next day, Leon and McKinley returned to the exposition. In the afternoon, the President began shaking hands with people lined up by the Temple door. Near the end of this line, Leon waited patiently. His hand was wrapped in a handkerchief, which he held close to his chest, but no one seemed to notice. When the President reached him, Leon extended his left hand, pressed it against the President’s chest, and shot him twice with the gun he held under his handkerchief (Secret Service Guard…1). He did not have a chance to fire a .....
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The Yugoslavian Conflict
Number of words: 1272 - Number of pages: 5.... and Macedonian are the four major languages because some of the
languages are so similar they could be considered the same one. For example
Serbian and Croatian are so similar that government policy was to promote
through the educational system the idea of a single Serbo-Croatian language.
However both the Serbians and the Croatians challenged this idea and went
through great pains to identify vocabulary that would highlight the differences
rather than the similarities.
War finally broke out in Yugoslavia on June 25 1991, when Slovenia and
Croatia proclaimed their independence and .....
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Fundamental Orders Of Connecti
Number of words: 559 - Number of pages: 3.... the locals of a town may provide input to their public officer and he can provide the central court with this information. The general court is not to be mistaken as an absolute rule. An example is found in section 11 of the Fundamental Orders. The general court may distribute funding to the towns, and they may distribute them as they please. If this was a dictatorship, the general court would tell the local governments how to distribute their funds. The Fundamental Orders established three branches of government like that of the modern day federalism. In section 1 of the Fundamental Orders, .....
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Ancient Summerian Mythology
Number of words: 1131 - Number of pages: 5.... Testament is similar to the motive in the flood story in the Sumerian culture. This motive was to punish the wickedness of men. The flood happened in a city called Shurrupak. It stands on the bank of the Euphrates River. The city grew old and the gods that were in it grew old. The city was in an uproar and the god Enlil heard the clamor and he said to the god in the council, “The uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible by reason of the babel.” (Bailey 59.) The gods decided to exterminate mankind. “For six days and six nights the winds blew, torrent and tem .....
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Death Camps Of World War Ii
Number of words: 1298 - Number of pages: 5.... Nazis.
Captive Jews were held in areas called “ghettos” ultimately commanded by the Germans. Following through with the elimination of the Jews, the Nazis gave them fierce living conditions often housing dozens of people in small buildings. Food was administered in very small amounts. Those that did not starve to death were either shot or sent to camps. Some were sent to concentration camps. There were also labor camps. During some of these trips, prisoners would be told that they were being relocated. Many of these people instead arrived at the extermination camps never to be .....
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Iwo Jima
Number of words: 1281 - Number of pages: 5.... the most important
positions on Iwo Jima, Mt. Suribachi. Tadamishi lost the mountain but
still remained fighting the U.S. soldiers as he was told. (John Man 116)
Another important leader was Lt. General Holland M. Smith. Also
known as “Howling Mad”. He was in charge of leading the assault on Iwo
Jima. He successfully landed and deployed all of his troops. (John Man
117) Lt. Harold Schrider was also a major leader in the battle for Iwo Jima.
He was responsible for taking Mt. Suribachi. He was responsible for
clearing out the mountain after all the fighting was finished. (Iwo
Jima. .....
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The Period After The French Revolution
Number of words: 486 - Number of pages: 2.... corpus, and provisions for fair trial. Trial procedure provided for a board of Judges and a jury for criminal cases; an accused person was considered innocent until proven guilty and was guaranteed counsel. Most of these ideas were used after the ratification of the United State’s Constitution.
During the Consulate, Napoleon Bonaparte carried through a series of reforms that were begun during the Revolution. He established the Bank of France, which has continued to function, more or less unchanged, up to the present time. As an independent national bank, and as the agent of the French go .....
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Assassination Of Caesar
Number of words: 1594 - Number of pages: 6.... He ignored this statement and walked into the senate house. At this time some of the Senate members surrounded Caesar in a stealthy manner and tugged on his toga. As he looked around he was stabbed by many of the senate members multiple times. He collapsed to the ground and lay on the marble floor dead, next to the feet of Pompey’s statue. (Nardo 94)
Caesar’s military eminence helped Rome prosper into one of the greatest and most memorable civilizations in history. His campaigns helped Rome grow larger in size and in power. His victories in Egypt, Pontus, Gaul, Africa, and parts in the .....
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