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Chinese Music
Words: 902 - Pages: 4.... one of the most important duties of the first emperor of each new dynasty was to search out and establish that dynasty's true standard of pitch. A result of this philosophical orientation was that until quite recently the Chinese theoretically opposed music performed solely for entertainment; accordingly, musical entertainers were relegated to an extremely low social status. Melody and tone color are prominent expressive features of , and great emphasis is given to the proper articulation and inflection of each musical tone. Most is based on the five-tone, or pentatonic, scale, but the seven-tone, or heptatonic, scale, is also used, of .....
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The Nazis And Their Rise To Power And Downfall
Words: 2324 - Pages: 9.... increase tenfold. The new
members included working-class people, farmers, and middle-class
professionals. They were both better educated and younger then the Old
Fighters, who had been the backbone of the party during its first decade.
The Nazis now presented themselves as the party of the young, the strong,
and the pure, in opposition to an establishment populated by the elderly,
the weak, and the dissolute.
Hitler was born in a small town in Austria in 1889. As a young boy,
he showed little ambition. After dropping out of high school, he moved to
Vienna to study art, but he was denied the chance to join Vienna academy
of fine .....
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Early Christianity
Words: 550 - Pages: 2.... he began his ministry. Many of the reasons that his religion succeeded were that it treated everyone equally promised eternal life and was centered on on your personal relationship with God. Jesus¹ teachings included love for God, neighbors, enemies and yourself. The ten commandments and the basic foundation of Judaism was included in his teachings as Jesus was born a Jew.
Jesus had 12 disciples, disciple means follower or pupil, even long after the death of Jesus these disciples would continue teaching about Jesus. The first four books of the bible were written by the Disciple these books are called apostles they are as follows Matthew .....
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Public Hangings
Words: 1356 - Pages: 5.... responsibilities of the hangman and the general reaction of the public, who were for and againts hangings. In the days of , gallows or scaffolds were rather crude contraptions. Early contraptions consisted of two post in the ground, with a cross-piece between them from which the victim swung. As the years passed by a second contraption was invented, a single stout post with a timber nailed at a right angle at the top, with supporting boards attached. A third contraption was made which was a platform erected nine or more feet from the ground, in the middle of which was a trap door which swung upon hinges. This latest invention was commonly .....
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“Economic Issues, Not Religion Determined The Development English Colonies In North America.”
Words: 534 - Pages: 2.... it became very important to them. Virginia became a stable economy where large plantations were developed. The people who worked in this land were indentured servants, and when these people became unhappy with their work and were close to rebelling, slaves from Africa were brought to this colony. Economics was important in establishing the Virginia colony.
In Maryland, an owner/leader took the ownership of the land. The whole area was given to Lord Baltimore. Under him, there was talk of joint stock companies, monopolies and distribution of the farmland. Even though it would seem as if the statement would be perfectly relevant to Mar .....
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African Diaspora
Words: 1633 - Pages: 6.... Surinam, South Carolina and Louisiana allow us to look deeper into the stated arguments. Having recently addressed the same issues using Colonial South Carolina as a case study, I will focus largely on some of the arguments and conclusions drawn from this study. The evidence from South Carolina, Louisiana and Surinam supports the second and third arguments much more than the first. The third argument, that of cultural transformation, is the argument I find to be most valid. John Thornton's analysis of this issue is extremely helpful. He addresses the "no connections" arguments in chapters 6, 7 and 8. He outlines the claims made by scholars .....
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Berlin Wall 2
Words: 594 - Pages: 3.... wall for further "protection".In 1961, the last gate, the Brandenburg Gate is closed. Now all crossing points for all Berliners are closed. It wouldn'e be until two years later that any type of crossing is opened. The Berlin Wall separated family, freinds, and a nation for over 28 years.Early in the morning of sunday, August 13, 1961, the Berlin Wall began contruction under the leadership of Erich Honecker to block off Eastern Berlin from Western Berlin with barbed wire and anti-tank obsticals. Streets were torn up, barricades made, tanks gathered at crucial areas, and the subway and local railway systems were interupted. People of East .....
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Labor And Unions In America
Words: 4933 - Pages: 18.... Economic "laws" would force them to work harder and harder for less and less pay.
THE LOWELL EXPERIMENT
How, then, were the factory owners able to recruit farm girls as laborers? They did it by building decent houses in which the girls could live. These houses were supervised by older women who made sure that the girls lived by strict moral standards. The girls were encouraged to go to church, to read, to write and to attend lectures. They saved part of their earnings to help their families at home or to use when they got married.
The young factory workers did not earn high wages; the average pay was about $3.50 a week. But in those times .....
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The Roots Of Communist China
Words: 2033 - Pages: 8.... political system resting on a remarkable cultural
unity, the latter in turn being due mainly to the general acceptance of a common, although
difficult, written language and a common set of ethical and social values, known as
Confucianism. Traditional china had neither the knowledge nor the power that would have
been necessary to cope with the superior science, technology, economic organization, and
military force that expanding West brought to bear on it. The general sense of national
weakness and humiliation was rendered still keener by a unique phenomenon, the
modernization of Japan and its rise to great power status. Japan's .....
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Ancient Greece: A Time Of Great Cities And Lives
Words: 579 - Pages: 3.... booming economy it's no
wonder that it attracted almost one quarter of the worlds businesses and various
smiths. These included bronze smiths, tanners and potters. It is no wonder
that Ancient Greece was in its time considered the beginning of the of a new era
that would be recognised as the centre of the worlds economy and was to be home
to more than twice as many shops and people than the city already held.
Although women in the world today are always talking about women and
their rights and how they deserve to be equal in everything that they do and
receive, it was not a problem to Greeks in their society which has been
described .....
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