A piano is an instrument with strings and it relies on the vibrations of the strings to produce a pleasant resonating sound. The first piano was invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori, an Italian harpsichord maker, in 1709. During the history, the external appearance of the piano was made by using different materials however, its internal design remained the same. Since the Cristofori was a harpsichord maker, the first piano looked like a harpsichord. When the piano was first invented, it was...
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The captivating sounds that can be made by eighty-eight black and white keys were what started my love for playing the piano. Whether it be Chopinâs rubato or Schubertâs modulations, my fascination with the instrument has never gone away. It all started with my mother and my first-grade music teacher, Mr. Manges. My mom grew up in a poor household and never had many opportunities. She had a goal of allowing her children to master an art, and I was...
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âOne has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust lawsâ - Martin Luther King Jr. Background information strategy used during the 1950-1965, strategy used in North Carolina, and Alabama. Strategy used to get more rights that the black people should have. Strategy used by Rosa Parks, Greensboro four, and Martin Luther King Jr. Nonviolence civil disobedience has proved to be the best strategy used during the...
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When it comes to the subject matter of the paintings, Renaissance artists replicated biblical stories through their portrayal of society while realists and impressionists capture society as it is. Renaissance art is idealized. The representation of nude figure was central to all Renaissance art as well as iconography of biblical and mythological female characters. Emphasis on the humanity of Jesus and Mary is shown through iconography such as the Holy Family or the Madonna nursing the Christ Child, which is...
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The comparison of similar themes within varying mediums of text, in addition to each composerâs diverse individual perspectives on these issues, reveal the universality and importance of these ideas. Through the exploration of the themes of the importance of supportive relationships and the contrasting impacts that the suppression of free will can hold in differing mediums of text, Malorie Blackmanâs âNoughts & Crossesâ and Boaz Yakinâs âRemember the Titansâ are able to effectively explore the distinct impacts that each of...
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âPearl Harborâ is an American romantic war drama film directed by Michael Bay in 2001. The film presents a heavily fictionalized version of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, focusing on a love story that unfolds in the run-up to the attack, its aftermath, and the Doolittle Raid. Historians have found multiple inaccuracies in this film. Professor Bruce Reynolds believes the greatest outcome from people seeing the film is that the film would engage them and...
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Various occasions in history have influenced and changed how we perceive the way in which clothes are developed. Toward the very beginning, individuals spent hours making their clothes, and those who could afford it had them tailored. The demand for more caused the mass production of clothes to be made. Thanks to technology the way that clothes have been made for hundreds of years has changed. How individuals live, their way of life and new innovations affect how clothing is...
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According to a 2014 study, 73 percent of all arrestees in the United States were males. This number increases to a whopping 80 percent when accounting for violent crimes. Brent Staples outlines the tendencies of his friends and relatives to become âthugsâ in his essay âJust Walk on Byâ. He attributes this trend to the idea of the âmale romance with the power to intimidateâ. To understand what is meant by this statement, we must first explore masculinity itself. What...
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Paul Revere was born in Boston, Massachusetts on December 21, 1734 or January 1, 1734 with the modern calendar. Paulâs father Apollos Rivoire, who later changed his name to Paul Revere. Revere was a Huguenot refugee who arrived in Boston as a youth. He became an apprentice as a silversmith, these skills were later passed on to his son, Paul Revere, who later became one of Americas most talented artists to create pieces in silver. Paul was given a fairly...
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The film âOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nestâ is narrated by a paranoid schizophrenic Native American male who pretends to be deaf and dumb in order to avoid socialization or confrontation from anyone in the Oregon psychiatric hospital. Bromden along with the rest of patients in the hospital fear former army and head nurse, Nurse Ratched, who Bromden believes to be controlling the ward. Bromden is dictated by the fear of this assemblage that is ruling society and coercing others...
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Our first assignment was to produce a piece of writing on the meaning of culture. My initial reaction to the assignment was confusion, because of the limited definition of culture that I had. From my perspective, culture ultimately reflected an individualâs race. Ever so often I get an orchestrated question referring to my ethnicity or nationality. Whether it is where I was born, where I am from, where I feel I belong, or where do I live. Sometimes I feel...
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The lights flash on and swivel at me. I nervously take the stage and try to center myself. 'Breath in...breathe out.', I tell myself, but I can still feel my cheeks glowing hotly and my mouth turning to sandpaper, rough and dry. I try to remember the lyrics of the first song I am supposed to sing, but my mind cannot focus. As I stand there frozen with stage fright, I look around me and realize that I am not...
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The document is an extract from Ian Barrow's book, 'The East India Company 1600-1858, A Short History with Documents, Passages: Key Moments in History' published in 2017. This book deals mainly with the British East India Company, the first modern multinational Company which operates a global trading network. The author reviews the history of this company, in specific how it has skilled such a large rise and a sudden decline. This extract deals more specifically with the Sepoy rebellion and...
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What does being American Mean? Well if I'm being honest there is not a straightforward answer to what being American means. So I'm going to first start by telling you what America has meant in the past, well in the past there was always something going on in America. There was always some type of war or battle going on. America was always fighting to keep our country from enemies that keep trying to win it over, there were so...
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Injustice faced by people around the world has always driven my desire to try and help others in both my immediate vicinity and on a broader scale. For example, the three hundred days without charge that Jagtar Singh Johal faced when he was abducted by the Indian authorities in 2017 on fabricated accusations moved me deeply as a travesty of justice. Despite a thousand-page charge sheet filed no conviction has yet been given. Societal perceptions of right or wrong are...
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The film 'The Pursuit of Happiness' is a text that illuminates and conveys ideas, attitudes, and values of the 'American Dream.' In the Oxford Dictionary, the 'American Dream' is defined as the traditional social ideals of the United States of America: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. It exposes how the protagonist is devoted to obtaining their desires and how they strive to further achieve the âAmerican Dreamâ, although their values and attitudes alter in both positive and negative...
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The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas' Le Guin's terrifying story begins with a pleasing event it is the Festival of Summer and the community is celebrating the wonderful climate and the gatherings. The narrator talks promptly to the audience as they depict the kids who are readying for a horse race and the observers who are out. The storyteller asserts that the community of town is delighted and urges us not to correlate prosperity with unsophistication. They say that...
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In The Lesson, the narrator overcomes the silence caused by the pigmentation of their skin and finds the moral courage to voice their opinions amidst double standards. In The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara, protagonist Miss Moore educates local children about the unfair distribution of wealth and advises them to strive for a better life. Bambara instills the idea that intelligence and awareness exist everywhere and need to be awakened instead of silenced. Syliva, the African-American narrator from Harlem, believes...
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âIn a lifetime, you must meet a good teacher who changes your lifeâ is a quote from a Hong Kong movie âLittle Big Masterâ, and I met my geography teacher Athena Chan who change my mind; build my dream; change my life in high school. Also, she aims for me to major in Geography as I want to be a geography teacher like her teaching students to understand the world and helping students find their future. In Hong Kong, every...
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President Rodrigo Duterte has proposed reinstating mandatory military training in the K-12 curriculum. Duterte reportedly wants to make ROTC mandatory again to instill 'discipline' and 'patriotism' in young people, according to reports. ROTC stands for Reserve Officers Training Corps. The main purpose of the ROTC program today is to train young men and women to become officers. Students taking ROTC can immediately begin serving as officers in the military after graduation. ROTC began in the Philippines in the year 1912,...
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Today Iâm going to be sharing with you all about the effects of Positive Thinking. Positive thinking on the surface sounds useful and I'm sure most of us would prefer to be positive rather than negative. There was this one quote saying, âIf you learn to harness the power of positive thoughts, youâll attract more positive circumstancesâ. However, you will attract more negativity and pain if you think negatively. I'm sure you all wouldnât want that, wouldnât you? At first...
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The Great Depression showed many political and economic issues that the Roosevelt administration had to deal with. Roosevelt's responses to the Depression were focused in the right direction toward economic stability and were achievable by improving the previously problematic matter of the role of government in society. The ideas, programs, and other relief efforts of the New Deal were good but didn't help the American people as much as the administration hoped for. In fact, they only benefitted a small...
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âFair trade is Essentialâ Many people claim that everyone benefits from free trade. Others argue that fair trade is more important than free trade because it can lead to free trade. If we lived in an ideal world where all things were equal, free trade would be excellent. Unfortunately, nowadays, the market is unequal. The following essay takes a look at both sides of the argument between equal and free trade those submitted by Ngaire Woods from Oxford University, and...
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Valley Forge Case Analysis Todayâs soldiers would never know how hard it was for our brothers to survive in times when there was no leadership, no assistance, and no remorse on the way of life for an American soldier. The procedures and policies that we have in place for our safety and well-being we sometimes think are too harsh are meant to make sure we are ok and well taken care of as well as our families; sometimes I find...
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Nursing is broadly considered an art and science wherein caring structures the hypothetical system of nursing. It is a vocation with an indulging desire to care for others which demands the utmost dedication, commitment, compassion, enthusiasm, and professionalism. Nursing and caring are grounded in a social arrangement, unity, and the nurse-patient relationship. The fundamental elements of this divine profession combine communication, teamwork, and delivering optimized care for those in need without prejudice. These certainly affirm my ultimate belief in the...
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Most people fail their exams even before they are set for a certain exam. This is because most people do not have confidence in themselves. You should try as much as possible to believe in yourself because this is the most vital thing. You should avoid discussing the subject matter a few minutes before the exam and also after the exam. This may discourage you and also make you nervous or even more confused. Building trust in yourself could help...
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Criticism will invariably persecute any artwork released into the public domain with no discrimination between renowned and anonymous authors. As expected, even Lin-Manuel Mirandaâs preeminent, award-winning Broadway musical, Hamilton, has encountered dogmatic people who have condemned details of the exceptional production and pointed them out as sufficient evidence to ban the musical. The alleged support for slavery and white supremacy, topics that strike a raw nerve when addressed, is based on individual interpretation and constitutes a vitriolic diatribe that, by...
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The growth of characters is very crucial as it is the process of creating a fully rounded, lifelike character within any fictional writing. It has the purpose of making readers invested in their life and interested in seeing their growth. In Sandra Cisneros's short story Eleven, the growth of characters is very present. Character development is seen in Eleven from the moment Rachel wakes up as an eleven-year-old. Rachel explains that people aren't made as a result of their experiences,...
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MBA and Executive MBA ( abbreviated as EMBA) are management courses offered by various schools around the globe. Undoubtedly, many students are unaware of the difference between MBA and Executive MBA. Some of them have a misconception that pursuing an EMBA is better than MBA. In real terms, both of them do not hold much difference in their prestige values. The difference between an Executive MBA and MBA grounds on several factors. These factors may be the duration of the...
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Annotated Bibliography Cummings, Brian. Mortal thoughts: religion, secularity & identity in Shakespeare and early modern culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. This text is a collection of various essays in which Cummings explores the role that religion played in early modern art. While his discussion addresses a wide range of issues, he gives special focus to the manifestation of religion in art and culture. According to Cummings, virtually no aspect of public life in the early modern period escaped the...
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