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Amadeus Anaylisis
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 537.... the film is about the life of Mozart, Salieri gives a different point of view than anyone saw it before. Salieri's life centered around the desire to become Mozart, which eventually turned him against himself and everything he ever believed in. Salieri was convinced he was the best composer in Vienna, until he meets Mozart. The central idea of the film is how he becomes so frustrated with himself and his music, that he turns against himself and God. Now he has devoted his life to ruining Mozart instead of focusing and trying harder on his music. Turning against himself was t .....
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Comparison Of Perugino And Caravaggio
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1344.... figures’ sense of movement. In fact, the figures seem to not move at all, but rather are merely locked at a specific moment in time by their rigid outline. Perugino’s approach to the figures’themselves is extremely humanistic and classical. He shines light on the figures in a clear, even way, keeping with the rational and uncluttered meaning of the work. His figures are all locked in a contrapposto pose engaging in intellectual conversation with their neighbor, giving a strong sense of classical rationality. The figures are repeated over and over such as this to convey a rati .....
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Assimilation Of The Native Americans
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1527.... their cultural traditions, they have survived and in fact, have prospered and continue to prosper in the present day.
Colonization
During the colonization period of the 1800’s, settlers started to fill up Britain’s western colony. The gold rush enhanced the popularity of the colony and the settlers became preoccupied with its wealth to deal with themselves adapting to the rights of the Natives and instead were pushed aside and European assimilation began . The settlers were told of the extreme racial differences and beliefs and decided that the only theirs were .....
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Mexican-American War
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 423.... territory in the North as, “an unnecessary war that had been thrust upon Mexico by a land-hungry United States.”
The Mexican War started when Mexican soldiers, “shed American blood on American soil.” When the Americans heard of this, General Stephen W. Kearny commanded his army to take over the city of Santa Fe. They did so without even having to fire a shot because the Mexicans already evacuated the town before the U.S. troops got there. After this first happened, many other fights for territories occurred.
One of the final battles of the war began on September 8th when a .....
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Romanticism In Music
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1085.... would become those of a better quality giving a better and more brilliant sound.
In the musical world, new opportunities were being brought about. Most importantly, music was being brought from the church into the concert hall. There were also more chances for instrumentalists to better themselves since new conservatories were being established in Europe. All of this meant that orchestras could now be larger and the quality of the musicians would be much improved. With larger orchestras and better musicians, composers tended to become more expressive in their works. Rather tha .....
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Schindler’s List
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 852.... even more valuable than money. Freedom. He is freeing them from being destroyed. Once Schindler recognizes this tragedy, he puts his on life in danger to save all of the Jews that he can. He is so generous that people ask him to let people work in the factory so they will live. He does so. He has a heart but he also does it for his personal gain. At first, he just opens the factory to gain money. In the end, we see him spending all of his money to save the Jews. The courageous man makes up a list containing thousands upon thousands of Jews that he requested to come a .....
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The Art Of The Republican Period And The Beginning Of The Em
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 518.... of Republican Roman architecture. The sanctuary is dedicated to the goddess of fate and chance, was begun about 100 BCE. Its design and size reflect the influence of the Greek Hellenistic architecture, in the use of the long colonnade and the colossal scale of the great altar from Pergamon.
A Roman house of this period usually consisted of small rooms laid out on a straight, generally symmetrical plan, as in the House of Pansa in Pompeii (2nd Century BCE). From the entrance a corridor led to the atrium, a large space with a shallow pool for catching rainwater through an op .....
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Jamestown Fiasco
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 472.... Another explanation for its failure to feed itself is the "collective organization" of labor in the colony. The colonists were expected to work together as a whole to produce food and exports to make money. Those with shares would get part of the profits, but meanwhile the idea of private farming was lacking. The contribution of a worker had no affect on his share of the profit. The loafer would get the same amount in the end as the person who worked hard.
Still another explanation for the dilemma is one that John Smith often pointed out, which was the character of the immi .....
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