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Igor Stravinsky
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1183

.... to honor his parents’ wishes. While he was there, he still concentrated on his music and especially his composing. In the summer of 1902 he was introduced to the Russian composer, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. Rimsky was extremely impressed with Stravinsky’s early compositions that he convinced him not to enter the conservatory for academic training, but to study privately with him as his teacher. He was tutored privately by Rimsky in instrumentation and orchestration for about three years. In 1905, Stravinsky graduated from the St. Petersburg University. In t .....


The Work Of Stephen King
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1381

.... tales of vampires and ghosts. "You never have to ask yourself who's afraid of the big bad wolf?--You are" (Yarbro 220). "King has a talent for raising fear from dormancy. He knows how to activate our primal fears" (Nolan 222). Where does he get these fears? His own personal fears in (descending order) are the fear of someone else, others (paranoia), death, insects (especially spiders, flies, & beetles), closed in places, rats, snakes, deformity, squishy things, and his number one fear is fear of the dark. "At night, when I go to bed I am still at pains to be sure that .....


Jessica Savitch: The Dark Side Of A Golden Girl
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1418

.... They break up and make up repeatedly, a cycle that continues throughout her life. Jessica Savitch gets a career boost when she leaps from Houston to KYW T.V. in Philadelphia, the fourth largest market. She goes on to produce three award winning series and anchors the 10:00 news with Mort Crim, a respected anchor in the business. Ron Kershaw moves to Philadelphia, but cannot find a job because he is Jessica Savitch's boyfriend. This creates more turmoil in their relationship, and they continue their process of breaking up and making up. Dave Neal, one of Jessica's mentors .....


Michael Jordan: The Early Years.
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1164

.... Michael was younger he adopted the game of basketball. Mike used to work with his father in the garage. While working with his father, Michael picked up the habit of sticking his tongue out in an intense situation. When Michael reached the ninth grade, he tried out for basketball. Coach Lynch, Michael's coach, cut Michael which in turn may have made the best player alive today. Michael then took practicing basketball to another level. He played his brother Larry whenever he could. Michael never expected what would come in the near future. The College Years. M .....


Amadeus
Number of pages: 9 | Number of words: 2411

.... (2,3). The reason for Salieri’s success, as well as many musicians of the eighteenth century, is because they have become enslaved by the well-to-do and hence are “no better than servants” (1,3). This applies especially to the king. For example, in , His Majesty forbid any ballet in his operas. Imperial commands such as this are not to be interpreted in any way, in other words, they are to be merely obeyed without any dispute. Since operas tend to the needs of the high society in order to obtain recognition, the operas must communicate through the lan .....


Mariano Escobedo
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 453

.... general Ignazio Zaragoza to get to Puebla and fight with the French. They attacked each other in the " Fuertes de Loreto y Guadalupe. The troops of Zaragoza, helped from the Indians Zacapoaxtla. In 1862of Mat 5 they won against the French. The emperor from France, Luis Napoleon Bonaparte, wanted to extend his powers in America and in Asia. He dreamed to form a great empire. Mexico took advantage of that situation to peek an European emperor to govern Mexico and to stop the politic anarchy. Luis Napoleon made them recommend Fernando Maximiliano de Habsurgo, brother of the empe .....


Thomas Hobbes
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1558

.... would abstain from no measure in order to preserve our own well being. In a state of war man is in "a Continual fear and danger of a violent death; and the life of man (is) solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." (Hobbes. Pg. 107) The only way to prevent entering a state of war is to erect one common power, which is known as a commonwealth or sovereign, who is "One person, of whose Acts a great Multitude, by mutuall Covenants one with another, have made themselves every one the Author, to the end he may use the strength and means of them all, as he shall think expedient, .....


George Frideric Handel
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 624

.... the piano. With the help of one of Handel's friend, they smuggled the instrument up to his attic in his house. Every night he would sneak up to the attic after everyone was asleep and he'd play it until he finally mastered it. The instrument could not be heard through the closed doors. When he was about twelve, he went to Berlin to study and while there he became well-known for playing the Harpsichord. Handel's parents wanted Handel to grow up in the profession of law, but music was in Handel's blood. When Handel's father soon realized this, he sent Handel away to study in B .....



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