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Piano and Harpsichord Performance

strings. The piano has a heavy iron frame, thick strings (with some wrapped wire), pedals (including a sustain pedal), and one key...

Four Types of Social Provisioning in Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation

1944). During communal activity, such as feasts, dances and other occasions, the chief distributes gifts to all and the "overwhelm...

Contemporary Era and Antigone by Sophocles

The political context of the stories of the Oedipal trilogy relate to the society of Thebes and the conflicts that arise from shif...

Musical Representations of Various Eras

Robbins conceived, directed and choreographed West Side Story in 1957, which was written by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim...

Classical Organization Theory and Scientific Management, and the Principles of Standardization, Efficiency, and Rationality

put management in control, designing, using scientifically measured studies these, the most efficient work methods and then organi...

Hellenistic Style Characteristics

(Hellenistic Art, 2005). One subject of art was sculpture, something that was clearly very important to the Greek people t...

Classical Lexical Theory Replacement Known as the Prototype Theory

language processing and categorization which were integrated into elements of Classical Theory. Classical Theory, though, was cha...

What Oedipus Rex Means to Greek Culture

events that all resulted in tragedy was when Laius insisted that his healthy infant son should be left to die from exposure. While...

Comparative Analysis of Music in the Czech Republic and the US

in the new land, combining instruments and styles for a new sort of folk music. In relationship to the most classical type of mu...

Robert Browning's 'My Last Duchess'

to believe that his elevated social standing makes him actually superior to anyone else. This perception definitely includes his w...

Defense Management Ethics and Classic Philosophy

In five pages the perceptions of classical philosophers Machiavelli, Plato, and Aristotle are applied to defense management's ethi...

Description And Application Of Classical Conditioning

conditioned response to a conditioned stimulus. However, the psychological response of salivating did not occur if, after several...

Epic Hero Status of Odysseus in Homer’s “The Odyssey”

was time to allow Odysseus to return home. Should he be allowed to go back to Ithaka to be reunited with his wife Penelope and hi...

Should Governments be Intervening in the Credit Crunch?

Federal Reserve in the US extended the normal lending period to 30 days at the same time as reducing the discount window interest ...

2 Crime Theories Compared

typically combined with estate forfeiture, so the condemned mans wife and children were destitute. This is the sociopolitical cl...

Storm Paintings by Watteau and Delacroix

workers who are hurrying to finish their work and/or reach their destinations before the storm arrives are on the left-hand side o...

Different Perspectives on Corporate Governance

2001). In this perspective it is believed the company should behave honestly, but that the primary stakeholder group remained the ...

The Apology, Antigone and the Concept of Virtue

in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...

Neighborhood Watch Research Study

of ideas in regards to the motivations of criminals. Some of these principles are that human beings are rational; the human will c...

Conditioning and Theory

the conditioned stimulus were removed and only the neutral stimulus presented, the same unconscious response that occurred when th...

Music History, Classical Era to the 20th Century

as an example of perfection ("Romantic"). The sociopolitical upheavals of the late eighteenth century created "new social order an...

Greenblatt and Showalter on Writing

A 3 page essay that contrasts and compares 2 books on literature and writing. Stephen Greenblatt, in his text Self-Fashioning, Fro...

Applying Learning Theories to Personal Experience

bell and the unconditioned response was the dogs salivation when it was fed. After the conditioning, the sound of a bell, which ha...

Sonata Form, Haydn and Mozart

not always in the allegro tempo. For the purposes of this essay, "sonata form" will refer to the construction of the movement, whi...

The Golden Age: The Political Concepts of Islam by Ira Lapidus and The Community in Islamic History by Hamilton A.R Gibb

custodians of the true Islam. This, it is argued, reflect in the way that the states have evolved today and the different models t...

Virgil's 'Aeneid,' Sophocles' Oedipus the King, Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Divine Intervention

of his father Ulysses" (Homer I). From this excerpt it is quite obvious that divine intervention is a powerful part of the stor...

Bellini, Durer, and Ribera and an Art History Examination

clearly painted religious ideals of the time. It was also a time of romantic ideals as well, and the wondrous images and colors, a...

Genesis and Hesiod on Creation

sun and moon; animals, birds and fish; and finally, people. This took six days, and on the seventh day God rested from all this wo...

Rhetoric and Educational Schools

In nine pages this paper discusses Isocratean, Aristotelian, and Platonic perspectives in an overview of classical rhetoric. Five...

Quantum v. Classical Computation and Physics

In seven pages this paper discusses computation and physics in this comparative analysis of quantum and classical computing variat...