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Music of Samoa

significance (Amerika Samoa). These dances are "elegant, vibrant and sometimes erotic" (Amerika Samoa). Author Robert Louis Stev...

French Composer Charles Gounod's Life and Music

1937). Gounod was equally gifted in art and for a time seemed torn between the two but a musical epiphany he had at age 13 would ...

Singer Hector Lavoe's Tragic Life

In eight pages singer Hector Lavoe's tragic life and contributions to Latino music are examined. Six sources are cited in the bib...

Development of the Early Piano

than was possible with the harpsichord, clavichord, or organ (Leland, 1995). This need was met by a Paduan harpsichord maker nam...

Overview of the Roman Games

violent spectacles that the Romans loved (Roman Fun and Games, 2003). Gladiators were slaves and were made to fight one another, ...

Babies and Bach

sites, such as GeniusBabies.com, assert that their embryonic learning system, which includes music, can turn the neonate into a ge...

The Continuing Evolution of Advanced Practice Nursing

absolute separation of duties and artificial formality intended to preserve hierarchy in attitude as well as fact. Physicians pro...

Record Labels, Major versus Independent

rock, classics, country, jazz, etc. - may be better served in the environment in which the major labels operate. When music types...

Adolescents and the Negative Effects of Music Lyrics

correlation between risky adolescent behavior and a preference for heavy metal rock music (Sexuality 191). Pediatricians were on...

Self Discovery and French Literature's Evolution

good deal of the literature at the time. Lyric poetry more than likely arose from the songs of the minstrels and the singers whi...

Swordsmithing of Japan

a better sword (Japanese Sword Making). When Muramasa held his sword upright, it cut every leaf that graced its tip perfectly in ...

Evolution of the Wireless Communications Industry

able to provide all services. Rather than build the networks themselves, they acquire/merge with smaller companies that already ha...

The United States of the 1920s

nothing makes quite as much of a statement as does a bathing suit, a garment made for the purpose of swimming but something that w...

A Four Cities' Analysis

spread of the educational levels is not representative of the general population levels. In terms of the Black Africans only 21% h...

An Article on Evolution Reviewed

a mammal really but an animal that can nurture its young with its own milk? The author begins at the beginning and where the firs...

1960s' Civil Rights Music and Martin Luther King Jr.

all, a wild animal will fight to be free of restraints as well and this does not indicate that they are good, nor does it indicate...

Americas and the Influence of Latin Culture

Practitioners of Santeria do pray to Catholic saints, but they also venerate animistic gods and goddesses which stem from the Afri...

Sneakers and Their History

tended to be rigid and lacked any color, and could be described as utilitarian but hardly fashionable (Flusser, 2003). It wasnt u...

Elementary Classroom Learning and Music Instruction

level math and science problems. In a subsequent study that replicated this research, again, the results showed that the students ...

Religious Influences in the Music of Charles Ives

reworked" into passages that frequently sound "hymnic" (Tawa 67-68). As pointed out by Robert Bellah, Christianity, and the Jude...

Internet Evolution

government, organizations, companies and a whole host of other mediums where computers are utilized to transmit information. "The...

Christian Worship and the Sacraments

By the 5th century, Christianity in the West was guarded by the bishop of Rome, the pope, who was the "final custodian of the doct...

Haridas Chaudhuri and Alfred North Whitehead Analysis

each immediate moment with relevant ideas and appropriate actions" (Whitehead, 1967, p 37). Whiteheads philosophy of education fo...

Analyzing John Cage's Changing Music

composed in 1951 New York. The cycle of piano music, for example, had been written as a dedication to David Tudor and within the...

Thailand and Japan Economies and Their Recent Trends

their losses (67). Most businessmen and bankers would resist such steps (67). Mr. Thaksin took office early in the twenty-first c...

Short Storie Elements in Works by John Updike, Flannery O'Connor, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, Mark Twain, and Nathaniel Hawthorne

like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...

Contemporary Democracy in the United States

and if they were not happy with the political leaders they could do something about it. This all sounds incredibly powerful and...

Evolution of Modern Art and the Influence of Impressionism

(1899, oil on canvas, 211" x 33", Art Institute of Chicago). The objects in the painting, the bridge, flowers, water and trees hav...

The Impact of Workplace Design on Productivity and Efficiency

power and that workers with this discretion would under work and using the control which they gained to their own advantage (Huczy...

Sixteenth Century Keyboard Instruments

the strings.6 The tangents were inserted into the key levers at the lower end, and the top end was flattened for contact with the...