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Brazilian Samba Music

de enredo" to the more "relaxed guitar and rhythm variant" of song samba (Clifford). Sambas earliest beginnings can be traced to t...

The Impact of Geography on the Development of City-States in Mesopotamia and the Nile River Valley

Tigris and Euphrates are very different: the former is "rough and fast flowing" and difficult to navigate while the Euphrates can ...

Pharaoh Ramses II

fact that he was "the first king in history to sign a peace treaty with his enemies, the Hittites, ending long years of wars and h...

Shamanism

a great array of dysfunctional lost souls in a European society. Without their culture, their history, their mystical beliefs, the...

The Humanities

is all very fine, but why bother to study him when we could be learning computers? Because studying the humanities gives us insigh...

Kingship in Israel

by a monarch entailed certain secular dangers, such as possibility that a king might become oppressive in his rule or lead the peo...

Mozart Effect/Beneficial or a Gimmick?

speech and language abilities" (Calkins and Kelley, 2007, p. 151). This is particularly interest in light of the fact that the ori...

Music of Guide D’Arezzo

1036 (Otten). It was after Guido arrived at Arrezo that he invented his new system of notation, which "brought such order and cl...

Athena, The Virgin Goddess

("Athena"). Clearly, the ancient Greek patriarchs considered Athenas virginity to be a salient and powerful factor in her mytholog...

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony/An Analysis

motive over and over again in different forms (Grove 149). The lyrical second theme introduces a brief respite of relaxation, bu...

Beethoven, Life, Music and Romanticism

not attached to any one court or one prince. Rather, he received income in various ways, such as in giving music lessons to aristo...

Contemporary Drama/2 New Plays & Aristotle

working class (Brown). Modern playwrights have expanded the conception of tragedy to include all walks of people in all circumstan...

Venice, Italy

be seen both across the expanse of water and reflected in it (Lauritzen 12). San Marco is constructed so as to catch the light. Th...

The History of Marijuana; Legal Status and Usage

6,000 BCE as well as for textiles in 4,000 BCE in China and it is also recorded as being used as a medicine in China in 2727 (Narc...

Music as a Nursing Intervention

the effect of music on preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain with a participant group that listened to "peaceful pan flute m...

Euclid of Alexandria; The Elements

Elements, to which he replied that there was no royal road to geometry. He is therefore younger than Platos circle, but older than...

Napster

change was to move the company away from the free format to one where there was a fixed fee subscription. This reduced the number ...

Medieval Christianity: Music and Sculptures

liturgy provided innumerable texts, all set to music in the style we call Gregorian chant. The church served as an important patro...

Leviticus and Christianity

does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you." As this suggests, only animals that chewed its cue and possessed ...

Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk

there lived another Orhan so much like me that he could pass for my twin, even my double" (Pamuk, 2006; 3). This image is presente...

A Comparison of Sparta and Totalitarian Systems

mother, and until the age of 30 and possibly beyond were dedicated to their training and to their service to the state" ("The Cult...

Temples and Religious Ritual in Ancient Egypt

(Egyptian Temples, part I: Divine Kingship, 2007). "[I]t was vital and necessary to keep the gods satisfied and wanting to stay in...

Ancient Korean Pottery

began making pottery, there was "an influx of immigration from China, Manchuria, and Siberia" (Korean traditional pottery, 2002). ...

A Short History of Perfume

is uncertain as to when it did emerge exactly. Some say that it first came about in Mesopotamia (Rimmel, 2005). Others claim that ...

Egypt and Mesopotamia: Geography

be no real need to war because Egypt possessed what everyone needed. As such the political and intellectual perspectives turned in...

Ancient Indian Religions

not possible to work backwards to reconstruct the Harappan faith from the Vedic (Hooker, 1999). The second period is that of the...

The Financing of Opera in London in the 1730’s

leading up to it. Heideggers Italian opera company had failed in 1717 due to its inability to control costs and the failur...

DOWNLOADING MUSIC -- FOR FREE

The group, in fact, leaked its song, "The Shepherds Dog" via a CD advance which was sent to a magazine for review (Eskenazi, 2007)...

Greek, Mycenaean and Minoan Civilization

was one of "battle and conquest" (Hooker, 1996). These people are the Mycenaeans; they are named after the "best-preserved of thei...

Similarities between Classical and Popular Music

works (Kaptainis, 2002). "A paint-by-numbers Mona Lisa is not to be confused with what is hanging in the Louvre" (Kaptainis, 2002,...