In 1767, at age 11, Mozart transformed piano sonatas by various composers into his first four piano concertos through the addition of interludes and episodes for his orchestra. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was well known by a lot of important people but he also new a lot of people for example as we all ready stated he knew Johann Sebastian Bach and his little son Johann Christian Bach he also met king George III and he also met Beethoven which at the time was a very famous composer. ...

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Stages of Acceptance in T. S. Eliot's "Burnt Norton" The Four Quartets were written over a period of eight years, from 1935 to 1942. These years span World War II and they also follow Eliot's conversion to the Church of England and his naturalization as a British subject. These poems are the work...

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• Grade Level: High School

(III. iv. 161-162). ... Assume a virtue if you have not Refrain and that shall lend a kind of easiness to the next abstinence," (III. iv. 180-188). ... This was acquired as a result of the play on the 'murder of Gonzago' (III. ii. 175-265): in Act III, scene i, the King displays his guilt to the audience of the crime committed; and after the interlude he delivers these self-condemning words: "O, my offence is rank: it smells to heaven; it hath the primal eldest curse upon it, a brother's murder."(III. iii. 40-42). ... " (III. i. 64-73). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The love potion is made from the juice of the magical flower that was struck with one of Cupid's misfired arrows by piercing a hundred thousand hearts; it is used by the fairies to wreak romantic havoc throughout Acts II, III, and IV. ... Titania passes a ludicrous interlude doting on this ass-headed weaver. ...

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The second son of Amenhotep III and Tiye, Amenhotep IV was not likely to have been the first choice of the pharaoh and his wife to become the next pharaoh of Egypt. ... His son, Amenhotep III, probably a young child at the time of his ascension to the throne, turned his attention to domestic affairs upon attaining pharaoh-hood. Amenhotep III, a prolific builder, probably engaged in more infrastructure projects than any other pharaoh, also taking on the project of rebuilding various dilapidated structures built by his predecessors (Aldred, 1988). ...

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In fact, he was the first American minister (after independence) to step foot into King George III's (of England) court (335). ... McCullough, from time to time, goes into brief interludes discussing the position of the Adams family children and wife. ...

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The next London variety, termed Type III, is the language of London in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, recorded in, for example, the earliest Chaucer manuscripts (Horobin, 18). Type III, the language of Chaucer, as used in his work Troilus and Criseyde was subsequently replaced all the other Types. Type III became known as the "Chancery Standard-, or more recently called "King's English-, which was used by the clerks employed in the various offices of the medieval administration (Horobin, 17). The process by which Type III replaced Type II and the relationship betwee...

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• Grade Level: High School

SCENE SUMMARIES AND NOTES Act I, Scene 1 The play opens late at night on a street in Venice. Roderigo, a wealthy Venetian gentleman, is discussing the marriage of Desdemona, the daughter of Brabantio. Earlier in the evening, she had eloped with Othello, a Moor who is a respected General in the Venetian army. Roderigo is angry with Iago, for he has paid him a handsome sum to win the love of Desdemona for himself and to keep him informed of her love life. Iago, like Roderigo, is a frustrated man. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Death Comes for the Archbishop Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) is about two nineteenth-century French priests, Father Vaillant and Father Lour, who come to America to establish a mission in the southwestern desert which changes them. Main Characters - -Father Jean Marie Latour, Vicar Apostalic of New Mexico -Father Joseph Vaillant, his friend, a missionary priest -Kit Carson, frontier scout -Jacinto, an Indian guide Plot - This historical novel is set in nineteenth century New Mexico and describes the experiences of two well-bred French priests sent there to establish Catholicism in ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Holocaust in Italy In 1945, at the end of World War II, the realization of the Holocaust - that is, the systematic state-sponsored murder of six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators - was difficult for many people to comprehend and, moreover, accept. Those who visited concentrati...

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