This period is noted heavily for its revival of Greek and roman ideas, hence the name renaissance meaning "revival"(Sherrane 1). ... This had its challenges as well as it meant that a fourth, a fifth and a third would be out of tune (Arkenberg 1). ... Binchois was noteworthy for his chansons and rondeau as well as using "hemiola" which is a term when there is a cross note of three quarter notes over a compound meter. ... Du Fay drew on French and Italian styles; some of this can be seen in his smooth vocal melodies, melismas, and meter changes that were similar to that of t...

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Western interest in The Orient as an exotic land began with the French Campaign in Egypt and Syria beginning in 1798 supposedly to protect French trade interests, undermine Great Britain's access to India, and to establish scientific enterprise in the region. ... A good literary example of this Western-constructed reality of an Oriental country pre-colonization would be that of Au Maroc, written by French naval officer Pierre Loti who was traveling through the country before the French Protectorate was established in 1912. ... However, due to the difference in power and influence between ...

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As Hitler rose to power in Germany, Stalin first contemplated forming a defensive alliance with Britain and France against the Nazis. ... Part 1:The Great Terror and the Nazi-Soviet Pact In the early 1930s, a famine developed in the Ukraine; learning of the suffering there, Stalin's wife Nadezhda confronted him, demanding that he remedy the situation. ... Thus Stalin made Kirov the scapegoat, and it was Kirov who was assassinated on December 1, 1934. ... (It is important to note that Stalin stood directly behind these trials--he delegated respon...

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He completed an internship in cartooning and set design under the aegis of the French Community of Belgium. It is important to note that very little information is available on Mbaye because of his isolated location in Africa. ... In Coronation of Musaa Moolo Casamace, Southern Senegal one can easily spot a traditional and primitive infuence on Mbaye's style, he depicts a local coronation scene with such comfort that it is easy to believe he identifies with his work in at least a cultural sense. 1.5) Problem Statement The problem that this study directs is concerned with role of ethnic ...

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History Coursework - World War One 1) Sources A, B and C are war recruitment posters published by various governments with the aim of influencing more people to volunteer for armed service in the war. ...

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Emile Durkheim Emile Durkheim (1858- 1917) was a French scholar and one of the first social theorists to describe his works and ideas as "sociology" (Giddens, 1978). ... Although the term anomie is not original to Durkheim (he borrowed the word from one of his contemporaries and a fellow French man Jean-Marie Guyau) he uses it extensively in his text Le Suicide (1897). ... Integration Low High 1. ... Fatalism Low High Regulation Quadrant 1 Egoism For Durkheim, egoistic suicide occurs exists when there are very common beliefs and goals, causing a weak collective conscience. ... Eg...

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Section 1 Definition of Aesthetics Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of art, beauty and taste. ... Constable is known as a Romantic artist, Kathryn Calley Galitz of the Department of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art writes about Romanticism Romanticism, first defined as an aesthetic in literary criticism around 1800, gained momentum as an artistic movement in France and Britain in the early decades of the nineteenth century and flourished until mid-century. With its emphasis on the imagination and emotion, Romanticism emerged as a response to the di...

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Different authors use various figures of speech to present their characters in plays or poems. For actors, figures of speech usually help to determine the most prominent traits of characters. The first part one of this paper analyzes the character of Doctor Faustus who is the protagonist of Marlowe's play who was overwhelmed with the desire to possess power and the presentation of the character as a pure villain in the play. This will be compared with the character and the figure of Richard III in the eponymous play by William Shakespeare, while identifying the significance of his figure...

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Many see it as a primarily economic phenomenon, involving the increasing interaction, or integration, of national economic systems through the growth in international trade, investment and capital flows. However, one can also point to a rapid increase in cross-border social, cultural and technological exchange as part of the phenomenon of globalisation. The sociologist, Anthony Giddens, defines globalisation as a decoupling of space and time, emphasising that with instantaneous communications, knowledge and culture can be shared around the world simultaneously. A Dutch academic who maint...

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The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role which played the great powers - the US, the USSR, England, and at the last stage of the war France - increasingly reflect the new balance of power in the world. Neither Britain nor France, nor even, defeated Germany could not play in the post-war period of the previous role of the guarantor of balance and stability on the European continent. ... A certain amount of responsibility for rocked the confrontation between the USSR and the United States lies with Britain, France and Germany, was jealous of her new role in international affairs and are seeking ...

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Upon the influx of these new British settlers proceeded a new lawlessness within New Zealand, and during the same time period there became signs of the French planning to annex New Zealand however the British Government were still tentative about acting to adjoin New Zealand as a colony. ... Perspective 1: The Maori people were in fact uninformed over the true meaning of the treaty, as it may have been mistranslated. ... All About the Treaty, published in 2005 where the author of the text declares "Some historians have suggested 'te tino rangatiratanga' or 'mana' wer...

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I will undertake this analysis of the sovereignty case in five steps by: 1) providing an overview of sovereignty; 2) offering a brief explaining of non-intervention and it's correlation with sovereignty 3) analyzing the principle of self-determination; 4) describing the evolution of the disagreement from September to December of 2012; and 5) Conclusion Sovereignty Historians date the modern concept of sovereignty back to the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, which conferred privileges upon territorial rulers with little attention to the ethnic and religious affiliations of their peoples. ... ...

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I will undertake this analysis of the sovereignty case in five steps by: 1) providing an overview of sovereignty; 2) offering a brief explaining of non-intervention and it's correlation with sovereignty 3) analyzing the principle of self-determination; 4) describing the evolution of the disagreement from September to December of 2012; and 5) Conclusion Sovereignty Historians date the modern concept of sovereignty back to the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, which conferred privileges upon territorial rulers with little attention to the ethnic and religious affiliations of their peoples. ... A...

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Roderick MacFarquhar's Origins of the Cultural Revolution 1 , as the leading volume dealing with this period in the 70's, represents earlier interpretations of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. ... Thermidor suggests that a period of time follows any revolution in which the revolutionary spirit wanes, and the threat of revisionism reaches its peak, as seen in the "Thermidor" reactionary phase of the French revolution, the Russian Revolution and in the Cromwellian revolution of C17 England. ...

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Asma Barlas (2002:1) asked if the Quran was a patriarchal or misogynistic text; whether it represents God as a Father/male or even if the Quran teaches that God has any special kind of relationship with males and that if women are by nature unclean, weak or sinful. ... An interesting fact to take note of was that allowing women to vote was one of the main changes which struck many by shock because even some western states such as France had not introduced woman suffrage at the time. ...

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Note also that these data do not include internal services provided within manufacturing company (such as IBM or Boeing) or services that these manufacturers sell externally. ... The service sector has accounted for the highest portion of total economic activity in Hong Kong, the USA, and France since the early 1990s. ... One reason for this is that the unique characteristic of service: inseparability, it refers to (1) the service provider's physical connection to the service being provide; (2) the customer's involvement in the service production process. ... Gronroos identify three ...

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The revelation of photovoltaics happened in 1839 when the French physicist Edmond Becquerel initially demonstrated photovoltaic action. ... The photoelectric impact was initially noted by a French physicist, Edmund Bequerel, in 1839, who found that certain materials would deliver little measures of electric current when presented to light. ...

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After his travels Darwin returned to England where he began noting the ideals the changeability of species. ... At the international congress of criminal anthropology in 1889 French delegates opposed his theories. The French believed the origins of crime was related to social conditions rather then Lombroso theory of innate tendencies. ...

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To say women got the vote exclusively for their efforts during the war is naive as the majority of women who were granted the vote were respectable women over the age of 30, therefore the evidence favours the revisionist theory as the younger munitions workers who dedicated themselves to the war effort were not granted the vote after the war as a reward.10 Other countries, such as France did not grant their female population the vote after the war as a reward for their efforts, Paula Bartley argues that this was due to their not being a pre-war suffrage campaign in France.11 Therefore in consi...

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The horrors of World War 1 created an immense market allowing British authors, both professionals and amateurs, the leeway to express what they witnessed in the frontline (Das 9). ... In 1917, Gurney enlisted in the 2nd/5th Gloucester's and served in France (20). ... But it's important to note that even before his participation in the war, Gurney was already suffering from an eccentric personality; supported by his mental outbreak in 1913, alluding to his already unfit mind to serve in the war. ...

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Emily Dickinson 1. ... The word 'Vase' from the letter (note capitalization)as "an open container, often used to hold cut flowers " (www.websters-online-dictionary.org/ ) can be interpreted, according to the metaphor meaning explained above, as a request for Eudocia to open herself to a new poem, a new 'flower'. ... Walt Whitman 1. ...

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The early ideas about the diffusion of innovation can be traced back to the beginning of the century in German - Austrian and British schools in Anthropology as well as a French sociologist, Gabriel Tarde, who is responsible for the S-shaped curve which shows the level of adoption verses time for an innovation. ... These four main elements are: 1. ...

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Eco's Postscript is also a manifesto proclaiming the authority of serious historical fiction: the characters in a historical novel may not appear in encyclopedias, he notes, but everything they do could only occur in that time and place. ... He further perplexes ordinary readers with the linguistic challenges of numerous snatches of classical and medieval Latin, French, and German, not to mention the peculiar polyglot speech of one of the characters. ...

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Such pseudonyms were quite common among the Russian revolutionaries of that period; Lenin often published under the name "Tulin" (note that even the names "Lenin" and "Stalin" were political pseudonyms). ... Russia was in the midst of a civil war between the Bolsheviks and a number of opponents (including a considerable number of foreign cadres--among them British, Czech, French, and American detachments). ...

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Wakatsuki ultimately failed in the attempt to carry out his emperor's wishes and the Japanese military continued on its campaign throughout China which eventually pleaded to the League of Nations for intervention who then voted 42-1 against Japan with the only vote coming from Japan supporting the action. ...

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