Ever since kettledrums, or timpani, were brought to Europe in the 15th century, they have played a vital role is orchestral music that has carried through to the twenty-first century. ... Hector Berlioz, a nineteenth century composer, stated his frustrations with the musicality of kettledrum players throughout Europe: "The kettledrummer is a good musician, but his wrists are not supple nor his rolls sufficiently rapid; his kettledrums also are too small, have too little tone, and he is only acquainted with one sort of drumstick" (Bowles, 9). ... As the Industrial Revolution was taking place...

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Feminism has been around for centuries. ... (LeGates 494) In Europe, before the nineteenth century, women were considered to be inferior and all the power was given to men. ... Throughout the world in the nineteenth century feminist were shifting from arguments on equal rights based on similarities of the sexes to the differences between men and women. ... The nineteenth and eighteenth century created new developments in feminism including arguments from equality and arguments from differences. ... During the early nineteenth and eighteenth century feminist argued about equal rights and thin...

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It was merely the first of millions, if not billions, of similarly angry and uniformed responses that would be heard from opposers for centuries to come. ... The following factors will be compared and contrasted between countries because of their reception of Darwinism: in Ireland, through the Protestant church and how Catholics rejected the idea, in the Netherlands, three specific groups who made up a political-religious divide between progressive liberals and conservative Christians, and in France, how early theories of evolution and natural selection gave way to Darwin's theory. 1 ...

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In the first couple decades of the nineteenth century, a great majority of Americans did not see the value of an attractive yard and thus took no care in its upkeep. ... The amount of the members in the average American household never really changes until later in the nineteenth century, however we begin to see changes as early as the 1800s when couples begin to limit the size of their families. ... The United States was primarily a handmade land in the early nineteenth century; production was still small-scale and not yet mechanized nor standardized. ... Due to farming being of the utmost i...

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Individualism became crucial to people's lives throughout the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries because of the key social movements and changing political structures. ... The Romantic Movement and its stress on emotion also influenced the spread of nationalism in nineteenth-century Europe. ... Nationalism became a kind of spiritual force that rivaled religion in the nineteenth century, and it led to the establishment of new nations and national movements throughout Europe. ...

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In the nineteenth century, a new era of imperialism began; this time followed the Industrial Revolution. ... Political reasons led to imperialism such as feelings of nationalism intensifying throughout Europe during the nineteenth century. ... This was called the "El Dorado", or the "Golden One" (Pertaining to opportunity), that the imperialists dreamed about, since the 16th Century. ...

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The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population. ... From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic Ocean, once a formidable barrier that prevented regular interaction between those peoples inhabiting the four continents it touched, became a commercial highway that integrated the histories of Africa, Europe, and the Americas for the first time. ... For several cent...

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Burckhardt was a nineteenth-century historian who famously described the Renaissance as the "prototype" of the modern world. ... Jacob Burckhardt argued that the revival of ancient learning in fourteenth and fifteenth century Italy gave rise to new scientific and secular values. ... They say that earlier "renaissances" have been seen, such that of the twelfth century, in which a revival of ancient classics and language appeared. ... Europe especially, after the fourteenth century, was characterized by growing notional consciousness and political centralization. ...

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It is estimated that the real wage tended to be higher than that of the Orient and India during the thirteenth century and possibly even during the twelfth (Jones 3). ... It is estimated that at the start of the fourteenth century, the combined peoples of France, Germany and Britain supported 15 percent of the population through peasant work (meaning that 85 percent of the population were peasants). ... The Europeans even went so far as to legislate marriages as early as the eighteenth century. ... Introduced in the late-15th century, the printing press enabled scientists engaged in widely div...

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There were many revolutionary inventions that contributed to the giant leap made by America during the Industrial Revolution. There were inventions in the textile industry, inventions in transportation, and many other things and people that influence the Industrial Revolution. The Railroad was one...

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In his "America: The Multinational Society" essay he said " Is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which includes Turkish marches, a part of Western civilization, or the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century French paintings, whose creators were influenced by Japanese art? ...

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Since most scholars would agree that East Asia was far more advanced than the West before the eighteenth century, it draws a peculiar attention that how the "West" was able to achieve the "World Power" after the eighteenth century. ... Due to Japan's different characteristics, his argument about Europe's success can be also applied to explain Japan's singularly successful adaptation to the challenges in nineteenth century. ...

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Throughout the 19th century, Europe went through the Second Industrial Revolution. ... " Advancements made during the 19th century transitioned into the 20th century and developed even more. ... The mid nineteenth century was the period of the Second Industrial Revolution. A 20 year old living in Europe in 1850 would have gone through a century of new and amazing breakthroughs and advancements. ... The advancements of the Second Industrial Revolution in the 19th century caused the cultural explosion in the 20th century that expanded even more and can be seen as a very good thing in the 21...

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The eighteenth century, however, in which poetry, drama, essays, and literary criticism were all instilled with the form, was the golden age of English satire. ... Byron and Thackeray, in the nineteenth century along with T. ... Reflect briefly on the differences you see between modern and 14th century English: e.g. what seems the same, changes to spelling, words we don't use anymore or words we use for different purposes (1 paragraph) There are a few differences that I see between modern and 14th century English, as Middle English utilizes endings on certain verbs, nouns and adjectives...

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As a rule, Classicism can be characterized as an issue in writing, visual workmanship, music, or construction modeling that draws on the styles of antiquated Greece and Rome, particularly fifth- and fourth-century b.c.e. ... Despite this perplexity, the term is still important in depicting particular styles and inspirations in writing and human expressions from the medieval times to the eighteenth century. ... The investigation of aged Greek was essentially obscure in western Europe from the fifth century c.e. ahead. ... The presentation of printing in the recent piece of the fifteenth centur...

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As the twelfth century approached, European sailors learned to assemble ships that were strong enough to explore the hazardous ocean waters. ... In the nineteenth century, George Stephenson introduced the first stream-powered locomotive. ...

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Prior to the twentieth century when jazz, blues, country, and rock and roll music entered the scene, almost all music was what we called "classical music." ... The classical period in music tends to be associated with the movement called the Age of Reason or the Enlightenment, which began earlier in the eighteenth century. ... This problem was solved in the mid-eighteenth century, when the foundation of the modern professional symphony was laid by violinist Johann Stamitz in the German city of Mannheim. ... It was in the eighteenth century that concert life began. ... The continued existen...

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" Multiculturalism recognises that we live in a society made up of people from many different cultures and religions. It aims to promote tolerance and understanding of others and their right to retain their own culture. But, at the same time, it imposes on all of us on obligation to put Australia's ...

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In the late nineteenth century, American industry was flourishing, and Americans were becoming more wealthy. ... Such social maneuvering was crucial in late nineteenth century society, both in Europe and in America. ...

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In the first decade of the Nineteenth Century, he turned the armies of the French Empire against every major European power and dominated continental Europe, through a series of military victories – epitomised in battles such as Austerlitz. ... Next, (in the span of just a few short years), he was able to accomplish what some nations took centuries to achieve. ... Additionally, Napoleon used ruthless police chiefs to suppress all opposition which influenced 20th-century standards (It can be argued that he influenced Hitler). ...

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During the mid-to late-Nineteenth Century, Wisconsin became home to many immigrants that immigrated to America to start a new life. ... In 19th Century Norway, it was a not the ideal place to be a middle-class family. Farmland in Norway was scare because of the explosion of the European population in the Eighteenth Century. ...

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Secular humanists deny the existence of God. To what extent is this a problem for Christian belief? Secular humanism is not a religion, but a way of thinking and living and its aim is for you personally to bring out the best in yourself and other people so that you can live a happy life. Secula...

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In the late nineteenth century, European nations sought to dominate countries in Asia and Africa, this period of time known as the "New Imperialism."" The drive to expand power pass European borders led to war and rivalry between European powers and their colonies. The drive for more land led Europe...

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During the late nineteenth and into the twentieth centuries, Nationalism was a prominent movement that had spread itself across Europe. ... Just as England had done for centuries, it had become desirable to seek out new land to rule under the laws and cultural beliefs of the "mother" country. ... The Balkans had been a problem in Europe for over a century as it was ruled by the Turkish "Ottoman Empire." ... In the early part of the twentieth century, militarism was as prominent as ever, with the recent industrial revolution being the main factor. ... At the turn of the century, Britain con...

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The nineteenth century romantics- A. ... Edgar Allan Poe- The short stories and poetry of 19th-century American Edgar Allan Poe reflect the writer's haunting imagination. ... The twentieth and twenty-first century romantics A. ... In being both traditional and skeptical, Frost's poetry helped provide a link between the American poetry of the 19th century and that of the 20th century. ... Cummings (1894-1962) - American poet, who was one of the most radically experimental and inventive writers of the 20th century. ...

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