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- 661: Beethoven
- ... orally. Beethoven never married. Though he had many friends, he seemed to be a lonely man. He continued to appear in public but spent more and more of his time working on his compositions. He lived in various villages near Vienna and took long walks carrying sketchbooks in which he would write down his musical ideas. Scholars who have studied these sketchbooks have discovered the agonizingly long process that the composer ... he often replaced the minuet movement with a livelier scherzo. He also used improvisatory techniques, with surprise rhythmic accents and other unexpected elements. Many critics and listeners regard Beethoven as the finest composer who ever lived. His music was unique and emotional. Never before had instrumental music been brought to such heights. He also made great strides with chamber music for piano, as well as for string quartets, trios, and sonatas ...
- 662: Biography Of Karl Marx
- ... shelved. In 1849 Marx was expelled from Berlin he travelled to London where he was to spend the rest of his life. Marx spend the period from 1850 to 1954 living in poverty his family lived on bread and potatoes and two of his children died. His son Guido was "a sacrifice to bourgeois misery," and a daughter Franziska, for whom Marx s wife rushed about frantically trying to borrow money for a coffin. (Marx was experiencing life as the lowest class, which conflicted with his experiences of the continent of Europe where he had lived a fairly solid well of life) At the time Engels helped Marx alleviate some of his financial distress. Marx managed to travel back to Europe with Engels and began to get involved in European politics ...
- 663: The Declaration Of Individualism And The Encouragement Of Protest From Birmingham Jail
- ... laws that are unjust. In his letter from Birmingham Jail King states: "It was illegal to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at that time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If today I lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's anti-religious laws." This excerpt shows that King encourages protest because in some ...
- 664: Ozzy Osbourne
- ... was poor and needed money to live so Ozzy did what he could do to help out even if it did mean he had to steal. He used drugs often because of the life he lived and also because of his deep depression and state of mind. But Ozzy would not be who he is today if he had lived a different life. If his family was rich I bet he would have never started a musical career and never met Sharon. The music of the world would have been different if this one man ...
- 665: Moby Dick
- ... less real because he could not (or thought he could not) share in them. Lear railed at the universe but sought instruction even in his madness and learned reconciliation and love in unexpected ways. Hester lived out the dark ambiguities of her existence, with no satisfying resolution either way, but grew toward acceptance and humility rather than hate and denial. Ahab hated and denied. The universe had wronged him; he adjudged ... less real because he could not (or thought he could not) share in them. Lear railed at the universe but sought instruction even in his madness and learned reconciliation and love in unexpected ways. Hester lived out the dark ambiguities of her existence, with no satisfying resolution either way, but grew toward acceptance and humility rather than hate and denial. Ahab hated and denied. The universe had wronged him; he adjudged ...
- 666: The American Dream In Self Rel
- ... by the way, are all external and superficial, is just such an unwieldy and overgrown establishment, cluttered with furniture and tripped up by its own traps, ruined by luxury and heedless expense” (from Where I Lived and What I Lived For 212) and for which the only cure is simplicity. In addition, Transcendentalists believed that man should live life to the fullest by seeking to reach their potential. Thoreau “did not wish to take ...
- 667: POPULATION REDISTRIBUTION
- ... Bosnia was the center of the fighting between the Serbs, Muslims, and Croats and Kosovo has been the center of fighting between the Serbs and Ethnic Albanians. Many of these people who were neighbors and lived in the same communities for decades, now find the thought of reestablishing their ethnically diverse communities an impossibility after so much bloodshed. Once peace has been established and the borders have been confirmed in Kosovo ... Bosnia was the center of the fighting between the Serbs, Muslims, and Croats and Kosovo has been the center of fighting between the Serbs and Ethnic Albanians. Many of these people who were neighbors and lived in the same communities for decades, now find the thought of reestablishing their ethnically diverse communities an impossibility after so much bloodshed. Once peace has been established and the borders have been confirmed in Kosovo ...
- 668: The Zhou Dynasty
- ... their new capital, Luoyang, in the eastern part of the Zhou kingdom, they found themselves right at home. The topography was nice and flat and there were no mountains. It is true that the Zhou lived better when geography was in their favor, however, the Zhou still had to overcome tremendous challenges such as the rebelling lords and the under populated territory, despite its favorable geography. 10 (See Appendix B, D1 ... had a favorable geography, with farmable land, a fresh water source, and mostly flat land, which made the people complacent. As a result, they were unable to maintain control over its feudal states. The people lived too easy a life and as a result, were destroyed by more capable peoples (Ch’in). 11 (See Appendix D1, D2, E4) Toynbee also suggests that the minority of the creative peoples will determine the ...
- 669: Cirrhosis Of The Liver
- ... portal hypertension). Thus, common symptoms include jaundice, resulting from reduced passage of conjugated bilirubin into the biliary tract; increased bleeding, from sequestration of blood platelets in a congested spleen; or the deficient production of short-lived coagulation proteins by the liver. In males, there may be certain changes in the skin, such as the appearance of small spider-like vascular lesions on the hands, arms, or face, a marked reddening of ... including immunoglobulins). Although other tests may also be abnormal in patients with acute liver disease, serum albumin levels are usually not reduced in the acute stage of the disease because that protein is rather long-lived, up to one month, and levels do not decrease until the liver disease becomes chronic. Elevated levels of serum iron or copper support a diagnosis of hemochromatosis or Wilson's disease, respectively, while a positive ...
- 670: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... for the Jewish and helped them go through the time when Hitler had power. She did all of her work with self-confidence, authority, independence, and cleverness. is one of the greatest women who ever lived because of her accomplishments, her benefits to mankind, and her motives to accomplish her goals. Helping other people was what lived for. There were many accomplishments made by this woman in social and political matters. For one thing, she spoke out for women to make them more equal to men. In 1928, she helped originate the ...
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