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- 751: Mozart 2
- ... weeks at Versailles, where the children enchanted Louis XV. In 1764 they arrived in London. Here Mozart wrote his first three symphonies, under the influence of Johann Christian Bach, youngest son of Johann Sebastian, who lived in the city. After their return to Salzburg there followed three trips to Italy between 1769 and 1773. In Rome Mozart heard a performance of Allegri's Misere; the score of this work was closely ... bore six children. The Mozarts' first child, Raimund Leopold, died at the age of two months of an 'intestinal cramp' while his parents were away on a visit to Salzburg. Their third, Johann Thomas Leopold, lived less than a month, their fourth, Theresia, six months, and their fifth, Anna Maria, only one hour. The Mozarts were left with only two surviving children, whom Wolfgang barely had time to know. When he ...
- 752: Wild Child Vs Nature And Nurtu
- The movie Wild Child is a movie based on a child left behind in the woods by his own parents in 1798. Attempted to kill the infant, but some how survived. And lived on his own from 4 or so to around 12. Then he was found by local resident who lived where the "wild child" survived at. And then taken in a National instuted deaf care. This delinquent relates to the phrase nature vs. nurture. The "Wild child" was taken in mistaken as a deaf child ...
- 753: Ancient Egypt
- Starting about 8,000BC, all of Northern Africa became a drier, more desert-like place. Back then, man lived in nomadic groups of hunters and gatherer. The climate forced man to migrate to more hospitable lands, some migrated to Nile River Valley which is a vast land surrounding the Nile River. There in this ... few furniture, they paid half their harvest to government tax. They were also require to work on palaces, temples, clear irrigation ducts, and serve in the army. Slave were mostly descendants of war prisoners some lived like free peasant and others llived in the houses of nobles serving them. The ancient Egyptian society really respected women, women had the right to buy or sell land. There weren't many divorces, but ...
- 754: 1984
- George Orwell has been a major contributor to anticommunist literature around the World War II period. Orwell lived in England during World War II, a time when the Totalitarianism State, Nazi Germany, was at war with England and destroyed the city of London. (DISC) "I know that building' said Winston finally. It's ... thirteen." (Orwell 5) Orwell carefully selects the words for this sentence and chooses to introduce the story in the past tense, as though all things have already occurred. This suggests that the narrator has already lived through the actions that take place in this book and is only describing his memory. (Lawrimore) If Orwell had written this book in present tense, the opportunity to foreshadow to such an extent would have ...
- 755: More's Utopia And Huxley's Brave New World: Differing Societies
- ... Though the two authors have chosen different approaches to create an alternate society, both books have similarities which represent the visions of men who were moved to great indignation by the societies in which they lived. Both novels have transcended contemporary problems in society , they both have a structured, work based civilization and both have separated themselves from the ways of past society. It is important when reading these novels to ... ways of the past society. In Utopia, the king had the earth that connected them to land dug, in order to become the secluded island that they are. In Brave New World, people who still lived by the way of the past were retained on reservations. These people, “savages,” were surrounded by electric fences. Members from the new society had to obtain a pass that was seldom given out ...
- 756: The Gilded Age
- ... whereas many of his laborers and employees made a mere four hundred and seventeen dollars per year on average (Allen24). The rich were also mentally incapable of even dreaming of being poor. The lives they lived were so extravagant that it was often easy to lose oneself in upper class society and neglect the lower class without a thought. “If Rockafeller’s own house was not a palace, it was ... he could take his afternoon drive; a private golf links on which he could play his morning game; and anywhere from a thousand to fifteen hundred employees, depending on the season”(Allen30). Hundreds of entrepreneurs lived in similar lavishness. During a time of private interest such conditions were natural, however in this particular case the effects of privately interested classes were amplified due to the state of government. The government at ...
- 757: 1984: A Political Statement Against Totalitarianism
- George Orwell has been a major contributor to anticommunist literature around the World War II period. Orwell lived in England during World War II, a time when the Totalitarianism State, Nazi Germany, was at war with England and destroyed the city of London. (DISC) "I know that building' said Winston finally. It's ... thirteen." (Orwell 5) Orwell carefully selects the words for this sentence and chooses to introduce the story in the past tense, as though all things have already occurred. This suggests that the narrator has already lived through the actions that take place in this book and is only describing his memory. (Lawrimore) If Orwell had written this book in present tense, the opportunity to foreshadow to such an extent would have ...
- 758: Fahrenheit 451 Symbolism
- ... the society Bradbury has predicted to come. Montag s world continues on without thought; without any real reason. There is no learning, no growth, and no purpose. The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in the dark corner of the firehouse (24), wrote Bradbury to describe this hound. Like the hound, society was alive yet ... to the disturbing outside world was cut off as to protect the citizens from having to worry. The people were oblivious to the war raging outside, and the bomb that eventually killed them. The society lived in blind happiness. Paralleling this society is The Hound. When it attacks its victim, it injects lethal doses of morphine, causing the person to experience drowsiness and fall into a deep relaxing sleep, unaware that ...
- 759: 1984: Political Statement Against Totalitarianism
- ... has been written directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it" ("George Orwell"). George Orwell has been a major contributor to anticommunist literature around the World War II period. Orwell lived in England during World War II, a time when the totalitarianism state, Nazi Germany, was at war with England and destroyed the city of London. " I know that building' said Winston finally. Its a ruin ... warmth, but in actuality it's the complete opposite. It's a place of hate and pain and is cold and dark. A better name for it would be the Ministry of Hate. George Orwell lived during a time when Europe was in a period of rebuilding after World War II. During that time Soviets gained six nations as satellites. England was helpless and had to worry about their own problems ...
- 760: Mk Ghandhi
- ... different levels. It is true that they all used direct actions, and Gandhi says, They would not raise a finger against their enemies, but would gladly surrender themselves rather than the truth for which they lived. (Pg. 396) Gandhi feels he simply and humbly follow in the footsteps of the great teachers named by my critic. (Pg 396) I feel the circumstances when Christ died on the cross and defied the whole empire to be an entirely different time and situation then when Gandhi lived. That is why I feel direct actions at that time may have proven to be for the best but Gandhi s Hartals in my view proves nothing than a large amount of dead bodies. Gandhi ...
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