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Violins
... bass-bar, a long strip of wood glued to the inside of the front under the left side of the bridge. The sound post and bass-bar are important for the transmission of sound, and they also give additional support to the construction. The strings are fastened to the tailpiece, rest on the bridge, are suspended over the fingerboard, and run to the pegbox, where they are attached to tuning pegs that can be turned to change the pitch of the string. The player makes different pitches by placing the left-hand fingers on the string and pressing against the fingerboard. The strings are set in vibration and produce sound when the player draws the bow across them at a right a ...
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I Have A Dream
... his speech and Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation speech in an attempt to honor him for the steps he took to abolish slavery. He delivers his speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in a step to show appreciation for the late presidents actions to bring about more civil rights in the past. Second, Dr. King uses a similar style of speech that Lincoln used in his Proclamation address such as the use of the word “score” instead of saying twenty years. In the introduction, Dr. King also gives a chronological history of the negro through the course of time in an effort to point out that blacks have not come very far in terms of freedom.
Throughout th ...
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The Truman Doctrine
... The Truman Doctrine would change the foreign policy of the United
States and the world. This policy would first go in aid to support the
democratic regimes in Turkey and Greece. These nations were being
threatened by Soviet-supported rebels seeking to topple the government and
install a Communist regime. The Soviets were also making extreme
territorial demands especially concerning the Dardanelles.
A direct influence of this Doctrine was, of course, the Marshall Plan.
The Marshall Plan was designed to give aid to any European country damaged
during World War II. It tremendously helped ravaged European nations such
as Italy and France. By helping t ...
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The Emergence Of Ghettos
... neighborhood as the whites. Therefore, blacks all gathered in one area, where it is known today as the ghettos. Moreover, as the years progressed the factories were starting to close down and move to the suburbs. As the factories left, this left many blacks jobless and stuck in the ghettos.
Urban problems were also a major effect on the ghettos. Railroads had brought many blacks up from the south and into the ghettos. More importantly, blacks were competition to the whites for jobs. During the 1900-1920 time period racial violence broke out in major cities around the nation. Riots took cities by storm. Blacks that lived in white neighborhoods had their homes blo ...
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Gothic Art
... development of the new polyphonic music that
supplemented the traditional Romanesque plainsong. Romanesque
architecture became old-fashioned, but its heavy forms pleased the
Cistercian monks and, likewise, other conservative patrons in Germany,
Poland, Hungary, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Thus, buildings that were
essentially Romanesque in spirit continued to be built, even when such
extraordinary Gothic works as the Amiens cathedral were under
construction (begun 1220). (see also Index: Gothic architecture, music,
history of)
The development of proto-Romanesque in the Ottonian period culminated in
the true Romanesque style represented by five ...
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The Rainmake - Film Review
... business is initially sparse, until Deck Schifflet (Danny De Vito) an unlicensed, street-wise legal assistant attempting the bar for the sixth time, steps in and demonstrates to the inexperienced Baylor how it is done.
Mrs. Birdie, (Teresa Wright) Baylor’s landlady, becomes his first case, a chirpy elderly lady wishing to leave her fortunes to a TV evangelist, much to the disdain of her family, whom Birdie wants to “cut,cut,cut” from her will. His second case is Kelly Riker, (Clare Danes) a young woman repeatedly assaulted by her husband Cliff (Andrew Schue). Riker catches Baylor’s eye in the hospital cafeteria, covered in bruises, attracting Baylor’s special in ...
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Dionysus The Peoples God
... to learn how Dionysus affected the Classical Greeks one must first know of his origin. Dionysus was the offspring between Zeus, King of the Gods, and Semele, a princess of Thebes. Hera was jealous of Semele and convinced her to make Zeus show Semele his true form, only knowing that this would kill her and her baby. When Semele is burned to death Zeus saves his unborn son and transplants the fetus into his leg. Once born Dionysus was taken to Semele's sister, Ino the Queen of Orchomenus. To hide the child from Hera, Ino disguises him as a girl. Hera was not fooled, so to punish Ino she drove her to madness. Zeus changed Dionysus into a goat and sent him to li ...
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Blaxploitation - Dolemite Vs The Mack
... movies affected the music industry as well, because modern hip hop music is derived from these movies.
Dolemite, starring and produced by Rudy Ray Moore, was made in 1975. "Directed by D'Urville Martin, Dolemite deals with a street smart pimp who was framed by the 4th ward's biggest dope dealer, Willie Green (played by D'Urville Martin). After two years in jail, Dolemite is released to help apprehend Willie Green and avenge the death of his nephew, Little Jimmy." (Goodwin). "The self proclaimed 'King of Party Records' pooled his money and produced Dolemite on a "low, low, low, low" budget. 'I was made fun of here in Los Angeles,' Says Moore. 'They c ...
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Art History Entombment And Adoration Of The Shepperds Painti
... following the star of Bethelham. Moretto decided to pick a time much later in the bible when Christ was about to be buried after being taken down from the cross and brought to the tomb of Joseph of Arimathaea. Both paintings tell their respective stories more clearly by visualizing as much as possible. In Entombment for example, Cigoli displayed Joseph and Nicodemus holding a crown of thorns and nails in order to help us understand that this scene takes place directly after they took Christ down from the cross. In the Adoration of the Shepherds, Cigoli probably painted the star above so people would assume it is the star of Bethelham which the shepherds followed to ...
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The Writing Of The Constitution
... life, liberty and property.
Following the election of George Washington as president of the convention,
Governor Edmund Randolph of Virginia presented a draft of a new
constitution .The Virginia Plan proposed a two house legislature. A lower
house directly elected by the people of the states based on the population ,
and an upper house elected by the lower house.The congress was to have
broad legislative power ,with veto over laws passed by state legislatures .
The President and cabinet would be elected by legislature. The national
judiciary would be elected by legislature , and their would be a "Council
of Revision" with power to veto laws of Congress.
Dele ...
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