... one of the most innovative and influential composers of the 20th century. He is credited with the invention of serialism, or 12-tone music, method of composing with twelve notes related only to one another. It is a form of atonality, or lack of reference to a key or tonal center. In it ... , he broke with a system of tonal organization that had developed over hundreds of years and had become a trademark of Western music. Arnold Franz Walter ... like the use of trumpets and percussion to evoke the army, and the trombone doubling the male chorus to also bring attention to situations. Music...

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... the way in which architects began to think of rooms as " capsules" in which the building structure, furniture, and function were completely integrated ("St. James", 658). All of these elements emerged in the post war period. In the development of furniture, first came handcrafts, then came the industrial revolution, ... 210, 226). In this category are such designers as Belter and Thonet, who worked with machines to find fresh ways of bending wood ("St. James, 443). Going even beyond this class are the likes of Breuer, Le Corbusier, and Aalto, whose creative approaches mated design and i...

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... is, and any respectable tuba player has this piece in his or her repertoire, as well as a large number of bass trombone players. To understand how this wonderful piece of music came together the way it did, it is necessary to not only understand the major regional and world events of the time period, but also the personal and family life ... give it a very clean and organized. However, about halfway through the movement, it shifts into compound meter, and every so often the soloist will have three quarter notes, and there will be two dotted quarter notes in the same spot in the accompan...

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... of primitive fertility rite 26. Alban Berg - (1885-1935); wrote opera, Wozzeck, first performed in Berlin in 1925; blended a half-sung, half-spoken kind f dialogue with harsh, atonal music; Wozzeck is a gruesome tale of a soldier driven by Kafka-like inner terrors and vague suspicions of unfaithfulness to murder his mistress 27. Arnold Schonberg - (1874-1951); Viennese composer; led composers ... in abandoning traditional harmony and tonality; musical notes in a given piece were no longer united and organized by a key, instead were independent and unrelated 28. Guglielmo Marconi - (1874-...

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... outlook of the American people. As a result of the Vietnam War, and the post-industrial shift, brought about by the counterculture movement centred mainly around drugs, 'free sex' and 'popular music', the United States economy suffered from widening deficits year after year. The British then attempted to orchestrate a run on the dollar ( demand gold in return for the dollars they held ... on the drug trade. With such a vast accumulation of dollars, British banks were able to buy up the American economy, or ruin it with financial speculation, such as the junk-bond corporate takeover mani...

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... finance military operations (Reiser, 2001). The mass media participated in presenting advertisements in favor of supporting the war across the nation. War bond posters were made with headlines such as "Wanted-Fighting Dollars, Make Every Pay-Day, Bond-Day!" to promote where workers should invest their money (Poster Campaign). Companies exhibited their support by accompanying particular products with war theme ... War Advising Board worked hard to convince civilians that investing in war bonds were of great patriotic acts (Home Front America). War bond advertisements spread from posters ...

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... views of an event to make somebody think in a certain way or to mask the truth. Propaganda can be in the form if posters, newspapers, speeches, photographs, rumours, cinema and music. In the beginning of the war the people thought of war as an adventure, a way to make money or a way of becoming a hero this is because world war one was ... and there material was also censored if it showed too much of the truth, moreover not even soldiers letters were left to the way they were written even these personal notes were censored. This is an example of the way the government used propaganda to ...

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... . Although As Seen on TV is a story of popular culture, it is a culture that belongs for the most part to a white, middle-aged, middle-class America. Instead of focusing on James Dean, Allen Ginsberg, or Chuck Berry, Marling centers her study around more "mature personalities," such as Walt Disney, Richard Nixon, Grandma Moses and Mamie Eisenhower. Her witty, almost nostalgic, narrative ... , Marling's book fails short of a true representation of visual culture during the 1950s. How did mass culture and visual culture serve as a form of resistance? The dissidents, such as youths, music st...

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... people that rely on them for information, ideas, and the direction of their daily activities. However, there are some vast differences between the two. A husband and wife writer team notes, "In contrast to the notion of 'management,' which suggests preservation or maintenance, 'leadership' implies a process where there is movement- from wherever we are now to some future ... different styles, sometimes using different styles in different situations, depending on the group they are leading and the results they desire. There are four basic types of leadership styles. A writer notes, "Type-...

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... love for the countryside-Gloucester, which remains somewhat consistent in his later poems. In analyzing his early work, Gurney's own combat experience and music sensibility is greatly defined in his poem structure and brief modernity of expression. Two poems well known for evincing Gurney's attitude toward WW1 during ... with resentment and attitude, subjects that show his firm take on the war that are structured with soft sounds alluding to his acquired reputation in music. His early work underlines nature and Gurneys love for the English countryside, which he utilized to contrast his ...

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... could be accomplished at Potsdam, the Americans and the Soviets were able to reach some agreements at the end of the conference due in large part to the actions of James Byrnes, the American Secretary of State. Byrnes had been the Secretary of State during the last few years of the Roosevelt administration and played a considerable role in American foreign policy ... was for all Western nations to band together in a cohesive bloc led by the United States.44 Kennans analysis received overwhelming support from the members of the American government.45 James Forrestal, the Secretary of the...

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... American popular culture in the 1950s is very clear. "As true today, popular culture in the 1950s meant primarily movies, television programs, and recorded music as well as fiction, drama, and even fashion and comics." The Cold War is the name given to the tensions and arms race that occurred ... way associated with the Communist Party. Lastly, the influence that the Cold War had on American popular culture is evident through analysis of the popular music of the 1950s. As a result of the Cold War, American popular culture was largely dominated by anti-communist ideals and subsequently ...

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... American teenager as a "clean cut, well mannered" boy or girl encouraged many to express their individualism. Many found this new form of expressionism through music. In a new, huge youth market called rock and roll, Elvis Presley would help many young men and women finally transform out of that traditional ... student who commented on Elvis Presley's influence on America, wrote that: Elvis illustrated the culture of the 1950's by changing the face of popular music forever His unusual style, that included sexy moves, and good looks started to cause more and more excitement everywhere he p...

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... military pressures stemmed from discussions and meetings of Truman, Secretary of War Stimson, Army Chief of Staff General Marshal, Chief of Navy Staff Admiral William Leahy, Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal and others. Truman knew of the ferocious fighting currently taking place in the Pacific, and naturally had a desire to minimize what he felt would inevitably be a long, bloody struggle ... kind of remorse to 135,000 people that were killed and injured in bombing. Not even a single sentence in the speech mentions about the people suffered in the war. (Byrnes James). He goes on to...

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... have elapsed, one question still persists: "Which explanation is best suited as the cause of WWI?" To provide an answer, the views of six historians shall be considered. To begin, James Joll's answer to the question will be examined. It will be seen that he considered several factors that, according to him, interlinked and lead to the conflict. Five additional explanatory ... and Konrad Jarausch. They concentrated on more specific issues as part of interpreting the causes of the conflict. In his 1980s book The Origins of the First World War, historian James Joll offers an explanation li...

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... France had the largest empires which enhanced their national prestige as well as wealth and fuelled their citizens" eager nationalistic sentiments. Of this as James Mason writes "Germany wanted colonies as [she] were jealous of Britain's empire" (Mason James, History to GCSE pg 6). Under Bismarck Germany had not rigorously sought after foreign colonises. With Bismarck believing it was "luxury Germany could not ... ...

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... be taken Germany could by repressed by the "Jewish threat". He perceived his battle as essential to cure his country and by giving his nation a common enemy he bond them together which made Germany even stronger and better....

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... the natural wonders of the north eastern coast. This influence is produced by the pollution of traditional minded residents, hoards of visitors, and greatly that of commercial industry wastes. Scofield notes this rapidly growing dilemma is greatly due to development among the coastal areas. With the development of more business, comes more infrastructure, and of course more people. This concept also ... ...

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... War during the early 1950s. First and foremost, the nature of this diary entry must be examined for a full historical perspective. Eisenhower's diary is not merely a notebook with bullets and notes jotted down in passing. These entries are in paragraph form, with formal writing containing great detail and explanation. Eisenhower thoroughly goes through each step in his thought process, even though ... ...

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... under their name and facing unimaginable hardships and adversities during internment, the Japanese-Americans persevered and in turn, have become a lasting memory and piece of history. Unified under the common bond that they were all in it together, the Japanese were able to channel their shared experiences as motivation to seek justice and what was rightfully theirs. At the end of ... ...

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... subprime mortgage meltdown than one might at first recognize. The first casualties of recession are debtors, and like the Mortgage industry, the Auto industry depends on people paying down the notes that they finance. Unfortunately for the auto industry, most people will miss a car payment before they do a house payment, and those unable to extend their home credit to eat their ... ...

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... prime mortgage meltdown than one might at first recognize. The first casualties of recession are debtors, and like the Mortgage industry, the Auto industry depends on people paying down the notes that they finance. Unfortunately for the auto industry, most people will miss a car payment before they do a house payment, and those unable to extend their home credit to eat their ... ...

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... go for a walk. The story of "Mother" is different from "Hands," "Paper Pills," and "Tandy" in that it discusses an obsession with the love between parent and child, nature's strongest bond. Furthermore, as in the other stories, obsession results in grotesqueness and eventual clouding of logic, creating "The Winesburg Disaster Cycle". This cycle is seen in Elizabeth's irrational attempt to kill ... ...

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... accounts for the actions of Reserve Police Battalion 101 in Poland and the role which individual soldiers played in the mass murder of Jews during the "Final Solution." As he notes in the beginning of the book, "the Holocaust took place because at the most basic level individual human beings killed other human beings in large numbers over an extended period ... ...

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... unity of the Big Three served to guarantee that the provision of "free and unfettered elections- would be carried out. It is clear from his recollections and from the conference notes that Churchill was impatient and eager to solve the issue, regardless of the specific demands of the Polish government in exile.i Both Britain and the United States readily acknowledged the ... ...

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