express complex human nature and experience and can also be used to deliver a meaningful message and to evoke our humanistic feelings to change our attitude in a certain way. This poem, Homecoming by Bruce Dawe has successfully captured a short but commemorative moment of Vietnam War through the use of vivid imagery and aural poetic techniques. As an Australian poet, he deliberates over the Australian cultural context regarding the dead bodies of the soldiers to demonstrate the common attitudes towards
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The Introduction of John Philip Sousa The composer that I chose for this project was John Philip Sousa. The time period is Romantic era, 1820-1910. When the Romantic era started they began breaking out of the strict rule of the classic. The French Revolution was going on when he was composing. When he started composing he was 23. The Early Life of John Philip Sousa John Philip Sousa was born November 6, 1854 in Washington D.C. In his childhood he started to play the violin at age 6 eventually
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The mystery of Easter Island has puzzled humanity for years. Easter Island is the world’s most remote inhabited island (“The Mystery of Easter Island”), but a group of people managed to sail there and establish a society that created about 900 stone statues across the island ("Easter Island -- World Heritage Site -- National Geographic”). Over the years, scientists have discovered many facts about the people of Easter Island and their achievements, and have been able to create several plausible
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Individual Microsoft® Access®Exercise Complete the following tasks using Microsoft® Access®: • Create a database consisting of two tables. • Name both tables. • Create fields for each table. The first table must contain the following fields: o Student ID number o First name o Last name o Gender o Phone number o Address o Major o Minor • The second table must contain the following fields: o Student ID number o Course o Letter grade • Establish a primary key for each table. • Create
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Spring in Mexico Cinco de Mayo is not only a holiday known for it's parties, but also it's history. The story starts on May 5th, 1862; Mexico. In the town of Puebla de los Angeles, General Zaragoza, leader of the Mexican army, gathered his troops and townspeople to stand up against France in the Franco-Mexican War. Not only was this victory unpredicted, but it also encouraged Mexican Unity throughout their people. Cinco de Mayo is now a day to celebrate Mexico's win. It is celebrated with colorful
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Compared to King, Bennett “was an excellent parliamentarian and debater who strengthened his party leading up to the election of 1930” (The Albert County Museum & RB Bennett Commemorative Centre). As promised during his campaign, “Bennett quickly enacted tariff increases on U.S. goods and took steps to make Canada independent of the United States and to strengthen its ties to the United Kingdom”, but would later reformulate his
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The Quality of Transcendence: The Stupa Reliquary, Pakistan, Gandharan Region, 2nd century CE (Word count 2062) The Stupa Reliquary currently housed in the Alsdorf Collection at the Art
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La Malinche was born circa 1500 CE, the exact date of her birth or death, 1527 (?), is not known for sure. She was born to a noblemen in Oluta, a city in the eastern edge of the Veracruz region of Mexico, on the commemorative day dedicated to the Goddess of Grass; who’s name she was given, Malintzin. Later Tenepal, which means “one who speaks much and with liveliness” was added to her name. Most of the details we have of her life come from two letters Hernan Cortez wrote to the King of Spain and
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Development of the First Olympic Games It was Pierre de Coubertin of France who dreamt up this ambitious project, although others before him had tried to revive these Games during the 19th century, without having Couperin’s success. Drawing inspiration from the ancient Olympic Games, he decided to create the modern Olympic Games. With this purpose, he founded the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894 in Paris. The new committee set itself the objective of organizing the first Olympic Games
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Fine Arts Spring Semester Eugene O’Neill Eugene O’Neill was born on October 16th, 1888 in New York City. He was the son of James O’Neill who was a popular romantic actor. He was born in a Broadway hotel room where a commemorative plaque is posted on the outside wall with the inscription: “Eugene O’Neill, October 16, 1888~November 27, 1953 America’s greatest playwright was born on this night then called Barrett Hotel, Presented by Circle in the Square”. (Wikipedia, April 2010) O’Neill spent
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