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    Now 1717‚ Bach arrived to the court of Cothen to assume his position as chapel master. This rank was the highest given to a musician in the baroque era. Here in cothen Bach was under the rule of prince Leopold‚ who was a lover of the arts despite being a Calvinist and not allowing music to be used in the church. Leopold was a proficient musician on multiple instruments and would often times play with the orchestra during performances. Alongside this proficiency‚ Leopold also respected and treated

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    symbolically‚ that of the tribe as a whole? 6. Compare and contrast Nwoye and his grandfather‚ Unoka. 7. Analyze the ways that fear governs or affects tribal life. 8. In what ways is Obierka Okonkwo’s opposite? How is he used as Okonkwo’s foil or counterpoint? 9. Life in Umuofia has a thread of violence permeating it. Discuss why the society condones this behavior and even seems to admire it as acceptable behavior. 10. How does Achebe portray the missionaries? Analyze both the intentions and actions

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    Jose Ayala

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    Jose V. Ayala‚ Jr. was born on 22 April 1932 in Ermita‚ Manila. He was a poet‚ a fictionist and a painter. His wife‚ Tita Lacambra is also a poet/fictionist and one of their children‚ Joey Ayala‚ is a well-known poet‚ composer and singer. He finished biology at the Ateneo de Manila and agriculture at the UP Los Baños‚ Laguna. After teaching and farming for several years‚ he worked as an advertising copy editor‚ editor for the US Information Service‚ and writer and fiction editor for the Philippine

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    Missa Pange Lingua is Josquin’s greatest achievement in the art of paraphrase in polyphonic music. Set in the ridged structure of a Catholic Mass‚ Josquin uses the numerous short passages to highlight his variation on a folk theme. This piece took polyphonic music to its limits‚ and harmony soon evolved among his countrymen as the only option to continue western music’s evolution. Josquin was born in the Netherlands. He received early musical training in the Church‚ and as soon as it was possible

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    Effective Communication between Men and Women Many men and women find it quite difficult to understand exactly what their mates want. With this new boom of self-help books this is no longer a problem. Whether it is bad communication or dealing with petty arguments‚ there is a book out there for you and your partner. Although not all of the author ’s agree and there are many critics of these works‚ they do offer helpful insight into the world of communication in relationships between men and

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    A Great Composer

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    thereabouts—which is rather late for a musician to get started‚" (Charles Moritz 190). He graduated in 1918 and was able to devote all his time to writing and composing music. Wanting to further his knowledge in music‚ he was taught harmony and counterpoint by Rubin Goldmark. Understandably‚ the two men shared different views and Goldmark completely disagreed with Copland’s styles‚ so to demonstrate his own stubbornness‚ Copland came back to Goldmark with a piece he wrote entitled "The Cat and The

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    “Johann Sebastian Bach” Johann Sebastian Bach was one of the greatest composers in western musical history. More than 1‚000 of his compositions survive. Some examples are the art of fugue‚ Brandenburg Concerti‚ the Goldberg Variations for Harpsichord‚ the‚ Mass in B-minor‚ the motets‚ and the Easter and Christmas oratorios. Bach came from a family of musicians. There were over 53 musicians in his family over a period of 300 years. His father Johann Ambrosius Bach‚ was a talented

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    Feminism and Postmodernism: An Uneasy Alliance http://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/benhabib-seyla/uneasy-alliance.htm Source: Feminist Contentions. A Philosophical Exchange‚ Seyla Benhabib‚ Judith Butler‚ Drucilla Cornell‚ Nancy Fraser‚ with an introduction by Linda Nicholson. Published by Routledge.‚ pp. 1-16. 1. The Feminist Alliance With Postmodernism A decade ago a question haunted feminist theorists who had participated in the experiences of the New Left and who had come to

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    The Negative Effects of Smoking Literature Review The intent of this review of literature is to show the needs of the further research in how smoking effects the health of the smokers and their families‚ their financial state‚ the environment‚ and people around them. In order to help smokers quit smoking by showing them the reasons of why they should quit smoking and how they can quit. The literature review has shown a gap in the literature and the needs for the further research “the negative

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    Marketing Essay Omar Taha 05117241 Commerce Stage 2 Group 5 Lecturer: Ambreen Bashir Topic: After buzz marketing‚ stealth marketing is the latest marketing communications craze. You are the General Manager of a new entrant in the mobile phone network market‚ competing with the likes of O2‚ Vodafone‚ Meteor and 3. Like these competitors‚ you see your main target market among young‚ highly marketing literate consumers. Your marketing manager has mentioned stealth marketing as a possible way

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