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    oppose say that marked its birth. There is both a broad diversity and a curious similarity in the audiences‚ complexity‚ and meaning in classical and modern music. Music wouldn’t truly have a purpose with out its audiences. In the 16th‚ 17th‚ 18th‚ and 19th century’s music inspired writers‚ philosophers‚ aristocrats and other thinkers of the time. Music of a classical variation was not available to the public. One had to attend a performance to experience the work of composers such as Bach‚ Beethoven

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    century can be seen in the debasing of the Jazz genre as a unworthy equal to it’s predecessor‚ European Classical music. This can be seen in various statements about Jazz‚ such as Boris Gibalin commit‚ "The "Jazz Mania" has taken on the character of a lingering illness and must be cured by means of forceful intervention."1 This conflict can be traced through out the history of Jazz‚ as Classical composers have relatively disregarded this new type of music. Before Duke Ellington’s Cotton Club performances

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    The development of the Greek polis--whether a military oligarchy in Sparta or democracy in Athens--allowed citizens to participate in political issues. This concept of the "rule by the people‚" mainly in Athens‚ gave the citizens a sense of freedom and harmony. Greeks applied the label "polis" to all of the states‚ regardless of their political distinctions‚ because each was a koinonia‚ a community. After this period‚ the concept of the polis began to change. The regulation of power changed‚ along

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    Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning vs. Skinner’s Operant Conditioning Jonathan Grunden Elizabethtown Community and Technical College   Jonathan Grunden Diane Owsley Psychology 110 September 23‚ 2015 Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning vs. Skinner’s Operant Conditioning Throughout psychology there have been many methods to explain the development of how people act and respond to different things. The two methods that I find most interesting are the Learning Principles of Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning

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    Evaluation “To what extend did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart influence the Classical era?” Summary The question I had chosen for my research project is “To what extend did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart influence the Classical era?” This type of question allowed me to thoroughly explore the classical era and helped me obtain a better understanding. The question also seemed appropriate within my interest in music‚ specifically the orchestral music which was a topic that fascinated me. My final outcome was

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    life. In Athens‚ this meant the exclusion of women‚ slaves‚ and foreign residents‚ or roughly 85% of the total population of Attica” (Spielvogel 6). What this is showing is that Athens is a male dominant society‚ where women children slaves as well as foreign residents are excluded from public life and almost all public aspects of life including their government. As seen by the exclusion of women‚ slaves‚ and foreign residents‚ in public life‚ Pericles is incorrect in saying that Athens is a democracy

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    called city states where Greek-speaking people lived. There were hundreds of city-states in ancient Greece‚ some really small ones and some really big ones with large populations. The following are the five most powerful city-states in about 550 B.C.E; Athens (A-thens)‚ Sparta (Spar-ta)‚ Corinth (Cor-inth)‚ Thebes(the-be-s) and Argos (Ar-gos). Ancient Greece consisted mainly of a mountainous peninsula jutting out into the Mediterranean Sea. It also included approximately 1‚400 islands in the Aegean

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    After consultations with its allies‚ Sparta sent a deputation to Athens demanding certain concessions‚ such as the immediate expulsion of the Alcmaeonidae family including Pericles and the retraction of the Megarian Decree‚ threatening war if the demands were not met. The obvious purpose of these proposals was the instigation of a confrontation between Pericles and the people; this event‚ indeed‚ would come about a few years later. At that time‚ the Athenians unhesitatingly followed Pericles’ instructions

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    1) What were the functions of the Delian and Peloponnesian Leagues? The Delian league was set up by the Athenians for an alliance between all the Ionian Greeks so to stamp out the threat of Persia. Athens took charge because Sparta retreated into its own self-interests‚ so to only protect themselves so the Ionians looked for help among the Athenians. It was formed in 477BC at Delos (which was a neutral city). The league seemed successful because in they had some big victories such as in: 478BC Byzantium

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    academy or at the Lyceum‚ a school he built in Athens around 336-323 BC. The Athenian Politeia was a treatise‚ which was practically reproduced of its old features to help the development of the Athenian democratic politics in its time. Aristotle’s outlook on democracy was that of a demoralizing downhill version of the politeia. Aristotle’s ideal of a perfect political government structurewas a mixture between democracy and oligarchy‚ but Athens had already been a democracy for a while now‚ however

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