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    beautiful melodies and illustrious moods portrayed through musical accompaniment‚ German lied proved to be a significant musical genre during the 19th century and owed much of its success to inspirations not only from poets of the time like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe‚ but also composers like Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann. Due in part to the continued innovation at the time of the modern piano‚ which introduced an entirely new scope of musical expression in just one instrument‚ the romantic lied reached

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    Surface Area

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    representation as parametric surfaces. This definition of the surface area is based on methods of infinitesimal calculus and involves partial derivatives and double integration. General definition of surface area was sought by Henri Lebesgue and Hermann Minkowski at the turn of the twentieth century. Their work led to the development of geometric measure theory which studies various notions of surface area for irregular objects of any dimension. An important example is the Minkowski content of a

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    Siddharth

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    the right direction. Machines help us accomplish things faster and more effectively; similar to how friends help us accomplish goals we would never be able to accomplish on our own. Exactly how Siddhartha’s friends help him attain enlightenment. In Hermann Hesse’s novel Siddhartha‚ Siddhartha’s friends Kamaswami‚ Govinda and Kamala help him realize who he has become and help guide him towards reaching enlightenment. Through Kamaswami’s actions Siddhartha comes to the realization he has become distracted

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    In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley‚ John’s identities are influenced by two opposite societies‚ and even though he tries to prove his manhood and change the framework of brave new world‚ he can’t gain real acceptance from anywhere. John’s mother‚ Linda‚ is from the brave new world but gave birth to him in the savage reservation and her different behaviors based on the framework of the brave new world caused John’s isolation in the savage reservation. John decides to move to the brave new world and

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    The Sister Brothers

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    Peter DeWitt novel “The Sister Brothers” is set in western frontiers of America in 1850’s. Eli and Charlie Sisters are notorious professional killers‚ are on their way to California to kill a man named Hermann Kermit Warm. Charlie makes money and kills anyone who stands in his way. While Eli on the other hand has doubts about what they do for a living and falls in love easily. In “The Prince” by Niccolo Machiavelli he says the best way to manipulate people and gain power is through Intelligence

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    Reflection On Siddhartha

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    The spiritual ideas of Buddhism and Hinduism are very interesting but often hard to grasp. In the novel Siddhartha‚ by Hermann Hesse‚ these ideas are the basis for many likes and dislikes. It is a story about a young Hindu boy who rejects the beliefs of everyone he knows and finds his own way to peace and salvation. Siddhartha’s spiritual content and interesting plot provide great reading‚ but can be hard to understand at times. One aspect of Siddhartha that I like is its spirituality and use of

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    Brave New World     Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a satire showing the need for individualism‚ and the problems of a controlling society. Helmholtz Watson lives in a world where individualism is practically absent and forgotten. However‚ this does not stop him from being an individual thinker and rebel. Watson is smarter than everyone else‚ too smart for his peers liking. This‚ plus his refusal to follow the social “norms” make him an outsider. He creates the rift between himself and society

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    “Brave New World” Essay Technology has been used negatively in Brave New World to create a future where individuals are incapable of producing or affecting change. Discuss this statement and show HOW Huxley has demonstrated this idea to his readers. Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” explores the extreme impact of science and technology on an unreal world. The novel fits the science-fiction genre as a dystopia to the reader. Huxley wrote the novel in1932 and presented his thoughts

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    William James Research Paper

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    WILLIAM JAMES January 11‚ 1842 – August 26‚ 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology‚ educational psychology‚ psychology of religious experience and mysticism‚ and the philosophy of pragmatism. He was the brother of novelist Henry James and of diarist Alice James. William James was born at the Astor House in New York City‚ son of Henry James‚ Sr.‚ an independently wealthy and notoriously eccentric Swedenborgian theologian

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    The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the Battle of Stalingrad and pose the possibility of an alternate outcome for this battle. Was it possible for Nazi Germany to defeat the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Army at the Battle of Stalingrad? With the use of intelligence assets‚ as well as better preparation for the close quarter operations‚ there was a possibility for Russian Army defeat. The Battle of Stalingrad is arguably one of the most important campaigns of the war in Europe during

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