As a composer‚ Mahler all his life stood in a shadow of his far more famous friend and rival‚ Richard Strauss (1864-1949). While the audience in Europe saluted Strauss’ tone poems and his operas with enthusiasm‚ Mahler received recognition as an up-and-coming director/conductor of the Vienna Court Opera‚ but remained controversial as a composer. Although Mahler failed to win a well-deserved recognition as a successful composer during his lifetime‚ Mahler’s symphonies have become a firmly established
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In the 1930’s‚ Richard Dogmagk experimented with a red dye called prontosil and found that it had strange healing effects‚ when he injected the dye into mice with severe streptococcus infections‚ they all survived. Dogmagk had discovered the one of the fist antibiotics‚ specifically the first Sulfa drug. When scientists isolated the active part of the prontosil molecule they discovered how it and all sulfa drugs work. Sulfa drugs contain a sulfur atom that has six total bonds (shared electrons)
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Marketing Plan: Phase III Paper Marketing MKT 421 April 21‚ 2008 Marketing Plan: Phase III Paper A clear vision and strategy has been developed for Gatorade’s new energy drink the Drive Energy Drink. With that said‚ the next step to developing the product is to determine the attributes‚ the product life cycle‚ and positioning and price strategy of the product. Knowing the right look and feel of the drink can increase sales and use of the product. How will the product be introduced to the
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William Shakespeare’s “King Richard III”‚ an Elizabethan play written as a piece of Tudor propaganda‚ and Al Pacino’s 1996 docudrama “Looking For Richard” set in contemporary New York‚ have distinctive parallels in what values they concern themselves with despite their markedly different contexts. Our understanding of both texts is advanced through exploring the composers’ contrasting values of free will clashing with Providentialism and the importance of integrity and honesty in the Murder of Clarence
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In the play ’Richard III’‚ the characters are an important part in the story. The characters of any story are the main reason the story advances. The characters and their personalities also play a major role in deciding the plot. In ’Richard III’‚ William Shakespeare‚ the author‚ uses Richard’s intelligence‚ wordplay‚ and wit to advance the story and characters. There is no doubt about the fact that Richard is the villain of this play. He is also the protagonist‚ which is the leading character
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Richard M. Nixon our 37th president Born Richard Millhouse Nixon on January 9th‚ 1913 in Yorba Linda‚ California Nixon was the son of a grocer. His father owned a small lemon farm in Yorba Linda‚ California where he helped out as a boy. His childhood was troubled seeing that he almost died twice once by accident and the other time by pneumonia. Another horrible incident of Nixon probably the most tragic was the death of his brother Harold from tuberculosis. Nixon had always attended public schools
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Richard Jordan Gatling (1818-1903) was born on a plantation in Hertford County‚ North Carolina‚ on September 12th 1818 (Wikipedia.com). He is an American inventor best known for his invention of the Gatling gun. His father worked on machines to sow cotton and thin out cotton plants on the plantation (britannica.com). He worked with his father to perfect the machines on the farm at an early age. At age 15 he started to work at the county clerk’s office‚ and by the time he turned 19 he left the county
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ongoing cause of issues in history‚ and the Church of England was no exception. Issues with the monarchy ruling the church in Britain was the reason for many debates‚ wars‚ civil issues and rights to the throne. Initially the Church was under Papal rule‚ making the Pope have control over something the Throne did not. Hunger for power in the sixteenth century was not limited to land control and civil control; it spread right up to the Church of England causing many problems for the monarchy and Papal authority
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Chapter 3‚ Flexible‚ by Richard Sennett‚ “The Corrosion of Character” As a whole‚ Richard Sennett’s book The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism discusses the effect of the flexible capitalist economy on the lives of workers during the 1990s. Chapter 3 focuses mainly on flexibility. Sennett compares the flexibility of a human being to that of a tree‚ whereby‚ the tree has the capacity both to yield and to recover‚ from both the testing and the restoration
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How similar were Richard and Saladin? Richard: 1. Look at source F. Which person is Richard and why? I think Richard is the one on the horse with the long flying cape on his back because it is the main feature in the picture and is not faded out like the rest of the picture and he also has a crown on his head. 2. Is source F Primary or Secondary? Why? 3. What do sources G-J tell us about Richard? It tells us that King Richard was a very powerful and a man of great courage and spirit
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