When I was in fourth grade‚ I remember my Dad getting home from work with the news that we might be moving to Italy on orders from the Navy. The feeling of being uprooted and losing all my friends and familiar surroundings was all too familiar to myself and my siblings. This day was already so memorable because it was on the day of the 2008 election‚ and Senator Barack Obama was‚ in all likelihood‚ going to be the first black president. Although I couldn’t comprehend all of the significance of
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During the Romantic era‚ nationalism proved to be a major influence of the relationship between composers and their music. The political unrest all over Europe provoked many forms of nationalism. The Romantic composers of this era expressed their sense of nationalism in many ways. One way that composers showed this was basing their music on the songs and dances of their people‚ such as Chopin in his mazurkas. Also‚ composers wrote dramatic works based on folklore and symphonic poems or operas
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Did you know‚ that in Germany‚ boys and girls were taught separately when they were young? Young boys and young girls were taught different things and different ways. They even went to different schools. The youth in Nazi Germany were only taught things that would help the Nazi’s in the future. Most of the time‚ they were left in the dark about a lot of things. They were raised‚ learning about Nazi ideas and eugenics. Little did they know‚ they would be apart of a huge event that changed the world
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Tacitus‚ in his writings of Agricola and Germany‚ states in chapter thirty-three‚ page fifty-four‚ “Long may the barbarians continue‚ I pray‚ if not to love us‚ at least to hate one another‚ seeing that‚ as fate bears remorselessly on the empire‚ fortune can offer no greater boon now than discord among our enemies." (Germ‚ p. 54) This quote from Tacitus‚ who was a prominent historical writer back around the first century in the common era‚ is a major point of discussion within the academic world
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Ageing population in Italy An investigate on ageing population trend and recommendations for future _________________________________ 2 Abstract Population ageing is an inevitable problem to most rich country. It is clear that Italy has been facing serious ageing population issues from 1970s. There are some reasons which lead to this issue. Firstly‚ one of the main reasons causing aging population in Italy is the extremely low fertility rate in this country
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What were the effects of nationalism in the later 20th century? Nationalism united people against western/foreign interference and influences‚ as evidenced in the Iranian Revolution‚ the establishment of Islamism‚ and the Organization of African Unity. In 1979‚ after several years of civil resistance‚ strikes‚ and demonstrations‚ the people of Iran overthrew their US-backed leader‚ Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi‚ because of his unjust rule and his ties to the States. Mohammad Reza Shah was put into power
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State in Italy during the middle ages! Church has always played a major part in Italian History. As Europe gradually emerged from the destruction of the Roman Empire‚ the church became one of the mainstays of civilisation. The disorganisation of the Holy Roman Empire‚ its ongoing dispute with the papacy over the extent of Church authority in secular government and absentee foreign overlords left Italians largely self-governing within their communes. At the start of the fourteenth century‚ Italy was a
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I want to focus on a positive aspect within nationalism; National identity can help overcome narrow tribalism. A common trend today‚ especially in Western nations‚ is that populations are becoming more diverse- racially‚ religiously‚ linguistically and otherwise. In this process‚ we have the opportunity to engage‚ understand and work with people who differences might otherwise separate us. (Wilkens pg 71‚ 72) It is the job and honor of every follower of Christ and of every church of the Lord Jesus
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change welcomed extreme left and right winged parties. Around this time‚ the predominant right-winged political ideologies of Nazism and Fascism came to the forefront. In the period between the First and Second World War‚ Hitler’s Nazi Germany and Mussolini’s Fascist Italy provided the ideal alternative to the ineffective parliament democracy. Although considered comparable due to their ideological similarities and the reasons behind their popularity‚ Nazism and Fascism were "closer in theory than in
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Polish Nationalism in Frederic Chopin’s Compositions Frederic Chopin was born in the year 1810‚ in Warsaw‚ Poland and died in 1849‚ at the young age of 39 (Thompson‚ 113). He was also known as “the Poet of the Piano” due to his nuance‚ his expressive depth and his ability to conjure up the melody of the human voice from the instrument’s keys (http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/poland503/chopin.html). “Chopin epitomizes the figure of the “Romantic Artist”: withdrawn‚ temperamental
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