Essay Plan Option 2: Tradition and Dissent in Music: Dmitri Shostakovich. Introduce topic • Music of Shostakovich. • What is a string quartet? http://classicalmusic.about.com/od/classicalmusic101/p/stringquartet.htm • Where are string quartet’s usually played? • http://www.eas-musikmanagement.de/index.php/en/biolawrence • Shostakovich and Russia http://web.mit.edu/jikatz/www/Shostakovich.pdf Shostakovich’s progress • Start about his progression in
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People‚ being naturally inquisitive‚ have often been referred to as scientists. Even as young children‚ people are constantly testing and evaluating the boundaries to decipher their own social environment and quickly recognise what is acceptable and what is not. This soon evolves into intuition and whether it is constructed in a logical and rational way depends on a number factors. However‚ when considering cognitive psychology and the information processing that underpins judgements and risks‚ people
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Introduction A few years ago I got involved in marketing an expensive brand of vacuum cleaners called Kirby. The product was well designed‚ of high quality and had many features that were lacking in other leading brands. The marketing strategy used were a combination of selling orientation and product orientation‚ where the business owners assumed that a sales force would be able to sell the product as long as the right approached was used. I was trained to effectively demonstrate the features
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TMA04 Compare and contrast the views of Goffman and Foucault on how social order is produced. Social order can be considered as invisible rules‚ almost subconscious. It is a way of behaving that we are not always aware of. Silva (2009‚ p131) suggests that social order is about people fitting together‚ and how they practice their social existence. There are different views of social order‚ and this essay will look at the contrasting views of Goffman and Foucault. Goffman’s view is that individuals
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Cézanne Even though the subject matter of both paintings is the same‚ the differences are extremely significant‚ especially in what concerns the modelling‚ the brushwork and the composition. Cézanne’s painting has no illusion of reality due to the easily detected brushwork‚ little sense of depth‚ and delineation of form. There is almost no three-dimensionality‚ an element crucial to the creation of illusion‚ whereas in Vecchio’s there are several elements that create an idea of reality‚ an idea
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The 1917 Theda Bara portrayal of Cleopatra came across as threating and ominous as‚ at the time of filming‚ women were getting stronger willed and fighting for equal rights with men. Hollywood showed her image as alluring sexual and self-assured with good looks and air of authority and the power to control men as and when she deemed necessary. The depicted her as the reincarnation of Cleopatra and not just an image of an historical figure. Cleopatra relationship with Julius Caesar and that of
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Assignment 01 Compare and contrast the ways in which the passage below attempts top discredit Anthony with the ways this is done in the speech attributed to Octavian die ( in reading 1.1 of book 1. Chapter 1.) It is very obvious when reading both passages that whilst Plutarch and Octavian had similar but also differing opinions about Mark Anthony and his relationship with Cleopatra‚ they are both guilty of putting their own negative spin on the situation. They both use different approaches
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TMA04: The Invention Of Tradition. How selective did Irish Nationalists have to be to establish continuity with the national past? The Invention of Tradition as described by Hobsbawm and Ranger‚ “Is taken to mean a set of practices‚ normally governed by overtly or tacitly accepted rules and of ritual or symbolic nature‚ which seek to inculcate certain values as norms of behaviour by reputation.” (E. Hobsbawm‚ T Ranger‚ 1983. p.3) The concept of tradition is the passing down of practices
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prison warden constantly surveilling Antony (Plutarch‚ in AA100 Assignment Booklet‚ 2011‚ p.17). Antony is foolish and passive‚ whereas Cleopatra is composed and intelligent. He lacks astuteness as his illusional fishing trick is transparent to Cleopatra. In contrast‚ Cleopatra has great manipulative skills as shown when she cunningly turns the fishing trick around. This
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From Reading 1.1 and Looking Closely at Plate 3.1.9‚ what do these sources tell us about fifteenth – and sixteenth- century cross-cultural encounters? This assignment will discuss the nature of a cross-cultural encounter in the 15th and 16th centuries between the Portuguese traders and the people of Benin‚ leading to Portuguese figures depicted in Benin art and furthermore our understanding of cross-cultural encounters in general The plaque under consideration (plate 3.9.1) is of three forward facing
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