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    Itmauddauhal Analysis

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    few things you loose when you are the emperor of India‚” Shahjahan thought as he lay wide-awake in the bed late one night. It was nothing new. He was used to it and took it sportingly. He often joked amongst his courtiers that sleep was a luxury he could neither buy nor conquer. The courtiers obviously laughed. They had to. But this night it was different. Finally he abandoned the efforts to close his eyes and walked to the window. It was a full moon night. The sky was clear with twinkling stars that

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    Fatehpuri Sikri

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    private quarters and other utility buildings.[2] He named the city‚ Fatehabad‚ with Fateh‚ a word of Arabic origin in Persian‚ meaning "victory." it was later called Fatehpur Sikri.[3] It is at Fatehpur Sikri that the legends of Akbar and his famed courtiers‚ the nine jewels or Navaratnas‚ were born[citation needed]. Fatehpur Sikri is one of the best preserved collection of Mughal architecture in India.[4] According to contemporary historians‚ Akbar took a great interest in the building of Fatehpur

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    had created two new posts Shugo (military provincial administrator) and jito (estate manager) and had forced Emperor Go - Toba to accept them. Yoritomo went on to rule Japan from Kamakura and kept a lot of relation between Feudal Lords‚ Imperial Courtiers‚ and Buddhist sects.  Individual Significance Yoritomo was important because he lead the Minamoto clan from near - ruin to control of Japan. He lead the Minamoto against Taira clan in a war that gave him the title of Shogun‚ a title and

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    Passionate love and jealousy can make people do unthinkable things‚ can’t it? In the intriguing story " The lady or the Tiger‚ " by frank Stockton‚ we are introduced to a triad of characters‚ the King‚ the Princess‚ and a young man. The thing that makes these characters interesting is their humanity‚ and how raw it is‚ for the King and the Princess each share bloodlines of semi barbarity. Near the en‚ it is questioned‚ who came out the door‚ a lady or a tiger‚ and from the evidence gathered‚ it

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    Morris dancing or the Brand or the Brawle which were closely associated with the customs and festivals celebrated in Elizabethan England. The Upper Class enjoyed new types of music at court. They had a taste for new music and new dances. Many courtiers travelled abroad and returned to the Elizabethan court with dances from Italy‚ Spain‚ and France. These foreign influences were found in the development of new Elizabethan court dances and music. These new dances had to be learnt and Dancing Masters

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    Generous Generosity

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    Generous Generosity Generous is an adjective frequently adopted by poets; generosity is a virtue greatly valued by nobilities; generous generosity is a depiction historically inherited by generations. I am always wondering that how does ‘generosity’ develop its personal charisma to attract so much attention? Is it possible to decode its mystery by tracing the origin of ‘generous’? Browsing through books‚ I discovered that some clues keep emerging. From a historic perspective‚ tracing word’s development

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    sweeping over his community. Throughout the story all of the masqueraders feared death by the plague‚ and did their best to avoid it by hiding behind closed doors and distracting themselves with celebration for months. “With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion. The external world could take care of itself. In the meantime it was folly to grieve‚ or to think. The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure” (Poe‚ 41). Prince Prospero provided himself and others with

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    English Consort was the4 first ever English string quartet (Alchin). There were also different types of musicians in Elizabethan England. Three types of musicians were the court‚ house‚ and street musicians. Court musicians played to the courtiers‚ and Queen Elizabeth had at least 70 musicians. House musicians were musicians that people employed to play in their homes. They would play until their employer was satisfied‚ the get dismissed. Street musicians played at

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    Periods of rhetorical theory: To 400 bce Classical: Aristotle‚ Plato‚ Cicero‚ Plutarch‚ etc. To 1400 Medieval: Augustine‚ Boethius‚ Geoffrey Vinsauf‚ Christine de Pizan‚ etc. To 1700 Renaissance: Erasmus‚ Castiglione‚ Ramus‚ Bacon‚ etc. L.17th to 18th cent Enlightenment: Locke‚ Hume‚ Mary Astell‚ Austin‚ G. Campbell H. Blair‚ etc. Nineteenth century: Whately‚ Stewart‚ F. Douglass‚ Willard‚ Nietzsche‚ etc. 20th cent Modern and postmodern: Bakhtin‚ V. Woolf‚ K. Burke‚ Chaim Perelman

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    The book “Dress in American culture” is written by Bowling Green. It’s talk about American clothing‚ the American cowboy‚ and American dress in nineteenth-century. The book “Chinese clothing” is by Valery M. Garrett. This book introduce the emperor’s dress of the different dynasty‚ children’s wear‚ And how Chinese dress for special occasions. In Ming dynasty(1368-1644)‚ the clothing for the emperor was divided into five parts: ceremonial attire‚ leather military attire‚ regular military attire

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