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    American Literature Young Goodman Brown: The fall of man “Young Goodman Brown” is the short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne is best known today for his short stories and romances written between 1850 and 1860. Hawthorne’s works belong to romanticism and discuss guilt‚ sin‚ good‚ and evil. The themes of his works often focus on the inherent humanity and bring out some moral lessons which Puritan New England inspired much. One of his most famous works is The Scarlet Letter which

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    Romantic Period (1820-1900) Characteristic of Music -it is a manifestation of one’s feelings -it is an expression of emotion -among the different periods of civilization‚ Baroque‚ Renaissance‚ it was during the Romantic period wherein the expression of feelings was clearly emphasized thru music. Romanticism -is a movement which means intense emotional manifestation‚ imagination and individualism -it allows free expression of feelings -artists were given to show their inner ideas and beliefs

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    Literature on the American Civil War is very intriguing. The Civil War brought a highly desired end to slavery‚ but it also came with very undesired death and destruction. The Civil War changed how writers write forever. In the South pre-Civil War life revolved around agriculture‚ mostly on large farms or plantations where enslaved African Americans were forced to do most of the labor. In the North pre-Civil War‚ the soil and climate favored smaller farmsteads rather than large plantations‚ which

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    Financia Accounting a Accounting: American Professors‚ “Accounting is an information system for measuring‚ processing‚ and communicating information that is useful in making economic deciesions”. Indian professor‚ “Accounting is a ‘vision’ of business. Since accounting farnishes the ‘eye’ through which business and administration ‘sec’” Bangladeshi Professor‚ “Accounting is the concrete economic science”. Accounting consist of three basic activities * It identifies * Recordsa

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    Periods of British Literature: 450-1066: Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) Period 1066-1500: Middle English Period 1500-1660: The Renaissance 1558-1603: Elizabethan Age 1603-1625: Jacobean Age 1625-1649: Caroline Age 1649-1660: Commonwealth Period (or Puritan Interregnum) 1660-1785: The Neoclassical Period 1660-1700: The Restoration 1700-1745: The Augustan Age (or Age of Pope) 1745-1785: The Age of Sensibility (or Age of Johnson) 1785-1830: The Romantic Period 1832-1901: The Victorian

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    THE CLASSICAL PERIOD (1775-1825) The Baroque period culminated in the masterpieces of J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel. In the middle of the eighteenth century‚ contemporaneous with the mature years of Bach and Handel‚ a new musical style developed that is known as Rococo or preclassical style. This style is most evident in keyboard and orchestral music‚ but it is mentioned here because it represented a transition from the Baroque to the Classical era‚ occurring between 1725 and 1770. In the world of painting

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    Outline the major musical development of the classical period and the main characteristics of the classical style. Main characteristics of the classical style: Contrast of mood - Mood in classical music may change gradually or suddenly. Masters like Haydn and Beethoven were able to impart unity and logic to music of wide emotional range. Rhythm - In Classical music‚ there is a flexibility of rhythm. A classical composition has a range of rhythmic patterns. The classical style also can include

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    The Romantic Period was a literary movement in Europe and America during the late 1700s through the middle 1800s. Romanticism was characterized by five basic systems of beliefs. It should not be surprising that these were completely different from the characteristics of the Enlightenment. Romanticism was an intentional revolt against the rational‚ formal‚ reasonable period of the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment was too scientific and did not focus on romanticism. The Romantic Movement emphasized

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    of literary history. | |The concept of literary period also implies a grouping through time. But a work‚ rather than being "placed" within the | |entire sweep of literary history‚ is "placed" within a much more restricted time frame. The period concept provides | |another system of classification‚ ordering literary and cultural data chronologically‚ within certain discrete time | |periods. It assumes every age has its characteristic special features‚ which are reflected in its representative

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    challenged the laws of segregation on interstate buses. The Freedom Riders were brave men and women wanting to make a difference. Though the Freedom Riders were not the first people to go up against segregation they held a part in what we as our African American history. According to Mr. Raymond Arsenault the recent death of Rosa Parks refocused nationwide attention on one of the crucial figures of the civil rights movement the Freedom Riders. However without the heroism of hundreds of unsung activist‚ Rosa

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