The invention of printing subjected the existing field of histories – whether allegedly true‚ romantic or novel – to a process of trivializationand commercialization. Romances had circulated in lavishly ornamented manuscripts to be read out to audiences. The printed book allowed a comparatively inexpensive alternative for the special purpose of silent reading. Abridgements of ancient historians‚ popular medieval histories of knights‚ stories of comical heroes‚ religious legends and collections of
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EVENTS IN THE FILIPINAS ISLANDS By order of the most excellent Don Luis de Velasco‚ viceroy of this Nueva Espana‚ and of the most illustrious and reverend Don Fray Garcia Guerra‚ archbishop of Mexico‚ and member of his Majesty’s council‚ I have examined this book of the Events in the Philipinas Islands‚ written by Doctor Antonio de Morga‚ alcalde of the court in the royal Audiencia of Mexico. In my judgment it is entertaining‚ profitable‚ and worthy of publication. The author has strictly obeyed
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experience as a statesman that has allowed himself to question the very foundations of human society or more notably laws and legislations as nothing is hardly ever seems obvious when it comes to deciding the punishment for a convicts. Works like such as Don Quixote written by Miguel Cervantes and Faust written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also questions the validity of social views and learning. By delving into Montaigne’s essay On Experience we also get glimpses of how the originator of this philosophical
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and/or teach their daughters about music and how to play the piano. Mozart ended up establishing himself in Vienna as a struggling freelance musician. He then reached a peak in his career. Some of Mozart’s most famous pieces are‚ The Mariage of Figaro‚ Don Giovanni and Cosi an tutte. These were all produced in the late 1780’s. Society was absolutely astounded by his work. Mozart admired his father Leopold Mozart. He wanted his father
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Amadeus begins with an attempted suicide by composer Antonio Salieri‚ who is overcome with guilt about supposedly killing Mozart. His life is saved by his aids and he is sent to what looks like a mental hospital‚ where a priest is sent to council him. The whole story is told through the eyes of Salieri on his death bed‚ confessing to his priest. The whole movie takes place in Vienna‚ Austria. Besides the first few scenes where Mozart is seen as a child‚ the story begins in 1782 when Mozart is the
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April Penn English 102 Section 69s Critical Response Hotel California I powered on my Nintendo Wii to get a quick game of guitar hero’s world tour‚ as I was sitting at home alone and bored. I flicked through the available tracks‚ and came across Hotel California by the Eagles; a song I had never heard before by a group I had no knowledge of. Since I had never heard the song before‚ I decided to go for it. I choose that track to play on the easy level being that it was my first time hearing
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“Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all‚ to see life as it is and not as it should be.” Miguel de Cervantes was considered the person to write the first “modern novel”. He was a very intelligent man. He is well known for his book “Don Quixote” when he died. Miguel de Cervantes was born near Madrid‚ Spain in 1547. He was the fourth of seven children in his family. He struggled financially his whole entire life. His father was born deaf and worked as a surgeon
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You know that nightmare of appearing at school in your underwear? That happens to poor Chicken Little (voice of Zach Braff of TV’s "Scrubs")‚ a tiny little chick with big glasses perched uncertainly on his beak‚ but he has the heart of a lion. And Disney’s first-ever fully computer-animated movie movie has a wonderfully fresh and unpretentious energy that is a lot of fun to watch. How does his story begin? Disney signals this film’s departure from the grander traditions of the past by addressing
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music grasped children and teenagers and really shaped the way they grew up and how they interacted with their parents. As interesting as it sounds both John Lennon and George Harrison of The Beatles learned to play guitar by listening to Buddy Holly. Don McLeans single “American Pie” was written about Buddy Holly and how he made people fall in love with music. The song was also written to show how life from there on out change. He expressed that as the time music and our country started to move into
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In the autumn of 1971 Don McLean’s elegiac American Pie entered the collective consciousness‚ and over thirty years later remains one of the most discussed‚ dissected and debated songs that popular music has ever produced. A cultural event at the peak of its popularity in 1972‚ it reached the top of the Billboard 100 charts in a matter of weeks‚ selling more than 3 million copies. By identifying this great success it illustrates that it was no ordinary song. With its boldness‚ originality and it
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