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    long and profound history since Italian Renaissance. In this essay‚ I will be answering question number two: Explain briefly the meaning of this musical term oratorio and give an account of the most popular and arguably greatest oratorio of the first half of the eighteenth century. Oratorio Oratorio was born in Italy at about the same time as opera. This word ¡®oratorio¡¯ originally comes from the Latin word for oratory or prayer room which were many in the Rome of that time. It is originally

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    Danny‚ Mason‚ and Joy rand got up at nine in the morning. Danny‚ the only child‚ woke staring out his large bedroom window when his mom‚ Joy‚ walked in his room. Danny looked up at her with a smile stretched across his face. "Danny‚ better get your bags ready‚" Joy said‚ "our trip is starting today." Danny jumped up‚ without saying a word‚ and snatched his blue and yellow suitcase‚ hastily packing his clothes. His mom walked out and into Mason’s room. "Mason‚ get up and get ready. Your son’s already

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    Slaves could still exist‚ we could not have a navy‚ we could possibly not even exist. Imagine a world without any United States of America. The first half of the 19th century was very important because the American market-based economy experienced unprecedented growth in the due to the creation and development of many new innovations. In the first half of the 19th century there were many mode of transportation invented. The Cotton Gin was invented‚ the Railroad was invented‚ the Erie Canal was dug

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    "The Unexpected" and one other story in this collection. Third essay The ending paragraph of the short story “The Unexpected” is the most important paragraph in this short story. It’s in this paragraph that makes the reader find out the surprising final twist of the story‚ persuading them to ponder about relationships and female independence (in 18th century for the modern day readers). Correspondingly‚ in another short story of the same collection 19th century short stories‚ “News of the Engagement”

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    Acceptance of Others

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    The Acceptance of Others Recently‚ our school adopted the OLWEAS bulling training program. Every other Tuesday we meet with a select group of students and a teacher and talk about different instances and about ourselves. During the trainings that I have endured it has made me think about my actions towards other people and how these actions or words are portrayed. One instance was judging people before you know them personally. As soon as you look at a person most people make a general note based

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    Accepting Others

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    Accepting others is a very important part of life. Especially the way they are. If you can’t learn how to do that then you will miss out on a lot of friends in life. Life is hard enough and when you have to try to "fit in" the cliques of life‚ it makes life much harder. When you go to school you always have to worry about the way you look or how you walk or who your friends are in order to "fit in". If you don’t have a model body or an "Abercrombie and Fitch" boyfriend/girlfriend you don’t really

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    Orientalism and the “others” This review examines the critique of Orientalism and how Orientalism affected the representation of various societies and its subjects during the Colonial encounters and in the historical present. In the case of my study‚ how Orientalism produced and are still producing the representations of minority non-Hans in China. This review explores Orientalism as a methodology of analysis that produced a certain biased views and representations of the Others‚ be they former colonial

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    Caring for Others

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    Caring for others When our son was diagnosed with Anorexia we were shocked‚ and felt like our whole lives had turned upside down. I felt like I’d let him down and couldn’t understand how I hadn’t realised what was wrong with him. We had always been close and able to talk as a family. Our son was admitted to a specialist unit for a few months and the staff helped all of us in a supportive‚ caring way. Over this period of time I felt that I had stepped out of normal life. When going out I would

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    Half-Price Books: Developing the Future BIS/320 March 10‚ 2014 Half-Price Books: Developing the Future The implementation of new technology within a company is a timely and expensive process; Half-Price Books must fully evaluate the benefits of developing an online purchasing system and the benefits to the business. To remain competitive within the field and continue to grow; online book sales and user feedback is the future for Half-Price Books. By utilizing the systems development life cycle

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    On Behalf of Others

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    10/26/12 Mrs. Acosta On behalf of Others On Behalf Of Others Individuals who are under certain conditions should have their situations exploited in order to avoid having more people suffering. I agree with Agee’s claim because if their situations are not exploited then they can’t be given aid and it can’t be prevented in the future. In the documentary “Old People In Jail” by Tim Gruber shows some old people look like they shouldn’t be in jail. What jail does to people is make them look

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