and cheaper. Such a canal would minimize the length of the journey for merchant ships travelling to the Californian coast. Without a canal‚ ships had to go through the hard and often dangerous trip around South America‚ taking in the dangerous Cape Horn. The canal cut almost 8‚000 miles off the journey from New York to San Francisco‚ making the journey cheaper‚ faster and safer. The canal didn’t have as great results for the civilians of Panama though. As the making of the canal went on‚ employment
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The melodies written for the second and fourth songs in Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen became the basis for themes Mahler later used in his First Symphony‚ composed during his time as the conductor of the Leipzig Opera in Germany. The original piece premiered in Budapest with the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra‚ conducted by Mahler himself‚ and was received very negatively overall. In fact‚ an additional movement titled “Blumine‚” the original second movement of the piece‚ received so much harsh
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Poaching in Africa is extremely likely to happen sadly. Most poaching happens in Zimbabwe‚ which is a country in Africa. The second country with the most poaching is Kenya‚ which is also in Africa. More than half of the worlds poaching happens in Africa because there are a lot of rare‚ iconic animals that resides there. Poaching is a deadly and horrific crime against the wildlife that happens worldwide for years. Wildlife officials say that legal hunters kill tens of millions of animals each and
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There are many differences between the music represented on the Your Eyes CD and the Big Band music. The most noticeable is the is the way the vocals are represented. On the Your Eyes the vocal are song‚ while on the other hand the Big Band vocalization is done instrumentally. For example‚ Duke Ellington employed the technique of wordless vocals. This technique‚ sometimes referred to as instrumentalized voice‚ became synonymous with Ellington. The instrumental vocals of the Big Band music are spontaneous
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On page 15 are several comparably tame measures in terms of range; the basses and horns are silent‚ even. The dynamics stop constantly alternating between p and ff‚ but instead work within pp and p for several measures. While there are still full chords present in the string section‚ as seen on page 16‚ the intensity of these are softened
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Ballroom”(Source 7-1). He had the opportunity of playing in different places‚ with different people. He also was “very famous for his using mutes‚ derbies‚ bottles….. sound out of his horn with this arsenal of gizmos” (Source 7-1). With all his experience he was very famous for his style and the way he played his horn‚ he was one of the most admired artist during that time. “King” Oliver was a very influential person for different
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also cause phobias to develop. Phobias Perhaps one day a person hears the sound of a car honking its horn and then sees the car crash into something or maybe even them. They may develop a phobia of car horns or driving in general. The sound of the horn is not the cause of the phobia‚ but rather the fact that the person has become conditioned to fear a crash when they hear the honking of a horn. A phobia we hear a lot of people say that they have is claustrophobia; the fear of enclosed spaces. Maybe
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THE ELIPHAS LEVI BAPHOMET DRAWING and HOW THE CHURCH CREATED THE IMAGE OF THE DEVIL. The rise of the early Christian church was marked by a battle to individualise itself by usurping and suppressing pantheistic ethos of all peasant cultures with which it came into contact. The purpose of pantheism is not idolatry (as the church has continually misinformed us) but a method of representing the method of nature. At the top of the scale were the God and Goddess images‚ which were simply human
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The Singing Bone by The Brothers Grimm translated by Margaret Taylor (1884) In a certain country there was once great lamentation over a wild boar that laid waste the farmer’s fields‚ killed the cattle‚ and ripped up people’s bodies with his tusks. The King promised a large reward to anyone who would free the land from this plague; but the beast was so big and strong that no one dared to go near the forest in which it lived. At last the King gave notice that whosoever should capture or kill
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from ancient European stories gathered by the Greek doctor Ctesias based on Indian travelers’ accounts. The unicorn was also being ’discovered’ in Asia‚ where the Japanese believed this creature brought justice by punishing criminals‚ piercing their horns through their hearts. The Chinese had a unicorn which was peaceful‚ like the European unicorn‚ which was swift‚ isolated‚ and multicolored. It was a symbol of a just and good ruler‚ could live thousands of years‚ and had magical writing tattooed
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