The Winchester Trouper is an Anglo-Saxton service book dating from about 980 (Hugues‚ Dom 180). This collection of songs was performed in the early church. There are two of these tropers‚ the second one is just a modified version of the first. A troper is a type of medieval liturgical chant book (Sadie‚ Stanley 794). The earliest known practical source of polyphony is one of the two 11th century tropers from Winchester (Caldwell‚ John 116). Polyphony is the style of music which has multiple parts
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Keeping a solid mindset at all times is important‚ but actions are what define a person. Staying alive during hard and dangerous times may be very difficult‚ but it is important to do. Slavomir Rawicz had to scale mountains with no gear after traveling for weeks through a desert on his journey. “So we went on and on‚ painfully‚ like flies struggling through a path of treacle. We made long traverses to right and left to avoid the impossible extra exertion for a final assault” (Rawicz 255). Rawicz
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countless hours of standing in the corner because I couldn’t resist fighting with my siblings. My parents were not huge fans of spanking‚ but if we got out of control‚ or if they were unable to reason with
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Andrew McClarren Disciplining Children Exemplification Essay The United States once considered the conventional utilization of corporeal punishment by parents on children routine. However‚ contemporary times show these views are becoming outdated as today’s world varies tremendously from that of the past several decades. Children forty years ago‚ for example‚ received physical reprimand as a form of discipline. Styles of living and thinking continue to change. Many people disagree with the traditional
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Invasive species can be found in many different habitats including land and water. If the population of a given habitat increases‚ then there will be too many animals and too little food to feed the extra organisms. Introducing new organisms are harmful to the environment. Food webs are a series of food chains that are linked together. They are organized into groups called
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further‚ and they will admit that the toughest battle is not actually with the person standing on the line across from you‚ but rather within your own mind and body. The fact that wrestlers drop a lot of weight before competition‚ (sometimes using harmful methods) is well-known‚ but few people understand the full process
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President Trump has vowed to build a wall along the US-Mexico border designed to prevent illegal immigration. As the son of an asylum seeker‚ I would argue that this policy is a fool’s errand. First‚ there are numerous ways for "bad hombres" to enter the United States beside slogging through the badlands. Second‚ history has not been kind to man-made barriers erected for the sake of excluding people or for keeping the peace. Case in point‚ the remnants of once formidable walls lie in ruin around
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Watergate was the down fall of President Nixon. There were several things wrong with the events that would come to be known as Watergate. The name comes from the building named Watergate. Nixon essentially hired people to break into the Watergate building and place listening devices in an opponent’s office. If this was not bad enough he also did everything he could to cover up the scandal and the things he and his administration did during this time. While Nixon did a lot of good things during his
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The new school lunches: Harmful or helpful? Are you tired of eating disgusting school lunches? Since the moment Michelle Obama first enforced the new health standards‚ kids have been fighting back‚ and they have a good reason to. No one wants to eat a pile of peas or a whole grain tortilla. The issue is the changes made towards school lunches have been made for the worst. We’ve already established that kids are being served healthy lunches. “But just because children are being served healthy lunches
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Children today ’have less freedom than previous generations’ Two-thirds of under-15s are not allowed to take public transport‚ while a quarter are banned from sleeping over at friends’ houses‚ research has shown. Less than half - just 43 per cent - are free to play in their local park without an adult in attendance‚ according to the study. Evidence of the scale of restrictions imposed by anxious parents comes amid increasing concern about "toxic childhood"‚ with experts warning that modern
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