One of the main conflicts in the story "Rip Van Winkle" is about Rip falling asleep for 20 years. To escape the verbal abuse of his wife that he had to deal with every day‚ Rip left to the forest with his dog Wolf. While he was enjoying a calm view at the top of the mountain‚ a strange man yelled his name over and over. The man reached Rip’s location and asked him if he could help him with the bags he carried. Rip helped the man and they headed to the mountain torrent. When they got there‚ they found
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At the Cathedral of Saint Bavo in Ghent‚ Belgium‚ an enduring masterpiece of an altar decoration comprised of wood and oil stands three meters tall. The great Jan Van Eyck‚ a maestro in the demanding oil technique‚ completed the Ghent Altarpiece in 1432 (Stolkstad and Cothren‚ 576-577). Approximately 16 hours away in Rome‚ The Last Judgment‚ a fourteen-meter high fresco‚ ornaments the altar of the Sistine Chapel. The unrivaled Michelangelo Buonarroti‚ known for his breathtaking sculptures and paintings
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John N. Pasmore Essay TED Talk of Auret van Heerden Working out Poverty Auret van Heerden is a compelling speaker. He currently serves as president and CEO of the non-‐governmental organization (NGO)‚ Fair Labor Association in Geneva‚ Switzerland. In a video-‐taped TED Talk (http://ow.ly/rWoZR0) he
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Background/origin/history Land van de Dood is located between Japan and Indonesia near the equator‚ at Latitude 14.604847‚ Longitude 155.039063. Starting in the late 1800’s‚ the still existing dutch speaking viking descendant clans sent criminals to this abandoned island to die. They called this island ‘Land van de Dood’ meaning ‘Land of the Dead’ in Dutch. However‚ due to their ancestry‚ the exiles were somewhat abnormally tall and muscular. This strength allowed their survival on the island. They
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Ab initio second and fourthorder Møller–Plesset study on structure‚ stabilization energy‚ and stretching vibration of benzeneX (X=He‚Ne‚Ar‚Kr‚Xe) van der Waals molecules P. Hobza‚ Ota Bludský‚ H. L. Selzle‚ and E. W. Schlag Citation: J. Chem. Phys. 97‚ 335 (1992); doi: 10.1063/1.463578 View online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.463578 View Table of Contents: http://jcp.aip.org/resource/1/JCPSA6/v97/i1 Published by the AIP Publishing LLC. Additional information on J. Chem. Phys. Journal Homepage:
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Explain what is meant by ‘upwardly mobile’. (Item A‚ line 6). Upwardly mobile means when someone or a group of people move or aspire to move to a higher social class or to a position of increased status or power. Suggest three criticisms of ‘new vocationalism’. It is a cheap source of labour meaning that it should not be up to the education system to train employees for companies. It creates a lack of jobs – young employment is due to lack of jobs and not vocational skills. Working class students
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Final Notice is a book written by Van Fleisher. It is a realistic fiction book that takes place in the United States. It addresses a pressing issue the United States is faced with presently. A group of scientists invents a device that resembles a watch for monitoring heart rates during exercises. It turns out this device can do much more than that. The device can give full medical diagnostics. It has a feature called the final notice that can tell when the wearer is going to die. This device initially
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out to be the "answer" on which the whole orchestra agrees in the great fortissimo summit of that first crescendo‚ but the tense anticipation of that note is a personal‚ marvelous‚ and utterly characteristic touch"(Orga 155). The ninth symphony is my favorite symphony just because the music is so heavenly. It seems in the beginning of the piece brings a person from darkness to light. Beethoven‚ I believe‚ was ahead of his time. To me‚ he is the greatest composer of all time. His music is not just
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The two songs Gretchen and Der Tod und das Madchen were great songs. Shubert he was successfully able to use his music to tell a story. Shubert’s music was able to make the listener to identify the type of music and whether it was sad or happy song. In his song Gretchen‚ the music was great in explaining events in the story. Also‚ he was able to show the characters’ hidden emotions through how the music interacts with singer. For example‚ when the maiden was talking the melody was fast and the singer
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A great example of a tragic hero is a man by the name of Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven was born into a dutch family of nobility in the field of music on December 17th 1770 in bonn. He was named after his grandfather‚ a bass singer. Beethoven’s father‚ Johannes‚ was a court Tenor and pianist and was the first person to instruct young Ludwig in music. He taught him the piano‚ violin‚ and also possibly the viola. He went to elementary school in the Neugasse until his first public performance at the
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