Why would a composer use the musical style of the Romantic period for a scientific‚ futuristic film that features weird western style characters? The score to the Star Wars movie broke all the traditional rules to writing music for sci-fi films. The Star Wars Main Title‚ introduces the idea of using the Romantic style instead of modernistic music for films. This choice reflects the composer’s influences from that musical period and features key musical elements that are easily remembered by audiences
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course of Ireland’s history‚ sport has been a political institution and a venue for nationalism. Within its political structure‚ the practice of both individual and team sport reveals disparities in society. As an integral institution‚ sport should benefit the whole of the community not only specific groups‚ but the gaps between gender and income that exist in Ireland are replicated in sport. The nationalistic fervour during team play exposes an increasing problem of racism and xenophobia. Sport in Ireland
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Wordsworth’s Romantic Values The Enlightenment‚ a period of reason‚ intellectual thought‚ and science‚ led some writers to question those values over emotion. Instead‚ as the Romantic movement gradually developed in response‚ writers began to look at a different approach to thought. The Romantic period‚ roughly between the years of 1785 to 1830‚ was a period when poets turned to nature‚ their individual emotions‚ and imagination to create their poetry. Romantic poets such as Wordsworth‚ Coleridge
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How did nationalism contribute to World War 1? Nationalism held a huge part in world war1 as it does in many wars. A major part of nationalism in world war1 is shown through Otto van Bismarck. Bismarck was a very tactical man and was great at thinking up strategies. It seemed he would do all he could to promote Germany and make it truly powerful over the rest of Europe by making a group of alliances that wouldn’t give France a chance to rise up to Germany since alone France was weak. Although Bismarck’s
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Jane Austen ’s Emma and the Romantic Imagination "To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour." William Blake‚ Auguries of Innocence ’ Imagination‚ to the people of the eighteenth century of whom William Blake and Jane Austen are but two‚ involves the twisting of the relationship between fantasy and reality to arrive at a fantastical point at which a world can be extrapolated from a single grain of sand‚ and all
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The roots of terrorism In the 20th century‚ many nations gained independence from colonial rule‚ mainly due to the idea of Nationalism growing throughout the world. However‚ after gaining independence‚ the common idea that the people had held: ‘to be free from the oppressors’‚ became obsolete‚ and they found that there simply wasn’t a strong enough ideology to mollify everybody
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The Elizabethan Era The Elizabethan Era is named after one of the greatest Queens of England - Queen Elizabeth. It was known as the Renaissance age. The Elizabethan era was an important and one of the most fascinating periods. In the history of England many developments‚ inventions and new ideas were introduced during the Elizabethan era. The Elizabethan Era is not only famous for the Virgin Queen but also for the era itself - Great Explorers‚ such as Sir Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh
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The Baroque Era Rebecca Mozingo Mr. Craton Period 8 The Baroque Era was a period for artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear and easily interpreted detail to produce drama‚ tension‚ exuberance and grandeur in sculpture‚ painting‚ architecture‚ literature and dance and music. It started around 1600 in Rome‚ Italy and spread to most of Europe and ended around the 1750’s. The Baroque era was encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church‚ which had decided at the time of the Council of Trent
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Nationalism in Bolshevik and Fanonist Ideologies Both Bolshevik and Fanonist ideologies focus on the ways in which societies can overthrow existing economic‚ political‚ and societal structures that serve as means of oppression and subsequently bring about new systems that are egalitarian and socialist. While both ideologies share this common goal of creating these new socialist orders‚ the two ideologies vary both in their views on what should be the means to this end‚ as well as with regards
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The Progressive Era The progressive era was a time of great change‚ the way people thought and what they did began to change quickly. Industry and business also changed a great deal in this era‚ with the many new inventions and strong businessmen things where rapidly changing. The progressive era lasted about 40 years‚ from 1879-1920. In 1879 Tomas Edison invented the electric light‚ I guess you could say he just lit the way for may other inventions that people made during this time period
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