Cassini-Huygens is a robotically designed spacecraft‚ currently studying the planet Saturn and its natural moons. A spacecraft is an artificial space object used to investigate Earth and outer space. Cassini probe was named after the Italian-French astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625-1712)‚ who discovered the Cassini division‚ which is the gap between the rings of Saturn. The little lander Huygens was named after the astronomer‚ physicist and mathematician Christian Huygens (1629 - 1695)‚ who in 1656 realized
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inspiration to portray a wonderful environment. Theodore Gericault’s; “Evening: with an Aqueduct”‚ landscapes capturing the vastness of the great out door; Childe Hassam’s; “Surf‚ Isles and Shoals”‚ portrays strong wind blowing from the crashing tide‚ and Giovanni di Paolo’s; “The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise”; portray God as bathing in the glowing celestial light while an angel shows Adam and Eve out of the beautiful garden after they sin‚ are examples of great paintings that shows
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Donna Anna‚ Donna Elvira & Zerlino Mozart’s Don Giovanni The choice of the “Three women of Don Giovanni” can give a good understanding of the type of music which was used to create an opera in the 18th century Italy. The opera buffa was a comic opera with a funny story line and light music. Mozart wrote at different levels. In order to have full understanding of the women’s roles‚ it is necessary to understand the social context of women in the 18 century. In Kristi Brown’s Mozart’s
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prince. “The Pig King” was written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in his The Facetious Nights of Straparola. These two fairy tales are a little similar because of almost the same experience of the two protagonists whose appearance is animal in the story. Nevertheless‚ one of them does not experience the cruel plots; and another nearly is killed by his wife yet. Through the different plots between “The Flog Prince” and “The Pig King”‚ Brothers Grimm and Giovanni illustrate how the heroines have different
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My last piece of evidence comes from a Ted Talk by Janine di Giovanni stated that the things she saw in war even as a reporter were horrifying and she can’t imagine what soldiers go through everyday. She say piles of dead children who never got to see the end of their lives dead because of the war generals forcing kids to fight with weapons at such a young age. She said many soldiers sided because they were forced to lose their innocence during war and attack. I can’t imagine how many toddlers saw
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I Know Your Twenty Cell phones have become the leading source of communication in the world. However‚ it is not just phone calls or e-mails anymore‚ someone might take down time to play angry birds or candy crush saga. If your cell phone is left on and completely unattended someone‚ knows your location. Over 200 million Americans who own a cell phone have been watched on a data base created by the cell phone company‚ keeping track of tower signals‚ recording conversations‚ and making copies of
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One of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s most famous pieces from the Renaissance was Sicut Cervus‚ a motet that bases itself off the first two phrases from Psalm 42 (41). The piece was scored for four voices‚ presumably for a soprano‚ alto‚ base‚ and tenor‚ and all four voices seemed to act almost independent of each other. Obviously the existence of various voices means the piece has a polyphonic texture‚ but interestingly it is actually imitative polyphony‚ meaning that all voices have are reading
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The renaissance was a very important time period. It was a transitional period between medieval thinking and early modern thinking. The important changes that really got the ball rolling included the shakedown in the Catholic Church‚ the invention of the printing press and the increase of travel and trade. This was the age for arts in all forms From painting‚ to music‚ to acting‚ the renaissance had a major hand in developing the arts to where it is today. Religion was larger than life at that time
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In a prominent quote stated by Bartolomeo Vanzetti after being sentenced to death said‚ “The jury were hating us because we were against the war‚ and the jury don’t know that it makes any difference between a man that is against the war because he believes that the war is unjust‚ because he hate no country‚ because he is a cosmopolitan‚ and a man that is against the war because he is in favor of the other country that fights against the country in which he is‚ and therefore a spy‚ an enemy‚ and he
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of music notation developed which indicated the length of each note and the pitch” (“Middle Ages Music”). There are many outstanding composers comes out during this period. Such as Hilegard von Bingen‚ Guillaume de Machaut‚ and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. And Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was the most 2 important composer during this period. He was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition.
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