The very first preludes were lute compositions of the Renaissance era. They were free improvisations and served as brief introductions to larger pieces of music or particular larger and more complex movements; lutenists also used them to test the instrument or the acoustics of the room before performing. Keyboard preludes started appearing in the 17th century in France: unmeasured preludes‚ in which the duration of each note is left to the performer‚ were used as introductory movements in harpsichord
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T.S Eliot’s Preludes‚ is one of his most prominent poems because it presents his view of society at that time using concrete objects and images to metaphorically explore the nature of life and society. In this poem‚ we discover society as corrupt and desolate going through a cycle of meaningless routine where people bare a false hope of a divine source overlooking and protecting humanity. The title itself holds significant meaning. A prelude in general and particularly in a musical sense characterizes
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Did you know about 600‚000 people died in the Civil War? The North and the South’s economies made their money in two totally different ways. The North made their money by big industries. The South used the cold-blooded system of slavery. The United States fought a Civil War because of sectionalism‚ slavery and compromises ignoring previous compromises. The United fought a Civil War because of sectionalism. “ They started many tobacco plantations and brought in black slaves from Africa to provide
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century‚ a war arose in the United States that had a tremendous impact on America as a whole. The war (Civil War) shaped America into what it is today. It made a change‚ a good change on the American people. Throughout this essay‚ I’m going to discuss what caused the civil war. In other words‚ there were many things that led up to the civil war‚ including‚ slavery‚ the south depending on the north‚ and the violence that was happening in both the South and the North. Therefore‚ the civil war was caused
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The death toll of the Civil War is equal to the Trade Towers event occurring every Tuesday for four years. In the 1820 congress solved a new crisis by admitting Maine to the Union as a free state to balance the admission of Missouri as a slave state. By 1850 the United States was evenly divided with fifteen Free states and fifteen slave states. There are many causes of the Civil War but‚ there are only three main causes. Those three causes are the different economies of the North and South‚ the political
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Abraham Lincoln’s acceptance speech for US Senate in 1858 foreshadowed that the Civil War would happen. Many people think that the Civil War was just because slavery was wrong‚ however there are many reasons why this war happened. There are three main reasons why the CIvil War happened. They are economic‚ social and political differences between the Northern States and the Southern States. The first cause of the Civil war were the economic differences between the Northern and Southern states. Document
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Some historians argue that slavery was the primary cause of the American Civil War. As Robert E. Lee said‚ “In this enlightened age‚ there are few I believe‚ but what will acknowledge‚ that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.” I believe the statement that slavery was the primary cause of the American Civil War is true‚ because slavery was very controversial and became the symbol of disunion. First of all‚ in document
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During the late 1800s‚ the Civil War and the period of Reconstruction brought great changes in America. One cause that led to the Civil War was slavery. As a result of Reconstruction‚ there were several changes including segregation and the given rights of African American. The effect of these changes continued into the 20th century. One major social cause that led to the Civil was slavery. The North wanted to abolish slavery‚ but the South opposed to abolishing slavery. The North did not need
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Name __________________________ Civil War Persuasive Essay Question Instructions: Answer the following question in a well-developed‚ five-paragraph persuasive essay: “Was the Civil War inevitable or preventable?” Suggestions and requirements: Your answer should be equivalent to at least 5 paragraphs of 5-6 average-length sentences each. Your answer can be “yes‚” “no” or somewhere in between. Make sure you understand the wording of the question fully before you begin. It would
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Preludes (1917) is an early poem of Eliot that deals with the characteristic Modernist trope of urban absurdity‚ monotony and squalor. The poem is divided into 4 parts and in a ’montage’-like fashion‚ creates an associative framework of images that describe a banal urban life‚ disconnected‚ solitary and full of alienation and meaninglessness. The first part sets the tone in minutely describing a winter evening in the city--from the smells of meat to the grimy scraps to the abrupt rain or the lonely
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