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    Fanfare for the Common Man The piece was written in 1942 for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under conductor Eugene Goossens. It was inspired in part by a famous speech made earlier in the same ear where vice president Henry A. I couldn’t relate to this piece‚ it didn’t resonate with me. Berlioz “ Symphonie fantastique IV ( March to the scaffold) This piece reminds me of marching band at high school pep rally. The sound of the timpani also remindsof heavy footsteps of an army. The song starts

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    society to a significant extent from 1934 to 1941 through the use of fear and control to assume total power with no opposition. The Great Terror aimed to target individuals who undermined Stalin’s regime‚ and was catalysed by the assassination of Sergei Kirov‚ a Bolshevik revolutionary working below Stalin who would often challenge him. Through the use of political purges‚ Stalin shaped the Communist party to a significant extent‚ eliminating and denouncing any possible rivals while also creating

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    Dear Mr. Caballé‚ Dear Bodegas Caballé Selection Committee‚ First we would like to thank you very much for your assignment and your trust in us as newcomers in your company. We read both your commissioning letter to the Polish recruiting company and the reports of the pre-selected candidates with great interest. After an extensive analysis we agreed on some general criteria to base our decisions about the most suitable applicant for your company on. The criteria are as follows: Language‚

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    multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is with prompt and effective treatment of all prisoners. A huge problem is that if prisoners are released to a dismantled public health system cannot cure them (Farmer 120).” This is an example of a peasant by the name of Sergei‚ whom struggled to survive and tried to set himself free from poverty by writing fake checks. This small crime has placed him in prison and be waited for trial. During the chaotic of government structure of the fall of the Soviet Unions‚ he was placed

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    Theorising the structure of the Kremlin Factions: lessons learned from China Introduction Two decades after the end of communism‚ the ‘state of democracy’ in Russia remains a point of vivid debate within academic circles. There’s no lack of concepts to describe the nature of the current regime: ‘managed democracy’ (Lipman and McFaul‚ 2001)‚ ‘Potemkin democracy’ (Clarck‚ 2004)‚ ‘forms without substance’ (Brown‚ 2009)‚ ‘phony democracy’ (Sakwa‚ 2008b)‚ ‘facade democracy’ (Rutland‚ 2003)‚ ‘democracy’s

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    The Cuban Missile Crisis

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    THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS The “Caribbean crisis‚” as it was known in the former Soviet Union‚ was attributed to the Kennedy administration’s unwillingness to accept the status quo in Cuba. Unalterably opposed to Fidel Castro‚ the administration organized an ill-fated invasion of Cuba by anti-Castro refugees in April 1961. After the “Bay of Pigs” fiasco‚ the Central Intelligence Agency tried to assassinate Castro and sponsored covert operations against Cuba‚ the Department of State organized

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    Romanov‚ Empresses Alexandra‚ Agnostic’s sisters Olga‚ Tatiana and Maria‚ and her younger brother Alexei were killed on that day. Later in that month‚ Anastasia’s uncle Mikhail was murdered in Perm‚ her aunt Grand Duchess Elizabeth‚ her uncle Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich‚ along with a few other relatives in Alapaevsk. 3) Anastasia was not a princess. She was a grand duchess. Her mother was born a princess‚ but Anastasia was not. Her mother was a princess of the British royal family. 4) Anastasia’s grandmother

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    After the unexpected death of Tsar Alexander III‚ his son Nicholas II succeeded him in 1894‚ at the age of 26. That same year‚ he married his second cousin‚ Alexandra Feodorovna‚ the princess of Prussia. The couple had five children‚ but only one male descendant‚ Alexei‚ who suffered from haemophilia. There is much cause for speculation as to Nicholas’ suitability as Tsar. Nicholas started his reign with little experience or desire to rule. On the day of his coronation‚ over 1‚000 people were

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    impact on the listeners. Alexander Nevsky’s fourth movement Arise‚ Ye Russian People‚ composed by the famous Russian composer Sergey Prokofiev‚ was a cantata (vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment) designed to fit the film directed by Sergei Eisenstein on the thirteenth-century Russian hero Alexander Nevsky. Although this movement is relatively short‚ but the music as a whole was extremely powerful‚ and by powerful I mean the feeling of strong sense of nationalism and heroism as a listener

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    Evolution of Modern Dance

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    Modern dance has developed to what it is today through the contributions of many famous artists. The choreographers mentioned are and were some of the most influential people that defined what modern dance is today. Modern dance is developed when a choreographer wants to move away from the restricting rules of classical ballet and the strong ideals of what dance should be. Students often take preference to what style of dance they like‚ either ballet because of the security of the positions‚ steps

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