The gospel revival and doo-wop merged into the great season of soul music. Soul music was enabled by the commercial boom of "race" music‚ that had led to the creation of channels and infrastructures run by black enterpreneurs for black artists. This class of black enterpreneurs hired and trained a generation of session musicians‚ producers and arrangers (not to mention songwriters) who were specifically meant to serve the needs of black music. Sould music was also enabled by an unstoppable trend
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Every person has his own special someone in their lives. I have always believed that we are born with a soul mate‚ a permanent partner in life. Others may not be too fortunate to meet their soul mates in this lifetime. However‚ others are indeed lucky to have found and met their long lost love and I am one of those fortunate ones. He was my classmate in college. He was one of the few people I really did not like‚ so to speak. He seemed so arrogant‚ conceited and over confident. Days passed after
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As Socrates is being attacked for introducing new ideas and creating a new deity‚ an underlying problem exists within the structure of the state. According to Socrates the current government has grown too large and is‚ “a great and noble steed who is tardy in his motions owing to his very size‚ and requires to be stirred into life.” (Apology
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the right way‚ in fact‚ training to die easily. Or is this not training for death?” ― Plato‚ Phaedo Socrates a great and famous philosopher from the Ancient Philosophy known for his wisdom and humbleness. An adversary to the sophist that socrates himself would criticize them.
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great Greek philosopher‚ Socrates is deemed as being so intriguing. During his time‚ Socrates was seen as a great threat because he tended to break free from the normal way of thinking and inevitably‚ people became afraid of him. Socrates was eventually put to death on account of “corrupting the youth” and being an “atheist‚” which were false claims against him to cover up the fact that his accusers simply didn’t like him or his ways. When reading Plato’s Republic‚ Socrates is shown as being very intriguing
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measured by the standard of the gods‚ stately‚ proportionate sculptures of whom had been adorning the Athenian acropolis since about the time Socrates reached the age of thirty. Good looks and proper bearing were important to a man’s political prospects‚ for beauty and goodness were linked in the popular imagination. The extant sources agree that Socrates was profoundly ugly‚ resembling a satyr more than a man—and resembling not at all the statues that turned up later in ancient times and now grace
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In this essay‚ I explicate connections between Socrates’ descriptions of himself and his role as a citizen and educator in his home city‚ Athens‚ as portrayed in Plato’s Apology. The Apology depicts the trial of Socrates‚ and its entirety is narrated from the point of view of Socrates. Therefore‚ in the account of this trial‚ we have a lens through which we can view Socrates’ ideologies and convictions. Additionally‚ because Socrates is speaking directly to a jury of five hundred and one Athenians
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Causes‚ Fools Decide Them. Socrates‚ an Athenian philosopher who lived from 469 BC until his very unnecessary death in 399 BC‚ has had his wisdom called into question many times since he has been studied. But to know whether some is wise‚ we must first know what it means to be wise. According to Websters Dictionary‚ to be is wise is : (1) having or showing good judgment; (2) informed; (3) learned; (4) shrewd amd cunning. From this definition‚ it is clear to me that Socrates was wise in every aspect
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Athenians sentenced Socrates to death for being found guilty of corrupting the youth and for not believing in Athens gods. In the trial‚ Socrates entertained and addressed two sets of accusations: the old accusations and the new accusations. In the old accusations‚ Socrates was accused of “investigating the things under the earth and the heavenly things‚ and by making the weaker speech the stronger‚ and by teaching others these same things” (19b). In the new accusations‚ Socrates was accused of not
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Socrates an ancient Greek philosopher who arguably set a philosophical president for all modern western theories‚ though he lived in ___________. Today in the 21st century his trial is still studied and debated. Some belief the trial justified and the Athenians were correct in his prosecution. However‚ large populations argue that the trial was unjust and Athenians used Socrates as a scapegoat for the troubles that the Athena democracy was facing during that time. Three men brought the charges laid
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