Jesus Christ was born for the world on Christmas day. He brought joy and hope to the world when he was born. However‚ over the years the focus of Christmas has changed. The world now has the focus of Christmas on Santa and presents. However‚ even though the focus has changed‚ Christmas still has the elements of joy and cheerfulness. Since the focus has drifted a little‚ the world has added a few more elements to the Christmas season. Christmas always has the elements of family traditions‚ planning
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You have only to look at the familiar portraits of Beethoven; you can realize that he probably wasn’t the easiest of people to be with. Impressive‚ certainly; exciting‚ perhaps; but rarely cosy and good-natured. This might be the common impression about this talented composer. Ladies and gentlemen‚ in my today’s speech I’m going to inform you about Beethoven’s individualism with two parts. 1. How individualism spirit helps him to success 2. A controversial individualist /we can say his
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December of 1842 saw the birth of Prince Pyotr Alekseyevich Kropotkin to Prince of Smolensk‚ Aleksei Petrovich Kropotkin‚ of the Rurik dynasty‚ which had ruled Russia before the rise of the Romanovs‚ and Yekaterina Nikolaevna Sulima‚ the daughter of a Cossack general. Kropotkin‚ under republican teachings by French tutors‚ came to dislike the use of titles and so chose to quit using his at the age of twelve. He is remembered as rebuking anyone who referred to him with his title‚ though this was not
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Speaking about music and famous composers we often mean Beethoven‚ Mozart‚ Glinka‚ Tchaikovsky‚ etc. and their masterpieces. Undoubtedly‚ their music is timeless and will be always beloved and popular‚ but we shouldn’t forget that nowadays we have people‚ who are also very talented and whose works arouse deep and complex emotions. So‚ today I want to tell you about Hans Zimmer‚ German composer and modern genius. Hans Florian Zimmer (born September 12‚ 1957) is a German film composer and music producer
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for the Czechs‚ and Czechs will never cease to gratefully commemorate Smetana‚ who devoted all of his greatest powers to the celebration of his country.” This spreading nationalism influenced many Romantic composers. Antonín Dvořák‚ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky‚ Frédéric Chopin - to list more known composers. With composers filled with a new sense of nationalist pride‚ music changed from an individual-based emotion‚ to a collective-based emotion. This nationalist emotion resulted in bombastic‚ passionate
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Contemporary Ballet Ballet is a formalized kind of performance dance which originated in the Italian Renaissance Courts of the 15th century and further developed in France‚ England‚ and Russia as a concert dance form. One of the genres of ballet is Contemporary. It is defined as a form of dance that is influenced by both classical ballet‚ modern dance‚ lyrical‚ and jazz (Wikipedia). It takes its technique and is used of point work from classical ballet‚ although it permits a greater
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Besides that‚ chewing betel leaf was something people do before starting any conversation and it was also done to past time. In general‚ there are six items to complete the set which are betel nut‚ lime‚ gambier‚ betel leaves‚ tobacco and kacip (nutcracker). All items except kacip and betel leaves are kept in small containers known as cembul. The betel leaves are arranged in odd numbers of five to seven and folded together. A betel quid contains three main ingredients that is lime‚ gambier and areca
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The art of ballet started out as a fun dance for the wealthy and throughout history‚ has evolved into an elegant‚ world wide form of structured expression. From its beginnings in European cultures to its now widespread and diverse variations‚ ballet shows no signs of slowing down in popularity any time soon. Early ballet was influenced by the social dancing of its day‚ ballroom dancing. This art was born when the ancient Greek and Roman renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
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Barbie®: Mattel Corporation ‘I’m a blonde bimbo girl‚ in a fantasy world.....Life in plastic. It’s fantastic.’ (Aqua) Barbie was born in 1959 but she has never aged because she is a doll. To date over 1 billion Barbies have been sold by the US company that own her - Mattel Corporation. Ruth Handler‚ who founded the company along with her husband‚ Elliot‚ modelled the doll on an 11½ inch plastic German toy called Lilli sold to adult men. She named the adapted doll after her daughter‚ Barbara
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We all know and love the famous Disney character Mickey Mouse created by Walt Disney. The character has become very popular in American culture and has stolen the hearts of people of all ages from many generations. Many memories can be associated with the shows‚ songs and movies that Mickey stars in‚ but after taking a look deep into the past we can see that there was a chance that the mouse we all are so fond of would have never existed. The movie Fantasia created by Walt Disney revived the career
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