Baroque Era By El-Fatih J. Ajala The Genres of the Baroque Period: Opera – “drama presented in music‚ with the characters singing instead of speaking” (Joseph Kerman‚ p. 87): One cannot speak of Baroque opera without mentioning the name of Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643). Monteverdi has the distinction of being known as the first great composer in the genre of opera‚ as well as the last true madrigalist of his time. He began writing his madrigals at a very early age and composed operas
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Federal works - Study‚ investigation‚ research - Education - Medicine and Health - Labour and social safety - Welfare of aboriginal people - Professional occupations - Holidays other than state holidays‚ standard time - Non-corporate
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Running head; AMERICAN COLONIES IN EARLY 1600 AND 1700. American colonies in early 1600 and 1700 Name; Institution; Date; INTRODUCTION America’s colonial history can be described in terms of the economic‚ political and social events of the early sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The two centuries came with two sets of societies altogether. No historian will contest the fact that the start of the 1600 and its formative years marks the starting point of the
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Jurassic Period The Jurassic period is the second of the three divisions of the Mesozoic era‚ "The Age of Reptiles." The Jurassic lasted for 64 million years‚ from about 208 to 144 million years ago. Climatic Changes: Widespread deposits of sand in western North America indicate that the region experienced a desert climate during the early Jurassic. Coral reefs and the remains of temperate and subtropical forests around the world provide evidence that the climate became moister and milder
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consist of three basic activities * It identifies * Recordsa * Communicates the economic events History of Accounting: 1. Deverlopment period (upto 1494) a. Stone Age b. Old Age c. Exchange Age d. Money Age 2. Pre-Explanatory period: 1494 – 1800 3. Explanatory Period: 1800 – 1900 4. Modern period: 1900 on wards Account is an Aid to Management: 1. Financial statement 2. Policy determination 3. Planning 4. Organizing 5.
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The colonization of North America‚ following its discovery in 1492‚ was a competition --based on the claim and settlement of lands in the New World-- between the major European imperial powers. The English‚ Spanish‚ and French colonization of North America was primarily a religious endeavor that focused on the desire to convert the Native Americans to Christianity‚ the need for religious havens to worship freely and openly‚ and the belief that Europeans had a God-given right to the lands in the New
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Space Colonization is survival of the human race off the planet Earth. Unfortunately‚ at the rate at which humans are destroying the Earth we are going to have to find another life sustaining planet very soon. Resources on Earth will inevitably run out‚ thus ending our tenure on Earth (unless new/different resources are used‚ climate gets under control‚ there is not a nuclear war/fallout‚ etc.)‚ and if we don’t have another planet ready for colonization or already colonized‚ the human race will become
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History Russell McGillivray Kenya The British colonization of Kenya destroyed the culture and economy of the native people‚ but it established a democratic government and left Kenya a more modernized country.[1] During the 1880’s through 1914‚ the start of WWI‚ was an age of imperialism. One place that felt victim to this imperialism was Africa. At this time Africa was a wholly unmodernized continent. The reason the Europeans went after Africa was the introduction of the idea of
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Development of the United States in the period 1700-1800 The purpose of this essay is to explain the historical development of the Thirteen colonies in the time period 1700-1800. It will be shown that the development of the colonies of the south and north differed in this time period. As the colonies developed‚ the need for independence grew leading to the Revolutionary war in 1776. Slavery was very diverse. In the south slavery was separated into two subcultures: the upper south and lower
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Antibiotics Antibiotics transformed medicine. The discovery of antibiotics began by accident. On the morning of September 3rd‚ 1928‚ Professor Alexander Fleming was having a clear up of his cluttered laboratory. Fleming was sorting through a number of glass plates which had previously been coated with staphyloccus bacteria as part of research Fleming was doing. One of the plates had mould on it. The mould was in the shape of a ring and the area around the ring seemed to be free of the bacteria staphyloccus
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