Toasmasters Report #1 Katie Hofmann East Georgia State College COMM 1110 Professor Verdis 5 July 2013 Toastmasters is an international leadership and development network helping individuals become better public speakers and leaders. The website claims to have 280‚000 members with 13‚500 separate clubs in 116 countries (Toastmasters International‚ 2013). The membership cost to join a Toastmasters club is thirty-six dollars every six months plus any individual club dues. Toastmasters was
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The Birth of Venus (1635) ------------------------------------------------- Nicolas Poussin ------------------------------------------------- Sean E. Masih Art History 102 August 25‚ 2013 While the Philadelphia Museum of Art may not house some of the more famous artwork from the Baroque period‚ their acquisition of Poussin’s “Birth of Venus” was nothing short of a savvy purchase. Hungry for Western currency‚ the painting was sold by the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg in 1930 under
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Beginner Tests New English Course Julia Starr Keddle 2 New Headway Beginner Test Booklet Note to the teacher This booklet contains • 14 Unit Tests which revise the corresponding units in New Headway Beginner Student’s Book. There are two versions (A and B) of each test. They cover the same material‚ but have been reorganized to allow easier administration of the tests in the classroom. Each test has a total score of 100. • optional free-writing exercises. • optional listening
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the major periods of Western Music consist of Baroque‚ Classical‚ Romantic‚ and Modern Music. Each period contributed key elements that have influenced the formation of music. These key periods helped form the musical geniuses;Bach‚ Beethoven‚Mozart‚Verdi‚ and Copland. The Baroque period lasted from 1600-1750. The two best known Baroque composers are Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frederick Handel. The music of the period is thick and complex polyphonic texture prevails in many composers works
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Wolfgang von Goethe 6. Shelley‚ Byron‚ and Keats (started Romantic poetry in England) 7. Charles Dickens 8. Edgar Allan Poe 9. Emerson‚ Thoreau‚ Dickinson (American poets) 10. Hawthorne‚ Thoreau‚ and Melville (American novelists) 11. Schubert‚ Verdi‚ and Wagner (Composers) 12. Victor Hugo 13. Leo Tolstoy Styles to Know: 1. Romantic 2. Neo-classical 3. Realism Works to Know: 1. Goya’s The Third of May‚ 1808 2. The Raft of the Medusa 3. Hay Wain 4. Walden 5. The Slave Ship 6. Les Miserables
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Humanities Time Line The following is a selective listing of some major figures and works of the Humanities (right column) and their relation to important events in History (Center Column) c = approximately First Column: Century Second Column: Events in History Third Column: Humanities Giants (write your entries here) Before the Common Era (BCE) = Before Christ (BC) c. BC 15‚000 - 10‚000 Old Stone Age Cave art at Lascaux and Altamira c. BC 7000 Native Americans may have migrated from northern
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voicing of power. Shakespeare and the Question of Theory. New York: Methuen‚ 1985. Print. Grennan‚ E Shakespeare.” Quarterly 38.3 (1987): 275-292 Print. Iyasere‚ S Levenson‚ J.L. "The Society Of Women In The History Of Othello From Shakespeare To Verdi." University Of Toronto Quarterly 81.4 (2012): 850-859 Print. Lynch‚ K Marriot‚ J.E. 2009‚ "Challenging Cultural Stereotypes: Women Tragic Protagonists In Jacobean Drama." Web. 21 Apr. 2014. http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/ Neely
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Why are some countries called developing countries‚ and some developed countries? Why are some countries called developing countries‚ and some developed countries? In this essay I’m going to talk about this question. Since this is a very wide subject I could talk about only a single country or a single issue‚ but I will try to discuss about the whole aggregate. Some of the main points are starvation‚ education‚ child labor‚ safety and human rights. These issues are very different in developed and
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Listening Journal 2 Title: Piano Concerto in G major‚ K. 453‚ I — 1784 C.E. Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Information: Lived from 1756-1791 C.E. German nationality Genre: Symphony Performing Forces: Solo piano with orchestra (pairs of woodwinds‚ horns‚ and strings) Timbre: Form: First-movement concerto form‚ with orchestral and solo expositions‚ then development‚ recapitulation‚ and coda Comments: I was impressed by the various piano sections‚ which display incredible moments of
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born in 1984. The Ackermann family lives in Zurich at the golden coast of Switzerland‚ and they have a secondary and a tertiary residence in London and New York. Ackermann is a colonel of the Swiss Army and an educated tenor who loves Mozart and Verdi. He plays the piano and supports the Zurich Opera with his private means. When he was young‚ he did javelin 4 Education After his Matura‚ Ackermann started to study business and social sciences at the Swiss University of St. Gallen. In 1973‚ he
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