Jazz Timeline (1900-1955) Roots of Jazz: It had blend elements of several cultures. First‚ West African emphasis on improvisation‚ percussion and call-and –response techniques. Second‚ American brass band influence on instrumentation. Third‚ European harmonic and structural practice. Blues and Ragtime were immediate source. Ragtime: Ragtime piano music is generally in duple meter and is performed at a moderate march tempo. The pianist’s right hand plays a highly syncopated
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Which is more valuable to civilization – written or spoken communication? Oral traditions are viewed as “the means by which knowledge is reproduced‚ preserved and conveyed from generation to generation…” – Renee Hulan‚ Renate Eigenbrod. It is clear that greater value has to be placed on our verbal communication skills because of how integral it is in our everyday lives as a civilization. Imagine a world without the ability to speak or communicate with each other in an oral fashion. For one
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RIVER CIVILIZATIONS 1. Mesopotamia: First and longest civilization in the world Government Type: Combination of monarchy and democracy Law and order Sumerian Laws: Sumerian laws were not written down‚ but people knew what they were and they knew what could happen to you if you broke the law. Babylonian Laws: The laws that were later written down by the ancient Babylonians were‚ for the most part‚ laws first created by the ancient Sumerians. Achievements: Pythagoras’ Law and 360 degree circle
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TimeLine of Genetics 1750 B.C.E. The Sumerians brew beer. 500 B.C.E. The Chinese use moldy soybean curds as an antibiotic to treat boils. C.E. 100 Powdered chrysanthemum is used in China as an insecticide. 1590 The microscope is invented by Zacharias Janssen. 1663 Cells are first described by Robert Hooke. 1675 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovers bacteria. 1797 Edward Jenner inoculates a child with a viral vaccine to protect him from smallpox. 1830 Proteins are
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Global History Timeline 7800 BCE First traces of agriculture found along the Jordan River Valley‚ plants had adapted to agriculture (Traces of cultivated rice found in China around the same time) 5500 BCE First origins of Chinese Civilization‚ centered along the yellow river. Cultivation of soy beans and domestication of pigs by the local population 5000 BCE - First agriculture in Mexico‚ corn and beans. - Domestication of the donkey in Egypt. 4500 BCE First agriculture along the eastern
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HMV Timeline 1921 The gramophone brand was founded and opened up its first dedicated store on Oxford St. 1930 The company began producing radio and television sets under the HMV and Marconiphone brand names. 1931 It joined with Columbia Graphophone Company to form Electric and Musical Industries (EMI) 1966 HMV expanded its retail operations across London. 1996 The company had experienced sustained growth for three decades and had 300 HMV Music stores internationally. 1998
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The Blake Transmitter (1833) Francis Blake used a carbon and platinum resistance element. Electromagnetic Telegraph Carl F.Gauss and Ernst H. Weber (1834) The telegraph was the first step to making electrical signals travel from one device to another. Speaking telegraph (1844) Innocenzo Vincenzo Bartolomeo Luigi Carlo Manzetti Transmitting the vibrations of the human voice by electrical means over a telegraph wire. He has lately made improvements in his method of transmission‚ by which
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Time Line of Education History of American Education Edu 324 Hernandez Karen Lane 4 March 2013 1647 The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony decrees that every town of fifty families should have an elementary school and that every town of 100 families should have a Latin school. The goal is to ensure that Puritan children learn to read the Bible and receive basic information about their Calvinist religion. 1779 Thomas Jefferson proposes a two-track educational system‚ with
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Haaheo Zunick-Abran Pd.6 9/24/13 PICTURE TIMELINE It is their design to regulate our kingdom according to the principles and seek the greatest prosperity both of all the chiefs and all of the people of these Hawaiian Islands I.no law shall be enacted which is at variance with the word of the Lord Jehovah‚ or at variance with the general spirit of His word. All laws of the Islands shall be in consistency with the general spirit of God’s law. II. All men of every religion shall be protected
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The Fifties (1950-1959) 1950: * Start of the Korean War (June 25‚ 1950) * This was a civil war between North Korea and South Korea competing for control over the Korean peninsula. It wasn’t exactly a civil war since Western nations also became involved. The United Nations‚ which was led by the U.S under General MacArthur along with its allies versus the communist powers of the Republic of China and the Soviet Union. The war left 33‚742 American soldiers dead‚ 92‚134 wounded‚ and 80
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