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    Mozart is one of the most influential composers and musicians of all time. His creative genius has inspired emotion in hundreds of people. Mozart’s music has stood the test of time‚ finding itself immersed in the modern world as well as an integral influential part of the past. Though suffering from a troubled life‚ his music spurred the classical period not only impacting the music of his time but that of many future generations. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27‚ 1756‚ in Salzburg

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    What impact did the Colosseum have on Roman social values? Its purpose was to be a gift to the Roman citizens‚ a massive breath-taking structure that conveyed the wealth‚ might and power of Rome‚ showing exotic‚ wild animals from all corners of the Roman Empire‚ showing off the extent of Rome’s conquests of different countries. It displayed the latest of Roman engineering and building techniques and showed re-enactments of famous Roman battles‚ including sea battles that required it to be flooded

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    The Enlightenment is a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. The Enlightenment was the period of scientific Awakening. It is an movement that had a huge impact of freedom and equality. While the Enlightenment was going through dramatic changes‚ it also inspired people to change their governments into a better system to benefit the society. The main cause of these changes all began from the French Revolution‚

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    World Literature The Enlightenment’s Impact on the Modern World The Enlightenment‚ Age of Reason‚ began in the late 17th and 18th century. This was a period in Europe and America when mankind was emerging from centuries of ignorance into a new age enlightened by reason‚ science‚ and respect for humanity. This period promoted scientific thought‚ skeptics‚ and intellectual interchange: dismissing superstition‚ intolerance‚ and for some‚ religion. Western Europe‚ Germany‚ France‚ and Great Britain

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    Imagine living in a world where others are questioning everything around you. Imagine someone telling you that the facts about the government and social culture around you that you believed were facts were just ideas that were actually questionable. Picture living during a time where political and cultural lives were not stable or constant because as different people analyzed their world‚ new ideas were being developed and people were believing it. In this time‚ curiosity about the world

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    In the movie Sense and Sensibility by Emma Thompson she creates a vivid and dramatic film by conveying the original author’s intent. Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 British drama film directed by Ang Lee. The screenplay by Emma Thompson is based on the 1811 novel of the same name by Jane Austen. The actors develop their characters and had an amazing performance. Throughout the movie Michael Coulter took advantage of the use of cinematic techniques. Also in the film included a lot of thematic ideas

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    In the later years of the Enlightenment‚ absolute monarchs in several European countries adopted some of the ideas of Enlightenment political philosophers. However‚ although some changes and reforms were implemented‚ most of these rulers did not essentially alter absolutist rule. In Russia‚ Empress Catherine the Great‚ a subscriber to the ideas of Beccaria and de Gouges‚ denounced torture while greatly improving education‚ health care‚ and women’s rights‚ as well as clarifying the rights of the

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    Enlightenment throughout the world As a student of Professor Pangloss’ Academy of Interesting Observations in Westphalia‚ I had the opportunity to study and understand the enlightenment in the prospect of a traveler. I had the opportunity to travel through France‚ the islands of the Caribbean and England and with the information’s collected in that trip‚ I will share with you some of the success and failures of the Enlightenment. In the eighteenth century in Europe‚ in response to Absolutism

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    inward states‚ thoughts‚ and feelings? -Are you aware that Austen originally began this text (or one that would evolve into this text) in the epistolary style? Why do you think it might have appealed to her? Why do you think she might have abandoned it in favor of the mode of narration we eventually get? (Go back to the text for answers…) -Richardson’s Pamela and Austen’s Marianne both embody—albeit in quite different versions--what the eighteenth-century called sensibility. >They’re both

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    The Political‚ Economic and Social Aspects the Enlightenment The Enlightenment‚ also known as Age of Reason‚ was a cultural movement that spread through England‚ France‚ Germany‚ and other parts of Europe. The Enlightenment mainly focused on mathematics‚ science‚ art‚ philosophy‚ politics and literature in the 1700s. This movement took away the fear of the world and the medieval views that were placed upon the people for so many years‚ and it also opened their eyes to new ideas and reason. Old

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