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- 14681: Booker T. Washington
- ... 1856. Born a slave he rose to become the commonly recognized leader of the African American race in America. For the first nine years of his life until 1865 when the close of the Civil War eemancipated the boy Booker and the remainder of his race, he like many other Americans of dark skin had been considered a peice of property on a Southern plantation. Any formal education had been forbidden ...
- 14682: Social Institutions
- Social institutions can be found all though out the world. Social institution is a system of statuses, roles, values, and norms that is organized to satisfy one or more of the basic societal needs. It may differ from place to place. One good example of ...
- 14683: Durga Puja
- ... when people socialize in a great way. The gorgeous decoration of goddess idols and pandals, lighting of streets bring gala festive mood to Bengal, the kind of which is difficult to find anywhere in the world. People in thousands visit the famous puja throughout the night. This is also the time when people go crazy for puja shopping and gift garments to their near and dear ones. In fact long before ...
- 14684: The Life of Beethoven
- ... theater orchestra. Beethoven visited Vienna in 1787 but returned to Bonn when his mother became ill. In Vienna he played for Mozart and took a few lessons from him. Mozart quoted "He will give the world something worth listing to". Beethoven also met Count Ferdinand Waldstein while in Vienna, who became his lifelong friend and helped him in his career. Beethoven's mother died in 1787. Five years later he left ...
- 14685: Jefferson, Thomas 1743 -- 1826
- ... presidency, thanks in large part to the fact that his arch rival, Hamilton, supported him when the Electoral College vote was tied. Among the events of his triumphant first term (1801--05) were the successful war against Barbary pirates, the Louisiana Purchase (which more than doubled the size of the U.S.A.), and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. His second term (1805--09), however, was marred by vice-president Burr ...
- 14686: Social Order Versus Personal F
- Social Order Versus Personal Fulfillment In the regal, and superficial high-class New York world presented in The Age of Innocence there is one particular, unchallenged rule of social order. This rule of complete social grace has been, instead of branded in stone, been impounded deeply in the minds of ...
- 14687: Albert Camus
- ... to shape some of his thinking and approach to life. In 1957 Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. This prestigious prize, which gives both worldwide recognition of the writer’s place in the world of literature, as well as a substantial financial award, came to Camus when he was forty-four. The notoriety it brought concerned him. He had been nominated ten years earlier, an almost unheard of honor ...
- 14688: Robert Schumann
- ... of Schumann’s music was his ability to “personify his friends and intimates through musical acronyms” (Slonimsky 903). Schumann’s music reflected the times in his life. “He lived in musical fantasies, until his mental world became a fantasy itself “ (Slonimsky 903). He was usually unable to compose work except at the piano. However he gave other composers this advise “to make everything in the head”. He offered this advise but ...
- 14689: Garth Brooks
- ... In The Wind) topping over 11 million sales in 1991. He has set a high standard in country music and given it a long awaited revival. A Garth craze has swept the States and the World. Just the countless awards through a ten year period speak for them selves. He’s like Elvis, The Beatles, or Michael Jackson of country music. In my opinion, he is one of the greatest singers ...
- 14690: Social Stratification
- ... rigid division between the mobility and the peasantry. It was based on their access to control over land. This form of stratification dominated in medieval Europe for centuries, but existed in other parts of the world. Stratified societies developed from egalitarian societies. These societies have no great differences in wealth, power, or prestige between the members. Each member has equal access to the strategic resources of food and shelter. Each individual ...
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