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Festival Essays and Term Papers
Carlos SantanaRyan Conroy All the world knows the special magic of . Since 1966, he has led the group that bears his name, selling over 30 million albums and performing before an estimated 13 million people. In every performance, Carlos shares with his audience a personal communication that crosses all ...
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Dizzy GillespieThe people of today, raised by the sounds of The Beatles and Pearl Jam have forgotten all about the musicians that paved the way for these artists, and the musical styles that evolved into rock and roll, rhythm and blues and rap or hip hop. Unfortunately the music that once dominated the night ...
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The Parthenonwas a temple to the patron goddess of Athens, Athena. Located
atop Athens's Acropolis, was an architectural masterpiece. It
was constructed between 447 and 432 BCE by the Greek sculptor Phidias and the
Greek architects Ictenus and Callicrates. It the largest temple in Greece.
However, subtle ...
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The Many Faces Of Love In ArthThe theme of love develops through several different levels in Arthurian Literature. Geoffrey of Monmouth and Wace equate love with sexual desire, and little else. The concept becomes less one-dimensional in Hartmann von Aue’s romances. In Erec and Iwein, Hartmann’s definition of love includes ...
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Did Sparta Achieve Her GoalSparta is the most formidable city known in history. Famous for her impressive military power, she proved that strength didn’t lie in numbers, it lay in Spartan discipline. Sparta started out as a small city fighting only to survive against enemy invaders. Her goal was to avoid defeat from other ...
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Ancient Celtic ReligionWhen thinking of Celtic religion, the first thing that comes to ones mind is generally Druidism, and maybe even Stonehenge. There were many other components to religion in Celtic society before the Common Era, and they were integrated within the daily life, and still remain part of the culture. ...
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The 60’s: Decade Of Challenge And ChangeThe sixties was a decade of dissent. The Civil rights and anti- war movements drew people into the streets, where public protests raged. It was a decade of dynamic change for the nation’s youth, the new generation to whom JFK said,” the torch has been passed.” Long hair, mod dresses, drugs, ...
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McDonaldization Of SocietyIf you have ever had a meal in a restaurant (fast-food/formal dining), used an ATM in a bank, spent your vacation at an amusement park or simply browsed through a mall, you have been exposed to McDonaldization. McDonaldization is “the process by which the principles of the fast food restaurant ...
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Eva PeronMaria Eva Duarte was born on May 7, 1919 in Los Toldos Argentina. She was the youngest illegitimate child of Juan Duarte and his mistress Juana Ibarguen. Eva had a difficult childhood, her father had his own wife and children, and he gave Juana’s Ibarguen children his last name and would visit ...
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Christmas HistoryThe word Christmas comes from the old English "Cristes maesse" meaning Christ's
Mass. The Holiday celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. The actual birthday of
Jesus is not known; therefore, the early Church Fathers in the 4th century fixed
the day around the old Roman Saturnalia festival (17 - ...
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Report On OperaOpera is a glorious spectacle, a splendid but uneven fabric of music, drama, dance, poetry, and stage architecture, imperfect by nature yet endowed with magic.
-Mary Jane Matz, Opera: Grand and Not So Grand
Opera was originally a pure art, surviving on subsidies from royalty, nobility, and ...
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Julius CeasarJulius Caesar was a strong leader for the Romans who changed the course
of the history of the Greco - Roman world decisively and irreversibly. (3)
With his strength and courage he created a strong empire . What
happened during his early political career? How did he become such a
strong dictator ...
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The Grateful DeadI have chosen to do my report on . They were a rock and
roll band from the sixties that stayed popular and still influenced rock and
roll until 1995 when the lead singer, Jerry Garcia, died and the band dissolved.
The Dead remained popular for so long because of the style of their live
concerts ...
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The Seminole"As the United States is a nation made up of people from many nations, so the
Seminole is a tribe made up of Indians from many tribes." (Garbarino 13) The
Seminole are the indigenous people living in southeastern America. They lived
in what is now Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South ...
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Ancient Greek OlympicsReporting today's Olympic games is like a technological masterpiece.
The athletes compete in many events, their times and scores are tallied and
sent worldwide by satellites and high-tech computers within seconds. Each event
is carefully watched and recorded with a sense of history. There was no ...
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Kurt Vonnegut And Slaughter-HoOn May 29, 1945, twenty-one days after the Germans had surrendered to the victorious Allied armies, a father in Indianapolis received a letter from his son who had been listed as "missing in action" following the Battle of the Bulge. The youngster, an advance scout with the 106th Infantry ...
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Ancient Roman MealsThe ancient Romans were similar to todays generations in their eating
habits but never ate three hearty meals a day. Ientaculum and prandium were
merely appetizers that filled their stomachs unitl the large cena, the event
they look forward to since awakening. They had names for their meals ...
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Grace KellyEven before married a prince, she had the aura of a princess. Frank Sinatra once commented, "Grace was a princess from the moment she was born." She had remarkable elegance and sophistication that made her different from other Hollywood actresses. Some say she had an undertone of fire beneath ...
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Greek Daily LivingSome people believe that no civilization has ever been able to compete with today's western culture and lifestyle. However, the ancient Greeks with their amazing ingenuity were able to develop an amazingly high standard of living for their time. Although the Greeks had little technology, they ...
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Julius Caesar And His AccomplishmentsThere were three Great European nations in the ancient days. The
Greeks, the Carthaginians and the Romans. The Roman hero was Caeser. He was
born 100 years before the Christian era. Like many of the Caesers before
him, he was a patrician meaning having descended from a long line of ...
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