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Aspects of Celtic Mythology

see a great deal of intent on magic in a Celtic wedding, where there are many ways in which to honor the mystical forces, some of ...

Biography of Clara Wieck Schumann

debut in the Leipziger Gewandhaus is met with rousing enthusiasm. Age eleven finds the child prodigy composing her first piano pi...

Lenovo; Marketing Strategy Analysis

takeover of the PC division would have on the existing consumer base. Lenovo understood the two is key to keep that consum...

American Culture in the 1920s

won the White House (War, prosperity and depression, 2005). The first two years of Hardings administration continued Wilsons econo...

‘Sports Night’: An Exciting and Memorable Experience

with my pen and autograph book, I was ready to meet these larger-than-life sports figures I had heard and read about my whole life...

The Importance of Religious Stories

investigation of the dhamma, energy, rapture or happiness, calm, concentration, and equanimity" (Thera, 2009). The story entitle...

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and The Scarlet Letter Compared

Crane was followed by a mysterious headless horseman, he does not return to marry Katrina. She in turn marries someone else. The s...

Tennessee Folklore: The Ghost Lights of Chapel Hill

his lantern, as he searches for his lost head" (Brown). In addition to the lights, some people have reported UFOs in the sky; oth...

Agamemnon and His Many Faces

a major figure in each of these works. Based upon the legendary king of Mycenae, Agamemnon in the Iliad is depicted as the command...

Washington Irving’s Worldview

(Irving [1]). The author indicates that if he were left alone he would have been very happy doing nothing for his entire life. Thi...

Yavapai College, A Jazz Performance

This concert report offers a hypothetical example of how a student might describe a jazz concert that occurred at Yavapai College ...

Jazz History, African Influences

This research paper offers a discussion of literature pertaining to the early history of jazz and the African influences that play...

Hypothetical Review of a Jazz Concert

This essay provides a hypothetical example of how a student might report on a jazz concert. The works summarized and analyzed incl...

Robin Hood and Corporate Leadership

This research paper pertains to the applications that can be drawn from the Robin Hood legend that pertain to corporate leadership...

URBAN LEGENDS AND HOW THEY SPREAD

Though urban legends have always been around, thanks to the Internet, theyre easier to spread these days. According to college pro...

Jazz and Blues

This research paper describes the relationship between blues and jazz within the context of the history of these genres. The write...

The Wild West and Wyatt Earp

Born in the middle of the nineteenth century, on March 19, 1848, Wyatt Earp is one of the most remembered names in American histor...

The Lady of the Lake

Project). It appears that this particular woman is very ambiguous and according to the Camelot Project in one of the earli...

2 Trade Textbooks on Investment and Mathematics Reviewed

view this formula as an effective means of reducing vulnerability to the financial insecurity which so frequently results in the r...

Influential Jazz Musician Miles Davis

Miles Davis, and many of the works which came from those periods are still considered classics today (Biography of Miles Davis, 20...

Worldview of Washington Irving in 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'

But Ichabod has a problem, in the form of "Brom Bones," the nickname the locals have given to Abraham ("Brom" Van Brunt, a strong ...

Jazz Music and its History

comes in many variants: field hollers, levee camp hollers, prison work songs, street cries, and the like" (Gioia, 2005). It is rea...

Jackie Kay's 'Trumpet'

The world as a whole, in fact, was not privy to that information. It would only be when Joss died and his body was processed thro...

Hawaiian Kingdom's Ali'i Ruling Class

foresight that brought all of the various Hawaiian Islands together. He was to be the last of the great Hawaiian rulers, for after...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and America's Jazz Age

the major theme is far from romantic in nature. This story is all about the disintegration of the once proud American Dream. And, ...

Myths and Legends Surrounding Vampires

The term "myth", on the other hand, is reserved by anthropologists and folklorists for those stories which deal with the creation ...

Jazz Pioneers Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins

As this suggests, their styles are quite different. Hawkins monopoly on the tenor sax ended in 1933 when he was playing with the...

An Analysis of the Arthurian Legend

and the Lion which he saves from a snake dragon. ANALYSIS: The story of Yvains reconciliation with Laudine mimics that whic...

Betulaceae Plant Family

The Birch tree has long been involved in the life of mankind. Early man utilized the bark for writing upon and...

American Culture Literary Comparison of Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne

and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...