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Similarities between Classical and Popular Music

works (Kaptainis, 2002). "A paint-by-numbers Mona Lisa is not to be confused with what is hanging in the Louvre" (Kaptainis, 2002,...

Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture

into the word and lasts for only a few minutes before a decrescendo takes the music into the Russian folk dance theme, which comme...

History of the Guitar

guitar were when a hunting bow was paired with a tortoise shell to create a tar or sting instrument that was plucked (Hartmetz et ...

Golden Mean, Irrational Numbers & Fibonacci Series

a infinite number of decimal places (Sabine). The Fibonacci series is useful in calculating Phi because Phi is "equal to the ratio...

iTunes ; Will it Change the Marketing Tactics of Major Record Labels

position prior to the introduction of iTunes and the way it changes the music industry, Initially the ability to distribut...

Score Analysis, "The Temptations"

This paper presents a summary and analysis of a scene in "The Temptations," which is a 1998 TV movie that focuses on the 1960s mus...

Music Theory, Why Learning it is Important

Tis essay pertains to why learning music theory is important. Five pages in length, two sources are cited. ...

Dido and Aeneas/Henry Purcell

This paper is on Henry Purcell's opera "Dido and Aeneas." It offers a summary of the plot and discussion of different characterist...

Analysis of Merriam's Preface

were the focus of their analyses (Merriam "Definitions" 193). Furthermore, as Jaap Kunst pointed out in 1950 text, musicology "doe...

Phillips/Socrates Cafe

pundits or the mainstream media happen to be handing out at the moment. This is a process that rekindles a "child-like--but by no ...

"Character"/A Dictionary Perspective

are quite inept at conveying our personal perception to others. A young guy, for example, may imagine himself to be the most soph...

Augustine, Aurelius And Guibert

Plato and Anselm . He talks about seeking truth and wisdom consistently throughout the text. For Augustine, "Truth is one, and Go...

What are Critical Thinking Skills

of the time. Even critical thinkers get stuck in ruts and do not see their own blind spots in their thinking (Foundation for Criti...

Plato and Hegel Comparisons and Contrasts

In six pages the arguments of city vs. state, the individual, and soul and spirit that are raised in Hegel's Introduction to the P...

Intellectuals and the Use of Critical Thinking

The role of critical thinking in American society has taken on greater importance in the 21st century. This paper relates the conc...

Critical Thinking's Global Importance

him not guilty. On one hand, the majority used critical thinking skills to deduce that he did it. They looked at the various piece...

Business and Contingency Thinking

companies that had offices in different areas, either nationally or internationally there is also an indication of the mitigation ...

Deciding How to Do the 'Right Thing'

In seven pages this paper examines morality and doing the right thing within the context of the fifteenth chapter of Bowie et al's...

Social Work and Concept of Systemic Thinking

them or modify their behaviour without interacting with them and using communication in various forms to gain knowledge....

Romantic Period Artistic Beauty

ability to allow us the opportunity to interpret the rational through the concrete forms presented in art. Hegel believed that ...

Analyzing Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt

because he is not at all athletic. In fact, he is rather pudgy and homely himself. He claims to like parties and social gatherin...

C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia and Capturing Readers' Minds

rather dull and dismal life? In this land are animals that talk, evil witches which control people and animals, and most important...

Lewis's 1954 Urban and Rural Development Model

In five pages this model and the assumptions it is predicated on are analyzed. Four sources are listed in the bibliography....

Three Philosophies in Contrast

do was make sure students could read and write properly and have the skills necessary to access they type of knowledge that was ou...

David Maybury Lewis's Millennium Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World

"humans from destroying themselves in the next millennium" (Ingram,...

Perception, Language, Cognition and Consciousness in Classic Indian Philosophy

modification, which dispels ignorance" (Mohanty, 2001). When we cognize we abate ignorance....

Sinclair Lewis's Character George F. Babbitt

in a job where capitalism and the desire for material goods is perceived as a priority in life. In this era, the success of an ind...

Philosophy and On Independent Thought Q and A

They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...

The Lion Aslan in C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

more wondrous and amazing. The Beaver tells them that Aslan is the king of Narnia and that he sets everything right. "Aslan is awe...

Text Analysis of 'Evil in Modern Thought An Alternative History of Philosophy' by Susan Neiman

in Modern Thought points to two cataclysmic moments in history that were responsible for altering the contemporary perceptions of ...