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Jazz as Modernism

Jazz breaks free of restrictions of form and structure, melody and harmony. Jazz allows composers to take "freer liberties with a ...

Time Capsule: Renaissance & The Age Of Baroque

Architectural fetishism came of age during the Renaissance. Classified as a magically empowered inanimate object, a fetish may ta...

The Humanities

is all very fine, but why bother to study him when we could be learning computers? Because studying the humanities gives us insigh...

Medieval Christianity: Music and Sculptures

liturgy provided innumerable texts, all set to music in the style we call Gregorian chant. The church served as an important patro...

Philosophical Basis for the Music of Greece

In five pages this research paper discusses how philosophy has laid the foundation for Greek music in a consideration of its relat...

Eighteenth Century Musical Influences

In four pages this essay examines the impact upon the Enlightenment upon the music of the eighteenth century and how it reflected ...

2 Very Different Popular Songs

holding this note, the music modulates to F and then back to C as the rest of the word is sung to descending tones. The rhythm is ...

Bach and Handel, Their Musical Languages

his era, as his compendium of work transverses boundaries, "fusing the three great national traditions of his time," which are "G...

Eminem's Music

thing, Eminem has an "intuitive sense of how to flow smoothly from the measured cadence of ordinary speech to the discursive inten...

3 Questions on Philosophical Thought and its Effects

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

Music Philosophy

well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...

C.S. Lewis/The Great Divorce

pretensions that keep them in Hell, and stay in Heaven, that is, not to get back on the bus for the return trip. Lewis reveals l...

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

getting them to turn from God. Each letter essentially presents steps and information for Wormwood to use in tempting this young m...

Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt and Use of Satire

live up to its name with a great deal of glass, chrome and a lot of managers and executives with a great deal of attitude but few ...

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

In two pages this paper examines how American small town life is unsympathetically portrayed in Main Street by Sinclair Lewis....

Martin Heidegger

In six pages this paper discusses Martin Heidegger and his philosophy as both are represented in Nathan Oaklander's Existentialist...

Schools of Philosophy as Used in Nursing

(Allmark, 2003, p. 4). Poststructuralism: This perspective takes a deconstructive view of structuralism and "sees inquiry as ine...

'Reason as the law of the World' According to Hegel

In five pages this paper examines Hegel's philosophy within the context of the statement 'The sole thought which philosophy brings...

Warren Massacre and Utilitarianism

if Nagel had included in this line, a hint at travesties such as the Holocaust, the reader may well become more concerned with the...

Education and Philosophy

In nine pages this paper examines teaching philosophies in this overview that explores the relationship between philosophy and edu...

Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

The revolutionary philosophy of Rene Descartes as it is presented within Meditations on First Philosophy is explained in an essay ...

Comparative Philosophical Analysis of David Hume and George Berkeley

In five pages this report compares Hume and Berkeley in terms of their philosophies' differences and similarities particularly as ...

Philosophy's Role and Defense of Socrates in Apology by Plato

In two pages this paper examines philosophy's role and human activity purpose as well as Socrates' defense as represented in Apolo...

Contemporary Race Relations' Philosophies

In five pages this paper contrasts the contemporary philosophies regarding U.S. race relations between Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. ...

Philosophies of Love and Friendship

This paper examines the philosophies of Aristotle as seen in the Nicomachean Ethics, and the views of C.S. Lewis in his work, The ...

God's Existence and Morality

course, defines that which is proper conduct, it distinguishes right from wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves so...

Crisis of Islam by Bernard Lewis

In other words, the terrorist attacks and the anti-American sentiment that is exhibited by Islamic extremists is only partly roote...

Relationship Between Sacajawea and Lewis and Clark

follows the expedition of these men, going in sequential order to the actual places the "real" Lewis and Clark had many years befo...

Critical Biography King by David Lewis

and sufficient material for a book. Despite his earlier assessment of King, Lewis did decide to write the book. It would be a jour...

Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose

(45). Ambrose also paints a picture of what the country was like at the dawn of the nineteenth century. When Thomas Jefferson ...