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Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an English Philosopher whose work was influential especially in the eighteenth century. Some of his main works include the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, and the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality. Both of these works were written in response to prompts from the Academy of Dijon. For the first discourse, the prompt was, “Has the restoration of the sciences and arts tended to purify morals?” and for the second discourse the prompt was, "What is the origin of…

In the novel money has a big effect on the characters. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is all about wealth, and how money changes the characters, leading them to make bad choices. In the novel, wealth changes people by leading them to make bad decisions as shown by Daisy, Tom and Gatsby. In the novel wealth is a big theme, everything that happens is a result of money. These bad choices are made throughout the novel bringing them to a big conflict between the characters, leading to the…

Isabella d’Este was a woman who held a lot of power during a time in which women did not have power. She was one of the few women who were able to be a ruler of land. Isabella’s family played a major part in this, but in the end it was her who led the people in which she governed. Mrs. d’Este was a woman who had multiple sides. On one side she was a patron of the arts, someone who employed many artist such as Leonardo da Vinci and the sculptor Cristoforo Romano (marchioness of Mantua Pg.2) .…

Throughout, ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ B.Browning subverts the Victorian idea of ‘courtly love’ admiring Robert and thinking she is the one who isn’t worthy of him. Evident in ‘Sonnet 32’, the metaphor of “more like an out of tune / worn viol” reflects her feelings of unworthiness and admiration for Robert - “...out of tune” reinforces her rejection of the Victorian patriarchy, yet her abandonment of contextual attitudes results in feelings of uncertainty. However, she simultaneously…

the resources to raise themselves higher in society, while the poor don’t have the necessary appliances to do so, but carry happiness throughout their families either way. Fitzgerald says, “A whole pit full of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums,” (Fitzgerald 44). The quote gives an idea of how grand Gatsby’s parties were, from Nick Carraway’s view. Gatsby’s parties were associated with jazz’s elaborate music, creating a free-spirited mood…

Which One Is Written Better? Shakespeare was brought to all in the 1564, yet so far back but so popular now. Some of the popular Shakespearean plays are the Twelfth Night another one Romeo and Juliet. While doing research on these two wonderful plays it showed there is quite a difference in the plot structure, theme, and symbolism of the plays.Looking at the evidence supporting that Romeo and Juliet is written with a better plot structure, theme, and better symbolism than Twelfth Night. The…

American Dream is an expectation with romanticism and it is also a kind of belief that everyone has the potential to make a bright future through hard work and sincere dedication. It emphasizes as long as through the unremitting struggle anyone could be able to get a better life, for example, the people must be through their own hard work, courage, creativity and determination to move towards prosperity, rather than relying on a particular social class and other assistances. The American Dream…

During the 16th century, composers focused mainly on church music since the Renaissance in England started much later than in the rest of Europe. The most popular secular music style was the partsong until innovative composers such as Thomas Tallis and William Byrd paved way beyond three- and four-part homophonic pieces. Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 – 1585) and William Byrd (c. 1540 – 1623) were versatile composers who wrote for the Catholic, Anglican, and Puritan churches alike. Tallis, best known…

fashion of the roaring twenties, bring you back to the jazz era, bring you back to New York in the 1920s*. Not only could I imagine what is going on at the party, it was almost as if I could hear the “whole pit of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums” (Fitzgerald 44). The description of the food alone- “On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors d’oeuvres, spiced baked hams crowded against salads… and pastry pigs and turkeys…

pitches. When he played Der Freischütz he would lower the A string down to F# for the first two movements. His hard work and experimentations with the bass yielded the Dragonetti Bow. The bow looks like a hybrid of the German bow and the old style viol bow. It has a large deep frog and is held underhand, but has a convex shape and tension is governed by pressure directly on the hair with a finger. The Dragonetti bow contributed much to his sound that other composers loved; from audiences he…