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L’homme armé Surviving today in music manuscripts of the late fifteenth century and beyond are more than thirty-five polyphonic Masses built on the popular tune of L’homme armé. Wright & Simms (2010) reported that composers borrowed this melody more often for religious purposes than any other piece of music. Pierce (2011) asserted that the composer of the original monophonic melody L’homme armé, while unknown, created the piece around the 10th century near Burgundy, east-central France and later…

African Ivory Trade Throughout the course of history there has remained one constant, humans are never satisfied. Since the dawn of human history humans have had this desire to crave more and want better. The idea of never being satisfied has led to many accomplishments for the human race, from the expansion of empires such as the Greek and Roman empires, to technological advances in medicine that have pro longed life, and the expansion of knowledge through books and curiosity. All have come…

If Christianity as a religion has played significant roles in the history of the United States, the place of worship must also have an important meaning. John Smith, the earliest colonial leader of Jamestown, New Jersey, described the first Christian church built in the colony as "a homely thing like a barn set on crachetts, covered with rafts, sedge and earth" (“Jamestown Churches”). The picture of this structure in the imagination seems like an ordinary house made of logs and a thatch roof; it…

Topic: Consumerism and Photography Consumer societies emerged in the context of modernity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with the rise of mass production in the wake of the industrial revolution and with the consolidation of populations in major urban centers that tookplace in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries throughout much of the industrialized world. In a consumer society, the individual is confronted with and surrounded by a vast assortment of goods. As urban…

It is amazing to think about when Louis Armstrong was born. Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901 in New Orleans,Loiusiana in a section so poor that it was nicknamed the Battlefield. Louis Armstrong had a difficult childhood, his father was a factory worker and abandoned the family soon after Louis’s birth, his ,other often turned to prostitution, She left him with his grandmother.Amrstrong was obligated to leave school in the fifth grade to begin working. Contributions: So after all after…

“GoodBye Earl” by the Dixie Chick’s is a song that was produced by Blake Chancey. The song explains a violence situation that between a husband and wife. The main characters are Earl the husband, Wanda the wife, and Mary Anne Wanda’s best friend. In the beginning of the song, it explains that Mary Anne and Wanda were best friends, all through their high school days. But, one day Mary Anne decided she would like to start a new better world for herself, so she moves to Atlanta. Wanda was left…

Supreme Court justices do have personal views. They are appointed through a political process. Observers naturally must ask how great a role their political views actually play. Some scholars argue that the justices’ political preferences play a large role, essentially dictating their decisions in many cases. They point to the fact that justices appointed by conservative presidents tend to vote in a conservative fashion and those appointed by liberal presidents vote the opposite way. The…

There has never been anyone like Art Tatum, who is one of the greatest jazz musicians in history. Tatum was born on October 13, 1909, in Toledo, Ohio, and he was the child of amateur musicians. His father was a mechanic, and his mother was a housemaid who worked in white homes. Although he was not born into a wealthy family, his unique talents helped propel him into the spotlight. If anything, Tatum proved that it was not impossible to become a world-class extraordinaire despite growing up with…

such a ceremony had taken place on the death of a Supreme Court justice. Ironically, his enemy, President Richard Nixon attended his funeral and then resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974. Earl Warren was buried on July 12, 1974 with military honors at Arlington Ceremony. Earl Warren’s legacy One of Earl Warren’s core beliefs was that public office was to be treated as a public trust. He was one – perhaps one of a very few – major public servants who believed that the future would be…

Richard Nixon became the 37th president of the United States of America in 1969. President Nixon decided to declare his War On Drugs in 1971 because he felt that hippies and black people were the greatest hindrances to his presidency. Nixon’s War On Drugs has destroyed and continues to destroy a lot of blacks families lives American because either one or both parents are serving outrageously sentences behind bars; therefore a lot of their children have a greater deal of difficulty in advancing…