Felix Mendelssohn

During and after the Reconstruction Era, the US Supreme Court needed to interpret a substantive meaning of the 14th Amendment in a response to legal arguments brought by women and laborers. The US Supreme Court’s interpretation of the amendment’s Sec. 1 affected women’s legal rights in both positive and negative ways. The Sec. 1’s privileges and immunities clause undermined women’s legal rights in Bradwell vs. Illinois (1873) and Minor vs. Happersett (1875) by the US Supreme Court’s narrow…

Imagine a university professor accuses a student of cheating on a final exam. Before the student can defend herself, the university decides to expel the student. Understandably, the student decides she wants to challenge the expulsion as a violation of her due process rights. Can the student challenge the action? Surprisingly, the answer depends on which federal circuit the student lives in. In 1975, the United States Supreme Court held that state law could provide primary students a…

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed a total of seven justices to the United States Supreme Court. Professor of Law at Harvard, and author, Noah Feldman, focuses on the background and evolution of four of FDR’s most influential justice appointees—Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and Robert Jackson— throughout his book Scorpions. In the Supreme Court of FDR, and in our modern-day court, one often wonders how justices’ rulings are influenced. Throughout Scorpions, one…

Phil 3P97 Take Home Test 3: Deleuze and Guattari Anti-Oedipus Desire has a complicated history to philosophy; for most of philosophy's history they were viewed as fundamentally opposed. Since Plato, philosophy has viewed desire as base and something to be controlled by reason. By emphasizing reason over base desires, philosophy encouraged a pervasive self-denial identified by Nietzsche as the ascetic ideal. The core of this ideology was based on the notion that beliefs should be based upon…

Many things have emotionally affected the Survivors of the Holocaust, something that affected them the most was being liberated by Jewish soldiers. This paper explains emotions of the survivors and liberators and how it affects them today. How liberators feel emotionally as the released and saved people from concentration and death camps. That the survivors still feel like they are living in the camps emotionally. Survivors respond when being severed or waiting in line. The feeling of the…

Johann Sebastian Bach was a genius composer. His influence was felt everywhere. But a little over a century and a half ago, his music and reputation suffered from anonymity, practically unknown to all except a few professionals, and both Bach and Felix Mendelssohn’s families. Over the second decade of the 19th century in Berlin, Bach’s sons, along with Sarah Itzig, a talented musician and Mendelssohn’s great aunt, obtained his manuscripts and contracted Bach’s work. Meanwhile, Bella Salomon,…

27” by Felix Mendelssohn, the second piece was called “Violin Concerto no. 1 G minor, op 26” by Max Bruch, this was also the piece where Danielle Belen played violin. Lastly, the third piece was “Become Ocean” by John Luther Adams. The first piece was played as an overture…

Moses Mendelssohn was the eighteenth century Jewish philosopher, but Felix Mendelssohn was not raised in that religion. Mendelssohn’s father wanted his children to be baptized into the Christian faith and change their name to Bartholdy. Mendelssohn’s father wanted to break Moses Mendelssohn’s Jewish tradition. However, Fanny, Mendelssohn’s sister wrote to their father that they did not like the name, Bartholdy. Mendelssohn and his family moved to Berlin, which was nice for Mendelssohn…

fifth performance was by Kimberly Pickler, who performed Vaga Luna by Vincenzo Bellini. Pickler, a Soprano, sang Vaga Luna. Pickler had good vowels while singing. The sixth performance was by Isabelle Schrack, who performed Hear Ye, Israel by Felix Mendelssohn. Schrack had a jumbled voice while she performed her piece. The seventh performance was by Gabrielle Schrack, who performed Psalm 150 by Ned Rorem. Schrack, a Soprano, sang Psalm 150. Schrack had an easily understood voice while she…

They started the concert by playing “Calm sea and Prosperous Voyage, op. 27” by Felix Mendelssohn and this piece was played as the overture. After which “Violin Concerto no. 1 G minor, op 26” by Max Bruch was played by the orchestra , this was also the piece where Danielle Belen played as a violin soloist; the second piece was played as a…