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The piano, also called the pianoforte,was created by harpsichord maker Bartolomeo Christofori in 1709. There are a few instruments created before the piano with similarities. The first similar instrument was the zither. It was made in Africa and Southeast Asia. The zither was a stringed instrument that was found around 3,000 B.C. during the Bronze Age. The zither line included: the ground zither, the bar zither, and the board zither. These instruments were all plucked. It was used by…

Many people have failed or ruined a big opportunity. Many people have spent hours, days or even years preparing for these opportunities, and yet still failed. It commonly occurs for athletes, even with the most training. An important event happens and suddenly the superior athlete is no longer superior. There is a very common term for athletes who tend to do this: choking. In the world of sports, choking is horrendous, cowardly, despicable and unacceptable. However, it still happens to all…

Ashley Rhodes-Courter is the famous author of her life story Three Little words the memoir. In this book it portrays her story through foster care. As you read you learn that Ashley did not have the easiest time growin up. She learned from an early age that life doesn 't always work out the way you want it to. She held on to her education to pull her out of the darkness she lived in. Ashley took these awful things she lived through and she turned it all around to become successful in her adult…

was acquired for over $200M in cash by SK planet, part of SK Group and SK Telecom, a Fortune 100 company and the mobile commerce market leader in South Korea, in the largest mobile commerce transaction to date 1.2 Impact American Eagle's EVP Fred Grover said "Our shopkick customers buy twice as often as a non-shopkick user and have helped increase in-store traffic.". In 2014, Shopkick announced it had driven over $1 billion in revenue for its partners, $500M of which came in the previous 12…

Title: The Electoral College is Failing and should be Abolished Every four years, Americans elect a president and vice-president. Voters are not given the rights to vote directly for the presidential candidates.They actually vote for an elector in their respective state, who had pledged to cast a ballot on voters’ behalf in the election that actually chooses the president. This voting system is called the Electoral College. In the Electoral College system, different In states are allotted with…

James A. Garfield: One of the Lost Presidents of the United States Not every president served an exact four or eight year presidential term. For example, Grover Cleveland served two consecutive four year terms. Franklin D. Roosevelt served three four year terms and died during the beginning of his fourth. William Henry Harrison only served a month. “James A. Garfield only served 200 days” (Freidel and Sidey).” That means that Garfield’s term was only about six months long. And yet, not every…

Immigration is a globalised subject that has over the course of many years obtain many changes all around the world. Immigration is when a person decides to leave their homeland for various reasons and conditions to obtain a better and most comfortable living in another country that can provide the security and suitable environment any immigrant might need. Over the course of past years, immigration has been occurring and obtaining extreme changes in the most developed countries if not many…

1. Describe the Spanish American War including how the United States became involved. What was gained by the United States a result of the war? The Spanish-American War (1898) was a battle between the United States and the Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and brought about United States acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. The war started in the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain, which started in February of 1895. The Cuban clash…

The United States was more based on self-interest at the start of the early 20th century, but became more driven on idealism at the end of the time period. Starting with William McKinley, America’s foreign policy began with the benefits for American commerce and imperialism, at the expense of nations like Cuba, Hawaii, and the Philippines. Theodore Roosevelt continued much of this scheme of self-interest with the Panama Canal and the Roosevelt Corollary, but started a few more idealistic trends…

From the end of the Civil War to the 1880s, the United States remained largely isolationist. However, by the 1890s, America began to turn outward and expand onto the international stage; it embroiled itself in a war with Spain, took over new lands and territories in the process, and even entered into a world war. It was obvious that American foreign policy had experienced a drastic change from the days of the Civil War and the beginning of the Gilded Age, but what was the driving force behind…