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    Claude-Achille Debussy, born August 22, 1862; Debussy was a composer is a born and raised in the Country of France. Claude Debussy was born and grew in a poor family in France of 1862; he was the oldest of five children. At the age of seven Debussy began piano lessons with an Italian violinist named Jean Cerutti. “When Debussy was 22, he won the Prix de Rome, which financed two years of musical study in the Italian capital. After the turn of the century, Debussy established himself as the…

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    Liberal Premier of Quebec in 1960, dispelled “Le Grande Noirceur” that the Union Nationale had previously disseminated in Quebec society and which had left Quebec behind the rest of Canada in education, health, and jobs. The Union Nationale, led by Maurice Duplessis,…

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    French – English Relations in Canada RenéLévesque was quite fond of using analogies and metaphors to describe political issues. One such example was when he compared the Canadian French-English relations to an unhappy marriage. Honestly, there was no better way of describing the issues between the two and the stages that they went through. Suppose that English Canada was the husband and French Canada was the wife. There were several situations in which the wife was degraded, the husband was…

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    Claude Debussy was born in the year 1862 near Paris, France. His birth name was Achille-Claude Debussy. When Debussy was a young boy, his aunt Clementine set up his first piano lessons with Jean Cerutti. In 1871, his father was arrested and he was sent to live with Antoinette Maute. While living with Maute, Debussy was enrolled in the Paris conservatory and began attending classes in 1872. While he was there he studied under Antoine Marmontel and Albert Lavignac. Even though he was a skilled…

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    Achille-Claude Debussy was born on the day of August 22, 1862 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. He was the oldest of five children, and immediately showed an amazing artistic ability in music despite that his family had little money. He soon became a household name, traveling for inspiration for his music. He had many affairs, sometimes even working for the woman’s husband! He married twice, and had one child; he died of colon cancer in 1918 in Paris. His most well-known attribute is that he is…

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    Phenomenology research is one of the five approaches to qualitative research design. Qualitative research is used to provide insights into the research questions/ problems. Qualitative research starts with an assumption of a particular topic. Once the assumption is research the results of that research is descriptive. Each approach within qualitative research provides a way thinking about conducting qualitative research. Phenomenology approach is a way to examine and understand how the world…

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    By creating a positive barrier between his Infantry and the enemy, it allowed for his men to deliver more accurate and deliberate fire at a greater pace and potentially avoiding every engaging in hand to hand combat. By using terrain to support the rifle fire, Marshal de Saxe effectively multiplied his armies effectiveness against the enemy without risking control of the battlefield that comes with hand to hand combat and battle lines mixing. His ideas and tactics found within Reveries on the…

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    blue, green, etc.) were rated 80% positively. The results also showed that achromatic colors (e.g., white, black, and grey) were rated positively only 29.2% of the time. Green was the most positively rated color and participants associated green with nature and soothing emotions. The Asian countries’ locations from Saito’s study are more industrious than the United States. This could explain why white was preferred in Asian countries, but green was preferred in the United States. Because of all…

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    associates Daisy with the color white, but to wear white is to be “an absolute little dream” (Schneider 2). Nick discovers white is a corrupt mixture of dream and reality (Schneider 3). To Gatsby, white is not pure, but it is inevitably stained by money. Daisy is a white flower with a golden center. In The Great Gatsby gold, along with silver symbolizes the dream and the reality. When Nick first sees Daisy, he notes they are “like silver idols weighing down their own white dresses…” [qtd in…

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    The Second Coming Poem

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    In “The Second Coming,” what does Yeats mean when he writes “The falcon cannot hear the falconer” (line 2)? How does this relate to “the centre cannot hold” (line 3)? In “The Second Coming” there is a footnote at the end of the first line explaining what Yeats envisioned for the word gyre. It mentions that it was meant to represent the age of Christians and how it was spiraling downwards to an end. With this in mind, the second line that reads, “The falcon cannot hear the falconer” it paints a…

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