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Many times in history, the fire of a gun, the explosion of a cannon, or the scream of a soldier tell the story of militarism. Imperialism is told first by a promise, but ends in betrayal. Nationalism rings loud in the crowds of people protesting for freedom and unification, but two times in history these individual acts would lead to world fighting. Militarism, imperialism, and nationalism would lead to the First and Second World Wars. Militarism is the predominance of the military class or the…

The Romantic period began around the 1800’s and lasted only until around the 1850’s but with it came two fantastic God-fearing musicians. Johannes Brahms was one of those musicians and his music was truly emotional. Johannes was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1833 and was first introduced to music by his father. Dedicated to both music and his son, Brahms’ father, who played double bass in a civic orchestra,had Brahms taught by Friedrich Cossel and Eduard Marxan, whom kindly taught him without pay…

The Roma: Europe’s Most Hated Minority The Romani people are an ethnic group, native to India, who reside in Europe. They are widely recognized as one of the European Union's largest minority groups. It is estimated that there are more than 10 million Roma living in Europe (Brown). Since they arrived in Europe about a thousand years ago, the Roma have been targets of discrimination and oppression. Even today, “...one in three Roma in Europe are unemployed and 90% live below the poverty line,…

Today’s music has evolved tremendously since when music was first discovered in the middle ages. Now we have musicians like Beyonce, Alicia Keys, and Adele who changed the whole sound of music: different messages, beats, and style. Artists today are just as creative as the composers before them; Acapella artists sing with no music, other artists use techno or Dubstep, a type of electronic dance music. However, these artists would not have it so easy like they do today if the people that came…

A1 Bedrich Smetana’s The Moldau begins in a light, uplifting tone that brings hope and possibilities to mind. I imagined ladies busying about to ready themselves for a grand dance. Soon, the song brings to mind a romance, with emotions of love. The rest of the song seems to ebb and flow with intense conflicts followed by warm satisfaction and even light-hearted playfulness. Minor conflict followed by warmth and comfort. The song is familiar, but not easy to place from where. The music lingers…

the role of the party bureaucracy and the KGB and encouraged the further clampdown on reform in the satellite states. In 1968, disaffection with this step backward led to the emergence of a reform movement in Czechoslovakia. The main goal of this “Prague Spring” was to bring about a more humanistic socialism within certain limits, such as keeping the nation within the Soviet Bloc. With this, he suppressed the revolution. The “Brezhnev Doctrine” that year proclaimed the Soviet right to intervene…

Ever since the French Revolution in the 19th century, nationalism has united countries and fed wars between them. Some would argue that after World War II, nationalism has been on a slow and erratic decline. There are many areas of history too look at during the period after World War II in 1945 to modern day in 2000. The big incident which happened right after World War II, the next war, the Cold War. Then there is the alliance of NATO, the European Economic Community, later known as the…

symptoms continued to escalate until he became deaf at the age of 28. Beethoven did not stop working while he went through the process of going deaf. In 1792, Beethoven studied with the world famous, Joseph Haydn and in 1796 Beethoven got to tour in Prague and Berlin. Beethoven did all of this while slowly going deaf. Two years after being diagnosed with a hearing disability, Beethoven wrote the Heiligenstadt Testament, which was Beethoven’s suicide letter. However, Beethoven decided not to…

Is Pluto a planet? This is the question many astronomers are debating. Pluto used to be considered a planet but back in 2006, it was taken of its title and was considered a dwarf planet. Many astronomers believe Pluto is a planet, and many believe it is not. This is a modern day debate for astronomers. Pluto was first discovered in 1930 by Clyde W. Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Arizona. Pluto is a very, very, very cold planet and is believed to be covered with ice. The…

Nikola Tesla was a great inventor from Smiljan, Croatia.He made many great inventions during his time here in the United states.Tesla studied math and physics at the Technical University of Graz and philosophy at the University of Prague. From there on he made many inventions that has given him a reputation that would later catch Tomas Edisons eye in many years to come. At one point Edison told Tesla he would pay $50,000 for an improved design for his DC dynamos. Tesla never got paid that money…