Requiem

In 1803, Haydn began having health issues due to his old age. Over the next six years, the health of Haydn would only deteriorate. He died peacefully in bed at age 77 on May 31, 1809. His funeral was held on June 15 where Mozart’s Requiem was performed. In his lifetime, Haydn wrote many influential pieces. Haydn’s last set of quartets, Op. 76, is widely regarded as the highpoint of his compositions. The second quartet in this set is known as the Fifths, due to the opening falling…

Kyle Arnold Honors English 11-2 Research Paper Final Draft 27 January 2017 The Struggle to Be Heard Attitude and action is the direct result of any situation. When leaders take into consideration the opinions and expressions of their followers, they have created a condition where the followers are in good spirits and continue to trust in their leaders. However, when leaders enable quick decisions without consulting their supporters, they have given their supporters no voice in the matter; this…

Media and Journalism sometimes ask the question: what does it mean to be an American? The straight up answer would be that an individual born with in the boundaries of the United States boarders is a citizen. This brings up questions; however, when illegal immigrants have a child with our boarder. Then do we constitute that the parents must become citizens of our country in order to stay with the child or do we deport the parents and the child, who under the constitution is an American citizen.…

On January 27, 1756, Salzburg, Austria was graced with the birth of one of the most influential composers of the Classical Music Era; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Parents; Leopold and Maria Mozart struggled to have a son, making Wolfgang the only sole surviving son. Leopold was a successful composer, violinist and concert assistant. Wolfgang’s older sister, Maria Anna was taught by their father to play piano. Through observation and fascination at the young age of 3 Wolfgang began to master the…

Matthew’s Catholic Cathedral for a requiem Mass” (John F. Kennedy Assassin.). That was a difficult day for the citizens of America. The funeral was displayed across everyone’s televisions as they just sat back and watched the devastating news. “It was a very depressing time for everyone, we…

At the time when British invasion was all the rage, one relatively unknown big-haired, beautiful girl made a name for herself. During the late 1960s, Bobbie Gentry became the girl who was known as the one that knocked The Beatles off the top charts with her “Ode to Billie Joe.” But who exactly is Bobbie Gentry? Bobbie Gentry, born Roberta Lee Streeter, came to the world on July 27, 1944, in Mississippi. She grew up on her grandparent’s farm in Chickasaw County after her parents divorced and her…

stumbling dangerously close to war with North Korea, a war that would no doubt trigger World War III. Again, at times he is laughable but when you stop to think, you should actually be worried. Trump’s policies towards North Korea have become more of a requiem of Mr. Trump the person and less about his politics. He is viewed as a narcissist, an egomaniacal dangerous fool and he is prone to extreme bad behaviors. But his defense is he was elected by an electorate whose larger issue was not North…

There were two very distinct views of shell shock within British society, when the first shell shocked men returned from the war they were condemned for being too feminine. In the home front, society strongly believed it was every British man’s duty to enlist for the war, it was the manly thing to do. So, when numerous of men returned with a mental illness it was huge a shock to society. Here were these men who did the manly thing and went to war but returned as weak, unstable, emotional, and…

Dawn Stanyon once said, “It’s okay to not be perfect. It’s okay to make mistakes. It’s okay to do something that you hadn’t done, because if we don’t do those things, we never grow”. This quote fits the play of Hamlet, because despite Hamlet’s struggles he still manages to make it through the rough times in life. Throughout the play of Hamlet many things happen. At the beginning of the play Claudius (Hamlet’s uncle) kills king Hamlet (Hamlet’s father). Months after the king Hamlet's death Prince…

On October 31, 1517, an unsatisfied, non-conforming, progressive theologian named Martin Luther took an action that altered the religious (and, in some cases) political landscape of the entire Western world. Disgusted at the Catholic church’s insistence on the sale of indulgences and unconvinced as to their doctrine of “salvation by works,” the Wittenberg professor nailed a 95-point document to the front door of his university’s Catholic church. This document, later called the “Ninety-five…