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“Vittoria Mio Core” by Carisimi was also performed by Evan. Giacomo Carissimi (baptized April 18, 1605 – January 12, 1674) was an Italian composer and music teacher. He is one of the most celebrated masters of the early Baroque or, more accurately, the Roman School of music. Carissimi established the characteristic features of the Latin oratorio and was a prolific composer of motets and cantatas. He was highly influential in musical developments in north European countries through his pupils and…

Giacomo Puccini was an Italian composer born in 1858 and is known to have put a considerable amount of thought into creating the mood and literary components of his librettos (Kamien, Roger Music An Appreciation p.280). Richard Wagner was a German composer born in 1813 to a theatrical family (Kamien, Roger Music An Appreciation p. 289). Both of these composers are famous for their operas and are from the Romanic Period. Their compositions, La Boheme and Die Walkure, share the characteristics of…

Have you ever wondered what it feels like to be hunted? In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. Rainsford a big game hunter falls off a boat after he hears gunshots at night and gets to an island called Ship Trap Island where a man named General Zaroff challenges him to a game where General Zaroff hunts him. Rainsford shows that he is courageous, adventurous, and smart. Rainsford is an adventurous person he likes to hunt big game and travel. Rainsford travels all around the…

A Time of Change: America from 1960-1980 The death of President John F. Kennedy had a major impact on the United States of America. This president did not only die, he was assassinated, and his killer remains unknown. The day Kennedy died America wept. There are still so many questions that are left with no answers. What produced this “crime of the century”, why has there been so much controversy over it, and how did it affect the next presidents? John F. Kennedy wanted peace. In June 1963…

Blood was a non-fiction true event of the murder of the Clutter family. It took place in Holcomb, Kansas in 1955 by ex-convicts Perry Edward Smith and Richard Eugene Hickock. The crime took place in the home of the Clutter in expectation to find a safe filled with cash but end up only with forty dollars in cash, a radio, and binoculars. Perry and Richard, (also known as Dick) were displeased and kill the entire family and flee the city. While on the run, they faced challenges and the realities…

On a small island in the caribbean. There is a man. A man that is evil in every way. His prey is others. His name is General Zaroff. Welcome to ship trap island. The title to this awakening story is “The Most Dangerous Game” By Richard Connell. The other character , the main character is Sanger Rainsford. He is brave and filled with immense amounts of courage and skill. He is honest and full of integrity, He is a very skilled hunter also. This story is about the feud between two professional…

Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Kennedy, like Eisenhower, took a more personal approach to his campaign. One of his advertisements was him having a one-on-one talk with a family to answer questions and respond to concerns of the time period. Kennedy tried to assert himself…

The Vietnam War was one of the most expensive and longest wars in American History. We not only paid the financial toll, it cost the people involved greatly, mentally and physically. This war caused great sadness and distress, as well as national misunderstanding. Everyone had one big question being why? Why was the war being fight? Another question was why America extracted from Vietnam. The reason of this paper is to answer these two questions, and maybe add some clearness to the confusion…

Elizabeth Ann Bloom, known as Betty Ford (1918-2011), was married to America's thirty-eighth and only non-elected President, Gerald R. Ford (1913-2006, Pres. 1974-1977). In the role of First Lady, Mrs. Ford was preceded by Pat Nixon (1912-1993) and succeeded by Rosalynn Carter (1927-). Though an accomplished dancer and independent woman in her own right, Betty dedicated herself to the advancement of her husband's political career, fulfilled the role of Republican Congressional Spouse…

Music of the Third Reich During the Nazi regime, Hitler and his party members used propaganda as an integral method to promote the philosophies of the Third Reich. Due to Hitler’s lifelong passion for it, music became one of the essential avenues of Hitler’s propaganda messages. Bruckner, Beethoven and most Notably Wagner were just a few of the many composers whom were glorified by Hitler. Through a discriminant handpicking of composers, the Nazi regime was able to rewrite German music history…