Achille-Claude Debussy

Henri Boulangerie: Creating and Using a Master Budget BACKGROUND PART I: CREATING THE BUDGET MEETINGS WITH DIVISIONAL MANAGERS Henri Boulangerie is a medium-sized regional bakery that specializes in providing orders to grocery and convenience stores. Because of the popularity of its brand, it has also opened a small café for walk-in business. In order to maintain its high quality standard, Henri produces only three products: breakfast muffins, fresh bread, and chocolate chip cookies. Although business has been good in the past few years, a lucky contact with a large chain has recently allowed it to expand its brand out of the local region. Growth has been high since the new contract went into effect.

The vision was to have a colony on the Mississippi River that was a gateway to open and expand trade with the new world. On May 7, 1718, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville and the French Mississippi Company officially founded Nouvelle-Orleans. Bienville would later become governor of the Louisiana colony three different times between the years 1702 and 1743. The city was named after Duke Philippe d'Orléans, who was France's head of state at the time (Briney).

The story of Ethan Frome show a lot of depressing ideas and themes during the book; the theme that touch me the most is that “hell is other people” (Jean-Paul Sartre). During this book the things that cause the most pain come from the souls of others. The theme hell is other people is most relevant in the stages of when Zeena left to so she can see a doctor, the bitter relationship of Zeena and Ethan, when Mattie convince Ethan to commit suicide and murder, and the ending of the book when they all are staying in hell together. Hell is other people because of love.

What would it be like to be a member of one of the world's greatest journeys? Though he was just a baby, this was what happened to Jean Baptiste Charbonneau. He was an unintentional addition to Lewis and Clark's expedition to the Pacific ("Sacagawea"). However, the stories of this child do not end with Lewis and Clark's return to St. Louis.

Achille-Claude Debussy or Claude Debussy was a French 20th century composer known for his prominent role in impressionistic music. Debussy never described his pieces as impressionism as he disliked the term when it was associated with his music. Born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, he and his family left for Paris in 1867 only to move to Cannes in 1870 to escape the Franco-Prussion war. Claude Debussy learnt to play piano from an Italian violinist by the name Jean Cerutti and later studied under a woman, by the name of Marie Mauté de Fleurville, who claimed to have been a pupil of Frédéric Chopin. In 1872 he was enrolled in the Paris Conservatoire and remained there to develop musically over the next 11 years. Debussy was infamous for his experimental nature breaking

Émile Durkheim and Mircea Eliade have dissimilar understandings of religion. Emile Durkheim did not have an interest in a belief system or the cognitive approach. He dismissed the study of how particular beliefs lead to certain practices and adopted a functionalist approach. He does not acknowledge the belief in God, rather focuses on what religion does within society. He believed that individuals encompassed a more pure form and focused on the essential structure of religion. His theory of totemism developed, which centers around the idea that the subject of religion is to bring people together, and to ultimately result in social cohesion. He metaphorically relates this to when people in a community rally around the totem. Furthermore, making the totem represent the sacred. Durkheim then understands that the totem will eventually develop into a spirit, and ultimately into a ‘God’ or spiritual form. Moreover, connecting a society on a metaphysical level. This concept does not center around a belief system, rather on social cohesion.

It is believed that humans’ bodies portray mechanical characteristics through their actions and behavior, but the question of this essay revolves around determining if the mind expresses these characteristics, too. To get closer to answering this question about the mind, this essay will examine the writings of Julian de La Mettrie and René Descartes. In Man a Machine, La Mettrie opposes Descartes’s ideas of the mind and body by expressing how separating the mind and body isn’t useful because to him it’s obvious that humans display absolute regularities or mechanical elements. However, to understand his opposition, an examination of Descartes’s Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy would be beneficial to see how Descartes separates mind, an immaterial substance, from the body, a material substance. While it’s difficult to choose between La Mettrie and Descartes’s ideologies because they both contain their faults, it’s clear that Descartes’s argument has more relatable features.

8.      Claude Debussy was among the most influential composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born Achille-Claude Debussy in 1862 in St.-Germain-en-Laye, France, his mature compositions, distinctive and appealing, combined modernism and sensuality so successfully that their sheer beauty often obscures their technical innovation. Debussy is considered the founder and leading exponent of musical Impressionism (although he resisted the label), and his adoption of non-traditional scales and tonal structures was paradigmatic for many composers who followed. The son of a shopkeeper and a seamstress, Debussy began piano studies at the Paris Conservatory at the age of 11. While a student there, he encountered the wealthy Nadezhda von Meck, whom was most famous as Tchaikovsky's patroness. She employed Debussy as a music teacher to her children; through travel, concerts and acquaintances, she provided him with a wealth of musical experience. Most importantly, she exposed the young Debussy to the works of Russian composers, such as Borodin and Mussorgsky, who would remain important influences on his music. Debussy began composition studies in 1880, and

Antonin Dvorak was a Czech composer during the Romantic Era. He was born on September 8, 1841 in Nelahozeves, Czech which is now known as the Czech Republic. On the other hand, William Grant Still was an African American a composer, arranger and conductor. Dvorak was Baptized as a Roman Catholic and he had a strong love and faith in religion. He was a proud bohemian and interested in his heritage which was a huge inspiration towards music. Even Though his father wanted him to become a butcher just like him, however, Dvorak decided to be in the music career. At the age of six, Dvorak started going to the village school to get some early education in music. In a small amount of time, he learned playing the violin, which led him to play in village and church bands. He went to Zlonice town to continue his education in German and to attend classes in violin, organ, voice, music theory and piano. Dvorak took courses in counterpoint, improvisation, music theory and other important aspects of composition at the Prague Organ School from 1857 to 1859. When he became a music teacher, he fell in love with his student Josefína Čermáková. He even he composed and dedicated the song, ‘Cypress Trees’ to her. Unfortunately, she married another man, then Dvorak married her younger sister, Anna with whom he had 9 children . His most productive years was In 1875 because it’s the year his first son was born and when he composed his 5th Symphony. In 1877, Johannes Brahms, german

Nature and wilderness were very important ideas, to some extent, for St. John de Crevecoeur and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Each had their own opinions and ideas that contrasted against each other and were somewhat similar to each other; Emerson valued nature greatly, whether it be from looking at it as something to be proud of, to using nature as an example in his work, such as how we are a part of it and how random it can be. Crevecoeur believed that every land has its own form of culture as it does its own kind of nature. He describes how the land and nature was, and how it will be, by giving details of it in his pieces of work.

Claude Monet was born in Paris in 1840 and would become known as one of France’s famous painters. Monet is often attributed with being the leading figure of the style of impressionism; but this was not always the case. Monet started out his career as a caricaturist, showing great skill. Eventually “Monet began to accompany [Eugène] Boudin as the older artist . . . worked outdoors, . . . this “truthful” painting, Monet later claimed, had determined his path as an artist.” Monet’s goal took off as his popularity grew in the mid 1870s after he switched from figure painting to the landscape impressionist style. William Seitz supports this statement through his quote, “The landscapes Monet painted at Argenteuil between 1872 and 1877 are

“Primitivism” was a cultural attitude that arose in Europe during the late 19th and 20th century in opposition to the increasingly decadent and materialistic European culture. Rather than an artistic movement, “primitivism” is a European conception of foreign civilizations and lands as “simple”, less developed, and naive. This is an important distinction to make, because “primitivism” was defined in the eyes of the Europeans who saw foreign civilizations as unsophisticated, indicating that the concept of “primitivism” is heavily biased in the view of the Europeans. Paul Gauguin and Henri Matisse were two artists that were highly influenced by the concept of “primitivism,” and some similarity can be depicted in their works such as the use of female nudes, vivid colors, and artistic techniques. However, their definition and methods of achieving “primitivism” differ heavily, due to the fact that the vagueness of “primitivism” allows it to be a self-defined concept. These similarities and differences can be seen through the two works of art The Spirit of the Dead Watching by Paul Gauguin, and The Blue Nude by Henri Matisse, and the way they depict women in each of the pieces.

After listening to “Clair de Lune” a few times, I find Claude Debussy’s piano music to be claiming and relaxing. Debussy used various tones and Keys to create a soft natural melody. At times in this piece he would change his tones and pitch using half-tones between notes given more intense melody. He composed a rhythms of patterns of alternation that was appropriate with his impressionism approach.

In 1903 Debussy wrote, “Music is a mysterious form of mathematics whose elements are derived from the infinite. Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes. There is nothing more musical than a sunset.” (Vallas 8) Debussy felt a strong connection with the arts and nature. According to the Oxford Music Online article on Claude Debussy, written by Francois Lesure and Roy Howat, Debussy once said, “I love pictures almost as much as music”.

Topic #1 Jean-Jacques Rousseau makes the provocative claim that the transfer of sovereignty involves in the election of representatives signifies a loss of freedom: "The instant a people chooses representatives, it is no longer free." (On the Social Contract, p.103) Do you agree with Rousseau?