Romanian Village History

This piece is the first of several movements of his Romanian folk Dances. “Jocul cu bâtă,” also known as “stick dance,” uses the traditional Hungarian melody in a fairly straightforward rendering of the music, but set to Bartók’s own, original harmonic ideas. Due to the complexity

Albania is located on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea and western part of the Balkan Peninsula. With its neighboring countries: Montenegro and Serbia to the North, Macedonia to the East, and Greece to the South. Albania is composed of two major regions: a mountainous highland region (North, East, and South) constituting seventy percent of the land area, and a western coastal lowland region that contains nearly all of the country's agricultural land and is the most densely populated part of Albania. Most historians of the Balkans believed that the Albanian people are in large part of the ancient Illyrians. The name Albania is derived from the name of an Illyrian tribe called “Arber”, or “Arbereshe”, and later “Albanoi”. The Illyrians

During the European Middle Ages, the Catholic Church rose to power. When the Western Roman Empire fell, there wasn’t a grounding figure or a group for security. The people, left without a certain direction, then turned to Catholicism. The religion had its own system of morals, political influence and history. It was and still is a culture. With the amount of donations and faith in their teachings, the Church had the funds to create these large and lavish spaces for group worship and self-guided meditation.

Russian princes, having gained back their territory from the Mongols, consolidated their power and restored the Russian state in 1462 under Ivan the Great. The underlying cultural aspects that existed in Russia from 1480-1800 like the Eastern Orthodox Church and the westernization of the boyars certainly helped Russia advance as a world power. The political constants in Russia, such as the serf and boyar control as well as expansion, also helped Russia to approach countries in the West in terms of influence.

Park your car and take a stroll through the burying ground. Stop and read the markers and they will tell you their story of ordinary people making their living from the land and sea. When you stroll, please do so with the utmost respect

The Balkan Peninsula is a region located in southern Europe. The northern dividing line of the Balkan Peninsula consists of the Kupa, Sava, and Danube rivers. This region is surrounded by the Black Sea to the east, the Mediterranean and Marmara Seas to the south, and the Adriatic Sea to the west. Examples of physical features in the Balkan Peninsula are the many forested mountain ranges that occupy the region, including the Balkan Mountains, the Dinaric Alps, and the Rhodope Mountains, the varied climate ranging from cold, snowy winters in the northern mountains, to a warm, humid climate characteristic of the Mediterranean, as well as fertile soil, especially in the plains, and diverse plants and wildlife throughout the region, such as the endangered Balkan lynx. Some examples of human characteristics that make this region unique

Such one place is the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of The Annunciation in Atlanta located on 2500 Clairmont Rd. A place I have been on numerous occasions,

My photo ethnography is based off my experience at a church in Olive Branch, Mississippi. The name of it is Saint Luke Church of God in Christ. Saint Luke is pastored by Elder Earl Shannon, is located in the beautiful city of Olive Branch, Mississippi. They offer a big selection of ministries designed to meet the needs of families in the Olive Branch area. Saint Luke is also nicknamed, “The Ark of the Community”. Saint Luke has a long history dating back to 1925. In 1925 Charles and Millississ Shannon established Saint Luke Church of God in Christ. Saint Luke started out with just about twelve members. Back then each church service was held in the homes of the members. Saint Luke's first pastor was Elder Bonner. Elder Bonner was succeeded

The outside of the church was very simple. It is a brick church all around with white trim around the top of the church. They also have family life center (gym) connected to the church were they have many of

Government in Europe changed a lot from 1400-1815. Government changed from an organized system sharing land called feudalism, to absolutism: governing from the divine right of kings to enlightened absolutism all the way to the French Revolution. England had its own history and type of government and didn’t change exactly with the majority of Europe.

By the end of the 1990s, the first reaction against the myth of national rescue took place with the publication of Randolph Braham’s Romanian Nationalists and the Holocaust: the Political Exploitation of Unfounded Rescue Accounts (1998). In this book, Braham traced the Romanian Jews policy in and after the Second World War. According to him, the Romanians’ so called pro-Jewish conducts were motivated by opportunism rather than humanism. He argued that the Romanians’ refusal to disport the Jews in the 1940s was not due to self-claimed altruism and resistance, but because the wartime situation was apparently favorable to the Allies. Similarly, in the post-war communist era, commemorations of Jewish rescue became part of a history-cleansing project

In the area once famous for being home to Count Dracula, that we call Transylvania, at remote village named Sapanta lies a graveyard that has attracted worldwide attention. The reason for this is simply the fact that the people here do not lay lost loved ones to rest in any sombre fashion as one might expect but more as a celebration of their lives.

In a traditional American burial, bodies are embalmed with many preservatives, encased in coffins that intensively consumed natural resources, and buried in areas that can be easily forgotten. In the film, Joe Sehee, the founder of the Green Burial Council, attended a funeral-industry convention. At the convention, it became apparent that some supporters of the traditional burial is focusing on the business side and not the main purpose. In this past week reading assignment, the corpse in the GARDEN by Peter Thorsheim, talks about the closure of the London burial grounds. Given the high cost of urban land and London’s rapid population growth, even small sites could contain an enormous number of bodies.

There have been many times in my life when I felt like a stranger. I have been a social outcast. I have been powerless at the mercy of the others. These past few weeks of the History class made me feel unlike the other classes in the university that I took. Because it made live in the past, feel how did the people feel and go through back in 1910’s. In the beginning of the course my instructor said that we going to play a game, I was freaked out. Knowing that I have to talk to other people and share my ideas with them. I remember then she told us more about how we all have to play in character, as we were living in 1913’s, which sounded scary at first. But, it turned out really great and educational and helped me fight my

For over a thousand years, an inexplicably dark secret has shrouded the serene countryside adjacent to the town of Pogradec in southeastern Albania. Within the vast, dense forest, which borders the seemingly placid community, the trees contain an extraordinary kind of sap uniquely tainted with blood--human blood. Not unlike a sublime facade, the beautiful, rolling meadows beyond the forest still mask the horrific sight of uncountable corpses rotting beneath the earth in unmarked graves.