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    Materials like tile covered concrete quickly supplanted marble as the primary building material and more daring buildings soon followed, with great pillars supporting broad arches and domes rather than dense lines of columns suspending flat architraves. Concrete also inspired the colonnade screen, a row of ornamental columns in front of a load-bearing wall. For smaller buildings, concrete 's strength freed the floor plan from rectangular cells to a more free-flowing environment. Most of these developments

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    When it comes to culture, politics, and society, the five classical civilizations of Greece, Rome, Persia, India, and China were similar in ways, but also different which made each its own. Let’s talk about Culture first. Religion and its importance is one that most classical civilizations had in common, but they each also had their own uniqueness. The Greece culture valued education, and placed emphasis on the importance of human effort. Celebration of human individual achievement and the ideal

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    blending classical procedures with melodies that resemble Russian folk song and harmonies that suggest the modality and parallel motion of folk polyphony. In this particular piece, he states a Russian Orthodox hymn, which adds a prayerful tone and nationalistic element to the

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    peaceful thoughts. This essay will tells my experience of the concert in order to persuade my friend to  attend a classical music concert with you in the future. There were a total of four music pieces performed. They were “Overture from the Singspiel”, “Concerto in e minor”, “Concerto on b minor,opus 104”, and “Symphony#2 in b minor, opus 5”. I think pieces were performed belong to classical style. The first piece was “Overture from the Singspiel”, which is composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The

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    the building is white and is covered by a colonnade facade that prominently features the college’s seal as well as the name of the library. While Franklin and Marshall College has numerous historic buildings, Shad-Fack Library stands out for its classical Greek facade which prominently covers the main entrance of the library. The collonaded facade is an exceptional visual on Franklin and Marshall’s campus and thus, a careful exploration of its design/layout, visual appeal and

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    The social group I have chosen to observe is my family. My family is larger than the average American family with fourteen people currently living in the same home, and an average American family being made up of 3.14 people (argis.com). With so many people living under one roof this group is generally loud and can sometimes be overwhelming for an outsider. This group loves to have fun and wherever we go we know how to entertain ourselves and have an enjoyable time, in fact, we consider our theme

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    At some point individuals seem to develop a set beliefs or values that they uphold and by doing so they develop an ideology. Ideologies are personal beliefs and W. Phillips Shivley, in his book, Power & Choice defines an ideology as a set of related ideas about politics that support one another (23). There are numerous ideologies and they differ from each other or at times have similar ideas. A few ideologies include liberalism, conservatism, communitarianism, and marxism. Everyone in some way identifies

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    rock, country, folk, or blues music played on pipe organs by classically trained pipe organists who noticeably misunderstand and disrespect the subtleties inherent in 21st Century music. At best, they merely retool modern genres to suit and satisfy classical palates. J. S. Bach's B Minor Mass with its great chorale fugues, elaborately ornamented arias, and orchestral accompaniment, may very well be the greatest chorale work ever composed; however, liturgical music is ill conceived as a great art form

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    slender and elegant style compared to the Doric order who is stockier and supportive. Ionic order uses base supports at the bottom of the columns and volutes (scroll like ornaments). The final order is the Corinthian Order; the last classical order of Greek architecture. This order uses more vegetal elements in its structures more so than the Ionic order. It used leaves

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    should have a better insight into the process of learning in which an individual experiences permanent, lasting changes in knowledge, behaviors, and ways of processing the world. Significant Theories of Learning Fact: Jessica was the receptionist at Unity Nursing Home. She is a very joyful and friendly person and an immense asset to the facility. Recently, she was promoted to the Admission Assistant position. She felt very excited and eager, but at the same time, she was apprehensive. Despite her worries

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