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    educated on literacy and was very successful at his time spent there. One particular poem he wrote is short poem “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock” in 1915 and it was published in his first book of poetry at the age of forty-four known as, “Harmonium”. In the book “Harmonium”, Stevens published eighty-five of his best poems that a century later are still contributing to modern day poetry. While reading a poem a reader can have plenty of different thoughts or may interpret the meaning to the poem differently

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    that come from different parts of the world and the way people manipulate an instrument by the way they play the tool. During the performance, the intro truly set the mood for me. When the first performer, Pandit Binay Pathak, started playing the Harmonium I felt

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    siblings. He was born to Toussaint-Honore Faure, a school headmaster, and Marie-Helene-Lalene-Laprade who was a member of the minor aristocracy. Growing up Faure spent many hours of his day playing the harmonium in a chapel located close to his father’s school. One day as Faure was playing the harmonium in the chapel and an old blind woman came to listen and give Gabriel any advice she could. It was not until the old blind lady told his father about

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    sudden. It is my first time hearing and seeing a harmonium. It is used in more spiritual pieces. A harmonium is a keyboard instrument in which the notes are produced by air driven through metal reeds by foot-operated bellows. The concept of it reminds me of an accordion. They both work on the same principle of blowing air to vibrate tuned reeds when keys are pressed. The accordion is played while holding the instrument with two hands; however, the harmonium is played with it on the floor. On the first

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    The National Honor Society (NHS) is an honor, it recognizes those who have excelled in the characteristics of scholarship, leadership, service and character. Simply being chosen as a candidate is a great honor for me. All throughout high school, I’ve strived to be a great, well rounded individual. I know that I belong in an organization like National Honor Society because it will assist me in becoming even more involved with my community than I already am and will positively benefit me. Mahatma Gandhi

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    A Guided Epiphany In “Eveline” the main character, Eveline, lives a terrible life with a stern father, a miserable job, and a dreary home. When she is given the opportunity to leave her awful life and start a new life with her partner Frank, she rejects the offer and stays in Ireland. Immediately this presents the reader with an apparent paradox. Why did Eveline stay? Wasn’t her life terrible? It is not until the reader digs a little deeper into “Eveline” does the paradox solve itself. Joyce uses

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    Tchaikovsky. She was a manager of the Kamsko-Votkinsk metal works.the father, Alexandra Assier,was a descendant of French émigrés. His earliest fascinations came from a orchestrina, which is any of a group of small keyboard instruments related to the harmonium,. Furthermore, At the age of 4 Tchaikovsky made his first recording attempt at composition, which a song written with his younger sister Alexandra. In 1845,(when he was 5) he started taking piano lessons with a local tutor which he became familiar

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    through eight lines. Then the closing four bars have the original theme, but with improvisational endings adding up to twelve lines. This gives you the 12-bar Blues progression. In the introduction Armstrong starts with an improvise cornet solo over harmonium. On 0’ 14” the first chorus starts with “When I was Young…” which is Bessie singing. When the final two measures of the first chorus comes on 0’ 51” Armstrong does an improvisation with his cornet as a fill that indicates the chord progression. Then

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    received two degrees from Harvard University and now lived in San Francisco Area of the Northern California, where he taught music for ten years and became a real Symphony composer; he became popular for “New and Unusual Music” which includes the Harmonium, Grand Pianola Music, Harmonielehre, My Father Knew Charles Ives, and Absolute Jest. In 1985, in collaboration with other people one of which was a poet Alice Goodman produced two operas such as Nixon in China and The Death of the King Hoffer, which

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    Born in 1849, Ivan Pavlov’s name became known worldwide due to several reasons. First, Pavlov won the Nobel Peace Prize in his physiological work with collecting a dogs’ gastric juice. His original work then led to the psychological point of view of looking at a dog’s drool, which opened a strictly objective way to analyze how dogs learn, namely classical or Pavlovian conditioning. Pavlov’s work led to many contributions in the medical field and objective studies that are still used today, however

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