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    A typical two-manual harpsichord of the 18th century had strings at normal and octave-high pitch playable on the lower manual, strings at normal pitch controlled by the upper manual, and a coupling mechanism. Early History The earliest school of harpsichord building developed in Italy in the 16th and 17th centuries. Italian harpsichords

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    PERIODIC CLASSIFICATION OF ELEMENTS Introduction There are 115 elements that are known at present. Some elements have similar properties whereas some others have completely contrasting properties Scientists began to look for some pattern in the properties of these elements Dobereiner’s triads In 1817, Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner, a German chemist, classified elements into groups based on their properties. He kept all elements having similar properties in one group. Most of his groups had three

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    The Ocean Tone

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    undertones of sadness. Divided into two octaves, the poem first depicts the nature of the ocean referring to it as "quiet" and "alone" then the second half of the poem contrasts typical graves with the graves of mariners beneath the sea (2). The poem also relies on a detached observer to act as the speaker to directly connect the audience to the image of the ocean which it is describing. The poem starts with a description of the ocean and its caves and the first octave also establishes the inherent contrast

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    speaker’s desire to be rescued from the clutches of sin. As a Petrarchan sonnet closely following the octave-volta-sestet design, “Batter My Heart” displays

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    Surprised by Joy written by the William Wordsworth (1770-1850). This poem published in 1815. Surprised by Joy is an Italian sonnet that fourteen- line poem consists rhyme scheme of the octave and sestet. The poem Surprised by Joy shows exactly poem lyric also William Wordsworth well known for Lyrical Ballads poet. Surprised by Joy described about person’s feeling which joy of birth and sad of death. He writes about remember one’s death, and expresses his emotion using the poem which is Surprised

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    Mezzo Soprano

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    ranges are tenor, baritone, and bass. Tenor is the highest of the male voices; it ranges between the C note one octave below the middle C to the C note one octave above middle C. Baritone is where most males are; it ranges between the A flat note one octave below the middle C to the A flat note above the middle C. Bass is the lowest of the male voices; it ranges between the F note one octave below the middle C to the E note just above the middle

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    felt that weight and offers the reader to do as he’s done, to find the benefits restraining has to offer. The third instance can be found between lines eight and nine. Usually in sonnets, both parts (octave and sestet) are separated by independent sentences, yet in “Nuns”, a sentence connects the octave and sestet, marking another breach from a normal approach. All examples show that even though Wordsworth has confined himself to a set of rules, with a little tweaking, he’s able to emphasize that one

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    Elvira Alternate Ending

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    On a farm was this small cabin where was a women giving birth. Miles away you could hear her screams with the lights flickering on and off. When the baby was born Elvira, a beautiful brunette with blue eyes, named her son Kenneth. However, minutes later he stopped breathing and Elvira only knew one way to heal him. In her religion if someone was sacrificed to save another, the person in need of help will be revived and the sacrificed were granted eternal peace. An hour after the death of Kevin,

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    But, him using Newlands table as a reference obviously sped up the process of organizing the table and envisioning the soon to be known atomic masses of the unexplored elements. Newlands had assisted the scientific world by presenting his Law of Octaves, arranging the elements according to atomic mass, and publishing his representation of the periodic table. With Newlands' contributions to the scientific world, the periodic table we have today is in favor to Mendeleev's table, which was constructed

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    The concept of the Renaissance man is somewhat of a lost ideal, replaced by the specialized philosophy of the industrial era. From the 14th to 17th centuries; however, it would be common to find a man with a profound knowledge of both the Arts, music, poetry, literature, art, and the Sciences, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology. The Renaissance man embraced all forms of knowledge, and through a deep passion for both the Arts and Sciences, used each discipline to expand the other. Unfortunately

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