Era

Major Progressivism Programs Progressive education–John Dewey led movement that focused on personal growth, not mastery of body of knowledge and learning through experience. Charles Eliot of Harvard pioneered elective courses and new teaching techniques (such as seminars) to make university learning more meaningful Women began attending colleges in large numbers (by 1920, 47% of total…

GREAT EXPECTATIONS. By Anne Gilmour. November1996. Of the major themes from Charles Dickens novel”Great Expectations” to be discussed as to their importanceconcerning its structure, I have selected “Love” in thecontext of human relationships, “Isolation” and finally”Redemption”. The loneliness isolation brings can only beredeemed by the loving associate of our fellow man, this is atwo way…

History 262 – History of Civilization IIThe modern era began with the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century and accelerated through the first half of the twentieth century. Although this span of time included many dissenting voices, in general it could be described as an Age of Scientific Reason. The premodern classicists of Greece, Rome, and…

THE BAROQUE AGESocial and Cultural BackgroundBaroque is a term borrowed from the visual arts and one that is usedin many different senses. The Baroque Era applies to the years between1600 and 1750. The most famous composers of this time were Bach, Handel,Vivaldi and Teleman. Politically it was an age of magnificent absolute Monarch’s. The mostmagnificent…

In the Elizabethan Era, occupations were as varied as a bowl of Jelly Belly Jelly Beans. There was some much to do as the times were changing rapidly. Professions in this time and age ranged from rabbit catching to working with royalty. Making weapons, clothes, working in the house, working in the castle, selling goods…

running without funds, the leaders of both parties of Congress arespending less and less time searching for a compromise to balance thebudget, and more and more time deciding how to use it to theiradvantage on the campaign trail. Meanwhile money is easily borrowed topay for government overhead. In an attempt to change this, on June…

The atmosphere of which a writer adapts to affects his/her works. The writer”s environment, and the churnings of history that feed the writer, gives him the material whereby he can construct, and create in. History, in this instance the colonization of the American continent, dictates what and how he is to write. Authors such as…

Even though it was written in the Victorian era, Kate Chopin’s The Awakening has several romantic qualities, especially with the main character, as she struggles between society’s obligations and her own desires. Chopin writes about a woman who continues to reject the society around her, a notion too radical for Chopin’s peers. Edna Pontellier has…

When I think of the Baroque period and what I can compare it to, I think of a teenager. A teenager is that that awkward between stage of a child and adult. Not yet fully developed and prone to drastic changes spontaneously. This is, what I believe, exactly how it was with the Baroque Era…

Major/ minor scale/tonal system 8. Did instrumental music become Just as important as vocal music? 9. What are some harmonistic traits of baroque rhythms? Regular meter and bar lines are finally present: rhythmic patterns repeated throughout a piece. 10. What are some characteristic traits of baroque melodies? Elaborate and ornamental; not symmetrical (phrases not of…