Antonin Dvorak was a clever and highly communicative humorist and musical dramatist. His masterful compositional strategies underscore, heighten, and construct sonic humor in his six (!!) comic operas. He crafts musical slapstick, satire, parody, and merriment using sudden breaks in rhythmic patterns, explosive harmonic shifts, excessive repetition, and startling pauses, as well as incongruous tempi, dynamics, range, and instrumentation. Dvorak also gives the orchestra its own "voice," breaking the metaphorical "fourth wall" to reveal humor outside of the characters' awareness. Narrative description and comprehensive music examples guide the reader through all six of Dvorak's works in this genre, revealing a significantly under-appreciated side of the composer's immense creative skills.

Everyone know that Britain has a Queen, but who is she and what does she do? How do you become a Queen and who will be Head of State next? This book answers these questions as well as looking at the roles of other royal family members. A timeline at the back of the book shows the full history of the British Royal Family. For children aged 7 and up who are interested in learning about the modern British Royal Family. Title in this series: The Queen William and Kate Prince Charles Harry and Meghan

On 8 November 2016, some 130 million people in the USA cast their vote to decide who should become their next President. The candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, had fought a campaign that had divided their country more than any previous election. The resulting Trump presidency would not only affect the citizens of the USA, but billions of people around the world. Aimed at young tweens and teens, this book gives readers a balanced and accessible account of Donald Trump's campaign for the presidency and his uncompromising and highly controversial policies and behaviour as President.

The 17th century was called the Dutch 'Golden Age'. Over the course of 80 years, the tiny United Provinces of the Netherlands overthrew Spanish rule and became Europe's dominant power. In this book, Julia Adams explores the role that Holland's great families played in this dramatic history.

This vital source of learning is perfect for children to dip into for school projects and is a fantastic addition to any family library.

The seventeenth century was called the Dutch Golden Age. Over the course of eighty years, the tiny United Provinces of the Netherlands overthrew Spanish rule and became Europe's dominant power. Eventually, though, Dutch hegemony collapsed as quickly as it had risen. In The Familial State, Julia Adams explores the role that Holland's great families played in this dramatic history. She charts how family patriarchs—who were at the time both state-builders and merchant capitalists—shaped the first great wave of European colonialism, which in turn influenced European political development in innovative ways. On the basis of massive archival work, Adams arrives at a profoundly gendered reading of the family/power structure of the Dutch elite and their companies, in particular the VOC or Dutch East India Company. In the United Provinces, she finds the first example of the power structure that would dominate the transitional states of early modern Europe—the "familial state." This organizational structure is typified, in her view, by "paternal political rule and multiple arrangements among the family heads."

A state-of-the-field survey of historical sociology, Remaking Modernity assesses the field's past accomplishments and peers into the future, envisioning changes to come. The seventeen essays in this collection reveal the potential of historical sociology to transform understandings of social and cultural change. The volume captures an exciting new conversation among historical sociologists that brings a wider interdisciplinary project to bear on the problems and prospects of modernity.The contributors represent a wide variety of theoretical orientations and a broad spectrum of understandings of what constitutes historical sociology. They address such topics as religion, war, citizenship, markets, professions, gender and welfare, colonialism, ethnicity, bureaucracy, revolutions, collective action, and the modernist social sciences themselves. Remaking Modernity includes a significant introduction in which the editors consider prior orientations in historical sociology in order to analyze the field's resurgence. They show how current research is building on and challenging previous work through attention to institutionalism, rational choice, the cultural turn, feminist theories and approaches, and colonialism and the racial formations of empire. Contributors Julia Adams Justin Baer Richard Biernacki Bruce Carruthers Elisabeth Clemens Rebecca Jean Emigh Russell Faeges Philip Gorski Roger Gould Meyer Kestnbaum Edgar Kiser Ming-Cheng Lo Zine Magubane Ann Shola Orloff Nader Sohrabi Margaret Somers Lyn Spillman George Steinmetz

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Systeme - Politisches System Deutschlands, Note: 2,7, Universitat Trier, 7 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Insbesondere das Personal im offentlichen Dienst ist immer wieder Ziel fur Kritik und Reformen. In meiner Hausarbeit mochte ich auf die Personalstruktur im offentlichen Dienst naher eingehen. Viele Personen in der Gesellschaft setzen offentlichen Dienst mit Schreibtischarbeit gleich, vergessen jedoch, dass auch der "einfache" Mullmann, der Lehrer ihrer Kinder und jeder Busfahrer dazugehort. Als erstes werde ich Begriffe, die mir im Zusammenhang mit diesem Thema wichtig erscheinen, definieren und genauer erlautern. Dazu gehoren u.a. Definitionen von offentlichem Dienst, die Klarung der Frage, was sind Beamte, Angestellte oder Arbeiter, etc. . Ausserdem, welche Laufbahnmoglichkeiten gibt es und wie staffelt sich die Besoldung

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Linguistik, Note: 2,3, Universitat Trier, 0 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Anmerkungen: Zitierung uber Fussnoten, daher kein Literaturverzeichnis, Abstract: Nicht erst seit PISA werden Rufe nach einer Veranderung des Unterrichts laut. Insbesondere die Qualitat, die Methodik und die Inhalte sind fur einen erfolgreichen Lernprozess entscheidend. Im Deutschunterricht an deutschen Schulen findet man kaum herausragendes. Meist werden literarische Texte gelesen, interpretiert, analysiert. Doch gerade bei der Erarbeitung von Texten kommt es nicht nur auf das Lesen, sondern vielmehr auf das Verstehen an. Textverstehen bedeutet nicht einfach das Erkennen der abgebildeten Zeichen, sondern ist ein komplexer Verarbeitungsprozess. Das Verstehen gibt den Zeichen eine Bedeutung und stellt sie sowohl syntaktisch, als auch textuell in Zusammenhang. Kann diese Verarbeitung nicht am besten mit eigenem Schreiben trainiert und gefestigt werden? Das eigene Schreiben ist jedoch meist auf Erorterungen, Inhaltsangaben und Beantworten inhaltlicher Fragen reduziert - doch wo bleibt die eigene Phantasie, die eigene Kreativitat? In Baden-Wurttemberg hat man das Kreative Schreiben als Aufsatzform als eine Moglichkeit der schriftlichen benoteten Arbeitsformen aufgenommen. Doch lasst es sich auch in den normalen Unterrichtsablauf integrieren, oder eignet es sich doch besser fur Projekte? Kann oder sollte man die Arbeit bewerten, oder beeinflusst dies den Vorgang in negativer Weise? Welche Ziele konnen damit verfolgt und erreicht werden? Hier sollen diese Fragen naher beleuchten und praktische Beispiele fur Kreatives Schreiben im Deutschunterricht aufzeigen