Klemens Von Metternich

KLEMENS VON METTERNICH Statesman; born at Coblenz, 15 May, 1773; died at Vienna, 11 June, 1859; son of Count Georg, Austrian envoy of the Court of Vienna at Coblenz, and Maria Beatrix, nee Countess von Kageneck. He studied philosophy at the University of Strasburg, and law and diplomacy at Mainz. A journey to England completed his education. Metternich began his public career in 1801 as Austrian ambassador to the Court of Dresden. Though he had for several years prepared himself for a diplomatic career, he was especially fortunate in being immediately appointed to so prominent a position.Only two years later he was made ambassador to Berlin. The emperor considered it very important to have a minister at Berlin who could gain the favour of the Court and the principal Prussian statesmen, and who knew how to combine â€Å"great powers of observation with a moderate and agreeable manner†. Metternich had already proved that he possessed these qualities. Napoleon was then emperor wi th the new empire at the zenith of its power. The Emperor Francis needed his ablest ambassador at Napoleon's Court, and in May, 1806, he sent Metternich to Paris.Metternich found himself in the difficult position of representing Austria in the face of the overweening threats and ambitious plans of Napoleon at the height of his power. He did so with dignity and firmness, as his report of his important audience with Napoleon on 15 August, 1808, shows. The year 1809 is marked by the great war between Austria and France. The German States were called upon to join her, but only the Tyrol responded. On 13 May Vienna was besieged by the French, but eight days later Napoleon was defeated by the Archduke Charles at Aspern.Metternich, treated as a prisoner of state by Napoleon, was finally released in July in exchange for members of the French embassy. After the battle of Wagram Austria's position was hopeless. Its army was cut off from Hungary and compelled to retreat to Moravia and Bohemia. A great statesman was needed to save the situation. On 4 August the Emperor Francis appointed Metternich as minister of state to confer with Napoleon, and on 8 October, minister of the imperial house and of foreign affairs.By the treaty of Schonbrunn (14 October), Austria was greatly reduced in size, and reached the greatest depths of its humiliation. But the moment of its degradation saw the beginning of its rise. The two-headed eagle soared to the loftiest heights, and it was Metternich who gave it the strength for its flight. For nearly forty years he directed Austria's policy. His first concern was to establish tolerable relations with the French Emperor. Napoleon desired by means of a new marriage to ally himself with one of the old European dynasties in the hope to raise himself and to provide an heir for the imperial throne.He obtained a divorce from Josephine Beauharnais, and through the mediation of Metternich married Maria Louise, daughter of the Emperor Frances of Austri a. Though at present it seems to become more and more probable that Napoleon's union with Josephine was a valid marriage, nevertheless it is certain that when Napoleon wedded Maria Louise (11 March, 1810) the Court of Vienna and the Papal Curia were absolutely convinced of the unlawfulness of Napoleon's first alliance. Napoleon's connexion with the imperial family of Austria had no influence on politics.Fate led the French Emperor, after ruining so many others, to ruin himself. At Schonbrunn he pronounced the temporal sovereignty of the Roman See to be at an end, and in reply to the pope's excommunication he remarked: â€Å"This will not cause the arms to drop from the hands of my grenadiers. † Although he imprisoned the pope, in the Russian campaign on the Beresina the arms did drop from the frozen hands of his grenadiers. As the crisis approached the decision lay with Austria. From a quarter past eleven in the morning until half past eight in the evening Metternich was clos eted with Napoleon (Dresden, 26 June, 1813). Our conference consisted of the strangest farrago of heterogeneous subjects, characterized now by extreme friendliness, now by the most violent outbursts of fury†. Napoleon raged, threatened, and leaped up like a chafed lion. Metternich remained calm. Napoleon let his hat, which he was holding under his arm, drop to the floor. Metternich did not stoop to pick it up. The emperor also tried persuasion. â€Å"Your sovereigns†, he said, â€Å"who were born to their thrones cannot comprehend the feelings that move me.To them it is nothing to return to their capitals defeated. But I am a soldier. I need honour and glory. I cannot reappear among my people devoid of prestige. I must remain great, admired, covered with glory. † For that reason, he said, he could not accept the proposed conditions of peace. Metternich replied, â€Å"But when will this condition of things cease, in which defeat and victory are alike reasons for continuing these dismal wars? If victorious, you insist upon the fruits of your victory; if defeated, you are determined to rise again. Napoleon made various offers for Austria's neutrality, but Metternich declined all bargaining, and Napoleon's oft-repeated threat, â€Å"We shall meet in Vienna†, was his farewell to Metternich. Metternich gave the signal for war, and Schwarzenberg led the decisive battle of Leipzig. The Emperor Francis raised his â€Å"beloved Count Metternich† to the rank of Austrian prince. â€Å"Your able efforts in conducting the department with which I entrusted you in difficult times are now, at a moment highly decisive in the world's destiny, happily crowned with success. Metternich reached the height of his power and renown at the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815). No idea can be had of the difficulty of the problems that were to be solved. The very first conference of the representatives of the powers previously allied against France (Austria, Prussia, Russia, and England), held on 19 September, 1814, at Metternich's villa on the Rennweg, ended in a discord over the Polish question. It constantly required all of Metternich's most brilliant qualities to preserve harmony. One of his favourite means was to provide festivities of all sorts.They have often been criticized as if they had been the object of the congress, and not a means to attain its ends. Metternich succeeded finally in bridging over every difficulty. The Emperor Francis expressed his satisfaction with Metternich's services in securing peace and order in Europe, and especially in restoring to Austria its ancient pre-eminence. The rearrangement of German and Italian affairs gave but little satisfaction to either side, but henceforth Metternich was the leading statesman of Europe.For the settlement of questions still pending and other difficulties that arose, the following congresses were held: Aix-la-Chapelle, 1818; Karlsbad (a conference of ministers), 1819; Vi enna, 1820; Troppau, 1820; Laibach, 1821; and Verona, 1822. The Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, at which the monarchs of Austria, Prussia, and Russia were personally present, devoted its attention to the adjustment of the relations of the powers to France, though Metternich also emphasized the dangers arising from demagogic agitation, and expressed his suspicions that its focus was in Germany.When, not long after, the Russian councillor, Kotzebue, was assassinated by the student, Sand, Metternich in twenty-four conferences of German ministers at Karlsbad took measures to put an end to the political troubles in Germany. All publications of less than twenty folios were to be subject to censorship; government officers were to be placed at the universities to supervise them; in the several states the constitutions providing for diets in accordance with ancient usage were to be retained; representative constitutions were to be suppressed.Despite England's and Russia's resistance, Metternich at the two succeeding congresses successfully carried his proposition to intervene in behalf of the Italian states, which were threatened and hard pressed by the revolution. This measure brought upon Austria the hatred of the Italian people. Finally Austria and Russia split on the question of freeing Greece from the Turkish yoke, Austria showing herself to be a decided friend of the Turks. The result was a blow to Metternich's policy. He had dropped from the high-water mark of his influence.Thereafter Russia's influence increased. Since the death of Prince Kaunitz (1794) the position of house, court, and state chancellor had been vacant, but in 1821 Metternich was invested with that office. â€Å"Your deserts have been increased by the uninterrupted zeal, the ability and fearlessness with which, especially in the last two years, you devoted yourself to the preservation of general order and the triumph of law over the disorderly doings of disturbers of the peace in the states at ho me and abroad. Under the Emperor Ferdinand I after 1835, the direction of affairs, after the emperor himself, was in the hands of a council consisting of the Archduke Ludwig (uncle of the emperor), the state chancellor Metternich, and the court chancellor Kolowrat. Metternich's influence over Austria's internal affairs was less than is generally supposed. Count Hartig, who was well informed, declares (Geschichte der Revolution, p. 19): â€Å"In matters of internal administration the prince was seldom heard, and was purposely kept away from them. † In this department after 1826, it was the minister Count Kolowrat whose influence was decisive.Many envied Metternich his pre-eminence. The aristocracy always saw the foreigner in him, and others looked with resentment upon the preference shown foreigners in the state chancery (Friedrich Gentz, Adam Muller, Friedrich Schlegel, Jarke). Grillparzer, director of archives in the Hofkammer, expressed himself very harshly on that point in 1839, though it must be noted that Grillparzer had been highly incensed. In all these matters Kolowrat had the advantage of Metternich. He was even considered capable of granting, or, at least, of preparing a constitution, and was thought to be inclined to do so.As time passed â€Å"the Metternich system† came to be held more and more responsible for everything unpleasant, and its author to be hated and attacked. His own acts show the injustice done the prince in this regard. To quote from his â€Å"Political Testament†: â€Å"To me the word freedom has not the value of a starting-point, but of an actual goal to be striven for. The word order designates the starting-point. It is only on order that freedom can be based. Without order as a foundation the cry for freedom is nothing more than the endeavour of some party or other for an end it has in view.When actually carried out in practice, that cry for freedom will inevitably express itself in tyranny. At all times an d in all situations I was a man of order, yet my endeavour was always for true and not for pretended liberty. † These words are the key to the understanding and appreciation of Metternich's actions. Two more passages characteristic of the great statesman's temper of mind may be cited: â€Å"Admirers of the press honour it with the title, ‘representative of public opinion', though everything written in the papers is nothing but the expression of those who write.Will the value of being the expression of public opinion ever be attributed to the publications of a Government, even of a Republican Government? Surely not! Yet every obscure journalist claims this value for his own products. What a confusion of ideas! † No less just and important a remark is the following on state religion: â€Å"The downfall of empires always directly depends upon the spread of unbelief. For this very reason religious belief, the first of virtues, is the strongest power.It alone curbs at tack and makes resistance irresistible. Religion cannot decline in a nation without causing that nation's strength also to decline, and the fall of states does not proceed in arithmetical progression according to the law of falling bodies, but rapidly leads to destruction. † When on 13 March, 1848, the storm of the revolution raged in Vienna, the state chancellor, who preferred to sacrifice himself rather than others, immediately resigned his position. He went to England, Brussels, and Schloss Johannisberg.From the last place he returned to Vienna in 1851, and eight years later died in his palace on the Rennweg at the age of eighty-six. In Europe Napoleon, Metternich, and Bismarck set their stamp upon the nineteenth century. All three of them lived to see their own fall. Metternich remained the longest in the leading position of â€Å"coachman of Europe†. Nothing better characterizes the great statesman than what he repeatedly said, proud and aristocratic as always, to Baron A. von Hubner a few weeks before his death: â€Å"I was a rock of order† (un rocher d'ordre).Metternich married three times: in 1795 Maria Eleonora, granddaughter of Princess Kaunitz, by whom he had seven children; in 1827 Maria Antonia, Baroness von Leykam, by whom he had a son, Richard Klemens; and in 1831 Countess Melanie Zichy, by whom he had three children. What was the Metternich system? The Metternich system depended upon political and religious censorship, espionage, and the suppression of revolutionary and nationalist movements. His name became anathema to liberals, and the revolutions of 1848 (which forced him to seek refuge in England) were in part directed at his repressive system.Metternich returned to Austria in 1851. Prince metternich set out many different small fires of liberalising revolutions. The system depended upon political and religious censorship, and the suppression of revolutionary and nationalist movements.. This became held for everything un pleasant. Concert of Europe 1815: In the aftermath of Napoleon's defeat, the great powers of Europe came together to define the new political order. For fifteen years, the plans devised at the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) succeeded in reinstating and maintaining Europe's monarchies, while suppressing the ambitions of liberals, nationalists, and workers.However, in 1830 and again in 1848 the aspirations of these groups exploded in revolutionary action. All of these would-be revolutions were eventually put down, but the message that an expansion of the political sphere was coming could not be denied. In fact, nationalism drove much of the political change in the two decades following the revolts of 1848. Austria-Hungary was reorganized to give special status to large minority groups. The states of Italy were brought together in a unified country in 1861.And finally, the German states were unifed under Prussian leadership in 1871. The unification of Italy and Germany were part of a l arger pattern. Throughout Europe, the power of the state increased at the same time as more and more people were brought into the political process. Between 1848 and 1914, France became a republic again, Britain moved closer to democracy, serfdom was abolished in Russia, and Spain and Portugal moved towards modernization of their governments. By 1914, almost all European men had the right to vote.

College Life Essay

I was really excited to go on college by the time I step on the stage and got my diploma. During college applications, I would always think of what college has to offer far from high school. I would imagine myself walking around the university’s corridor from building to building, meeting new and unfamiliar faces, involving into different school activities and enjoying a lot of my free time. I would also see myself in a more mature role as a Mass Communication student of Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila which is I think a big challenge. However, I fear that college might be hard for me as a freshman. I wonder who are going to be my friends, will I be with the good ones or the other way around, what type of professors I’ll be dealing with, where should I and most importantly, how can I cope up with these changes that I can’t even sleep that night before our first day of school. And these are the things I’ve encountered so far. The whole set up of college is totally different from high school Embracing a change is certainly a difficult one. It took me a lot of adjustments to familiarize things in college. It is true that in college you are the master of your time. You should know how to manage your time preparing for school, during vacant hours and free time. Since I’m from Cavite which is a 2 hour ride going to Manila (heavy traffic not included), I should have a time allowance so I can’t be late on my first subject. Technically, if I have a 7 am class, I should be up at 4 am for preparation then at 5 am I must go. Same with going home and this is very tiresome. During my vacant, instead of wandering somewhere I will do my assignments so when I came home, there’s nothing to worry about. With my schedule, I can rarely bond with my parents and siblings at home because I must make the most out of my time to do what is needed and that often left me no personal time. I can no longer join family gatherings or social parties because if I do, I would sacrifice my time for sleep and rest. My time is being calculated and I think that’s the worst part of being a college student. On the other hand, my social life broaden with the new friends I’ve met in college but at first I find it hard to be comfortable with them because I’m still looking for the same qualities of my friends in high school. Because of it, I barely enjoy my time with them which is not healthy. That’s the hardest part in me that I struggle, to open up myself for new opportunities. The next adjustment that I had was in terms of money. Back in my high school, I am not really into allowances because IÂ  had my pack lunch and school service. Whenever I need something, I’ll just ask my parents and they will give me the amount of money I needed. But when I entered college, I started to budget everything I need with my allowance – fare, food, and school stuffs. Especially with my school environment since it is near SM Manila and those tempting, low-cost stores scattered anywhere. With that, I learned to save money and prioritize my needs over wants that leaves no room for extras.

Blues Music And Its Influence On Integration

Essay, Research Paper Sarah Anne Stevenson Dave Stockum English Language and Comprehension 20 November 1999 Bluess Music and its influence on integrating From old ages 1505 to 1870, the universe underwent the largest forced migration in history: West Africa was shortly to be convulsed by the reaching of Europeans and go the coming of the transatlantic slave trade. Ships from Europe, edge for America, appeared on the skyline, and their captains and sailors-carrying muskets, blades, and shackles-landed on the seashore, walked up the beach in their unusual apparels, looked around, and demanded slaves. A hideous chapter in history had begun, and neither Africa nor America would be the same once more. ( Awmiller 14 ) Approximately 10 million Africans were brought across the seas to the Americas to be manipulated into bondage ( 14 ) . It became evident that these African work forces, adult females and kids were meant to bring forth money. They were meant to work rough labour, yet they were no longer intend to hold a voice. A few Americans took the clip to appreciate the difficult work performed by the slaves ; nevertheless, grasp is a short measure in the long route to equality. It was non until the late nineteenth century that America began to mend the amendss done by this immoral trading of human existences. Once the slaves were? freed? after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, it did non make much to stop the subjugation and bias against their race. Their freedom did non give them a bosom ; it did non turn out they had psyche. This is where their music becomes important, and this is Blues music ( How the Blues Overview ) . Throughout their music, it took much less clip for the black race to turn out that they were non unlike the remainder of humanity ; in fact, they did hold a voice, and a stalking one. Once Blues music was non merely recognized, but besides comprehended, admired and imitated, it opened the Gatess of in-migration, and the state to this twenty-four hours has matured in its ability to see grey. Included in the mass of faceless slaves, the boats entrapped and migrated a big figure of griots. A griot was an African version of the European roving folk singer. They spent their lives going from small town to village, playing the function of a musician, narrator and wise adult male. They typically carried an instrument similar to a guitar or banjo ( Awmiller 13 ) . However, due to their rapid alteration in environment, they could no longer sing the vocals that they used to sing in their old small towns ; they invented new vocals. The griots invented new vocals that addressed their new and terrific fortunes: Songs about being chained on the ships below deck like animate beings, about those who did non last the barbarous crossing to New World, and about the places they would neer see once more. And one time in America, there were other adversities to sing about: the shame of the auction block, the separation of household members, the remorseless intervention at the custodies of landholders. ( 15 ) Even though their Masterss, and most slave proprietors at the clip, continued a moving ridge of new Torahs and limitations to stamp down the baleful civilization of Africa, these griots and these slaves used their new manner of music to shout out against these blazing errors to their race. They needed an flight to retain the necessities of their civilization, of their fatherland of which they doubtless could non stamp down the memories of values and of experiences known antecedently to them. By the terminal of the Civil War, these slaves had blended African and European influences to animate their ain civilization. This neo-African civilization included Afro-american manners of dance and storytelling, work and spiritualty, conversation and community. ? By sifting among the many elements of this vibrant, vital universe, we can follow the specific musical roots of what would be known, by the terminal of the century, as? the blues? ? ( 15 ) . Bluess music originated in the cotton Fieldss of the southern United States where the bulk of the slave custodies were put to work. ? The earliest folk-blues were sung by unidentified African-Americans life and working in the South? s cotton belt in the early 1880? s and 1890? s- in peculiar, the part from the Mississippi Delta to East Texas? ( Barlow 3 ) . It was believed that this began as a call and response manner, which matured into the work vocal. From that point of view, after the release of the slaves, the work vocal so matured into their Spirituals, and subsequently was introduced to the Whites through black-faced Minstrel of Medicine shows ( How the Blues Overview ) . As the music matured and became more celebrated, its influence became outstanding in the music manners of the clip, and in the entwining relationships between the races. ? The music was a alone and cultural offering that Whites could non deny. It was something new and challenging to Whites that shed a new visi ble radiation on inkinesss and their topographic point in American civilization and society? ( Overview ) . The music did non look to hold the same colour limitations as the music antecedently performed. It drew inkinesss and whites together in a topographic point where everyone could go forth the Jim Crow Torahs at the door ( Overview ) . This offered a new and good life style for the inkinesss every bit good as the Whites. Possibly the involvement was that the white people had found a new endowment to work and from which to do easy money, or possibly, possibly it was because the Whites truly understood the cultural significance in the music and respected this endowment of the black race adequate to get the better of racial and cultural differences. ? The white slave proprietors were intrigued by the slaves? ? music? [ and ] encouraged the slaves to sing and play? because they felt that the slaves were happier-and less rebellious-if they were allowed to do their music? ( Haskins 9 ) . While their music was evidently something these slaves were utilizing to maintain their African heritage, the Whites believed that their music was an look of felicity and contentment. They believed that their vocalizing was an look of their credence of their difficult destiny. Former slave Frederic Douglas wrote that the music of these slaves reflected an look of the antonym: ? I have frequently been absolutely astonished, since I came to the North, to happen individuals who could talk of the vocalizing among slaves as grounds of their committedness and felicity. Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The vocals of the slaves represent the sorrows of his life ; and he is relieved by them merely as an hurting bosom is relieved by tears. ? ( Douglas 97 ) ? In the early nineteenth century, advertizements would indicate out the musical endowments of these slaves who were for sale knowing that would set them in higher demand? ( Davis 27-28 ) . It was due to the Whites? misconception that those slaves who displayed musical endowment were typically given easier work and wagess for their endowment and their apparent obeisance of their labour. At times these slaves were bought specifically for their musical endowment and were neer subjected to harsh fieldwork. Sometimes, these black workers were invited to weekend parties, asked to execute, and were given whisky, nutrient and other wagess for their services. ? Blues music was non merely an indispensable component of many spiritual and secular events for inkinesss, but it was a significant beginning of amusement for Whites as good? ( How the Blues Appreciation ) . This displays historically the constitution of the white adult male? s echt grasp for black music. In 1903 Mr. W.C. Handy, subsequently referred to as the? Father of the Blues, ? hears his inspiration. He notices a ruggedly dressed old black adult male sitting on a bench, playing guitar. Handy wrote the notes of the old adult male? s down: Rather than thruming and picking the strings, the adult male was skiding an unfastened pocket knife up and down the guitar? s cervix doing the notes bend and slide, the strings groan and lament. The sound was so much like a human voice that you could about state the guitar was shouting. ( Awmiller 12 ) Gertrude? Ma? Rainey, a professional music hall vocalist, told a similar experience. She heard a immature adult female singing outside her vaudeville collapsible shelter, a strange and? poignant vocal, ? about her adult male who left her. In add-on, farther off, a white fiddle participant named Hart Wand was playing a tune that an Afro-american employee of his male parent? s said gave him? the blues? ( 12 ) . So, what is it that precisely constitutes the Blues? Cross beat were used extensively in the Blues. This was besides outstanding within the old West African drumming. This was popularly created by dividing the melodious line from the groundbeat, which so puts the two in rhythmic struggle, and was done by a lone instrumentalist vocalizing or playing stressing the upbeat. Possibly the most outstanding invention was their melodious inclination to show lifting emotions with falling pitch. This became such a hallmark with the African look of Blues, that it is now referred to as playing bluish notes. Finally, Bluess instrumentalists seldom used the same manner of voice. Blues was a mixture of harsh croaky tones and slurs to falsetto and melisma, and this was all used to colourise the melodious line and give it individuality and expressiveness ; which all of these hallmarks they innovated from their old West African music ( Barlow 4 ) . With this full battle from the white folks to weaken the African # 8217 ; s African heritage, it seems implausible to believe that the slaves # 8217 ; music was what threw the first rock at the barriers between the inkinesss and Whites. It was the Minstrel and Medicine shows from the 1830 # 8217 ; s that gave the Whites their first chance to dig into the civilization of the slaves and their music- in the beginning with the lingering alibi of show concern. A folk singer show was a musical event where white folks got the opportunity to paint their faces black with burned cork and perform in the character of a black adult male. This gave the white Americans their first gustatory sensation of the black adult male # 8217 ; s music in a harmless environment free of the black adult male. Many white American # 8217 ; s in blackface and black garb were able to go around the state, distributing the musical manner of the inkinesss they had heard before to others who may non hold had the chance. This may hold aided in the increasing popularity of a stereotypic black adult male, # 8230 ; nevertheless, if it is true that imitation is the extreme signifier of flattery, so these sh ows were grounds of white’s attractive force and fancy for black civilization ( How the Blues Minstrel and Medicine ) . ? The first folk singer melody identified as such to do a dent in the national consciousness was Tim Rice # 8217 ; s # 8216 ; Jump Jim Crow, # 8217 ; published in 1830 # 8230 ; [ first ] Sung by a black stable manus in Louisville, Kentucky ( Davis 36 ) . These medical specialty shows were? an entry into a universe in which black could be white, white could be black, anything could be itself and at the same time opposite ( 37 ) . There were many white work forces who thought the show? s intent was to do a gag at the black adult male # 8217 ; s disbursal ; nevertheless, most of the white histrions executing at these shows unfeignedly wished to be able to portray the musical manner, and obtain and copy the civilization possessed by the black race. Although this information of the black music and its civilization was 2nd manus, it insinuated the presence of the black adult male, and foreshadowed the reaching of black work forces and adult females instrumentalists into the music concern. Therefore, it seems about dry once more that while some of these white work forces were seeking to know apart against the inkinesss with these shows, they were unwittingly helping in the inkinesss capableness to subsequently reclaim the same rights as the white work forces had. In fact, it was these black-face folk singer shows that subsequently gave the inkinesss the right to play in the same shows. After Minstrel shows, the Medicine shows so became popular around the bend of the century. They became the first shows to have and entertain both white and black Americans. This was perchance the most influential in regard to race dealingss. These shows still offered the Whites a opportunity to set on a black face ; nevertheless, both the inkinesss and Whites were eventually holding on something-music. This is where state and blues came together, and both grew to be a extremely critical and influential landmark in music history. These shows remained popular after the Civil War and forth after the Reconstruction period, a clip span from 1860 until 1877 ( How the Blues Minstrel and Medicine ) . These shows confirmed the common aim of both races and secured the booming concern between the two. While both black and white instrumentalists borrowed freely from each other # 8217 ; s manner of music, the black # 8217 ; s Blues music proved to be the most indispensable in manner with its fa rinaceous vocal texture and its typical accent on rhythmic impulse. ? It was this differentiation that made black entertainers indispensable and continued to cultivate white grasp for black music ( Minstrel and Medicine ) . This is now old ages after Lincoln # 8217 ; s Emancipation Proclamation, and it was around this clip that some white citizens were get downing to see their former slaves as of import subscribers to American civilization. ? Whites began entering the blues in the early twentieth century therefore widening the typical relationship between inkinesss and Whites in a positive way? ( White Interest ) . As both races began to work together, they began to develop the same ideals and ends, and recognizing it or non, began to alter history to break the hereafter for humanity. The black instrumentalists had already been playing in the medical specialty shows and for some clip had begun to go around and execute for the white common people who appreciated their music. The white business communities took notice of this and, after a piece, decided to market this private operation. The blues music of the inkinesss was deriving popularity throughout the United States, and white concern saw this as an chance to do a net income. ( Thank heavens for capitalist economy! ) Although this seems to possess a negative affect on the black race and their music, it truly helped develop their rights, particularly in the music concern and their ability to turn as instrumentalists. The record companies sent out lookouts to happen these gifted instrumentalists and enter them. With the success of one blues artist, there came the success of the remainder. This flourished in the 1920 # 8217 ; s particularly. With the successes that these blues work forces were holding, it was decided that they likely did cognize a few things about music. These record companies, owned by white work forces, were engaging these black Bluess instrumentalists to be advisers on which albums to advance and the manner in which to advance it. Despite exposing a stereotyped black, advertizements were selling their Bluess albums. It was exposing to the populace that these black work forces and adult females did hold endowment and were being viewed more as ( about equal ) human existences, and less and less every bit simple workers. Making music is a circumstance under which people of both races could blend without raising really many superciliums ( Integration of Musicians ) . This subsequently assisted to interrupt unfastened civil rights barriers due to the slow alteration in the national consciousness of the clip. ? Rumor has it that the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan managed Jaybird Coleman, an early Blues mouth organ participant ( Integration of Musicians ) . It was about this clip period, around the late1930? s, that Blues no thirster was being played purely by black instrumentalists, but was being imitated, accurately, by white Bluess instrumentalists. Some white instrumentalists imitated the black music manner of Blues so good that in some cases it is open today who was white and who in fact was genuinely black upon listening to old recordings. This proves that this imitation was done now purely by esteem, and no thirster was being imitated by the Whites merely as a parody every bit much as the Minstrel music was. In add-on, non merely were the Whites copying the Blues music, but besides the state music manner of white music was being integrated into the black manner of Blues. This proves that the civilization between the inkinesss and Whites was get downing to blend and film over, and this was due to the affects of the machination of Blues music. Although it was socially acceptable for the Bluess instrumentalists to compose, compose and bring forth their music, it was frowned upon, until the late 1950 # 8217 ; s, that the teenage coevals be exposed to black Blues instrumentalists. However, white Bluess instrumentalists were another narrative. The distribution of Blues music was eased into the populace by utilizing white screens of black creative persons ( Covers and Dances ) . Ironically plenty, the white screens of these black creative person? s music neer climbed as high on the top-seller list as the 1s originally put out by the black musicians themselves. In 1956, white musician Pat Boone did a screen of the black Blues creative person Little Richard # 8217 ; s? Tutti Frutti that reached figure 18 on the best seller chart. However, when Small Richard put out his ain release of Long Tall Sally subsequently in that same twelvemonth, before Boone put out his screen of it, Small Richard already had it at figure six. This merely proves that, nevertheless trying to decelerate the eventual rise of black creative persons, they were in fact rushing the inevitable. Nothing did more than the screen phenomenon to ease a mass market for R A ; B and widen the chances for black creative persons? ? ( Ward 44 ) . These screens merely expedited the procedure of the mass exposure of the populace, and this rapidly developed a funny fancy for Blues and its African civilization. Finally, it did non affair who was singing, every bit long as it was performed good. This Blues phenomenon created a impersonal land for both inkinesss and Whites to portion and, henceforth, better their relationship. Although the black slaves had long been freed, notably there remained in the southern United States an inordinate figure of limitations on the black population. These were the ill-famed? Jim Crow? Torahs. However, when the inkinesss and Whites got together at dances, these seemed to get down to waver and so vanish. The dances would get down with the functionaries threading a rope spliting the dance floor in half to maintain the races from mixing. As the eventide wore on, the music was able to get down up the Jim Crow Torahs # 8230 ; [ and ] it was ever the Whites who instigated the crossing over because a black adult male making so risked being lynched ( How the Blues Covers A ; Dances ) . Another beautiful show of this liberalism was when the wireless became incorporate. About 80 members of the Ku Klux Klan were crushing down the doors of an Alabama wireless station for playing the endowment of black Blues creative person Shelley Playboy Stewart. Their purpose that dark was to kill the proprietor sitting indoors. The proprietor, Ray Mahoney, suggested that the Ku Klux Klan did non believe that The Playboy was good plenty to play for them. All 800+ of the white childs inside jumped out the doors of the station and proceeded to assail the Klan, the same race as they, to contend for one black adult male ( Integrated Radio ) . Literally, they saved the hapless black adult male # 8217 ; s life that dark ; symbolically, they helped salvage the full black race from such persecution. While this kind of activity seemed to go on while the music was playing, and playing good, this remains symbolic of the Whites? willingness to deconstruct the racism and prejudice prominent of the clip. After Elvis, the barriers between black and white music were broken down wholly. The bulk of white adolescents, and those within other age brackets, began to see the significance of the Blues in music and life style, and all were idolizing the music and its musicians-white and black. It was because of Blues music that white childs ventured into black countries and had a sense of? just drama? long before the civil rights motion ( Blues and Rock ) . As there will ever be, there were those people who were disgusted with this kind of music, behaviour, belief, and life style. However, historically and late, this is disregarded as? conservative fluff and discarded in a haste. Once the Blues got this far, there was no clemency and no turning back. It seemed as though Blues music did more for the civil rights motion than Brown vs. the Topeka Board of Education ( Blues and Rock ) . Blues was similar to a little leak on a dike, and one time the H2O broke through, it was best to watch it run i ts class. Traditional Blues music is reflected in modern music, which displays vague or blatant Bluess influences. However, the Napoleons of the Blues shall neer be forgotten because they fought a war America had at one clip decided it could neer win. The music instilled faith into the Black Marias of many black Americans and at the same clip instilled empathy and passion in the white Americans. It non merely congregated people, it congregated two separate civilizations, both every bit different as black and white.

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New England vs. Chesapeake Paper Essay The New England and Chesapeake regions varied in many ways. They varied economically, socially, and religiously. At first there were many small colonies but then they grew into two distinct regions, the New England and Chesapeake areas. The New England region was a more superior place to live in than the Chesapeake region because the people in New England developed swifter and better. The Chesapeake region suffered because it had social, climatic, and religious problems. Even though the southern area is known for their blossoming fields and enormous plantations, the climate is scorching and the area suffered from many diseases. (Jamestown Settlement: Primary Sources New Brittannia). As a result, a large part of the population actually ended up dying due to these harmful diseases like the disease of smallpox. Yes, the southern colonies had a thriving economy due to the growing of tobacco and rice, but they lacked diversity. In this area they mainly had only one type of religion, Anglican. They absolutely had no religious tolerance. The social structure was also way off during this time period. It consisted with the majority of the population being poor indentured servants and slaves and then a small portion being wealthy plantation owners. The plantation owners were white men and they held all the power to vote in the society. That is why this region was so underdeveloped. They had a moist and blistering climate, and they had no diversity religiously or socially. However, The New England colonies developed better than the Chesapeake region because they had a better climate, and were more diverse socially along with religiously. Firstly, it was colder in this region so the people there did not have any destructive illnesses lingering around. Secondly they had more of a mixture in religion like Quakers and Catholics. The people in these colonies focused on religion and they wanted close- knit families (Document A). They did not just have one sole religion but several. The area also had more of a diverse social system with many different levels. They had poor people, middle-class working people, and than the rich. The people in this region believed that they should struggle and win together as a team. (City upon a Hill). The main reason they had a diverse social class is because they did not need to only depend on farming for their economic income. They had a fishing industry and the New England colonies were placed in an urban area so the people had more choices for jobs, although some people still farmed. They also had many technological advances in the New England Colony with Benjamin Franklin making many machines and inventions during this era. That is why the New England area was more developed and had a better chance of surviving. In Conclusion, the New England area was a much better place to live. They were not as prone to diseases because of the colder climate, they were more diverse socially and religiously, and they had economic opportunities because they were an industry. This difference in development needed to occur because without it America wouldn’t be as diverse as it is today because everyone would just have conformed together.

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Prayer Important Spiritual Discipline Theology Religion Essay Historically, a praying church has been a spirit-filled and consistently growing church. An example of such a church is found in Acts 2. It is stated in verse 42: They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of break and the prayers. The people that this verse is talking about are the new converts, ; the three thousand added. Through prayer the apostles asked for the entire house of Israel to know that God has made Jesus Christ Lord and Messiah, and because of this, three thousand converts were added to the group of apostles. The new converts did not pray for a few minutes a day, they devoted themselves to prayer and to being taught by the apostles. Many churches in the postmodern era wonder why they are not growing in congregation members, and the truth is because they simply are not asking God for it. It says in Gods Word, You do not have, because you do not ask (James 4.2). The church is not growing because it is neglecting the holy communion wi th the Lord.  [3]   Matice 2 From Christ, it is expected that Christians will pray to God. This is seen in the Bible multiple times, for example: the Lords prayer (Matthew 6.9-15).  [4]  This is the prayer that Jesus tells while preaching the Sermon on the Mount to the crowds; it is a concise way that shows people how to pray. Another example is found in Luke 18.1, where Jesus tells a parable about how people need to always pray and to not give up on anything. Because Jesus was so forward about the need for prayer, Christians should give heed to prayer time in a more disciplined fashion, and definitely more often. Prayer should ideally be constant communion with God; it is never losing sight of the fact that one needs to turn their attention to God.  [5]  It is a way that Christians can become more like Christ; by spending time with Him. It is important that Christians are prayerful people because if the Holy Spirit were to come into ones life, it would be through prayer, and also because if the Holy Spi rit is going to work in or through a person, it would start by prayer.  [6]  It is also very important that when a Christian is praying, that they are praying in the Spirit. Because the Spirit prays in agreement to the will of God, there is a one hundred percent chance that the prayer will be answered.  [7]  Prayer is the key that will unlock Gods grace and power.  [8]   Ephesians 1.3 asserts that God has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places. In order to get a hold of those gifts and blessings that God has placed within each of us, we must first ask for them with eager desire through prayer.  [9]  It is Matice 3 confirmed in James: The power of the righteous is powerful and effective (James 5.16). In other words, prayer actually works. Prayer brings the power of God into His childrens work. It is a supernatural gift and ability that can even save peoples souls, as said in 1 John 5.16.  [10]   Donald Whitney positively asserts: To abandon prayer is to fight the battle with our own resources at best, and to lose interest in the battle at worst.  [11]  Without asking for Gods grace during times of struggles or even times of prosperity, they are not fruitful. In order to truly learn how to pray, one needs to meditate on the scriptures. By reading Gods Word, meditating on it, and then praying about what one has meditated on, the Holy Spirit teaches the follower how to pray.  [12]  When we pray, we are speaking to God. It is a privilege to be able to speak to our Maker. It has been so fruitful and productive to study everything about the spiritual discipline of prayer. This year I have decided to take a more orthodox view of Lent, and so I have been studying that in my spare time as well. For Lent, I am going to refrain from sleeping in on school days. I am going to wake up at 6:00 to pray for at least an hour, along with reading the Bible. (good for you Mackenzie) After Christmas this year, when I had come back from my home (in Belgium), as I was jet-lagged, I would be awake at 5:00 here. I read for several hours and prayed each morning for those few weeks, and they were very productive days and I grew intimately with God. I would like to spiritually discipline myself to be able to wake up early in the morning to be with God, and I hope that He will see the yearning in my spirit and will give me the grace to wake up to pray to Him.