Maksym Berezovsky
People are heroes in their own countries for different reasons. George Washington in the United States for being the first president and helping win independence, Ghandi in India for peacefull leadership, Churchill in Britian for his leadership, and Maksym Berezovsky in Ukraine. Berezovsky was not a war hero or a political figure. He was the first Ukrainian to be known throughout Europe.[2] He was the first Ukrainian to compose a symphony, opera and violin sonata.[3] To be considered the first is a special honor that he did not reieve until 2002 when a sonata of his was found in the Vatican by Steven Fox.[4] Some people say that only men of great genius can write a good symphony, and Berezovsky wrote more than a few so that makes him very special.
Maksym Berezovsky came into this world in a way that befuddles historiographers. Nobody is certain when he was born. Scholars best guess from several older sources are that he was born in mid October of 1745 in the town of Hlukhiv.[5] By most, if not all, accounts he went to school at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
This academy was very well known for its musical teaching and students often made careers out of their music. Berezovsky parlaid his time there into a stint at the imperial court choir in St. Petersburg. This was the stepping stone for what was to become a storied career.
After his time in the imperial choir, Berezovsky moved to Italy to sing opera for the Italian opera company in Oranienbaum. He was only about 15 at the time so this was quite impressive. Five years he stayed there and sang until the highly acclaimed Giovanni Martini took him under his wing. Along with a friend, Josef Myslivecek, he wrote an exam to compose a polyphonic work.[7] Berezovsky piece was so good that it is still kept on file to this day. In 1771 he earned the title of maestro di musica[8], which was a very high honor indeed.
While Tchaikovsky is known for his compositions of classical ballet, he was overall great as a pianist. Like most composers of music, his compositions reflected that of his feelings greatly, which helped him connect to the public and spread his music quite well. As a child, he became better than his teacher in one year, and at the age of ten went to the School of Jurisprudence and quickly completed the upper division classes. After graduating, he did four years at the Ministry of Justice, which didn’t really suite him well. Once out of the Ministry of Justice in the 1860s, he joined the Music Conservatory at the age of 22. Shortly after joining, he composed his first orchestral score in 1864. Two years later, he settled down in Moscow and started to increase his fame as a composer. In the following years he would tour around Europe and even into the United States. In 1893, six days after the premiere of his last piece he
One of the most argued topics throughout human history is whether or not God exists. It is argued frequently because there are several different reasonings and sub arguments in this main argument. People who believe God exists argue how God acts and whether there is one or several. People who do not believe God exists argue how the universe became into existence or if it has just always existed. In this paper, I will describe Craig's argument for the existence of God and defend Craig's argument.
Dmitri Shostakovich, born on September 25, 1905, started taking piano lessons from his mother at the age of nine after he showed interest in a string quartet that practiced next door. He entered the Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg, later Leningrad) Conservatory in 1919, where he studied the piano with Leonid Nikolayev until 1923 and composition until 1925 with Aleksandr Glazunov and Maksimilian Steinberg. He participated in the Chopin International Competition for Pianists in Warsaw in 1927 and received an honorable mention, after which he decided to limit his public performances to his own works to separate himself from the virtuoso pianists.
Aflac (2014) states the company has goals to by the end of 2015 to “maintain Energy Star certification on at least 80 percent of eligible Aflac-owned facilities” “Increase the percentage of recycled waste to 80 percent” and “annually reduce [their] Scope 2 emissions by at least 2 percent” Since 2012, Aflac has been included in Newsweek Magazine's “Green Rankings” which is a ranking of the top 500 largest companies and how environmentally friendly each company is.
Companies all over the nation are trying to become an environmental friendly during their day-today operations. Going green has become a significant trend within the United States. When a company goes green, the business will more than likely benefit from their actions. Going green makes perfect business sense although it can be costly (Crootof, 2014). Global warming damages a business because pollution can affect the price of product and services. A company that has followed the green transformation is AmerenUE's real power company. AmerenUE has officially been cleared by the Center for Resource Solution (CRS) to be green-e certified (“AmerenUE's Pure Power,” 2007). Ethically, a company should run a good, clean, and efficient business. Another company that displays great “green” attributes is New Belgium Brewery. New Belgium brewery focuses on cost effective ways of operating that cause no hard to the environment (Ferrell & Hartline, 2014).
Saving energy is an extremely efficient way conserve resources. Whenever there is a room in the facility that is not in use, turn off the lights. There are many methodical ways to conserve energy, but installing solar panels is one of the most useful ways, especially for a big corporation. Solar panels convert the radiation of the sun's rays into usable energy and are 100% eco friendly. They help diminish pollution immensely and will help assure a better future for humans, animals, and nature.
Dmitri Shostakovich was one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century. He achieved fame, but with much hardship along the way. He was censored and threatened with not only his life but that of his wife and children by playing the role of a public figure in Soviet Russia. The question is was he a committed communist or a victim? The events in his life, good or bad, shaped the music that he created and led to one of the greatest symphonies of the 20th century, his Fifth Symphony.
St. Anselm discovers the ontological argument and he presents an argument that supports Gods existence. In this essay, I will consider the main argument that Anselm states, and list explanations that results in the uncertainty of God’s existence. This essay will critique Anslems argument by using Gaunilo idea of the perfect island and include a priori and a posteriori to show the problematic areas of Anslems argument. We begin with the explanation of Anslems argument.
In this paper, I will argue that God exists because nothing can be its own cause. Chains of causes and effects occur, but in order for a chain to occur, there must be a first cause. God is the first cause, therefore God exists. Throughout this paper, I will talk about God as an ultimate being but I will not relate to religion. Whether you relate to Allah, Krishna, Jesus, etc. I will only focus on proving the existence of God.
The existence of God has been a question that has plagued mankind since it begging of times. Many philosophers argue that there may or may not be a God or Gods, because there is a limited knowledge regarding that. Many people believe in an immortal God that created everything including us, they have fate in their God. Still, a lot of people feel like they need some king of argument or proof on Gods existence, and that is what many philosophers strived tried to explain. In this essay I will be discussing Aquinas’ cosmological argument on Gods existence. I will be presenting Aquinas’ argument, an objection to the argument presented by an atheist that will be followed by a possible response Aquinas might have to the objection and finally an evaluation
Costco is mindful of its responsibilities as an environmental steward to manage their global operations in an energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly and sustainable manner. They established ten years ago a special department for Corporate Sustainability and Energy Department. It allowed them to develop actively, solutions for many aspects of their business related to sustainability such as seeking opportunities to reduce their carbon footprint, enhancing the warehouse energy management systems, refining their packaging design initiatives and further developing their recycling and waste stream management programs.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the greatest music composers who ever lived. His name and the word 'genius' are often bandied about together by music writers and critics and many would argue rightly so. Mozart had a fantastic ear for writing a catchy tune with perfect orchestral arrangement. His compositions have a rich and distinctive sound; it can be said that in his brief lifetime (only 35 years) that he wrote a masterpiece in every genre of classical music without much apparent effort.
Igor Stravinsky was born near St. Petersburg, Russia into a very musical family. His father was famous for being an operatic bass and his mother was a pianist. Their home was filled with art, literature, and music, and Igor started piano lessons at age nine. But his parents didn’t want him to follow in their footsteps, so they encouraged him to study law, which he did. He went to a university to study, and it was there that he befriended Vladimir Rimsky-Korsakov, a celebrated composer, who Stravinsky was apprenticed under for three years. After a year and a half of this excellent music instruction, Stravinsky began his first symphony. It was around this time that he graduated from the university and married his cousin, Catherine Nossenko. When he and his wife went to the country that summer, Stravinsky promised Rimsky-Korsakov, his good friend as well as mentor, that he’d send him the finished music of the piece he was working on. A few weeks later, he sent the completed composition, his well-known Firworks, to him. But the parcel was returned with a message: “Not delivered owing to the death of the addressee”. This was a sad time for Stravinsky, but it was also one full of promise, because before his death Rimsky-Korsakov arranged for some of Stravinsky’s music to be performed. In the audience of one of these performances was Sergei Diaghilev, a dire...
Sergei Prokofiev was an innovative composer born on the 23rd of April, 1891 in Sontsocka. His mother taught him piano and his father taught him to play chess when he was young. Both activities were major hobbies of his and allowed him to improve his intelligence. His studies were led by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and he graduated with some of the highest remarks of his class at St. Petersburg Conservatory (1914), and received a grand piano because of them. After the Russian revolution, he went on concert tours across Europe and the US. While in New York in 1918, he met a Spanish vocalist named Carolina Codina. They were married in 1923 and had two boys.
Nietzsche once said, “God is dead!” However, this famous news bulletin of The Almighty’s expiration may have been significantly overstated since there are some very intriguing and provoking philosophical arguments for God’s existence. These opinions are rooted neither in scientific fact nor in religious doctrine. Instead, they function as thought-provoking scholarly exercises about what we consider to know about the universe and what we are capable of knowing regarding our place in it. These arguments are endeavors to resolve queries plaguing philosophers and scientists alike. I do not believe any of these arguments make an irrefutable case for God’s existence, however, to a certain degree; they offer ample food for thought.