Archive for July, 2008
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Here is a term paper, dated February 11, 1992. It was written in graduate school and received an A. As with other papers on this site, the examples used have since been lost.
The late string quartets of Ludwig von Beethoven are monumental works in the development of the evolution of tonality in the 19th century. [...]
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
I wrote this paper in graduate school. I recall being highly motivated by the subject, reading and researching as much for my own enjoyment as for this paper. It is dated June 1992, and received an A.
Chamber music had never been an integral part of French music until the end of the nineteenth century. There [...]
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
This is a college paper written in February 1990. It is a summary of President George Bush’s foreign policy in his first year in office.
When he ran for president in 1988, George Bush ran on his resume. The experience which he cited included the ambassadorship to the United Nations, ambassador to China, CIA director, and [...]
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
I wrote this paper during my Senior year in college for an English course. I received an A in the class, so this paper must have earned a decent grade. It is dated July 25, 1990.
Justice and equality are two ideals which Americans claim as of the foundations of the United States. It is ironic [...]
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
This is a paper I wrote during a summer session in my last few months in college. I still needed one lower level English course, so I took one during the Summer. I received an A in this class, so this paper must have earned a decent grade. It is dated August 22, 1990.
A [...]
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
This is another paper from graduate school, dated March 7, 1992. As with other papers I’ve posted here, the examples are missing due to limits of technology at that time.
Igor Stravinsky often drew from Classical models in his composition. Stravinsky himself admitted that when he was composing, he listened to works C especially symphonies C [...]
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
This term paper was written in graduate school, though I think it may have been in an undergraduate class. I don’t quite remember at this point. The paper is dated 12/9/1992. I could not find the title page. I’m quite certain I received an A on this one. And since this was 1992 and I [...]
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
This was my final term paper for a Political Science class in college, dated March 6, 1989.
The Immigration Reform Act of 1986 was a five-year effort to make sweeping changes in United States immigration policy – the first since the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952. For the first time, U.S. employers were seen as much [...]
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
I wrote this paper in June 1993 for one of my graduate music theory classes, which I believe was taught by the John Crawford mentioned in this paper.
Schoenberg’s Die glückliche Hand is a work which combines music with other elements, such as drama, visual effects, libretto, and art. It is perhaps different than other [...]
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
I pretty much grew up on these two dishes. I ate them on average every week from toddler to adult. When I became a young man, I often joked to my mom about them. Actually as a somewhat older man, I still joke to my mom about them…
Both are probably under $10 to make and [...]
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