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  • role of the dictator in Latin American society. The theme of caudillismo—the charismatic authoritarian "strongman"—is addressed by examining ...
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  • of evil, banality and pettiness. It is a common theme in Russian literature from Gogol's characters to Goncharov's Oblomov to Sologub. It represents ...
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  • of Homer's epic poem Iliad, which takes for its theme, not the War of Troy in its entirety, but specifically the Wrath of Achilles. Later legends ...
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  • moral and physical universe. A religious theme, it is also the storyline in great literature such as William Shakespeare's "Hamlet ...
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  • Composed by Zubir Said in 1958 as a theme song for the City Council of Singapore, the song was selected in 1959 as the island's anthem ...
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  • the day emphasize the political and human rights theme for women, as designated by the United Nations. In others, the flavor of the day is not very political ...
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  • | label11 = Theme | data11 = } | label12 = Cause | data12 = } | label13 = Motive | data13 = } | label14 = Target | data14 = } ...
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  • and governments has been a consistent theme in history. In world history, the atrocities of the Nazi human experiments remain a shocking example ...
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  • and even dared to perform in a play with the theme of incest between brother and sister. Unification Thought emphasizes the importance of love centered ...
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  • ====The theme of the nymph and the sage==== A common theme appearing in the Mahabharata is that of an Apsara sent ...
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  • Wynde mass is unusual for the period because the theme tune appears in each of the four parts at different times. Commonly, his masses are designed ...
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  • Along the same theme, and evoking some of the same imagery as the ... *This theme is also recalled in the verses of English Victorian poet ...
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  • It also promulgates Buddhist teachings; the theme of the impermanence of the ... The central theme of the story is the Buddhist law of impermanence ...
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  • work, the Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart (based on the opening theme of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 11, K. 331 ...
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  • the composition of the Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis by Ralph ... * Williams, Ralph Vaughan. Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis. London; ...
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  • orchestral works, including Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge (for string ... has the subtitle Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell, and takes a melody ...
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  • was clearly seen when it was used as the theme for a popular BBC drama series ... * Variations on the Solvage Theme (1928) * Seven Recitatives and Fugues ...
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  • , a setting of the Vespers, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, 41 Preludes ... Nevertheless, his Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, one of his best ...
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  • "The Ballad of Jed Clampett," the theme song to the hit television ... was really a Hollywood-written television theme song. (The television vocal ...
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  • writing and he himself admits that the theme was not his own but more ... The theme of Kairos was felt as extremely important during the Middle ...
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