Daily Archives: December 19, 2019

Exultate Deo, the choral masterpiece by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, is based on Biblical Psalm 81 and was written in 1584. Composed in Latin, the piece is generally performed a capella and features five voice parts: one soprano, two altos, one tenor and one base. Psalm 81 is comprised of joyful verses, urging rejoicing in God and praise. The happy nature of this music can be heard beginning with the very first notes, when the melody begins a run up the scale.

Supporting harmony from the lower voices also begin on an upward run, which paints the visual of sending praise up to God.

At the beginning, the voices are not all singing the same lyrics at the same time but instead seem….

The Keirsey Temperament Sorter, developed by David Keirsey based on Carl Jung’s theory of personality types, is made up of four basic personality types, including Guardians, Idealists, Artisans, and Rationals. Guardians, also known as Guardian Supervisor Personalities, are deemed dependable, helpful, traditional, hardworking, dutiful, and cautious. Individuals with this personality type are usually concerned citizens who trust authority, join groups, prize gratitude, seek security, and are born leaders.

(“Overview of Keirsey’s Four Temperaments”, 1996) According to Roxanne Mills, author of “The Keirsey Temperament Model” (2006), about forty percent of all people are typed as a Guardian personality, including George Washington and Mother Teresa.

George Washington is considered a Guardian personality type because he was a born leader. He started his notable career as….

An excellent college student would have written an excellent introduction to this paper. An excellent student would have framed this paper in a coherent discussion of the subject, stating topic sentences first and then proceeding to discuss them. So does the evaluation of the excellent student rest solely in purely academic categories? This paper proposes that it does not, and to be such a student one has to transcend academic distinction and perform just as well socially and emotionally. The word college according to Douglas Harper (2001) comes from the Latin word collegiums meaning “community, society, guild”.

A college then can be considered a community or a population of people where knowledge is disseminated through the populace and is actively being interpreted and….