For 30 years ________ was court composer to the Prince of Esterhazy.
A. Mozart
B. Strauss
C. Beethoven
D. Haydn
Answer: D
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
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a. By leveraging close reading and developing skills from the humanities, you will not need to incorporate insights from the natural or social sciences. b. By leveraging the insights from multiple disciplinary perspectives, you will gain a more complete understanding of the complex problem that would have been gleaned from studying the problem from one disciplinary perspective. c. This might be understood by considering the term “gestalt” – where the whole (understanding) exceeds the sum of its component parts (disciplinary insights). d. Both “b” and “c” are correct.
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