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Duke Ellington Jazz Musician
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The Life of a Pioneer One of the greatest jazz
composers that has ever lived is, arguably, Duke
Ellington. Born Edward Kennedy Ellington in
Washington D. C. in 1899. By the age of 17 was
playing professionally. In 1923 he moved to New
York City where he started recruiting people for
his orchestra. He started off with an average jazz
band of ten people but through the thirties and
forties that number greatly expanded. He started
playing in small nightclubs, theaters, and on the
radio. His biggest...
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Act Iv Scene Scene V Lines
908 words
After Hamlet has discovered the truth about his
father, he goes through a very traumatic period,
which is interpreted as madness by readers and
characters. With the death of his father and the
hasty, incestuous remarriage of his mother to his
uncle, Hamlet is thrown into a suicidal frame of
mind in which the uses of this world seem to him
weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable. No man in
his right state contemplates suicide and would
take his life due to human frailty. Ophelia tells
us that before...
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Short Term Memory Smoking Marijuana
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The Effects of Marijuana Marijuana is a mood
altering or psychoactive drug that has many
nicknames, such as pot, weed, ganja, sensi, herb,
and others. It is an ancient drug that dates back
to hundreds of years to Asia. Many cultures have
used it during meditation, religious worship, and
for intoxication. Marijuana itself comes from the
Indian Hemp plant. It is the third most widely
used drug in the United States, according to a
survey taken in 1988, and it is the number one
illegally used drug i...
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Roller Coaster Di Yanni
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Essay on Keats When I have fears In his poem When
I have fears (Di Yanni 714), John Keats attempts
to put into words the human emotions felt when
dealing with death. I believe that Keats wrote
this poem to describe the natural order of
emotions he went through while thinking of his own
fate. The tone of the sonnet takes a roller
coaster course throughout the poem from one
quatrain to the next. With careful examination one
can see that Keats used the first quatrain to
describe a state of utter co...
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Eldest Son Second Period
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Essay By Paul Beer: William Shakespeare was a
supreme English poet and playwright, universally
recognized as the greatest of all the dramatists.
A complete, authoritative account of Shakespeare's
life is lacking; much supposition surrounds
relatively few facts. His day of birth is
traditionally held on April 23, and he was
baptized on April 24, 1564. He was the third of
eight children, and was the eldest son of John
Shakespeare. He was probably educated in a local
grammar school. As the eldest s...
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Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
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Ethan Ethan Frome Ethan Frome Ethan Frome, a novel
by Edith Wharton, tells the story of a man who no
longer loves his wife, and falls in love with her
cousin. Ethan Frome married a older woman named
Zeena, with whom he has fallen out of love. Mattie
Silver, Zeena s cousin, moves in to live with the
Frome s and to help them out around the house.
Ethan falls deeply in love with Mattie, and cannot
wait to see her everyday. While he cannot wait to
see Mattie, the sight of Zeena now sickens him,
and ...
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Midsummer Nights Dream Romeo And Juliet
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The Elements of Fantasy vs. Reality The elements
of fantasy in a Midsummer Nights Dream are
apparent throughout the movie and there are many
examples of this that relate to the real world. In
the play the fantasy world and real world exist
apart from each other, never meeting at any point.
The inhabitants of the fairy world are unreal in
the sense that they lack feelings and
intelligence. The dream world, beyond mortals
comprehension, strongly influences the entire
realm of ordinary life. By nat...
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Midsummer Nights Dream Owl Creek Bridge
678 words
The Elements of Fantasy vs. Reality The elements
of fantasy in a Midsummer Nights Dream are
apparent throughout the play and there are many
examples of this that relate to the real world. In
the play the fantasy world and real world exist
apart from each other, never meeting at any point.
Theinabitants of the fairy world are unreal in the
sense that they lack feelings and intelligence.
The dream world, beyond mortals comprehension,
strongly influences the entire realm of ordinary
life. By nature...
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Rock Musicals Show Performers
543 words
Theatre performances can be done in many different
ways. One of these ways is a musical, which mixes
songs with dialogue. Musical theatre has many
different styles of music within its ranks, and
the show that I recently saw focused on Rock
Musicals. On Saturday, April 29, 2000 I saw Rock
On! Broadway! at the Cabaret @ The Spot. It was a
brilliant musical revue of songs from Rock
Musicals, directed by Glen J. Beck. The shows
dialogue honored many critics in the sense that
the lines were actual vi...
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Literary Devices Dangerous Game
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In Richard Connell s short story, The Most
Dangerous Game, the use of literary devices, found
blended with other literary devices, gives the
story an inner meaning. The blending of literary
devices effectively expresses the intentions of
Connell to present contrast between the antagonist
and protagonist points of view. As a result, the
reader can gain insight on the good and evil sides
of the story to enhance the purpose of his
interpretation. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard
Connell presents ...
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Waiting For Godot Vladimir And Estragon
478 words
Fate Reading a work of literature often makes a
reader experience certain feelings. These feeling
differ with the content of the work, and are
usually needed to perceive the authors ideas in
the work. For example, Samuel Beckett augments a
readers understanding of Waiting For Godot by
conveying a mood, (one which the characters in the
play experience), to the reader. Similarly, a
dominant mood is thrust upon a reader in Beowulf.
These moods which are conveyed aid the author in
conveying ideas to...
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Shelley Frankenstein Mary Shelley
419 words
Per 1 Frankenstein Philip Hwang Per 1 Mc Cracken 9
/ 5 / 00 Summer Reading Drearier enough it all
began with a choice to chose what was to be read
this summer. Many book to select from, yet one
with a magical tone to it caught my eye, Mary
Shelley? s Frankenstein. Reading it gave a 2 nd
person point of view, interchanging with Dr.
Frankenstein and his creation. I read it as if it
were to express feelings of the characters within
the book. The characters showed compassion and
love and yet with an...
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Snarled And Rattled Sound Of Sense Poem
564 words
The sound of sense is a phrase that Frost used to
describe a feeling. This feeling as the book
describes it is similar to the feeling you get
listening to a conversation at a distance. You may
be unable to hear every word that is spoken, but
you are able to gain, though voice tones and
patterns, the jest of the conversation. Frost
utilizes this sense throughout his works. As you
read his works, simply through the words used and
the rhyme scheme the overall emotions that he is
trying to convey. F...
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Avant Garde Soviet Socialist
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Gerhard Richter combines abstract and figurative
elements in his paintings to express his own
perception of reality. I. Michael Danoff, Director
of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, says
of Richter's paintings: Ways of seeing are more
certain than what is being seen. Richter organizes
the formal elements space, line, colour, form,
repetition and balance to fuse visual and
invisible reality into a unified whole. Born
February 9, 1932 in Dresden, East Germany, Richter
knew he wanted to beco...
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Person To Person Muscle Relaxation
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R ape and sexual assault are becoming more of a
problem in American society every year. Most of
these rape cases involve the use of substances to
impair reason, making an easier victim. The
availability of these drugs has increased its
popularity and therefore directly has increased
the number of incidents. With the advancement of
science, synthetically produced drugs are
replacing alcohol, which has for centuries been
the dominant date rape drug. One of those
substances is gamma-hydroxy butyrat...
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Fire And Water Jane Eyre
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Critics such as Adrienne Rich argue that Jane Eyre
has to choose between the temptation of following
the rule of passion by marrying Rochester, which
would have made her dependent on him and not his
equal, or of living a life of complete
renunciation of all passions, by marrying St John
Rivers. Fire and water imagery symbolizes the two
forces competing for dominance in Jane Eyre, both
on a personal and metaphorical level. Throughout
the novel, such imagery is used by Bront? , in
keeping with her...
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Iii Scene Iv Scene Iv Lines
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John Patrick Zachary English take home test
Thursday, November 16, 2000 Hamlet insane? ? ?
Debatable Shakespeare s tragic hero, Hamlet, and
his sanity can arguably be discussed. Many
portions of the play supports his loss of control
in his actions, while other parts uphold his
ability of dramatic art. The issue can be
discussed both ways and altogether provide
significant support to either theory. There are
indications from Hamlet throughout the play of his
mind s well being. Such as his relatio...
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Younger Generation Target Audience
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Michael 10 / 22 / 99 Professor D. Hum. 101 While I
was flipping through the pages of? Maxim? magazine
looking at the gorgeous women and laughing at the
funny captions, I stumbled upon an advertisement
that made me laugh out loud. It is a series of
four pages, two facing each other, and then two
more layed out in the same way. The first set of
two pages has a hot dog on the left page and the
Nike Air Flight Post on the next. It? s not fancy,
nor does it have beautiful women on it, it just
says in...
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Quality Of Life Point Of View
644 words
The title is not that important to the novel, but
it does aid in understanding one of the books main
themes, that the quality of life is very
important. Main Characters Homer Macauley: This
responsible young man has become the man of the
house by supporting his family with an after
school job. But with this job comes responsibility
and the hardships of growing up. Homer learns to
deal with the problems of the world and with the
acceptance of death. Mrs. Macauley. She is the
all-knowing loving mo...
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Main Theme P 101
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Hysteria Many occasions of mass chaos and ultimate
breakdown of society directly result from
hysteria. Hysteria means total loss of control of
what seems rational and righteous. If a community
falls into such a state, the results can be
devastating. The Puritan society possesses the
perfect conditions for such an event. In Arthur
Miller s play, The Crucible, hysteria plays a key
role as the main theme. It portrays as the main
theme because it often becomes the atmosphere of
the play and the main...
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