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Sonata No 1 Trombone Quartet Ensemble
601 wordsOn the evening of November 11, 1999, the Southwest Texas Trombone Ensemble provided an apprehensive crowd with a truly wonderful performance. Starting with Sonata No. 1 for Trombone Choir by Evan Copley, the ensemble exhibited fabulous variety in both the note and the speed in which they were playing. This skill mindfully produced a range of emotions, including anxiety and uneasiness. Charles R. Hurt, the conductor of the ensemble, skillfully piloted the ensemble in formulating an eerie feeling....
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Spanish Civil War Pablo Picasso
1,043 wordsPablo Picasso is well known for colorful abstract paintings. His unique talent of creating a painting that may not look like real life, but has a deeper meaning, has been copied my many other modern painters. Picasso had many different styles of paintings during his life. Art historians have separated his life into different periods. The periods include: The blue period, the rose period, cubism, and late works. The blue and rose periods were similar, because Picasso used certain colors in his pa...
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Analysis Of Briar Rose By Jane Yolen
751 wordsBriar Rose by Jane Yolen is a heart-wrenching story of Sleeping Beauty intertwined with the horrors of World War II. The novel contains all the elements of the classic Sleeping Beauty: the castle, thorns, princess, and a tale of death and awakening from eternal sleep. Yolen compared a story that fictitiously occurred during World War II with Sleeping Beauty, which allowed one of the main characters, Gitl Mandelstein, to indirectly tell her horrifying experiences during the war. The story beings ...
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Miserable Childhood Frank Mccourt Family
807 wordsFrank McCourt, the author of the touching memoir, Angela's Ashes, commences his life in Brooklyn, New York in 1935. There, his mother, Angela becomes depressed after the death of the newly born, Margaret. The family returns to their homeland, Limerick, Ireland. This concept is bizarre because then, most people departed Ireland destined for a new life in America; however the McCourt's do the complete opposite. Many problems arise in Limerick, and their entire lives' change. In Ireland, they move ...
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Artificial Intelligence Philosophy World
324 wordsThe unit we studied on eyewitness evidence I found to be rather dry - I couldn't really relate to a whole lot of legal stuff. When it was put in the context of the real-life rape victim I found it much more accessible. The essay topic that I chose seemed again rather dull, although it raised interesting side-issues, like the nature of our society. I tried to think why science was regarded as the best way we have to gain knowledge, and came up with a rather depressing view of society - that it wa...
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Artificial Intelligence Philosophy World
324 wordsThe unit we studied on eyewitness evidence I found to be rather dry - I couldn't really relate to a whole lot of legal stuff. When it was put in the context of the real-life rape victim I found it much more accessible. The essay topic that I chose seemed again rather dull, although it raised interesting side-issues, like the nature of our society. I tried to think why science was regarded as the best way we have to gain knowledge, and came up with a rather depressing view of society - that it wa...
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Adolescent Girls Television Movies
1,686 wordsReviving Ophelia Mary Pipher had a number n reasons fr writing her bestseller Reviving philip: Saving the Selves f Adolescent Girls. ne f her gals was t educate her readers abut the difficulties and struggles that also every adolescent girl must conquer t find her true self. Dr. Pipher wanted t know why s many girls are in therapy in the 1990 s? Why are there mre self-mutilated? Why are drugs and all s can in the series f seventh graders? Why d s many girls hate their parents? These are just a f...
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Happened To The Author Wonderful Summer Poem
737 wordsAnalysis of the poems The title of the first poems is Moths, and it suggests some kind of the summer theme in the poem. The speaker seems to be a male person, who has had a great summer, but now all that is left to him are his memories. We may presume that the author of the poem is a very romantic person. The way he describes moon, lavender and fuchsia tells that this person perceives nature as something special and that the sensations nature gives to him are very important to him. The author do...
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David R Slavitt Hardy Convergence Of The Twain Titanic
1,005 wordsProfessor Titanic Differences Dusty Ross Professor Reinhard English 1102 - 102 4 / 19 / 00 Titanic Differences Many times in life events occur which stimulate many opinions. In a painting by Picasso, one way see beauty while another sees a squiggle of lines. Two people see a movie and one is moved to tears while the other is bored stiff. People are often moved in different ways by similar experiences. This would explain the tremendous difference in theme of two poets about the tragedy of the Tit...
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Martin Luther King Civil Rights Movement
1,156 wordsKing a true pillar of civil rights movement By Stuart Levitan, May 22, 1998 Our greatest mass movement has a historian able to tell its overwhelming story. The civil rights movement of the early 1960 s, a transcendent time in American life, played out an epochal saga of biblical proportions. The stakes were immense first freedom, then the franchise. The risk was absolute. The actors, whether heroic or villainous, were towering figures. Taylor Branch's Pulitzer Prize-winning Parting the Waters (1...
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Children From Growing Grab For The Gold Ring
997 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden views the world as an evil and corrupt place where there is no peace. This perception of the world does not change throughout the novel. However as the novel progresses, Holden gradually comes to the realization that he is powerless to change all of this. During the short period of Holden's life revealed in this book, Holden does succeed in making us perceive that the world is crazy. Shortly after, Holden leaves Peace Prep and checks in to...
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Mummy Exhibit Dead Guys Kind
610 wordsThis is for an assignment where we had to write a continuation extra scene type thing in the style of Holden. Prologue: Before my scene takes place, Holden has just shown the two young boys down to the long tunnel to the Mummy exhibits. In the book Holden didnt stay and look at the mummy exhibit, but in my scene he does? NEW SCENE So, after the little kids left I got to thinking about mummies, and death and all other kinds of depressing thoughts. A guy can get real depressed thinking about death...
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Provide For His Family Providing For His Family Shimerda
1,255 wordsThe Inability to Provide for His Family, and Why it Drove Mr. Shimerda to Suicide My Antonia, by Willa Cather, is a novel about Jim Burden and his relationship and experiences growing up with Antonia Shimerda in Nebraska. Throughout the book Jim reflects on his memories of Nebraska and the Shimerda family, often times in a sad and depressing tone. One of the main ways Cather is able to provoke these sad emotions within the reader is through the suicide of Antonia's father, Mr. Shimerda. His deat...
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World War One Wilfred Owen
560 wordsPoem Analysis Dulce et decorum est, by Wilfred Owen, is a poem about the life story of a man who fought in the treacherous battles of World War One. This poem is poignant and presents the thought and truth of war. This poem reminds me of a few movies that I have seen: Saving Private Ryan, and The Thin Red Line. It also However, reminds me of a song that I am familiar with: One by Metallica. I am thankful that kids in this age of time do not have to fight in a war. Many soldiers may say that to d...
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Robin Williams Close Ups
910 wordsThe movie starts out with a high above the ocean shot with a sailboat floating around. Then another comes and bumps into Robin Williams boat. They than know that there is a love connection or you could say that they were soul mates. During these scene the camera was flying past the boats just above their heads. As the film continued the camera shots just became so what easy to notice but the editing was seamless. Now there was a shot of the two getting married and walking down the aisle. Here th...
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Eternal Bliss Lived Happily
1,492 wordsMarriage: A Bonding Of The Soul Or Big Business? According to the encyclopedia marriage is a social institution uniting men and women. Although marriage customs vary greatly from one culture to another, the importance of the institution is universally acknowledged. In some societies, community interests in children, in the bonds between families, and in the ownership of property established by a marriage are such that special devices and customs are created to protect these values. Marriage is t...
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Words And Phrases Father And Son
567 wordsTim Culhane 2 / 20 / 01 My Papas Waltz Throughout the poem, My Papas Waltz by Theodore Roethke, many techniques are used to show that there are furious conflicts between a father and his son. Roethke uses the word waltz in the title to relate to the beating of the son. I believe that the poem is altogether a negative poem, as described by the words and phrases the author uses. To begin, the author immediately states that the father is a drunk. Roethke says, The whiskey on your breath / Could mak...
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Life True Depressing Shaped My Life True Depressing Father
1,458 wordsUntitled... but Events That Shaped My Life... true, Depressing, Untitled... but Events That Shaped My Life... true, Depressing, And The Best Writing Ive Ever Seen For many people, childhood is a happy refuge of sunny memories and sheltering love. It is a place yearned for because of its safety, warmth, and innocence. Unfortunately, I have none of that. Most of my childhood experiences are walled off by mental barriers I myself put there, but cannot break down. What little I can remember I wish I...
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Glass Menagery One Person Town
386 wordsCompare and Contrast While the Glass Menagery and Our Town are different in many ways; there also the same in some ways. The plot is the same in the two plays in that there is always one person trying target out of town. Also in both plays someone is unhappy with what they are doing. Inboth plays this person is the person who supports the family. In the Glass Menagery itis Tom who is unhappy and wants to get out of town. The similar character in Our Town is Joe. There is one person in each play ...
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Hester Prynne Scarlet Letter
1,010 wordsScarlet Letter: Nearly a Historical Document Psychological insight, true love, untrue love, self-hate, sin, and redemption, could Nathaniel Hawthorne have possibly juggled with more ideas while recording The Scarlet Letter? The answer is yes. In contrast to the books countless appeals to our emotions and interests, Hawthorne has created a novel that preserves the way life was for Bostonian Puritans in the 1640 s. The Puritan world in this time gave Hawthorne an imperative item- A community with ...
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