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Rich And Poor Poor Countries
1,449 wordsEvery day hundreds of thousands of people are starving. The issue of who should assist them is brought up time and time again. Should we give of our own? If so, how much should we give? Since only one third of the nations in the world are rich and the other two thirds are poor can and should the rich countries be expected to provide for the less fortunate? Garrett Hardin, author of Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Aid That Harms states that each country has a carrying capacity and by helping ou...
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Tuvan Throat Singing Fundamental Lower Pitch Sound
1,265 wordsThroat singing is a unique method of singing, or vocal art in which a singer can simultaneously sing, creating two, sometimes three or four notes. This miraculous method of singing is exercised by a number of Asian tribes, and a rich tradition survives in Tuvan. Located deep in Siberia surrounded by grasslands, forests and mountains, the presence of humans is rare, in fact the whole population numbers only 150, 000. The people who occupy this land, seem to be one with nature, and have a deep her...
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Backstreet Boys Boy Band
830 wordsToday's current music scene has steadily become filled with pre-packaged assembly line bands and singers. This teen oriented pop phenomenon is repulsive. I see the so-called bands and singers for what they really are. They are passing trends made special, just for the teens, with all image and no real talent. For their own good, I can only hope these brainwashed teens will grow out of this horrible phase. Fabricated bands such as O-Town, N Sync, and The Backstreet Boys exhibit a minimum level of...
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Rock And Roll Chord Progression
2,559 wordsJoseph Machlis says that the blues is a native American musical and verse form, with no direct European and African antecedents of which we know. (p. 578) In other words, it is a blending of both traditions. Something special and entirely different from either of its parent traditions. (Although Alan Lomax cites some examples of very similar songs having been found in Northwest Africa, particularly among the Wolof and Watusi. p. 233) The word blue has been associated with the idea of melancholia...
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Chord Progression Blues Singers
2,623 wordsA Brief Blues Music Arts: A Brief History of the Blues 2000 - 06 - 30 A Brief History of the Blues Joseph Machlis says that the blues is a native American musical and verse form, with no direct European and African antecedents of which we know. (p. 578) In other words, it is a blending of both traditions. Something special and entirely different from either of its parent traditions. (Although Alan Lomax cites some examples of very similar songs having been found in Northwest Africa, particularly...
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Binary Opposition Mother Earth
2,167 wordsVan Genneps Rites Of Passage, Durkheim And Van Genneps Rites Of Passage, Durkheim And Turners Theory Of Community Van Genneps Rites of Passage, Durkheim and Turners Theory of Community I. Classify using Van Genneps categories and point out aspects which would be of particular interest to Turner and to Chapple and Coons. The Mescalero girls puberty ceremony is an example of a Rite of Passage, a ceremony that marks the transition of an individual from one stage of life to another (Chapple and Coon...
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Fell In Love Carson Mccullers
2,391 wordsCarson McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Lula Carson Smith was born on February 19, 1917. She was the oldest of three children. Carson found herself to be very good at playing the piano at a young age. She shocked her mother at age six by sitting down and playing with both hands a song she heard for the first time that afternoon in a movie theater. From then until late high school, she practiced fervently and hoped to carry her work onto a musical education at the New York Julliard School....
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B Du Bois W E B Du
988 wordsHarlem Renaissance The Harlem renaissance was a time of creative ingenuity among blacks confined to the ghetto s of America by racism and an implied social class. In the Early 20 s black s had progressed far enough along where some didn t need to work 16 hour days to make a living. This, coupled with the coming together of lots of blacks in ghetto s, the exposure of some blacks to European whites who weren t racist like American whites, combined to raise the hopes, dreams, and aspirations of bla...
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Blessed Virgin Santa Maria
1,593 wordsGiovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina The greatest composer of liturgical music of all time, born at Palestrina (ancient Praeneste) in 1514 or 1515, according to Being, Riemann, and others, according to Haberl, in 1526; died at Rome, 2 February, 1594. His early history is practically unknown. Giusseppi Ottawa Pittoni (1657 - 1743), in notizie dei maestro di cappella si di Rome che altramontani, 1600 - 1700, a manuscript in the Vatican, relates that young Pierluigi sang in the streets of Rome while of...
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Visual Arts Performing Arts
1,726 wordsWhether it be on canvas, in sculpture, theatre, movements of dance, or any other medium, the spark of artistic creativity is strong in Sudbury. This strength is demonstrated so passionately in the recording, performing and visual arts that it is evident that there is, indeed, hope for the arts in Sudbury. To begin, Sudbury has certainly been alive with the sound of music over the years. A recent example is this summer s many charity sponsored downtown music festivals. Some of these include Takin...
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Furious To Behead Caught The Knees Of Odysseus Phemios
792 wordsDuring the Odyssey, many singers are mentioned. They told stories of the past and the stories about the gods to entertain the household they were singing for. Singers were well respected because they had a divine gift from the Muses. Phemios and Demodokos are two examples of singers in the poem. Phemios was a singer in the house of Odysseus. While Odysseus was away in battle and his journey home, Phemios was made to sing at Odysseus s house by Penelope s suitors. A herald put the beautifully wro...
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