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1,711 wordsThe Grotesque Machinery of the Dubliners Joyce describes the spiritual poverty of the people of Dublin in the industrial age, with powerful images of mechanized humans and animated machines. In "After the Race" and "Counterparts" he delineates characters with appropriate portraits of human automation. Machines seize human attributes and vitality in opposition to the vacuous citizens of Ireland's capitalist city. Joyce's use of metaphorical language brings to life the despair of his country. In W...
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Good Night E G
698 wordsbag -- a person's particular interest; as in "singing's my bag" barn burner -- a very stylish, classy woman beard -- a male friend who acts as a "cover"; usually for extramarital affairs beetle -- a girl who dresses in flashy clothes big-leaguer -- a resourceful man who can handle any situation bird -- the male or female genitalia; standard greeting: "How's your bird"? bombs ville -- any kind of failure in life; see ville broad -- affectionate term for a girl or woman with sex appeal bum -- a pe...
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Bass Snare Bass Snare Snare Bass Snare Record
2,037 words... e a little problem as it basically means scratching hamster but on the upfader's). You begin by cutting the sample in and with the updater at full volume, cut the updater out completely at the end of the sample and quickly bring it back to the beginning of the sample. Next bring the updater to slightly below full volume and at the same time let the sample play (rather like a forward). repeat this a few times, gradually placing the updater at a quieter and quieter position so that it fades ou...
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Analysis Of How Microsoft Should Spend Its Cash
1,041 wordsMicrosoft has a nasty problem: figuring out what to do with $ 31. 6 billion in cash. We can picture a sleep-deprived Bill Gates and a red-eyed Steve Ballmer toiling away night after night, trying to get Microsoft out of this predicament. It must be tough. So we decided to help them out by making a few suggestions on how Microsoft should spend its cash hoard. We " re going to propose a variety of acquisitions. While the company hasn't historically had an acquisitive culture, that seems to be chan...
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Chief Operating Officer Santa Clara
1,669 wordsThe silicon ''brains'' of 85 percent of all personal computers in the world are manufactured by Intel Corporation, a powerhouse making semiconductors and computer microprocessors. Just some years ago Intel was known as one of the most successful and profitable technology enterprise with a long history of growth and significant performance in the world. Five years ago the Companys management launched the strategy of expanding into new large segments of information and communication market, but su...
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Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia
2,015 wordsGrateful Dead I wanna tell you how it's gonna be, you " re gonna give your love to me, I wanna love you night and day, you know my love not fade away. You know my love not fade away, not fade away! -- Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead (Skull-Fuck and Roses), 1971 In the summer of 1995, following the death of Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead stopped touring. For thirty years, their concerts served as a gathering place for a diverse group of followers, nicknamed Deadheads. Coming from all walks of life,...
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Songs On The Album Alto Sax Davis
674 wordsMiles Davis, from his beginnings as a nineteen-year-old kid in 1945 New York City, to his final days in the early 1990? s, is to be considers one of the jazz? s best. The 1996 album entitled, Bluing: Miles Davis Plays the Blues, the engineers at Prestige Records bring Miles Davis back to life. Packed with over 73 minutes and of 12 bar blues, Bluing brings nine great tunes of Davis? together on one disk. Having been originally recorded in the 1950? s, these nine cuts take the listener through a d...
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Dave Matthews Band Boston Globe
2,498 wordsSenior Project Dave Matthews Band is a unique, musically gifted band. Its combination of sounds of folk, jazz, rock, world beat, and reggae give it its originality and musicality that extends the bounds of music. The five members of the band: Dave Matthews, Boyd Tinsley, Le Roi Moore, Stefan Lessard, and Carter Beauford, provide a blend of influences that create this originality. It s an interracial music group compromising of three blacks, and two white, and an age difference of over 20 years b...
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Nam June Paik Science Economics Politics Art
853 wordsChoose one of these that you believe to be the most important function of art criticism. Using the function as your guide, write a short critical essay of the work titled Global Groove by Nam June Paik. ? Offer insight into the relationships between art and life, and science, economics, politics, religion, ethic, etc? is believed to be the most important function of art criticism. In the following, we are going to discuss video art. Video is surely the most popular media in the world, it does co...
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Miles Davis Jazz Musicians
1,716 wordsThe Electric Miles Davis Born in Alton, Illinois, Miles Davis grew up in a middle-class family in East St. Louis. Miles Davis took up the trumpet at the age of 13 and was playing professionally two years later. Some of his first gigs included performances with his high school banana playing with Eddie Randall and the blue Devils. Miles Davis has said that the greatest musical experience of his life was hearing the Billy Eckstine orchestra when it passed through St. Louis. In September 1944 Davis...
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State Of The Art John Cage
1,801 wordsNam June Paik was born in Seoul, Korea on July 20, 1932. He was the fifth and youngest child of a textile merchant. In 1947, at the age of 14, he studied piano and composition with two of Koreas foremost composers. The family moved to Tokyo, Japan in 1950 to avoid the havoc of the Korean War. Paik studied music, history, art history, and philosophy at the University of Tokyo from 1953 to 1956. He did his graduate dissertation on Schoenberg. In 1956, he moved to Germany to pursue his interest in ...
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Quot Lowell Fixed Stars
2,070 wordsThomas R. Edwards Imagistically the poem is built upon " enclosure" burial by snow, the subways vaults, the truss of the El, the interred Union dead, the sword in the groove foreshadowing the " mausoleum" of the last line. But these images suggest not only constraint and death but ceremony, formal rituals like burial, inauguration, or for that matter battle itself. The city observes the occasion: the subways drum, the girders " charge" as the poet passes them, the s...
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