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Young Man Young Son
1,288 wordsYears ago a hardworking man took his family from New York State to Australia to take advantage of a work opportunity there. Part of this man's family was a handsome young son who had aspirations of joining the circus as a trapeze artist or an actor. This young fellow, biding his time until a circus job or even one as a stagehand came along, worked at the local shipyards which bordered on the worse section of town. Walking home from work one evening this young man was thugs who wanted to rob him....
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Dizzy Gillespie Charlie Parker
1,424 words... lly redefined the way to improvise in a song, and it is full of creative and unique musical ideas, also called "licks." Famous people such as the saxophonist Charlie Parker, the trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, and the drummer Max Roach created bebop during the 40 s and the Postwar Decades, which was definitely a big leap for jazz. This style of jazz is less restricted, and improvisation involved longer phrases, more choruses, and more emotions. Modal jazz, also called free jazz, has no rules at a...
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Child Support Social Security
871 wordsJanis, Kelsey and Carolyn are three beautiful little girls. They are very bright, intelligent children. They deserve all the world has to offer them as all children do. Their lives were changed dramatically last year. Their father decided he no longer wanted to support these young innocent people. No one truly knows his reasons but one thing that can be ascertained is none of his excuses could be good enough to make them understand when they grow up. This scenario is not unique. In the United St...
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Ginsberg Howl A Counterculture Manifesto
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Agent Smith Fight Scene
1,842 wordsThe moving image and film sequence deconstruction After watching 10 minutes of your select film sequence, carefully analyse a selection of varied camera shots and say what is significant about each one. Also indicate aspect of music, sound effects and special effects that contribute to the film sequence. The award winning sci-fi film Matrix Reloaded totally re-wrote the textbook for movie science fiction when it hit the screens in early 2003. Directed by the Wachowski brothers, The Matrix Reload...
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Class Representative Teacher Beat
507 wordsBOYCOTT OF AN EIGHT YEAR OLD GIRL AGAINST HER TEACHER When I was 8 years old, the most strange memory in my school time happened. I used to be a witch girl. Nobody was able to say me bad things which I hadnt made. I would defend myself so uncontrolled that I wasnt concerned about the individualities. Like I had against my teacher One day when I was at secondary class, our teacher he nl went out of the class. While she was going, she said our class representative that Write the names of people on...
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John Wayne Gacy York Random House
1,676 words... his by killing his mom. (Egger 138) Even the Shakespearian multiple murderer Hamlet had an unnatural obsession with his mother's sexuality. "Serial murderers are frequently found to have unusual or unnatural relationships with their mothers, " notes Steven Egger in his book The Killers among Us. (Egger 140) In our culture, the imposing image of "Mother" looms large in our collective psyches, and some writers easily accept that these killers are lashing out at maternal tyranny. If these murde...
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Didn T Care Father
1,054 wordsFences In the play Fences by August Wilson, Troy is shown as a man who has hurt the people who are closest to him without even realizing it. He has acted insensitive and uncaring to his wife, Rose, his brother, Gabriel and his son, Cory. At the beginning of the story, Troy feels he has done right by them. He feels this through out the story. He doesn? t realize how much he has hurt them. Troy is the son of an abusive father. His father was hardly around to raise him. When he was around, he made ...
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Violence Love Fight
538 wordsViolence on Television: Violence is Everywhere I never learned which party was victorious, nor the cause of the war, But I felt for the rest of that day, as if I had had my feelings excited and harrowed by witnessing the struggle (Henry David Thoreau) These days our whole life seems to revolve around violence. There are so many channels on TV that advocate violence on a daily basis. Sports that we see every Sunday stir up aggressiveness and bring anger to a high level. Around school conflicts se...
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Mighty Dub Katz Beats International Album Norman
800 wordsFatboy Slim With Fatboy Slim albums, the clue is always in the title, and Norman Cooks third outing is no exception. Norman was staying at LAs Chateau Marmont hotel, when the title came to him. As the New Year dawned Norman ventured back into his home studio in Brighton, England to make the most emotional, innovative album of his career. Norman explains the progression by pointing out that The Rockefeller Skank was the first track he recorded for his last album, and Right Here Right Now was the ...
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Juvenile Justice System Juvenile Offenders
2,032 wordsToday, there is a great concern about gang activity and youth violence. Every day, we can open a newspaper or turn on the evening news and see that another child or victim was killed in gang or youth related violence. Teenage crime and violence has existed for many years. Many people have become more aware of the violence committed by todays youth because of the media coverage of the viciousness of these crimes. The public is also aware of the new breed of criminal and many people want to change...
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Jack Kerouac Beat Generation
1,471 wordsBorn Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac Born in the town of Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, Jack Kerouac was born to Leo and Gabrielle Kerouac, a French-Canadian couple in which Jack didn t even learn to speak English until age 6, when he was enrolled in school. Jack Kerouac would aspire to be one of the most inspirational writers of his time and in American history. Although, through his younger years, and while he was in school, he took a more athletic approach to life. Jack played Football in high sch...
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Jack Kerouac Beat Generation
1,393 wordsBorn: Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac Born: March 12, 1922 Place of Birth: Lowell, Massachusetts Died: October 21, 1969 Place of Death: St. Petersburg, Florida Jack Kerouac was born Jean-Louis Kerouac, a French-Canadian child in working-class Lowell, Massachusetts. Ti Jean spoke a local dialect of French called journal before he learned English. The youngest of three children, he was heartbroken when his older brother Gerard died of rheumatic fever at the age of nine. Ti Jean was an intense and seriou...
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Life In America Sal And Dean
1,688 wordsJack Kerouac's Great American Novel, On the Road because the only people for me as the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue center light pop and everybody goes, Awwww w!' (On the Road, Jack Kerouac p. 8) The 40 s. A time of the beat generation...
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Gave A Sense Sense Of Relaxation Music
327 wordsThe band played a series of live classical jazz in the concert. Most part of the concert gave great senses of relaxation and swing feelings by elegant tunes and fantastic melodies. As an audience, I was really impressed by the modulation in tone and the conspicuous musicianship. I like the way the orchestra displayed their dynamics. Some parts of the concert were loud while other parts were soft. The difference between these parts showed relaxation and tensions of music, which were also consider...
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Style Of Writing Jack Kerouac
801 wordsMartin, William 2 - 14 - 97 Charters, Ann. Kerouac: A Biography. New York: St. Martin s Press, 1959, 1994. 419 pp. Jack Kerouac Kerouac: A Biography, helps to explain how Jack Kerouac, the founder and most important member of the Beat movement, was influenced by the rapidly changing culture of the 1950 s, as well as, how Kerouac ignited a social and literal revolution in America, from which the Beatniks and Hippies emerged. All of Kerouac s books drew public attention due to Kerouac s originalit...
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End Of The Movie Beginning Of The Movie
1,350 wordsThe Bad Cop I was not really interested in seeing LA Confidential since everyone I knew who went to see it had bad things to say-too long, too boring, too confusing. After watching the movie, I became very interested in the movie. It? s rare to see a movie with great acting and a story that keeps me wondering what? s going to happen next. LA Confidential is a crime-drama adapted from an infamous novel written by James Ellroy. Curtis Hanson directs the movie. The film looks and feels like what yo...
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Mumia Abu Jamal American Heritage Dictionary
1,930 wordsThe following paper will discuss the topic of racial injustice in the United States Legal System. Since this topic is so broad, it will deal with the trial of Mumia Abu Jamal in 1982. This paper will show how the " system" will try anything to keep a minority down. The system consists of upper middle class to upper class whites that believe minorities are inferior to them. The system is used is a " political machine" used by whites to keep these minorities from becoming power...
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Rock And Roll Punk Rock
900 wordsA Crazy Little Thing Called Punk Sex, drugs, and rock and roll was the rallying cry for a movement that changed American culture forever. Rock and roll first startled the American scene in the mid- 1950, but no one then could have predicted the remarkable vitality and staying power of this new music. The early tradition of rock has gone through many transitions. Provocative and outlandish stage attire and behavior have been an important resource since the birth of rock and roll. Decades followin...
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Hip Hop Mechanical Reproduction
3,531 wordsTechno Schmechno: A Postmodern Approach To Electronica Techno Schmechno: A Postmodern Approach To Electronica In searching for a properly post-modern style of music, it may be better to look at the electronic music scene, which began with house music in the early to middle 80 s, rather than at hip-hop. It is true that the hip-hop artist generally disappears into the narrative of the music to the extent that many of their lives are a direct reflection of what they sing about: gang violence, drugs...
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