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U S Soldiers Institute Of Medicine
1,542 words... e to Agent Orange and other herbicides used in Vietnam. Studies find that TCDD elicits a diverse spectrum of biological sex, strain, age, and species-specific effects; including carcinogenicity, immuno toxicity, reproductive / developmental toxicity, hepatotoxicity, neurotoxicity, chlorine, and loss of body weight. These effects vary according to the age, sex, species, and strain of the animals involved. To date, the scientific consensus is that TCDD is not genotoxic and that its ability to ...
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Underlying Meaning Peoples Lives
1,126 wordsWhen a country is at war it is the common people who suffer. In Walt Whitman's poem, Beat! Beat! Drums, the speaker signifies the sounds of war. The speaker, listening to the banging of war drums and shrill sounds of bugles, relates the interruption these war sounds have on the harmony of peoples lives. Whitman uses the sounds of drums as an audible image to show its effects on the common people. Whitman uses two types of imagery to express the cold indirect and direct effects of war. Whitman us...
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Mississippi River Jazz Music
827 wordsQuincy Troupe is world-renowned for his love of jazz music and for his poetry, which reflects that love. The rhythm and meter of his poems lend themselves easily to live readings, and have a very solid musical quality about them, reminiscent of the very songs that he has listened to his whole life. In his Snake-back Solo 2, he references several famous Jazz artists, including Louis Satchmo Armstrong and Miles Davis, two of the most famous jazz artists in history. The structure of this poem, when...
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Music And Punk Culture
2,866 wordsMusic and Punk culture In the mid-to-late 1970 s a radical youth culture called punk emerged out of the larger rock 'n' roll scene, and developed its own music, attire, and ideology. The Sex Pistols are the best known of the punk bands; their music, like all punk rock, was aggressive, fast, and loud. Punk attire is characterized by dark clothes, outlandish costumes and ornamentation such as colored hair and earrings and bracelets made from assembled items (the quintessential punk earring was a s...
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Smells Like Teen Kurt And Courtney Nirvana
888 wordsCoMe AS YoU ARe: The Story OF Nirvana February 20, 1967 Kurt Donald Cobain was born in Aberdeen Wa. , a small town outside of Seattle. Kurt was a very artistic child who loved to draw. Kurt's parents bought him a Mickey mouse drum set when he was about five. I kind of pushed drums on him because I wanted to be a drummer said Kurt's mom Wendy OConnor. Kurt's parents later got divorced when he was eight. Kurt took the divorce very hard, It just destroyed hi life says Wendy. Kurt was used in a war ...
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Basic Types Specific Purpose
996 wordsHistory of Drums Outline A) The history of the drumset. -General purpose. My general purpose is to explain where the different parts of the drumset have originated and evolved over the years. -Specific purpose. To show all of the different parts and where they come from. -Central idea. To show that the parts of the drumset were not adapted from only Africa. I. Introduction. a) Many people have the misconception that the modern drumset originated from only the African bongos. b) In reality, they ...
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Made Me Feel John Coltrane
759 wordsOn September 15, 1957, John Coltrane recorded Blue Train, an album he considered his favorite, and many critics considecontributes to the sound. Coltrane provides listeners with an impressive r his best work. The albums rhythm Chambers finishes up with a bass solo before the opening statement is repeated, bringing the song to a full circle by its end. The next song is Moments Notice which is also swung and in 4 / 4. This song played at a faster pace and has a catchy melody that becomes rather co...
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20 Th Century Bass Guitar
783 wordsThe nights of April 21 - 22, 1999 in Berkeley, California, The San Francisco Symphony was joined by the rock band, Metallica for a performance at the Berkeley Community Theater. It was conducted by Micheal Kamen. The hall was filled to capacity with both hardcore Metallica fans. Before the concert even started, they were on their feet, cheering for both Metallica and the members of the symphony. The were all dressed in street clothes. Most opted to wear jeans and a Metallica shirt. The members o...
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Bongo Drums Tenor Drum Played
389 wordsDrums are among the oldest musical instruments. The best known of percussion instruments, they are found throughout the world and in a great variety of shapes and sizes. A drum normally consists of a skin or other membrane, called a head, which is stretched over an enclosed space or over one or both ends of a hollow vessel. Exceptions include the African slit drum, made from a hollowed-out tree trunk, and the Caribbean steel drum, made from a metal barrel. Drums are usually played by the hands o...
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