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    The philosophy behind Pink Floyd songs (Wish you were here) Melda Raja 12130918 Philosophy Ms.May Mayasi The enigmatic Pink Floyd. Pink Floyd pushed the boundaries of music into rounds of artistic expression. Their recording era began during the era of black and white television and ended kn the internet. They started in the psychedelic era and ended up as a rock band. They happened to have some misunderstood keywords in their songs and then became a legend. They had very successful

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    Have you ever thought about power and what it does when there is too much of it? In the book Animal Farm and the short story “Mousland,” one group has too much power and it influences the rules; which shows the theme that if there is too much power in one group there is no equality within the rules. The authors of Animal Farm and “Mousland” use the narrative techniques of characterization and conflict to illustrate political messages, about power influencing, how the rules affect equality. The authors

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    Tierra Nick Professor Parker ENG 202 01 20 November 2017 An Analysis of Frost’s “Mending Wall” “Mending Wall” written by Robert Frost seems to take place in a countryside estate. The speaker and his neighbor are fixing a wall together, which separates their properties. “Mending Wall” is a poem that describes the relationship between two neighbors and idea of maintaining barriers. This poem reflects how people make physical barriers and emotional barriers. A barrier is an object that keeps something

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    Boxing has a significant heavyweight title on the line this Saturday in Manchester, England, where rising young stars Joseph Parker and Hughie Fury will battle for Parker’s WBO heavyweight title. Parker, who’s 23-0 with 18 knockouts and making his second title defense, is a 25-year-old New Zealand native. Many consider Parker a representation of the next wave of great heavyweights. However, in his last two fights against a step-up in competition, he lacked the finishing ability he showed in previous

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    Sugar Ray Robinson was America’s greatest boxer, and one of the first celebrity athletes. The book Being Sugar Ray by Kenneth Shropshire is a fantastic book for sport fans and especially fans of boxing. If you are not into sports, much less boxing, then this book may be hard to get into and may drag on throughout. This book is a biography about Sugar Ray. It explains his life from beginning to end. I loved “Being Sugar Ray” and think it is an absolute great book because of it being motivational and

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    The Big bad wolf and the three Little Pigs Parody Once upon a time the the two little pigs and the Big bad wolf were friends, the pig with the stick house and the pig with the brick house. Until one day Pigers played the Wolfies in football for the championship title on TV. And of course the pigs favoirte team was the Pigers, and the wolf favorite team was the Wolfies.So they made a bet if the Wolfies win the pigs give the wolf $100 and if the Pigers win the wolf owes the pigs $100. The game

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    During the 1960’s, boxing went through noticeable changes with the rise of the heavyweight champion Cassius Clay who would later change his name to Muhammad Ali. In the midst of controversy and anger because of the Vietnam War, boxing was an escape from reality that many people desperately needed. Neil Leifer is credited with taking the photograph which is now remembered as The Greatest Photo of Muhammad Ali Ever Taken, and The Best Sports Photograph of the Twentieth Century. The photograph shows

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    TRAPPED! Written by Michael Duvall Fairy-tale music; upbeat, adventurous VOICE OVER This is not a fairy-tale. come and play the game. if you want to take the tower you’ll have to say his name! its Wiley Sneak, Wiley Sneak, Wiley Sneak. Now it’s off to the tower, you’ll be up against each other sabotage the game my friend but do not blow your cover, I am waiting for you kiddies but who will take the raft? Cause only one will escape and the rest you’re TRAPPED! INT. TOWER

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    Linguistic Bias

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    Bias is a discernibly human quality; like all things human in nature, there lies deep in our consciousness values, axiology’s, and prejudice. These ‘biases’, rather worldviews, create within each person their own rose coloured lenses with which they perceive, and more importantly, influence the world. To look at how bias can occur both blatantly and subtly in writing, three distinct forms will be analyzed; Linguistic Biases, Perhaps the most common bias is the linguistic bias. Simply, this is where

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    Drown Dreams

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    Other Animals is a quartet led by German brothers Peter and Bernhard Meyer, guitarist and bassist, respectively, who take all the credit for the twelve compositions of the band's debut album. They are joined by the Berlin-based saxophonist Wanja Slavin and the American drummer Jim Black, a pivotal figure in the New York jazz scene. The animated beat that introduces “Drown Dreams”, an oblique, dreamy, chamber pop song, doesn’t dissemble some solemnity attached to its melody and harmonic conduction

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