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    Rock Music In The 1950's

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    Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed in the 1950’s. Rock music is considered a mixture of country, blues, and gospel music. Rock music was formed by African Americans who at the time didn’t get much credit because of racism and segregation. Some of the founding fathers of rock music are Lloyd Price, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Haley and the Comets, Bo Diddley, Roy Orbison, Johnny cash, Robert Johnson. Rock music begun in the 1950’s

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    Essay on American Musicals

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    directors, librettists and lyricists. The emphasis of importance being on the directors. Tom O’Horgan, Gower Champion, and most of all, Bob Fosse gave the period some of its sustained achievements. These musicals are one of the most collaborative of art forms. Actors no longer had chunks of dialogue interspersed with musical interludes. The musical became seamless, with characters singing when their emotions became too overbearing for speech. The songs encouraged the musical to move forward and not

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    The Educated Imagination

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    produced by “the power of detachment in the imagination” (p. 78). Once a person like Mark Anthony or Cleopatra becomes a literary character (like the heroes of Shakespeare’s tragedy) we think of them differently. Indeed, literature tends to swallow life. “And the imagination won’t stop until it’s swallowed everything” (p. 80). Chapter Four: “The Keys to Dreamland” Frye now deals with the respective claims of the reader and writer, the producer and consumer of literature. “We need two powers in literature

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    Machiavelli and the Use of Antiquity in The Prince and The Discourses The Renaissance was a time of classical revival and a turning point from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period in the course of history. Ancient texts and artifacts became sources of inspiration for intellectuals and artists alike, and the desire to emulate—or even surpass the achievements of the past prompted them to study antiquities closely and saw them as models and guidance. People were consciously distinguishing

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    Capulet family, he realises that his purpose in life is based on his enemy Juliet from that point on (I.v.117-118). Also, Juliet learns that Romeo is “a Montague / The only son of [h]er great enemy” (I.v.135-136); nevertheless, she does not have in mind to break up with him as she claims to love her enemy (I.v.140). The prohibition of their love leads to rebellion. Juliet reveals this stance as follows: “’Tis but thy name that is my enemy / Thou art thyself, though not a Montague” (II.ii.37-38). She

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    NCFE LEVEL 3 SUPPORTING TEACHING AND LEARNING IN SCHOOLS Please save the Learners Declaration to your PC, add your details, and upload with your completed assessments. Assignment 1 – Understanding development and supporting equality, diversity and inclusion. QUESTION 1 a. Explain the sequence and rate of each aspect of development from birth – 19 years The main areas of development include: physical development, social and emotional development, intellectual development and language

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    The Human Genesis Debate Recently, there has been much speculation over the true origins of modern (anatomically and behaviorally) humans over the last 500,00 years. Scientists for the past thirty years have introduced and debated two conflicting beliefs, the multiregional hypothesis and the African hypothesis. The multiregional hypothesis claims that much interbreeding occurred, resulting in the groups being referred to as one species. On the other side of the coin, the African hypothesis declares

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    broadcasting networks include a larger variety of various potentially violent materials (Freedman). Could lots of euphorically violent images and stories on television affect the mind of a young child over time? What might have been missing in the child’s life that left him or her in a mental state not strengthened by positive reinforcement? Video games shoulder the blame when discussing the delicate minds of children and what they are exposed to. The name of their game: Desensitization. A virtual reality

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    mind speaks to the material universe” (p. XX). Which is a clear fact knowing that the art of fashion was concerned with the

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    "For years I never spoke to anyone about it. Never mentioned a thing to my parents or teachers or my classmates"(Rodriguez 623). 1 shiver as I read it-the most powerful sentence I have ever come across. Scared, confused and resentful, I slam the book shut. Silence confronts me. Not a whisper, not a murmur-I hear nothing. I am alone. The donn room is too dark, the single lamp too dim. Anxious and frightened I flop onto the bed and look out at the night sky. Not a star is to be seen-Just infinite dark

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