©Copyright 2003 Timothy S. Hughes Groove and Flow: Six Analytical Essays on the Music of Stevie Wonder Timothy S. Hughes A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy University of Washington 2003 Program Authorized to Offer Degree: Music University of Washington Graduate School This is to certify that I have examined this copy of a doctoral dissertation by Timothy S. Hughes and have found that it is complete
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Critical Review: I Am Sam The movie‚ I am Sam‚ is the portrayal of a mentally retarded single parent struggling to maintain custody of his normal intelligence daughter. Within his circle of acquaintances are four special needs adults who are his close friends and two normal intelligence adults who exhibit disordered behavior. The writers‚ Kristin Johnson and Jessie Nelson‚ spent months researching and observing developmentally disabled adults in order to provide an accurate representation of the
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Why I am Not a Christian an Examination of the God‐Idea and Christianity Bertrand Russell [March 6‚ 1927] [The lecture that is here presented was delivered at the Battersea Town Hall under the auspices of the South London Branch of the National Secular Society‚ England. It should be added that the editor is willing to share full responsibility with the Hon. Bertrand Russell in that he is in accord with the political and other opinions expressed.] As your chairman has told you
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The film Who Am I This Time? starring Christopher Walken and Susan Sarandon revolves around a character named Harry Nash‚ who is an extremely shy and introverted man. However‚ when he plays a role in one of the local theater productions‚ he seemingly becomes the character to an intense extent. Helene Shaw‚ just having moved into town quite recently‚ falls in love. She does not fall for Nash‚ but his character in the play. After Helene mistakes Harry’s shyness for partial avoidance‚ she then discovers
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Robert Neville followed a man‚ who was turning‚ into an ocean of unlike humans. In an excerpt from‚ I Am Legend Richard Matheson uses a wide array of rhetorical devices in order to convey the strong action he uses. Matheson uses different types of imagery and similes to describe the man who was leading him in the beginning of the excerpt. Neville hears the man’s voice as "a grating rasp" that is labeled as sonic imagery that the reader can connect to someone/thing in their own life. Furthermore
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you’re a coward? I got my draft notice June 17‚ 1968. That was two weeks ago. Right now I am close to the Canadian border. I can’t face my family after getting the draft notice. I wouldn’t have been able to watch the sorrow and discouraged look in my father’s eyes as I told him I wasn’t going. How would I look as a brother if I didn’t fight for my family? Am I considered a coward if I don’t go‚ or am I a coward if I follow society’s pressure to fight a war I don’t believe in? I put the draft notice
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he movie I picked was I Am Sam. It is about a grown man who has a mental capacity of a 7 year old raises his baby alone own until child protective services deems him as an unfit guardian. Eventually‚ his daughter Lucy gets taken away from Sam because child protective services say he is not capable of taking care of her. He then goes out and finds a lawyer‚ Rita. She takes Sam’s case pro bono. I picked a random movie from the list‚ started with the first column of movies and typed each one into the
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I am Lycon‚ I was born in Athens in 460 BCE into a family of sophisticated middle class individuals. I don’t like to think of myself as the best‚ but the Athenian community consider my family to be one of the more fortunate families in society. I have had a great deal of experience with that reprobate of a man that we call Socrates. I am here today with my fellow accusers‚ Meletus and Anytus‚ to prove that Socrates is guilty. I feel that Athens would be a much better place if Socrates were put
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discovery of the cure-gone-wrong for cancer shows to us what we are now‚ people have always been not contented with what they have‚ although I am not saying that its bad yet we also need to put limitations on what we are doing for as to what they say “Too much and too less of something is undesirable”. Summary: The movie is about‚ Richard Neville‚ the last man on Earth. Neville is a strong-minded virologist who persistently remains in his hometown as the rest of his group escaped a virus that
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Stevie Nicks Stevie Nicks is considered one of the most influential female musicians in the world due to her unique vocals‚ style‚ and attitude which have inspired fans as well as other musicians. Stephanie “Stevie” Nicks was born May 26‚ 1948 in Phoenix‚ Arizona. Stevie traveled the country with her family which led her to meet Lindsey Buckingham while she attended high school in California. The two both shared an interest in music allowing for the pair to grow close both musically and romantically
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