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    chosen ‘The Raven’ written by Edgar Allen Poe because this poem manifests quite a selection of figurative language. Through his writing style and illustration of words‚ I have observed many examples of sound devices. Such as‚ * Alliteration – When you repeat the first letter or group of sounds in a specific part of the sentence so basically‚ so basically tongue twisters. * Onomatopoeia – Using a word that has the same action as the word * Personification – Giving an inanimate object

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    Proposal of a Sound System AUD407 Advanced Audio System Design Table of Contents Overview 3 Site Assessment 4 Environmental Analysis 5 System Design Requirements 5 The System 8 Figure 1: Line Array Configuration 8 Figure 2: Jsub Frequency Map 9 Figure 3: Line Array Analysis 10 Foldback 12 Figure 4: Foldback Speaker Placement 12 Mixer/Desk 13 Signal Flow 13 Sound Reinforcement Analysis 14 “Rock” Band 14 Choir 14 FOH 14 Amp 15 Foldback 15 Stage

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    The deterioration of the American wealthy culture in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury has progressed further than the deterioration seen in The Great Gatsby. Whereas many of the characters in The Great Gatsby are suffering from the more intangible consequences on their morals‚ the Compson family in The Sound and the Fury is suffering from the tangible consequences‚ facing both physical and mental difficulties. The decay of the Compson family is symbolic of the decline of traditional American values

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    The text that I will be analyzing is the song “The ’59 Sound‚” by The Gaslight Anthem. The Gaslight Anthem is a punk rock band that comes from New Brunswick. Many of their songs have tangled‚ cryptic lyrics which makes it difficult to determine what they are about exactly‚ but they always tend to be melancholy. The music sounds just like a pretty normal energetic rock song. The illusion of life perspective will provide the lens to find underlying meaning in this particular song. I expect to find

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    Phillips’s book The Atlantic Sound is related to the history of slavery and its impact on contemporary socio-cultural environment. It is a travel book but it is not only confined to non fictional narrative of travelled places. The book is a mixture of geographical portraits‚ historical events‚ interviews‚ letters‚ newspaper articles‚ speeches‚ poems and so on. Phillips decides to visit the three points of triangular trade that linked America‚ Africa and Europe. He juxtaposes the stories of past with

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    The Coen brothers employ silence in a majority of their noir films‚ with the sole purpose of heightening the drama. Within the absence of sound exist certain imperceptible sounds. Burwell mentions that the brothers write knowing the importance of the sound and the music and that they “put space in their films for that‚ and a lot of people don’t‚ but they actually feel free to have a few minutes where there might not be any dialogue.” The example

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    I feel that what Claire Farrer means by living in the ’mythic present’ is that although most Indian culture is perceived long to have been different‚ it is in fact very live and active today. I will give specific examples from her book‚ Thunder Rides a Black Horse‚ to support my arguments of what the ’mythic present’ actually means and list many examples of events that could be considered to be in the ’mythic present.’ First I will define the mythic present in the terms that Claire Farrer actually

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    the Vowels Sounds of English The classifcation of vowels is based on four major aspects: Tongue height - according to the vertical position of the tongue (high vowels‚ also referred to as close; low vowels‚ also referred to as open; intermediate - close-mid and open-mid) Frontness vs. backness of the tongue - according to the horizontal position of the highest part of the tongue. Lip rounding - whether the lips are rounded (O-shape) or spread (no rounding) when the sound is being made

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    Pet Sounds Together a group of five young men‚ using the expressions of theme and idea to create the infamous 1966 album known as Pet Sounds are known as The Beach Boys. The group is considered a family affair. Which consisted of three brothers Brian‚ Carl‚ and Dennis Wilson‚ a cousin Mike Love‚ and a classmate Alan Jardine (Rock and Rock Hall of Fame Museum). This collection can be described as a concept album. Thus‚ creating a magnificent production that is contemplated as a piece of

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    atmosphere caused by audio entertainment systems like loudspeakers‚ automobiles‚ and machinery of factories is just a nuisance. They create a lot of noise. Noise can be defined as an undesirable or annoying sound. Noise pollution can be referred to as an annoying‚ irritating‚ distracting environmental noise level. The loudspeakers are usually used in marriages‚ jagrans‚ All advancements become useless‚ if a man doesn’t get a peaceful and quite atmosphere. The social and religious functions. But some

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