Afghan Star‚ the documentary follows four contestants of the Afghan Star TV show: Hameed‚ Setara‚ Rafi‚ and Lema. Afghan Star is said to be the Afghanistan’s version of the “American Idol format”. This show not only gave a new opportunity at democracy but also let the voices of the Afghan people be heard by casting votes on their choice of singer. Afghanistan has rich culture: music‚ religion‚ art‚ films – however‚ with the control of the Taliban‚ it resulted the country to go backwards and prevented
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“Life on Mars” is a very sentimental and intimate book of poems about how an author deals a lost in her life. Dan Chiasson from The New Yorker states‚ “Smiths own poetic focus‚ though polished‚ like the lenses of the Hubble‚ ‘to an impossible strength‚’ is often directed to the here and now: the book is by turns intimate‚ even confessional‚ regarding private life in light of its potential extermination‚ and resoundingly political‚ warning of a future that isn’t what it used to be.” The book of poems
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Men were forced to add the name Israel to their names and women were forced to add Sarah to their names. They were all also forced to were the Star-of-David patches on their clothing. These were ways of identification for the Jews. To the Jews the Star-of-David was like a badge of shame. The stars promoted humiliation‚ shame‚ and abuse to the Jews. It made Jews feel like outcast to the rest of the German society. On November 7‚ 1938‚ a Polish boy named Hershel Grynszpan
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of protest that is directed toward racism but even if it’s meant that way it also acts to disrespect and calls out the military and police forces. Those people that fought for your safety should not be disrespected because people think the spangled star banner is offensive or oppressive to people of a particular orientation. NFL players are some of the most
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In this paper questions will be ask about the special effects of the movies Robocop and Star The Revenge of the Sith‚ for the reader to understand the movies better. How are the effects used? In the movie RoboCop the stop motion animation was used to bring the character ED-209 a giant robot to life and the scene when a man try to run over RoboCop but ended up falling in a vat of toxic waste causing the flesh to melt of his skin. Are they effective? In a way yes since the character ED-209 was animated
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Critical Analysis of a Game: Red Dead Redemption Professor Shawn Graham Jad Slaibeh 100804020 Submitted: Thursday February 7th 2013 The game I have chosen for my critical analysis is Red Dead Redemption. Red Dead Redemption was made‚ published‚ and engineered by a company called Rockstar Games (Rockstar Website). The major distributor of the game is a company who happens to own Rockstar‚ Take-Two interactive. Being one of the most successful video game developers to date
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lyrics and synthetic instrumentals: vision. Zeds Dead performance had several marked features of visuals that exemplified the sensualistic nature of electronic dance music. Accordingly‚ “…such syntheses and modulations are carried out in the ‘laboratory’ of the club‚ where in most cases the pitch-black darkness is impregnated by techno music‚ a few lights‚ the occasional strobe and artifcial smoke.” (Vitos‚ 2). To typify this characteristic of EDM‚ Zeds Dead included many multicolored beams of light rotating
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This familiar anthem The Star Spangled Banner is America’s long-standing and unchanging tradition that is played at every sporting events nationwide‚ school events‚ assemblies‚ Independence Day events‚ etc. It was invented when the U.S entered World War 1 by a man named Francis Scott Key who gave his poem to his brother‚ who noted that key’s poem fit the melody of The Anacreontic Song. It started out playing at the World Series game in 1918‚ where from that point in time it has been playing every
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refer to as the “small‚ red planet”- Mars. Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and widely known for its fierce coloring. Chinese astronomers called Mars “the fire star”. The Romans‚ who studied the solar system many centuries ago‚ named Mars after the Roman god of war because of its fiery red color (Kendell 181). The Romans are known to have copied the ancient Greeks‚ who also named Mars after their god of war‚ Ares. The strong‚ bright‚ rusty color that Mars is so well known for is due to iron
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article about the Egyptian Book of the Dead on the Ancient History Encyclopedia website. Mark is a writer and scholar who has lived in Germany and Greece‚ traveled through Egypt‚ and now lives in New York with his family. He is an editor‚ co-founder‚ and a director of Ancient History Encyclopedia. Mark’s article tells about the history of the Egyptian Book of the Dead and its spells. In 1895‚ Ernest Alfred Wallis published his book‚ the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge
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