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    Blues and Music

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    music and dancing that inspired unrestrained dances. Again these dances and music now are ever so accepted within the American culture. Jazz was only a segment of it as later‚ other genre came into light such as rock-n-roll. A combination of blues music‚ and traditional pop (both vocal and instrumental) combined to bring us a new sound entitled Rock and Roll. The combination of the two was

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    In “The Northwest London Blues‚” Zadie Smith conveys a strong stance against the closing of libraries. She believes libraries are more important than just the books read and implores the reader to defend their libraries. To bolster her argument‚ Smith deftly employs acknowledgement of counterarguments‚ word choice‚ and rhetorical questions to sway her readers. Smith effectively uses counterarguments to persuade her audience that libraries really do have a purpose. She concedes that she “would even

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    The Blue Jar

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    The Blue Jar The Blue Jar contains a variety of important elements in terms of prose fiction. With a unique plot structure‚ manner of symbolism‚ theme‚ and depiction of characters‚ Dinesen develops an interesting work of fiction that seeks to instill certain ideals in the reader. The point of view is that of an omniscient narrator. The Blue Jar’s plot follows the track of exposition‚ rising action‚ climax‚ falling action in a unique manner with a “double plot” mechanism. Also‚ it isn’t solely

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    Blue Ray

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    optical disc video recording format called "Blu-ray Disc". The Blu-ray Disc enables the recording‚ rewriting and play back of up to 27 gigabytes (GB) of data on a single sided single layer 12cm CD/DVD size disc using a 405nm blue-violet laser. By employing a short wavelength blue violet laser‚ the Blu-ray Disc successfully minimizes its beam spot size by making the numerical aperture (NA) on a field lens that converges the laser 0.85. In addition‚ by using a disc structure with a 0.1mm optical transmittance

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    The Weary Blues

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    In the poem "The Weary Blues”‚ Langston Hughes describes an evening of listening to a blues musician in Harlem. “The Wear Blues” By: Langston Hughes Droning a drowsy syncopated tune‚ Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon‚ I heard a Negro play. Down on Lenox Avenue the other night By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light He did a lazy sway . . . He did a lazy sway . . . To the tune o’ those Weary Blues. With his ebony hands on each ivory key He made that poor piano

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    Blue Eye

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    identity‚ feels your presents‚ and starts interacting with you .You ask the computer to dial to your friend at his office. It realizes the urgency of the situation through the mouse‚ dials your friend at his office‚ and establishes a connection. The BLUE EYES technology aims at creating computational machines that have perceptual and sensory ability like those of human beings.Employing most modern video cameras and microphones to identifies the users actions through the use of imparted sensory abilities

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    Blue Jeans

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    Blue Jeans: Born to last Hardeep Singh Gill COMM171-341 Catherine Boote June 28‚ 2013 The article “Blue jeans: Born to last” by Leslie C. Smith was published in Globe and Mail in 1992. Smith gives the brief details and the history of world popular blue jeans. The main idea of the essay is that how blue jeans came into life and what does it represent. In 1980’s‚ during the time of gold rush‚ French cotton called denim came into being which replaced canvas and people called

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    Sonnys Blues

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    Kristall Von Den Stemmen Professor Slattum English M01B Tues & Thurs 09-09-12 Suffering in Sonny’s Blues In Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin‚ two brothers grow up in the ghetto of Harlem‚ a poverty-stricken place where heroin use is common and crime is high. Sonny‚ the younger of the two‚ is portrayed as a troubled young adult who desperately tries to get out of the negative environment that threatens to destroy his dream of becoming a musician. His brother‚ in contrast‚ leads a more

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    The Weary Blues

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    Music of Sadness “The Weary Blues‚” by Langston Hughes‚ tells a story of an unnamed narrator recalling an evening of listening to a man sing the blues one night in Harlem. Hughes uses a somber tone‚ depressed voice‚ syntax and imagery as language styles to convey a great deal of suffering that was occurring in Harlem during the mid-1900’s. In “The Weary Blues” Hughes uses imagery to communicate to the reader what the narrator is experiencing while listening to blues. The reader can feel the slow

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    Sonny's Blues

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    music that can be perceived in many ways depending on the individual. A musician provides us with many elements in their music such as being their life story‚ different perceptions of their pieces‚ and the ability of healing the soul. In "Sonny’s Blues" the narrator’s brother was talented in playing the piano later on we found out that is how he expresses his emotions. In the story‚ when Sonny was staying in Isabel house they “confessed that they were not living with a person‚ it

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