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    the playground and in formal music instruction. Ironically‚ many of the facts in this list were learned during formal music instruction. 1. Most People Mean Rhythm When They Say Beat A common reason why many people give to explain why they like a song is because they "like the song’s ’beat.’" However‚ the term beat actually means the steady

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    Walt Whitman’s preface to Leaves of Grass promotes America’s separation from Europe‚ and declares that America needs a bard whose focus is the common American‚ American landscape‚ and the American spirit. This freedom from Europe opens the door for America to blossom into the political‚ artistic‚ and intellectual model for the world. Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” displays the interconnectedness of him and his fellow passengers with each generation‚ while at the same time transcending time and

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    Dickinson Whitman Compare Contrast The real distinction with Emily and Walt was that Emily had short and apparently straightforward ballads. In any case‚ Walt’s sonnets were long and frequently mind boggling. Emily’s works were considerably more discouraging then Walt’s written work was. Additionally Whitman utilizes extensive and tedious depictions as a part of his verse‚ yet Dickinson is straight to the point. In Comparison Whitman and Dickinson are both artists for the Romantic Era. Both artists

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    THE BEAT GENERATION IN THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF AMERICA OF THE 1950s "Being against what the Beat Generation stands for has to do with denying that incoherence is superior to precision; that ignorance is superior to knowledge; that the exercise of mind and discrimination is a form of death…" (N.Podhoretz "The Know-Nothing Bohemians") Like the „Lost Generation" of the 1920s‚ the American „Beat Generation names both literary current and a broader cultural phenomenon or mood. Rejecting the conformism

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    Walt Whitman Walt Whitman revolutionized American poetry. Responding to Emerson’s call in “The Poet” (1842) for an American bard who would address all “the facts of the animal economy‚ sex‚ nutriment‚ gestation‚ birth‚” he put the living‚ breathing‚ sexual body at the center of much of his poetry‚ challenging conventions of the day. Responding to Emerson’s call for a “metre-making argument‚” he rejected traditions of poetic scansion and elevated diction‚ improvising the form that has come

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    An investigation on the factors affecting beat frequency of a coupled pendula system. Abstract In the course of this experiment‚ I investigate how the mass of the counter-weight affects the beat frequency‚ when the system is put into the perfect superposition of the symmetric and anti-symmetric modes. I then go onto to explore different factors and other ideas involved with coupled pendula systems. Essential Theory In order to gain understanding on the workings of these phenomena‚ I will be starting

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    Africana Studies 1-1-2011 ‘The Mystic Drum’: Critical Commentary on Gabriel Okara’s Love Lyrics Chukwuma Azuonye University of Massachusetts Boston‚ chukwuma.azuonye@umb.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.umb.edu/africana_faculty_pubs Part of the African Languages and Societies Commons‚ Comparative Literature Commons‚ and the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Azuonye‚ Chukwuma‚ "‘The Mystic Drum’: Critical Commentary on Gabriel Okara’s

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    initiated by the insurmountable urge to be free from one’s parents‚ from the responsibilities that lie ahead. In reading and giving careful thought to Jack Kerouac’s novel‚ “On the Road‚” it appeared to be considered the thing to do‚ in reference to the Beat‚ a label implemented to define a youthful counter-culture of the late 1940’s to the early 1960’s‚ that rejected middle class expectations of conformity through the characters of Sal‚ Carlo‚ Dean‚ and Old Bull Lee. This generation historically became

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    Can Online Learning Ever Beat the Real Thing? An article‚ titled ‘Can Online Learning Ever Beat the Real Thing?’‚ was posted on bigthink.com and written by Simon Oxenham. This article provided some arguments opposing people’s assumptions about traditional way of teaching being a better option than online learning. This article mainly tells you some arguments from Barbara Oakley‚ an engineering professor with a lot of experience on this topic‚ and also the author’s experience in online learning

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    Why Do Small Businesses Fail and How to Beat the Odds Daniel P. Quinn Gwynedd-Mercy College BUS101 ASB 82 Week Two Individual Assignment Most new businesses fail within the first five years of starting. Some people mistake a business for a hobby; just because you love something doesn’t mean you should convert it into a business. Too often businesses fail because the owner feels their passion is shared by others. Other businesses plan poorly; yes‚ you must have a business plan

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