Zachary Robert Luedders Summer Reading Summery (Gathering Blue) July 24‚ 2013 Plot: Kira is a girl with a twisted leg who lives in a more primitive society where people who cannot work‚ die. She has been kept alive by her mother‚ and when her mother dies‚ Kira is brought before the Council of Guardians. Kira’s life is spared when she proves she can weave very well‚ and she is assigned to the task of fixing up the robe worn by the singer whose only job is to sing the story of human civilization
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Charlie Fish: Death by Scrabble A: “Death by Scrabble” by Charlie Fish is a story a husband and his wife. It`s the hottest day of the year‚ and they are playing scrabble. The husband becomes more and more angry at his wife‚ so angry that he would beat his wife to death. He is just waiting for the right time. The words they put down on the board‚ begins to happen in reality. When he puts the word “QUAKE” down‚ and she thereafter put “DEATH”‚ it all starts to shake and the man gets a piece stuck
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The Blues is a musical form and genre‚ which originated in South America within the African-American communities. It originated near the end of the 19th century‚ and was rooted from spirituals‚ work songs‚ field hollers (which are very similar to work songs‚ but some do not have lyrics)‚ shouts and rhymes. The blues form in jazz‚ rhythm and blues and rock and roll; and each is characterised by a specific chord progression‚ the most common being the twelve bar blues. The blues notes‚ are played or
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Blues is a popular musical form that has influenced many American popular music. It can be dated back as far as the end of the 19th century. Towards the end of the 19th century‚ Blues consisted of work songs‚ spirituals‚ and African American traditional songs. It was a form of realism because singers were able to discuss about their problems and express their true emotions through Blues. Classic Blues Although Blues have previously been used to musically express the struggles of people in the United
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exciting. But believe it or not‚ without the simple twelve-bar forms and walking bass lines of blues music there would be no Jimi Hendrix or Led Zeppelin. Rock was born from blues‚ and the key components of the blues can still be found in rock‚ like the instrumentation‚ musical form‚ and purpose. Blues music really gained popularity in the 1930s and 40s‚ but it’s a combination of things much older than this. Blues emerged in the late 1800s as a distinct African American art form. The genre was impacted
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Charlie Chaplin was an English actor‚ and film maker in the 1920’s. Charlie Chaplin used new technology and his profound ability to craft motion pictures which left the people in his times in appalled. After 40 years of living in L.A Mr Chaplin with all of his fame and fortune was suddenly exiled from the U.S. Charlie Chaplin started off his young acting career at the age of 12 doing comedy in Vaudeville England which eventually took him to North America. Shortly after arriving to the United States
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---------------------------------------------------------- 11 5. Reference --------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 1. Introduction 1.1 Background Mister Softee is owned by the Ng Enterprises Ltd. After Ted Drew‚ MR.HO GAN YUEN‚ MR.TONG HORK YUEN traveled to England‚ they brought the idea of Mister Softee from England to Hong Kong. In 1970‚ they received the right of Mister Softee and located the factory in Fo Tan. Since the Hong Kong Government has stopped to issue the new hawking licenses in 1978‚ and the
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Reservation Blues Sherman Alexie‚ author of the novel Reservation Blues‚ explains that at the start of an Indian’s life on a reservation‚ he or she is destined to be hopeless. First‚ parental guidance is infrequent leaving many infant Indians with an insufficient childhood. After that‚ Indian children experience poor education revolved around heaps of stereotyping and bullying from their white classmates and teachers. Next‚ any sort of entertainment such as television‚ music‚ and books are extremely
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The Sound of Blue Velvet In Dreams You’re Mine Forever….is this Frank’s line‚ or is David Lynch speaking to the audience? Blue Velvet opens surrealistically with a dream-like/nightmarish introduction to suburbia. Amid the red roses posed against the white picket fence framed by the blue sky dwells a world of voyeurism‚ sadomasochism‚ the American dream‚ and naiveté. Lynch takes no time in getting to the dichotomizing nature of the film. Within the first few minutes‚ the viewer is shown
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concept of belonging that composers often explore through the idea of understanding one’s individual sense of belonging.This is exploited in the novel; Rainbow’s end by Jane Harrison‚ Film; The Last Samurai by Edward Zwick and the Dictator speech by Charlie Chaplin. These three texts I will be exploring today strongly portrays the experiences an individual must accept for them to enable a sense of belonging accompanied by a set of disconnection that is chosen or obliged by. However‚ the experiences
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