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    refugee blues

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    Analysis Refugee Blues "Refugee Blues" is a poem written by the U.S-British poet W. H. Auden in March 1939. This poem is set in 1930′s when Nazi people were prosecuted the Jewish people. Refugees were people who were driven out of their home or country because of war. Blues is a slow‚ sad‚ rhythmic music developed by black Americans. The poem dramatizes the condition of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in the years before World War II‚ especially the indifference and antagonism they faced when

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    Funeral Blues.

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    In this poem‚ the writer uses regular verse and traditional pattern of rhythm and rhyme to give impact to his unexpected imagery of the end of a relationship when he cuts himself off from the rest of the his life because his grief is too much. To describe the incredible pain and isolation of when someone you love leaves you and the way time seems insignificant‚ the writer starts the poem by reiterating the title‚ creating emphasis by his use of assonance of the monosyllables: Stop all the clocks

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    Those who enjoy jazz have 34% more sex than those who like pop (the sax really seems to work) and the least sexually active are those listening classical music. Some music genres boost intellectual and affective development in children. Research showed that children aged 3-4 learning to play an instrument can improve mental skills this way‚ as at this age connections between brain cells form very rapidly‚ and exercising just for a few minutes daily improves on the long run the cognitive abilities

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    Sonny's Blues

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    In James Baldwin’s "Sonny’s Blues" the symbolic motif of light and darkness illustrates the painful nature of reality the two characters face as well as the power gained through it. The darkness represents the actuality of life on the streets of the community of Harlem‚ where there is little escape from the reality of drugs and crime. The persistent nature of the streets lures adolescents to use drugs as a means of escaping the darkness of their lives. The main character‚ Sonny‚ a struggling jazz

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    The Blue Hotel

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    In ¡°The Blue Hotel‚¡± Stephen Crane uses various provocative techniques to ensure that the setting adds to the richness of the story. ¡°The Blue Hotel¡± is set in a cold Nebraska town at the Palace Hotel in the late 1800¡¯s‚ but there is more to setting than just when and where a story takes place. In a written work‚ it is the author¡¯s job to vividly depict events in order to keep the reader¡¯s attention and to create colorful mental images of places‚ objects‚ or situations. The story is superbly

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    creation through its own lens. Any such interpretation the audience makes is not necessarily that intended by the artist‚ and will certainly vary based on the individual experiences of the particular member of the audience. In his short story‚ Sonny’s Blues‚ James Baldwin illustrates this many-faceted relationship between art and life‚ and the differences between the artist’s intent and way it is actually perceived. One such example of the relationship between art and life and the differences in its

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    This was an oil painting‚ that was created during O’Keeffe’s early exploration of abstraction. For many vanguard artists in the early twentieth century‚ music offered a model for expressing nonverbal emotional states. I think that by creating this piece of art Georgia O’Keeffe was conveying the idea that music could be translated into something for the eye‚ therefor the nodule‚ wavy forms imply a connection between the visual and the audible‚ while also suggesting the rhythms and

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    Refugee Blues

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    Language about war | Ten thousand soldiers marched to and fro. Looking for you and me‚ my dear‚ looking for you and me | Ten thousand soldiers are looking for two people- All the soldiers are looking for the Jews | | | | | | | Refugee blues- blues music Ten million souls (religious‚ holy‚ implies we are all the same) Society is unfair on the way it treats people (some are living in mansions‚ some are living in holes) Atlas – there not anywhere close to there home‚

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    Music Theory

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    MUSIC THEORY 3 6 10 13 16 HANDBOOK VOL 1 “ “ “ “ “ Getting Started with Counterpoint” by BETH DENISCH FROM THE ONLINE COURSE COUNTERPOINT Understanding Reharmonization” by STEVE ROCHINSKI FROM THE ONLINE COURSE REHARMONIZATION TECHNIQUES Master the Basics of Rhythm” FROM THE ONLINE COURSE MUSIC THEORY 101 by PAUL SCHMELING Learn the Intricacies of the Seventh Chord” by MICHAEL RENDISH FROM THE ONLINE COURSE GETTING INSIDE HARMONY 1 Examining the Theory Behind

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    contemporary topics

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    1. The professor explains how the Electoral College works and how it is important for deciding the outcome of a presidential election. See Exercises L9-L12. 2. According to the professor‚ an elector is a member of a political party who is pledged to that party’s candidate for office. See Exercises L13-L17. 3. The professor wants the students to realize that although the number of electors is equal to the number of senators and representatives‚ the actual people filling these roles are different

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