Beth Cooper Professor Barrett Introduction to Drama West Side Story is an American musical with a book by Arthur Laurents‚ music by Leonard Bernstein‚ and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The musical’s plot is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Set in New York in the mid-1950s‚ the musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks‚ two teenage street gangs of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The members of the Sharks are first-generation
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Were the Risks of the American West Worth it? I believe that the risks the American West posed to those who were brave enough to venture out to the American West were worth it. I also believe that I would have moved to the West despite the dangers and corruption happening at the time for two reasons. Number one and most important reason were the economic opportunities. Many immigrants chose the West because of the hope for economic prosperity. Chinese immigrants for example‚ having heard of
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Amanda Dees U.S History since 1876 Outlaws of the Old West The wild west was one of America ’s most violent times.The American Wild West is a period of history rife with tales of vicious gunfights and battles between lawmen and outlaws. It is the story of exploration and forging a new way of life. Men‚ women and children left their homes in the East and headed West looking for land and riches. While Hollywood has tended to portray this historical era as one of harshness and violence‚ scholars
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different areas to different parts of the world. These immigrants also provided important support services such as workers in the dockyards‚ plantations‚ factories and some even provided daily necessities for traders all over the world. All these contributions of the immigrants helped to maintain Singapore as an attractive trading centre and kept it competitive. Without them‚ Singapore would not have grown so fast from a backwater island to a bustling island of trade and other commercial activities.
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ODE TO THE WEST WIND Summary The autumnal west wind sweeps along the leaves and "winged seeds." The seeds will remain dormant until spring. The wind is thus a destroyer and a preserver. The west wind also sweeps along storm clouds. It is the death song of the year. With the night that closes the year will come rain‚ lightning‚ and hail; there will be storms in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. The poet pleads with the west wind to endow him with some of its power‚ for he feels depressed and helpless
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North West Company B Introduction The North West Company is a leading retailer of food and everyday needs to rural and urban neighborhoods across Canada‚ Alaska‚ the South Pacific islands and the Caribbean. In early 2003‚ North West had negotiated a master franchiser agreement with Giant Tiger Stores Limited (Giant Tiger) with the objective of opening stores west of Winnipeg. In contrast with North West’s ""push"" system of product replenishment‚ Giant Tiger had developed a successful ""pull""
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Kanye West is arguably one of the most‚ if not the most influential person in the world today. One of the reasons Kanye West inspires so many people‚ despite all of the changes in his life and in his music‚ we can still recognize him as the same character he was when his story began. He is his own person and doesn’t change for anyone. He is someone with type of filter and will express himself‚ loud. When Kanye West started as a solo artist in 2004‚ he came across as a man who strives‚ yet with a
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Having just talked about Joan Tower and her contribution to music‚ to the let us now turn our attention to another woman who had a significant impact on the shaping of music as we know it today. Margaret Sutherland had a very stable childhood. Her mother was a singer‚ her father was a writer for a newspaper as well as a pianist. By the age of five Sutherland was improvising at the piano and she began writing her own pieces a year later. Music wasn’t really mainstream in Australia. Sutherland grew
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The discourse of “The West versus the rest” has certainly shaped attitudes and‚ hence‚ the realities of colonization and subsequent development of the world outside of Europe. The evidence of this is perhaps most striking in the Americas. We can clearly see the roles played by European’s existing “archive” of information regarding the outside world and the stereotypes that developed‚ post “discovery”‚ of America’s native inhabitants. I should note here that in writing this paper I am doing so
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history Ancient Greeks impact on Western civilization The contribution of Acient Greeks lasted from about 1900-133bc‚ however its influence on the Western Civilization till present day. As the greeks expetanded they spread their ideas all over the worldDuring this time the Greeks made long lasting ideas that had an impact on our philosophy‚ political‚ math‚ science‚ and artistic ways. One very important contribution Ancient Greeks had on Western culture was Democracy.The meaning of
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