Assignment #1 The Economic Way of Thinking (Marginal Analysis and Opportunity Cost) 1. You are planning a trip to Ottawa‚ which is 400 miles. Except for the cost‚ you are completely indifferent between driving and taking the bus. The bus ticket costs $180. You do not know how much it would cost to drive your car‚ so you call Hertz for an estimate. The person you speak with tells you that for your make of car‚ the costs of a typical 10‚000 mile driving year are as follows: Insurance $2000
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chose the song‚ “Masters of War” by Bob Dylan. This is a very deep song with blatant‚ outright‚ lyrics that clearly protest against war. This song was written by Bob Dylan in the 1960’s during the time of the the Vietnam war and Cold War between the USSR and the United States. Tension was very high between the two nations and citizens were in fear of the beginning of a nuclear war. Also many people in Amercia were protesting the war in Vietnam. Bob Dylan was rather young when he wrote this song
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Black and White and Technicolor: An Interpretation of‚ “Desolation Row” Bob Dylan is an artist whose impact was so great‚ that it still seems as though his music was just released; but‚ in fact‚ it is safe to say some people may have lived and died since the release of the song‚ “Desolation Row”. He is widely considered to be one of the‚ if not the greatest poet of the twentieth century. It is for this reason that scholars and fans alike are (even today) still examining and interpreting‚ “Desolation
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Under milk wood is a radio play written by Dylan Thomas‚ it tells the story of a day in the life of a small town called Llareggub. The play is set in the 1950’s‚ and it has two narrators‚ called Voice 1 and Voice 2‚ which act as dramatic devices and move the play along in space and time. The Voices give poetry to the play by giving the listener Thomas’s view of the town. The two voices are Thomas’s opportunity to act as a guide to Llareggub. He uses the Voices throughout the play‚ the first Voice
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Don’t Look Back by D.A. Pennebaker is a 1967 documentary which follows the young folk singer Bob Dylan‚ during his 1965 tour in the United Kingdom. The documentary is shot in the observational style known as ‘direct cinema’‚ which was invented between 1958 and 1962 in North America and focuses on the subject acting in their natural habitat as if there was no camera - made possible‚ through an agreement between the filmmaker and the subject. This form of documenting became possible due to the development
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that our American brothers and sisters were losing their lives in the fight at Vietnam. Drugs became‚ perhaps‚ one of the most influential variables apparent in the music of the 60s. In the early 1960s a band by the name of the Byrds and guys like Dylan changed the way many people looked at music. These bands started an underground wave that flowed throughout the 60s; this became known as the "Psychedelic Era." This era introduced drugs to be an important aspect involved in the creation of the music
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night‚” is an insightful poem written by Dylan Thomas. It is a Villanelle‚ a nineteen-line form of poetry. The message Dylan Thomas is trying to communicate through this poem is that the elderly should not be discouraged and feel hopeless due to their age. Thomas seems to think it is not honorable or befitting for a great or interesting man to die quietly in old age and he encourages the reader to think that death is something
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and Roll then stemmed from Rhythm and Blues‚ in fact‚ many of the first recorded "Rock" songs where simply white musicians re-recording Rhythm and Blues songs originally written by black artists. It took Bob Dylan 23 years to realize that he wanted to become a rock musician. Bob Dylan‚ whose birth name was Robert Allen Zimmerman‚ had a relatively uneventful childhood in a Minnesota mining town. He adopted his pseudonym when he went to the University
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1941. Most people know him as the American singer/songwriter‚ Bob Dylan. He was born in Duluth‚ Minnesota‚ and he was raised in Hibbing‚ Minnesota. He was born to Jewish parents‚ Abram Zimmerman and Beatrice Stone. He had one younger brother named David. He lived in Duluth‚ Minnesota until he was six years old‚ that was when he moved to Hibbing‚ Minnesota‚ where he lived for the remainder of his childhood. As a child‚ Bob Dylan enjoyed listening to the radio. At first‚ he would listen to blues
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neither safe‚ popular‚ or political‚ but because it is right.” The song “Hurricane”‚ written by Bob Dylan takes a stand and ignores what was safe‚ popular‚ and politically right during the 1960’s and 1970’s‚ in order to paint a picture of injustice. Dylan organizes the actual events of a man named Rubin “Hurricane” Carter who was a middleweight boxer wrongfully accused and convicted of a double homicide. Dylan narrates the song and uses his credibility as a rock star to reason with a broader audience‚ while
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