Of all the composers in recent American history‚ Elliott Carter stands as a unique and influential individual who created his own harmonic and rhythmic language. Born in New York to a wealthy family in 1908‚ Carter showed an interest in music at a young age‚ and by his teens‚ had discovered the idea of modernism through the music of Stravinsky among others. It was during his teenage years that Carter came in contact with the prolific composer Charles Ives‚ who became an influential mentor to the
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Blue eyes – brown eyes experiment a) Jane Elliot a teacher tell her class of 9 years old that people with blue eyes are more intelligent and better than those with brown eyes. Brown – eyed students were to sit at the back and given less break time. Very quickly the brown – eyed became depressed‚ angry and started to perform less well. The next day she told the class that she made a mistake and that blue – eyed were more intelligent. At the end she debriefed students. b) The effectiveness of
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In the name of the father review Plot and genre In the name of the father is a biographical drama film based on the true story of the Guildford four and how they were falsely convicted for an I.R.A. bombing they did not commit. The story follows Gerry Conlon of the Guildford four from his early days stripping lead of houses in Ireland to his days in prison fighting to be absolved of a crime he had nothing to do with. The writers of the story makes great use of archetypal storylines to make sure
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Part I – SHORT SYNOPSIS Amy Elliott‚ a former writer commonly known by the stage name of “Amazing Amy”‚ met and then married Nick Dunne‚ also a writer from a men’s magazine. After quite some time‚ Amy then found out that Nick had a mistress named Andie who was also his student in a college‚ after being fired from his job as a writer and then being hired as a teacher‚ which in turn gave Amy the reason to exact revenge that would convict her husband of Amy’s murder. Having laid-out her plan‚ she escaped
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People say things change and what happened in the past a hundred years ago won’t relate to modern days. But the famous quote by Yoma from his book The Talmud‚ quoted‚ "Ambition destroys its possessor‚" is relevant to today’s society. There are many examples that can be related to‚ but this one is more general in today’s society. Students have great ambition towards education; they want to compete with other peers and achieve a high mark- more or less an "A‚"- on an assignment or even a test. Most
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy This experiment is all about prejudices‚ stereotyping and self-fulfilling prophecy. Jane Elliot was trying to demonstrate to a class of 3rd graders how it felt to be discriminated against‚ judged and made fun of. This all took place the day after Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in a small Iowa town. The children felt inferior while in the oppressed group because they were told they were lazy‚ dirty‚ not smart‚ can ’t remember things‚ and would never amount
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NASCAR history can trace its roots back to 1794. That’s a century before the invention of the automobile‚ but it was the year of the Whiskey Rebellion. This was a protest of a federal tax on whiskey by frontier farmers. Instead of being subject to the tax‚ many frontiersmen built secret stills‚ manufactured‚ and delivered their product in secret. Most people do not know that this is the true origin of NASCAR history. During the Prohibition era of the 1920’s and early 30’s‚ the undercover business
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Aaliyah: An Angel Back to Heaven When I was younger‚ I looked up to my older sister a great deal. Anything that she did‚ I wanted to do. She was like my hero‚ or that cartoon character ever child wanted to go up and be like. When my sister and I were growing up‚ we listened to a lot of music and watched a lot of cartoons‚ but only because she wanted to. My sister‚ Christine‚ had a favorite rapper and singer. Now her rapper choice I thought was great but he wasn’t my favorite. Christine‚ or sometimes
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The feud between montagues and Capulets has contiuned for a long time because the younger generations have been praised to hate the opposite family thier feud breaks hearts and killed two family members.In our soicety the most popular fued are in the hiphop industry its a controversy in which multiple rappers confront each other in many ways. Nicki Minja is the most sucessful female rapper of all time . She has been in a feud with female hiphop artist LilKim since her sucess with her pink friday
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Chose one of the following scenarios: • You are a member of a group working on a class project. The group members are enthusiastic about the project and arrange a meeting time to begin planning. You forget to mark your calendar and miss the meeting. The group posts a summary of the meeting with assignments and deadlines for the project. You apologize to the group and agree to complete the topic research for the project. You realize you have a paper due in another course on the same day that your
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