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    Blue Eyes Pheromone Review - Can Men Bank On This For Attraction? Find Out Here! From the inception of life‚ it has always been the story of man and woman. One can attest to this with the story of Adam and eve in the Garden of Eden. The move to attract the opposite sex by the male folks didn’t start today and seems not to end today rather; more researches are being done on daily if not hourly basis to improve on this. For a fact‚ Science is not left out in this‚ it has and still does all it can

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    Pericles’ Funeral Oration Why do we fight wars if they just cause death and sorrow? This famous speech was written by Thucydides‚ but given by Pericles sometime during Athens’ Pelponnesian War. This kind of speech was generally given at a mass funeral‚ to honor many who had died fighting in the war. Typically‚ funeral speeches at that time were very somber and mournful‚ but Pericles changed that. In this speech‚ he created this idea of national pride and faith in society‚ by using many hopeful

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    Jane-Clare Dauito Professor Thorstensen English Composition 2 11 December 2013 Within The Blues James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” is a story of how a distant and conflicting relationship between two brothers is saved by the powerful message within music. In “Sonny’s Blues” the music portrays a very powerful message. The story begins with Sonny being arrested for heroin use. Sonny’s older brother is a school teacher and did not want to believe that the news was true‚ “I didn’t want to believe that

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    "Sonny’s Blues" was first published in a mainstream magazine in 1957 and was collected in Baldwin’s 1965 book "Going To Meet The Man". Sonny’s Blues" is a short story set in the ghetto of Harlem‚ NY. James Baldwin wrote "Sonny’s Blues" to articulate how the African-American culture enabled countless numbers of Blacks to escape‚ survive‚ endure and overcome various types of institutionalized racism and accompanying forms of social‚ economical and political oppression. African-American culture refers

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    Rhapsody In Blue

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    Rhapsody In Blue George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue is one of those timeless classics that is instantly recognizable to many people’s ears today‚ even ninety years after it was first introduced to the world. It is a piece that has found its way into contemporary movies and advertisements‚ making it likely as recognizable as Chopin’s Funeral March or Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. But unlike these two pieces of iconic classical music‚ Rhapsody in Blue “resists classification.”1 In it are elements

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    Feeling the Winter Blues Do you ever feel as winter approaches you find it more difficult to wake up in the morning or feel like you start lacking energy to perform everyday activities‚ and maybe finding it more difficult concentrating on completing daily tasks? Maybe you are not sure what’s causing you to feel down every year when the season changes‚ it gets colder‚ and the days get shorter. While many people just go year to year feeling a drop in energy level or depressed around the

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    influenced the Blues. The goal of this paper is to briefly touch on a few of many ways that racism influenced the blues and blues performers. Individuals who made a living from playing the blues often faced racism and discrimination and this caused many of them to move to ‘less racist’ states. Discrimination is seen very blatantly by examining when the blues was first recorded and by examining which artists were recorded. There are countless other ways that racism influenced the blues and these ideas

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    St. Louis Blues Analysis

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    St. Louis Blues Bessie Smith and St. Louis Blues are two legends in the blues world‚ separately as well as together. When placed together one could not find a better example of classical blues from the 1920’s. St. Louis Blues is one of the most popular blues songs ever written. William Christopher Hardy wrote this song over 80 years ago. While on a trip to St. Louis‚ Hardy met a tormented black woman. She spoke to him in her deep southern broken English about the loss of her husband to another

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    3 O'Clock Blues Analysis

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    “3 O’Clock Blues”‚ as performed by BB King An analysis BB King is undoubtedly one of the greatest blues musicians‚ and an equally unparalleled pioneer of guitar music. Brought up in the midst of poverty‚ strife‚ and struggle of the rural Mississippi Delta‚ King experienced great hardships from a young age‚ and used this as a source of inspiration for much of his later music (King & Ritz‚ 1996). King’s celebrated music career emerged from very modest beginnings. At the age of 18‚ King started

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    Matthew Fleming English 201 C 6-March-2015 Feeling Blue You can frequently see a faint figure of her in the glare of the fish tank or feel her presence as you cuddle by the fire pits. She will warn you though‚ in a soft whisper‚ to not go near the edge of the cliffs. Spirits and ghosts continue today to be the epitome of many scary movies and urban legends. The ones that have real life encounters tend to make for the scariest stories. The Blue Lady is one of the best customer’s at the Moss Beach

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