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    Gathering Blue-Lois Lowery

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    Gathering Blue- Essay Plan Introduction: Joseph Stalin was a dictator who was responsible for massive crimes against humanity‚ and ruled a communist country. From 1924-1953‚ Joseph had killed over 20 million people during the Revolutionary regime. Joseph was part of a communist dictatorship. Communism is a system of organization where all economic activity is controlled by a single political party. Along with communism‚ comes dictatorship. This is the complete power or authority of a dictator

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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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    The definition of sadness is “feeling or showing sorrow; unhappy”. Everyone experiences sadness‚ In chapters one and two of Gathering Blue Kira personally experienced multiple moments of sadness. In the fiction novel‚ Gathering Blue‚ by Lois Lowry‚ the author creates certain moods in chapters one and two. One mood created was sadness. In chapters one and two the mood of sadness is shown when Kira is thinking about how her mother had died from a disease. After four sunsets and sunrises‚ it was

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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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    It is not what is seen that circles the mind‚ it is the unseen. Books‚ movies and society in general present the “unseen” and the “unknown” to develop the characters and plots. Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry illustrates the “unseen” and the “unknown” through the rumors associated with the beasts. Kira‚ the main character‚ along with her friends discover the truth from exploring what society does not see. The “unseen” and “unknown” elements throughout the novel facilitate Kira’s knowledge of the dystopian

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    Blue Cross Blue Shield

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    of Blue Cross Blue Shield Betty Bogart Kaplan University Author Note Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Betty Bogart‚ Student‚ Kaplan University‚ 1801 East Kimberly Road‚ Davenport IA 52807. The Changing Face of Blue Cross Blue Shield Since their founding as individual companies in the early 20th century‚ Blue Cross Blue Shield has grown to become one of the largest insurance companies in the United States. Blue Cross coverage for hospital care and Blue Shield

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    things blue made me happy especially a brilliant blue sky in the summer time. Blue is a color which stands for loyalty‚ honesty and trust and it can be quiet‚ reserved and even sincere. You can be sure that you can rely on blue to take over the control and to do the right thing when times get tough. Just think of the wonderful things which are blue like twilight‚ the sky and the oceans‚ seas‚ rivers and lakes. Remember that the sky is reflected in the waters and can make them a wonderful blue especially

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