Ancient life was all silence. In the nineteenth century‚ with the invention of the machine. Noise was born. Today‚ Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men. One of the biggest and most influential of these machine inventions was the theramin (or thereminvox). The theremin was one of the biggest cornerstones for electronic music and pioneered future generations of electronic and electrivally amplified music. It is named after its Russian inventor‚ Professor Léon Theremin‚ who
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Junior Olympics I look at my watch and it’s 11:56‚ the captain tells us over the loudspeaker to fasten our seat belts for landing. He tells us that the current weather in Albuquerque‚ NM is 29 degrees and snowing. After a rough landing we get off the plane and get on a shuttle to get our rental car. It’s 1:00 in the morning now and there is a line out the door‚ there is only one service desk open. After standing in line for a half an hour‚ a crazy women starts swearing at people and punches the
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MODULE - 4 Environmental Science Senior Secondary Course Contemporary Environmental Issues 10 Notes ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION Developmental activities such as construction‚ transportation and manufacturing not only deplete the natural resources but also produce large amount of wastes that leads to pollution of air‚ water‚ soil‚ and oceans; global warming and acid rains. Untreated or improperly treated waste is a major cause of pollution of rivers and environmental degradation causing ill health
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an entrance into the building. The school psychologist Mary Sherlach and vice principal Natalie Hammond went out to investigate and only Hammond returned from the hallway alive but wounded. At around 9:35 a.m.‚ announcements were read over the loudspeaker to the students‚ and shots were heard across the school. Students described being rushed into bathrooms and closets by teachers after hearing the first shots. In one classroom was Lauren Rosseau‚ a substitute teacher who was filling in for a teacher
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HISTORY OF WEST BAATSONAA PRESBY CHURCH‚ NUNGUA The west Baatsonaa Congregat6ion was started as part of the Centenary Celebration of the Zimmermenn Memorial Presby Congregation‚ Nungua‚ in 2002. This was at the time when new demarcations in the Presbytery were taking effect and Congregations like Santeo‚ Oyibi‚ Katamanso‚ Lashibi‚ East Baatsonaa‚ etc; had been ceded to other Districts. The then local Mission & Evangelism Committee‚ as part of the Centenary
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Sand Pebbles Always Make A Zuma Summer It was a sunny Friday afternoon when I decided to take my observations with me out into the world. I find that my imagination wanders off on its own and takes trips to the ocean without me so I figured my body had some catching up to do. With a snap of my fingers and a short ride through the canyon I found myself at my childhood playground‚ Zuma Beach. Without hesitation I laid my towel down upon the tiny grains and chips of rocks that the oceans might
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A Brief History of Rock and Roll and The Woodstock Music Festival of 1969 Throughout history‚ major social transformations have taken place that has changed how people perceive themselves and the world around them. With each social reformation‚ cultural forms and institutions also change as well as their meanings. For Example‚ the development of recording and electronic communication within United States capitalism spurred the unique coming together of music traditions in twentieth century United
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ELECTRONIC MASS MEDIA IN TODAY’S SOCIETY MASS MEDIA Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies‚ including the Internet‚ television‚ newspapers‚ and radio‚ which are used for mass communications‚ and to the organizations which control these technologies. Mass media play a significant role in shaping public perceptions on a variety of important issues‚ both through the information that is dispensed through them‚ and through the interpretations they place upon this information. The
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Brave New World: The Advancement of Science Christy Campbell Mrs. Doig Eng OAC 2 16 May‚ 1996 When thinking of progress‚ most people think of advances in the scientific fields‚ believing that most discoveries and technologies are beneficial to society. Are these advances as beneficial as most people think? In the novel Brave New World‚ the author Aldous Huxley‚ warns readers that scientific advances can be a threat to society. This is particularly evident in the fields of biology‚ technology
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Task - Research Essay Explain how artists engage and sustain an audience’s interest in the contemporary world? Artists use a wide variety of methods to engage and sustain an audience’s interest in the contemporary world. In the case of installation art‚ this can include audience participation and changes due to the location of the exhibition‚ light‚ and audience interaction. I am going to use two works by both Rafael Lozano-Hemmer‚ and Christo and Jeanne-Claude to explain some of the methods used
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