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    There is no denying that it is human who gives the soul to music so that music can have thousands of types since people are distinct from each other. Because of the relationship between human and music‚ music also has a huge effect on human and connects strongly with emotion (Madison 2011). By the influence of the environment‚ people’s emotional personalities and the taste of music are diverse. So music has many different types‚ which means that each type will have unique emotional effect for people

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    girl who couldn’t please her mother’s desire of being a prodigy. Jing-Mei completed many of the tasks that her mother wanted her to in order to find what she could be a prodigy in. After Jing-Mei begins to take piano lessons like her mother asked‚ she and her mother have several confrontations due to the fact that Jing-Mei didn’t share her mother’s desire of being a prodigy. Her mother wanted Jing-Mie to make her feel proud of having a prodigy daughter after her dead babies didn’t get that same opportunity

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    The main protagonist in Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets is‚ obviously Harry Potter. Harry is no ordinary boy; he is a wizard living in the real world full of muggles‚ or people who have no magical abilities whatsoever. Only a small‚ single family knew of his magic skills‚ the Durselys. The Durselys were the only relatives Harry had left in the world and housed Harry during his summer break from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Hate isn’t a strong enough word for how Harry felt

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    play is something that comes as naturally as chewing bubble gum. "I just see things on the board and know what to do‚" he says matter-of-factly while capturing a TIME reporter’s queen in four moves. "It’s just always made sense to me." How a child prodigy like Son comes by his preternatural ability is not something that has made much sense to scientists. Only recently has science begun to probe the cultural and biological roots of wunderkinder. New research is showing what scientists have long suspected:

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    anything you wanted to be in America" (Tan 405) Jing-Mei’s mother thought it means anyone can become a prodigy‚ including her daughter‚ in America. While that makes "Everything sound too simple and too easily achieved; Jing-Mei does not paint a picture of her mother as ignorant or silly" (Brent). In fact‚ in the beginning‚ Jing-Mei and her mother are both trying to "Pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 405). "In the beginning‚ she was just as excited as her mother‚"(Tan 406). She wanted to be perfect

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    Jordan Borgerding Real World Case Study of Brain Injury The Last Hippie is the story of a young male‚ Greg F.‚ who suffers profound cognitive alterations and brain damage as a result of a midline tumor. Greg F. was born and grew in the 1950s‚ in a comfortable household in Queens‚ with both parents. He used to be a gifted boy‚ with an ambition for songwriting. With time‚ Greg started to question the principles and conventions of his life with parents; a teenager in the late sixties‚

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    Memento is an American psychological thriller adapted from a short story‚ Memento Mori written by James Nolan. The story displays the life of Leonard Shelby. Shelby has anterograde Amnesia brought about by an injury to his head. He suffered this injury while confronting two people who attacked his wife at their home in the middle of the night. Leonard kills one of the attackers during the attack‚ although the second one escapes. Due to the injury and resultant amnesia‚ the last thing Leonard remembers

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    America. She believed you could be a prodigy of any kind. Jing-nei mother was adamant about Jing-nei becoming a prodigy‚ and become instantly rich and famous (Kirszner‚ Mandell‚ 2013) In the story Jing-nei is a nine-year-old girl that was born in America‚ she is a narrator in the story‚ she also is a dynamic character that tells of her like as a child growing up. She is a reflective character in the story. Jing-ne’s mother wanted her to be a prodigy. The first prodigy

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    Vietnam and the affects the war had on the soldiers morally‚ physically‚ mentally‚ and emotionally. Oliver Stone directed and wrote the screenplay‚ using his own experiences as a reference. Oliver Stone chose to enlist in the United States Army in 1967; he fought with the 2d platoon of Bravo Company and 3d Battalion. He was in combat duty for fifteen months before he was discharged in 1968 (Norman). Oliver Stone’s foundation of the film was the depiction of the terror that the Vietnam War caused‚ but

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