Zachary Robert Luedders Summer Reading Summery (Gathering Blue) July 24‚ 2013 Plot: Kira is a girl with a twisted leg who lives in a more primitive society where people who cannot work‚ die. She has been kept alive by her mother‚ and when her mother dies‚ Kira is brought before the Council of Guardians. Kira’s life is spared when she proves she can weave very well‚ and she is assigned to the task of fixing up the robe worn by the singer whose only job is to sing the story of human civilization
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LADY SINGS THE BLUES What is a song but a poem set to music? Take away the music from a good song and the rhythm of the words will create its own musical sound. "Songs For a Colored Singer"‚ a poem written by Elizabeth Bishop‚ is a song without the music. Bishop’s use of repetitive rhymes creates the lyrical‚ song like‚ structure to her poem. The voice of the song belongs to a black woman who encounters adversity throughout the poem. The sum of the elements‚ a black woman singing about hard times
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Exploring the Dark Side: Contrasting Themes in "Blue Velvet" The subconscious psyche is one of the most fascinating and almost completely inexplicable aspects of human behavior. Even more intriguing than merely the subconscious is the notion of a darker‚ more repressed side that many individuals refuse to acknowledge exists within them. In David Lynch’s film "Blue Velvet‚" the director attempts to explore the psyche of a young man named Jeffrey Beaumont‚ most notably the clash between his darker
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12 Part IV: Review of Relevant Competitors The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) is a federation of 37 separate health insurance organizations and companies in the United States. Combined‚ they directly or indirectly provide health insurance to over 100 million Americans. The history of Blue Cross dates back to 1929‚ while the history of Blue Shield dates to 1939. The Blue Cross Association dates back to 1960‚ while its Blue Shield counterpart was created in 1948. The two organizations
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY‚ VOL. 54‚ NO. 4‚ APRIL 2008 1735 [31] V. Vovk‚ “Competitive on-line statistics‚” Int. Stat. Rev.‚ vol. 69‚ pp. 213–248‚ 2001. [32] M. H. Wegkamp‚ “Model selection in nonparametric regression‚” Ann. Statist.‚ vol. 31‚ pp. 252–273‚ 2003. [33] K. Yamanishi‚ “Minimax relative loss analysis for sequential prediction algorithms using parametric hypotheses‚” in Proc. COLT 98‚ 1998‚ pp. 32–43‚ ACM Press. [34] Y. Yang‚ “Adaptive estimation in pattern recognition
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Part I—Beginnings John Snow was born in in York‚ England‚ one of children of a working-class family. Th ey lived in a poor neighborhood near the River Ouse‚ which would sometimes overfl ow‚ fl ooding the family home. Snow obtained a scholarship to a local school to learn to read and write and‚ with some extra money his parents managed to provide‚ to learn arithmetic. Snow’s wealthy and well-connected uncle‚ Charles Empson‚ arranged an apprenticeship for his nephew with a surgeon-apothecary
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their identity and position in society. This struggle for meaning and identity is strongly expressed in James Baldwin’s short story “Sonny’s Blue”‚ Langston Hughes’s poem “The Negro
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Invention Report - Smart Reservation System Background Information My invention can help to solve the problem of long wait times at some restaurants. The purpose of this invention is to reduce wait time and to ameliorate customer satisfaction. Dubé‚ Renaghan‚ and Miller (1994) say "For financial success‚ a restaurant’s management must make the connection between service attributes and return patronage." Wait time is a crucial element for restaurants and is one of the factors to whether customers
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basic research? To learn about ourselves.” I believe that I learned a lot about myself while writing this research paper and participating in a group presentation. The most important lesson I learned from this research project was written in “Sonny’s Blues”. While in the kitchen Sonny and his brother begine to talk about suffering: “‘No‚ there’s no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it‚ to keep on top of it‚ and to make it seem-well‚ like you. Like you did something
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Sonny’s Blues In Sonny’s Blues‚ Baldwin uses a passionate tone and imagery to reveal how Sonny’s relationship to music characterizes him. Sonny is characterized as dedicated to his music. He’s someone who treats music as a lifestyle‚ and not just a hobby. When Sonny moves into Isabel’s home‚ music officially becomes his life. It was an opportunity he did not have before‚ because now he would have access to a piano. “At first‚ Isabel would write me‚ saying how nice it was that Sonny was so serious
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