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    American Pie Analysis

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    The immensely popular song "American Pie"‚ written by Don McLean‚ describes the "day the music died"‚ and the decline of society in the following decade. This date‚ specifically February 3rd 1959‚ is marked by the deaths of influential musicians Buddy Holly‚ Ritchie Valens‚ and J.P. Richardson. McLean wrote the song to describe his feelings towards the deaths‚ and to describe the history of American music up to the date "American Pie" was written‚ using symbolism to describe events without directly

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    Catal Huyuk Notes

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    Catal Huyuk Notes Homes Kitchen hearth open with domed oven built of stone and brick Smaller rooms probably used as food storage bins Built close together like apartment buildings Rooftop entrance made of wooden beams‚ reed‚ and mud Roofs kept out the elements‚ especially floodwaters of the Carsamba river‚ scientists say Ladders were used to descend from the opening in the roof Small slits in house allowed for smoke ventilation Wood‚ brush‚ straw or mixture of animal dung was used to

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    the Old Stone Age‚ which lasted until about 10‚000 years ago. 2. Neolithic: The period of time also known as the New Stone Age. It is associated with the origins of agriculture. 3. Foragers: Hunting and food-gathering people who ate wild vegetables‚ meat‚ wild edible plants‚ and insects to survive 4. Agricultural Revolutions: A series of separate transformations that occurred when agriculture arose independently in many different places around the world. 5. Megaliths: A complex of stone structures

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    share from the food and so he did‚ the others did not mind. Slowly it became a regular practice‚ eventually leading to a conflict amongst them. It resulted in a battle between the strongest and the second best… they fought each other with sticks & stones. The strongest managed to kill his opponent. The rest watched and decided to abide by the law of the jungle… survival of the fittest. Thousands of years later; AD 96‚ Marcus Nerva; the emperor of Rome was out to conquer the world alongside his

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    Annie Leibovitz 2

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    Rolling Stone‚ which he ’d recently launched and was operating out of San Francisco. Impressed with her portfolio‚ Wenner gave Leibovitz her first assignment: shoot John Lennon. Leibovitz’s black-and-white portrait of the Beatle and that photograph appeared on the cover of the January 21‚ 1971 issue. In 1972 Rolling Stone sends her on tour with The Rolling Stones to take Photographs for an article by Truman Capote‚ and in 1973 when she was just twenty-four years old was named Rolling Stone chief photographer

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    hunting due to their stronger arms and shoulders. Early cave art suggests the theory that men were the hunters. On the other hand‚ the Neolithic people had a handful of jobs. Sewing‚ building‚ and tool making were amongst their main responsibilities. Stone workers constructed sharp tools‚ shiny fashion jewelry‚ and mirrors. House builders built most houses for artistic and religious purposes. Another job for the people were mining flint rocks and

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    “hunter-gatherer” of the Paleolithic to the farmer and animal domesticator of the Neolithic period. Introduction Webster’s defines the term “lithic” as “stoney or made of stone” (Merriam-Webster‚ 2014). So Paleolithic would be the old or early Stone Age. This is a period in the earliest history of Mankind that was identified by the use of stone implements and tools. Whereas the “new” or Neolithic showed a marked evolution of how “man” adapted to his environment. This is seen in the tools they made‚ the

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    rainy so before I left the safety of my car I turned my collar up to face the cold and made a bee line to the store so fast it would put Usain Bolt to shame. When I walked in the store I was greeted by the smell of coffee and sound of The Rolling Stones song Monkey Man playing over the store speakers with the owner of the store john singing along to the song and throwing his arms up like a monkey. As soon as you walk into the store your face to face with a giant rack of used DVDs ranging from Driving

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    Oliver Stone film "Natural Born Killers". This belief was not unsubstantiated. The young female said that the two lovers watched the film shortly before embarking on their journey. She said that her boyfriend was greatly influenced by the film. Grisham was extremely angry at the way the killers’‚ Micky and Mallory‚ violent lifestyles were glamorized in the film. Grisham felt that this type of glamorization leads the youth of America to approve of this type of lifestyle. Oliver Stone disagreed

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    Love in Vain

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    Love in Vain was written by blues legend Robert Johnson in 1937. Since then it has been covered multiple times by other music’s great entertainers—The Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton. The original composition recorded by Johnson and released as a race record plays along in with the Mississippi Delta blues style with an added juxtaposition of the iconic “piano-like” approach to guitar Johnson had. His somber tone and guitar plays along as he describes his love for Willie Mae Powell turning to love

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