: The Get Down focuses on 1970s New York City broken down and beaten up‚ violent‚ cash strapped dyin. It turned to rubble‚ a rag-tag crew of South Bronx teenagers are nothings and nobodies with no one to shelter them - except each other‚ armed only with verbal games‚ improvised dance steps‚ some magic markers and spray cans. From Bronx tenements‚ to the SoHo art scene; from CBGBs to Studio 54 and even the glass towers of the justbuilt World Trade Center‚ The Get Down is a mythic saga of how New York
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Remember when you were little‚ and you had wanted‚ dreamed about being an adult and getting to do all the things that adults get to do? Well‚ “Settle Down‚” by Kimbra‚ is a song about just that. The song is about marriage and “settling down” from a little girl’s point of view‚ as well as adulthood‚ with her idealism of what being married and growing up actually means. From the imagery in the video‚ it seems like the woman in the relationship is the ideal wife‚ cooking‚ cleaning‚ keeping house‚ while
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In Watership Down‚ a group of rabbits consisting of ‚Hazel‚ Fiver‚ and their companions travel away in the search of a new warren. On their journey‚ Hazel and the rabbits he brought went through many troubles including‚ crossing a river and Cowslip’s warren‚ a warren that was surrounded by snares‚ until they reach the down. Though they had found their home they wouldn’t keep it for long if they didn’t find does. Kehaar‚ a gull they found at the down‚ told them how to find does. They traveled to
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proficient and probably ‘dumber’ human being of the 21st Century” The current developments in technological devices‚ media‚ education systems‚ medication and foods have created a claim: that they are the main contributors to the dumbing down of the human species of the twenty first century. This claim has created a controversy where some people agreed or disagreed that the surge of these factors has been negatively affecting the intelligence of human beings. This controversy began around
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position to build a reputation amongst their surroundings. For the feeling to be equal and considered on the same level as the popular one is what most want. But people fail to realize that just wanting to be down with people that you are not can lead to a life full of difficulties and struggle. In Down These Mean Streets‚ Piri goes through a point in time where he moves from one place to another‚ and when that happened he had to find himself. He was a new kid in a new surroundings. He was different than
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THE MOST AMAZING FIELD TRIP TO THE ZOO BY ISABELLA FUENTES One day at school my teacher said good morning kids don’t forget the field trip to morow ok miss.madsen said niceliy and 6 hours later it was time to go than when I went to my room than it was 3 hours later than my mom said its dinner time my older brother named ethan said whats for dinner than my mom said its mac and cheese and fruit yaaa I said my brother said IdOT than I said mom !!!!!! ethan did it agin I said than my mom said
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of weeks I have been reading the novel Watership Down. In the beginning‚ two brothers‚ Hazel and Fiver‚ lived in a rabbit warren. Fiver saw blood in the future and decides to run away from the warren. On their adventure some rabbits join them‚ in the forest they come across a river and use a board to cross. Later on the group is invited into a strange warren‚ Bigwig gets caught in a snare and the group‚ including Bigwig‚ left. Finally they find a down (hill) to live in. The group realized they needed
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Advantages and Disadvantages of the Activation of Top-Down Processing in Speech Comprehension Speech comprehension is how we interpret messages that we hear. This is often presented to us in dialogue where we can see and interact with the other party‚ but we must also be able to understand speech in other mediums such as over the telephone‚ through the media‚ or over a tannoy announcement in a supermarket or on public transport for example. Top down processing describes how we infer meaning when information
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The question of the necessity of zoos is very controversial nowadays. There are many people who advocate for replacing them with sanctuaries as they believe money spent on keeping wild animals captive might have been better used for conserving them in wild. Others think that zoos serve not only for people’s pleasure but for preserving and keeping populations that otherwise would go extinct. There are a lot of arguments for both points of view‚ and a great number of articles are dedicated to this
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Kalahariresorts.com. This website provides package deals that include: the room‚ access to the aracde‚ and also access to the pool. When choosing your room‚ you need to pick the perks you want‚ such as a full kitchen or a veiw of the outdoor petting zoo. Now that you have chosen your means of transportaion and room‚ you must determine how much money you would like to spend while are there. This will help set a budget and keep and keep your finances in order‚ but also prevent you from spending too much
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