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    PT202 Advanced Darkroom Tuesdays Spring 2013 Assignment: Moving Beyond Traditional Printing For this assignment you are to consider the five printing and one shooting methods outlined below. You will find that each of these techniques will produce interesting results. Start with a method that interests you and continue on from there. 1) Combination Printing: Using two enlargers- 1 Set up enlargers and easels using negatives of your choice. 2 Place a sheet of white paper in

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    -Identify and discuss three questions religions seek to answer. What is time and how should we make use of it? Time is observed by the Islam‚ Judaism‚ and Christianity religions as moving forward “in a straight line from the beginning of the universe until its end.”(Molloy‚ Michael. Experiencing the World’s Religions: Tradition‚ Challenge‚ and Change / Michael Molloy. New York: McGraw-Hill Companies‚ 2013‚ pg. 15.) Time is valued since it is not guaranteed. Buddhism views time as periodic.

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    Mohammed Alhamawi Mr. Johnson English 1302-11 February 27‚ 2012 A Summary of Donald C. Murray’s “ Jame’s Baldwin’s ’Sonny’s Blues’: Complicated and Simple” Donald Murray‚ in “Complicated and Simple”‚ talks about how the author is emphasizing “man’s need to find his identity” as the main issue society as well as Sonny and his brother are dealing with throughout the story. The area of Harlem with all its negative influences tend to affect its children’s upcoming. Either to take the difficult route

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    Sonny faced many problems in his life‚ he was struggling to overcome his Heroin addiction‚ also he was kind of confused about what he wants to do in his life. However‚ he decided to skip all his struggles by leaving Harlem and joining the military. As he said "I couldn’t tell you when Mama died-but the reason I wanted to leave Harlem so bad was to get away from drugs. And then‚ when I ran away‚ that’s what I was running from-really.” By leaving Harlem Sonny couldn’t overcome his struggles even when

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    Story: Sonny’s Blues 1950’s Author: James Baldwin (1924-1987) Central Character: Although the story is narrated by Sonny’s unnamed older brother‚ Sonny is the most important character. Sonny is described in a common stereotype of the time‚ a stereotype that his own brother holds until the end of the story: the heroin-addicted jazz musician. Sonny has just been arrested for "peddling and using heroin’’ and must do time in a prison upstate. As the story progresses‚ however‚ the reader learns more

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    Flexibility is a sentiment being acknowledged without anyone else’s input and making the most you had always wanted. In the story I trust Sonny was free when it went to his affection for music and heroin. Music was something Sonny could recount his story through. Heroin was something that set him in a quiet space. When he was around music or felt the beat of music‚ he sensed that he had a place. Heroin offered him some assistance with getting far from every one of the general population who did not

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    English 102 Professor Kathy Lynch Sonny Blues In “Sonny’s Blues”‚ the theme of poverty is characterized by the poverty of Harlem Youth’s spirit. The story focuses on the relationship between two brothers at various stages of their lives. The events of the story focus on the building of understanding between Sonny and his older brother‚ the narrator. Even though the story focuses on Sonny’s life‚ I understand his brother’s reactions to and about Sonny’s actions broaden the scope of the story to

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    in Sonny’s Blues In Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin‚ two brothers grow up in the ghetto of Harlem‚ a poverty-stricken place where heroin use is common and crime is high. Sonny‚ the younger of the two‚ is portrayed as a troubled young adult who desperately tries to get out of the negative environment that threatens to destroy his dream of becoming a musician. His brother‚ in contrast‚ leads a more stable life‚ has a family‚ and is a schoolteacher. Throughout the story there is a common theme of suffering

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    Jack Wu Wu 1 English 1B – Professor Meehan 03/31/13 Sonny’s Brotherhood Reading James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues‚” one can see the unspoken brotherly bond between the narrator and his younger brother Sonny is illustrated through the narrator’s point of view. The two brothers have not spoken in years until the narrator receives a letter from Sonny after his daughter dies. He takes this moment as an important sign from Sonny and feels the need to respond. While both Sonny and the narrator

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    As the story closes this unusual mixture sets atop Sonny’s piano “like the very cup of trembling.” Discuss how this drink serves as a symbolic conclusion to Baldwin’s story. How does it symbolize for the reader the resolution‚ or synthesis‚ of various tensions in the story? Indeed what are the main lines of tension‚ opposition‚ and division in “Sonny’s Blues”? * At the end of the story‚ the narrator describes a glass sitting over Sonny’s piano as shaking “like the very cup of trembling”

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