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    Devil In Blue Monologue

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    the devil in disguise. FEELING THE BLUES If the skies are shining a dark shade of blue‚ perhaps I’m feeling the blues. I’m drowning in my own mischief. I lay in the midst of a shadowy field‚ filled with bugs that light and dance. I stare at the sky‚ a mirror‚ looking into the unknown. My heart feels the blues. Blues of a star-lit night sky. The blue shines above me‚ I’ll count each star. I’m a man of the blues. I’m the mad man who talks to the moon

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    Escaping the Blues

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    Escaping the Blues Reservation Blues begins with the tortured soul of a musician‚ and his guitar. The blues musician‚ a reanimated form of the late Robert Johnson‚ hands his enchanted instrument to Thomas Builds the Fire. This guitar possesses skill‚ precision and soul‚ no matter who its owner is. Johnson had given his soul to the Devil in order to acquire these powers. When Thomas was given this guitar‚ he too felt the music radiating with its strings. This power‚ compelled Thomas to create

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    Dark Ages of Nursing

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    DARK AGES OF NURSING During the late middle ages (1000-1500) because of crowding and poor sanitation in the monasteries nurses went into the community. During this era hospitals were built and the number of medical schools increase. Between 1500 and 1860 (A.D.) politics‚ the Renaissance all affected nursing. As nursing was not valued as an intellectual endeavour it lost much of its economic support and social status at the start of the Renaissance. The deterioration of Catholicism which had supported

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    The Dark City Quiz

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    VCD 179 Dark City* Choose ONE of the following questions‚ and respond accordingly. You should write up at least a few paragraphs. Try to organize the writing in a logical‚ unified way. Start with an introduction that states your main idea(s); then‚ present your interpretation/answer—with supporting evidence from the movie—and a conclusion that repeats your main idea. 1. One of the main concepts behind Dark City is the idea of confinement (being stuck) in a changing environment. Discuss

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    Chelsea Culberson Instructor Jacob Kruse Communications I 15 September 2014 Sonny’s Blues “Sonny’s Blues” is a story of disorientation at first; it tells a story of a young man named Sonny and his older brother who is the narrator. Sonny is a young boy who in fact grew up in a world of abandonment. He suffered from drug addiction‚ being a school dropout‚ and personal desertion issues. As the story unfolds from his brother’s point of view‚ it explains how the older brother wished he had been there

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    Dark Romanticism is often associated with darkness‚ gloom‚ mystery and death‚ which can be seen throughout Edgar Allen Poe’s literature. A prime example demonstrating Dark Romanticism would be his story‚ “The Masque of the Red Death”‚ which was about a deadly plague which swept the Kingdom of Prince Prospero within the 19th century leaving the king to blockade him and his subordinates within an abbey. With that being said‚ I believe the story is an example of Dark Romanticism due to the death involved

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    Reservation Blues

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    In the novel Reservation Blues‚ most of the characters struggle with their identity at some point. Victor has an especially strong urge to rebel against his Native American heritage‚ which is apparent in his violent‚ arrogant demeanor and his obvious problem with alcohol. Victor is tied to his past and has trouble coping with his life as it is‚ and is in a constant battle with himself‚ his surroundings‚ and other people. Early in the book‚ Victor is portrayed as somewhat of a bully‚ and

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    stranger that I’ve become. When I opened them I was laid on the bathroom floor‚ my head was kept elevated by the school nurse‚ I saw a young girl with a frighten confused face‚ and I saw men walking around talking into walkie-talkies screaming “Code Blue! Code Blue!” Once they noticed I was awake I was bombarded with questions back to back. My mind was blank‚ nothing

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    Hypnosis has been used throughout the world for over 4000 years as a way of curing ills and gaining knowledge. For many early years it was seen as a “dark art” of occultism but the same practices forged into our scientific knowledge of today. In the 1700’s Franz Anton Mesmer was the first to propose a rational basis and a consistent method of hypnosis‚ he passed this on to his followers as a ritualistic practice he called mesmerisation. Mesmer liked to perform mass inductions by linking patients

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    The Blue Film

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    The Blue Film An old proverb goes “The past will always come back to haunt you”. Which means‚ that no matter how much you try to hide something from your past it will somehow surface again. It is only a matter of time. This is a very fitting proverb when talking about the short story “The Blue Film”. “The blue film” is a short story about a single evening in the life of a middle aged Europe-an couple. It is a simple chronological story. The novel has a strong marriage and divorcement theme

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