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    bowery blues

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    Jessica Nohra Analysis Kerouac April 11th‚ 13 Bowery Blues Analysis Today’s society doesn’t look at how easy and chill was the past and the people don’t have an interest on how the life is anymore. Kerouac’s message throughout the poem was to show how lost he was and how the people around him influenced his bad feelings about life. During the poem we can really see that he doesn’t know how to act on what is happening

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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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    Funeral Blues

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    Teiairra Johnson Professor Drummond-Matthews English Comp. II February 1‚ 2012 Funeral Blues Explication In W.H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues”‚he uses a sort of calm or sorrowful tone. The woman in this poem says‚ “Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone‚”(1) She is wanting to give respect to the dead. She says to get rid of the noises that may be distracting from the process of mourning. Auden creates a mood or sense of respectfulness. The first stanza is stating to get

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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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    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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    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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    Blue Cross

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    December 2007 Excellus Creates EA and SOA Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield Creates Enterprise Architecture and SOA Solution to Consolidate Disparate IT Systems Executive Overview When several Blue Cross Blue Shield programs in upstate New York merged‚ each organization brought its own business processes and IT systems to the new entity. Because they were so different‚ yet had to be consolidated‚ the new entity‚ Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield‚ wanted to first implement a strong business analysis

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    Refugee Blues

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    Auden’s ‘Refugee Blues’ laments the plight of the Jews who were forced to flee Europe when the Holocaust started and they were rounded up and killed or imprisoned under the cruel regime of Hitler. The poem starts with a narrator‚ who is later revealed to be a German Jew‚ describing a large city which is home to ten million people some of whom are well off and live in luxurious large houses while others make do in slums and shabby houses. Yet‚ the narrator tells the person with him‚ presumably a

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    Varsity Blues

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    many other people‚ they have found football to be a hobby‚ something to do in there past time. They have formed habits around watching the game. In the movie "Varsity Blues‚" football isn’t just a past time for the town‚ but it is a way of life‚ the whole town is involved in the high school football team. "Varsity Blues" takes place in a small town in Texas called West Canyon‚ in this town if you are a healthy boy‚ then you are a football player. Young males have tons of pressure from their

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    Perfect Blue

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    Title: Perfect blue Page 1-48 Author: Laura Langston Setting: Grandma’s house‚ School and home. Main Characters: Description: Erin  Dog lover‚ really tall‚ Dark hair and responsible. Cassie Prankster‚ loves horses and has light hair. Steve (dad) Joker‚ young and careless

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