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    Refugee Blues

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    poodle in a jacket fastened with a pin | But they weren’t German Jews my dear | Saying how pets get more luxuries then them | Saw fish swimming as if they were free | Only ten feet away | The fish have more freedom then them | Use of language | Example | Effect | Use of repetition | We cannot go there now‚ my dear‚ my dear cannot go there now. (“my dear” repeated in each stanza) | Emphasize how bad there situation is | Language conveying sadness or despair | Asked me politely to return next

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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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    Blue Mosque

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    The Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Turkish: Sultanahmet Camii) is an historical mosque in Istanbul‚ the largest city in Turkey and the capital of the Ottoman Empire (from 1453 to 1923). The mosque is popularly known as the Blue Mosque for the blue tiles adorning the walls of its interior. It was built from 1609 to 1616‚ during the rule of Ahmed I. Like many other mosques‚ it also comprises a tomb of the founder‚ a madrasah and a hospice. While still used as a mosque‚ the Sultan Ahmed Mosque has also become

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    out of the blue

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    ’Out of the Blue’ is a dramatic monologue spoken by one of the people inside the twin towers on 9/11‚ from inside the burning building. The effect is of extreme close up on a tiny point in space in time‚ almost in a 1to1 narrative time. The event is narrated as it happens an appeal to a second person who could not be listening. This creates an weird effect‚ of an event we cannot touch‚ of lost people who could not speak to us‚ even though we watched at the time or later: the flames‚ the people who

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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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    An Analysis of James Baldwin ’s "Sonny ’s Blues" In James Baldwin ’s short story "Sonny ’s Blues" a young man questions his brotherly obligations after finding that his younger brother has been arrested for using drugs. In the attempt to rectify his younger brother ’s behavior and life‚ the young man faces his own feelings for his brother and comes to terms with the life his brother Sonny lives. The developments of certain elements-plot‚ character‚ point of view‚ setting‚ symbolism-in the story

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    Study of Everyday Life

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    Everyday life can be a difficult and amorphous concept to grapple with. This essay will consider the various aspects of Scott ’s definition of what "Everyday life" is and to what extent I agree with it. In its most simplistic and stripped down form‚ Scott ’s suggests that it ’s a study of ’people doing little things in local places ’ or more succinctly ’the wider picture ’ (Scott‚ 2009‚ p1). Everyday life can also be viewed as a person seeking solace in the familiarity of repetitive and rhythmic

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    Name of Study: Understanding Everyday Stress Link: https://studyfinder.psu.edu/studies?commit=Search&page=2&search%5Badults%5D=1&search%5Bhealthy_volunteers%5D=1&search%5Bq%5D=&utf8=%E2%9C%93 Description of Study: This research is being done because we would like to understand everyday stress and your health behaviors so we can create an assay to measure stress. This will allow for the use of stress reduction interventions specific for each person to promote a healthier lifestyle and more positive

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    Jazz and Blues

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    Thesis Statement: Blues and Jazz are different in several major ways. I. Blues and Jazz are different in terms of feeling. A. By performing or listening to the Blues‚ one is able to overcome sadness. 1. Blues is based on the music of African-American playing to express longing for better life and lost loves‚ jobs‚ and money. 2. Because African-American‚ in the past‚ did not know about music theory‚ they played out of major scale notes‚ and therefore‚ makes the feeling of sadness

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    |Title |HSC 3003 Provide support to maintain and develop skills for everyday life | |Level |3 | |Credit value |4 | |Learning outcomes |Assessment criteria

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