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    use of recorded sound in films was a technological achievement that would dramatically change the way audiences experience cinema. The transition from silent cinema affected many studios and filmmakers‚ who had to adapt to the new technology to prevent their careers from fading into obscurity. One filmmaker who was able to adapt to the changing industry was director Fritz Lang. The Austrian born director‚ whose career began in post-war Germany in 1919‚ made the transition to sound in 1931 with the

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    How Soon Hath Time

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    HOW SOON HATH TIME- JOHN MILTON HOW SOON HATH TIME is a Petrarchan sonnet written by John Milton the famous English poet. It is a sonnet written on the 9th of December 1631.Typical of the Petrarchan sonnet‚ there is a tonal change as well as a change in the mood and emotions of the poet. The poem has an autobiographical touch. In the Octave‚ the poet laments the passage of 23 years of his life‚ especially the 23rd year. The sonnet begins with a tone of frustration and desperation. He suffers from

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    Sound Wave

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    this means that any solid object that is struck with a sound wave of equal sound wave vibrations will amplitude the given tone. This would explain the reason why some singers are able to break wine glasses with their voice. The vibrations build up enough to shatter the glass. This is called RESONANCE. Resonance can be observed on a tube with one end open. Musical tones can be produces by vibrating columns of air. When air is blown across the top of the open end of a tube‚ a wave compression

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    Phonetics Symbols English Speech Sounds: Vowel Sounds Front Vowels 1. / i: / ي - it is found in the words like; eat‚ tea‚ seen (long high front spread vowel) 2. / ɪ / - it is found in the words like; bit‚ pin‚ silly (short high front spread vowel) 3. /e/ - it is found in the words like; bet‚ tent‚ head (short mid front spread vowel). 4. / æ / - cat‚ fat‚ dad (short low front spread vowel). Central Vowels 5. /ɜ:/ ۀ - (Position: Central‚ Lips: Neutral‚ Long vowel); this may also be shown

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    The Sound of Silence

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    Expository Writing 1213 Conference draft Mauricio Cuevas Due Wednesday‚ September 05‚ 2012 The sound of silence “A horrid stillness first invades the ear‚ and in that silence we the tempest fear”(Dryden‚ 7). Silence inevitably starts with a sound‚ which either goes off very slowly‚ or ends in a Swift movement; and it ends the same way it started‚ with noise. Noise‚ sound‚ our perception of both has changed since they were recognized and “categorized” as such. People see this soundscape

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    Across the Water

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    Michael Murray English 101 Theresa Stein Across the Water “There’s a large posterior fossa mass. Surgery is scheduled for two o’clock.” Those words launched a journey of nearly ten years for me and my youngest child. A journey largely responsible for shaping the people we’ve become since that horrendous‚ God-awful moment. “That’s only an hour from now… I need more time and I need more information‚” I finally responded. It felt as though I’d been slammed between two steel plates and pushed

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    Richer Sounds

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    sales value per square foot‚ a five-star rating and #1 High Street shop survey ranking from Which? Magazine; Richer Sounds Plc (RS) is the largest high fidelity (hi-fi) and home theatre equipment company in the UK. Richer Sounds is an unlisted public limited company‚ wholly owned by Julian Richer‚ and there are currently fifty-two branches nation wide‚ each approximately 200sqft in floor area and located off the main high streets. The company had an annual sales turnover of £116.2 million in

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    Sound of Thunder

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    Summary Story: A sound of thunder By: Ray Bradbury From R is for rocket‚ New York: Doubleday‚ 1952 The story is about traveling in the time. It takes place in 2055; a Time safari INC company provides a time traveling machine to its customer‚ so they can travel in time and go to million years ago. Eckles‚ who was the first character of the story‚ decided to go to million years ago to hunt gigantic animal. He believed he can be the first person who has hunted the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

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    Speech Sounds

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    Victor B. Andrews IV Sean Ennis Writ 102 April 24‚ 2013 “Speech Sounds” Speech Sounds is a fictional story written by an African-American science fiction author by the name of Octavia E. Butler. Octavia Butler received both the Hugo and Nebula awards for various works of hers. At a very young age Octavia was diagnosed with dyslexia and had acquired a slight speech impediment‚ which led to ongoing teasing and humiliation from her peers. She was often belittled and bullied by this and also

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    The Street

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    TMA01 Sociology City Road PG1 Drawing on what you have learned about City Road‚ outline some of the inequalities on a street that you know. The streets of our cities often tell us more about our society than we expect‚ they show how people and objects interact with each other in order to make a community. In this assignment I am going to look at similarities and differences between the inequalities of city road in Cardiff and the Lisburn Road in Belfast. Inequalities are the social resources

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