Phillips’s book The Atlantic Sound is related to the history of slavery and its impact on contemporary socio-cultural environment. It is a travel book but it is not only confined to non fictional narrative of travelled places. The book is a mixture of geographical portraits‚ historical events‚ interviews‚ letters‚ newspaper articles‚ speeches‚ poems and so on. Phillips decides to visit the three points of triangular trade that linked America‚ Africa and Europe. He juxtaposes the stories of past with
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The Coen brothers employ silence in a majority of their noir films‚ with the sole purpose of heightening the drama. Within the absence of sound exist certain imperceptible sounds. Burwell mentions that the brothers write knowing the importance of the sound and the music and that they “put space in their films for that‚ and a lot of people don’t‚ but they actually feel free to have a few minutes where there might not be any dialogue.” The example
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the Vowels Sounds of English The classifcation of vowels is based on four major aspects: Tongue height - according to the vertical position of the tongue (high vowels‚ also referred to as close; low vowels‚ also referred to as open; intermediate - close-mid and open-mid) Frontness vs. backness of the tongue - according to the horizontal position of the highest part of the tongue. Lip rounding - whether the lips are rounded (O-shape) or spread (no rounding) when the sound is being made
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The story is set in 2055. A hunter named “Eckels” goes on the adventure travelling back into the past on a safari to kill a Tyrannosaurus Rex. As they wait to depart‚ they talk about the recent presidential elections‚ in which an apparently fascist candidate‚ Deutscher‚ has just been defeated by the more moderate Keith‚ to the relief of many people. After the party arrives in the past‚ Travis (the hunting guide) and Lesperance (Travis’s assistant) warn Eckels and the two other hunters‚ Billings
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Pet Sounds Together a group of five young men‚ using the expressions of theme and idea to create the infamous 1966 album known as Pet Sounds are known as The Beach Boys. The group is considered a family affair. Which consisted of three brothers Brian‚ Carl‚ and Dennis Wilson‚ a cousin Mike Love‚ and a classmate Alan Jardine (Rock and Rock Hall of Fame Museum). This collection can be described as a concept album. Thus‚ creating a magnificent production that is contemplated as a piece of
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Plot summary The story begins in the future‚ in which the time machine has been invented but is still very temperamental. A hunter named Eckels pays to go traveling back into the past on a guided safari to kill a Tyrannosaurus Rex. As the party waits to depart they talk about the recent presidential elections in which an apparently fascist candidate‚ Deutscher‚ has just been defeated by the more moderate Keith‚ to the relief of many concerned. When the party arrives in the past‚ Travis (the hunting
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Sound Waves and how it relates to Room Acoustics We generally think of the speakers in our stereo or home theater systems as the final link in the audio chain — and the one that makes the biggest difference to our ears. But there’s much more to the sound we hear than just where you place your speakers in a stereo or home theater setup‚ and what comes out of them. You might not even realize it‚ but your room plays a rather large part in the sound that you hear from your system. And as with any
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of the story‚ because of technology. Next let’s look at the story "A Sound of Thunder"‚ this story proves that technology may get so advanced we could change the history and the future. "Crushing certain plants could add up infinitesimally. A little error here would multiply in sixty million years‚ all out of proportion." (The Sound of Thunder) and "We don’t want to change the future. We don’t belong here in the Past" (The Sound of Thunder) Both these quotes have a vivid warning of what could possibly
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The Sound of Music is a musical play that was written by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Howard Lindsay was born in 1889 and died in 1968. He became an actor at nineteen and went on to become a successful writer. Russel Crouse was born in 1893 and died in 1966. He served in the Navy and after that he worked on New York newspapers‚ gaining his first renown through a signed column in the Post. In 1932 he became head of the publicity department for the Theatre Guild and in 1933 wrote his first Broadway
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in “Speech Sounds” As statistics show‚ science fiction has long been a genre produced and consumed by nerdy‚ middle aged‚ white men‚ with little to no social skills. The content of science fiction has typically revolved around intergalactic interaction and male dominated adventure and exploration‚ most certainly do not imagine that science fiction can be used to write about feminist thoughts or ideas. However‚ this is exactly what Octavia Butler does in her short story “Speech Sounds.” Many scholars
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