In ¡°The Blue Hotel‚¡± Stephen Crane uses various provocative techniques to ensure that the setting adds to the richness of the story. ¡°The Blue Hotel¡± is set in a cold Nebraska town at the Palace Hotel in the late 1800¡¯s‚ but there is more to setting than just when and where a story takes place. In a written work‚ it is the author¡¯s job to vividly depict events in order to keep the reader¡¯s attention and to create colorful mental images of places‚ objects‚ or situations. The story is superbly
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The Blue Laws The Blue Laws were laws that were designed to enforce religious standards‚ especially those days that were designated as a day of worship or rest. The name was rumored to have come from the supposedly blue paper the laws were printed on‚ but since that was most likely false‚ historians have found that the name came the 17th century use of the word blue‚ which was a reference to the strict moral codes and those who observed them‚ as in blue-stocking. The blue laws were favored by
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Refugee Blues W. H. Auden’s poem of despair‚ misery‚ and isolation‚ “Refugee Blues”‚ describes the hardships faced by two German Jewish refugees attempting to escape Hitler’s Germany. Published in autumn‚ 1939‚ Auden is surrounded by the anti-Sematic hatred that is growing in Germany six months prior to the outbreak of World War II. Auden utilizes this environment and the experiences of German Jews to express the abuse of human rights and the sentiments of refugees. For the near two thousand
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The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. The aim of the project‚ founded in May 2005 by the Brain and Mind Institute of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland‚ is to study the brain’s architectural and functional principles. The project is headed by the founding director Henry Markram and co-directed by Felix Schürmann and Sean Hill. Using a Blue Gene supercomputer running
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composed his first published song entitled “When You Want ’Em You Can’t Get ’Em”. From 1920 to 1924‚ he composed for an annual production put on by George White. Legend has it that he actually composed what most say is his greatest work‚ Rhapsody in Blue‚ in a rush because he had forgotten about the performance. About ten years later‚ he wrote one of the most famous American operas called Porgy and Bess. Many people say it is “considered to not only be Gershwin’s most complex and best-known works
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one of the most popular music genres at the time was the Jump Blues. The Jump Blues genre had made a rise to popularity back in the late 1930’s through the 1940’s. This genre alone seems to have a very fast tempo and it even has some jazz elements to it. The instruments that are usually involved in Jump Blues are brass instruments‚ electric guitars‚ saxophone‚ piano‚ and the drums. One of the most prominent artist within the Jump Blues genre is a man named Louis Jordan. Louis Jordan‚ in my opinion
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Meltdown at Jet Blue Sherri Hernandez XBIS/219 February 22‚ 2013 Donna Rosentrater Meltdown at Jet Blue There were many problems going on at Jet Blue when there was a really bad storm on Valentine’s Day in the year of 2007. Many airports had to completely shut down and cancel all of their current flights because the weather had such bad conditions. This was a result of freezing rain and sleet. Many passengers were very irate and angry because their flights were delayed or either cancelled
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blue eyes technology PPT This PPT presentation is based on the topic blue eyes technology blue eyes technology is very common topic for seminar presentation. This ppt slide on blue eyes technology is a guidline for students or proffesional preparing for seminar presentation on blue eyes technology. Discription: INTRODUCTION We are living in an age of I.T.. Today the technologies are changing faster than time. The technology which is updated now becomes outdated after some days
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“Blue Melody” Analysis "Blue Melody" is a short story by J. D. Salinger which was first published in the September 1948. It is the tragic tale of an African-American jazz singer; the story was inspired by the life of Bessie Smith and was originally titled "Scratchy Needle on a Phonograph Record." Cosmopolitan changed the title to "Blue Melody" without Salinger ’s consent. It is possible to interpret the original title of the story. Stratchy needle may mean time and experience of a person which
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Time to erase ’blue laws’ Sell a turkey‚ be prosecuted? Faced with that ominous threat‚ managers of Whole Foods Markets quickly dropped advertised plans to open their 16 stores in Massachusetts on Thanksgiving. Last-minute shoppers searching for trimmings were out of luck. So were employees who wanted a chance to earn double pay. (Related: Opposing view) The natural-foods grocery chain could have faced criminal penalties for running afoul of the state’s laws that bar most commercial activity on
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