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    Casablanca Film Analysis

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    chose to analyze (that takes place in Rick’s café) is when Laszlo and Ilsa enter the café. When they walk in‚ the host greets them. He hands them their menus and walks them to their seats. While they are being seated‚ the pianist is playing the piano and stares at them. The pianist and Ilsa make extended eye contact. Next‚ there is a reaction shot from a man standing at the bar. Everybody is staring at Ilsa and you can see all of their reactions. There is one single light on their table which pushes

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    To Room Nineteen

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    To Room 19 ‚ Final draft In the short story “To Room Nineteen” by Doris Lessing‚ Susan Rawlings is a woman living what seems like the perfect life with the perfect marriage. However‚ it soon becomes clear that Susan isn’t as happy with her life as one might think upon first glance. Slowly but surely‚ Susan begins to drift away from her home life in attempts to find freedom through solitude. This reaction can be analyzed by taking a closer look at how Susan relates to the places in her life such

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    Latin Jazz

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    Tyler Cannon May 1 05 PDA 110 Prof Vobrouchek Latin Jazz Last Sunday I went to jazz bar in Manhattan and I listened "Latin JazzE Latin jazz is "a fusion of African and indigenous rhythms from the entire Latin American Diaspora with the language of jazzE It was first known as coop‚ but you are now familiar with it as afro-Cuban. When talking about afro-Cuban jazz‚ it is difficult to not mention certain turning points in history that made

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    Kwan's Self-Enhancement

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    Self-Enhancement is defined by Virginia Kwan quite simply as a self-perception that is overly positive." Kwan posits two manners in which such an overly positive self-perception is formed‚ both of which involve making social comparisons. The apparent distinction between these two ways of establishing a self-enhancing bias lies in the target of the social comparison. In the first type of bias the self-enhancer compares his view of himself to his perceived view of others. Kwan labeled this type

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    Clara Wieck

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    Leipzig Gewandhaus in 1828. She made her formal debut only two years afterwards. During this time and up until she was nineteen‚ Friedrich took on the role of her strict manager and mentor. Clara toured Germany‚ France‚ and Austria as one of the only pianists of her time to perform her music from memory. To her father’s dismay‚ Clara had fallen completely head-over-heels for Robert Schumann by 1836. Like most modern fathers‚ Friedrich thought that Schumann was unsuitable for his daughter. She had already

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    Oh the Places You’ll Go Growing up in a very strict environment as a child‚ I questioned many things that I was told to do. My dad once told me that there are three important things that I need to always do in life. My dad taught me how to be a prayer warrior‚ respect my elders and to always work hard. Over the years‚ I lived by my dad’s advice‚ and it has truly paid off. As a child‚ I was always taught to pray and to always equip my life and decision with prayer. I vividly recall as a child

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    Walt Whitman

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    22 1811 in Hungary. My father was an official in the service of prince Nicolas Eszterhazy. I was learning to play the piano at age five. I started to compose music when I was eight years old. When I was nine I made my first public appearance as a pianist at Pozsony (now Bratislava‚ Slvk.). I guess impressed the rich people so much that I got enough money to support myself through music school for the next six years. I had piano lessons from Carl Czerny. Carl Czerny was “the pupil of Ludwing van

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    This essay is about Wladyalav Spizllman or also called “the pianist”‚ he was a Jewish musicians who lived in Poland and lived in the Warsaw Ghetto. For you to understand better I will show you some background knowledge information. The Jewish Holocaust was a systematic‚ bureaucratic‚ state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborator. The Holocaust was a total of six years (1939-1945). Yet the most drastic changes for the German Jewish community came

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    Mr Zhao

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    turn around a sell the rights for profit. He also claimed in his memoirs to be the first Jazz musician. Despite some of these inaccurate claims‚ Handy still had the economic means to sell and promote Black music to America. Handy who was a ragtime pianist‚ fell in love with the Blues on several visits he made to rural southern America. Many say he codified the blues‚ meaning he brought a sense to the musical form of blues. This can be argued‚ for he did not play the 12 bar forms himself‚ but stuck

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    Maestro

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    Maestro (1989) by Peter Goldsworthy notes Warning!! Most of this stuff didn’t come from my English teacher. A lot of it happened when I just started thinking about the novel and what it might mean‚ so please don’t blame me if your English teacher thinks its wrong or whatever. If you have any questions about what I mean about anything I’ve written‚ inbox or call me if you want. Synopsis: The story of‚ among other things‚ a teenage boy (Paul Crabbe) living in Darwin from the late 1960s onwards

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