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    Bonobos vs Pan Paniscus

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    Pan Paniscus vs. Gorilla Beringei             Bonobos‚ sometimes called pygmy chimpanzees‚ survive and endure in fission-fusion social groups where a behomitic amount of individuals apportion into smaller groups of size and composition. They are classified as those involved in patrilineal groups. Bonobos are in Central Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo. There are an estimated number of thirty thousand bonobos in existence. Bonobos abide in the swampy rainforests of the southern region

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    Romantic Art genre portrays imagination and elaborate emotions. This genre challenged traditional society norms by showing sacrifices in order to establish liberty‚ equality‚ and humanity. An example of Rococo art is The Swing by Jean-Honore Fragonard. In this piece we have a woman on a swing surrounded by men and statues. She is ascending in the air whilst kicking off one of her shoes. At

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    The Ragtime Era

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    My topic is on the dances of the Ragtime era. During this era‚ many dances like the cakewalk‚ foxtrot‚ charleston‚ moonwalk‚ samba‚ waltz‚ tango‚ and etc. all began to rise and became more trendy between the years of 1895 to 1918. This era was known for its unexpected rhythmic dance steps. In addition‚ it became a real entertainment system for many people around the world. Ragtime era was the influential time for early jazz as well. Speaking of early jazz‚ the Charleston‚ cakewalk‚ black bottom

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    an English father ‚ Harvey Smith‚ and to a Jamaican mother‚ Yvonne Bailey‚ who emigrated from Jamaica ‚ Where she grew up ‚to England in 1969. As a daughter to parents from two different cultures‚ Smith has the effect of that difference which reflect on her writing starting from White teeth to Swing Time. Smith literary works seem to have African American Criticism. This was so clear in her Swing Time. From the starting point of her dedication to the book at the first page to her mother who is Jamaican

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    Before we start talking about “cat on a hot tin roof” by Tennessee Williams and the film adaption that soon came later and how the homosexual undertones of the play were not included into the film because of the industry’s strict laws; it must begin with having to address the stigma of homosexuality as a whole. Bringing it back to Thomas Jefferson and his “Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments”‚ homosexuality or also referenced as sodomy was illegal and under the same consequential group

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    named Aristotle. Aristotle observed many aspects of life from science to even theatre. Being the well prepare and spectacular student of Plato‚ Aristotle achieved amazing things in his lifetime. Aristotle developed the six element of a play; plot‚ thought‚ diction‚ character‚ spectacle‚ and song. All of Aristotle element can be found within the Cat On a Hot Tin Roof. To begin the plot of the story is dramatic and follow an order. From the beginning when Brick and Maggie were alone talking to

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    that I had succeeded where others had fallen short. Although some of the characters in Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof were able to aggrandize through the pride they had gained throughout life‚ others fell short of this success and instead spent time drowning themselves in reminiscence and rum. Big Daddy could be considered the epitome of pride in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He owns “twenty-eight thousand acres of the richest land” (112)‚ all of which he gained through hard work and dedication

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    Professor Quimbey Humanities 2235 November 14‚ 2010 Musical Talents from the Baroque Era The Baroque era extended from late Renaissance and early Classical periods between 1600 and 1750. The origin of the term “baroque” comes from Portuguese and refers to an “irregular shaped pearl”. The era of Baroque music was an age of brilliant progress of knowledge. It was also known for the age of the scientific discoveries of Galileo and Newton‚ and advances in math of Descartes‚ Newton. Baroque period

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    Tierra Sin Pan Surrealism

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    Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan directed by Luis Buñuel is an ethnographic surrealism documentary first shown in 1933. The film was not made to spew facts at its audience members but to make the audience think about what they were seeing and hearing. Buñuel’s film is a documentary but in a broad sense of what a documentary is. It is no wonder that his move is different to any other movie out there because he was forced to learn how to film himself because cameras were just starting to be used. Even though

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    weak‚ superior versus inferior‚ non-marginalized versus marginalized. In earlier time‚ this concept materialized itself in the battle of the sexes‚ or what we knew as men versus women. Naturally‚ the existence of this issue provoked counteractions from the marginalized sex: women. At those times when women could not freely express their thoughts in verbal manners‚ they did it through writing. "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" by Mary Wollstonecraft‚ "Taking Women Students Seriously" by Adrienne

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