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    butterfly‚ different stages of war life provide different levels of interpretation to the loses of close ones; the more one matures‚ the more one’s interpretations diverge from their first impressions. Former North Vietnam soldier and author of The Sorrow of War‚ Bao Ninh‚ focuses his writing on such sacrifices made in the face of war and the impression it left on the individual to shine a light on how different situations are dealt with by soldiers and veterans. He does so through Kien‚ a forty-year

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    History of Soul Music Christina Ivery University of Phoenix RES/110 John Thomas February 11‚ 2010 Soul music was a voice for blacks during a time of war and segregation‚ aside of leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. and Malcolm X.. As stated by a historian Peter Guralnick‚ “It was as if the rhythm and blues singer‚ like the jazz musician and professional

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    Sorrow, a Timeless Theme

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    HIST 021 11/29/12 Sorrow‚ a Timeless Theme Is it possible for a single theme to exist in the past and still live today? This question is easily answered through a movie of the past and a story of the present. In 1930‚ All Quiet on the Western Front was released to the public. The film was based on Erich Maria Remarque’s novel‚ directed by Lewis Milestone‚ and produced by Carl Laemmle Jr. (“All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film)”). The present day story was written on www.usatoday.com on November

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    to are rock‚ country folk‚ and R&B/Soul. Rock music is a popular music which uses an electric guitar. Rock usually makes people excited with hard sounds. Everybody knows that The Beatles were a famous rock band in the United Kingdom. The Beatles’ song "Day Tripper" is one of their songs that I love. The main guitar riff of the song seems to take me to a vacation spot. When I listen to the song‚ I feel like I took a train and watched out the window on a rainy day. Two songs of The Beatles’‚ "From

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    Pakistani Folk Dances: Dances are traditionally part of the lives of people especially in Pakistan. Dance for Pakistanis is so important that people can communicate with each other and tell a story without uttering a word but rather dancing to send those messages. Folk dances are still popular in Pakistan and vary according to region such as: • Bhangra -Punjab • Luddi - Punjab • Dhammal - Performed at Sufi shrines/ dargahs in Punjab and Sindh • Attan - Folk dance of Pashtuns tribes of

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    The folk revival in New York City was rooted in the resurgent interest in square dancing and folk dancing there in the 1940s‚ which gave musicians such as Pete Seeger popular exposure.[3][4][5] The folk revival more generally as a popular and commercial phenomenon begins with the career of The Weavers‚ formed in November 1948 by Pete Seeger‚ Lee Hays‚ Fred Hellerman‚ and Ronnie Gilbert of People’s Songs‚ of which Seeger had been president and Hays executive secretary. People’s Songs‚ which disbanded

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    Bernard Malamud's Sorrow

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    The short stories‚ “the Magic Barrel” and “The German Refugee” displays Bernard Malamud’s sorrow over his mother’s death. “The Magic Barrel” is about a young Jewish man named Leo Finkle‚ who has been studying six years to be a rabbi at a Jewish university called Yeshiva University in Brooklyn‚ New York. The story is ultimately about this man’s quest to find a wife‚ because one of his colleagues told him when he was ordained as a rabbi‚ a wife would make it easier for Leo to win a congregation over

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    any hunger or even the ‘munches’. Listening to soul music creates happy feelings towards loved ones. Similar taste in music connects so many different people. Discussions could go on forever because of one point in a song. Most couples have an “our song”. This song usually depicts the emotions that each person feels for the other. Music is one of the easiest ways to express self without actually talking‚ with just the right choice of song. In my experience‚ music and love always

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    Sorrow of Young Werther

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    Death has been the consequent for the main characters in each of the first four novels read for the course. The protagonist in each of the first four novels; Werther‚ Rafael‚ Ivan Ilyich‚ and K.‚ respectively; met their demise on the final page of their respective novels. All four directly or indirectly were the cause of their painful demise. Werther chose suicide over conforming to the ways of adulthood‚ and moving further away from nature. Rafael chose to live a life of possessions‚ and in turn

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    Disagreement: The Cause of Sorrow Decisions are formulated with many reasons behind them‚ and disagreements can happen to occur because of one’s decisions. In Sophocles’ play Antigone‚ this exact circumstance finds its way into Haimon’s life. A fall-out between himself and Creon‚ his father‚ occurs. Haimon disagrees with Creon because he loves Antigone‚ he wants to help his father with public relations‚ and he believes burying of the dead is God’s right - and his only. Love seemed to be a reoccurring

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