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    Folk and Popular culture

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    Folk and Popular Cultures 1950’s and 60s I love Lucy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7OkZrvSLcM In this episode it doesn’t really show any type of entertainment. They are spending time together and at the end playing some drums. For the outfits the women are all wearing vintage dresses. The Men are wearing are wearing suits and slacks. The little boy is dressed up nicely for a little boy. Slicked back hair. Using lots of hand expressions to speak. 1970’s The Brady Bunch: They are playing

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    Music for the Souls

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    MUSIC FOR THE SOULS….. Music gives soul to the universe‚ wings to the mind‚ flight to the imagination and life to everything. What is Music? For few it’s a rhythm or a beat or just an activity to linger their time. But for few it’s more than just a rhythm or a tune‚ music for them is sanity which drives them to a whole new different persuasion of life. Have you ever watched a great movie where music builds up the scene more than the action itself? Have you ever wished that you had a soundtrack

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    your favorite song but it’s not always that simple. Arna Bontemps’s “A Black Man Talks of Reaping” creates a searing picture of not reaping what you sowed by alluding to the times of slavery through metaphor‚ imagery and diction. While Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “A Negro Love Song” paints a delightful image of a man and woman in love with its trochaic rhythm. It shares the use of imagery and diction with “Reaping” but it also uses tone. To begin with the theme of Bontemps’s “A Black Man Talks of Reaping”

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    Soul Surfer

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    Soul Surfer The autobiography‚ Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton tells the amazing story of faith‚ perseverance‚ and fighting to do what you love. Bethany Hamilton is just an average girl growing up in Hawaii. She loves the surf‚ the sand‚ and the sun‚ but one day she is in an almost fatal shark attack. Bethany is faced with many tough questions subsequent to the shark attack. Bethany has to learn how to surf with only one arm if she wants to continue her most beloved passion. This develops the plot

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    The history of soul music

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    into the great season of soul music. Soul music was enabled by the commercial boom of "race" music‚ that had led to the creation of channels and infrastructures run by black enterpreneurs for black artists. This class of black enterpreneurs hired and trained a generation of session musicians‚ producers and arrangers (not to mention songwriters) who were specifically meant to serve the needs of black music. Sould music was also enabled by an unstoppable trend towards black and white integration‚ as

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    Soul Surfer

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    life story in October 2004 in her autobiography named Soul Surfer. Her book was made into a major motion picture which was released theatrically in April 2011. Bethany has also written several other inspirational books. According to Bethany‚ her parents instilled their faith in Jesus Christ from a young age. “Bethany’s foundation of faith has been her backbone; her source of truth‚ hope‚ and strength.” Novel Synopsis Soul Surfer: “A true story of faith‚ family‚ and fighting

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    The Soul Scarf

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    The Soul Scarf It was a black-white scarf‚ and there were some blood-spots on it‚ but my grandfather still used it and preserved like a valuable object. I did not see my grandfather wear it always‚ but it always appeared on his neck when he had a meetings or important events. Every time I visited my grandfather‚ I saw him sit by himself in front of his house and looked at the scarf sadly. So‚ I once asked him about the scarf and its significance‚ but I just got the answer from my father later.

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    Soul Surfer

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    Have you ever thought about all the things that could happen that would change your entire life? Bethany Hamilton was just a thirteen year old girl and a surfer when she was attacked by a shark‚ losing her entire left arm. Hamilton’s Soul Surfer is her admirable story of how she was attacked by a shark‚ survived‚ and got back on the board to become a professional surfer. Bethany Hamilton grew up surfing‚ both of her parents were surfers along with her two older brothers. The morning of Halloween

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    Folk Rock Music Analysis

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    Folk rock is a musical style that combines elements of folk music and rock music. In its earliest form‚ the term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and the United Kingdom around the mid-1960s. This type of music was started by the Los Angeles band The Byrds‚ who began playing traditional folk music and Bob Dylan-penned material with rock instrumentation‚ in a style heavily influenced by The Beatles and other British bands. The term "folk rock" was itself first coined by the United

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    Plato’s Symposium is a book of speeches given in honor of Eros‚ the god of love. Aristophanes‚ a comic poet‚ gives the first speech‚ and the second is given by Socrates. The first speech tells a humorous history of mankind and how it became “whole‚” addressing gender issues and sexuality. On a more serious note‚ the second speech addresses the origin of Eros and his use to humans. Before launching his speech‚ Aristophanes warns the group that his eulogy to love may be more absurd than funny

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