highlighting Tin Pan Alley‚ because I found that the content expands the understanding of an interesting musical element touched upon in the section‚ Ragtime and City Blues‚ in our textbook. The site includes interesting facts and illuminating photos that highlight the musical importance in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. It also gives extensive history surrounding the environment that led to the phenomenon of Tin Pan Alley. The first thing I learned is that Tin Pan Alley is not a localized phenomenon
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Modernization from Consumption of Sugar According to Wikipedia‚ “modernity” is defined as a post-traditional period that is marked by the move from feudalism towards capitalism and industrialism. From the sixteenth century through the nineteenth century‚ many countries and economies progressed towards a more modern environment. Many factors contributed to the push for modernity; however‚ the sugar industry exhibited major influence throughout the world. Once sugar cane was established in the Caribbean
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Author Naguib Mahfouz’s novel Midaq Alley follows the lives of several inhabitants who live among an alley in Cairo during the 1940s in the period of World War II. The alley consists of some shops and homes and many poor residents. Zaita had made a business capitalizing on the large population of Midaq Alley’s residents who are impoverished. This interesting character makes a living off of these poor residents and as a result is a large success. However in the end of this tale‚ Zaita’s shady dealings
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Citizen Kane Questionnaire View the movie CITIZEN KANE (1941) for discussion in class on week four and to submit week five. Be sure to view the film at least twice before workshop number four. Read the information in this syllabus about this movie. Research it online at http://www.filmsite.org/citi.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane‚ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/‚ http://www.cinepad.com/reviews/kane.htm‚ etc. Then complete the following questionnaire A. Literary Elements
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ZALOSH Sugar Bowl Shelby Givens checked her watch as she jogged along Raleigh’s Greenway Trail; she was running late again. Since Sugar Bowl’s launch‚ there simply were not enough hours in the day to satisfy the overwhelming demands on her time. Givens couldn’t remember the last time she went to dinner and a movie with friends. And though three months had passed‚ she still deeply regretted missing her college roommate’s wedding because of an unanticipated staffing crisis. Givens had thought that by
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Steam Turbines: A look into how a steam turbine functionsStacy L. Rousseau EE ’03 At a time when energy is such an issue in our country‚ it may be surprising to realize that the major technology involved in producing electrical energy today was developed over a century ago by Charles G. Curtis: the steam turbine. The aim of a steam turbine is to produce the maximum amount of electrical energy in the minimum amount of space. Today‚ steam turbines produce more electrical energy than any other system
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a town’s bowling alley or alleys in some cases close‚ the community loses a little piece of its identity. Individuals within that community lose some of their own sense of belonging to a community. Also in this natural chain reaction people become less involved in their respective towns. Before long the part of town where the bowling alley once was becomes either deserted or the building is torn down and becomes a Walgreens. Shaun Moss’s photograph of the abandoned bowling alley in the Scranton
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novelty of life in the tropics/ to the novelty of large-scale sugar production? And to the novelty of slave labor?” Summary: Dunn’s book chronicles the settling and early growth of the first 3 generations of British colonists in the Caribbean islands. From a modest attempt to grow North American staples tobacco and cotton‚ largely with white indentures and their own labor‚ the islands quickly turned‚ with Dutch assistance‚ into great sugar plantations with large numbers of African slave labor and
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Mungomery thought he had the solution by bringing in the cane toad‚ but eighty years later ecologists are still trying to fix the problem he caused. Mungomery’s theory worked in Hawaii with the toads eating the beetles. Unfortunately‚ the cane toads in Australia ignored them and just lived and reproduced at high rates. The cane toads caused catastrophic damage to the environment. Almost all animals that ate the cane toad died; as a result‚ there was a 95% mortality rate. Worst of all‚ cane toads move
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