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    Music

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    Music comes from the Ancient Greek muses‚ who were the nine goddesses of art and science. Music actually began around 500 B.C. when Pythagoras experimented with acoustics and how math related to tones formed from plucking strings. The main form of music during the Middle Ages was the Gregorian chant‚ named for Pope Gregory I. This music was used in the Catholic Churches to enhance the services. It consisted of a sacred Latin text sung by monks without instrumentation. The chant is sung in a

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    Music From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search For other uses‚ see Music (disambiguation). [pic] |Music | |[pic] | |A painting on an Ancient Greek vase depicts a music lesson (c. 510 BC). | |Medium |Sound | |Originating culture

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    Music in my Life While walking today as I normally do‚ I turned around and your face came into my view. I could only imagine what was wrong with her. But at the end I understood what was wrong with her‚ it was music. This is what music does to people and I love it for that. Music makes people feel good inside so much that it might even hurt. Throughout my life‚ music has always been a major influence. It has the power to change my mood when I ’m feeling down. Music is a cure for when I’m down and

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    Ode to the West Wind

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    "Ode to the West Wind‚" Shelley invokes Zephyrus‚ the west wind‚ to free his "dead thoughts" and words‚ "as from an unextinguished hearth / Ashes and sparks" (63‚ 66-67)‚ in order to prophesy a renaissance among humanity‚ "to quicken a new birth" (64). This ode‚ one of a few personal lyrics published with his great verse drama‚ "Prometheus Unbound‚" identifies Shelley with his heroic‚ tormented Titan. By stealing fire from heaven‚ Prometheus enabled humanity to found civilization. In punishment‚

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    a pit black night‚ considering your Gammas turned down. The ball of light‚ as if pulled by a gravitational force‚ flies towards what seems like a black hole. After what seems like centuries a deep and gruffy voice speaks out‚ "Do well...Hero of Music‚ Hahahah". *Poof* ...Ugh....Where am I? Why does my head hurt so much...If I can recall I remember dying and then darkness... Shit...Gotta get up..thought Ryner He then proceeds to stagger as he stands up. Where the hell am I?...Why am I in the

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    Music is found in every known culture‚ past and present‚ varying wildly between times and places. Since all people of the world‚ including the most isolated tribal groups‚ have a form of music‚ it may be concluded that music is likely to have been present in the ancestral population prior to the dispersal of humans around the world. Consequently music may have been in existence for at least 50‚000 years and the first music may have been invented in Africa and then evolved to become a fundamental

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    Two Sides Of Self

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    The Two Sides of The Self If we consider why a coin cannot forever stand on the edge‚ we might stumble upon a significant truth. The truth is that the coin has two sides and that sooner or later it has to choose one to hide and one to express. Although there are at least two sides to everybody we meet and even within ourselves‚ it so happens in the life that one predominates while others lie in the background. Edward Tory Higgins‚ Professor of Psychology states in his Self-Discrepancy theory that

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    Bedtime Story Analysis

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    In “Bedtime Story” by George MacBeth‚ he demonstrates the dumb violence of humans. Our primal‚ mindless habits to hurt lead to the destruction of ourselves and other species. Many times‚ when humans hate or fear an animal for hurting them‚ it only acted in self-defense‚ but people look for excuses to take out their anger from everyday stresses on other living things. MacBeth demonstrates the idiotic and primal nature of our violence by using a tribal human character‚ and shows our needless violence

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    Short Story Analysis

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    Emergence of a New Woman in Kate Chopin’s Short Stories The turning of the 19th century instilled a desire in all women to be free and liberated from their husbands. They desired freedom‚ liberation and happiness. Such characteristics were portrayed throughout the short stories written by Kate Chopin. For the majority of Kate Chopin’s life‚ she was brought up without a male figure and was constantly surrounded by females (Toth‚ 1999). Kate Chopin was a woman whose feminist viewpoints were far ahead

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    anticipated to observe a sea of new faces during music therapy. My expectation was put to rest once music listening group began‚ and I recognized most of the patients who had been present two weeks ago. This realization was bitter-sweet—naturally‚ I desire for the patients to improve in their symptoms and get to the point of recovery that they can be reintegrated into the community‚ but at the same time‚ it is comforting to see familiar faces. Music listening group was relatively small‚ with approximately

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