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    1950’s The 1950’s where so called the birth of popular music. The first half of the decade was run by popular music‚ or classic pop. This more vocal driven music had replaced the earlier big band style. Artists such as Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra where the leaders of this age of traditional pop. Often the most popular musicians that play this genre also played very well on the television and sometimes they would be featured on music special shows‚ or perhaps even have a music variety of their

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    Ordinary World. The Seven Character Archetypes: 1. Hero: “The Hero is the protagonist or central character‚ whose primary purpose is to separate from the ordinary world and sacrifice himself for the service of the Journey at hand - to answer the challenge‚ complete the quest and restore the Ordinary World’s balance. We experience the Journey through the eyes of the Hero.” 2. Mentor: “The Mentor provides motivation‚ insights and training to help the Hero.” 3. Threshold Guardian: “Threshold Guardians

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    struggle.The curse of being bilingual is one that can affect you for all of the time. The struggle of actually never being fluent in either language makes you feel a bit abnormal. As if you lack some kind of ability to be smart or even just an average person. Constantly being made fun of for the way you pronounce certain words and the way you read. It’s a constant reminder of how you can’t just be normal‚but on how you will never be good enough.You become accustomed to being judged‚demorilized‚

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    that are present in Beowulf that make Beowulf a true epic hero. In most dictionaries an epic is defined as a “long poem‚ usually one that is derived from an oral tradition‚ narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic figures or the history of a nation”. With this being true‚ the epic Beowulf also contains many more of these elements that made this poem an epic poem. Some of which are the story takes shape around a hero of unbelievable stature‚ the hero also possesses superhuman strengths‚ and there

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    that’s what makes us unique. They define who we are. God made each one of us special. Then why have we been judged for our differences and have been treated different because of them? It doesn’t make sense. This is what our world has done for so many years. People with disabilities have been treated the most unfavorable of us all. This goes back almost all the way back in history. I am going to be focusing on the 1800s/ early 1900s‚ the 1950s to the 1960s‚ and what life is like them for today. In the

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    However‚ when rich Americans took vacations on the French Rivera it wasn’t until the 1920’s that tanned skin essentially became a fashion statement. Because of the great depression the 1930’s women got even skinner. There wasn’t much control over this although. Once the second world war passed‚ hips got larger and wider. The women of the 1960’s had a more androgynous and angular figure. In the 1970’s is when men really had to start adapting to body norms‚ so now‚ it wasn’t just the women who had

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    What are the effects of mass media? What were the major developments in the evolution of mass media during the 20th century? The major developments in the evolution of mass media has been amazing. Sure cars do not fly‚ but we have come a long ways. First we started out with Newspapers and magazines. This is how people advertised and got out information to a large amount of people. These days most people do not read the newspaper‚ they prefer to watch the news on the television. They do not want to

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    Amelia Pencilo Dr. Claire Senior LIBS-3002-01 28 November 2013 What It Means To Be a Man and a Woman in the Media The gender roles for men and women are constantly being implemented throughout the years in various forms of media; men are the dominant figure and women are subordinate to men. With that reason‚ there are many female figures that have been forced to hide their real identity in order to appeal to the general public. For example‚ Virginia Woolf wrote about her struggles in her speech

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    Nothing is but what is not Macbeth is faced with the burden of choosing between acting on good or evil because of the witch’s prophecy to him. They claim it is in the prophecy for Macbeth to be king; this leaves Macbeth with the difficult decision of killing the current king‚ because for the prophecy to become true‚ Duncan must die. He thinks to himself that this supernatural soliciting cannot be good nor can it be evil. If what the witch’s said is evil‚ then how is he Thane of Cawdor? Macbeth

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    In the book The Outsiders‚ written by S. E. Hinton‚ Ponyboy‚ a fourteen year old boy who is a part of the “Greasers‚” a gang that exists to help each other in the east side of Tulsa‚ Oklahoma‚ lives with his two older brothers and encounters both sides of the bitter rivalry between the “Socs” and the “Greasers. The novel focuses on the conflicts that arose among both gangs. The book also centers on the narrator‚ Ponyboy‚ and his journey with the “Greasers” and the “Socs.” The three topics addressed

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