Listening Analysis Paper Alex Kosarko MUS 185‚ Summer 2009 For my listening assignment‚ I chose the piece‚ “St. Louis Blues” by Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong‚ recorded in the late 1920s. At this time‚ the country was in the transition from country blues (a single artist accompanied by a single guitar) to city blues (a single artist accompanied by either a piano and/or several instruments). In city blues‚ the form was based on a very rigid 12-bar blues structure‚ which used mainly the
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Pocahontas and John Smith. The young Indian princess was only twelve years old at the time of her first encounter with John Smith‚ yet she is portrayed as a hard body honey in her twenties. In order to match the beauty of their female character‚ cartoonists depicted John Smith as a perfectly sculpted young man with locks of bright blonde hair; however‚ he was merely a foul English seaman in his early thirties with dark dingy hair. Pocahontas did not look like Tia Carrera and John Smith was certainly
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The Unsinkable Ship On April 14‚ 1912‚ the RMS Titanic also known as ‘The Unsinkable Ship‚’ sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic but in 1997‚ James Cameron brought that fateful voyage to the television screen in a lifelike movie with what most historians believe to be accurate details. The fateful voyage of the RMS Titanic is a story that most people learn about and become fascinated with in elementary school. Like many people‚ James Cameron became fascinated with this story. In 1995‚ he began producing
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the government; it gives power to consumers and businesses stating that the problem will correct itself over time‚ focusing on long-term goals. In the case of Adam Smith‚ he argues minimizing government intervention and taxation the free market will adjust the supply and demand curves to an optimal point where the market benefits. Smith coins this as the “invisible hand” idea‚ in which looking out for our own interest in the market benefits‚ and it’s the invisible hand that adjusts the curves to an
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life. From a kiss to wake up a sleeping princess to love at first sight‚ anything is imaginable throughout the films. Even Pocahontas fell in love with Caption John Smith while he came to explore the New World. Or did they? In the Disney movie “Pocahontas” there are conflicting facts from “The General History of Virginia” by John Smith; in each there are differences like appearance‚ location‚ and happily ever after endings. Paragraph One: Difference in age when the two met What
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Bailout Stephen Jackson – Instructor January 22‚ 2013 1. How would Locke‚ Smith‚ and Marx evaluate the various events in this case? They would evaluate this case by claiming that the government ownership of companies is the kind of government ownership of the “means of production”. (Smith – the “father of modern economics” who is the originator of utilitarian argument for the free market. According to Smith‚ when private individuals are left to seek their own interests in free markets‚ they
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Classical Economics Keynesian vs Classical Economics Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes‚ two of the greatest economists ever‚ had two very different ways of looking at the economy. Adam Smith; born June 5‚ 1723‚ was a believer in market economics. Smith believed that the people are usually best left to their own decisions‚ and concluded that the economy would prosper with the elimination of government involvement. Adam Smith published An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of
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A key thinker in political economy: Adam Smith and his Invisible Hand theory Introduction Adam Smith’s contributions to the world in generally and to the economic in specifically cannot be denied. According to Brandon (2011)‚ people‚ especially economic students likely recognize him from “the invisible hand metaphor‚ division of labor examples‚ or the promotion of earning honest profit”. These ideologies have been discussed for over 200 years and they are often accepted as the straightforward
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Three of the early economic thinkers we have studied so far have been huge advocates for free trade. These three are Adam Smith‚ David Ricardo‚ and John Stuart Mills. All of which have made extraordinary contributions to why we should take free trade as being the best option for most if not all nations. Adam Smith‚ also known as the father of modern economics‚ has written extensively about why he believes free trade is what will bring about wealth in a nation. He is against the Mercantilist approach
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Adam Smith (1723-1790) -His books‚ The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry Into the Nature of Causes of the Wealth of Nations were published in 1776. -The Theory of Moral Sentiments: In the work‚ Smith critically examines the moral thinking of his time‚ and suggests that conscience arises from social relationships. His goal in writing the work was to explain the source of mankind’s ability to form moral judgments‚ in spite of man’s natural inclinations towards self-interest. Smith proposes
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