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    Corrida The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is a historical fiction novel about Jake Barnes and his friends.The novel takes place in France and Spain in the mid 1920s. The entire story is told from first person. The protagonist is Jake, antagonist is also Jake it is him against himself. The mood is ironic because Mr. Hemingway makes the reader think very hard about the past and what Jake must have gone through. The conflict in this book is Jake and is enablement to maintain a relationship…

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    mayor’s house”(129). With the continuing her avoidance of Grand Strasse, Liesel’s fear gets the best of her. There is a shift, though, in this somewhat awkward relationship. Ilsa takes Liesel in, after the bombing, and “[holds] her hand on top of the accordion case, which [sits] between them”(545). Ilsa and Liesel’s relationship starts out on a rocky precipice, but through shared heart and event, it becomes something important for the both of them. The two of them work through their…

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    language barrier for me due to only knowing English. I was surrounded by different cultures and different people living their everyday lives. People on this train were interactive and appeared more open minded. Performers came on to the train with an accordion and a vihuela which is a Mexican guitar. They stayed on the…

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    Argentina Tango

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    The popular consensus was that Argentine Tango first arrived to Argentina around the mid 1800s. At the very beginning, “Tango” was merely a type of music where “one musician [played] on a guitar or an accordion”. After somewhat years, the Tango altered its definition in to a “trio” incorporating various instruments such as the “bandoneón, violin, piano and bass”. Around “1880s”, the dance was found around the brothels, outside of the city of Buenos Aires. (https://accessdance.com/news/2155/ ).…

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    After the scintillating sun has melted the snow, the fluffy coats are at last hanged, and classes have come to conclusion, there is no doubt that summer has arrived and everybody appears to have a distinct plan of how to spend their summer. It always varies from travel plans, to a summer job, an internship, etc. For assistant professor of Theater Arts, Dmitry Troyanovsky ‘98, an opportunity presented itself from the other side of globe, the Eastern hemisphere. The opportunity entailed for…

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    Goals After a thorough CMS evaluation process, Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) decided on Cascade Server back in the spring of 2007. The College engaged BarkleyREI to design their site, which was launched in 2008. As a natural extension of the successful partnership between the College and the vendor, NOVA collaborated with Barkley in 2014 when it was time for a new website design. The first step in the discovery process was to identify the main goals of the project: Increase the…

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    beautiful things like jewelry, knifes, badges, and even some musical instruments. The music was almost like a free getaway to them and they played it on instruments we still use like the snare drum, flutes, and the concertina which reminds me of an accordion. They also used things instruments at some religious services that they held anytime they could and sang poems they had written like “Love That Passeth…

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    mundane of objects. The words, “boring” and “old” passed through my head, like hecklers at a comedy club trying to kill a performance. Like the comic who gets heckled, I pushed through and plucked the book from the shelf. The spine felt like an accordion; the pages smelled of years of use. The little girl on the cover stared at me, expectant almost. The words, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” were worn and faded. As I read, the book was littered with distortions, contradictions, and…

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    Caribbean students. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers. Salemuniversity.edu.ng,. (2014). Understanding Students for Effective Learning. Retrieved 7 November 2014, from http://salemuniversity.edu.ng/index.php/component/content/article/16-explore-accordion-content/192-understanding-students Sites.google.com,. (2014). Creating a Safe and Supportive Learning Environment - Literacy Online. Retrieved 9 November 2014, from…

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    played during Come on Eileen. There was a banjo that was played which played a big part in the songs distinctive sound. Another instrument used was the violin which can also be referred to as a fiddle by reference to the style they were playing. An accordion is also used in the song Come on Eileen, but they are not normally used as much in modern music. The texture of the song is polyphonic as shown from the different melodies that play throughout the song. Come on Eileen is able to show variety…

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