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    Tin Pan Alley Tin Pan Alley is the name that is given to the group of musical artists and producers of New York during the 19th and 20th century. The name was, at first, given to a specific location in New York. Tin Pan Alley was located between West 28th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. Tin Pan Alley is said to have gotten its name from the collective sound of the pianos all playing different tunes at the same time. This was said to sound like tin pans being banged together in an alleyway. There is now a plaque on the sidewalk on 28th Street between Broadway and Sixth that commemorates the historical location. Tin Pan Alley is said to come about somewhere around the year 1885. A number of publishers started building their businesses in the same location of Manhattan. The time period in which Tin Pan Alley ended is unsure. Some say that it ended at the beginning of the Great Depression in the 1930s, when radio replaced sheet music as the driving force of American popular music. Others would say that Tin Pan Alley continued into the 1950s when earlier styles of American popular music were brought about such as rock and roll music.…

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    Describe what Tin Pan Alley was, and its importance in the rise of musical theatre composers. According to a story told by Harry Von Tilzer whose office was located on West 28th street, described that area as a place where pianos were being played could be heard clanging and banging like someone was beating a tin pan, so that where the name Tin Pan Alley arose from. Tin Pan Alley was very important in terms of the rise of musical theatre composers because composers realized that by exposing…

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    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Plot Summary (1958) It’s 1958 Mississippi, where the white man stills holds more power than the blacks, (which is still modern day Mississippi). We meet our first main character named Brick Pollitt, played by Paul Newman. A former high school football star, he spends a night at his football field, trying to relive his glory days while getting completely wasted. Yeah, when you are depressed, go to the sight of your depression with tons of beer. He falls and breaks his…

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    Southern Values in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof "The weight of Southern history, the power of social and racial divisions and its rituals and taboos often make self-determination and moral choice unachievable" (King). This statement from Kimball King perfectly summarizes the point Tennessee Williams strove to exemplify in many of his works. Thomas Lanier Williams, better known as Tennessee Williams, was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus Mississippi. He spent the first seven years of his life in…

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    In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Brick reflects Williams’ a broken man who cannot proclaim the longing in his relationship with his dead friend Skipper. Sexual identity was something Williams wrestled with in his life and can be seen in this play (Lovelady). Being homosexual is mentally and ethically deadening to Brick’s mind and spirit which makes him turn to alcohol for relief. The 1960s were some of the most difficult years for Williams, longtime companion Frank Merlo died, similar to Bricks’ best…

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    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Elia Kazan created a film adaptation in 1958 of Tennessee Williams’s original play titled Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. This film overall offers an expanded role for Big Daddy, and one scene in particular that clearly shows this extended role is the basement scene (interpolated just for the film), that proves to be very incongruent with Williams’s thoughts on the topics of homosexuality, communication, and narcissism seen throughout his play. Homosexuality, a topic evident in…

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    Tin And Sulfur

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    The unique composition and purity of as-deposited SnS2 thin films prepared with different precursor solution volumes from 5 ml to 25ml were determined by EDX analysis as shown in fig 5, which brought out the presence of Tin and Sulfur as elementary components. Two different peaks were observed in the spectrums from fig 5 relevant to the tin and sulfur. The EDX spectra show that the weight percentage for the film prepared at the precursor solution volume of 5 ml is 36.8% and 63.2%, which is…

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    Immigrants come to America in hopes of finding and achieving the “American Dream”. Some do end up achieving this goal, but for a majority of immigrants, they are faced with racism and discrimination because of their culture. When asked for our nationality or where we are from, they do not expect us to say American or America, and when we do, they say “No, where are you REALLY from?” Immigrants are told to assimilate and join the American culture, but when they do so, they are still reminded that…

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    Pit Bulls Essay

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    Max von Stephanitz is accredited with the crossbreeding of “working sheep dogs” to create a working dog with stamina. The arrival of the German Shepherd in the Unites States did not take place until 1906. Similar to the Pit-bull and Rottweiler, the German Shepherd is intelligent, loyal, strong, etc. His diet, exercise, training is essential to productivity and coexistence to society (Lewis). The American Kennel Club website provided information of the German Shepherd. The information presented…

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    Hot Tin Essay

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    They can grow upto several microns and have excellent electrical conductivity. Their growth can be re-tarded by adding 0.5% Zn, using reflowed tin or hot tin dip. Reflowed tin is a tech-nique that involves reheating a part above the melting temperature of tin after it has been electroplated with tin. Hot tin Dip is a process in which a part is dipped into a bath of molten tin above 450 F. This creates a thin layer at the interface of the base material & tin. 3.2 Voids The voids can be removed by…

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