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Props or People: A Women’s Place in Music Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. –Plato Music shapes who we are as an individual as well as a society, however, within the last several decades there has been an astonishing increase in the objectification of women in the music industry. From country, to pop, to rock, to hip-hop and rap there has been a dramatic rise in the use women’s…

Boreal, Coniferous, and Deciduous Forests Boreal, deciduous, and coniferous forests each possess distinctive traits and soil characteristics. Forests soils give important contributions in nitrogen and phosphorus transformations. These transformations are dependable on the weather conditions of the forest and the type of vegetation it contains. Soil mineralogy and organic matter also play an important role in the nitrogen and phosphorus transformations on the forest floor. Boreal forests are…

Sound and deaf may appear at first sight to work in completely different worlds, but this is not the case. In this paper, I guide regard on how sound is construed in deaf, how rethinking sound can overturn deaf hearing, and how signing and other non-spoken communicative practices may fix music for the deaf community. Mi aim is to relate the journey of a musical interpreter and how she translates and practices music in concerts and festivals to hearing-impaired audiences. To add to the above, I…

A comparison of To Kill a Mockingbird & The Chrysalids To Kill a Mockingbird and The Chrysalids are both novels that discuss flaws in human nature. These extend to racism, both past and future, unfair judgement, and justice. Though they take place in different time periods and have different characters with different beliefs, the two novels showcase similar and yet unique interpretations of their central themes: prejudice, conformity and religion. Prejudice is a preconceived opinion that is…

The novel To Kill a Mockingbird contains many different literary devices that the author, Harper Lee, portrays throughout the book. The most abundant of the literary devices is the author’s use of theme. Some themes are more thoroughly extended upon and made detectable by Harper Lee. Although some examples of theme throughout the novel are very subtle, the ones described in this paper are the most easily detected and have the most accounts in the novel. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird the…

D-Day World War Two is one of the bloodiest wars ever be fought. Besides the 6 million Jews that were killed during that time period, there was around fifty million men, women, and children that were killed because of the war. The most significant battle that was fought in World War Two was The Battle of Normandy, also known as D-Day. D-day, also known as operation overlord was the most significant because it helped bring an end to the war, it was the main attack by the allied powers in…

Haida Gwaii is often referred to as the “The Canadian Galapagos” with over 6800 species of flora and fauna and presence of more unique subspecies than any other areas in Canada of equal size (Gaston, Golumbia, Martin & Sharpe, 2008). Haida Gwaii is located 80 km west of the mainland of British Columbia and is the largest and most isolated archipelago located on the west coast of Canada (Stockton, Allombert, Gaston & Martin, 2005). As the archipelago is within close proximity of the Pacific Ocean…

Introduction The term disturbance is often associated with negative connotations. However, ecologically speaking, disturbance is a natural and vital process that can ultimately help facilitate the development of an ecosystem (Attiwill, 1994). In general, disturbance is an event that causes a change in the structure of an ecosystem, resource availability, and/or the physical environment (Turner, 2010). There are also disturbance regimes, which focuses on the temporal and spatial dynamics of…

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is an excellent book that portrays the Big Questions in many ways. As a 6 year old living in the Great Depression, Jean-Louise (Scout) Finch, and Jeremy (Jem) Finch, take the reader to the roots of the behavior of humans: innocence and guilt, kindness and cruelty, love and hate, calmness to ferocity. Throughout the book, the Big Questions show up, and there are many examples of how this is so. From conformity to fate, and the purpose of life to how our…

and her experiment with her persona worked to her advantage since critics approved her decision to slowly transform her star text from one to another by mainly focusing on her talent. Critics approved this change lauding, “Unlike Miley Cyrus, Iggy Azalea or Nicki Minaj, Ariana Grande has been gaining attention less for how little she wears or how graphically she moves than for how she sings” (Farber). Grande’s transition separates itself from that of others because not only did it successfully…