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    Juke Box Musical Analysis

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    recorded by the most popular artists of the time like Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole. And usually altered to fit the artist and for them to have their own interpretation of the song. These songs would become hits and be recorded for years to come. Cole Porter was by far one of the best at writing these standards, while he was writing music in his later life he had mastered the craft by writing simple songs with dummy lyrics “I Love You” which was popularized by Bing Crosby in 1944. In his earlier career he still wrote a bunch of standards especially in his hit Anything goes with hits such as “I Get a Kick Out of You” (Recorded by Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald), “(You’d Be So) Easy To Love” (Recorded by Billie Holiday and Sammy Davis Jr.), “You’re The Top” (Recorded by Bing Crosby and Ethel Merman) and the title track “Anything Goes” (Recorded by Chris Connor and Tony Bennett). Frank Loesser started writing Tin Pan Alley after he hadn’t had any luck with his previous jobs. His first musical he wrote was Where’s Charley but he didn’t get any major success until he wrote the hit “Baby It’s Cold Outside” used in the film Neptune’s Daughter, which won him an Academy Award for Best Song. After that he moved on to writing Guys and Dolls which won him two Tony Awards and created the hits “I’ve Never Been in Love Before” (Recorded by Bobby Darin and Doris Day), “If I Were a Bell” (Recorded by Bing Crosby and Miles Davis) and “Luck be a Lady” (Recorded by Jack Jones…

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    singers were Duke Ellington, with the hit song "Take the 'A ' train," Glenn Miller, the singer of "In the Mood," and Benny Goodman, performing "Sing, Sing, Sing." These four singers were not the only popular ones, on the contrary they were only the most popular ones and they have been said to have been the ones that pretty much gave that music period a meaning, with them as the definition. There were many other famous singers of the era. Other famous singers of the era were Frank Sinatra, Bing…

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    Everyone is being watched. Everything that is done on the internet is tracked. When most people hear this, they prefer to block all forms of tracking when they browse the internet. This would be okay if it was not for the fact that most people cannot live without several services that require a certain degree of tracking. It is some of these features that people have come to depend on in their everyday life, thus blurring the line that separates acceptable tracking from stalking. This means that…

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    Arion1 Anthony Arion Principles of Marketing 301B Prof Coulson 28 September 2016 Google: 1 followed by 100 Zeros The number 10 to the hundredth power; a 1 followed by 100 Zeros is a google. Likewise, the company founded in 1996 with a search bar merely powered by two dual Pentium II servers with 512MB of Ram each and now paying founders. Sergey Binn and Larry Page, an annual salary of $17.5 billion each is so aptly named as to make one believe it was inspired. Just ten years later in…

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    to Success What is an outlier? As Malcolm Gladwell explains in his novel Outliers: The Story of Success, an outlier is “something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body”. A man named Lawrence Edward Page, with a mind like no other teams up with another man named Sergey Brin to create the famously known search engine, Google. In the book Outliers, Gladwell mentions many strategies and methods to achieve success. While a few apply to Larry, many of them do…

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    The first is a public domain database, which is entirely free and open to anyone with a computer and an Internet connection. The second is a proprietary database, which is accessible only to someone who pays for a subscription or belongs to an institution that purchases a membership (Bowles 2010). Bing, Google and Yahoo are examples or public domain databases and Ashford Library is a proprietary database. Information on the Internet was created for many purposes such as to inform or persuade to…

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    Google the Almighty Google through the years and growth of the internet has become a multi-billion dollar organization that has captured the essence of convenient searching. It has grown into a household name and can be used by anyone with basic computer knowledge. In its commercial called “Grads”, it shows the life of the average high schooler and his or her journey through it. The commercial shows the ups and downs, the exciting moments, and the tough moments when it seems like…

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    In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” which appeared as a cover article of the Atlantic in 2008, Nicholas Carr argues that the use of google and the web is making humans stupid. Carr talks about the fact that his concentration has drifted easily, and his reading skills have become a struggle due to the time he spends online. However, Carr agrees that the web does have the advantage of immediate access to information…“what the net seems to being doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and…

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    Does Google really have all the answers? It sure seems like it with its limitless amount of resources. Almost every question has an answer, and Google can access them all. We use Google almost every day to know more whether it is to prove someone wrong or just to know more. Arguments have been made that Google can make people dumb or smart, but neither one is true. The truth is that we have become more dependent on the search engine for the information. We now lack to will and desire to truly…

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    Google Inc Case Study

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    Introduction Google is responsible in providing the society with specific information search and promotional activities through internet. Google’s running mainly focuses on business fields such as search, advertising and so on. The objective of Google Inc. is to improve the methods of users when searching information. Larry page is the current Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company. Google Company’s mission is to organize the information all over the world and make it uniformly accessible…

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