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    Live Jazz Concert Report

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    Unlike the Language we learn in school, music is a special type of language that can be use as a type of communication tool. Jazz is origin from African American and its main characteristics are swing and syncopation, improvisation, distinctive voices bent notes and modes. I’ve watched an amazing concert for the Jazz term paper. The title of the Live Jazz Concert is “Brian Culbertson feat Michael Lington” As the Piano and the Trombone player, Brian Culbertson is one of the main performer that…

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    The Circle is a major business that maintains their focus to enforce everyone to work together as one unit. In the novel, The Circle, by Dave Eggers, there is an idea portrayed that every individual is a part of something greater than themselves. Eggers shows that anything that someone does, even a little act that does not seem to be important at the time, can have a major impact on the other individuals around them and even their society as a whole. This idea can be exchanged to the perspective…

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    Dave Pelzer Discipline

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    The novel A Child Called It, by Dave Pelzer is an inspiring heart wrenching story about a young boy, Dave, who is abused both physically and mentally by his mother. Dave endures and more importantly survives an ideal that no human being should ever have to live through. From the age of 4 to 10 Dave was continually abused and dehumanized, gradually getting worse over time. Everything was taken away from him, his mother made him feel like he was truly nothing. The abuse he endured included…

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    The first song is ‘Voiles’ composed by Claude Debussy. It is a 20th century piece in the Impressionism genre. There is only a piano in this piece, which is unique to the whole tone or Diatonic scale harmony used by Debussy. There are three melodic ideas presented throughout the piece. The first idea has no markings towards beat, the second melodic idea is joined with the first. After the one minute mark, the third melodic idea sets in and it starts to build up then trails off. Next, the song…

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    Violence In Adults

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    In today's society violence is everywhere from television to video games and in reality violence has become a part of our culture. Some researchers have said that this exposer is not a big deal but rather a potentially good thing as people will not have as low of a tolerance or shocked with violence. However there is another side that feels we are becoming desensitized and more prone to violence. When talking about violence it's not just with ideas or images we are more susceptible to but…

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    have gathered sufficient information to take an appropriate position on the issue regarding whether students at Mills High School should continue to read Zeitoun. Despite the numerous charges against Abdulrahman Zeitoun of domestic violence, author Dave Eggers’ purpose still remains effective and dissimilar to Zeitoun’s accused actions. Discrimination against Muslim-Americans and Islamophobia is prominently portrayed in Eggers novel, Zeitoun, as a way to depict the many injustices that occurred…

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    Behind my old tan house on McClure road is an open opportunity to have as much fun as you want, and as a kid I took advantage of that. I loved going out to just use my senses and explore. I would see how many different animals I could see or hear. I would listen to the birds hum their songs, and hear the chipmunks run aimlessly through the woods, cracking sticks every step of the way. Who knew such little animals could make so much noise! Sometimes I even thought they were bears! I never did see…

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    Very recently, it may have come to your attention that an assigned novel in AP Language and Composition, Zeitoun, has been come into question on its credibility. The riveting narrative, written by award-winning author Dave Eggers, Zeitoun depicts the struggle of a man, Zeitoun, and his family after the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina and life during the War on Terror. According to several news articles, it is known that Zeitoun has been arrested and charged for domestic violence and stalking…

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    This Book can be Summarized in a few ways, depending on your perspective. To me, this is a story of a boy learning the balance between friendship and family, the life lesson of knowing when its play time and when it’s time to listen. The boy gets punished after an unwelcomed comment made to his mother, and is sent to his room. In his room he escapes into his imagination. His room turns into a forest, and he takes a trip to a monster filled island, and becomes King. Eventually, after playing to…

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    The characters include his mother Catherine Pelzer, is represented as Mom , Mother, and the Bitch . Mom, when Dave talks about “The Good Times” at those times all family members were happy. Mother, is a woman who is angry, always barking orders , giving Dave endless chores to do and she is treating him as a slave. The Bitch, when she exceeded humiliating, beating, and starving to anther stage t became a monster when she was drunk,…

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