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    Detecting Chronic Lower Back Pain Back pain might be one of many many unpleasant issues it's possible to suffer from. It may make even regular jobs including bending or strolling a headache that is painful. Most people are inclined to go to their physician expecting to acquire a prescription medication that can produce the soreness disappear. For lasting therapy, one has to look deeper and find backache's basis cause and remove it from your core. Everyone asked me how I had ripped every one of…

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    Netflix? Online Subscription business that allows consumers to rent movies and television shows and allows customers to stream movies and television shows through their computer, tablets, smart phones, smart Tv's, as well as receive DVDs and Blu-Ray discs delivered to their homes (Research and Markets, 2012). In July 2011 Netflix raised monthly subscription fees. Hundreds of thousands of irate customers posted angry comments to Netflix’s social media website’s, and their own social…

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    Payola In The Late 1950's

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    beginning of time but the term for it of payola gained its notoriety during the periods of the late 1920’s and became widely known within the United States in the late 1950’s. Payola means the paying of cash or gifts for favorable and frequent radio play. Disc Jockey’s and radio stations were offered the bribe from the musicians. In this essay, I will discuss more on Payola. Payola is portmanteau of the words “pay” and “Victrola”. Pay is obvious in meaning and Victorla is a word taken from…

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    Hip Hop Sociology

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    Hip-hop originally started because DJ Herc’s little sister did not have any money for shoes and clothes. They decided to have a party and charge guess to enter. Drug use and the crime rate was high in New York City when hip-hop started in the mid-1970s. To try and eliminate some of the issues DJ’s threw block parties. To avoid issues around their community the residents participated. After that the hip-hop culture surfaced through the neighborhood. It then became the most popular thing in the…

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    “Smokey” Robinson. After being turned away by Jackie Wilson’s manager, a dejected Smokey Robinson was heading back to his car and Berry Gordy stopped him and told him he liked the songs they were auditioning (Gordy 90-92, Posner23-25). After more conversation Berry discovered that Smokey had written over 100 songs and Berry ask to look and critique them, leading to a lifelong business and friendship between the two. This meeting would actually lead to the development of Motown Records, with…

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    Felicia Vega May 10, 2015 MUS 210 Final The Birth of Rock & Roll The 1950s for the music industry is a best known for the birth of rock & roll. During this time period the United States was just recovering from times of drastic change, the great depression and war. It was only destined that such a legendary genre of music would emerge. Rock and roll first emerged primarily of combinations most familiar with African Americans, such as blues, boogie woogie, jazz, jump blues and gospel. Typical…

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    Listening Preferences

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    Data was acquired as to which brand of music, or radio format, is most appealing to college students, such as alternative, rock, country, R&B, etc. Also, data was collected regarding the basic needs of the students as well as the distances they wished to travel to acquire their needs. Other gatherings included the desired radio format, amount of interest in the radio, impact of personalities, and several shopping tastes the student has. Analysis of the location of the target, how…

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    Book Burnings are known to happen from time to time over the course of history. Reason go from trying to erase an entire culture to just not believing in the writings. But, if someone told a group of people to jump off an airplane without a chute they wouldn’t, because they know they shouldn’t and there will be consequences. The seemingly non harmful action of destroying the writing of someone else affects us in more ways than we can count. Mass book burnings are due to the ignorance of citizens…

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    1950s Popular Culture

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    changing consumer tastes and an expanding market for records and live events. The record industry had a setback during the war time because of production restriction but the case suddenly improved just one year and after the launch of 33rpm twelve inch disc and the 45rpm single by 1949. The five giants Decca, Capitol, RCA-Victor, Columbia and ABC-Paramount quickly capitalised on the increase in disposable income especially among middle-class teenagers. The launch of Billboard Top 40 in 1951…

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    Grease Research Paper

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    joining Fox's live TV adaptation of Grease, in "Grease: Live". Lopez, the Extra host, will be playing Vince Fontaine in this new Fox venture. Vince Fontaine, in the 1978 romantic summer Broadway play, is a fictional version of Alan Freed (an American Disc Jockey). Vince hosts Rydell High's school dance as the DJ for a live national TV broadcast…

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