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    Don Giovanni

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    winds and heavy rain causing flooding and disaster but, after it everything returns to normal and the calmness will come. This is because a bad season or a moment in our life cannot last forever. Based on that principle, I interpret the overture of Don Giovanni composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The piece has three fundamental elements that contribute to the understanding of the changing moments in someone's life. The first element is harmony, which is chromatic or dissident in the starting…

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    Finding names is not an easy task, but based on the articles, “The Weird Science of Naming New Products” by Neal Gabler and “How’d it Get That Name” by Bob Greene, it demonstrated interesting ways on how products were named. In Gabler’s article, “The Weird Science of Naming New Products”, he explains the random process in naming a virtual reality experience. They found a man named Shore who insisted in looking for ides off a science fiction website. He looks for words such as “Jumpdoor”, “Jaunte…

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    American Pie Speech

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    35 Bonanza left runway 17 for Fargo, North Dakota. III. On that tragic day; musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson lost their lives. IV. I’m sure many of you can recognize the song American Pie, written by singer-song writer, Don McLean; but how many of you know what it’s actually about? I’m going to enlighten you to the story behind the son, the tragic crash, the aftermath and the effect it had on history. (1:35) Body I. There were many variables that pushed the group to…

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    Don Quixote

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    in his novel Don Quixote. The novel focuses on a chivalrous knight who adventures through the cities of Spain fantasizing about love and fighting to regain his sanity. Cervantes uses romanticism to represent the idealistic relationships that develop throughout the novel. Through the many deceitful relationships in the book, Don Quixote and Lady Dulcinea, Don Fernando and Dorothea, and Cardenio and Luscinda illustrate Cervantes’ theme that although love is…

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    Panchito Circuit Analysis

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    Panchito faces many problems in the circuit,such as financial, he and his family are poor,and educational problems because he couldn’t go to school until cotten season was over. Another problem Pinchito and his family face is that they kept moving to different places, and the places that they would move to weren't exactly “nice”. some evidence for these statements is that in the story it states “ Papa took out a pencil and began to figure out how much money we had earned our first day. he…

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    Short Story: Belly Cell

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    Day 1: I have just entered the mouth and so far everything is all right. I blend right in to the colorful cotton candy! Down the slip 'n' slide I go! This will take me to the stomach lining and I will try to kill the stomach cells. Adventure awaits me Day 2: As I approached the stomach cell, I wrap myself in cotton candy as a disguise. A cell membrane security guard starts asking me questions before I can actually get in. "When did you enter the body?, Where did you come…

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    Hunger Games Satire

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    Gigantic The Hunger Games. A horrible, deadly, despised, yearly event that put 18 tributes up against each other. There were bloody battles, sanity lost screams and dehydrated corpses. I was the unlucky camper this year. Created by the capital, I was a human-like bull named Lord Knossos. Apparently I was supposed to be a warlord, conquering lands for my people. I don't have people, I haven't even seen anyone remotely similar to me. My stature was very buff, with a large upper body and small…

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    character through Wolfgang A. Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte’s Don Giovanni. Donna Elvira is a sensible and imprudent woman throughout her ordeal with Don Giovanni. She can’t decide whether she wants to kiss Giovanni or to kill him. Donna Elvira is unwavering in her goal throughout the opera. She is in love with Don Giovanni even while being completely aware of his faults. Lorenzo Da Ponte, while influenced from previously written works of Don Giovanni, wrote an original libretto for Mozart’s…

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    Introduction: Don DeLillo is an American writer born in 1936. Delillo is a postmodernist and written eleven books receiving various awards for his work. The title of DeLillo’s eighth novel, White Noise, brings many assumptions towards the overall meaning of the book. White noise is when there is a combination of sound waves together creating a constant buzz. The buzz can produce a relaxing or overwhelming feeling. Although, it depends if it refers to a repetitive noise one is trying to avoid or…

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    Don Delillo, the author of White Noise, wrote an incredible story about the invention of plots, and explains how naming things correlates with the idea of certainty and uncertainty. He does this through the main character of the novel, Jack Gladney, along with other characters that are in Jack’s life, such as his friend and co- worker, Murray Jay Siskind, a neuroscientist and another co-worker, Winnie Richards, and the creator of Dylar, Willie Minks. White Noise teaches us that naming things are…

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