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    Pale Horse Analysis

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    The first one is of a sheep he is dressed in a uniform of someone that is in the line of duty with a low rank he has blue bandana and the rest of him is just colored a light brown from his fur to the long sleeve he has on. This sheep like man is located on the left hand of the illustration. Now on the right hand side is a man that is just imitating an animal he is wearing…

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    when both their families moved away. Years later in October 1960, they happened to bump into each other at a train station. Jagger was a student at a school for economics in London and he had his own band called Little Boy Blues and the Blue Boys. Jagger was a huge fan of blues music and Keith Richards was more of a fan of Chuck Berry’s style of rock and roll. After Jagger and Richards talked, he soon joined Mick’s band. Later while going around some…

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    The Blue Sweater

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    Boston Globe Review Jacqueline Novogratz’s memoir, The Blue Sweater, is eye opening, inspiring and thought provoking. Written and published in 2009, the book quickly grew in popularity and instantly became a New York Times Bestseller. It begins with an embarrassing memory from high school, where the author, Jacqueline Novogratz, is harassed for the shrinking blue sweater that her uncle had given her. That same day, she immediately goes home, boxes up the sweater and donates it to goodwill,…

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    Baker, Daisy best friend. When Nick sees them he says, “They were both in white, and their dresses rippling and fluttering…” (Fitzgerald 8). Daisy wears white a lot in the story because she gives off an innocent vibe, and white also is a kind color and daisy is kind to anyone she meets. Also white can symbolize power and authority. For example, “Taking a white card from his wallet, he waved it before the man’s eyes” (Fitzgerald 68). Gatsby waved his business card in front of a policeman’s eyes,…

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    bedrooms; mine, my moms,and a spare for guests. The bedroom is lime green decorated with sea shells, dolphin figures, etc. My bedroom is by the bathroom There are three bathrooms in the house. My favorite bathroom is the kid bathroom; that bathroom has blue walls, white tiled floors, and doesn't look anything like a child's bathroom. Our living room is huge with beautiful tan walls and soft carpet. On the other hand my kitchen is old fashioned; it has an old table with an island table with a…

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    jazz became so iconic to the New Orleans area, that there was a NBA basketball team in New Orleans called the New Orleans Jazz. But there really isn’t one type of jazz music. Jazz is such a loose genre of music, because there are so many different kinds of music that fall under the title of jazz. In the words of Micah Issit, “ jazz has diverged into many different subgenres that may seem barely related, [but] many of the key elements found in the first jazz music have remained central…

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    and their premier record Lively Stable Blues. Either way jazz started near the 20th century and has been an influential stylistic form of music ever since. Jazz really began flaring up in the early or roaring twenties. Some of the biggest names that arose during the twenties were King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington. These are…

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    the film into an openness and affirmation of life, expressing itself particularly powerfully in Julie’s kindness and passion for music. The film is explicitly meant to express a perspective on the subject of liberty, the ideal corresponding to the blue portion of the French flag. However, Kieślowski approaches the subject not from the common political understanding of the term “liberty,” but rather from the portrayal of Julie’s internal liberation from her trauma, depression, and…

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    He is represented as a middle aged black man wearing a dirty blue shirt, and a bright orange stocking cap. His front teeth are missing, and he is awkwardly dancing to the rhythm of the music. The expressive idea embraced by this scene is that he is representative of black people in general.6 From this point, the…

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    American Jazz sensation, Miles Dewey Davis III was born in Alton, Illinois, on May 26th 1926. The nine time Grammy winner is considered to be one of the top musicians of his era. He forever changed the style of jazz and history of music. Throughout his years in music, he has proven to be a universal musical genius that was able to stretch his style of sound for miles. Davis grew up in a middle class home with his parents, Miles Davis Jr. and Cleota Henry. His father was a successful oral…

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