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    family script. According to Byng-Hall (1995), children learn behaviours and family norms from observing parents, and thus demonstrations of favouring music by parents can act as a script that children follow. The script writing can be both obvious and obscure. The situation that my mother forced my sister to learn the piano would be a typical obvious script writing as Borthwick and Davidson (2002) states that parents who had music education in childhood tend to make children receive the same no matter if they had positive or negative experiences. Though, this raises a question to discuss: why only my sister was taken to the piano lesson, and why as written above, there was no desire of involving in music in myself before start playing the recorder at school. Firstly, it is because of the parents who wrote script with gender bias, or my socially constructed identity as a male. It can be analysed that not playing the piano might have been a part of negotiation of self-identity through music, expressing that I am a boy. The rationale for this analysis comes from the study by O’Neil (1997) which demonstrates that there is a gender bias on musical instruments and a piano…

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    However, he didn 't want to hurt the nurse 's feelings. "Um, they 're okay. I haven 't one I would like, but it 's still... fun to listen.." He fakes a smile and a laugh. "Really?" The nurse asks. The boy didn 't feel like answering, feeling as if she knows what he 's going to say. The nurse ends up giggling and pets the other 's head. The boy then realized that the nurse just borrowed these so that he could wash away the boredom, silence, and dread haunting him 24/7. He was thankful for her…

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    be easily manipulated depending on how certain information has been acquired. The Conversation, The Lives of Others, and Truth in Numbers all record reality using technology. The Conversation uses tape recorders, The Lives of Others mainly uses a typewriter, and Truth in Numbers uses the internet. Technology and the accuracy derived from this source can be deceiving if the technology is manipulative in any way. In The Conversation, Harry Caul is a paranoid, lonely man whose job is to eavesdrop…

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    In 1820, imprisonment for debtors was a huge topic. An article called “The Remembrancer, or Debtors Prison Recorder” that was published in New York, April 17, 1820 discussed the prison for debtors. This article was released by a press of Charles N. Baldwin and published by John B. Jansen. Mainly this article focused on discussing about Debtor prisons and how the system is unjust for throwing people in prison for being unable to pay their debt. The article on page 15 discussed how to reduce…

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    but this does not change the fact people can take your posts and pictures and copy and paste it and save it to their phone and PC device. Also, people may share the content. Overall, posts and personal content never disappear and vanish for good. Next, both authors are similar when they lecture about the older generation is not as skilled as their younger counterparts, and face many troubles with computers. Nixon mentions, "The other day, I had troubles accessing Photoshop through our home…

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    Once a week, I meet up with my friend Michael to talk about some of the bigger ideas that seem to consume the great majority of my thoughts. Our bonfire chats generally last until 9 or 10 PM, just in time for me to catch some of the George Noory show on my way home. How can you not love a talk radio show devoted to aliens and conspiracies? The other night, however, 1290 AM was not coming in too great, so I scanned the dial and stumbled upon a voice that could only be that of a Christian…

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    Dish Network would use both PEST and Porter’s 5 Forces analysis because these tools offer an effective analyses areas of a strategic plan for the company. PEST analysis is used by marketers to analyze the political, economic, socio-cultural, and technological changes PEST is a framework or used by marketers to analyze and monitor the macro-environmental (external marketing environment) factors that have an impact on an organization, which should be identified, understood and analyzed by the…

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    Beowulf Analysis

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    tenth century recorder as well as those of the sixth century setting. The recorder of Beowulf uses several of the characteristics of epic poems in an attempt to instigate the generous and charitable behavior that (presumably) he views as morally correct. Throughout the poem, the recorder wields a variety of epithets to characterize the heroic figures, whom the Anglo-Saxon audience admires and strives to emulate, as lavish givers. The main hero of the story, Beowulf, is himself…

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    though. Some disks were the perfect size for jukeboxes, while others were good only for record players. Soon this altercation led to something that could accommodate everyone, the tape recorder. The tape…

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    evolved over millennia. Since the invention of the audio recorder, people have been able to document the evolution of music so that history can actually be heard. Recording devices have developed from tinfoil and hand cranks to complex computer systems. When music was first being recorded, musicians played instruments as technicians recorded on a machine. Today’s music, however, is no longer being played and recorded; it is being programmed by machines and edited by engineers. In 1877,…

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