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homophonic since the lead guitar has a background with bass. The dynamics have gradual changes in chords and vocals. Afterwards, the lyrical content of the song was about a man who fell in love with a woman who makes him feel younger and reminds him of his childhood memories. It was like a nostalgic happening that he was longing for his past youth memories that was long gone. The song does not contain much of a lyrics because it focuses more on the guitar solo that was the best attribute of the song. The inspiration of the song was Erin Everly, the girlfriend of Axl at the moment they write the song. He initially wrote this as a poem for her, then he thought that this was a good lyrics for the song that they are about to make. That time is when Slash is only experimenting with playing some guitar riffs and joking around. Then Axl told him that it was amazing then they decided to add some chord to it to improve and enhance it. That’s the time when Axl decided to make his poem a lyric for the song and adding up the “where do we go now” part to the end. This song was very significant because it was their first single to hit the the top 1 of the US Billboard and even the UK Rock Chart. They never really thought that the song would be one of their most successful songs in the history. In fact, it was still popular today and was never forgotten. I chose this song because it was very classic and I like this song. I listened to this since I was a kid and my dad is singing it on the…

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The movie Whiplash from 2014 follows the story of Andrew Neiman as he is a jazz major student at Shaffer Conservatory in New York City. The movie starts out with Andrew playing the drums in the music room, when Terence Fletcher, a well-known conductor, walks in to see him playing. Fletcher invites Andrew to be a part of his studio band as the alternative drummer. When Andrew arrives to band practice the next day, he realizes Fletcher’s true personality. He is insulting, abusive, and a bully to…

Permanently Closed is a documentary that investigates the mysteries surrounding the institution Letchworth Village. This now abandoned lot, has had a lot of attention in the past years. Most recently, it was featured on the Travel Channel’s Ghost Hunters, and episode of the TV series Elementary, and was one of the main inspirations for the concept of season 2 of American Horror Story titled Asylum. Most famously, Letchworth was featured in Geraldo Rivera’s expose “The Last Disgrace” which aired…

Slash is a type of fanwork in which two (or more) characters of the same sex or gender are placed in a sexual or romantic situation with each other. Slash fanwork interprets the chemistry between the characters in the source text as homoerotic. Slash fanfiction is laced with sexual tension, whether it was acted on in the canon or not. The purpose of slash fanwork is to incorporate two “equals” in a romantic relationship. It is primarily written to eliminate gender hierarchy that is most often…

In response to the question “What sexuality(s) do you identify as?”, only 29% of 4,000 of responders identified as heterosexual. Furthermore, in response to the question “Do you identify as belonging to a gender, sexual, or romantic minority?”, 53% of 9,589 responders answered yes. As a final point, though about 90% of respondents identified as fans of male/male slash, on about 30% identified as boy female and heterosexual (centrumlumina 2013). It seems that although the demographics of…

“Slash and Burn”, a popular and illegal method of deforestation used by farmers to cut out forest, burn the trees, and farm in the nutrients of the resulting ash. The problem with slash and burn is that the crops drain the soil of its nutrients within 3-4 years, and it takes nearly a century for the forest to grow back. Humans have practiced this kind of environmental burnout for most of history, and as our population grows the world only seems to get smaller. This method is practiced because it…

capacity to absorb and store CO2, but when we are slashing and burning these forests, the impact is far more severe and it is an enormously damaging component of anthropogenic emissions. (REDD) Indonesia is the world 's fifth-ranking greenhouse gas emitter, coming in just behind Russia and India. (WRI) This year, the country has experienced nearly 100,000 fires so far this year. This past September and October and in the last few weeks of the dry season, there has been more fire activity…

wildfire threat and which provides an opportunity for firefighters to work effectively and safely” (Christopherson 1). Christopherson explains that if forests are thinned, firefighters are capable of intervening in wildfires more easily, therefore keeping surrounding residents defended. Contrarily, the anonymous author of the article, Thinning Forests Won’t Prevent Fires on Earthfirst.org, claims that logging is the exact reason that forest fires spread. “Research has shown that thinning does…

Canada accounts for roughly 7% of the forests in the world. This implies that Canada has an important role to manage their forests effectively. As we know, there are many factors that can disrupt the forest system, the two major groups of threats are seemed to be the natural disturbances and human activities. In terms of the human activities, such as farming and industrial development, are thought to be responsible for disrupting the forests. It is considered as rather a smaller effect in the…