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    When assigned to cover Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, the world’s largest celebration location for the holiday, Connors dreads the piece. Connors covered the piece three years before and was hoping to get out of it. The day after Groundhog Day at 6:00 AM, Phil woke up, except it was Groundhog Day again. This pattern repeated several times, and more and more Phil transformed from a grumpy man into an arrogant person. He was so confident that anything he did during the day would be wiped away by the next, that he would say and do anything he pleased without thought of consequence. A good example of how his cockiness grows is in his relationship with Rita. During a date with Rita, Phil asked her what her ideal man would be. Rita’s response was, “ He would be too humble to know that he is perfect.” Phil screamed, “That’s me,” in response to her answer. Phil’s attitude at this point in the movie is not only cocky but egocentric. The glossary of The American Psychological Association describes egocentrism as “In cognitive development, the inability of a young child at the preoperational…

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    mysterious past. When 16-year-old Jacob Portman finds his storytelling grandfather dead in the woods and a monster with a face of a nightmare beside him he starts to rethink everything. Jacob decides to look more into these children his grandfather always talked about, combing through his old archives, discovering many crucial pieces that all corresponded to one place, a children's home in a small island off of England and a date of September 3d 1940. Curious, he leaves for the island and…

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    The loop predicate is defined as loop from N, the Statements loop is executed until the condition get false. Increment(N) is used to increment or decrement the loop count. And loop(n) is again called to attain the loop concept recursively. And when the value N becomes ‘0’ the loop stops. • In Prolog, only few statements can be combined in complex ways. Therefore, it is simple and it is not as readable as written logic. When comes to writablity, it is easy to write for basic programs, for…

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    pre-defined iterative statements include do, dotimes, dolist and loop (includes for and while) In Prolog there are no iterative statements. Since Prolog is a fact and rule based language and the programmers are allowed to provide with the info what needs to be achieved rather than how it needs to be achieved there are no iterative statements in Prolog.…

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    2-1 is a song solely about things not being what they seem, and that is why I chose this song to represent this theme of the novel. Early in the storyline, the peculiar children come across a time loop full of peculiar animals. A seemingly ordinary dog possess the intelligence of a human, and seemingly ordinary chicken eggs are actually as explosive as bombs. Also, the tales within a book that Olive likes to read are not only tales, but coded stories which, if analyzed carefully, can reveal the…

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    In 1960 to 70’s, a bunch of electronic instrument was overflowed in western music world. Many musician started experiment using the electronic instrument as a new method of composition. It was no exception to Steve Reich. Steve Reich, who had disavowed getting interested in and composing classical music, innovated playing tape loop as a significant role in his music. In the most of his music of the late 1960, the ‘phasing process’ - two tape loops of the same recorded phrase are played at the…

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    of an evolution in Chicago architecture, which would be a dramatic contrast to the two previous decades. These earlier years were characterized by stunted architectural growth and reform, and the lack of advancement was largely due to the shortage of funding associated with the Great Depression and World War II. In the midst of this new era of development, architectural firms Loebl and Schlossman & Bennett were commissioned to reconstruct the Loop Synagogue in 1957 (Figure 1) after the original…

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    The Loop Synagogue

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    In the midst of a new era of development in Chicago, the firm Loebl, Schlossman & Bennett was commissioned to reconstruct the Loop Synagogue in 1957 (Figure 1) after the original building was lost to a fire. In order to reflect modern industrial life and provide a functional space within the transitioning city, the synagogue was designed to incorporate contemporary aspects in both the exterior and interior of the building, which is expressed through the materials and the layout. Additionally,…

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    After the funeral, we went to Barb 's house for refreshments and reflection. Barb 's kids shared a few of her favorite dishes and desserts as a tribute. I grabbed a slice of cake and sat on a couch with my cousin, Rebecca. I noticed that while we were fine talking about Barb 's death, everyone else acted as if nothing happened. But we knew our Uncles and Aunts had to cave into their anger sometime. A few months later, my family vacationed on the North Shore. During the car ride, I read Lolita by…

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    Nostalgia by definition is a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, normally associated with a point in time in which one felt this abstract notion of what it means to be happy. In creating this song, this is a word that often came to mind and I think that’s due to a sort of nostalgia I felt in creating a song out of pure enjoyment and raw feeling, an element I feel is missing in the mass production and commodification of contemporary music. I don’t find fault in the electric…

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