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    “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.” The Outsiders is a novel by S.E. Hinton about a group of boys who face many challenges and hardships together. The novel is based off adversity and how although it could have negative impacts it could still bring some positivity like finding the real image of actions, overcoming fears, and bringing a family together. The Outsiders display how adversity can help people find the real meaning of actions. Ponyboy thinks

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    #2 compare and contrast the nature, role, and impact of rock n roll with that of beat poetry and the avant-garde. how were these artistic expressions similar, and in what ways did they significantly diverge? Rock 'n' roll is an important genre of music. It not only have the power to influence but also sustain itself throughout many generations. American society has been hugely impacted by rock 'n' roll consistently setting trends for pop music and persuading other genres of music. Rock 'n' roll

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    Although the most popular, the commercial film industry is not the only way to produce and project motion pictures to targeted audiences. Documentaries and avant-garde films have their own guidelines, production values, technological innovations, budgets, and overall viewership that differ greatly from that of fiction-based films. Many avant-garde films are made not only to challenge the existing use of film itself but also to express the personal views or experiences of the screenwriter and/or director

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    through his incorporation of avant-garde instrumentation and the idea of ecological music was dictated by chance. However, Cage had examined the use of avant-garde music in experimental cinema. He used chance, avant-garde instrumentation, electro acoustics, ambient sound, and silence in his film scores. In addition, Cage had collaborated with theater artist/practitioners such as Maya Deren, Sidney Peterson, and Herbert Matter, who were central figures in American avant-garde filmmaking as well as experimental

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    This art´s condition was throwing into crisis with the emergency of avant-garde movements from the late 19th century in Europe, because these movements recognized on this status –autonomy of art– a lack of self-criticism by art, not only in the “art institution in its separation from the praxis of life” ; but also to bourgeois society as a whole. In other words, the avant-garde is understood as a form of self-consciousness of artistic field, with a very clear interest to

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    Mulvey provided examples by explaining her political use of Sigmund Freud’s Freudian psychoanalytic theory. She argued that in mainstream Hollywood film women were merely objects. Post war avant-garde film makers were able to stay away from the trend of commercial cinema at the time. Although, it depends on avant-garde film directors and writer’s point of view but most of the time they did not share the same styles as commercial cinema. Mulvey studied the Freudian and Lacanian philosophies on personality

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    How Did Art Change Spain

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    Art in Spain has changed drastically over the centuries, from the traditional paintings of the Golden Age to the abstract work of the Avant-Garde. The transformation of art over this time had a large impact on Spain. Many found the cutting edge art of the Enlightenment and Avant-Garde to be disturbing and not what art should be. Picasso’s work was criticized for how different it was to traditional work but today he is seen as one of the most famous painters in the world. Art caused divides over whether

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    Fables Of Faubus Essay

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    “Fables of Faubus” is an interesting song that has a slow tempo, free jazz or avant-garde jazz characteristics, and bop influences. Other free jazz songs during this time period were less structured and had a faster tempo. “Fables of Faubus” was recorded with an alto saxophone, two tenor saxophones, trombone, piano, bass, and drums. There were alternating melodies layered on top of each other at different points throughout the song. The melodies were mostly played by the alto saxophone and the two

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    My Apollinaire's Speech

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    Most Important: I heard the sound of his voice. I think there is here something essential for a musician who does not want to betray a poet. Appolinaire’s timbre, like his entire œurvre, was at the same time melancholic and joyful. There was, in his speech, sometimes, a point of irony, but never le ton pince-sans-rire [tongue-in-cheek] of a Jules Renard. That is why one must sing my Apollinaire’s songs without insisting on the comical sound of certain words. (Bourin 253) Poulenc’s music embodies

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    Alexis Eastwood Theatre 101-54 May 10, 2016 Director Paper The director I chose was Sophie Hunter. Sophie Irene Hunter was born on March 16, 1978 to Charles Rupert and Anna Katherine in West London, United Kingdom. She is an older sister to two younger brothers: Timothy and Patrick. Her parents divorced later, and her father remarried. Sophie's step mothers name was Katharine. She has two half-siblings from her father's second marriage: Sam and Lily. Hunter attended St. Paul Girls'

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