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    For the rocket we build the nose of the rocket first. To make the nose we cut the top portion out of the second two liter bottle. Then we will need to cut out a slit on the bottle in the shape of a rectangle. We made sure to leave one side attached to the bottle. We cut the very top of the nose and replaced the top with a half of a ping-pong ball for the tip of the nose. Then after the nose was dried we secured the ping pong with duct tape. In the inside we took the balled up clay and glued it

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    Nicholas Turchiano MU-106 Professor Murphy 2/27/18 Achille-Claude Debussy better known as just Claude Debussy was a French pianist and composer from the 1800s. Claude was known to be a major force in the music world. Claude was known to use his own unique style when writing his pieces that helped shape modern music. Claude was known to change the style of his pieces throughout his career so that no two pieces would sound the same. I will be examining the life of Claude Debussy and specifically

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    Generation after generation, in different countries of the world, there has always been different styles of bodily expression. Dance is a special form of art which movement of the body creates. One of the most delicate types of dance is ballet, a form that evokes great emotion. For Martha Graham, ballet was not only a dance: it was a way to express a fear or happiness with gestures created by the body. Scholars have recognized Graham as having made revolutionary changes in dance: in form, subject

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    discovered the rhythm of the sea, and her love for art began. Throughout her career, her choreography demonstrates this influence. Her professional career began in 1916 at the Denishawn School in Los Angeles. The pioneers of modern dance Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn founded this school of dance. Denishawn was the first in America, to explore all of folk, classical, experimental, oriental, and American. It is here where; "Graham learned to discard

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    when. The choreographer at the bottom of my timeline is Ruth St. Denis. Ruth St. Denis was an American modern dancer who started to dance in 1906. Taught by Ruth was Martha Graham who was also modern American dancer and choreographer. Finally, Erick Hawkins was taught by Martha, along with being an American modern dancer. All the people that I have chosen are modern dancers showing that that style was probably famous then. Ruth St. Denis, born in 1879, was from a small farm in New Jersey. As a child

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    dilemma when he opened up a McDonald's across from the original McDonald's owned by Maurice and Richard McDonald, who had to change their name to Big M. Ray Kroc wanted to put them out of business, but he also wanted Maurice and Richard to suffer seeing their name and restaurant they lost. Ray Kroc could have put the McDonald's in San Bernardino, California, elsewhere, even down the street or on another street. While Maurice and Richard cannot do anything with the name “McDonald's,” they decided to move

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    “There are advantages developing a more phenomenological anthropology that better communicates human experience and emotion.” Moustakas reading “Phenomenological Research Methods” (1994:13) says that “phenomenology is a qualitative method of research – refrains from importing external frameworks and sets aside judgements about the realness of the phenomenon.” In his book “Introduction to Phenomenology”, Dermot Moran (2000: pg4) defines phenomenology as: “It claims, first and foremost, to be a radical

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    and why is it important? Phenomenology is a philosophical movement which emerged at the end of the nineteenth century in the school of Franz Brentano. It was developed by Edmund Husserl and subsequently modified by his successors Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty and Sarte among many others. It is hard to summarise their shared philosophical beliefs as one as each had differing views on what phenomenology should entail. For the purpose of this essay I will examine phenomenology in general, what it accomplished

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    To justify this unorthodox design, it should be noted that phenomenology is used to investigate not only experiences, but also the essence of such through one 's perception of a phenomenon. This philosophical branch of phenomenology is founded on Maurice Merleau-Ponty 's phenomenology of perception (Merleau-Ponty & Thomas, 2004). Merleau-Ponty 's philosophical stance poses that understanding the lived experience is achieved by exploring one 's perception of a phenomenon (Thomas, 2005). The focus

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    Merleau-Ponty advocates that people get the essence through our bodies. The “body” means “an expressive mode of belonging the world through our perception, gesture, sexuality, and speech.” (Kearney, 1986; pp. 73). In other words, people cannot separate themselves from their perception of the world because it is the essential background of the experience. Different from Husserl’s reduction method to eliminate the embodied relationship to the world; Merleau-Ponty emphasizes the key idea of “ embodied

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