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    Joining a powerful musical concept to an expansive technique, Cuban-born, New York-based pianist/composer Aruan Ortiz releases the second solo album of his career, 20 years after Impresión Tropical, his 1996 debut CD recorded in Madrid, Spain. The abysmal evolution observed really makes me happy and wonder how much this creative can contribute to the current elasticity of jazz. Lately, he has been a ubiquitous presence in the creative New York scene, appearing at the side of folks such as Michael

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    Words to Live By There are many quotes that have deep meanings to me, so it is difficult for me to pick just one to write about. The difficulty in finding [a] quote(s) is that almost nobody is going to feel and/or understand the way you interpret a quote. Quotes have different meanings to everyone, and for some, a quote is not something that can explained, but something a person must feel. I guess since I have to choose I would choose the lyrics to ‘Angel’ by Theory of a Deadman. The lyrics to

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    Joyce G. Almencion March 14, 2013 BA Literature “Hug Me” by Meg & Dia inspired by the novel “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley American rock band Meg & Dia has always been inspired by literature in writing their songs. In 2005, they released an album called Something Real which contains twelve tracks that are all inspired by literary works like John Steinbeck’s “East of Eden”, “Rebecca”

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    lives, although not always visibly. Perhaps the band Lifehouse and their song Broken became popular because the message of brokenness holds a power all can relate to. Yet not only the message, but also the effectiveness, meaning, subject, and use of poetic devices in Broken contributed to this song’s popularity. Overall, Lifehouse and their song Broken will continue to have pertinent insight as long as broken people still live. Lifehouse probably wrote this song out of personal experience. Something

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    the following imagery techniques- rhyme, rhythm, assonance, simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia. Print your lyrics and highlight the techniques or use your skills to highlight on the screen. Use your English exercise book if you prefer. Rhyme: Streets and Seats Rhythm: Can’t Find Assonance: Allday Rhymed Hassle, Mammals, Handle and Barrel Simile: Arizona Sky like Neon Nerds Metaphor: Can’t find Personification: Can’t Find Onomatopoeia: 2. Identify other techniques utilized in the song

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    The song “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman revolves around who we assume is Chapman, or another first-person point-of-view, and their lover. They both are itching to get out of the town they’re living in and move to the city. Chapman ends up coming to terms and accepting her situation in the city, while her lover is the opposite. In “Fast Car”, Chapman uses juxtaposition and subtle changes in her repetition to convey the idea that the feeling of escape is fleeting unless you actively work to make the best

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    “Comparative Commentary of Poetry” In this essay I will compare the poems “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar and “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou. Both of these poems deal with the issues of the inhumanity of slavery and racism, despite being written at different times. In fact, Angelou’s “Caged Bird” was inspired by Dunbar’s “Sympathy. Neither of these poets experienced slavery themselves, but they experienced the aftermath of it, as well as the horrible racism that to this day is a major issue. Despite

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    Brathwaite use poetic techniques to convey ideas about belonging to a particular culture Both poets Brathwaite and Levertov describe how people belonging to a culture are changed by a more powerful culture. This is done in both poems by an amount of force. There are symbols and powerful techniques to bring you into this. In the poem ‘Limbo’, unable to protect and defend themselves, the West Africans find themselves exploited by the Europeans. Clearly, poetic techniques and structure are

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    Imagine that a person is making his way through life and growing up when all the sudden his Grades were starting to fall so that person has to rise up through those problems and get back to where he belongs. Next month things are still going smoothly and then he is told that his mother is in the hospital and is having heart problems and his attitudes plummets. But over the course of the next week she gets better and he feels whole again, these are the problems some people have to face while people

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    everyone should go through life doing; treasuring every moment we have of life on earth. People go through life only not appreciating time and don’t understand the real value of it. Everyone should live their lives to the fullest. A breakdown of the poetic devices used in Carmen Sunshine’s “Time” and Jenny Crespo’s “Cherish Time” reveals that Carmen Sunshine’s creates a stronger argument on how people should cherish their time in life because it’s not going to last forever. Carmen Sunshine’s use of

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