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    Shorter Page 1 Wayne Shorter was born on August 25, 1933 in Newark New Jersey. His father Joseph, welded for the Singer Sewing Machine Company and his mother Louise sewed for a furrier. At age 15 Wayne Shorter had a life change which involved music. Wayne and a few friends snuck into a Lester Young concert they heard Jazz music from Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. At age 16 Wayne then wanted to play the clarinet he said he played the Clarinet because “it looked like a little spaceship”. Wayne

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    Plays are written to be performed. If there is not enough money to fund the entire play, it will be problematic. When a playwright decides to make a shorter play, he or she must accommodate all elements of the play to work with that decision. Character development becomes more difficult to incorporate, exposition must be concise and explicit, and there must be a perfect balance between plot advancement

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    Henry David Thoreau, a nineteenth century writer, philosopher, and abolitionist, establishes himself as an outsider, a passionate rebel against the status quo, in a passage from Walden. He writes to explain why he went into the woods to live and left behind what most people would consider civilization. Especially for an audience of contemporaries in the 1850s, before the Civil War, his choice to live in the woods would have been outrageous – even revolutionary. Even today, his choice to live in

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    Maurice “Rocket” Richard was one of the greatest hockey players to play in the National Hockey League. He was ranked 5th behind greats like Wayne Gretzky, Gordie Howe, Mario Lemieux and Bobby Orr by The Hockey News. Maurice got the 5th place honour due to his ability to put the puck in the back of the net. He was one of the greatest goal scorers in the history of the game. He was the first player

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    Jay-Z’s “December 4th” was the first song on his Black Album, which was released in 2003, during one of the many peaks in the rapper’s career. The song includes his mother talking about his childhood in-between verses and is a very autobiographical song in the sense that he talks about his life up until he formed the persona that is Jay-Z. Although “December 4th” is thought to have been about the rappers’s presumed retirement, the song does not allude to an end to his rap career, instead,the “December

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    This paper will review A Line In The Sand- The Alamo in Blood and Memory. This book was published by ‘The Free Press’ publication in the year, and was written by two authors, Randy Roberts and James S. Olson. In this book, Roberts and Olson present references towards the three battles of the Alamo. The three battles include the real battle of Alamo fought in the 1836, the early-twentieth-century Driscoll-De Zavala effort, and the concurrent historical and cultural warfare over the blockade. This

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    that people think that they will not die from doing drugs. In this song Macklemore is stating that drugs can be really addictive also he states that drugs can really mess you up and how media influences you to do drugs, for example rappers like Lil Wayne which he talks about in this song and Wiz Kalifa. Strong poetic devices permeate throughout Macklemore’s song Otherside for example he uses allusions, repetition and end rhyme. An example of a poetic device that Macklemore uses in this song is allusion

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    Essay on Western Movies Since 1960

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    A NOT-SO-ACCURATE prophet once wrote, "As recently as 1972, there were a tremendous number of quality Westerns being made . . . and since there seems to be a ten-year cycle in Western movie making, I'd say we'll see more in about 1982." 1 In 1982 only two Westerns were released, and neither was exactly a major success. Barbarosa, starring Willie Nelson, drew some respectable reviews–and some very damaging ones–but nobody went to see the film. The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez appeared first

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    Dances With Wolves, directed by Kevin Costner, and The Searchers, directed by John Ford, looks into the fabric of this country's past. The media has created a false image of the relationship between Native Americans and White men to suppress the cruel and unfortunate reality. Both directors wanted to contradict these stereotypes, but due to the time period the films were created, only one film was successful. Unlike The Searchers, Dancing With Wolves presents a truly realistic representation of Native

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    Music in Generations Essay

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    All music has changed tremendously throughout the years. Each generation has several specific songs that defines that generation. Every song has different lyrics that describe the emotions that the artists are feeling. The songs connect to each individual in many different ways. Lyrics to a song is what makes music wonderful. Each song touches someone through ways like teaching a life lesson or touching your heart. Every generation has music that impacts the world by motivating people to do

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