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    Music has been around since the creation of humans. It is a sound that to us humans is appealing and it 's something that we listen to when we are sad, happy, excited, mad, and etc. There are many types of music, but when i look at the type of music that represents reality the most it is hip hop and rap. Hip hop has been around since the 80s but it has become increasingly popular throughout all of our community. Rap artists started out rapping about where they were from and the life they lived, and

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    rain as a warning to the unfortunate and miserable future of the world that will be filled with death and violence (Genius). Dylan’s incorporation of god and nature with death also relates to the later part of his life where he experienced his idol, Woody Guthrie, and himself in near-death situations. (Rollingstone) Violence is another issue that is still going on today and is mentioned in A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall. Dylan wrote the song during the Vietnam war and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Thus, this

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    Annie Hall is a 1977 romantic comedy directed and co-written by Woody Allen. The film takes place in New York City and explores the relationship between Alvy Singer (Woody Allen), an intellectual, neurotic, forty-year-old comedian, and Annie Hall (Diane Keaton), a ditzy and insecure, aspiring nightclub singer. The movie centers around Alvy’s stream of consciousness as he looks back to figure out what went wrong with he and Annie’s relationship. Annie Hall received critical acclaim and won many awards

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    A few of Dylan’s most famous folk songs at the time were “Song to Woody”, “Blowin’ in the Wind”, and “Masters of War”. He was influenced to write “Song to Woody” during his time spent in folk clubs and coffeehouses of Greenwich Village, where he met a crowd of other musicians similar to himself (“Dylan, Bob” 31-39). This particular song was written as a tribute to his ailing folk musician hero, Woody Guthrie. Moreover, “Blowin’ in the Wind” is a song that was released in 1963 as a

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    During the 1940’s I will be taking about how Pete Seeger became a successful musician, and how he made a difference in the music industry. Pete Seeger was a smart man when it came to politics and being a musician, he got accepted to Harvard University, although he wasn’t your average college student; he couldn’t study which lead him into feeling his classes and dropping out. After Seeger dropped out of school he went into politics, Seeger always had a thing for music and politics; he had a lot of

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    One of history’s most notable “floating songs,” “House of the Rising Sun” has been labeled by critics as a piece of culture with an “epicenter lost to the past” (Marshall). Though the song is documented as being first recorded by Tom Clarence Ashley in 1933, “House of the Rising Sun” retains ambiguous beginnings and has been variously accredited to Ashley, to singer Georgia Turner as recorded by Alan Lomax, to an unnamed railroad worker who codified the lyrics as early as 1925, and even to the early

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    Nature is perceived in many different ways according to individual experiences. Some think it is beneficial for human need whereas others think it is for sightseeing. However, nature signs are ignored which leads an individual to not realize that nature is not a place for self identification and growth. Oftenly, individuals view nature as a get away from society or personal problems which also caused them to ignore nature signs. Therefore, in this paper the two films that will be explaining the importance

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    of cool gadgets. As the story moves on Woody begins to change and realize that Buzz is not such a threat as he first assumed. He begins to change to what he was before, leading the way and setting a good example. He helps them get to Pizza Planet and saves Buzz from being blown up by a firework by their evil next door neighbour, Sid. Sid is a villainous character; he destroys toys for fun and is feared by all of the toys. Woody shows his great leadership again when he

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    story, where dream and fantasy blend into one reality. A very interesting way of how I took it in literal where I wrote about Emile (character in To Find Zoé) meets up again in his mind with the girl that he met in the coffee place. Manhattan by Woody Allen tells me a lot about how to characterise my character. A man who thinks that he already figured out his life’s, his way of living. But giving that certain

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    “I’m an artist and I won’t change a word of my play.” In this film, we see two different views of what being an artist is. On one hand we have David, a struggling play write trying to get his new piece founded at the expense of his art; on the other hand we see Cheech, an enforcer for the mob who finds his true calling in David’s play. Cheech’s uncompromising attitude toward what turns out to be his art is in direct contrast with David’s views on what is to be an artist. It is clear that David

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