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The History Of The Drumset
Number of Words: 1037 / Number of Pages: 4
... The dundun is an hourglass-shaped, two-headed drum whose twin heads are laced together by thongs of gut or leather (Hart, 52). By manipulating the tension on these thongs a player can alter the pitch of the tone he is making, thus enabling the dundun to "talk", or produce tones that sound like words (52). This allows him to communicate with neighboring tribes (52). Americans took this idea and converted it into a single-head drum, constructed of brass, in which a foot pedal altered the pitch of the drum. This drum was first called the kettledrum and was later renamed to the timpani drum ("Early ...
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Colonists' Fight For Freedom From England
Number of Words: 299 / Number of Pages: 2
... Quartering
Act. The Quartering Act stated that the colonists had to provide food and
shelter for the royal troops. The Stamp Act required the colonists to buy a
stamp when they purchased certain items. The Stamp Act angered everyone because
it hit everyone's pocketbook. Colonists acted strongly and quickly, the Stamp
Act was later repealed.
Even though England had failed with the Stamp Act they continued trying
to gain control and tax the colonies. Parliament passed the Townshend Acts in
1767 which taxed paint, glass, lead, paper, and tea. Customs Officials were
granted documents, or writs of assista ...
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The American Colonies
Number of Words: 978 / Number of Pages: 4
... made up the New England
and southern colonies. "God Almighty in his most holy and wise providence
hath so disposed of the condition of mankind, in all times some must be
rich, some poor, some high and eminent in power and dignity, other mean and
in subjection. Yet we must be knit together in this work as one man."(John
Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity) This statement by John Winthrop,
demonstrates importance of religion in the lives of the New England
settlers. "We must delight in each other, make others' conditions our own,
rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, al ...
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Human Nature And The Declaration Of Independence
Number of Words: 1624 / Number of Pages: 6
... feel they
had the God given right to do that but they also based their arguments on the
workings of governments of the time and contemporary theories of government of
writers and political-social thinkers of their time.
The three essays that were given to us in class, Politics by Aristotle,
Of Commonwealth by Thomas Hobbes, and Of the Limits of Government by John
Locke are all very intersting essays on how government is supposed to funtion.
Although the founding fathers probably read all three of these essays and
simialar philosphical thought went into the writing of The Declaration of
Indepe ...
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Saving Private Ryan
Number of Words: 866 / Number of Pages: 4
... and Francis Ford Coppola, Vietnam flickers in and out of our imaginations as a minor piece of hell, a torn-out fragment from a Bosch painting. But World War II, the Good War, the Heroic War, the war that saved the world, is different. Yes, we know it was dreadful, but we don't really want to know: We'd rather cling to the image of jutting-jawed John Wayne firing his machine gun at a collapsing line of Axis dummies.
After "," the myth of World War II will never be the same. Using the overpowering techniques of modern film, Steven Spielberg has cut through the glory-tinged gauze that shrouds World War ...
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Ku Klux Klan
Number of Words: 461 / Number of Pages: 2
... the violence was so serious that Republicans in Congress gave President Ulysses S. Grant authority to use national troops to restore order in affected districts. Faced with trained soldiers empowered to arrest suspects and hold them without trial, the Klan collapsed with surprising swiftness. Although Southern whites resorted to violence to regain control of their states from 1874 to 1877, the Klan as an organization disappeared by the end of 1872. However, at the turn of the century the story of the Klan was popularized in Thomas B. Dixon's The Clansman (1905) and D. W. Griffith's powerful movie The B ...
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Janet Jackson
Number of Words: 457 / Number of Pages: 2
... big boss she acted like if she were a worker.. and not in charge
of anything..
That's when Paula Abdoul stepped in. She created the most
wonderful choreagraphys for her videos and shows. And one day.. Janet
started saying.. no i don't like that certain move.. though i like
that one.. And slowly she started producing and inventing her
own steps and foot works! She developped a much higher self-esteem.
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In an interview with janet jackson she revealed that she liked
being sexy and retroactive. She always wanted to be famous. And
she realized her only ...
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Neil Simon Utilizing Charatter Exaggeration
Number of Words: 1841 / Number of Pages: 7
... in a comedy is to make a whole audience fall onto floor, writhing and laughing so hard that some of them pass out" (Geitner 254). Simon uses different elements to put stress on the conflict and also to aid in the humor of his plays. The jokes that Simon produces arise from the situation, usuallybrought forth by variegated elements, one of which is character exaggeration.
In two of his early plays, Come Blow Your Horn and Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Simon utilizes character exaggeration. In each of these plays the conflicts are aided by the exaggeration of the characters, which reveals eac ...
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Walt Disney
Number of Words: 358 / Number of Pages: 2
... and Pluto. In 1937, Disney originated the feature-length cartoon with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Within the next five years, he produced other feature-length cartoons such as Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Bambi. In 1961, Disney was the first to produce a color television series which was called, "Disney's Wonderful World of Color". In the 1950's and 60's , Productions, Ltd., with Disney as executive producer, was one of the major producers of films for motion-picture theaters and television. Still today the company produces more animated motion pictures than any other. From all of Disney's accom ...
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Movie Analysis - Sand Pebbles
Number of Words: 417 / Number of Pages: 2
... which all of the European nations accepted. Now in China it was not only the European nations, but also the Untied States.
The Chinese flags were a symbol of nationalism, of their nationalism. That they were their own nation. It was a reassurance of their own nationalism. It proved to the Chinese that even though there were many countries slowly taken over China, that they were still their own nation, and they weren't going to let anymore foreign influence into China.
The flags also symbolized militarism, because where ever there were two different flags in the same area conflicts arose. When the ...
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