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- 5171: Film Score Music
- ... it may be. In the earliest days of film the music was played on a phonograph. This was around the time of Edison. The phonograph was an invention that did not last long in the world of film. The next step was the use of a vitaphone, which also did not play a lasting role in the movie industry. The next step was not the use of a recorded soundtrack but ... with Tom Hanks explaining the story of La Mamma Morta to Denzel Washington in Philadelphia. The music in this scene has been added to create depth in Tom Hank's character and to create a new special bond between the two men. The other way that the unoriginal score can be used effectively is if the music is not actually in the scene but is still playing in the background as ... process. The scoring of the film has always been a cornerstone to the success of the film, no matter how primitive the music may be. Bibliography Bazelon, Irwin. Knowing the Score. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co, New York. Hoffman, Charles. Sounds for Silence. DBS Publications, New York. Kalinak, Kathryn. Settling the Score. The University of Wisconsin Press, U.S.A. Manrell, Roger and John Huntley. The Technique of Film Music. Focal ...
- 5172: Benedict Arnold
- By: Anonymous No other American is remembered quite the same as Benedict Arnold. He was a brave soldier, a patriot- and a traitor. Benedict was born in Norwich, Connecticut, on January 14, 1741. When he was 14 years old, Benedict ran away from home to fight in the French and Indian War ... home, he ran away for a second time. After he was finished playing boy hero for awhile, he learned the apothecary (pharmacy) trade and then in 1762, he opened a book and drug store in New Haven. Benedict was also involved with trade in the West Indies. By 1774, he was one of the wealthiest citizens in New Haven. It's a good thing that he had money, because he was one of those people who like to ride around in their Mercedes and wear expensive clothes, even if he couldn't ...
- 5173: Leukemia
- Leukemia Leukemia is a cancer that has had a significant effect on our society and with the developments of new drugs it may become treatable. Leukemia originates in the blood-forming organs which may include the lymph tissue and bone cells. In a person with leukemia the rate and the number of cells produced is ... a state in which the patients shows no sign of cancer. One of these drugs is 2-chlorodeoxyadenosine, which kills the bad white blood cells, but leaves the good. "In 1990...patients treated with this new drug for just one week were in complete long-term remission (Weaver 29)." This long-term could very probably last forever until the patient dies and the leukemia reappears again. Another drug called DCF, when ... cure for all types of leukemia. In conclusion, leukemia is a cancer that has affected many people's lives and remains to be a frightening disorder that we have to deal with in the medical world. Fortunately, it looks like a hopeful future with the developments of new drugs. Maybe, with the increase in technology and new medicines we may someday surpass present day treatments and find a complete cure ...
- 5174: Civil War
- ... that the slaves were better cared for then the free factory workers in the North. Southerners said that slave owners provided shelter, food, care, and regulation for a race unable to compete in the modern world without proper training. Many Southern preachers proclaimed that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible. After the American Revolution slavery died in the North, as it became more popular in the South. By the time of ... treatment for criminals. The South felt these views were not important. All of these views eventually led to an attack on the slavery system in the South, and showed opposition to its spread into whatever new territories that were acquired. Northerners said that slavery revoked the human right of being a free person. Now with all these views the North set out on its quest for the complete abolition of slavery. When new territories became available in the West the South wanted to expand and use slavery in the newly acquired territories. But the North opposed to this and wanted to stop the extension of slavery into ...
- 5175: Winston Churchill
- ... Winston S. Churchill It was words such as these and the certitude in which he said them that played an important role in guiding Britains people through the trials and tribulations of the Second World War. Churchill was also an accomplished writer who composed several campaign reports and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 for his six volume history of World War II. But there is much more to this noble man other than his tongue and his pen. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill is a great mind because of the everlasting impression he left on Britain ... cause Hitler to back down. It wasnt until 1941 that his idea was put into action, but when in place, the "Grand Alliance" was a complete success and ended the tyranny and sadness of World War II. Winston Churchills resolution exemplifies the extent of which he cared for his country and his fellow citizens. After losing a by-election as a Conservative candidate at the age of twenty- ...
- 5176: The Bluest Eye: Quest for Personal Identity
- The Bluest Eye: Quest for Personal Identity Post World War I, many new opportunities were given to the growing and expanding group of African Americans living in the North. Almost 500,00 African Americans moved to the northern states between 1910 and 1920. This was the beginning of ... physically and towards his daughter Pecola sexually. Pauline is a "mammy" to a white family and continues to favor them over her biological family. Pecola is a little black girl with low self esteem. The world has led her to believe that she is ugly and that the epitome of "beautiful" requires blue eyes. Therefore every night she prays that she will wake up with blue eyes. Brought up as ...
- 5177: The History Of Jazz
- ... composed for the piano, and each rag is a composition with several themes. The leading ragtime composer was Scott Joplin. The first improvising jazz musician was the cornetist Buddy Bolden, leader of a band in New Orleans. The first jazz bands were usually made up of one or two cornet players who played the principal melodies, a clarinetist and trombonist who improvised countermelodies, and a rhythm section (piano, banjo, string bass or tuba, and drums) to accompany the horns. These bands played for dancers or marched in parades in the South. Some of the first New Orleans musicians were among the most stirring of all jazz artists. They include clarinetist Johnny Dodds, clarinetist-soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet, pianist Jelly Roll Morton, and cornetist King Oliver. The first jazz record was made in 1917 by a New Orleans band the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, made up of white musicians who copied black styles. The New Orleans musicians discovered that audiences were eager for their music in the cities of the North ...
- 5178: Comments On This Be The Verse
- ... description that Larkin uses is a very typical description of what is considered a modern household, again implying that nothing is anyone's fault, but that we are all contributing to "fucking up" of the world. The third stanza presents the problem in it's simplest form, and then provides the solution to the problem. The problem is stated on the first line, and the second line emphasizes the fact that this is a growing problem that seemingly can't be stopped. The last two lines of the poem then provide the solution: to stop reproducing. This is where Larkin says to the world that there is no way out of this problem. That the human race will either have to cease to exist, or simply live with all of it's problems. Like all of his poems, Larkin wrote "This be the Verse" with very careful planning and word placement. And even though this is a funny poem, it has a very deep message to share with the world. Everyone knows that the world is full of problems, and that hundreds of organizations are trying hard to fix all of the problems in order to make our lives better. However, as demonstrated in ...
- 5179: Charles Dickens
- ... London.1 Just before he started to toddle, he stepped into the glare of footlights. He never stepped out of it until he died. He was a good man, as men go in the bewildering world of ours, brave, transparent, tender-hearted, and honorable. Dickens was always a little too irritable because he was a little too happy. Like the over-wrought child in society, he was splendidly sociable, and in and yet sometimes ... of The Great Men, American Book-Stratford Press, NY., 1942 pg.19 2. Ibid, pg. 21-22 3. Johnson, Edgar, His Tragedy and Triumph. Rev. ed. Viking, 1977, pg. 20 4. Ibid, pg. 27 5. World Book Encyclopedia, Random House, NY., 1990 pg. 193 6. G. K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens The Last of the Great Men, American Book-Stratford Press, NY., 1942 pg. 50 7. World Book Encyclopedia, Random House, ...
- 5180: The Brady Bill
- ... situation was a compromise by Mitchell, Metzenbaum, and the GOP leader Bob Dole (R-KS). In this compromise, the length of the waiting period was changed from seven days to five business days, and a new provision was added which would end the waiting period in two and a half years upon the Attorney General's confirmation that the instant check system met certain standards. Nevertheless, it was the six votes ... 007 respondents favored the bill.7 The gun control advocates also had two significant victories in two States; in Virginia, a legislation was passed restricting handgun purchases to one gun purchase per month, and in New Jersey, the NRA and other gun rights advocates lost in their effort to repeal the state's ban on selling assault rifles. Furthermore, the 103rd Congress had a pro-Brady president. In contrast to Bush ... a substitute, and the Senate would then vote on the House-passed version of the Brady bill (HR 1025) with the text of the substitute inserted in lieu thereof. The Mitchell-Dole substitute included two new provisions: the sunset provision and the preemption provision, both of which had been sought by the NRA. The sunset provision was identical to the Gekas amendment passed by the House which would end the ...
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