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- 7641: Dave Matthews Band
- ... rock: music that is conspicuously eclectic but plainly rooted in the familiar bedrock of Americana, the blues and jazz. By introducing acoustic guitars and shifting tempos punctuated by violins, penny whistles and other flourishes of world music and jazz, the band has forged a cerebral yet commercially appealing sound, surpassing competitors like Phish. (Thigpen) After the release of Under the Table and Dreaming came the album Crash, which involved various artists ... that let supposedly somebody down by, and he is so upset he tries to show his sorrow and his want to reconcile his wrong doing. But the helpless of his music propels you into his world so you can feel his pain. Many well known magazines also have good things to say about Dave Matthews Band's lyrical approach, "he (Dave Matthews) conjures optimism in a world beset by environmental depredation, political paralysis, self-doubt, and hopelessness" (Thigpen). Meanwhile Dave Matthew's describes his songs as "therapy, an effort to help his listeners cope with society, where racism is absolutely alive" ( ...
- 7642: Perception And Plato’s Theaetetus
- ... is not the way things are exactly, but the way we see them; or because it involves all of the five senses, the way we perceive them. Perception is not restricted to sight only, the world has countless numbers of sounds, smells, and textures. Perception is “the way things look to us” because even though something might seem to be one way, it is another. For example, the Muller-Lyer illusion ... or belief, but it is an important (however, not necessary) step to reaching them. In Plato’s Theaetetus, the three characters in the conversation have a discussion on perception and how it relates to the world. Plato recounts Socrates telling the young Theaetetus how, contrary to his belief, perception is not knowledge. Perception is too varied, Socrates says. He gives the example of a breeze blowing; one man can be made ... might not be cold at all. The blowing wind is the same temperature, but as defined above, perception is “the way things look to us.” Everybody is different and so everybody will therefore experience the world in a different way. This is what Socrates explains to Theaetetus, who sparked the topic of conversation with his reply, “knowledge is simply perception.” He was incorrect in his thinking because knowledge consists of ...
- 7643: A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- ... story I get the feeling that she could be telling of the changes that took place in the US after W.W. II when violence began to grow rapidly. Women were coming home from the war, and men were demanding their voting rights. In the 50's crime was on everyone's mind, on television and in the moon. O'Connor's knew taht society was drastically changing for the worse ... at the time could have been attributed to strong belief in God from a Catholic point of view. OConner was trying to put the question of Religion to the reader. What has happened to the World ? It had become complicated. Here you have a dear old lady just trying to get her only son to take her where she wants to go. Consider the Christian idea of evil as opposed to ...
- 7644: Noh Play Tsunemasa And Youchi Soga
- ... happening at the night of the salvation of Tsunemasa's soul. Tsunemasa, a certain prince of the House of Taira, who had died in the Battle of the Western. While Tsunemasa was still in the world, he really enjoyed playing his lute “the Green Hill”. Therefore, the priest Gyokei was bidden by his master to dedicate the lute to Buddha and to perform a liturgy of flutes and strings for the salvation of Tsunemasa's soul. The sound of prayers brought the ghost of Tsunemasa back to the world and appeared in a visible shadow. However, no one in there could see him because Tsunemasa was ashamed of the woes that consumed him. Another Noh play "Youchi Soga" was about Soga Goro and Soga ... these two Noh plays also deal with sufferings of the woe of warriors, these two plays are quite different. Tsunemasa(the shite) was already died in the previous time and he came back to the world as a ghost, so that this play is identified as a Kiri No (Demon play-Category V) and it is performed at the end of a day’s program. The shite will wear a ...
- 7645: Reforestation
- Reforestation The purpose of this written report is to inform the reader about the concerns and facts involved with reforestation. Reforestation began in Ontario after World War II. What happened was, professional foresters were assigned to an area and became responsible for its well being. Under the Crown Timber Act, long term management was prepared. Then the many steps needed to rebuild ...
- 7646: My Brother Jack
- ... David failed in his relationship with his wife, which is also a reason to his inner failure. He was miserable in his relationship although his feelings were never shown. David states To have travelled the world as I had I had only to have to drop back again into mundane horrors at the Beverly Gardens Estate, and Helen s bright parties (pg 345). Displaying his inner failure as a person. David ... We later can see that Jack learnt from this experience, where as David not knowing any better took the path of his father. Jack learnt a lot about himself when he was training for the war, he became the real man that was inside of him. there was a look of absolute rightness about him (pg 291 David s thoughts on Jack). David expressed his emotions all through the novel gaining ...
- 7647: An Essay On Equus
- ... character he has developed and most important, the God he worships. When Equus leaves - if he lives at all - it will be with your intestines in his teeth...I’ll give him the good, normal world...and give him normal places for his ecstasy... Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor it cannot be created.” Pages 92 & 93* Alan’s love for horses develops into devotion, a religious passion ... subject is something of an obsession to him... Frank: Call it what you like. All that stuff to me is just bad sex. page 18* These contrasting beliefs of his parents leads Alan into a world of personal problems which encompasses an understanding of the world formed largely by watching television, an inability to read, a distorted view of sex and violence, and no sense of his place in society. The plots painful journey into the tortured mind of Alan ...
- 7648: Night 2
- In reading, Night by Elie Wiesel and A Man's Search For Meaning by , many stories of the torturous life in the concentration camps during the second world war. In each book, the reader gets a different point of view from each book because in Night, you get to read about a teenager's view and in the book, A Man's Search For ...
- 7649: Music And Censorship
- ... Censorship In our society today, some musicians and their music drain and plague the moral and spiritual well-being of the people; therefore, censorship offers a necessary action that we must take to keep the world from becoming a land of decadence. The musicians lives are not examples for the children or the adults. The lyrics of many songs are not suitable for anyone. All types of music need some kind ... vision. In addition many of the musicians use drugs and stimulants to satisfy their hunger for themselves and for pure fun. The musicians tend to use drugs massively, to get out of the very real world that they consist so much a part of. Popularity seems pleasing but when one has the affections and total devotion of a mass of people, that person can not handle it because that person does ... us further and further away from the truth. The new age music of harps and tiny nature like sounds of whales and dolphins and rain leads one to believe that they are alone in this world. It makes people think that they control their environment, when in fact only God does, not them. Indian and Monk chants actually make a person seemingly high through deep meditation. Meditation was originally intended ...
- 7650: Alternative Fuels (fuel Cells)
- Introduction: Ballard Power System is the world leader in developing and commercializing proton exchange membrane fuel cell power systems. At the heart of this corporation is the Ballard Fuel Cell, a propriety zero-emission engine that converts natural gas, methanol, or hydrogen ... for transit bus engines in four phases. In the first phase, which was completed in 1993, Ballard developed and demonstrated a 125 HP fuel cell engine in a 32-foot transit bus. This was the world's first zero-emissions vehicle powered by fuel cells. Over the last six years, it has proven itself to be a reliable, smooth performing vehicle, that could easily be used on a large scale. Phase ... used on BC Transit buses, as well as giving it a top speed of 80 kilometers per hour. Most importantly, however, the bus produces no harmful emissions, and is extremely quiet. Possible Applications: Throughout the world, there is a great need for a small, portable, clean power source. Since 1997, Ballard has producing fuel cells which could be used for many different things, including laptop computers, cellular phones, televisions, and ...
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