...Frantic riffs, motorik grooves and "perverse sounds" define Blur guitarists eighth solo album... A series of heavy squalls rather than a settled spell of fair weather, Graham Coxon’s eighth solo album travels many miles from the serene, crafted almost-folk of his last release, 2009’s The Spinning Top. That record was a long, themed exercise in sustained mood and atmosphere featuring guests as venerable as Danny Thompson, Martin Carthy and Robyn Hitchcock. In contrast, A+E is short, loud and brattish. It’s also tremendous fun. Driven by some of Coxon’s most innovative and uninhibited guitar playing, A+E’s trump card is its sheer sense of adventure. It’s not an album for lovers of the perfectly turned pop song so much as those who prefer to be bombarded by sonic extremes. The scratchy, angular pop of fizzing opener “Advice” sets the scene: melodic precision makes way for lopsided rhythm, abrasive textures, extemporised experimentation and vintage electronic equipment running riot. Much of the album takes delight in what can only be described as the sound of machinery arguing. The element of chance effectively becomes another instrument. A+E is produced by Ben Hillier, who worked on Blur’s Think Tank and – perhaps more pertinently – Coxon’s second solo album The Golden D. Like that record, A+E is self-played, relatively lo-fi and rhythmically eccentric, making little attempt to ingratiate itself to the listener. The major difference between the two is that this time Coxon generally...
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...The Inner Depression of Beckmann’s Characterization after the War “The Man Outside” is a play by Borchert that portrays the dark aftermath of the war that has greatly affected the physical and mental health of Beckmann, a soldier who fought in the war. The depression and guilt that plagued Beckmann for the rest of his life was the result of losing too many people that he loved and the horrified situation of the war has been haunting him forever. The first instance that shows Beckmann was depressed appears in the first dream scene. Beckmann says, “I want to sleep – to be dead… to sleep in peace at last” (Borchert 86). Even though Beckmann has survived the war and has a chance to live again, his mind refuses to let go of the past and so he cannot find peace of mind. He chooses to die instead of living his life despite his peaceful surroundings after the war. It shows us that the situation of the war is imprinted in Beckmann’s mind; he cannot forget. It appears as a nightmare to him and haunts him forever, making him suffer and fall into depression all over again, repeatedly. Beckmann finds out that his family, the ones he thought he could go home to, do not care about him after all. This intensifies his depression greatly as he has no one else to turn to. “The woman used to be my wife – just called me Beckmann, … and the other fellow who was with her … and then these ruins... and somewhere underneath lies my boy … He was just one year old… I couldn’t bear it” (Borchert...
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...A GIFT TO YOU Everything I am Everything I'll be I give it to You Lord And do it thankfully Every song I sing Every praise I bring Everything I do is a gift to You Everything I have All You've given to me I give it to You Lord And do it thankfully Every song I sing Every praise I bring Everything I do is a gift to You A GIFT TO YOU Everything I am Everything I'll be I give it to You Lord And do it thankfully Every song I sing Every praise I bring Everything I do is a gift to You Everything I have All You've given to me I give it to You Lord And do it thankfully Every song I sing Every praise I bring Everything I do is a gift to You A GIFT TO YOU Everything I am Everything I'll be I give it to You Lord And do it thankfully Every song I sing Every praise I bring Everything I do is a gift to You Everything I have All You've given to me I give it to You Lord And do it thankfully Every song I sing Every praise I bring Everything I do is a gift to You A GIFT TO YOU Everything I am Everything I'll be I give it to You Lord And do it thankfully Every song I sing Every praise I bring Everything I do is a gift to You Everything I have All You've given to me I give it to...
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...The central government of the UK is based in at the Palace of Westminster in London. It contains the major central political institutions of the UK, the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Together with the ruling monarch, these three institutions are known as Parliament. The central government is the layer of government that operates across the whole country. It is usually located in the country's capital city and it has very specific responsibilities that no other level of government is able to do for example; signing treaties with other nations, making new laws and defending the nation. A proposed new law is called a bill. Bills must be agreed by both Houses of Parliament and receive Royal Assent from the Queen before they can become Acts of Parliament which make our law, The good thing about this responsibility is that it will make our country a safer place to live in by creating new laws and policies which will help protect the people either from drink/driving laws or smoking ban where they keep you from harm. The bad thing about this responsibility is only a selected few hundred MPs can make the choice and even through the people in the House of Commons are voted in by us, they may not do what is in our best interest and will vote on their principles and beliefs and they could have a bias opinion. An example would be the House of parliament and when they are in session they discuss lots of different issues and reports and in front of the...
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...Even at a private time during the day, such as using the restroom, safety becomes a major concern in those moments. Recent laws have been passed allowing individuals who are transgender to use same restroom respectively stated on their birth certificate. In doing this, traditional values of the American system are tested, due to the controversy of this situation. As growing humans, reality begins to make sense as we retain information that is seen correct and unflawed. Be as that may, traditional gender codes can be seen as belief system needing to be revamped based on its’ current situation. Deborah Blum states in her essay The Gender Blur: Where Does Biology End and Society Take over, she discusses,” XX makes female, XY makes male. There are two important — and little known — points about these chromosomal matches. One is that even with this apparently precise system, there’s nothing precise — or guaranteed—about the physical construction of male and female. The other point makes that possible. It appears that sex doesn’t matter in the early stages of embryonic development. We are unisex at the point of conception.”(521). With this relative point being made, one would argue the inevitability of this circumstance to surface. During our fetal state in life, the specifics of our gender aren’t immediately established until months later. After our gender is established, we are...
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...There are a variety of definitions and perspectives on what is right and wrong. On the other hand, we a society may deem certain issues to be absolutely wrong regardless of our background, such as murder. There are other categories such as violence and threats that may be almost absolute, although one may justify using these forms as the “lesser of evils,” for instance. Even so we may condemn it. Yet we see it in forms of television, video games, movies etc. That is not to say I am against these programs, for I myself enjoy watching an action-packed movie or a video game with plenty of weaponry. One may claim that since it is not in its direct form; that is outside the box of television and not using these condemned acts in the real world there is no harm. I personally believe this may be the case to some extent, but to say it is not wrong I am uncertain to a point that is true. Rather it may be what we deem happiness, in which it could be or not. Specifically, intuitively, we may allow ourselves to use such entertainment or conduct even though we feel that its technically wrong, yet it somehow makes us happy inside. This made me ponder on the thought of how society may conform to certain standards of “right and wrong,” and perhaps out of fear or belief that conforming to these standards will lead us to happiness. That is, telling ourselves that certain things in life are not wrong when they actually are or may be is what we use to justify this happiness that we find within it...
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...Abstract— Face recognition is a biometric system used to verify or identify a person from a digital image. This involve extracting features of face and then recognize it, regardless of expression, lighting, illumination, transformations (translate, rotate and scale image), ageing and pose. The existing approaches are deblurring based, joint deblurring and recognition, deriving blur invariant features and direct approach, which uses convolution model for performing face recognition in the presence of blur. So these methods cannot handle non uniform blurring situations that frequently arise from rotations and tilts in hand held cameras. In this paper, face recognition is done, in the presence of space varying motion blur. We have taken the concept that the set of all images obtained by non-uniformly blurring a given image form a convex set. We develop an algorithm based on TSF (Transformation Spread Function) model. On each focused...
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...stunning James Bond-style tuxedo, staring at her. Though a blur, he appeared to be smiling—Or is that smirking? She walked closer slowly, but he seemed to be getting further away with every step she took. She felt weak, as if her legs were made of rubber. Still, she kept walking—no, more like floating—towards him. The cool air swirled around her, gently clutching her velvety satin layers of. . . . What am I wearing anyway? And who is this man? She had to find out. As she drifted closer, the “tunnel” she seemed to be in was getting narrower. Even though he was facing her and not walking at all, he appeared to be getting further away. That’s typical of a dream anyway, she thought. Nothing is ever as it seems! She could hear music and clambering, Like a flock of birds, maybe? No, wait, people? But she couldn’t see people anywhere or birds for that matter, just colours and shapes at her sides, wiggling and floating, like ghosts, as she wandered past them. It was getting brighter as she got closer to him. What a cliché, she thought! “The light at the end of the tunnel?” Everything except him was a blur, but he still moved further away, without ever taking a step! She’d had this dream for eleven nights in a row! What...
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...want—but a photo that looks too cool because the shadows are overly saturated with blue color. To recap, you need to pay attention to two major things when color correcting: which colors are dominating the photograph and which colors aren't, and also where, tonally, those dominating colors exist. Adobe photoshop is basically used for retouching and editing ,to make changes in photographs to make them look more beautiful and appealing.Retouching tools repair damaged images,apply repeated patterns or replace colors in an image.These tools can be used over a selected portion of a image or o an entire image. Some of the tools available for editng in this section are –Spot healing Brush tool,patch tool,Red Eye tool,Clone Stamp tool,Eraser tool,Blur tool,Smudge tool,Dodge,Burn and Sponge tools,Spot Healing. Spot Healing Brush Tool The spot Healing Brush Tool is used to remove blemishes,imperfections scars,spots,and other unwanted elements on an image.You simply have to click/drag across the flaw you want to remove and it disappears.The spot healing Brush Tool wil automatically try to repair the mperfection by sampling...
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...This can be seen when Clarisse is talking about her uncle to Montag, ‘"I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly. If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! he’d say, that’s grass! A pink blur! That’s a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows. My uncle drove slowly on a highway once. He drove forty miles per hour and they jailed him for two days. Isn’t that funny, and sad, too?"’ (Bradbury 3) Clarisse said. In Fahrenheit 451, technology is everything. Nobody pays attention to life or the world around them. It is sad because no one appreciates the beautiful world around them, instead, they are stuck inside with the...
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...Upload Browse Library Upload P. 1Compare/Contrast: Dillard and Rodriguez Compare/Contrast: Dillard and Rodriguez Ratings: (0)|Views: 498|Likes: 0 Published by lostthorn This is a compare and contrast between the two essays:Dillard’s “An American Childhood” and Rodriquez’s “Always Running” . See more Sanchez 1John SanchezLori BrownEnglish IV 5th Period17 September 2009Compare/Contrast: Dillard and RodriguezDillard’s “An American Childhood” and Rodriquez’s “Always Running” both on theoutside seem to be autobiographies about an experience when both writers were being chased.Both writers include cultural influences on the setting to make it more clear what life was reallylike for them in their autobiographies. They also both dramatize the chase to make the story moreexciting. Yet, the two writers differ in what cultural setting their autobiographies are in and whatstyle they use to dramatize the chase.While these two autobiographies are rooted in culture, they both differ in what exactcultures the autobiographies nestle in. Rodriguez writes about life in a prominently poor Mexicanneighborhood. He describes many of its various aspects such as the “people … on the metalchairs … and beer” (paragraph 1), the “stucco and wood-frame homes” (paragraph 2), and the“neighborhood consisting mostly of Mexicans” (Paragraph 2). This poverty enriched land is sucha clash when viewed against the presumably middle class white community that Dillarddescribes. Her description of the...
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...Charlene Henderson Professor Davis English 102 13 November 2014 Fahrenheit 451 and the Society of Americans Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, illustrates a future that is remarkably similar to our current society. His science fiction novel tells the story of a community that relies on technology advancements to guide them in their everyday lives. His characters live in a fast passed society where they don’t read books, watch a lot of TV and drive very fast just like the people today. Bradbury does a nice job at predicting what the world would be like. We are always demanding more advanced machinery, and from the past, we have grown into a much more technological society. Lately, more and more people not only want more technology, they want it to be faster and faster. Faster computers, faster internet connections, better and faster cell phone connections, faster phones, and faster and more powerful cars, just to name a few. People don’t want to waste time anymore waiting for things to load even though they spend hours and hours doing meaningless things on their phones and computers. We want things done quicker without as much effort. We want things to take less to do them so we can have more for other things. Although Bradbury’s technology is more advanced than ours, we too are becoming a world consumed by technology advancements. Our society is similarly addicted to television and many people aren’t choosing to read for leisure anymore. Especially when TV...
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...they are are train. What is the purpose of this journey?” Trying to come up for a sample metaphor she claimed was “stupid” Anna suggested, “Maybe passengers is referring to all people and its talking about life and how it always moves forward.” I asked for the meaning of the next line where a cobalt blur is described. “If this is a metaphor, for line two, what does “cobalt blur” mean?” Anna responded by posing the fact that it could be a metaphor or a real image. Nina then said “I did not understand lines 3-6 until I read the whole poem.” She explained the difficulty by saying, “If you are seeing a person picking roses obviously it [the train] is not moving fast.” I added on to this, “But then a [an image of] cobalt blur goes by really fast.” The difficulty was that if the train is moving fast, how would an image like a woman picking roses be so distinct also be out-of-focus which implies fast movement. Anna tried to explain that on a train an image can be fuzzy and then vivid and fuzzy again. If this is the case the cobalt (which is the blurry image) would transform into the vivid image of the woman and become fuzzy shortly after. This was difficult to understand because the blur should not transform into a vivid image if the train moves fast, it should move on to the next image. Anna used an analogy with a car to explain riding fast in a car images in front and behind you would be blurry but it isn’t until you are parallel with the view that it is clear. The next few lines...
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...Plagiarism made easy. Trip Gabriel shows this to be true in his article, Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in the Digital Age. Plagiarism is a violation that has escalated in the digital age partially due to ignorance, lack of originality and laziness. Gabriel cites examples of plagiarism in colleges and universities as well as viewpoints of educators to show just how and why the lines of plagiarism have become blurred. He starts with the examples from college level students, in these examples the reasoning for the blur for students are different. In the first example Gabriel gives, the young man stated he didn’t think he needed to because the website did not give the information (374). The internet has become a place where words are written...
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