...Grandma means the world to me Have you ever thought about what you'd be without the people that mean the most to you? Ive thought about it and I honestly just can't imagine where i'd be or who i'd be. Clearly I would be nothing without my parents. Honestly, none of us would be nothing without our parents, but what other people would you be nothing without? Is there anyone else? To me same as my parents i'd be nothing without my grandma. That beautiful woman with wrinkles on her face from all the suffering she went through as a young lady to be able to feed her daughter and four son’s. Which I have the pleasure to call one of them “Dad”. That woman with the pretty brown eyes where at the same time you see sadness and not just some...
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...Casandra Cabral-Castro Professor Henley MUS 211 World Music Cultures May 1, 2014 A Glimpse into Gypsy Jazz Gypsy jazz is wanderer music, created on the move of many, and is comprised of numerous musical traditions. Gypsies originated in India. In the year 1001, an army of peasants were drafted to fight Muslim invaders. The wars lasted thirty years, after which the warriors migrated west to Byzantium. From there they migrated through Egypt and North Africa to Spain and France. In Spain they became known as gitanos and, in France, gitans. They were first reported in France in 1418. Some then continued on to Russia and Eastern Europe, (Silverman, 2000). Some eastern Europeans originally saw the Romani people as valuable new citizens. A couple of centuries later laws were passed excluding Romani from marrying spouses from other ethnic groups, and many Romani were detained and forced into slavery, (Silverman, 2000). This continued for five hundred years. During World War II, the Nazis murdered approximately two and a half million Romanies. They were sentenced to forced labor and imprisonment in concentration camps. More often than not they were killed on sight, especially on the Eastern Front. In central and eastern Europe, Romanies experienced restrictions of cultural freedom. The Romani language and music were banned from public performance, they were moved to live in border areas, and their nomadic lifestyle was forbidden. Romani women were sterilized as part of a state...
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...about ourselves. Do I really exist outside of my mind or is this all a dream? Do I really have will power or the freedom to choose? What is my meaning to life? These are all topics that depending on where you are from and how you were raised will all affect your theories and/or beliefs behind your answers. With an open mind; however, these questions can open a whole new world of possibilities and maybe what you have thought to be right your entire life, to be viewed as completely wrong. How Deep Does the Rabbit Hole Go? I am sitting in a black desk chair typing this paper, feeling my fingers strike the keys. Looking at the screen but still completely aware of all my surroundings, hearing my neighbors annoying dogs bark as I type. I am feeling a little bothered. I know all of this because I am using my senses to let me know where I am and what I am doing. So the question now gets deeper…How do I know what a chair feels like, what a computer looks like, or even know what a dog is? Is there even a chair? Is all of this real? Or is this all in my mind? Nagel brings up some fascinating points in Chapter 2. How do we know anything? Everything in our lives up to this point is based on what you believe, whether it’s what a dog looks like, what a computer is…absolutely everything you know about anything has all been an experience you’ve had or something you’ve thought of. What if there was no world at all? What if all of this was in your head like some sort of...
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...Description: What could be more hell-like agonizing than waking up in a mysterious room with the people you’d least want to be stuck with, with all of you having nothing to remember about who you were and why you are there? And then a man would enter, call himself the custodian and reveal that you are no doubt in hell itself. As you observed the room, you begin to far consider it as hell since it is not a thing as you imagined hell to be. The room had no corners with only about ten normal steps in diameter. It is also glass-walled but with nothing beyond it in sight. Then you noticed the ceiling which produces the brightness of the room. It is a whole ceiling flat with light wherein no switch in the room can be sighted. The floor was also fully made with cushion, making it comfortable to sleep at, except the man emphasized that drowsiness in that room does not exist. Minus the fact that it has no furniture or anything, it could have been a pleasant room, way better than hell as imagined. The custodian left, and since the room has nothing left to offer, you have no choice but to notice the two other people there with you. The girl must be in her early twenties. She seemed to be in middle class with a flabby body structure and a white complexion. One irritating thing about her is her screechy voice, which have been surrounding the room since she gained consciousness because of her constant crying. The man on your opposite side, who must be in her late forties, chose to be...
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...How do you respond to this extract and how does Priestley make you respond as you do by the ways he writes? (30 marks) Birling: (jovially) But the whole thing's different now. Come, come, you can see that, can't you? (Imitating Inspector in his final speech.) You all helped to kill her. (pointing at Sheila and Eric, and laughing.) and I wish you could have seen the look on your faces when he said that. // Sheila moves towards door.// Going to bed, young woman? Sheila: (tensely) I want to get out of this. It frightens me the way you talk. Birling: (heartily) Nonsense! You'll have a good laugh over it yet. Look, you'd better ask Gerald for that ring you gave back to him, hadn't you? Then you'll feel better. Sheila: (passionately) You're pretending everything's just as it was before. Eric: I'm not! Sheila: No, but these others are. Birling: Well, isn't it? We've been had, that's all. Sheila: So nothing really happened. So there's nothing to be sorry for, nothing to learn. We can all go on behaving just as we did. Mrs Birling: Well, why shouldn't we? Sheila: I tell you – whoever that Inspector was, it was anything but a joke. You knew it then. You began to learn something. And now you've stopped. You're ready to go on in the same old way. Birling: (amused) And you're not, eh? Sheila: No, because I remember what he said, how he looked, and what he made me feel. Fire and blood and anguish. And it frightens me the way you talk, and I can't listen to any more of it. ...
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...aberration and glorified self-deception. All characters in this play are furious and any resemblance to actual person living or dead is purely coincidental. By :- Patrick Mwange Edited by :- Jimmy Kariuki A blueflame researcher’s publication 2012 PALIDROMIC CONFESSIONS By:- Patrick Mwange 2010 Edited by:- Jimmy R Kariuki 2012 PRELUDE:- [Stage opens to reveal a wedding ceremony setting with so many colorful flowers everywhere] (A group of youngsters enter singing) Young 1: You know what, …just can’t help this wait, it’s killing me! Young 2: You say you but wow, I myself,… can’t imagine what a marriage sometimes God comes immaculately. Young 3: (he enters) Hi friends! This is our most expected day! (They start singing a marriage song) [Bemula {Samantha brother} enters amazed] Bemula : Wow! I can see clearly what a magnificent! Young 1: Friends, get ready to receive Samantha’s brother… BEMULA! (They shout and scream appraisingly) Bemula : I still can’t...
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...destruction of World War I, the Theatre of the Absurd is a reaction to World War II in which the war survivors felt as though death was inevitable and therefore nothing in one’s existence mattered since material possessions would not travel with one after death. Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot exemplifies the characteristics of the Theatre of the Absurd, not only through its content and dialogue, but also through its language and structure. The structure of dialogue chosen by Beckett, mixes short and concise sentences with meaningful ideas and opinions about the human condition. Although the dialogue appears to be an illogical banter, it would be a mistake to make the assumption that it has no meaning. For instance, throughout the play, Estragon and Vladimir repeat the lines “nothing to be done” and “nothing happens.” Such references along with the cyclical nature of the dialogue, suggest Beckett’s vision that human existence is bleak and that nothing significant ever really happens in our lifetimes, but instead the same situations are repeated throughout life. Beckett’s style revolutionizes the traditional play as he deviates from the orthodox playwright by creating a play with no central plot or storyline. There is no progression of the characters in the play. They simply wait for a man named Godot. Although nothing changes in the lives of the two main characters, Estragon and Vladimir, signs of progression of time are revealed throughout the play. For example, the tree on...
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...Story of Nothing By Pranay Kumar Fade in:Cup A cup on a stove table in florescent lit kitchen. Its a small but clean kitchen. We move towards the cup and look in it. Its empty and clean. NARRATOR This is a cup. This is an empty cup. This is an empty cup because there is nothing in it. Nothing ! What is Nothing As the narrator answer his own question the pictures of displaying the answer appear. NARRATOR Zero (a big zero appears on the screen), Naught (the word naught appears), Black out (Screen turns black), White out(Screen turns white), Space (an outline of left profile of a man with a ’?’ in it),outer space (picture of the milky way). The narrator sighs in disagreement to his own answers. NARRATOR This is NOTHING!(eyes of the main character, which are droopy and sleepy) Dead, passionless eyes Eyes that cannot follow the heart, deaf eyes. Eyes that cannot speak the heart, dumb eyes Narrator speaks in an agitated and angry voice. NARRATOR This is not a commercial for a pill to boost something(a picture of a pill bottle labeled ’X’). This is not a fucking secret or a journey to something(A picture of a man smiling while reading a book). This is a story(back to the eyes), story of nothing and that is nothing. (A lonesome man sitting on a bench across the street on a cloudy day) 2. INT. APARTMENT- EARLY MORNING Bathroom Jay is looking in the mirror getting ready for something, he is wearing a vest and a pant. He is humming an unknown song while setting his hair. Bedroom...
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...subject or the subject is “nothing” the appropriate method would be to turn in a paper with nothing but empty space. This is what happens when I do not receive homework I e-mailed about and do not have what I need to do this assignment properly. The controversy stems from if I have nothing to use as a subject, do I still have a subject to use? I say yes but you may disagree. Nothing but empty space The main points of the article talk about how if you have nothing in empty space it is different than having a vacuum or lack of existence. The first point is just because you can not see anything there it does not mean it void of everything. The second point is even if there is no matter in a specific area there can still be other measured substances. The third point is that even where it appears to be nothing there can still be an atomic weight. The fourth point is that nothing can be powerful. The last point is the emptiness is more of a matter of perspective. People assume that just because they can not see anything that there is nothing there. This is far from the truth. If I asked you to look at the edge of this paper would you say this is nothing there? There is something there. There are atoms that reflect the color white. If you are looking at this on a computer screen there are electrons converted into a binary system of control. Thus, even if it looks like nothing there is still quite a bit going on in that space. Even if you can show there are no atoms...
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...because I need to build a future for myself and for our sons. It's an 80% chance that I will enlist, my recruiter told me that, "I have to get a judge to sign my waiver." He also said, "since it's my first time getting in trouble with the law, that it shouldn't be a problem"....
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...Mrs. Megan Gilmore Indiana Wesleyan University Foundational Values Paper Whether you believe in evolution, intelligent design, a freak accident, or any other religion one of those has to be right… Right? This paper will show the exploration of these ideas, and my opinion. Thinking about the universe can be extremely confusing. No doubt there are a thousand different ways that the universe could have come into existence. The debate is not, “Is there a universe?”, but, “What is the universe? Why is the universe here? Who or what created the universe?” When thought through, most everyone believes that the universe was created. Philosophically the idea of an infinite past is absurd, in fact infinite is just a concept of our imagination. When exactly did the development of the universe occur? Did it simply develop one day, or take millions of years? When we think logically universe obviously had to have been created. The Big Bang represents the universe as a coming into being out of nothing. According to this argument, the universe must have come from nothing, by nothing. This is one of the most widely accepted theories of the origin of the universe. It is taught in schools and almost all universities. All of these constants and quantities have to be perfect to create the world we currently live in, if anything was altered in the least nothing would be here, nothing would have happened. How exactly can this fine tuning be so great by chance alone? It is an extremely...
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...“Nothing Lasts Forever” ENG125: Introduction to Literature Instructor Shawn Mangerino November 25, 2013 Patricia Martinez In all aspects of life we have a beginning and an end. Not many things last forever and if they do they do not usually stay the same. In life things change, and they end. I believe the pieces I have chosen both speak of endings and changes. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” describes a sunrise and the beauty of it and how that beauty fades as the sun continues to rise. In “I Used to Live Here Once” the main character is remembering her childhood home and in the story visits the home and describes the changes. I choose these pieces because they are both about endings and change and use symbolism to describe the changes. These pieces both show the change in a very detailed way even though one is a poem and the other a story. In comparison they may not look the same but when you read the words in both you can imagine what is being seen and feel that you can see it fade, as nothing lasts forever. In the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” I found it is full of symbolism. "Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold, Her early leaf's a flower, But only so an hour, Then leaf subsides to leaf, So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day, Nothing gold can stay.” (as cited in Clugston, 2010) In the poem the first line states “Natures first green is gold” the symbolism I find in this line is green refers to new life or birth, often times you hear...
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...\nvt'$ mvmj of thf "i'emW^ le$t ^mH, THE DISCOURSES OF EPICTETUS. WITH THE ENCHEIRIDION AND FRAGMENTS. TRANSLATED, AND A WITH VIEW NOTES, OF HIS A LIFE OF EPICTETUS, PUILO80PUY. By GEOKGE long, M.A. NEW YORK: A. L. BURT, PUBLISHER, EPICTETUS. Very that he little was a is known* native of and of the life of in Epictetus. Phrygia, the in Maeander the a it is saia Hierapolis, a town tween be- the the to Mgeander branch of named of Paul it in the of Lyons. the Hierapolis of Colossi that time is mentioned epistle from people (Coloss. there of the was iv. a 13); which church date of fact his master has been concluded at Christian The Hierapolis birth of the apostie. The Epictetus life is that is unknown. he a was a only Rome, recorded and of broke the his was early slave in Epaphroditus, There is a profligate that the freedman master to on emperor his slave's dence evi- Nero, story leg by torturing of or him; but the that it is better trust to the Simplicins, who an commentator the weak how Encheiridion in he Manual, from but says Epictetus It is not in was body became that found and a lame early age. said modern slave; parents it has the this ...
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...times where you and I would merge into one another. We would move in and out and through so freely and unconditionally. I was you, and you were me. That's what we were, we were eachother, just one power with the ability to control two. You see, that's what you did to me, you controlled me and you still control my thoughts and capture them just like you used to. There is no love lost between you and I, but that's about all that remains. We could have been one, but together we are dead, apart, we are able to fly freely just like we never could when I had you and you had me. I think of all we were and dream of all we could have been. People always say that some things you never get over. All this time, I wondered, how could something be so powerful? So powerful that it is never overcome? But now I know, only now do I know how it feels to be trapped by a power stronger than you could ever be. Addiction happens sooner than you can say it, but it's not just an addiction, it is a never ending desire for fulfilment, a fulfilment that can only be achieved if you take one too many pills, put too much pressure on the blade, an addiction eats away at you. It leaves you with nothing but everything you once had left in tatters beneath you. Maybe I'd never fully understand it, but maybe I didn't want to. My understanding is enough and it will always be enough for me. I don't know why the thought of you being with anyone or even happy with someone else still stings me like it used...
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...I was taught and on what was professed by the grown-up people around me, and that reliance was very unstable. I remember that before I was eleven a grammar school pupil, Vladimir Milyutin (long since dead), visited us one Sunday and announced as the latest novelty a discovery made at his school. This discovery was that there is no God and that all we are taught about Him is a mere invention (this was in 1838). I remember how interested my elder brothers were in this information. They called me to their council and we all, I remember, became very animated, and accepted it as something very interesting and quite possible. I remember also that when my elder brother, Dmitriy, who was then at the university, suddenly, in the passionate way natural to him, devoted himself to religion and began to attend all the Church services, to fast and to lead a pure and moral life, we all -- even our elders -- unceasingly held him up to ridicule and for some unknown reason called him "Noah". I remember that Musin-Pushkin, the then Curator of Kazan University, when inviting us to dance at his home, ironically persuaded my brother (who was declining the invitation) by the argument that even David danced before the Ark. I sympathized with these jokes made by my elders, and drew from them the conclusion that though it is necessary to learn the catechism and go to church, one must not take such things too seriously. I remember also that I read Voltaire when I was very...
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