...Cheryl Roberts Professor Battle-Felton English 111 7 November 2011 Who wouldn’t want to vacation in Key West, Florida? During the months of March through May the weather is delightful; averaging temperatures range from 78 to 85 degrees during the day and 68 to 76 degrees in the evening. The beaches are tranquil, filled with white warm sand and crystal blue water abundant with tropical fish and endless coral reefs. Palm trees line the beaches and streets, ever so softly blowing in the gentle breeze. A vacationer will spend the day at Mallory Square watching a host of vendors, street performers, and local artist showcasing their extraordinary talents, only to be cleared out by early evening to make a peaceful setting for families and lovers to watch the sunset. As the sun sets for the day it looks as if it is slowly melting into the water. After this experience, nearly everyone will be ready for a bite to eat. The food here, a large amount of which is grown or caught locally, is flavorful, fresh, and bright, resembling a painter’s color wheel. Vacationers can hardly wait to indulge in the feast laid out before them. When dinner is done most are ready for excitement. The nightlife is electric, filled with many activities for both the young and old. Nightlife brings the opportunity to meet many new friends, allowing for a more intimate connection with the locals, as well as the vacationers. The majority will find that both, locals and vacationers are easy going and extremely...
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...felt that Dr. Hisham was sexist for taking so long to give Nura her vaccines due to her being a female dog. She was able to get better medicine for Nura. This is a big deal because Nura enjoys more political rights than her owner. Suad's West Bank I.D. does not allow her to travel from Ramallah to Jerusalem, although Nura can. Suad paints the picture of the irony that an animal can get a passport quickly, whereas, it can take the Palestinian people years to obtain one. 2. With the occupation of Ramallah under Israel, the curfew made day to day living challenging to say the least. During curfew the Palestinian people lived on lock down in their homes. This was a challenge because there were entire families living in small confined spaces. When curfew would lift the streets would become so crowded and the grocery stores would become chaotic. Suad seemed to find humor with the invasion, however, Um Salim, seemed to be more of a challenge for her. Um Salim would get confused and fret over small things. Um Salim would go on countless stories that Suad was tired of hearing. Um Salim worried over her possession, no matter how inconsequential they seemed to be. 2.1 The Six Day War in 1967 designated the Gaza Strip and territories along the West Bank as occupied territories. It is my understanding that Israel felt like the the...
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...HOMEWORK #4 CHAPTER 10; AFRICA 1. How do the principal musical manifestations found in the sub-Saharan Africa reflect the collective community and encourage group participations? a. Most of the collective music manifestations found in sub-Saharan Africa represent the community, and encourage group participation using a method that is called call-and-response. If they aren’t using a call-and-response such music’s are usually to be found at events such as religious ceremonies, and/or most other ritual based activities. 2. How is polyrhythmic music created in sub-Saharan Africa? b. Many different things coming together at once create polyrhythmic music, to some it is a great sound of music, and to others it is not. In Africa many instruments are used to make a “polyrhythmic tune” such as: High pitched, and low pitched drums, rattles, bells, and most importantly the voices. It will continuously spin the same musical elements therefore; it creates a “rhythmic melody.” No musician plays the same thing; they each play separate pieces, which aren’t to hard. 3. What linguistic elements are required to make a drum “talk”? c. Language is a big part of the musical world in the Africa regions. When we think about what is called the “talking drums,” we are quick to try and piece things together. Talking drums are used in forms of honorary to the royalty, or even honoring the fallen. When doing these drummers replicate the “speech rhythm” of the words...
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...Kanye West will receive an honorary degree from the Art Institute of Chicago in May. "I was a gifted artist since age five and won national competitions and went to art school. I'm actually getting an honorary doctorate on May 5th from the Art Institute of Chicago," the rapper revealed during an interview with Clique. West famously highlighted dropping out of college with his 2004 album The College Dropout. The rapper attended the American Academy of Art and Chicago State University before he left the school to pursue a career in music. While is Kanye West is adorned by his fans, the rapper can't seem to win over the heart of President Barack Obama. After West's Taylor Swift incident at the MTV Awards, the president responded to the ordeal by calling the rapper a jackass. It seems as if West and President Obama have since moved on from the name-calling situation. During a recent appearance at Oxford...
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...resulted in many Mormons choosing to move West in the face of increasing violence. The increasing population had made land hard to come by. This combined with the desperation and increasing crime in the East forced people to consider moving West. The Crisis became a big PUSH factor in encouraging people to migrate westward. 1844 Joseph Smith Died As the Prophet and founder of the Mormon Church he was the leader of many thousands of believers. He led them in a desperate search for a safe haven for the community to settle. Smith would not lead his Mormons West as he thought it unfit to build the Zion for the coming of Jesus. Smith was shot dead in 1844 as he tried to escape from jail. Brigham Young was the new leader of the Mormons and chose to lead them West, to Great Salt Lake where they settled successfully. This was an important turning point for the Mormons. 1848 Gold Rush 1848!! Before Gold was discovered in 1848 by James Marshall, around 5,000 people per year were drifting west across the Great Plains. However with the discovery this increased tenfold by the following year.The 50,000 miners were hunting for their fortunes in California –many found one. The first miners – the ‘49ers – proved that large numbers of settlers could travel and live in the west. The paths and routes they used were easily found by later families who travelled west. By 1850 California was a US state. The 1848 Goldrush speeded up the settling of the west by Americans. 1851 First Fort Laramie...
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...West Virginia's Nickname is Mountain state. West Virginia’s motto is Montani semper liberi meaning mountaineers are always free. The reason west Virginia had its name because they wanted to honor the virgin queen Elizabeth I . The people there were called west Virginians. West Virginia’s Bordering states are Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Virginia’s Capitol is Charlestown. West Virginia’s population is 1,854,304, and West Virginia is the 38th state in the Union.. West Virginia's favorite flower is the Rhododendron. West Virginia's favorite tree is the sugar maple. West Virginia’s favorite bird is the Cardinal. West Virginia’s favorite animal is the black bear. West Virginia’s state fish was the brook trout. West Virginia’s state butterfly is the monarch butterfly The...
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...Reconstruction and the West Anthony Webb College of Humanities His/120 Version 5 U.S. History 1865 to 1945 Resolution/Sociology 110 February 16, 2013 Elizabeth Jewell Reconstruction of the South According to Eric Foner (2008), “even though Reconstruction failed to meet the goals of Radical Republicans, painlessly rebuild the South, and give the freed blacks complete rights, Reconstruction did give African Americans some new chances and a brief taste of a free society ("Was Reconstruction a," 2008). Public schools were instituted; blacks became citizens, and some whites even offered support with the civil rights movement. However, every opportunity that was given to the free blacks was met with much opposition. As a result, more could have been done. The late 19th century was a troubling time, and although freed slaves were negatively impacted, Whites, and Indians were also affected by the economical hardships. Several events occurred which gave me cause to agree with Eric Foner’s description of the Reconstruction as a “splendid failure”. Blacks did not receive all their rights until 100 years after the war. Furthermore, Northern-born white men who moved south after the Confederacy defeat were called carpetbaggers by Southerners, and Southern-born white Republicans were given the name scalawag; Blacks held fewer governmental positions and was smaller than their proportion in the population; Indians suffered from the white Americans’ racism...
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...MUS 100 060 Professor Johnson Chapter 10: Questions to Consider SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: 1. How do the principal musical manifestations found in sub-Saharan Africa reflect the collective community and encourage group participation? There are three musical manifestations of a collective community in the Sub-Saharan African. They are dance, call and response and polyrhythm. The Call and response is very popular. The chorus repeats a fixed refrain in alternation with a lead singer, who then has more freedom to improvise. This makes the music conversational and encouraged group participation. 2. How are polyrhythmic music created in Sub-Saharan African? Polyrhythmic music is created when two or more locally independent attack patterns are superimposed, is realized by handclaps, xylophones, rattles, and a variety of tuned and non tuned drum, by handclaps, xylophones, rattles, and a variety of tuned and non tuned drums. The African polyrhythm is the noticeable steadiness of the resultant rhythmic pattern. Pitch polyphony exists in the form of parallel intervals overlapping solo-choral response, and occasional simultaneous independent melodies. In addition to voice, many wind and string instruments perform melodic functions. 3. What linguistic elements are required to make a drum "talk"? "Talking drum" is able to communicate by mimicking the tonal contour and speech rhythm of a language. African languages are tonal. Drums don't only play the rhythm some have strings...
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...Samuel Nussbaum Ms. Horowitz March Current Event February 25, 2017 Source: Tayag, Yasmin. "Science: Kanye West Isn't Indecisive, He's Just Emotionally Complex." Inverse. Inverse, 15 Feb. 2017. Web. 25 Mar. 2017. Relative Location: 2,690.6 Miles Northwest of Boca Raton, Florida. Place: This event took place in Los Angeles, California. 5 Star Details: 1. Who- Kanye West. 2. What- The emotions of Kanye West and his indecisive actions. 3. When- February 14th-15th, after the launch of The Life of Pablo. 4. Where- Near Los Angeles, California. 5. Why/How- Analyzing published studies and “Tweets”. Summary: Between the 14th and 15th of February in Los Angeles, the “Indecisive” actions of Kanye West were analyzed and proved to just be emotional...
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...Inayah Shabazz May 5th, 2013 Within Ancient Africa the East and West African Societies were well known. The three west African empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai arose in the Sahel and grew strong by the power of trade and cultural diffusion. In the east villages along the east coast begin to develop important trading cities along the east coast such as Kilwa, and The Great Zimbabwe. Together both the East and West African Societies each had many similarities and differences that each made them unique but brought them together through the power of both trade and cultural diffusion. The empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai controlled West Africa between A.D. 1000 and 1500. Each empire thrived on the trade of goods across the Sahara and was affected by the exchange of culture and belief systems along the trade routes. As each empire declined, the next empire took its place. Many great kings led these empires for example, Mali's Mansa Musa helped spread West African culture and resources around the world through his hajj. The empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai developed on trade networks where culture was "traded" along with salt and gold. Like the empires of West Africa, the trading cities in East Africa grew wealthy by controlling all incoming and outgoing trade. In East Africa the city state Kilwa became the wealthiest, most powerful coastal city-state. Kilwa grew rich because it was as far south on the coast as a ship from India could sail in one monsoon season. Therefore...
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...In a 2008 interview for a British radio station, the rapper Kanye West compared his contribution to music to Michael Jordan’s contribution to basketball with the announcement: "I realize that my place and position in history is that I will go down as the voice of this generation. Of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.”i The public responded to West with outright rejection. A notorious South Park episode titled “Fish Sticks” portrays West as the only person in the world too dumb to understand a joke who repeatedly calls himself the “genius voice of a generation,” poking fun at both his egotistic personality and his lack of skill at giving interviews.ii The well-known entertainment blog The Mo’Kelly Report snapped, “Don’t compare yourself to Michael Jordan if...
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...contribution of American Studies to scholarly interpretations of the past. Richard Slotkin is part of a group called “Old West” historians who ascribe to the Myth-and-Symbol School when interpreting American history. This thought-process stresses a collection of popular sentiments of the Frontier era in order to create an environment that has some structure. A result of this approach is that it allows continuity to the reader when studying the frontier. For instance, Slotkin notices in his analysis of “The Adventures of Col, Daniel Boone that: “Filson creates a character who becomes the archetypal hero of the American frontier, copied by imitators and plagiarists and appearing innumerable times under other names and in other guises -- in literature, the popular arts, and folklore -- as the man who made the wilderness safe for democracy” (Slotkin 268-69) This shows how his character became an archetype to himself and all other frontiersmen. Because of this, the circumstances may change in the frontier, but its actors do not. As Slotkin describes the character of he furthers this argument and identifies “the most distinctive trait of Boone’s character was his love for the wild land” (Slotkin 298). While this approach is valuable due to minimal historical documentation, its methodology is intrinsically too simple to be taken seriously. Additionally, “Old West” perspectives usually only interpret the traces of the “white imperialist”. However, starting in the 1960’s a new wave of...
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...March 30, 2014 MARRIAGE IN THE OLD WEST In the late 1800s the American west was still frontier land and the conditions were very rustic. While there were many women who traveled west and dealt with the quality of life (Jackson Wyoming’s all women city council of 1920?) most stuck to the more civilized areas. Many of the heroes from that era typically were cowboys, lawmen, mountain man, or some other masculine endeavor that most likely lived in a manner which was not conducive to a steady relationship, much less marriage. People read stories to be entertained, to take them briefly to another place. No one wants to read about the banker or butcher who works hard day in and day out to provide for his family and survive in the west. It is the bankers and butchers who wanted to briefly escape to a fantasy that didn’t involve paying the bank note on the wagon or the house debt. The married farmers didn’t want to read about some guy taking care of the cows at 5 o’clock in the morning. People wanted to read about something that at one time in their life they wanted to do, like be the marshal or live free on the range, but they got married and had families instead. The bottom line is that the prototype of the western hero is not conducive to a married life. The hero could be married, but either his marriage would not last long or his hero antics would be curtailed. Of course there are exceptions to this, and I’m reaching 25 years into my memory bank but I believe there are...
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...West Nile Virus ITT TECHNICAL INSTITUTE West Nile Virus West Nile infection is caused by a virus transmitted by mosquitoes. People get West Nile virus from the bite of a mosquito that has fed on an infected bird. Mosquitoes can't transmit the virus from one person to another. Tampa Bay Times has reported that as of Aug. 28, there have been 23 positive tests for West Nile Virus in sentinel chickens from Pinellas County Mosquito Control coops. As a result, the risk of transmission to humans in the county increased. Sentinel chickens in Pinellas County tested positive for the West Nile Virus. A 32 year old man as recently tested positive for the West Nile Virus. Is this the first confirmed human case in the mosquito born illness this year according to the local health officials. The chickens are located at Clearwater Nursery, near Lake Maggiore in St. Petersburg and Walsingham Park in Seminole. Sentinel chickens are used as an early-warning detection system for some mosquito-borne diseases. They signal that mosquitoes carrying the diseases are present in an area. West Nile virus is an illness that is transmitted by mosquitoes. Most people who contract it exhibit no symptoms, but some people will develop fevers, with other symptoms such as headaches, body aches, joint pains, vomiting, diarrhea, or rashes. Those older than 50 are the most likely to become severely ill with West Nile and should take special care to avoid mosquitoes, according to the CDC. Animals and people...
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...BEIJING FOREIGN POLICY IN WEST AFRICA (Yang Jiechi Policy) Foreign Policy Article: Published by Kingsley C. Onyenankeya December 5, 2011 SUNY EMPIRE STATE Kingsley: Beijing Foreign policy in West Africa 1 Contents Executive Summary Concept and Assumptions Methods of Argumentation Theoretical and Policy Prescriptions Conclusion References Kingsley: Beijing Foreign policy in West Africa 2 Executive Summary China's increase involvement in West Africa over the past decade is one of the most significant recent developments in the region. It appears to redirect the idea of marginalization of West Africa and Africa as a continent, which brings significant political consequences. Beijing's West Africa interest is part of a recently...
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