... have around 300-400 baleen plates in their mouths. They fall under the category of the rorquals, which are the largest of the baleen family. The scientific name of the Blue whale is, Balsenoptera musculus. Key Words: Balaenoptera musculus, Suborder Mysticeti, balaenoptera intermedia, balaenoptera brevicauds, baleen whale, rorqual, calf, sulfur bottom, Sibbald's Rorqual, Great Northern Rorqual, gulpers, blowholes, blubber ... , oil, keratin, krill, copepods, plankton, orcas, endangered Introduction Whales are separated into two groups, the baleen and the toothed whales. The blue whale is ...

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... of this community. Kira is stuck in the middle of a desperate situation. Born to young parents, her father was killed by "beasts- while hunting before she was born. When her mother delivered, a complication occurred and Kira's (then known as Kir) leg was twisted. Doomed a cripple for the rest of ... four syllables), and is soon to produce the greatest robe her community has ever seen. But one day, her life changes. She finds her father alive. Extremely brilliant and observant, she delves deeper into the mysteries of her strange existence, and soon learns many vital things. First, that th...

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... have around 300-400 baleen plates in their mouths. They fall under the category of the rorquals, which are the largest of the baleen family. The scientific name of the Blue whale is, Balsenoptera musculus. Key Words: Balaenoptera musculus, Suborder Mysticeti, balaenoptera intermedia, balaenoptera brevicauds, baleen whale, rorqual, calf, sulfur bottom, Sibbald's Rorqual, Great Northern Rorqual, gulpers, blowholes, blubber, oil, ... keratin, krill, copepods, plankton, orcas, endangered Introduction Whales are separated into two groups, the baleen and the toothed whales. The blue whale is ...

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... have around 300-400 baleen plates in their mouths. They fall under the category of the rorquals, which are the largest of the baleen family. The scientific name of the Blue whale is, Balsenoptera musculus. Key Words: Balaenoptera musculus, Suborder Mysticeti, balaenoptera intermedia, balaenoptera brevicauds, baleen whale, rorqual, calf, sulfur bottom, Sibbald's Rorqual, Great Northern Rorqual, gulpers, blowholes, blubber, oil, ... keratin, krill, copepods, plankton, orcas, endangered Introduction Whales are separated into two groups, the baleen and the toothed whales. The blue whale is ...

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... . These musicals contain many songs, which have become a part of the American songbook. In 1924, Gershwin released his most famous work Rhapsody in Blue. This piano and clarinet piece opened the doors to concert halls everywhere for American composers. As Gershwin's fame and wealth spread, so did his ... .com). Although George Gershwin wrote many famous songs for Broadway musicals including Strike up the Band, Funny Face, and Girl Crazy, Rhapsody in Blue is arguably his best composition. The work was titled by George's brother, Ira Gershwin, and was subsequently arranged for piano and or...

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She offered to give me store credit for the dress I had bought. That's not what I wanted. I was low on cash, and I honestly didn't need that dress. I stormed out of the corner boutique with a glare that would keep any rapist away. Funny analogy, I know, but I was angry. What good was this five hundred dollar dress going to do for me ... , when honestly, my boss wouldn't have cared if I were five minutes late. She might not have even been there. My worrying and anger sent me to the hospital for a week. My worrying and anger left me with no vehicle. It's funny how experiences like this make you ...

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... I obtained a part - time job in a jewelry store. When I was interviewed, the owner informed me that I was going to get hired to perform duties such as filing, creating invoices, and answering the phone.She also told me that I would assist the workers in the making of the jewelry and that sometime in the future ... I would get promoted and make jewelry as well. I was very excited and motivated because this job was going to give me the opportunity to earn extra money ... different once I started working. Right on my first week on the job I started to feel uncomfortable. I noticed that my ...

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One thing that has shaped me as a person is moving. When I was thirteen years old, and going into 8th grade, my family and I moved to North dakota from South Dakota, where I had grown up for nine ... in my life I was the outsider, seeing new facing and having no one to talk to, I also missed my friends very much. Being an outsider and not knowing anyone made me more outgoing and more well spoken, I had to initiate conversations with everyone, or I would not have anyone to talk to. Eventually I made new friends and was friends with many different ... , but by the time my basketball season cam...

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... push the limits as other musical genres have done in the past. Back in the grunge era, Nirvana exploded on the scene with songs like "Rape me", and Marilyn Manson's band came out with their first album, which included stuff like "Rock N" Roll Nigger". In the late 60's, bands talked ... in the U.S. Rapping and beat boxing soon became a way to communicate with other communities about what was happening in the cities, and Hip Hop was something like "a black CNN". 1 It became somewhat of an underground phenomenon spreading all around the country. Tim Adkins, a columnist, describes: "Along i...

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... And that is their right. Right? Sure it is. But what about religious groups, "concerned members of society" community, institutional, and corporate attempts to regulate society according to their personal standards of decency and order - or to the standards they feel best serve themselves and their ... protesting their broadcast of rock music. Æ'x Variety runs a three-part series on what they term "leer-ics," or R&B songs with obscene lyrics, calling for censorship of the recording industry. The articles compare these songs to dirty postcards and chastises the music industry for selling...

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... a bad reputation over the last decade from the gangsta era of N.W.A to a more present-tense 50 Cent. Some believe that thug rappers and their gangsta lyrics should be the gun-activists main focus. Jay Nordlinger states: "It must be, in part, a fear of uncoolness "of fogeydom "that keeps ... hip-hop culture, but to the regular rap listener, those words are nothing but another set of lyrics being heard over a track of music. "When Eartha Kitt salaciously sings "Santa Baby,"" does that really mean that she wants to sleep with Santa Claus?- This sort of statement is meant to be a conversati...

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... it too has played an extremely important role in the lives of American youth today. Large numbers of "parental-advisory" and "explicit lyrics" CD's releases from disco-graphic companies are causing tremendous parental concerns because of their violent ethics. Parents are very apprehensive about their children ... fun; held against your forehead. I'll make ---------, just for the --------- I'm every inch a man, and I'll show somehow; me and my ------ gun; nothing can stop me now; shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot- (Nine Inch Nails released "Big Man with a Gun"). Despite its entertainment...

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... hip-hop...(Krohn et al. 1995). The "gangsta" image quickly became a rold model to our societies youth and it can been seen in something as simple as their clothing and more seriously in the actions they carry out that reflect the lives of the artists they are emulating. This ... situations. Rapper Dr. Dre's most popular song "Nuthin" but a "G" Thang" can be considered a misogynistic anthem. Lyrics include "...before you hit on a bitch you have to find a contraceptive/you never know she could be learning her man.../and at the same time burning her man..." (Krohn et al. 1995) One of ... fre...

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... is now possible to rephrase a question in a way that facilitates a clear and equally defined response. The new question would look something like: Do the words fart, piss, shit, fuck, cock and cunt serve to aid in the transfer of ideas or information ... is used as a synonym for sexual intercourse as well as an expletive (i.e. "Fuck that!") and a derogatory term for someone (i.e. "She's a lazy fuck"). Cock and cunt are alternate words for the male and female sexual organs, respectively. They are also both used as ... message. To illustrate, imagine the following situation: A man says to ...

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... assassinations and attempting to blow up public buildings. One of the Panther 21's was Afeni Shakur. Afeni Shakur joined the political Party when she was 21, she was the mother of the late Legend Tupac Amaru Shakur. Tupac was a social scientist, who rapped about economical pressure, broken families, poverty ... ", because of his bright eyes, and gifted behavior. Afeni Shakur was treated as a celebrity, invited to speak at Universities, and was supported financially. She was bestowed an apartment in New York's, Riverside Drive, which is very expensive. "Then everything changed, the politic...

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... with him. He is straight forward in letting the female know that their sexual relations with one another will only be a one-night stand, and that if she doesn't have sex with him he will make a fool of her. "I Get Around" and "Back Door Man" are great examples ... those who break their neck to keep their hoes in check/ cause, oh, the sweat a brother majorly/ and I don't know why your girl keeps paging me." In the last line he is taunting a guy joking as if he can't understand why the man's girl is paging him. In the music video ... artists also end their song, using their respective phr...

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... would live with Ray Luv and his family in downtown Marin City, known as the "Jungle." This is when Tupac first started writing rhymes and lyrics and started thinking more seriously about rapping. Tupac and Ray started to want nice cars, jewelry and a better lifestyle and realized they could have ... people could express themselves. The first time they met they had a private workshop and immediately clicked, he was then part of Leila's group and she would then become his manager until 1992. Tupac saw Leila as the perfect package to get him where he wanted to go. They began to ... on many ...

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... me. Any and everything I trusted, I weep for my world disgusted. Will I look to you? Jesus, yes I do!" Not only did they play songs about Christ and society, they also played songs about love. The fifth song they sang was "Do you feet hurt". This song is about love and reading poems to his girlfriend through her window. A few of the lyrics ... are, "Can I see you after you get out of school? I won't even mind it, if you treat me cruel. Take a ride on my Vespa, I'll take you home. I'll climb up to your window ... and read you a poem." Finally, the sixth song they played was "Andrea". I r...

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... reflected the relative importance of nature and mankind in the artist's eyes. Okeefe's Black Iris is noted for it's sexual suggestiveness but Okeefe insisted she was representing the flower itself. When Stieglitz's wife gave him a divorce in 1924, he and Georgia were married and a year later they ... She affectionately refereed the the land of Northern New Mexico as "The Faraway". Okeefe utilized everything around her: the vastness of the southwest sky and land, its sounds and dangers, and its canyons hills rocks and bleached animal bones. In her picture from the Faraway Nearby, she pain...

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... rebelliously making fun of his sister's large teeth and posture. On one occasion he was quoted saying, "Why, when Dorothy goes for a walk she has to stop and take her teeth out to rest." Although his mother and aunt attempted to stop his rebellious ways, they were unsuccessful and ... to overcome the encompassing clouds. In the painting, the moon is symbolic of dreams, aspirations, and our ultimate goal. In life everyone strives for something beyond what they have. The moon is then analogous of these higher aspirations because it is so large and magnificent. The symbolism is further stre...

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... . Each gang has a different style. For example: Some gangs wear a certain color bandanna. The Crips, for instance, which is one of the largest gangs in the United States, wear strictly blue, white, and black. They would wear bandannas of these colors on their heads, wrists, or let them dangle loosely from their back pockets. The rival to the Crips is the ... continue to cause terror in the homes of many people. In 1995 41 percent of homicides were gang related (Egendorf 39). Gangster rap glorifies the behavior of gangs. In rap lyrics today, the word often tell about a famous gangster's l...

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... sexuality as well. I shouldn't have to hide I like women and men. My husband knew about my affairs. He just didn't mind the women, but the men bothered him. It bothered me when Diego Rivera was involved with sister. That is what led to our divorce. After the divorce we got back together and were soon remarried. Around the time we got ... . During my life I have faced may heath issues. I also suffered deep depression, because I couldn't have children and was betrayed. I experienced two miscarriages during my life. I died in 1954, but my paints still grew in fame. Some say my death was fro...

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... in sufficient quantities to influence the market. In my youth, if I asked my father for fourty-five cents to buy a record, he"d have me committed." Teens newfound control and influence on the music market in particular, reflected their new freedom, increased free time and luxuries such as allowance and the ... was mostly a symptom of the generation gap, but many parents put the full blame on rock and roll. Many saw rock with its rebellious tone, sexual lyrics, energy and faster and harder beat as subversive and a threat to the suburban way of life. It was often thought "evil", "garbage" ...

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... the Aborigines before and after the aboriginal children were taken unfairly from their families. The lyrics speak of what changes the area, including the trees, have undergone as a result of this experience. When the child says, "Let me see the things you see", it expresses her desire to go back to the past ... a mysterious woman, Vianne Rocher, and her daughter, Anouk. Chocolat is the story of how Vianne brings about some long-needed change to the sleepy town. She opens a luxuriant chocolatier in the middle of Lent. The parish priest sees this as an act against religion, and so the war ...

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... African-American community is rap music. Rap artists such as Snoop Dogg, Nas, DMX, and the late Christopher Wallace (Notorious B.I.G) & Tupac often use lyrics riddled with incidents such as the dealing and use of narcotics, promiscuity, robbery and homicide. The large exposure of rap music, currently one of the ... story of the newscast is that a black person has committed some type of crime, no matter if a white person has done the same thing or something worse. Also, not until recently were there any darker skinned African-American news anchors. There were light skinned anchors, but the...

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