... . UCLA was the first American university to build and maintain it's own gamelan, created by McPhee and his ethnomusicologist friend and colleague, Mantle Hood(Rich, 1995; p.192). It was during the 50's and 60's that many American composers began to look outside of their own musical sphere's for inspiration. These composers traveled in the wake of such legends as Henry Cowell and his ... and composed Music for 18 Musicians. He said at one point that "gamelan had no conscious influence on Music for 18 Musicians. Certainly there's no organization of musical structure similar to the gamelan....

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... story that states Ham, the second son of Noah, was the ancestor of the African race, which is agreed upon by many scholars. The only contradiction is how he obtained this dark pigmented skin. There is one myth that states, Ham "violated a taboo against cohabitation" with his counterpart on the Ark.# In other words, the myth meant that Ham had sexual intercourse on the ark and was cursed to have a dark pigmentation because ... is when Christianity started to become apart of the lives of the slaves. Christianity was very popular among the white population and soon became popular throughou...

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... punched into the film to click at any given metronome beat. The composer measures this beat by dividing the figure, 1440, by whatever metronome speed he wants and the resulting figure is the frame click beat. For example, if the composer wanted the metronome beat to be at 144, he would divide the figure 1440 by 144, resulting in the number "10." This meant that the holes were punched in the film would ... , Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Bertrand Hermann. These men wrote the scores for many of the famous films that came out of the era of the "talkie." The Informer, Since You Went Away, Kin...

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... . It brought wealth and riches to a new land. It gave to America the basic tool in which the country grew and prospered. According to Thomas, "most of the great enterprises for the first four hundred years of colonization owed much to African slaves- (12). How did slavery come about? Many believe that there is no one answer to this question (Thomas 15). But it is clear that the unbelievable growth of slavery lay ... about the prince and a beautiful black slave named Imoinda. However, the story is told through the eyes of the narrator, who one believes to be Aphra Behn. And so the contrad...

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... , social, and economic revolution. Under the Reconstruction Act, Congress, by the summer of 1868, had readmitted to the Union Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. How representative the new governments of these seven reconstructed states were can be judged from the fact that the majority of the governors, Representatives, and Senators elected were northern men who had gone south after the war to make their political fortunes. In ... regard to Reconstruction was the participation of Blacks in government. With the Federal Government protecting...

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... they replaced horse drawn transport. The real breakthrough, however, did not come until ships powered by compound engines operating at far higher steam pressures and capable of carrying cargoes of 3,000 tons for 8,500 miles at 10 knots (Barker, 1996). The advancement of the steam engine during the industrial revolution is very similar to a lot of the advances in technology and computers that ... was a young spinner from England familiar with the industry there and the first to escape England and use his knowledge to set up a mill in America. Needless to say all of this development was Br...

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... wild ticker-tape parade, the youth created a dance for him - The Lindy. The sole mechanism that reformed not only transport, but also the entire way of American life was the popularisation of the automobile. Although automobiles had existed before 1920's, they were expensive, unreliable, and seen as toys for the rich. The sudden growth in car interest was due to Henry Ford's Model T. Ford ... " , due to the opportunity for "inappropriate" sex. The division between generations grew in this era, as the young strove for freedom and independence, and the older generation, having failed to s...

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... into society. High schools began to include technical, business, and vocational curricula to accommodate the various goals of its more diverse population. The United States continues to be concerned about how to incorporate immigrant groups. The language in which students are taught is one of the most significant issues for schools. Many Americans have become concerned about how best to educate students who are new to the English language and to American culture. As children ... and localized education. Prominent American educators, such as Horace Mann in Massachusetts and Henry Barnard...

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... people. These two men, how different they may have seemed to be, had the same goal: They wanted to end exploitation, discrimination and racism against the Blacks. One used the means of non-violence, and the other was willing to gain freedom by "any means necessary." Both had been deeply influenced by their fathers. Especially by their pride to be black. King later came up with the saying "Black is beautiful". Malcolm had emerged ... 't allowed entry to France. The attitude of the European countries toward Martin also changed when he started criticising poverty and the activities of the U...

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... to the Americans, and had a similar affect on the American Space Program, his knowledge of rockets went later to the design of the Saturn V, that powered many of the Apollo missions. As the Germans were advancing in their knowledge, technology, and expertise in the field of rocketry, the purpose of rockets had shifted from military to a civilian project. The government had deemed the project unacceptable, and terminated it. When the Germans showed the world that reaching the ... astounded the world. The ironic part is that the Russian government announced to their subjects that they cou...

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... -policy protestors such as Claude Pepper and Henry Wallace supported Truman's move into Korea and accepted the decision supported by the new ideology. A survey taken by the State Department showed that 80% of Americans supported sending troops into Korea.39 Americans generally interpreted events in the mindset of exceptionalism as their strongest weapon against communism, and so spreading this was a service to the world. As secretary of State Dean ... of life, and their most passionate belief; the freedom of the people. Therefore the Cold War was to be waged due to a clash of ideas and v...

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... a possible acronym of LSD. In 1967 the hippy era hit the peak, love and peace was available by the bucket load, but there were bands that went against the typical love songs. The Rolling Stones were a catalyst for all angry urban youths'. They took drugs and snarled at photographers. Amidst all the flower power madness one thinks that it is important to know that not all teenagers liked ... the flower power' attitude, or lifestyle and there still was a demand for angry rebellious bands that frustrated teenagers could support. The Beatles were a phenomenon. All their tour dates were sold...

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... When Hollywood began, it was nothing like what it is today. Families could spend the evening at the Cinema for a nickel or sometimes a dime. A man by the name of Harry Davis built the first Nickelodeon, a small storefront theater to view films. The movie theater was opened in Pittsburgh in June of 1905 showing The Great Train Robbery. The audience loved watching these short silent films that were ... wrote under four different names so the studio did not depend on his writing talents. By 1927, Jack Warner and Darryl Zanuck were playing similar roles to those that Mayer and Thalberg playe...

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... will see, the crossing of the ocean is the opportunity to transform in something different, something "new". The line is taken from the poem ".....", where it is repeated several times, at the beginning as at the end, symbolizing the transformation and the exaltation of "The Black Spear". This line is a sort of leitmotiv in slave literature, because of its incisiveness and clearness. The Authors An important contribution concerning the meaning of Middle Passage is given by several authors such ... is, according to what Zora Hurston says, dynamic suggestion. THE MEANING OF THE SEA IN THE...

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... dollars38, houses were usually purchased with the aid of long-term mortgages, and the middle and upper classes began to make their move to the suburbs. Though providing millions with their own homes, suburbs like Levittown and other similar suburbs were heavily criticized for their levels of conformity by the likes of John Keats, who in his 1956 book "The Crack in the Picture Window," wrote: "For literally ... , their immediate succession tips us off to the pervasiveness and the persuasiveness of the automobile as the conveyor of style in 1954. If man is, to Protagoras, the measure of all...

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... back to the class exercise, we all were asked to tell about our life highs and lows. Each student had to pick five of each and discuss with the class. Most of the class highs were pretty close or similar. Marriage and children lead the way in the high section. That is, the "second" marriage for most of the class ... the longing to fulfill this dream. Everyone seems to have done well in these highs in their life. The lows were another story. The biggest comparison was the divorce. The majority of the class had a previous marriage that ended in divorce. This is the subject where the class b...

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... and policies involved in the origins of the Cold War. The first of these is simply the different political stances taken by both the United States of America and the USSR. America was a democratic nation and the USSR was communist, so they were in conflict over how the world should be run politically. Moore defines a democracy as a, "government by the whole population, usu. ... the origins of the Cold War. These ideological factors had very similar roots as the political factors in that they grew out of the fact that the way America wanted to organise that post-war world was very differ...

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... plays a huge role in integrating people back into society. Once that is able to be realized, there will be less repeated felony by these newly released felons. The Jail is very similar to the New Jim Crow in terms of the goal of making the arrest and what types of people are arrested. Both Alexander and Irwin display the fact that too many individuals were being arrested over what some may ... of these two elements, the road to reform will be able to begin. Alexander believed that there is no easy road to reform the new caste system. Understanding why reform of this new caste system is ...

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... classified as a mental disorder in and of itself. Of course some gay individuals like some straight individuals are psychologically disturbed. According to the Psychological and Psychiatric Association, Gay people have an overall potential to contribute to society and the workplace similar to that of heterosexual people. (Melton) Research confirms that people who have negative attitudes towards gay people have more likely based their ... pertain to heterosexuals? If not, then how can we say that a gay individual has these rights and put up barriers to deny these rights? If gays are not al...

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... hardships of being homeless. With an authoritative purpose we performed the interviews and were surprised to find that the answers we received were similar leading us to conclude, the homeless are victims of a mysterious but vicious cycle. There are many causes, consequences and complications of homelessness in America, as explained in Homeless in America, a few of the causes are very serious medical problems, found not only in ... as Dementia that causes predicaments that are even more socially estranging. Evens also points out that there is respiratory illnesses that begin as a simple ...

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... to ease the tension between the two of us by keeping our conversations strictly professional. I however continue to let her talk to me about her problems. The only thing I typically complain about is school. What this experience has taught me is once again is stereo-typing is not the way to assess my relationship with others in society, rather to look beyond the misconceptions and find underlying reasons to why people react the ... these programs. The service needed is sending people who are able to educate students at the high school level on what programs are available to them and how t...

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... of its individual plant parts, as many species of animals, for example, are influenced greatly by the physical structure of the plant community, still others by the actual species of plants present. A major component of the plants and animals in a region is their overall diversity, indicative of how many species can coexist there. This varies substantially both among and within bioclimatic zones, dependent on both climate and vegetation ... , snakes, and frogs look like leaves, twigs or vines, down to amazingly fine details. Animals as different as clouded leopard and python have similar...

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... . How does that effect the rest of us? Parents might just get the news from police officers that their son or daughter had become victim to a stray bullet while attending history class. The lawmakers in the United States are addressing the problem by putting up metal detectors in schools. In the case of metal detectors, officials have realized that preventing the possession of firearms inside the boundary of the school is necessary for the ... of the situation; the scariest detail is that legislators in these states have come to the conclusion that the most effective way to make America ...

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... competitive in all sorts of athletics, I have always believed in and lived by that saying. Recently I have begun to reach adulthood, and realize now that this saying is no longer true. The reason for the best man not always winning any more is affirmative action. Affirmative action today, is considered to be one of the most controversial dilemmas facing our equal rights status. It affects higher education ... and gives them all equal opportunity to succeed. If we can give minorities a chance and they react to it, it can even help our government by decreasing welfare payments and handouts...

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... the family. How do we know that it was a success? It is because today, we can no longer draw theline between freedom and restraint. Like in the 60's, today, we have the freedom to have sex as we please, but ideologies are somewhat different and there is the control through contraception. At the same time, it is similar in the way that the use of contraception is going against the Church again. There is the freedom to leave the ... spouse or the family is one wishes to, but it would mean grave economic jeopardy for the remaining spouse or children. The decision for this is strongly advis...

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