... British Museum's Department of Ethnology. Even though the west now had the capability of making gamelan music, it was a long time before the west actually heard gamelan. The instruments brought over by Raffles were used more in sound experiments by acousticians and instrument inventors than to actually make music. ... the music amongst his American counterparts after emigrating to America. It was not the music itself that captivated Varese and other east-meets-west pioneers, but the realization that musical systems outside of the western twelve tone system could be employed to compose co...

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... title borrowed from Leutze's Westward The Course of Empire Takes Its Way (1861), a famous fresco in the Capitol, in Washington D.C. Palmer's work of art was then made famous and popular by Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives, most likely the most renowned American print makers of the nineteenth century. Currier and Ives created more than 7,000 lithographs and prints, which represented life ... the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, symbolizes the frenetic opening decades of expansion, which took place from the early 1840 through the Civil War. It shows a steam train heading west, pass...

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... , the Israeli experts say, is that the promises of paradise, wedding and all, are taken literally, not metaphorically, by those who surrender their lives to jihad. Miss that point and you miss the overarching fact that it really is a holy war, they say, a clash of cultures that cannot be resolved ... as divine intervention. ''Allah decreed the vengeance against you,'' one thundered. ''Muslims see what happened as divine retribution, carried out under the supervision of Allah by unknown soldiers,'' said another. In odd counterpoint, the big headline on the current issue revealed that the h...

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Pageant Moms: Ridiculously Overbearing or Wrongly Ridiculed Beauty Pageants have been around longer than the students and faculty at West Virginia University. Along with beauty pageants, there is always what people call the "pageant moms". Everyone has seen or heard of ... much money on looking "beautiful" if they weren't being judged on appearance? Later in the article with Nikki she was asked how it felt to win the Miss University Title, her reply, "It was incredible. Having your name announced and knowing that you were chosen-it's just incredibly fulfilling" (Beauty Pageants Exposed) ... ...

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... ) No loved ones should have to go through such a wrenching experience. Jannice Hunter, whose 27-year-old daughter, Adrien, was stabbed 47 times by serial killer Nathaniel White in 1992. Mrs. Hunter spoke for every family member when she said, "It's a heartache that all parents suffer. I have to go ... to the cemetery to see my daughter. Nathaniel White's mother goes to jail to see him and I don't think it's fair .In 1973, Shawcross, one of the New York's most ... of every seven people sentenced to death row is innocent (Civiletti). The numbers are disturbing. Innocent people are becomin...

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... stop, I rolled down my window and offered him my last five dollars. To my amazement the gentleman declined my charity. He said "god bless you miss but I will work for my keep."" I told him that I could certainly appreciate that. I then inquired if he had a place to stay for ... with which to purchase shelter. Individuals or families facing eviction are not yet homeless and therefore do not qualify for homeless services (West Virginia Bureau for Children and Families). Today, in America, more and more people are becoming homeless in every sense of the word ... shelters take a variety of ...

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... African Slaves across the Atlantic to the shores of North America. Turner focuses on how Islam spread to West Africa, and how it was adapted and changed by the natives. North African Muslims helped plant the seeds for West African Islam through their encounters with sub-Saharan Africans by way of a slave trade. Often times these Arabs and North Africans would settle in the ... religious beliefs. One thing that the Muslims offered that caught the attention of the West Africans was a chance to become literate by way of learning Arabic. Later, "teachers and messengers" of Islam would arriv...

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... African Slaves across the Atlantic to the shores of North America. Turner focuses on how Islam spread to West Africa, and how it was adapted and changed by the natives. North African Muslims helped plant the seeds for West African Islam through their encounters with sub-Saharan Africans by way of a slave trade. Often times these Arabs and North Africans would settle in the ... religious beliefs. One thing that the Muslims offered that caught the attention of the West Africans was a chance to become literate by way of learning Arabic. Later, "teachers and messengers" of Islam would arriv...

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... crushed those who fought to get one. It will never be known the total amount of people murdered by the dictator, when their only crime was to seek the freedom taken for granted in the West. The tragic deaths of British soldiers during the conflict has provoked many a debate as to whether the ... warning. The terrorists responsible for the atrocity came from the Middle East, some from Saudi Arabia and others from the countries around Afghanistan, countries previously considered by the West to be so far off that they were not a immediate danger or threat. "Far-off" is not applicable in the ...

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... are many viewpoints as to why teenage females are having so many children out of wedlock. However, the facts are obvious-teenaged females are highly influenced by many social issues, but those with the lack of strong parental guidance, sex education, and positive mass media are more likely to have a premarital pregnancy ... of other factors are taken into account. The findings of the study was to provide additional evidence of the need for a more concerted effort by child welfare agencies to help youth in foster homes avoid becoming pregnant. It would suggest that allowing young people t...

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... Pentagon the western military and government. 9-11 was more than crushing buildings it was a strike against the western influence and pro-western government. The West is based on freedom and the East is based on virtue. "Terrorism of the Bin Laden variety is a desperate strike against a civilization that ... the fundamentalists know they have no power to conquer, but they do have the power to disrupt and terrify the people of America and the west. This is one of their goals, and their attack on September 11, 2001, was quite successful in this regard. But there is a second ... no more p...

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... patterns are responsive to the interaction of temperature (latitudinal and altitudinal gradients) and precipitation (more complex, often longitudinal gradients because of the east-west tendency of the winds, as well as well-defined latitudinal ones) patterns. The degree of seasonality also has a major effect. The earth's ... to the Gulf slope of Mexico and locally throughout the West Indies. The eastern Brazilian rain forest is isolated from the Amazon basin forests. The biome is bounded by dry forests and savannas in lowland areas and by subtropical cloud forests (which are continuous ...

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... in West Germany, and whether or not it was successful at winning over the support of the German people. As John Lemza explains; 'The presence of the "Little Americas" would serve as a grass-roots vehicle to win the hearts and minds of the German people by conveying ... of their new found attitude. An example of this came in the Austria agreement of 1955, whereby Eisenhower refused to back down of having West Germany present in signing the treaty and issued a treaty full of demanding and imposing terms on the Soviets. Moreover as Ferring states, ... than clashes of national interest...

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... of its history, believes the final horrors are ghosts and demons, when truly it is the hidden aspects of its own soul.6 As reflected by its literature, American society has always held a deep fascination with the supernatural. Evidence of this is seen throughout American history, from the Puritan ... accused of being a witch, and the cycle continues.43 Another important example of hysterical paranoia from the Puritan era is The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This novel does not deal so much with witches as it does with the Black Man, which "is a traditional American name ... att...

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... government gave limited funding for their schools and the city was segregated. Young black Children wore being teased and beaten up and sadly sometimes being murdered by the older white teenagers because of their skin color, hair texture > > > >There was one man that wanted to change American society his ... name is Martin L. King, a civil rights leader involved in helping his fellow African Americans. King made a contribution to America by saying his "I have a dream speech-, that changed America forever. Five years later King was assonated in 1968, although he died he made the American ...

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... open to influence by the USSR. Germany had been divided into East and West. The Americans, the British and the French controlled West Germany and the Russians controlled East Germany. The Berlin Wall divided Berlin into east and West. West Germany prospered while the Eastern Germans were left behind. West Germany historically ... of defending Western Europe against attack. The Soviet response came only in 1955, when the significantly placed West Germany joined NATO. The Warsaw Pact of the Eastern European Mutual Assistance Treaty overseen by the USSR, kept strict control over other count...

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... the distance. The area I am now standing in was known as the Sixth Ward in the early 19th century, which was encompassed by West Street to the west, Reade Street to the south, Canal Street to the north and Broadway to the east1. It currently is host to numerous city offices ... interested in seeing the detailed Mannahatta Project maps in 3D may do so by visiting themannahattaproject.org and plug in an address in Manhattan to see what it would have most likely looked like before the Dutch West India Company bought Mannahatta from the Lenapes in the early seventeenth century and ... as Ne...

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... and let the good come to them. As a result, they gained more knowledge then they had before of economic and social politics. Political ideas by advocates of "Black Power" had no barring because the ideas could not be put into context. There were a few reasons why. One reason was ... that long. Garvey changed the game when he brought his organization to New York, which was really established in the Caribbean's. Garvey was targeted by officials because he published a speech encouraging blacks to return to Africa and let the whites handle their own labor. This obviously made the government ...

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... the full expansion of it's principle and destiny of its growth." Manifest Destiny became the accepted title of the drive America had started into the west, and was the fundamental belief of American expansionism. It was the thirst for more land and the rationalization behind the acquisition of that land. ... islands on the Pacific side such as Hawaii and the Philippines. While some were driven by what they considered G-D's will, others exploited the accepted belief of manifest destiny, and paved new routes to the west for economic purposes. The fur trappers, in search of new beaver rese...

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... feel to it. No "real" graf artists were used by the movie creators. Because of regulations, a union artist had to be used to create all of the pieces. After Beat Street, I remember seeing Breakin'. I viewed it as a West Coast reenactment of the B-boy scene, not really knowing the ... Wizard Theodore introduced the technique of scratching to produce rhythmic patterns. Sampling brought into question the ownership of sound. Some artists claimed that by sampling recordings of a prominent black artist, such as funk musician James Brown, they were challenging white corporate America and the re...

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... than the farming in Ireland. Many of these immigrants who left their tiny potato patches were not equipped for the vast farmland of the west where machinery was needed to be competitive. Such machinery or capital was not to be had in Ireland so the Irish usually had to ... start at the bottom of the work force. The Irish were not always mentally suited for the west, either. Coming from tiny patches of land they were community minded, fond of talking and visiting neighbors, of which there are none in open ... , the "Gold Coast" Irish were successful, economically, socially, and political...

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... this time Cuba got involved too. The Cold War happened because America was scared that Communism would spread to their democratic West. Russia being the huge superpower in the east was Communist, and after the Russian Revolution, Lenin was planned on making Communism worldwide, this petrified the ... west. America believed in the Domino Theory, which was that if one country became Communist, then the neighboring countries would soon follow, like dominoes ... narrowed it down to three options. The first was to launch a nuclear strike against the missile sites. The second was launching a ...

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... part of the "American culture". The East Indians, who came to America, were mostly spread out in little groups up and down the West Coast (Pavri 56). Their story is an especially important part of the history of Asian Americans, for they were a new kind of ... than 50 hotels, forming the second largest Indian community group in America. Most of the hotel owners are from Gujarat, a state on the west coast of India (48). East Indians have been assimilated into their country and city surroundings. Their children are marrying Americans. Their enthusiasms have ... most were Sikhs. Their relig...

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... this time Cuba got involved too. The Cold War happened because America was scared that Communism would spread to their democratic West. Russia being the huge superpower in the east was Communist, and after the Russian Revolution, Lenin was planned on making Communism worldwide, this petrified the ... west. America believed in the Domino Theory, which was that if one country became Communist, then the neighboring countries would soon follow, like dominoes ... narrowed it down to three options. The first was to launch a nuclear strike against the missile sites. The second was launching a ...

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... People's thoughts on Ebonics 1. Maya Angelou 2. Rev. Jesse Jackson 3. Mfume, President of the NAACP E. How does it effect black students 1. Treatment by teachers and other students 2. Help that is provided for black students 3. Causes of speaking Ebonics III. Conclusion A. African Americans need to leave Ebonics at ... has been accepted as a legitimate oral language with its own syntax, vocabulary, and system of meaning (Autman 1B). Ebonics has rules as noted by Geneva Smitherman, a Black English professor who has written several books on this topic: 1. Stressing certain words. A common s...

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