...“THE ENERGY NEVER DIES” IN THE BLACK EYED PEAS’ MUSIC “We got to capture what was going on in the world and our lives. People can relate to that better because they know what we are feeling and what we are all about” (“Black-Eyed peas Interview” Ugo.com:1). -The Black Eyed Peas In the quote above a Black Eyed Peas member (Apl.De.Ap) states how he feels while recording songs and how the world inspires and understands their songwriting. Rap/Hip-hop music have been around since the late 1970’s in New York City. Icons in American songwriting are Bob Dylan and Mariah Carey. The Black Eyed Peas [Fergie, Will.i.am, Apl.De.Ap, and Taboo] need to be included in this iconic group. American songwriting will be overviewed. Six of The Black Eyed Peas’ best songs will be discussed. Kelefa Sanneh and Ann Powers both agree that The Black Eyed Peas is one of the finest songwriters in American music. In order to prove this, it is first necessary to examine songwriting. Dictionary.com defines American songwriting as: “writing the [American] music and [English] word of [American] songs” (1). Masters of Hip-Hop/Rap songwriting know what it takes to produce a quality product. Among the most important elements of outstanding songwriting are alliteration, Camarillo 2. consonance, allusion, lyric poetry, personification, and figurative language. Additional elements include couplet, simile, imagery, metonymy, onomatopoeia, and a refrain. Examples of these terms will be...
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...intolerable pain which tears you apart, like a stone heavy on the heart, but I know now that I really wasn’t. Every morning, every meal times, every evening it hurt so badly I wanted to hurt her too. I so badly need her here, to feel her love, to touch out to her. I remember bedtimes which were for stories and adventures, the touch of her gentle hugs, the smell of her softly shampooed hair, and the sparkle of her soul. She’s now my ghost, an unfelt, unspoken memory of the past. Dad was still shouting to me from the bottom of the stairs as I drifted away from my childhood memories. He was holding a letter and had a face like thunder as he crossly waved the envelope towards my outstretched hand. ‘I think it’s your Mothers writing’. Boom Boom Boom!! Sounded the fastness of my heavy heart as I gingerly took the letter from my dad and uttered not a word as I backtracked without a backwards glance to my haven. A mixture of apprehension, fear and anger crashed over me like a tidal wave crashing against my skull, how dare she contact me yet again and put me through all this pain. Slowly, Slowly I open the letter and gingerly remove it from its personal surroundings. This wasn’t the first letter and certainly wasn’t to be the last letter from my mum who was once more asking for reconciliation, forgiveness on my part and offering explanations on hers. A feeling of emptiness laid heavy as I knew that however many letters, texts I received from my mum there was absolutely nothing I could...
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...r Hotel is a luxury five star hotel, positioned near the edge of the Sydney harbour and it is located in the central business district Sydney Australia. This most beautiful luxurious hotel overlooks some of Sydney’s key sceneries such as the Opera House, the Royal Botanic Gardens and various historical buildings. The Emperor is 17 floor building and has 302 rooms including the Emperors Suite which is located just under the rooftop lounge where only VIP guest members can access. The Emperor hotel has a function area where it can hold up to 2000 guests and has 5 private business conference rooms, a 2 hat restaurant, Royal Café and 24 hour fitness centre and more. This luxurious five star hotel concentrates on customer satisfaction and delivering the best and high The Emperor Hotel is one of 4 top international hotels located in the central district Sydney Australia. This particular hotel attracts domestic as well as international guests. 2008 and 2009 winner of Australia’s Top Restaurant, 2 hat restaurant, Circular attracts many high profiled guests as well as the newly furnished Royal Café. Unlike any other cafes in five star hotels, Royal Café is a sweet dessert/patisserie café. It is located on the first level of the Emperor Hotel and it is easily visible from the entrance of the hotel. The Emperor Hotel offers customer loyalty satisfaction privileges. Such as, privileges of reservation waiting list at the Circular Restaurant or free complimentary breakfast at the Royal Café...
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...they swam by the crabbie wabbies and visited with the fishie fishies, The whale and Allison had the time of their lives, the little girl didn't want to leave but the whale had made a promise and they returned from the ocean depths. Allison rode on the whales back all the way back to the beach, to her waiting grandfather and father, who instead of whale they had flounder for dinner instead. ???? Once upon a time their was a girl named Allison who loved the water she would spend hours on end out in the surf with her father when they were not swimming in the ocean they were crabbing on the crab dock, now the dock only had one railing, and wasn't the most sturdy structure but that didn't matter she would run [boom boom boom] across it her father yelling to walk, [boom boom boom] she continued running until she reached the...
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...boom, pow as the war went on ! i’m going to tell you a short little story that a famous author wrote the author name is ray douglas this author wrote a book called the drummer boy shiloh. This book is about a boy name joby this book describe his nervousness and anxiety over fighting in the war at the age of fourteen. The boy joby was scared he was scared to fight in the war but the man was getting joby to be brave in the war and prepared . The setting is in the peach field the boy listen to his heart beat ruffle away, away, at last gone from his ears back in his chest again . The young men had rifles the boy only got a drum and two sticks no shield to protect him . boom,bang , bang all of these is describing how the war...
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...Use rhythm, music and singing to tune IN your students to working WITH you and tune OUT the worries and distractions of other thoughts. 30 seconds of a good backing track can engage a class far more quickly than 30 minutes of our voice and instructions. They tend over time to ‘tune out’ our voices. Music instantly engages. Rhythm, music and singing help build a collaborative ‘group’ identity – the ‘singing tribe’. Call – Response patterns that emphasise rhythm and sound. eg: 1) Warm ups – French Boom Chicka Boom – (see pdf) • Using praise praises for the whole class to chant ‘well done’ to good contributors • Get the children to take over the ‘Call’ function as soon as possible from you. You are modelling skills and empowering them to model to each other as well. Children leading others is a very powerful re-inforcer and motivator. 2) Injecting backing tracks into lessons at key points • allows you ‘pick up’ or ‘calm down’ a lesson depending upon the mood. • allows you to overlay any lyrical content that you want to highlight from your lesson. • You can use songs from Sing Up website but you can also simply use the backing tracks of some key songs Example Let’s Dance backing track from Sing Up website Suggest some lyrics to practise to this track from any work you have done today. Can you see a way in which children could be asked to suggest some simple lyrics that summarise key points of a lesson...
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...operator and the boom technician. Without these people a movie would not have good sound as far as dialogue and ambiance. The first job is the mixer. This person has a lot of responsibilities. They connect the mixer to the recorder along with connecting the other equipment to the mixer. They make sure that we have good sound. They do this by putting the mixer audio level at zero and then putting the recorders DB level at negative twelve. By doing this it gives them some head room incase an actor increases the ton of their voice i.e. yells at another actor, we will still have good audio. The mixer is also in charge of doing the time codes. This means they right down the time code or this time on the recorder which the audio is recording and then writes down if that take was good or bad. Next we have the cord operator. This person’s job although you may think it is pretty easy it is a very important part of this department. Without a cord operator your boom person can fall, trip, ect. because someone is on standing on the cord. This person is also in charge of keeping the cords wrapped correctly. The last job on set as far as sound goes is the boom operator. This person determines which kind of mic he or she should use for any given scene. There are a few mics for him/her to choice from. There is the lavaliere mic which is a personal mic that is attached to the actor’s person. There is a stationary lavaliere mic which is hidden in a scene. Then there is the boom mic which is...
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...De Montfort University Design of a rotor blade for axial flow turbomachine ENGD3036 Plant Analysis and Sustainability Student number: P15235891 Student name: Haotian, Wu 10th of January, 2016 Lecturer: Professor Udai Singh Contents Abstract 1.0 Introduction ........................................................................................1 2.0 The plot of the blade ..........................................................................2 2.1 Data ..............................................................................................2 2.2procedure .......................................................................................3 3.0 The leading edge and trailing edge .....................................................5 4.0 Calculation of stagger angle at mid-height .........................................7 5.0 Discussion about calculation errors in design ....................................9 6.0 Realistic representation of the stage ..................................................12 7.0 Discussion about generation and effects of ‘shock’ ..........................14 7.1 The generation of the ‘shock’ ......................................................14 7.2 The effect of the ‘shock’ ..............................................................15 8.0 Stress pattern with a tangential load ..................................................16 8.1 3-D model creating ..........................................................
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...Meeting held on the 20th of August 2015 Attended: Junior, Vijen, Ashley, AKA Joe, PV, Jackie and Inam 1 Trustees to assist 2 Nothing we agreed on gets done 3 Eton close and Ille De Capri should have a common guard at the entrance 4 Gate next to the skipper should be fitted by tomorrow 5 Quotes require for about 8 wireless cameras 6 Urgent plumbing should be sorted out urgently 7 Need to follow up on the roof leak at Unit 46 8 Need to get the agreement between Eton close and Ille De Capri for the use of Ille De Capri’s entrance 9 Speak to Eton close about installing boom gates 10 Sticker system should be in place by the 01/09/2015 11 We all must speak less, think more and not make accusations 12 We all should send emails to Inam to send a weekly email to Garreth, Garreth should give feedback within 7 days 13 Residents to speak to Jackie with issues, Jackie to contact Garreth, Garreth to mail the trustees 14 Cutting of electricity should be implemented, notice should be served to the owner before cutting. 15 Last agreement between ADT and Ille De Capri required 16 when having parties at the Lapa only a certain amount of people should be allowed. Once visitors parking is full visitors need to park outside the complex. If the lapa is not cleaned after a party the owner will be liable for the cost of cleaning. 17 Trustees to focus on their portfolios, other there are welcome to give...
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...During the Civil War, the government had to finance for supplies such as: uniforms, weapons, and food. The money that went into buying those goods ended up in the pockets of industrialists who manufactured them. The money that they gained allowed industrialization to grow. Industrialization was infinitely bad for the U.S. society between 1865 to 1900 because it contributed to horrible working conditions, corruption, and the boom and bust cycle. Many of the jobs available during industrialization were affecting the wellbeing of the society. It says in document two that workers had disposable occupations that had the same repetitive movement to it. I say that by submitting workers through mind numbing and draining conditions, the workers were losing their humanity. And so industrialization was endangering the lives of the workers. The author’s purpose in writing was to inform the government and companies about what workers experience and is shown by the list of what workers did and suffered. Workers suffered because they were abused and taken advantage by businessmen. It says in document six that men and women were both overworked and treated worse than property. I say that the conditions in which the laborers were forced to work in were a hazard to their lives. And so industrialization negatively affected society because businessman did not care about what happen to their workers as long...
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...Two weeks after graduating high school, I arrived at Shocco Springs Baptist Conference Center to begin my first “real job” and experience the most pivotal summer of my life. While most of my friends frolicked on beaches enjoying their last summer before college, my ten hour workdays as a “Summer Staffer” consisted of scrubbing floors, cleaning toilets, preparing meals, cleaning dishes, hauling trash, and busing tables. While these duties yielded an education in how to survive a gritty physical environment, the most vital education I received was in how to survive a gritty social environment. My boss was fired for stealing, a direct co-worker was arrested for murder, and another co-worker stalked me. Various fellow staff members allowed these unexpected circumstances to distract them from their daily responsibilities, but I understood that Shocco guests still demanded our services. Rather than retreat from a back-breaking job amidst criminals, I daily maintained a laser-like focus on getting my job done despite feeling intimidated. Overcoming the intimidation brought forth two lessons that changed my life forever: life will always throw you curve balls and you must adapt to them, and secondly, there is no substitute for hard work. These lessons prepared me for the real world and greatly motivated me to obtain a higher education. Upon graduating from the University of Alabama, I had a unique professional and personal opportunity to move to San Diego. Professionally, I became...
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...Thesis: By examining Jack Overduin’s “Faith and Victory in Dachau”, Corrie Ten Boom’s “The Hiding Place”, and Eli Wiesel’s “Night”, it is clear that both documents present differing perspectives on the theme of providence. While both Jack and Corrie realize that both the good and bad times are in God’s hands, Eli doubts God’s existence in the bad times, and believes the desirable times arise from fate or chance. I. Introduction: (maybe use the Heidelberg Catechism Lord’s Day 10 about providence) II. How Providence is viewed when things go well. (During the favourable times, Jack Overduin and Corrie Ten Boom thank God for His blessings and care over them while Eli believes he is just getting lucky.) A. “Faith and Victory in Dachau” 1. Pg. 193 “Again and again, we compared our lives with what they had been only a few weeks before. It was a miracle of His mercy!” 2. Pg. 154 “ In His eternal wisdom God gave each of us the grace that we needed, The one received the grace to continue to live in Dachau’s torment without succumbing spiritually and morally, and the other received the grace to die.” 3. Pg. 209 “The S.S guards ate with us. What a difference! They had a dry piece of army bread, while we had delicious sandwiches made with homemade bread form our parcels. Usually, we also had cake and cookies and several kinds of fruit. A strange world...
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...America in the 1920’s The Boom Period During the 1920s there was a prolonged boom in the American economy. Industrial production doubled, the economy grew rapidly and fortunes were made. Life had never seemed better for the majority of the American people. The boom developed for a number of reasons. World War I The European economies were exhausted by the cost of waging a long war. In comparison, the USA grew rich during the war years. Its late arrival to the war, and the fact that its cities and industries were not bombed or destroyed during the conflict, meant that at the end of the war it was able to capitalise on the perilous state of European industry and dominate their markets. New technologies The first 20 years of the twentieth century saw huge technological advances in industry. Factories became automated. Machines and other improved manufacturing techniques meant that huge amounts of goods could be made at a fraction of the cost. The age of mass production had arrived. In the decade of the 1920s economic output increased by a staggering 50%. Consumer boom Because goods could be produced in greater numbers and at much lower prices, more people were able to afford them. This led to huge increases in the sales of products such as cars, refrigerators, radios and cookers. Buying on credit This consumer boom was greatly aided by the availability of hire purchase - the ability to buy goods on credit. Because times were good, people were not worried about...
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...Valenzuela Blog "I'm Your Horse in the Night" is a story that blurs the lines of reality and our narrator's dream, putting it into the category of magic realism. The story begins with the setting of our narrator's home, when she gets a surprise visit from her lover. After a hot drunken night with Beto, Chiquita is tortured after the police come looking for him. The police then start breaking her belongings and torture her for information about her beloved. The theme of this story uses a stereotypical female who is only wanting love and a man who is only wanting a bed for the night. Both of our main characters are flat, as we know hardly anything about them let alone their real names. This story is fiction however the events seem all too real, especially to a female reader reading from a female's point of view. Mrs. Dutta Blog Mrs. Dutta is a heartfelt short story about a woman who moves to America to live with her son's family after their strong suggestion. The point of view this story is written in is third person; as an outsider telling the events. Mrs. Dutta, being the main protagonist in the story, is struggling to adapt to her new life in America. The biggest change that Mrs. Dutta is struggling with is being a housewife stereotype. The most interesting thing about Mrs. Dutta is the subplot containing her flashbacks back home and the conversations between herself and Mrs. Basu. Being such a round character, Mrs. Dutta shows a lot of progression at the end of the story...
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...In the book Swiss Family Robinson, Tentholm is the first place where they live. Tentholm was located on the beach and that is where they stored all of their goods. Once they made other homes, they still used Tenholm. It was still used a storing house, what they did there, and what it looks like. First and Foremost, Tentholm was used to store items and helped them find some items too. A couple of items they stored there was butter,cheese,ball,shots, armor, and ammunition. The wife made the butter and put in a jar,while she was there. They found potatoes while on their way to Tentholm. They found the potatoes by going a different way. Then they brought a porcupine back to Tentholm because Juno and Turk went and attacked it. When they attacked it, they got the quills in their skin. Since they did, once they return to Tentholm the wife had to remove the quills. Moreover, while they were at Tentholm they were near the ocean and next to the river. They were able to go fishing while at Tentholm. The ocean was in front of the home. They caught lots of fish and other oceanic animals while fishing. One of the first animal they ¨caught” was a crab. Whenever they got the crab from Jack’s leg they took home to Tentholm and cooked it. They did this many more times throughout the book with many other oceanic animals, including lobster and crawfish. Tentholm is where the wife stayed most of the time cooking and doing her other wifely duties since it was near the ocean. This is where most...
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