...toward Native American music. Before I began to develop any sort of directed, narrowed research questions, I asked myself first, “What is Native American music?” Regarding various definitions of the so-called “genre,” I discovered that Native American music shouldn’t be typified into any genre or defined style of music. It was the perspective toward music that was unique to Native peoples, and this perspective is key in understanding the Native American influence on later creations of music. Definition and Philosophy Native peoples tend to view their music in a distinctly different way from Euro-Americans. To Natives, music is thought; music appeared to be particularly inclusive into Native Americans’ way of life, and is unique in its origin, meaning, and efficacy. To ask “what is Native American music?” would be a question foreign to Native Americans, especially during the time that Native American music was first discovered. One aspect of music specific to indigenous peoples is its place in daily life. In fact, “its place in human affairs are much more significant to Indians than its mode of construction or technical character.” (Native American Music, 1980, p. 12) Unlike the Euro-American perspective toward music, cultural music itself wasn’t marginalized into any niche or complex art form. Rather, Native Americans used music as a prerequisite or compliment to ceremonies, rituals, dances, stories, narratives, warfare, hunting and gathering, and other aspects of life. Music...
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...1. Lux: a) Brand Launching: In 1924 b) Country of Origin: UK c) Founder: Lever Brother (Now know as Unilever) founder William Hesketh Lever and his brother James d) Industry: Soap (Health Care) e) Brand Name origin: The name Lux means ‘light’ in Latin, however the name was chosen from the word word ‘luxury’. 2. Lifebuoy: a) Brand Launching: In 1894 b) Country of Origin: UK c) Founder: Same as of Lux d) Industry: Soap (Health Care) e) Brand Name origin: buoy means a device that keeps a sinking man afloat. i.e. protecting life. Buoys ring shaped device that are kept in the ship f) Brand Logo Origin: Buoy is ring shaped and in red color in UK. Lifebuoy logo originates from here. It’s logo is oval shaped which reminds you of ring shape. g) Brand Color: Red as buoy is red in UK 3. Apple: a) Brand Launching: on April 1, 1976. It’s original name was Apple Computer, Inc. But, in 2007, it removed the word ‘Computer’. According to me, this is their branding strategy to thrive into consumer electronics goods. Very soon, they will launch HD TV. b) Country of Origin: California, USA c) Founder: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne. d) Industry: Computer Hardware, Computer software, Consumer electronics, etc. e) Brand Name origin: Steve jobs, the founder of Apple, came up with the name ‘Apple Computer’. No significance was behind this name. Many used to say Steve Jobs was working in a community type farm...
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...The “Sulfur Bottom”, or the Blue whale are baleen whales and they can be found worldwide .At the top of the food chain, whales play a vital role in the overall health of the environment.(A-Z Animals) But sadly, the Blue whale is one of the most endangered animals in the world. Blue whales that are in the Northern Hemisphere are generally smaller than those that are found in the southern Hemisphere. (Choi)In the Northern Atlantic and Pacific, they can grow up to 90 feet, but in the Antarctic, they can reach up to 110 feet, and weigh up to 330,000 pounds. Like other types of baleen whales, the females are usually somewhat larger than the males. (A-Z Animals) The Blue Whale, (Balaenoptera musculus), is the largest animal on our planet. It weighs as much as 33 elephants, is the length of three school buses, has a heart the size of a volkswagen Beetle, and eats around 4 tons of krill a day. They have been spotted in every ocean. They are the loudest animals, as their calls are louder than a jet engine, they can reach 188 decibels,...
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...Real-Time Hand Tracking for HumanComputer Interaction Ayush Tripathi, Kanishk Puri, Nilesh Srivastava, Prateek Dham (Students) Mrs S.S Dhotre(Professor) Computer Science Department Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University College of Engineering Pune, Maharashtra(India) Abstract- The proposed work is part of a project that aims for the control of a mouse based on hand gesture recognition. This goal implies the restriction of real-time response and unconstrained environments. This is basically a vision based skincolour segmentation method for moving hand in real time application [3]. This algorithm is based on three main steps: hand segmentation, hand tracking and gesture recognition from hand features. For the hand segmentation step we use the colour cue due to the characteristic colour values of human [1]. The hands are recognized by the computer using the skin colour as one of the basic features for the hand recognition. The important feature is the accurate segmentation of hands [3]. I. Introduction Nowadays, the majority of the human-computer interaction (HCI) is based on mechanical devices such as keyboards, mouse, joysticks or gamepads. In recent years there has been a growing interest in a class of methods based on computational vision due to its ability to recognise human gestures in a natural way .These methods use as input the images acquired from a camera or from a stereo pair of cameras. The main goal of these algorithms is to measure the hand configuration...
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...Sustainable Competitive Advantage Gahn, Philip MACFA, ID# 309601 gahnphil@hs-pforzheim.de Kominek, Lukas MACFA, ID# 300953 komluk@hs-pforzheim.de Wenz, Eugen MACFA, ID# 300636 weneug@hs-pforzheim.de th Submission date: November 2 2013 2 Table of Contents 1 Purpose and Structure ......................................................................................... 5 2 Definition and Origin of Competitive Advantage .............................................. 6 3 Approaches and Methods to Achieve Competitive Advantages......................... 8 3.1 The Traditional Approach According to Porter ........................................... 8 3.1.1 Cost Leadership ................................................................................. 10 3.1.2 Focusing on Priorities ........................................................................ 10 3.2 Modern Approaches .................................................................................. 10 3.2.1 The Strategy as a Compilation of Simple Rules ................................ 11 3.2.2 The Blue Ocean Strategy ................................................................... 12 4 Ways to achieve Sustainable Competitive Advantage...................................... 13 5 Conclusion ........................................................................................................ 15 References .......................................................................................
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...Summary of Thorell Tsomondo’s “No Tale to Tell: ‘Sonny’s Blues’ and Waiting for the Rain” In Thorell Tsomondo’s “No Other Tale to Tell: ‘Sonny’s Blues’ and Waiting for the Rain,” Sonny the artist is a historian (Tsomondo 196). Sonny’s history is the experience of society and that of an individual (196). For Baldwin, the artist’s credibility and appeal hinge on his historical knowledge and his success as historian is dependent on his artistic skill (196). Sonny is a kind of poet-prophet committed all together to solitary and communal experience, bound at once to tradition and to change (196). Sonny’s Blues are set in the black ghetto of New York City, and tell a story of a young pianist dogged by heroin addiction and alienated from his family (196). Yet he captures and relates a people’s historical existence, leading his audience to a heightened, shared awareness of their cultural identity (196). In Sonny’s Blues, memory, the return to the past, is motivated by a sense of amassment, but by a sense of necessity (196). Baldwin like other African American writers retains a sense of the past that is acutely unstable (196). Instead of feeling animosity to the past, the African American is in search for the continuity that it can provide (197). Writers like Baldwin are concerned with the reconstruction of an individual tradition and emancipating force that is the art which they transform need into fullness (197). Sonny’s Blues is more than a presentation of a voyage or view of...
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...marked the 1960’s influenced many performers, and some began to use their music as a vehicle for protest. - Compound Exercise 31.7: Circle the simple subjects and verbs in the following passage. Place one line under each independent clause and two lines under each dependent clause. (Recall that as independent clause can stand on its own as a complete sentence.) Many argue that the blues and jazz are the first truly American musical forms. With its origins in slave narratives, the blues took root during the 1920’s and 1930’s as African-America composers, musicians and singers performed in the cabarets and clubs of Harlem. Jazz, however, has is origins in New Orleans. Today, we can still appreciate the music of Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, and B.B. King. Rock and roll is also a distinctively American form of music. Our country’s first “rock star” was without a doubt Elvis Presley, who emerged in the nation’s airwaves in the mid-1950’s with such hits as Heartbreak Hotel, Don’t Be Cruel, and All Shook Up. A decade later, Americans were expressing themselves musically through rhythm and blues, pop, folk rock, and protest music. Today, thanks to recording technology, we have easy access to our country’s rich musical...
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...Contents The Blues – Traditions and Inspirations Origin 2 Musical Format Development Classification Influence References Origin Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States around the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The blues form, ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll is characterized by specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues chord progression is the most common. The blue notes that, for expressive purposes are sung or played flattened or gradually bent (minor 3rd to major 3rd) in relation to the pitch of the major scale, are also an important part of the sound. The origin of the term of was most likely derived from mysticism involving blue indigo, which was used by many West African cultures in death and mourning ceremonies where all the mourner's garments would have been dyed blue to indicate suffering. Blues has evolved from the unaccompanied vocal music and oral traditions of slaves imported from West Africa and rural blacks into a wide variety of styles and subgenres, with regional variations across the United States. The musical forms and styles that are now considered the "blues" as well as modern "country music" arose in the same regions during the 19th century in the southern United States. Recorded...
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...certain physical characteristic, even when the gene is present in only one copy. Recessive Gene- A gene which must be present on both chromosomes in a pair to show outward signs of a certain characteristic. Examples Dominant Gene- Green or Hazel Eyes, large eyes, Dwarfism Recessive Gene-Blue or Grey Eyes, small Eyes, Normal Growth 3. What is heredity? How important is it in influencing who we are? Heredity helps define us from our parents and who we are. Heredity is the passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another. 4. Steve Rogers and Eric Grothe were outstanding Rugby League players in 1970 and 80’s. each has a son who has gone on to league at the ‘state of origin’ level. Should we be surprised by this? Give your reasons. Their sons have the ‘state of origin’ level because of their father’s genes and have been passed on to them. They have pass on their genes and they were very sporty and great at Rugby league, so their sons will also be great at a young age from the genes pass down. 5. What are the different options of the eye colour of their children if one parent has blue eyes and the other has brown? Brown, Blue, Dark Blue, Dark Brown 6. How can heredity affect our health? Give some examples of some health problems that can be inherited from out parents (list at least 7). Try www.healthline.com If a certain disease is has happen in your family tree line and most people had it, It would be most likely you...
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...By winning the “Witter Bynner Undergraduate Poetry Prize“ in the mid twenties he came in contact with Carl van Vechten, who obtained approval by his publisher Alfred Knopf to release Hughes first volume of poetry: “The Weary Blues“. The two words „Weary and Blues“ already hint at the subjects on which Langston Hughes focused on. „Blues“, a musical genre invented by African-Americans highlights his black origin, while „Weary“ expresses his tedium of society, demanding a change. In one of his most famous poems „The Negro Speaks of Rivers“ Hughes shows his pride by glorifying the splendour of Africa. As point of reference he chooses large rivers: For Hughes rivers are symbols of eternal life. They accompanied manhood for thousands of years. Humankind settled at these rivers, built their homes and created monuments, which are still of relevance in modern times. In the second part of the poem Hughes alludes to the African-American history. The Mississippi, the river at which most of the cotton plantations were located is a symbol of suffering and life of the...
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...The theory of Endosymbiosis explains the origin of chloroplasts and mitochondria and their double membranes. This concept assumes that chloroplasts and mitochondria are the result of years of evolution initiated by the endocytosis of bacteria and blue-green algae. According to this theory, blue green algae and bacteria were not digested; they became symbiotic instead. Endocytosis is when a substance gains entry into a cell without passing through its cell membrane. A cell's plasma membrane encloses and fuses to lock foreign material inside. An intracellular vesicle is formed as result .The ribosomes of the inner structure in chloroplasts and mitochondria resemble prokaryotic ribosomes. Evolutionist Lynn Margulis proposed the idea in the late 1960’s. In 1970 she published her argument in The Origin of Eukaryotic Cells. The controversy surrounding theory is that it is not a fact. The endosymbiotic theory is that it proposes no real process and most textbooks show the simple picture of a cell that swallows another cell that becomes a mitochondrion. There is a difference between the process of endosymbiosis and its incorporation in the germ line, necessitating genetic changes. One of the controversies stated by Albert de Roos: What were those changes? What was the host? Was it a fusion, was it engulfment, how did the mitochondrion get its second membrane, how did two genomes in one cell integrate and coordinate? The theory is also strongly teleological, illustrated by the widely...
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...This was said by empiricist Hume. It means that we can never an idea which is not somehow based on sense experience. It is logical to agree with Hume that our significant knowledge does derive from our sense experience. However there are counter arguments for the origin of all our ideas being derived from sense experience, which this essay will aim to evaluate. Empiricism is the theory that the origin of our ideas is experience. Our concepts are derived from our sensory experiences of sight, touch, smell, taste and sound - and our concepts are consequently copies of these sense experiences. So under empiricism we will point to sense experience to back up our beliefs and ideas. As a result we can never imagine a totally original idea, it will be a manipulation of the composition of and already existing thing. To illustrate when we have an idea of an angel this is not an original idea - in fact it is based on the sense experience of a birds wings and a body of a person. This leads on to the other significant feature of empiricism, this is the use of simple and complex ideas. We learn simple concepts by associating them with experience, then the word/concept becomes meaningful. For example the word "horse" will only become meaningful to a child when the word has been associated to an experience at a petting zoo for example. We then can generate complex ideas from manipulating simple ideas, to illustrate Hume used the example of manipulating the simple ideas of "gold" and "mountain"...
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...distilled water is preferable, but tap water is also suitable), 70% isopropyl alcohol, measuring cup, piece of scratch paper, coin, timer or clock, and of course red flower petals. You will need at least 2 flower petals from at least 3 different plants. Tip: Larger petals work better than smaller petals. C. Steps/ Procedure Cut the chromatography filter paper into strips that are about 2 cm wide and as long as the large-mouth glass is tall (the strips should all be the same size). You will want to make at least three strips for each flower you want to investigate, or a minimum total of nine strips. Use a ruler and pencil to draw a line across each paper strip, horizontally, 2 cm from the bottom, as shown in Figure 1. This is the origin line, where the sample will later be spotted. Tip: Do not use a pen for writing on the strips because the ink will run when the solvent...
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...Blue is the colour between violet and green on the optical spectrum of visible light. Human eyes perceive blue when observing light with a wavelength between 450 and 495 nanometres. Blues with a higher frequency and thus a shorter wavelength gradually look more violet, while those with a lower frequency and a longer wavelength gradually appear more green. Pure blue, in the middle, has a wavelength of 470 nanometres. In painting and traditional colour theory, blue is one of the three primary colours of pigments, along with red and yellow, which can be mixed to form a wide gamut of colours. Red and blue mixed together form violet, blue and yellow together form green. Blue is also a primary colour in the RGB colour model, used to create all the colours on the screen of a television or computer monitor. The modern English word blue comes from Middle English bleu or blewe, from the Old French bleu, a word of Germanic origin, related to the Old High German word blao.[2] The clear sky and the deep sea appear blue because of an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering. When sunlight passes through the atmosphere, the blue wavelengths are scattered more widely by the oxygen and nitrogen molecules, and more blue comes to our eyes. Rayleigh scattering also explains blue eyes; there is no blue pigment in blue eyes. Distant objects appear more blue because of another optical effect called atmospheric perspective. Blue has been used for art, decoration and as a clothing dye since ancient...
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...Exercise 31.6 1. Simple 2. Simple 3. Compound 4. Complex 5. Compound Exercise 31.7 Circle the simple subjects and verbs in the following passages. Place one line under each independent and two lines under each dependent clause. Many argue that the blues and jazz are the first truly American musical forms. With its origins in slave narratives, the blues took root during the 1920s and 1930s as African-American composers, musicians, and singers performed in the cabarets and clubs of Harlem. Jazz, however, has its origins in New Orleans. Today, we can still appreciate the music of Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, and B. B. King. Rock and roll is also a distinctively American form of music. Our country’s first “rock star” was without a doubt Elvis Presley, who emerged on the nation’s airwaves in the mid-1950s with such hits as Heartbreak Hotel, Don’t Be Cruel, and All Shook Up. A decade later, Americans were expressing themselves musically through rhythm and blues pop, folk rock, and protest music. Today, thanks to recording technology, we have easy access to our country’s rich musical history. Exercise 32.1 & 32.4 Underline the fragments in the following passage, and identify each as either a phrase (without a subject or verb) or a dependent clause. Pool hustlers deceive their opponents in many ways. Sometimes appearing unfamiliar with the rules of the game, (Dependent Clause) they may try acting as if they are drunk or pretend to be inept. (Dependent clause)...
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