08.10 Review and Critical Thinking questions Review Questions 1. Syncopation is placing emphasis or accents on beats that are unexpected‚ or not having emphasis or accents on beats that are expected too. Syncopated rhythms add variety to music. 2. Ragtime is a musical genre‚ it combined march music with African rhymths. The instruments used in the bands using ragtime would become the instruments used to create jazz which is how the two were related. 3. Buddy Bolden helped create Classic Jazz
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The 3 mistakes of my life By Chetan Bhagat Price: Rs95; Pages: 258 Rupa Books What strikes you first about Chetan Bhagat’s novels is the fact that this author writes about Indians and for Indians. His characters are young‚ ambitious and passionate and have the same moral‚ social and religious dilemmas as many of the young Indians today. At the same time their context and sensibility too is unabashedly Indian. The new and the third Bhagat book‚ “The 3 mistakes of my life”‚ have all these qualities
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Reflection: Let Your Life Speak Throughout my reading of this book‚ I often felt like Palmer was talking to me specifically. What I mean by that is the topics he covered in this book‚ especially those concerning the meaning of vocation as well as the idea of reclaiming the gift you were originally given when you were brought into this world‚ really hit home for me. I really liked learning about the meaning of the word vocation. The Latin root of vocation is voice‚ which Palmer directs us
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Life Strategies for Teens This book tells about the ten Life Laws that the author’s father has written about‚ but into a way that teens can easily understand. These Life Laws are to get us understand more why our lives are like this at the moment‚ what we have done has led our lives to be like this. The Laws are to help us to get back onto the right track with life‚ dealing with the problems we face‚ creating our own lives and future. It tells us that it is up to ourselves to create a life that
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You know that it’s the holiday season‚ when you see‚ It’s A Wonderful Life. Recently‚ I saw a modern adaptation of a classic holiday film‚ It’s A Wonderful Life. The play is directed by Ashlee Temple and was adapted by James W. Rogers. It’s being shown at the Tillie Lewis Theater‚ located at San Joaquin Delta College‚ on the opening night December the 11th at 8pm. It’s A Wonderful Life was staged in a proscenium‚ also called a picture stage. As an audience member‚ I arrived about 20 minutes early
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Life in a Day Response Life in a Day is a film composed of many short videos by different people of what was happening in their life on July 24‚ 2010. The clips varied greatly from a news photographer in Afghanistan to a Korean man traveling the world on his bicycle. This film truly showed how differently many people live. After watching it‚ I feel very fortunate to be where I am in life and to have had all of the opportunities that I’ve been given so far. Many people were not given the opportunities
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Zuniga LAS 377‚ Making a life vs. Making a Living When comparing the processes of making a living and making a life both differ very much‚ but both play a role in the process of finding true success as an individual. Making a living is geared towards plain survival. In our society plain survival would be to pay the bills‚ buy food‚ buy clothes‚ pay the rent…etc. The idea is to settle for the least possible in order to get by‚ or as we call it survival. Making a life is geared towards knowing what
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Maci Evans The movie Tree of lIfe was at first really confusing and needed more than one viewing to understand. At first I tried to decipher some kind of plot in the story‚ I soon realized that my efforts were in vain when I noticed that perhaps the director of the film intended on the film to be ambiguous. After much thought I concluded that this film was perhaps the story of creation explained‚ questioned and explored through the tragedy of a family. I felt as though there was a lot of imagery
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Facebook Relationships vs. Real Life Relationships People have relationships with others every day. These relationships consist of social network like Facebook; they also have real life relationships‚ like close family members or people that live around them. These two types of relationships are completely different. They are different in that people change their personalities‚ how they talk to people‚ and how they make themselves look. These two types of communication have a lot in common but
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Comparing Real Vs. Movie Commodus In the movie “Gladiator”‚ Emperor Commodus is portrayed as an unstable and neurotic sadist who killed his own father for the throne of the Roman Empire. Real history has no solid proof that Commodus‚ while unstable‚ killed his father Marcus Aurelius. He was actually made co-emperor at the age of 5 (Heritage). However‚ the sexual relations he had with his sibling is in fact true‚ but it was not with the sister Lucilla as shown in the movie‚ but rather with another
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