strategies designed to find a successful mean between the opposite extremes of unrelieved repetition and unrelieved alteration."[3] Musicologist Richard Middleton describes form through repetition and difference: difference is the distance moved from a repeat; a repeat being the smallest difference. Difference is quantitative and qualitative; how far different and what type of difference. According to Middleton‚ musical form is "the shape or structure of the work." In many cases‚ form depends on
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Fifteen years from now‚ your alarm goes off at 7:30 AM‚ pulling you out of a dead sleep. You roll over‚ grumbling a command‚ and the alarm obediently shuts up. You drift off again‚ but ten minutes later the alarm returns‚ more insistent. It won’t be so easily pacified this time; the loose sensory netting inside your pillow will keep the noise going until it detects alpha waves in drastically higher numbers than theta waves. Or until it gets the automated password from the shower. Sighing‚ you roll
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1. The Future is Now? Pretty Soon‚ at Least After reading Chapters 1-3‚ review the videos Ray Kurzweil on How Technology Will Transform Us and Ray Kurzweil: A University for the Coming Singularity. (Interactive transcripts are also available on the TED web site.) Based on what you have learned‚ which of Kurzweil’s predictions do you agree with‚ and which do you doubt? Why? Please be specific. I agree with Kurzweil’s predictions about the communications revolution. Kurzweil states that‚ “The
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MY LIFE IN THE FUTURE I am really excited because my life is spectacular‚ living here in the earth is very different from my life in 2012; my habits have changed a lot; but I can state that even though my life has changed a lot; I live better and don’t have too many concerns. Firstly‚ I can say that living in 2175 is awesome because I have some robots that do the housework for me; so I don’t have to clean and do the dishes anymore. Also there are cars that are able to fly‚ they are amazing
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excited me since my brother left for college. I am in my final year now‚ but I have a mix feeling about it. The hop from high school to college is one of the widest in a person’s life. Apart from the basic fact that graduate will leave their friend which sometimes they have been with for the past eight years and over‚ but you will leave home. The convenience of your mother and father taking care of you‚ I now realize that it is a journey to become your own person. The past eight years have been the
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A hundred years form now we would be living underwater in a city like Atlantis. The 2 main factors which would have contributed to this situation would be the raising temperatures I.E global warming and UV radiation. Because of this enormous change in lifestyle which had to take place‚ many other scientific projects would be suspended‚ like the space program for example. Most our scientific efforts would be directed towards the improvement of human life underwater. Some people in America‚ Europe
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he drinks until he can’t anymore. He takes shots and gets every drink you could ever think of. He says he does it because all the rain and bad weather depresses him and the drinking helps him forget about the weather and everything else happening in life. One day when Charlie was at the bar like he is every Sunday night he met a guy that looked like a puppet of some sort. His name was the Cookie Monster. As many normal people would dip their favorite cookies in milk. The Cookie Monster dips his favorite
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pretty hard to determine but in the next ten years I can see myself at the University of Alabama at Birmingham obtaining a degree in forensic science. In ten years‚ I plan on obtaining a 4.0 in my field and becoming recognized on the dean’s list.I also plan on getting a job because i could use the money to help support me and my family if I have one. Although those are my dreams and my hopes‚ there could be an outcome to change my mind or a factor to where my requirements are not met. If I were not
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Life is a funny place. It seems we go from kindergarten to retirement in the blink of an eye. We have retirement plans that we put in place as soon as we can. We have plans for dinner‚ vacation plans‚ building plans‚ weekend plans‚ landscape plans‚ and we have plans for everything. Why do we plan out everything? We schedule weekend plans for fun because it is important. We schedule dinner plans to meet with friends so we can spend time together. We follow building plans because our homes are
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CURRICULUM INNOVATIONS 10 YEARS FROM NOW My personal idea on the curriculum innovations in the next ten years. I shall begin by reviewing the impact technology had in the past few years. I believe that changes in the curriculum will be reflected by the direction and speed of technological developments. The introduction of the personal computer and the Internet has made huge strides in how school children learn independently at home. Since‚ internet is doubling in size every year‚ there is a need for
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