Title: Boogie Nights: Music‚Youth‚ and Joy in Netflix’s The Get Down While The Get Down second season premieres this Friday via streaming service Netflix. I am ecstatic for it and it was one of my favorite shows of last year. I’m not a person to binge watch shows but The Get Down was one of those shows. A hero’s journey told through the eyes of a love sick boy in the Bronx‚ named Zeke. The Get Down is one part musical drama ‚comic narrative‚ and coming of
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Imperialism is one countries domination of political‚ economic and social structure of another country. The main reasons behind imperialism are nationalism‚ culture‚ and resources. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries‚ imperialism was growing in Africa. The main countries involved in the imperialism in Africa were the German‚ French‚ Great Britain. Nationalism is another way of saying national pride. Europeans had great power and pride and wanted to show just how powerful they were by gaining
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Kipling’s “Danny Deever” explores the harsh reality of military life through a description of Deever’s execution which features the blind obedience soldiers must have to their superiors and the emphasis placed on military honor. The poem begins as the soldiers are “turned out” from their beds to witness the execution of Deever. These new and inexperienced soldiers‚ collectively referred to as “Files-on-Parade‚” ask the superior Colour-Sergeant questions regarding the proceedings; however‚ they receive
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claim that they were first created as early as 1919. These first sock monkeys are known as imitation stuffed animals. We know that they started to appear in the late Victorian era and it has been suggested that they were inspired by stories from Rudyard Kipling’s writings for example‚ The Jungle Book and Just so Stories. Today’s red lipped sock monkeys originated from Rockford Illinois. As mentioned before‚ the first automatic knitting machine was created in 1870 by John Nelson. Nevertheless‚ it
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What are the roles of artists in W.H. Auden poetry ? W.H Auden was born in 1907 in the town of York. Later he studied at Oxford University to become a literature teacher and a poet. He spent few years in Berlin but travelled also to Spain then to the USA‚ always committed politically. “Selected Poems” is published in 1930‚ after the war‚ to report people’s feelings and reality of the time. W.H. Auden’s poetry raises a wide range of issues and subjects such as love‚ war‚ relations or even
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well-known poets D. H. Lawrence‚ T. S. Elliot‚ Patrick White‚ Les Murray and Kenneth Slessor were the main influences towards Gray’s poetry‚ and inspired him greatly. At home‚ his father was often asking Gray to repeat quotations from authors‚ such as Kipling‚ Longfellow and Browning‚ once he realised his son had a great ability in English and this resulted in Gray having an intense dislike of these poets. At 17‚ he finished school and travelled to Queensland before moving permanently to Sydney. There
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College Hebei‚ CHINA liuqx1952@yahoo.com.cn Abstract Rudyard Kipling says in the Ballad of East and West: “East is East‚ and West is West; and never the twain shall meet.” Yet‚ he never expected that with the technological development in transportation and communication‚ the Westerners and Easterners that have quite different cultures respectively would meet so frequently nowadays in international settings. However‚ in a sense‚ Kipling is absolutely correct in that people with different cultural
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Edward Elgar Sir Edward William Elgar‚ 1st Baronet‚ OM‚ GCVO (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer‚ many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations‚ the Pomp and Circumstance Marches‚ concertos for violin andcello‚ and two symphonies. He also composed choral works‚ including The Dream of Gerontius‚ chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master
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Virginia Woolf Rachna Bhutoria ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We would genuinely like to thank our Literature Teacher Ms. kundu for giving us the opportunity to work on this topic and especially giving us a great author like Virginia Woolf. We were touched to know her struggles in life and also greatly impressed by her works which are truly exceptional and modernist . We would also like to thank the people who gave in their inputs after reading Virginia Woolf’s work which helped us out to do our project
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APUSH Study Guide 26 The Path of Empire‚ 1890-1899 Themes/Constructs: In the 1890s a number of economic and political forces sparked a spectacular burst of imperial expansionism for the United States that culminated in the Spanish-American War—a war that began over freeing Cuba and ended with the highly controversial acquisition of the Philippines. Various developments provoked the previously isolated United States to turn its attention overseas in the 1890s. Among the stimuli for the
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