effectively refutes Jennifer Marohasy’s attempt to “malign the rice industries water efficiency achievements”. By using statistics to support her statements and a clear knowledge of her situation Wade has created an intriguing response to Marohasys article. To begin making her point Wade‚ executive director of the Rice growers’ Association of Australia‚throws at out that “unlike Jennifer Marohasy[they] understand [the] reality” of the delicacy of this situation. By doing this Wade is forcing the reader
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Music is all around us. We all grew up listening to some type of music. No one can really determine when music began or which cultures had music first. There are stories of its origins that go back to ancient times. "Popular music is music produced for and sold to a broad audience."(1) The types of popular music we are going to look at are jazz‚ country-and-western music‚ rhythm-and-blues music (R&B)‚ rock music‚ and rap‚ also know as hip-hop.(1) First‚ we will look at jazz. Jazz is a type of music
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The government has been trying to address the “big issue” of obesity for the past decade‚ and suggests that Britain is bursting as its seams. Referring to the size of its people I assume and not the British flood defences being breached. Another year and I’ve been introduced to yet another anti-obesity campaign. However obesity has been a problem for many years and is still increasing‚ so one must think that the numerous anti-obesity campaigns aren’t being effective‚ I mean surely it’s not as if
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Popular Opinion of a Cruel Star Heda Margolius Kovaly was a woman who during her time in Czechoslovakia lived through many harsh periods for not only the country‚ but people of Jewish heritage as well. Her memoir Under a Cruel Star tells her story of hardship from 1941 to 1968. In this memoir she explains her time in Auschwitz‚ her escape‚ as well as life in Communist Czechoslovakia‚ concentrating more on the hardships of Czechoslovakia after World War II. While Kovaly’s memoir depicts the suffering
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Drugs and Music in Popular Culture Sociology-Popular Culture American Military University Drugs and Music in Popular Culture One of America’s leading social issues is Drugs. Merriam and Webster define drugs as something and often an illicit substance that causes addiction‚ habituation‚ or a marked change in consciousness. Drugs have been around since the discovery of the America’s in 1492(Shmoop Editorial Team‚ 2008). A gift from Native American’s to Christopher Columbus in the form
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1960s‚ popular music artists began to record songs that reflected this disapproval and ultimately became a new method of protest. Popular music at the time echoed the opinions of many University Students during and many years after the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War played a significant role in the growth of the music industry as the controversy surrounding Vietnam became the driving force of musicians writing hundreds of songs talking about the war. Rock music bacame another form of popular music in which
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helped enrich America’s popular music culture. The immigrants all shared their experience‚ culture‚ and religion into the American stream of music. American popular music grew and spread across the US all throughout the 19th century. There were many events going on in the 19th century that has been correlated into new music. This paper will reflect on the different types of popular music throughout the century‚ and how Disco Music and Electronic Dance Music of American music are similar and how they
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Nicholaus Meyers MUSC 100: Music Appreciation 11th November‚ 2012 The Popular Music in Hong Kong When talk about the popular music we know the 1960s was the golden age of world’s popular music‚ and also the rock and roll. Hong Kong also followed the world’s step. The Hong Kong music was full of happy and freedom atmosphere since Hong Kong economic started to fly at that time. Young people began to contact the western trend. Radio became the main channel of music. The radio in English was priority
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hesis Popular music was recorded and marketed as a Counterculture which opposed the normal‚ functional‚ and unexciting Culture that was dominant in society; by being outside of that which was in power‚ Counterculturalists argued‚ they were able to see what was "real" and to implement a "progressive" worldview in which moral correctness brought us gradually closer to a utopian state. This marketing mirrored the process of adolescents‚ the main audience for popular music‚ who first reject the
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Popular Music Popular music‚ or pop music’‚ means music of the populace’. The term embraces all kinds of folk music which‚ originally made by illiterate people‚ were not written down. The creation of a popular music that aims simply at entertaining large numbers of people is a product of industrialisation‚ in which music became a commodity to be bought and sold. It is in the rapid industrialised nations‚ notably Britain and USA‚ that we first encounter composers who have devoted themselves
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