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Dave Matthews Band, The Most Compelling Band Around
2465 Words - 9 Pages.... lots of different textures, so we've been able to create a very unique sound -- a very American music." (Relix Magazine: “One Nation Under a Groove”) As LeRoi Moore states, “ It is this blend of influence that creates the blend of texture. “ (FAQ) This rich texture from the blend of influence is what creates the most compelling band around, Dave Matthews Band.
The band came to be in April 1991, playing its first gig for an Earth Day celebration. Dave Matthews had always dreamed of starting his own band. He approached his favorite jazz players, (who he also served drinks to as a bartender) LeRoi Moore and Carter Beauford to make a demo tape of the songs he ....
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My Darling Clementine - The Ef
370 Words - 2 Pages.... image of a bright sunny day with blue skies, white clouds, green grass, and birds singing would have no place in a seriously dramatic fantasy like Batman. It just would not fit. I think My Darling Clementine is different.
In this film the noir lighting style was effectively integrated into the story but for a much simpler purpose. Here in Clementine I think it's used merely as a pictorial element. A tool, to enhance a scene here and there with little relevance to the story line. This film did have very elaborate dark scenes but still not enough to put it under the label of noir as a whole. The difference is that here I belive that one of those "bright sunny day" sequences th ....
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Native American Music
464 Words - 2 Pages.... elaborate style that correlates with the vocal approach of music. Bells are tied around the legs of the dancers for an added effect.
The Zuni Lullaby illustrates a contrast with Plains singing to assist in confirming that there is not an individual style to . Through the Native American styles of music, repetition becomes a prominent feature. This is not because the Native Americans can’t find words to fit into the music, but because repetitions with slight variations are often too insignificant for outside listeners to notice.
In the Iroquois Quiver Dance the first thing to strike the ear is what is often known as a “call and response” form. One singer announ ....
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The Twenties And Thirties
617 Words - 3 Pages.... making cars, the only car he made was a black Model-T. Almost everybody in the United States had a car. Three-out-of-four families owned one or more cars. With the assembly line they made a lot more cars in one day than they did before. Instead of paying for the cars with cash, people could now use credit to purchase items. Since most families didn't have the money, they would buy the car with credit and pay off the debt later.
The thirties was a bad time for the automotive industry. By now Ford had made a Model-A and had three new colors: tan, purple and black. All of the companies were making more cars than they could sell. Nobody had enough money to buy a car because of a ....
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Friday
1402 Words - 6 Pages.... becoming popular. Although it's not legal, many people use it socially and for medicinal purposes. The Hollywood elite smoke it. Musicians such as Dr. Dre and the Black Crows celebra it's use. Television shows like Saturday Night Live and Kids In the Hall depict it as harmless fun.
Marijuana fashion has grown into a ten million dollar industry, with the seven branch marijuana leaf showing up on caps, T-shirts, earrings and tattoos. Studies show that after a decade of declining drug use, marijuana use has increased sharply among gh school students and college students in the last two years (Duschbaun 8).
In the movie , rap star Ice Cube plays the character Craig. Craig has ....
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The Scientific Revolution & The Enlightenment In Europe
712 Words - 3 Pages.... fit, and finite, with the earth as its
center, and that the earth was one of the millions of bodies all subject to
the law of nature. Second, methods that emphasized skepticism, rationalism,
and rigorous reasoning that were based on facts and mathematical laws,
replaced earlier methods for proving beliefs. Such as referring to
traditional authorities such as Aristotle, Ptolemy, as well as the church.
Third, the general scientific orientation changed from theological
questioning to secular which focused on how things worked. these
developments were not very popular in Europe until the eighteenth century
when the ideas and methods became known as part of the Enlighte ....
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New Trend For Horror Films
788 Words - 3 Pages.... classic, which most fans of the film would probaly agree.In most everyone's opinion The Blair Witch Project is the best horror film released in a long time. It's not the standard Slash and hack horror movie that most of us have grown up with, remember the guy with the hockey mask that just would not die. Scary at age of eleven but quit laughable now. This movie puts a new twist on things without the buckets of blood and gore displayed in the horror films of the past. The misleading promotion before the film's release and the prologue at the beginning of the film have us beliving what we see is a true account of three student filmakers that disappeared while making a do ....
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Early Flight
2318 Words - 9 Pages.... P. Langley was born on August 22, 1834, in Roxburry, Massachusetts. Langley was an American astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics fanatic who helped with solar phenomena related to meteorology. Langley practiced civil engineering and architecture in Chicago, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri. After this, he went back to Boston and received an assistantship at the Harvard Observatory. He later went on to teach mathematics at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. In 1867, when Langley was 33 years of age, he took the position of a director at the Allegheny Observatory. He then became a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh. ....
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