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iPod And iTunes; the Potential Impact of Microsoft's Zune

Microsoft with the launch of Zune, or has Apple learned its lessons and will it be able to retain the dominant position. With th...

Brazilian Samba Music

de enredo" to the more "relaxed guitar and rhythm variant" of song samba (Clifford). Sambas earliest beginnings can be traced to t...

Mozart Effect/Beneficial or a Gimmick?

speech and language abilities" (Calkins and Kelley, 2007, p. 151). This is particularly interest in light of the fact that the ori...

Music of Guide D’Arezzo

1036 (Otten). It was after Guido arrived at Arrezo that he invented his new system of notation, which "brought such order and cl...

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony/An Analysis

motive over and over again in different forms (Grove 149). The lyrical second theme introduces a brief respite of relaxation, bu...

Beethoven, Life, Music and Romanticism

not attached to any one court or one prince. Rather, he received income in various ways, such as in giving music lessons to aristo...

Literature of the New American Republic

commentators argued throughout the 1820s and 30s that there should be works of literature to match "emerging political greatness o...

The Humanities

is all very fine, but why bother to study him when we could be learning computers? Because studying the humanities gives us insigh...

Gender Identity Patient Disorder Diagnosis, Treatment, and the Film Boys Don’t Cry

by persistent discomfort with ones sex" (Meyenburg, 1999, p. 305). This gender identification with the opposite sex typically com...

Popular Culture of 1950s America

not something that sprung up in the 1990s or 1980s. Yes, it is a 1950s phenomenon ("Film History of the 1950s"). McDonalds was fra...

Personal Perception of Judaism

small child, I knew I was Jewish, so I really do not remember when this identity was established or how. I did not think about it ...

Johnny Cash and Love

"go home and sin" which illustrates country music was about doing wrong, and having troubles, not about God and religion (The Life...

Burning CDs/Ethical Issues

and spread of music, but "bad" in that it could, conceivably, destroy the source of this music, the recording industry. However, i...

Being a Man in the 1999 Film Boys Don’t Cry

petty crime - such as writing bad checks - to pay for these procedures and as long as he perpetuates the illusion of being a male,...

Issues in e-Commerce

IT security professionals must take a "comprehensive view of threats both inside and outside the direct control of the enterprise"...

A Short History of Franco-Flemish and Venetian Schools of Art and Music

of Flemish techniques with established French style became the Franco-French school, with the earliest known innovators being the ...

The English Patient/Theme of Nationalism

blank slate for the imaginings of those around him, particularly Hana. Myth "crosses international boundaries and offers apparentl...

Fight Club/Dissociative Identity Disorder

purchase expensive consumer goods. The stress and psychic pain of this situation causes chronic insomnia. A disinterested and unsy...

Music Sharing is Not Unethical

management, as well as the creation and distribution of their CDs. Now, with the Internet, widespread ownership of CD burners and ...

Jazz as Modernism

Jazz breaks free of restrictions of form and structure, melody and harmony. Jazz allows composers to take "freer liberties with a ...

Movie Music Analysis

the type of music that accompanies an event or location. However, it is logical to presume that these decisions are made either by...

Ancient Greek Society and Steven Pressfield’s Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermoplyae

the novel, the term city is used interchangeably with the term citizen to reinforce this unity: "Our city, my city... Without a ci...

Jack the Ripper and His Impact on History

mostly prostitutes - were savagely murdered and mutilated by an unknown assailant, but after November 1888, the slayings stopped a...

A Critique on the October, 2008 Ringtone Decision

to royalties for the songs that are used as ringtones. In early October of 2008, the Copyright Royalty Board decided to freeze the...

Global Society Values

Swift (2004b) says the evolution of organizational relationships that have been building for many years have "failed to provide us...

Canada and the Cold War

neighbor of the US, "one of the two superpowers defining the post-war world," the Canadian government chose to move "closer to the...

Music Industry Decision Making

leads both the US and Europe, and by a wide margin (Cieslak, 2007). As digital forms continue to evolve, if CD sales contin...

Developing Identity: Gender in the 50s and 60s

to war because they felt it was their calling to engage in warfare. They were all relatively innocent and ignorant about war and a...

Blues and James Baldwin’s Short Story “Sonny’s Blues”

their late mother, who was the familys support system. Of her, the narrator would recall, "I always see her wearing pale blue" (B...

STRATEGIC PLANNING AND DECISION-MAKING

implementation/action is when the plan and its goals and objectives are put into play. Along these lines, a strategic plan...