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Singer and Business Mogul Madonna

the success may be seen as a result of "street-smart business sense" (Harry Scolinos quoted in Grant, 1998). The initial beginning...

Theme of Identity Featured in Literary Works of Leslie Marmon Silko and Sandra Cisneros

there is the father, a man who feels a deep connection with the past, and perhaps more importantly, the Mexican Revolution. It is ...

'Classical' and 'Pop' Gap That Was George Gershwin

a "serious" composer by the critics, they were extremely mindful that Gershwin did not orchestrate the first performance of Rhapso...

The Influence of Cultural Developments on Visual Art, from the Mid-19th to the Mid-20th Century

early twentieth centuries established themselves. What this means in terms of how those great philosophers looked at the broader ...

Effects of Music and Alcohol on Female Behavior in Nightclubs

is to observe the evolution of the night, to record the "behavior" of several women visitors to the night club scene, and to quest...

Dvorak and Brahms' Piano Quintets

any of his contemporaries, captured the "intimate communion that is the essence of chamber-music style" (Machlis, 1970, p. 128). T...

Evaluating Childbirth Pain Management Alternative Proposal

drugs. In reality, pain management in labor delivery can include not only pharmacological approaches but also behavioral approach...

Gender Identity and the Impact of Video Games

In sixteen pages this paper discusses how gender identity and roles are influenced by various video games. Twenty sources are cit...

Operating Efficiency in the Bethesda Mining Company

From these values, the common approach to calculating ROE can be altered to effectively multiply ROE by 1, in the form of multiply...

The Adolescence of Anne Frank

is the equivalent of Freuds anal stage, is when a toddler begins to assert his or her individuality. The rest of the stages, and t...

Assimilation, Identity, and Jewish History

consistent throughout the centuries of the Diaspora. In order to remain Jewish, individuals could not adopt the customs of their h...

Industry Segmentation

with the values they attach to making purchases and the access or utility they have in relation to that market. Airlines If we lo...

Various Formats of Digital Audio

MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group) format is "a type of audio and video compression with several standards. MP3 is a popular file...

European Cinematic Depiction of Gender from the 1920s to the Twenty First Century

story, mise-en-scene, editing, and music, they collectively provide a common theme that speaks of the uniqueness of the feminist e...

Children's Neurology and the Effects of Music

to examine brain development to a degree that was never before possible (Strickland 100). For example, cerebral blood flow can be ...

Identity Searches in Literature

A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...

1960s Music and Film Authenticity

truth and the search for meaning in life. It was no longer a time for people to sleep and hide in their supposedly perfect illusor...

Lifestyle Choice of Transgenderism

significant elements as well. Therefore, transgenderism is truly the end result of the combination of these various components. ...

Cinematic Comedies and Sound's Role

theater, they rolled a cannon ball down a wooden trough that then fell onto a large drumhead (Brunelle, 1999). In films, sound eff...

Resistance, Subculture, and Hip Hop

on ten characteristic features of hip hop in Australia, that this music genre represents an authentic subculture. Some of these po...

Catherine J. Allen's The Hold Life Has

previously the case" (Allen, 1988: 195). It is a very popular pilgrimage that draws people from all over the region, if not the wo...

Life is Worth Living Through a Study of Humanities

In this paper consisting of five pages life's beauty is demonstrated in a core curriculum of art, music, and literature. There ar...

3 Generations of a Black Woman's Family and the Transmission of Personal Identity and Strength

out. My grandmother had little education in the formal sense yet she had overwhelming common sense. She learned to appreciate th...

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...

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 ...

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...

Music in the Films of the Coen Brothers

examined, one could perhaps argue that this is the one film wherein music was almost non-existent. Ethan Coen, in relationship to ...

The Invisible Man and the Search for Identity

(Ellison 16). This was in relationship to his success as a student and the way he presented himself, working in a very docile mann...