With each individual stair, the clip clop of my shoes hitting the surface echoed-loudly through the halls. ... The once noisy theatre turned dead silent. ... I silently thought about instructions to help make my script reading go well. ... What do I do if I skip or misread a line while reading? ... When I looked down at the script bright colors danced across the white page as the letters meshed together to form little black blobs. ...

• Word Count: 1386
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

., Deadheads-a group of fans of the American band Grateful Dead who saw the band at as many gigs and festivals as possible from the 1970s onward). ... To a certain extent, sociological approaches to studying popular music stem from cultural studies, an offshoot of sociology developed primarily in the 1970's at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) in Birmingham, England, led by Richard Hoggart and later Stuart Hall. ... In the 1980's and 1990's, sampling technologies and digitization led to the emergence of genres such as rap and hip-hop and electronic dance music ...

• Word Count: 2711
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Williams's production notes and stage directions emphasize the striving for what Williams described as a "new plastic theater." ... Lawrence novel he was reading. ... He hates the factory; he envies the dead when he hears Amanda's daily reveille of "Rise and shine!" ...

• Word Count: 5517
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School

Reading music was not something few jazz musicians did they improvised their work. ... The sax was known to intensify close dancing with one another. ... Although, the young ones still rebelled against what the adults had to say, they still enjoyed the music and dancing to it. ... He was being offered to play in parties, funeral marches, dances, and local bars. ... On these recordings, Armstrong made rhythmic choices, such as swinging phrases, hitting incredible high notes, and he also began to sing in his recordings. ...

• Word Count: 3064
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

She counsels Juliet to proceed as if Romeo were dead and to marry Paris, who is a better match anyway. ... The night before her wedding to Paris, Juliet must drink a potion that will make her appear to be dead. ... That night, Juliet drinks the potion, and the Nurse discovers her, apparently dead, the next morning. ... Romeo hears only that Juliet is dead. ... She kisses his poisoned lips, and when that does not kill her, buries his dagger in her chest, falling dead upon his body. ...

• Word Count: 13391
• Approx Pages: 54
• Grade Level: High School

After four years of combat, which had left around 750,000 Americans, Union and Confederate, dead and had destroyed much of the South's infrastructure, the Confederacy collapsed, and slavery was abolished. ... Buchanan said that the Dred Scott decision was proof that the South had no reason for secession, and that the Union "... was intended to be perpetual," but that, "The power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union," was not among the "... enumerated powers granted to Congress." the National Banking Act and the authorization of United States Notes by the Legal Tender ...

• Word Count: 7511
• Approx Pages: 30
• Grade Level: High School