Wallace Stegner makes this statement at the end of "Coda", a letter included in his book The Sound of Mountain Water. ... The book is a collection of writings that come from many different points in Stegner's life, and therefore, throughout Part I of the book the reader is able to see the authors views change regarding certain environmental issues pertaining to the west. ... In The Sound of Mountain Water Stegner talks about his first encounter with a mountain river and how after living on the prairie for his whole childhood the sight and sounds of this rushing water moved him greatly. .....

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One never reads a book and is jumpscared from his/her seat. Shortly after the silent film era came the sound film era. ... George Melies's short feature films in particular were brilliant sound-on films, playing simply classic theatrical sound effects but successfully creating suspensions and climax as the stories went. ... Unlike words, moving images and sound keep the audience constantly engaged in the story. ... In other words, whatever feeling a person may have reading a book alone, the cinema experience will exaggerate it. ...

• Word Count: 661
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In his view of nature, the world is like a book written by God. In this book God expresses himself completely, and it is by reading the world that humans can approach God and learn about Him. ... A book of his selected works enabled me to realise so, his style is referred to as "lyrical" and this I agree with. ... Another unusual approach to his poetry was they way in which he repeated and juxtaposed his words or the sounds of the words. ... For example, in is echoed again and again: "I caught this morning morning's minion, king while the next line emphasizes the dau sounds; dom of daylig...

• Word Count: 1414
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In this specific model, children engage in intensive reading experiences, where there are multiple readings of one book over several days. ... Antonyms are words that have different sounds and opposite meaning; cold and hot. ... The sounds of the language are based on a phonological system of a particular language. ... Single sounds are known as phonemes and phonics is related to reading. Having phonemic awareness is the ability to hear sounds in words and to identify particular sounds. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Rodriguez, Through reading your book I learned a great deal about your family and the role you played in it and how strongly influenced you were by the environment of your Latino family. ... Through most of your book you seem to center on how close and tightly knit your family was. ... At school and in public you describe hearing the cold, harsh sounds of the English language and wishing that your teachers would welcome you in Spanish, instead. ... No longer did you hear the warm sounds of Spanish fill your house. ... You say that you felt that your close-knit family ceased to exist as it onc...

• Word Count: 812
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The linguistic sign is neither conceptual nor phonic, neither thought nor sound. ... The latter is not the material sound, a purely physical thing, but the psychological imprint of the sound, the impression that it makes on our senses. ... In language, a lone signifier would be an utterly meaningless sound or concatenation of sounds. ... Sound is no more fixed than thought, though sounds can be distinguished from each other; and hence associated with ideas. Sounds then serve as signifiers for the ideas, which are their signified. ...

• Word Count: 1928
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hall argues that Senegambia is the root of traditional African-Creole culture and she gives sound documents and arguments to back up her claim. ... The arguments in this chapter are backed by many stories and documents of events that lend credence to Hall's very intriguing and sound debate. ... Hall then makes a sound claim how all these conditions combined to create "the most Africanized slave culture in the United States" (161). ... The last point in the book that Hall makes in this book is that the Louisiana cultural tradition of racial openness couldn't be entirely des...

• Word Count: 1683
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Dr Keith Kahn-Harris highlights in his book "Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge", that the death metal scene preceded Death with bands such as 'Nasty Savage' but it was Schuldiner's "personal patronage and efforts" (Kahn-Harris, 2014) which led to it's expansion. ... With this new sound being developed and perfected, it was Morrisound Studios in Tampa Bay, and the producer Scott Burns, who are "credited for crafting the legendary Florida death metal sound" (Dunn, 2014). ... Scott Burns and Morrisound Studios actually did and it just sounded...

• Word Count: 1564
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ädel mentioned in her book that "the notion reflexivity is treated hear as more or less synonymous with the metalinguistic functions; similarly, they derived terms self reflexive and meta-linguisting are used interchangeably in this book" (2006). ... According to Sinclair in his book he refers to the term coined by Hockett, who included it in his details of explaining properties of human language to differentiate our unique communication ability compared to other species such as honey bees, ticks, and chimpanzees (2004). ... Additionally, Yule mentioned in his book that some sounds ...

• Word Count: 2663
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Dambisa Moyo's book "Dead aid" raises serious concerns over the effectiveness of aid in Africa; She argues aid has hampered growth in Africa. ... Aid Does Not Work The first part of this book describes the present state of Africa providing any reader with the negative and good not often heard from the media. ... There is just one type of aid she really discusses through out the book that is the country donor to receiving country type of aid. ... Moyo argues without sound institutions and governance this is likely to fail. This is the only time in the book she argues in favour o...

• Word Count: 1763
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The students proficiency level in reading matters is very important since reading is the introductory skills that should be apply, if a student do not read well and make errors in their readings such as sounding of letters, exhibiting the proper cutting of paragraphs and sentences, it may lead to misunderstanding of the concept that the student is reading, therefore it will result to the low grade of the student. ... If the students has the reading skills that only correspond to elementary level, he should not be given a book that is that is more advanced than his reading skills. ...

• Word Count: 7878
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When Peter Lorre is describing and presenting the story he does an exceptional job portraying the setting and plot line of the story when it comes to the tone of voice, the sound affects, and the music it all makes it better to mirroring the story plot line. ... Another reason why Peter Lorre performed The Black Cat story extremely well was because even though it was not a visual show, it was very easy for the listener to envision what was going on by the constant sound affects that were going on. Whenever there was any kind of activity done between the characters the sounds affects were ext...

• Word Count: 849
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There is still a notable absence of any music or sounds. ... Then follows a series of low angle to long and full shots of the Amish and Book working on the barn with no dialogue; loud and euphoric music starts playing during the aforementioned montage of shots symbolising the Amish working in unison and a series of mid shots featuring Book and Daniel sharing a drink and working together as Daniel slowly accepts Book shows Book's acceptance into the Amish community. The interjecting mid shots and the boisterously euphoric music accompanying the montage with no dialogue at all during the ...

• Word Count: 648
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By using a book, the director runs the risk of infringing on the viewer's imagination. ... Kurtz retains part of his anonymity in both the book and movie. ... The proclamation of Kilgore in the movie that the names sound the same illustrates movie's use of racism and ignorance. ... It is evident the movie made use of the dehumanization employed in the book. ... The movie's creators had no intention of recreating the book in film. ...

• Word Count: 913
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Education is used to make everyone conform by overloading society with idle information and by book burning which is to prevent individuals from thinking on their own. ... Bradbury was concerned as he felt people were less likely to read books and be educated, he expresses his value for conformity in the book through the use of advanced technology (telewalls) as citizens accept what they see and don't question government authority. ... The state uses futuristic tech to avoid individuals from thinking and to conform, for example Montag tries to remember a book in the train however he can...

• Word Count: 564
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Booker T. ... Objectivity does not make a reader want to discredit her assertions (and maybe do the math and figure out that 10,000 in 30 years is a very high number); objectivity actually sounds like the truth so it made her point more valid. ... Booker T. ...

• Word Count: 1541
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Women who dared to step outside of the boundaries of their sphere were soundly criticized by Sarah Hale in the pages of Ladies Magazine. In 1837, Sarah and the Ladies Magazine were bought out and absorbed into Godey's Lady's Book, published by Louis Godey in Philadelphia. ... When Sarah was brought on board, the Lady's Book aspired to turn into a more literary periodical, and sought out fiction from male authors such as Edgar Allan Poe. ... Lady's Book differed greatly from Sarah's former publication in its promotion and embracing of materialism. Lady's...

• Word Count: 837
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Intentionalist historians like Lucy Dawidowicz would disagree with the fact that it was only the result of Wansee that an established plan for a Holocaust took form, in her specialist book "The war against the jews 1933-45," which was written in 1975, she writes, in an extract, that essentially the causes for the final soloution was a combination of "Traditional anti-semitism, the paranoid delusions that gripped Germany after WW1, and the emergence of Hitler and the national socialist movement." ... As she is an academic historian writting in her specialist book, she would've thoroughly r...

• Word Count: 1311
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The international rise of Mbira began to gather steam after the 1976 publication of Paul Berliner's landmark book The Soul of Mbira (University of Chicago Press), although it's worth pointing out that ten years earlier, a stage show called Wait a Minim played at the John Golden Theatre in London, featuring Mbira music arranged and directed by Andrew Tracey, son of the legendary South African field recordist Hugh Tracey. ... The Mbira, sometimes called the thumb piano, is actually a percussive instrument with as many as 52 keys that's both drummed and plucked to create a haunting...

• Word Count: 490
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The film uses beautiful cinematography along with superb sound mixing, soundtracks, and a huge budget to recreate the Vietnam War as closely as possible. ... Coppola created this film with "ambitious effort to show Vietnam as America's Heart of Darkness, with Joseph Conrad's story providing the narrative skeleton" "(Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 1-1) and many themes, meanings, and entire scenes from the movie do in fact come directly from Conrad's book. ... As the opening sequence of Apocalypses Now begins, within the very first few moments a mixed sound of a distant helic...

• Word Count: 1876
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In his opinion, the main motivating force of writing this book is to set the record straight and to project Pakistan's image in its proper perspective. ... Some critics say that the book was timed and targeted for the Western audience, particularly the United States, before the November 2006 mid-term congressional elections. ... However, he ascribes hard work and sound family values, together with good luck, as secrets of his success. ... Needless to say, the book to have been hastily written, coinciding with his visit to the United States in September 2006, there are some typographical...

• Word Count: 810
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The setting is an essential aspect of this book because it lays the groundwork for the entire plot. ... The book deals with major themes including, race, class, and gender. ... The book addresses gender and Charlotte challenges gender norms. ... The writing style of the book fits the context of the 19th century, which even though it is not completely modern sounding, it is still an adventurous and lively read. ... Although Maniac Magee does have qualities that meet the criteria for being a distinguished book, Spinelli could have avoided over-simplifying the theme of race as well as reproducing...

• Word Count: 1229
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Ted Steinberg, in his book, American Green, depicts the lives and thoughts of numerous Americans and their obsessiveness over their gardens amid a time of incredible advancement. The book furnishes the reader with stories and articles that vary from outrageously tremendous yards, trimmed by hand and scissors, to lawn-mower racing. ... Albeit it might sound ridiculous, Steinberg also expresses that, "Even in the wake of Rachel Carson's smash hit Silent Spring, Americans in 1963 used about as much cash battling crabgrass with concoction weed controls as they helped the American Cancer Socie...

• Word Count: 534
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The common element in both book and film versions of the story is the use of satire, making fun of the fairytale genre. ... Appearances are one of the most influential satirical devices in both book and film; however this is approached very differently in each medium. ... Dialogue remains one of the most important devices in both film and book, many excerpts remaining identical in both mediums. ... Indeed, combined with the use of music to set the scene, the importance of sound to the effect of a film tends to increase the reliance on dialogue as opposed to description, such as how Inigo tells...

• Word Count: 1547
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Richard Gregory, author of the book Eye and Brain, defines brightness as "a function not only of the intensity of light falling on a given region of the retina at a certain time, but also of the intensity of the light that the retina has been subject to in the recent past, and of the intensities of light falling on other regions of the retina."" ... Thus, if sound and lip movement are artificially mismatched, the phoneme subjects perceive can be completely altered depending on whether or not they view the lip movements. ... When we try to understand the sound 'Ba' combined with the...

• Word Count: 1211
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate