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Glass's Film Scores, 2004.
An analysis of two of American composer Philip Glass' film scores.
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper examines two of American composer Philip Glass' film scores, those that he wrote for Errol Morris's 1988 "A Thin Blue Line" and for Godfrey Reggio's 1982 "Koyaanisqatsi." It also looks at Glass' minimalist technique.
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"For a composer always designated as a minimalist, Philip Glass has created a number of surprisingly sensuous film scores. While these scores are certainly in a technical sense minimalist in the sense that Glass relies very little on traditional Western ..."
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Film Score, 2005.
An analysis and history of the art of the film score with a focus on the music of John Williams, Thomas Newman and Howard Shore.
5,783 words (approx. 23.1 pages), 19 sources, MLA, $ 139.95
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This paper examines the art of the film score with particular reference to the scores and compositional techniques of John Williams ("Jurassic Park") and Thomas Newman ("The Shawshank Redemption ") while referring to the differences of both their techniques and styles. It also includes an analysis of the main themes and motifs within Howard Shore's score for "The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring".
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"While the main themes of the score stand out and are the most recognisable, it is the smaller arrangements and sub-themes that gel the soundtrack and help it to flow. Smaller themes such as the mystical eight-note oboe motif of Golum, or the various fight scenes, that carry the same motifs and rhythmic movement, are as important in creating a score of this scale. These parts, along with largely string based sections that hold them together, paint the background of the score and help to create various emotions that complement the visuals, therefore making it easier for the viewer. They take a content over style line of approach and tend to be mostly through composed, whether they are heroic, upbeat, emotional, and magical, or creating suspense, tension and danger. "
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The Power of Music in Film, 2004.
A comparative analysis of the film scores from "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? and ?Iron Monkey".
2,680 words (approx. 10.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 80.95
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This paper discusses how a well-constructed musical score transports us to the reality of the film and allows us to understand the world through the eyes of the characters, while never letting us abandon our own perspective. Through an analysis of the scores of the films, ?Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? and ?Iron Monkey?, it looks at the full effect of the power of an intelligent and challenging musical score. It also shows how, more than any other element of a film, the music that enters into us and that we carry away with us allows us to merge our inner reality with the subjective vision of the filmmaker.
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"The ?Iron Monkey? score, on the other hand, is less effective at connecting the audience to a particular time and place but generally more effective at connecting us to the main character of the film. This is not a criticism of either film, for ?Iron Monkey? is less about a particular individual and more about an era while the reverse is true of ?Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?(which is about the couple at the center of the story but also about their effacement as well). In each case the score reflects this focus."
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Pop Music Score, 2003.
Examination of how pop music can be used in a film score to drive the narrative and create meaning by use of ironic counterpoint or dramatic forshadowing.
2,366 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 72.95
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Popular music, as demonstrated in the movie "Boogie Nights", can be utilised to generate added meaning for the narrative. Time and place contexts are established and asserted, and connotations brought forth by lyrics inform the narrative, working with the onscreen action to generate new meanings and character motivations. This paper discusses how "Boogie Nights" has a tight synthesis with its music and the way it is arranged and the particular pieces which are chosen, reflect the central themes of change and accepting who you are and what you have to offer, as well as performing a metaphoric or comical purpose. It shows how this effectively demonstrates how popular music, in the (near) absence of a classical score can interact with the film text in a meaningful way.
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"The popular song score operates in a different way from the classical film score, with seemingly more specific purposes based on its lyrical content. Popular Music utilises cultural contexts and linguistic content to create meaning. Coupled with an image the popular song?s lyrics can be used as pun, ironic counterpoint or provide commentary or insight into character thought and motivation. The music of Boogie Nights works to fulfil the above functions, denoting, as only popular music could, the trends and transitions of music and fashion over several years, as well as articulating the thematic concerns of the film and acting as guide through the unfamiliar world."
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IQ Test Scores, 2004.
An analysis of the causes of the gap in the IQ test scores of African-Americans and European-Americans.
2,139 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper looks at both the heredity explanation and the environmental explanation for the gap in IQ scores of different racial groups. The paper examines whether the difference in the IQ scores can be explained by a cultural bias in the IQ tests.
Outline
Cultural Differences in IQ Test Scores
Heredity Explanation and ?The Bell Curve?
Environmental Explanation for the IQ Gap
Cultural Bias of IQ Tests
Conclusion
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"The genetic explanation for the IQ difference between different races has a long history and the ?Whites? have not always been held to possess superior intelligence. For example, when the Moors from North Africa invaded Europe in the 8th century AD, they speculated that the Europeans might be congenitally incapable of abstract thought . (Nisbett 1998, p 86) When the U.S. Army started a large-scale mental testing program in 1917 for testing the intelligence of its recruits, it found that whites scored substantially higher than blacks. Social Darwinists and Biological Determinists jumped on the finding, citing it as evidence that whites had ?more innate ability than blacks.? (Jencks and Philips, 1998, p.16) In the post-World War II backlash against the genetic differences among human beings, such explanations were discredited and remained suppressed until the 1960s."
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Low Math Scores, 2002.
A discussion of the issues concerning the low math scores of American elementary students.
2,785 words (approx. 11.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 83.95
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This paper considers the problem of low math scores for American elementary students and looks at how there are considerable differences between Chinese and American teachers and how these differences account for the poor performance of American students. It also analyzes how the problem goes beyond the teachers themselves, with the base cause being the American approach to mathematics.
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Possible Explanations for Low Math Scores
Comparing Elementary Mathematics Teachers
The Problem with American Mathematics
Conclusion
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"Ma argues that the American approach to teaching mathematics is based on teaching procedurally, not conceptually. According to Ma mathematics is approached as a collection of facts and rules where mathematics means following set procedures step-by-step to arrive at answers. This American approach appears to be a correct definition of how mathematics is seen. Unlike subjects like English and geography, the emphasis is not on understanding, but on remembering. Students do not have to know why a certain number is the area of a shape. Instead, all they have to do is remember the formula for calculating the area."
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Credit Scores, 2007.
This paper discusses credit scores and how they affect our lives.
852 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 30.95
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The paper describes how our credit ratings affect everything from insurance premiums to the interest rates we are offered on loans and deposits required for certain services. The paper explains that a credit score is simply a numerical ranking between 300 and 850 that financial institutions assign to an individual's credit report. This information is then statistically ranked to determine how likely that individual will be to repay credit. The paper discusses how credit scores are established, how they are utilized and what components are considered.
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"Susan's insurance carrier sent her a renewal quote for her automobile policy, which she had held with them for several years at the same rate. Susan had never had an accident or even a speeding ticket, so she was quite surprised to see that her premiums had increased substantially since her last bill! She called the insurer to find out what the source of the increase was, thinking it could be a clerical error, and found out that the financial difficulties with late payments and large debt she had experienced the previous year had been factored into establishing her car insurance cost. Susan was shocked to find out that her financial issues had affected her insurance prices, even though she had never been late in paying a premium nor had any claims on her policy!"
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Poverty and Standardized Test Scores, 2005.
An analysis of the effects of poverty on standardized test scores.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper looks at the effects of poverty on standardized testing and education in general. It looks at how there are many causes and effects of poverty, and many other factors to be considered when taking poverty into account in analyzing test scores. Some of the other factors include race, state of the schools, teacher availability, overcrowding and the inferior conditions of the school buildings. The paper determines that overall poverty has a negative effect on education and testing.
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"When you think of kids who score extremely well on high-stakes tests like the California Achievement Test, the SAT, and others, do you think of poor non-white children in overpopulated run-down inner-city schools with insufficient books and supplies and a harried, underpaid, under-appreciated teacher? No. It is not actually surprising to learn that standardized test scores are lower in areas with lower incomes and higher poverty rates. It does not take a National Merit Scholar to understand that "bad" schools do not produce many academic overachievers, but the complexity of the issue might not be so readily apparent. The overwhelmingly negative effects of poverty on standardized test scores result from a variety of sources, ranging from the school facilities and supplies, to the teachers, to the parents, to the surrounding environmental factors, all of which are tied up in issues of race, economics, corporations and politics."
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Veteran Teacher Impact On Competency Test Scores, 2008.
A research study that analyze the impact that veteran teachers have on the test scores in reading and mathematics of African-American students in Georgia.
9,082 words (approx. 36.3 pages), 34 sources, APA, $ 188.95
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This research paper attempts to determine whether veteran teachers have a statistical significance on the test scores in reading and mathematics of African-American students. The research focuses on eighth grade students in the State of Georgia. It discusses the relationship between teacher retention in the state and the test results that eighth grade African-American students achieve. The paper contains many graphs and figures.
Table of Contents:
Objective
Introduction
Methodology
Key Terms
Research Questions
Literature Review
Results of the Study
Conclusion
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"The methodology employed in this research is one of a qualitative nature and has been conducted through the means of a review of peer-reviewed academic literature written by experts in this subject area. Qualitative research originally involved isolation of variables studied from the rest of the world and then setting up of an experiment where the independent variable was changed and the changes that occurred to the dependent variable or variables were recorded. However, anthropologists pointed out human behavior cannot be realistically studied outside of the social context in which it takes place. Furthermore, the findings in scientific research depends greatly upon the individual's frame of reference, therefore if it is people that are being studied the meaning from the individual's point of view must be discovered. Qualitative research is typically analyzed inductively, or in other words, evidence is not sought out to prove or disprove hypotheses, but instead the researcher builds the abstractions upon the particulars of research that have been gathered and then grouped together."
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SAT Scores and Family Income, 2007.
This paper illustrates how the higher the family income, the higher the SAT test scores.
1,438 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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The paper argues that students from affluent families are far more likely to have achievement-focused home environments than students from families where incomes are modest or very low. The paper relates how parents of wealth send their children to better, private schools, often in the race to keep up with their exclusive society. The paper examines the interesting African-American vs. Caucasian-American dynamics and the regional differences in SAT scores. The paper also notes the misleading use of SAT data that can provide unreliable statistics.
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"There are many sets of data that show higher levels of family income - and higher education levels in families, which directly relate to income - result in higher SAT scores for that family's children. Those will be presented in this paper. But first, as to the question of why I think the way I do, and what my argument is, it has been my observation that students from families of affluence are far more likely to have achievement-focused home environments than students from families where incomes are modest or very low."
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Improving Test Scores through Student Online Engagement, 2008.
An overview of a project to improve test scores through student online engagement.
4,136 words (approx. 16.5 pages), 13 sources, APA, $ 110.95
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The paper discusses a program in which its main goal was to increase state standardized test scores in math and language arts. The paper states that this goal would be accomplished through a new school policy that required all students to engage in coursework and participate in online classes.
Outline:
Description of the Community
The Work Setting
The Teacher's Role
Problem Statement
Problem Documentation
Causative Analysis
Relationship of the Problem to Literature
Anticipated Outcomes and Evaluation Instruments
Solution Strategy
Results
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"This school is an internet based school that has been in operation for five years. The students complete all of their course assignments through the use of a computer with a high speed internet connection that is set up within their home. Some students work on a desk top computer and others work on a lap top computer. The students are sent all of their necessary school supplies such as paper, printer ink, calculators and other things through the mail via UPS from the main school office."
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Student Test Scores, 2002.
Discusses the use of standardized tests to measure student performance.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 6 sources, $ 55.95
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Discusses use of standardized tests to measure student performance. Refers to views of educators on best methods of perfomance assessment. Need for a more comprehensive means of evaluating students than offered by a standardized test. Uniform standards and student diversity. Critical thinking skills vs. memorization skills. Dangers of standardized testing as the sole measure.
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"Ron Brandt?s ?On Performance Assessment: A Conversation with Grant Wiggins? discusses how a system of performance assessment should be established that will enhance learning and achieve its objectives of offering meaningful quantifiable scores. Essentially, Grant Wiggins (who was interviewed by Brandt) offers a version of performance assessment that can be used as a more accurate instrument of assessment than standardized multiple-choice tests.
First, educators have to identify a precise set of criteria for evaluating the progress of students. Furthermore, a scoring process also has to be established that match this set of criteria (Wiggins in Brandt 36-7).
This component provides performance assessment with a degree of objectivity and reliability?one of the key aspects that have made standardized tests ..."
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David Cooper?s ?Bernard Herrmann?s Vertigo?, 2004.
Summary and review of Cooper's critical study of Herrmann's score for "Vertigo".
2,617 words (approx. 10.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 78.95
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This paper examines David Cooper's book on the importance of Bernard Herrmann's score for Alfred Hitchcock's film, "Vertigo". The paper looks at Cooper's view that the score was critical to the success of the movie and discusses how Cooper divides Herrmann?s work into two categories before delivering his evaluation of Herrmann?s "Vertigo" score. The paper also analyzes Hermann's artistic genius as a composer and a master of the film score world.
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"David Cooper?s book is a critical study of Herrmann's score for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. His work evaluates how Bernard Herrmann's score for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo plays a crucial role in the articulation and development of the film's narrative. The viewer is affected as much by the musical score as it is from the script itself. Cooper described how Herrmann's collaboration with Hitchcock spanned eleven years, and their partnership produced nine films. Hermann's film score for Vertigo is widely regarded as being one of his finest and hence the reason for Cooper?s investigation of the work."
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"A Midsummer Night's Dream", 2002.
A critical discussion of Shakespeare?s play, focusing on an evaluation of the 1935 film of "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
700 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 24.95
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The paper first cites the strengths of the film; namely, the romantic score and the appropriate choreography. It then goes on to list the weaknesses of the film; namely, the controversy regarding the quality of acting and direction. Finally, the paper presents an opinion on the worth of the film as a representation of Shakespeare?s play.
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"The movie had everything going for it. Director Max Reinhardt had staged the play in England, and in the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. He was familiar with the magical qualities of the play, and wanted to bring its message to American filmgoers. ?This message, as he saw it, was that fantasy can always provide us a refuge from ?stark reality?" (Magill). He used the lush and romantic music of Felix Mendelssohn, and choreography to bring out the magic of the fairies in the forest."
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Richard Addinsell, 2007.
This paper discusses the life and achievements of composer Richard Addinsell.
1,770 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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The paper relates that in the past few centuries, there have been countless classical composers whose music has inspired and encouraged populations around the globe. One such composer is Richard Addinsell, whose legendary works have provided entertainment for moviegoers and theater-attendants for generations. The paper reveals that he is credited for over 40 film scores and he successfully wrote music for nearly every genre in film, from historical documentaries to light hearted comedies. The paper details his personal history and his rise to fame. The paper concludes that his level of skill as well as his ability to orchestrate music flawlessly and seamlessly has made Richard Addinsell a composer to be remembered and revered for generations.
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"Addinsell's music was primarily written for piano, either in solo or duet, as well as for orchestras or ensembles. Varying from passionate, somber pieces of tragedy to light-hearted pieces for comedy to slow moving waltzes, Addinsell's musical style is varied and versatile, which are the qualities that allowed his career to thrive in the film industry. Paid by the film studios for specific works, the funding from such endeavors allowed him to write music for less lucrative genres such as theater and radio. As a modern classical composer, Addinsell was able to combine the richness of piano with full orchestra accompaniment to provide thundering war marches, when required, or to use a simple single piano to show a softer, more subtle element of a film."
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