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    The Little Mermaid,Pocahontas,Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast are Disney legends. Legends that are best recalled by musical pieces, including passionate and in depth lyrics. Alan Menken's played a crucial role in the Disney Renaissance in the 1990’s.He not only produced over multimillion dollar musical hits, but also contributed to the idea of letting the music guide viewers with emotions and understanding a character's action.Therefore, the most influential musician is Alan Menken. Alan Menken was the first to successfully introduce the idea of transforming Broadway Musicals into animation films. For example, the article from the website https://swanpride3.wordpress.com/2014/11/23/the-top-ten-disney-composer-and-songwriter/ implies “Their concept of an animated Broadway musical was what made this particular era so successful”…

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    Juke Box Musical Analysis

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    written thirteen Musicals since 1965 his most popular being Cats, The Phantom of The Opera and Jesus Christ Superstar. But the most evidence of his popular music influence is Joseph and The Technicolor Dream Coat. This musical was actually the first Webber ever wrote but wasn’t fully produced until after Jesus Christ Superstar. But Joseph consists of a variety of styles from Western with “One More Angel in Heaven” to Rock and Roll with “Song of The King”. This wide range of style makes Joseph a…

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    Alan Menken Research Paper

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    ALAN MENKEN BIOGRAPHY Born on July 22, 1949 in New Rochelle, New York, Alan Irwin menken is one of the biggest musical composer who had won eight academy awards and four Grammys. He is also a great pianist. He is one of the backbone of Walt Disney animated films and also a successful Broadway musical composer. He had a broad musical taste as his music included classical, show tunes, rock and folks. After his graduation from New York University, he worked as a songwriter and performed in some of…

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    While watching a movie maybe like Disney or Pixar have ever noticed little cameos of pervious characters in new movies. Some appearances might be a mere nod to another story just for the sake of a reference. While others seem to confirm the existence of a timeline shared by several movies. There are various theories about how Disney movies are connected. But there is a network of connections between Frozen, Tangled, Beauty and the Beast, Tarzan, and The Little Mermaid. So how are the movies…

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    Movies, they would just be boring and nothing without the music in the background or the song that a character would sing. Two composers that make the boringness going away while watching is Alan Menken and John Williams. Both composers are well-known for their music in movies like Harry Potter, where music was composed by John Williams, or Aladdin, where its music was composed by Alan Menken. Alan Menken was born in New Rochelle, New York on July 22nd of 1949. Menken is mostly famous for…

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    The book I chose for my leadership essay is The Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun by Wess Roberts, P. This book was recommended to me by a former Ohio State University Military science professor Ret. LTC Mike Lear. Through the ages Attila the Hun has been branded as a barbarian that just leaded from fear and concurred by destroying every living thing in his path. That is far from the truth. Attila was a skilled leader that instilled many of what we would concise modern value into his…

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    Wherever this man went, destruction and ruin left a path behind him. He was called the “Scourge of God” but most commonly known as Attila the Hun . Attila lived from 406 CE to 453 CE , and most of his battles took place in or around the Roman Empire. Some view Attila the Hun as unsuccessful and unable to finish his military goals and conquests, but Attila’s strategies in military made him successful, as well as the influence his upbringing, reputation, and appearance had on the people. Attila…

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    Cleverbot Case Study

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    as if they are having a conversation with a real, sentient human being. Cleverbot 's capabilities stem from its capacity to "learn" from the users it talks to. For example, it will learn all possible responses to questions like "how are you?" based on how human users respond to the question when asked. On occasion, Cleverbot will even "sing" lyrics to popular songs, speak in different languages, or "have opinions" about certain social topics, based on what human users think and feel. Because…

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    Human Consciousness

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    game, it did not crash, get nervous or nothing of that nature that require inner emotion as its process of playing chess completely differs to the way a human does. A human for the most part do not have a systematic approach to making decisions unlike a machine which is programmed to use a certain method to ultimately conjure up an output, humans on the other hand are very different in their thought process by using instincts to make up their mind, a concept that are completely alien to modern…

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    Statement of Purpose “How do we ask the turtle to trace out a circle? Remember, it only knows how to walk in straight lines and turn around.” Playing with the Logo turtle on screen in sixth grade was my first exposure to computer science. I was immediately fascinated by the idea of approximating a smooth circle with a regular polygon of, say, 360 sides. Staring at the “circle” on screen, I could not quite digest the fact that it was something produced in a fundamentally different way compared to…

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