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    Adam Levine

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    siblings Julia and Michael and his parents are Patsy and Fred Levine. Adam can be described as an American singer-songwriter‚ musician and actor best known as the front man and guitarist for the pop rock band Maroon 5. He is also a coach on the American talent show The Voice. He and his band‚ Maroon 5 are on the record labels A&M Records‚ A&M/Octone Records. Adam’s songs include: One More Night 2012‚ Payphone 2012‚ Moves Like Jagger 2010‚ She Will Be Loved 2002‚ and Misery 2010. He likes are music

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    Jamaican gang violence

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    rates have not seen any decrease even as officials police force is being increased. In 2013 the number of murders increased to a whopping 1‚200.3 Violence with in the country is concentrated in the inner city. It is typically categorized as “Jamaican on Jamaican” violence that often shows characteristics of being organized and gang related. In addition to violent crimes these inner city communities face many other challenges. The geographic areas that are prone to the most violence are greatly deprived

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    Adam Levine

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    singer is Adam Levine‚ the vocal leader of the group Maroon 5. Adam Levine Adam Noah Levine was born in Los Angeles‚ CA on March 18‚ 1979. Levine began his musical career in 1994‚ when he co-founded alternative rock band Kara’s Flowers‚ of which he was the lead vocalist and guitarist. After the commercial failure of their only album‚ The Fourth World‚ the band split up. Later‚ he reformed the band and a fifth member was added to form Maroon 5. Their success includes several chart-topping hits

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    Alone at a Payphone

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    Alone at a Payphone Many have had their hearts broken from relationships that ended too early or could still work out‚ but some never express what they are thinking because of their fear of rejection or criticism‚ however‚ in Maroon 5’s “Payphone‚” the artists reach out to those people by using a regretful tone and sorrowful symbolism to express the narrator’s nostalgia for the past and his broken relationship. They also use both figurative and literal language for his disdain for anything that

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    the informative speech

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    this rock band. Maroon5 is an American pop rock band that originated in Los Angeles. To be specific‚ we can call this band as New Soul Rock band. So far‚ I guess you must be curious why this band call Maroon5? From Maroon5 perspective‚ the word maroon stand for color dark red. They hope their band can blend with red wild charm‚ enthusiasm and free-spirited. What’s more‚ they add the rock strength‚ soul melody and funky Beats into band.so their songs always are aggressive. But for “5” this figure

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    Diagnostic Essay

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    Diagnostic Essay on “Patois‚ things Jamaican and the big picture” The article focuses on the stigma attached to Jamaican patois; the inability of the Jamaican people to accept the language as being a vital and distinctive component of their culture and not as being bad and shameful. Many individuals have‚ unintentionally‚ pulled away from the language form. The article also highlighted how the views of persons from other nations differ from those of Jamaicans with regards to patois. The article

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    Soundtracks of My Life

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    Cited: Maroon 5. “This Love.” Songs about Jane. Octone‚ 2002. YouTube. Praisang‚ Prisana. “Sha-la-la-la-la.” Wonderful. RS Public Company Limited‚ 1997. YouTube. Sukosol‚ Kamala. “Live and Learn.” Million Ways to Love Part 1. Bakery Music‚ 2004. YouTube.

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    Claude McKay & Dialectical Analysis In Claude McKay’s‚ “Old England” and “Quashie to Buccra” McKay uses dialect as a way to give poems multiple meanings. What may be seen as a simplistic or naïve poem about Jamaican life may actually be full of double meanings that only a select audience would be able to identify. In his poem’s‚ McKay ultimately gives Negros who work under white colonists the underlying message of black resistance by revolution. Perhaps what makes this interpretation so

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    Calypso/Homer Group Six Period 3/4 Song: Sailboat To the tune of Payphone by Maroon 5 I’m on a sailboat‚ trying to sail home. We need to new capt-ains pronto. We have no captain but an idea‚ go vote for Homer and Calypso. Yea I‚ I know it’s hard to remember the last time we were on land. Vote for beauty and the brain. They’ll sail better than you can. You say it’s too late to make it. Who says it’s too late to try. Homer may be blind as a bat‚ but he controls the story format. We’ve

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    situation is in Jamaica and other neighbouring islands as well as its impact on education. According to Kathryn Shields (1989)‚ two ways in which Standard English in Jamaica is defined are through the traditional metropolitan norms and the educated Jamaicans. She identifies that the discrepancies found in defining Standard English in Jamaica often times go undocumented. However‚ this should not be as teachers would want to use it as they hope to monitor the factors to which their students are exposed

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