Amanda Palmer

Amanda Palmer

Punk Cabaret; Dark Cabaret; Alternative; Neo-Victorian

Lexington, Boston MA, United States (2000 – present)

Amanda Palmer is an American vocalist, pianist and performance artist, best known for her work as one half of The Dresden Dolls. Born in 1976, she grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts and received her B.A. from Wesleyan University. She attended Lexington High School, where she was very involved in the drama department. Amanda sometimes has Lexington High School students perform drama pieces at her shows. Before she was in the Dresden Dolls, she was in a band called “Amanda Palmer and the Void”. In October of 2000, she met Brian Viglione, a drummer; together they formed the Dresden Dolls.

Palmer is noted for her use of the Internet, regularly using the latest innovations to make new fans and connect with old ones. This includes her forum, her blog, use of many free music and social networking sites, fund raising, and direct-to-fan marketing. Her grasp of the evolving landscape of music is epitomized by her successful use of Kickstarter to crowdfund her 2012 album Theatre is Evil

Answer the Questions (10 Points) #31-34 short answer; #35 use a sentence)

31. What genre of music does Amanda Palmer play? (1)

32. Where is she from? (1)

33. What band was she in? (1)

34. How does she connect with fans? (1)

35. What is the thesis of this article? (5)

http://www.ted.com/talks/amanda_palmer_the_art_of_asking

What was her first day job after college?

How does she get help/support while she is one tour?

What is couch surfing?

How does she make money?

Do you think her method represents a new paradigm?

Describe her presentation skills.

Chris Binstead's Integrated English Skills 2: Final Exam

Chris Binstead's Integrated English Skills 2: Final Exam: Final Exam is on Friday 4th July . The final exam is worth 40% of your total grade . 20% will be a group score and 20% will be an individual...

Dinosaurs

Name _______________

Date _____________

Dinosaur Vocabulary List & Definitions

dinosaur	A form of extinct reptile that controlled the earth millions of years ago. 공룡
extinct	When something is completely gone and doesn't return. 꺼진
fossil	The hardened remains of a prehistoric organism. 화석
herbivore	Animals that gain nourishment through plants. 초식 동물
paleontology	The study of life forms in prehistoric times. 고생물학
predator	Any animal that lives by eating other animals. 육식 동물
prehistoric	The time before people wrote about history. 선사 시대의
skeleton	The bone structure that makes-up the body of a plant or animal. 해골
prey	Animals that fall victim to other animals. 먹이
carnivore	A mammal that gains nourishment through eating flesh. 먹는 것

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DINOSAURS DISCUSSION

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

1)	What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘dinosaur’?
2)	What do you think happened to the dinosaurs?
3)	Do you have a favorite dinosaur?
4)	Do you like looking at dinosaur skeletons and bones at exhibitions?
5)	Would you like to be a paleontologist and look for and study dinosaur bones?
6)	Did you have dinosaur toys?
7)	Do you like dinosaur movies?
8)	Are there still dinosaurs on the Earth today?

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DINOSAURS DISCUSSION

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

1)	Do you think dinosaurs are interesting?
2)	If you were a dinosaur, which one would you be?
3)	Why is it important to understand how dinosaurs lived?
4)	What would you say if you had to give a one minute speech on dinosaurs?
5)	If someone called you a dinosaur, would you be happy or unhappy? 6) How does studying dinosaurs help you with English?

extinct	fossil	bones	footprint	herbivore
carnivore	teeth	rocks	sharp	scary
Stegosaurus	Tyrannosaurus	Pterasaur	Velociraptor	Triceratops
Apatosaurus	Diplodocus	Brachiosaurus	volcano	claw
egg	nest	reptile	Jurassic	Period
Triassic	Period	Mesozoic	Period	Cretaceous
Period	long neck	beak	predator	spikes
fly	horns	hunting	lizard hipped	bird hipped
prehistoric	Paleontologist	terrible lizard

 Dinosaur Vocabulary 

This vocabulary list can be used before your trip to Geological Museum 

Biped: An animal that stands, walks, or runs on two legs 

Cold-blooded: An animal that cannot maintain its body temperature and has to rely on the Sun’s heat to 

warm up, or find shade in which to cool down 

Crest: A hollow or solid structure on top of the head of the hadrosaurs 

Cretaceous Period: The geological name given to the period between 144 to 65 million years ago 

Extinction: The dying out of an animal or plant species 

Fossil: The remains of animal or plant matter that has been preserved in Earth’s crust 

Frill: The bony shelf that covers the back of the neck of ceratopsians 

Herbivore: An animal that eats plants 

Geologist: A scientist who studies rocks 

Iridium: A rare element that is found in the earth’s core or in extraterrestrial objects 

Jurassic Period: The geological name given to the period between 206 and 144 million year ago 

Mesozoic Era: The major division of geological time when the dinosaurs lived 

Meteorite: A lump of rock that falls to Earth from space 

Ornithischian: One of two major groups of dinosaurs, the “bird hipped” dinosaurs 

Paleontologist: Someone who removes animal and plant fossils from the ground and studies them 

Quadruped: An animal that stands, walks, or runs on all four legs 

Saurischia: One of two major groups of dinosaurs, the “lizard hipped” dinosaur 

Theropod: The group name for meat-eating dinosaurs 

Triassic Period: The geological name given to the period between 248 and 206 million years ago 

Warm-blooded: An animal that can maintain its body temperature by using food as fuel to generate 

heat 

Bringing Out The Dead

Bringing Out the Dead is a 1999 American neo-noir drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader, based on the homonymous novel by Joe Connelly.^[2][3] It stars Nicolas Cage, Ving Rhames, John Goodman,Tom Sizemore and Patricia Arquette. The film was a flop at the box office but received very positive reviews from critics. 

Plot

Set in Manhattan in the early 1990s, Frank Pierce (Cage) is a burned-out paramedic who works the graveyard shift in a two-man ambulance team with various different partners. Usually exhausted and depressed, he has not saved any patients in months and begins to see the ghosts of those lost, especially a homeless teenage girl named Rose whose face appears on the bodies of others. Frank and his first partner Larry (Goodman) respond to a call by the family of a man named Mr. Burke who has entered cardiac arrest. Frank befriends Mr. Burke's distraught daughter Mary (Arquette), an ex-junkie. Frank discovers Mary was childhood friends with Noel (Anthony), a mentally ill drug addict and delinquent who is frequently sent to the hospital.

After a few minor calls (one involving Noel), Frank and Larry respond to a shooting and he tends to one of the surviving victims. Frank notices two vials of a drug named "Red Death", a new form of heroin that has started plaguing the streets of New York and caused cardiac arrest calls to sky-rocket, roll out from the victim's sleeve which implies it was a shooting by a rival drug gang. While in the back of the ambulance with Frank and Noel the victim goes into denial and repents his drug dealing ways but dies before they can reach the hospital.

The next day Frank is paired with his second partner Marcus (Rhames), an eccentric but religious man. They respond to the call of a man in a gothic club who has suffered a heart attack. Frank diagnoses that he has in fact suffering from a heroin overdose caused by Red Death. As Frank injects the man with a chemical, Marcus starts a prayer circle with the baffled club-goers and just as his preaching climaxes the overdosed man becomes conscious again. On the way back to the hospital Frank swings by Mary's apartment building to tell her that her father's condition is improving. Frank and Marcus then respond to a call by a Puerto Rican man whose girlfriend is giving birth to twins despite his claims they are both virgins, calling it a miracle. Frank rushes one baby to the hospital but it later dies. In a moment of desperation Frank starts drinking and Marcus soon joins in, crashing the ambulance into a parked car.

The following morning, Frank sees a stressed Mary leaving the hospital and follows her to an apartment block; she tells Frank that she's going to visit a friend and he escorts her to the room. After a while Frank goes to the room and barges his way in the door, only to discover it's in fact a drug den run by a friendly dealer named Cy Coates (Curtis). Mary has turned back to drugs to cope with her father's fluctuating condition and Frank tries to get her to leave but he is dissuaded by Cy who offers Frank some pills. In another moment of desperation he swallows the drugs and begins to hallucinate, seeing more ghosts of patients and the moment when he tried to save Rose. Once over, he grabs Mary and carries her out of the building. While visiting a comatose Mr. Burke in the hospital Frank starts hearing Burke's voice in his head, telling Frank to let him die but he resuscitates Burke instead.

The next shift Frank is paired with his third partner Tom Wolls (Sizemore), an optimistic man with violent tendencies. At this point Frank is slowly beginning to lose his mind - while tending to a suicidal junkie Frank manages to scare the patient away. The pair are then called to Cy's drug den where another shooting has occurred, however Cy was instead thrown off the balcony and impaled on an iron railing below. Frank holds on to Cy as the other emergency services cut the railing but Cy and Frank are flung off the edge although they are pulled back up. Cy then thanks Frank for saving his life - the first patient Frank has saved in months. Afterwards Frank agrees to help Tom beat up Noel, but Frank is distracted and Noel flees into an area beneath the houses. Tom and Frank chase after Noel but Frank starts to hallucinate again, snapping out of it just as he comes upon Tom beating Noel with his bat. During his second visit to Mr. Burke, the voice again pleas to let him die but this time Frank removes Burke's breathing apparatus causing him to enter cardiac arrest, killing him. Frank then heads to Mary's apartment to inform her that her father has died but seems to be mostly unaffected by the news of her father's death. Frank is invited in, falling asleep on Mary.

Soundtrack[edit]

Track listing[edit]

1. "T.B. Sheets" - Van Morrison
2. "Janie Jones" - The Clash
3. "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" - Johnny Thunders
4. "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" - R.E.M.
5. "I'm So Bored with the USA" - The Clash
6. "Red Red Wine" - UB40
7. "Nowhere to Run" - Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
8. "Too Many Fish in the Sea" - The Marvelettes
9. "Rang Tang Ding Dong (I Am a Japanese Sandman)" - The Cellos
10. "Rivers of Babylon" - The Melodians
11. "Combination of the Two" - Big Brother & The Holding Company
12. "Bell Boy" - The Who
13. "So What" - Jane's Addiction

14. Production

    The film was part of a trio of films in the late 1990s starring Nicolas Cage that were co-productions of Paramount Pictures and Touchstone Pictures, with Face/Off(1997) with John Travolta and Snake Eyes (1998) with Gary Sinise. The opening song on the movie is "T.B. Sheets", a lengthy blues-influenced song, about a young girl who lies dying in a hospital bed, surrounded by the heavy smell of death and disease. It was written by Van Morrison and included on his 1967 album, Blowin' Your Mind!. The song was originally going to be used in Taxi Driver.
    Both the director Martin Scorsese and Queen Latifah provided the voice of the ambulance dispatchers.

15. Reception

    Critical response

    The film was well received by critics and holds a 71% 'Fresh' rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 104 reviews.^[5] Roger Ebert gave it a perfect four star rating, writing, "To look at Bringing Out the Dead--to look, indeed, at almost any Scorsese film--is to be reminded that film can touch us urgently and deeply".
16. 
    https://cagewisdom.wordpress.com/tag/bringing-out-the-dead/

http://awesomebmovies.com/2011/02/bringing-out-the-dead-1999/

1.       Does the movie accurately depict the job of an EMT?

2.       Does the movie accurately depict life in the US?

3.       How does the music enhance the themes of the movie?

4.       Describe Frank.

5.       Did you like this movie? Why or why not?

Green Chile

Green chile love sauce 

Even if it's not in your blood, you'll want this local delicacy in your mouth

by J. Adrian Stanley

·         Brienne Boortz

·         Salsa Latina

I have loved green chile since a warm summer night when I was 12 years old. We hadn't even unpacked the moving truck yet, and the long drive from Oregon to our new home in Denver was still weighing on my family's bones. Friends drove us to a hole-in-the-wall a few blocks from their house. The place was badly painted, and none of the tables and chairs matched. I ordered a smothered burrito. I can remember that first mouthful. The way the Anaheim chiles set my virgin tastebuds ablaze, the warm oil of the stewed pork, the thickness of it on my tongue. I scraped the plate clean, my eyes watering. The next morning, I had what I still remember as a terrifying experience in the bathroom. Turns out, green chile is spicy both at the entrance and the exit. But I guess everyone remembers their first time. Ten years later, as enamored as ever with "chile verde," I would embark on what my friend Greg and I dubbed "The Great Green Chile Tour" — a weeklong roadtrip through the Southwest in which we consumed the sauce with every meal.

It's tradition

If you're new to the area, you may not have fully digested the regional obsession with green chile. In a way, green chile is something that unites the cultures of the Southwest, as much a part of us as our wild lands, or legends of cowboys.

You find green chile everywhere in Colorado. It's on the menu at greasy spoons, and under the steel lid at the local buffet. But it is served best at mom-and-pop joints where the folks at the counter remember your name.

Places like tiny Salsa Latina (28 E. Rio Grande St., 328-1513), a strip-mall haven run by Danny Aguilar, his wife Carolina and 19-year-old son Isaiah.

Salsa Latina only has a few tables — you're lucky if you can claim one — and at lunch, the line usually runs out the door. Some of the regulars, like Melody Gardner, grew up eating green chile and can't remember life without it. Others, like Stuart Blom, are converts.

"I'm from the Midwest, so when someone says 'chile' to me, I think red chili with beans," he says. "It took a long time for me; I'm a white boy."

But he caught on. He can't stay away from the restaurant these days.

So what is it that's so addictive?

"It's a Spanish tradition," Carolina says, shrugging. "It's in our blood."

1.       How old was he when he moved to Denver?

2.       What is the topic?

3.       In what part of America is green chile popular?

4.       What is the name of the restaurant discussed in the article?

5.       What is the point of this article?