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Essays on American History |
History Of Music
... like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.”
Tracing the course of musical development through history shows how closely music (of all the art forms) in particular represents the time in which it was written. The “immediacy” Auden speaks of is evidenced in music’s ability to associate itself with a specific point in time or event and always remind the listener of that time or place. It is impossible to analyse individual interpretation of music, however it is interesting to examine what caused musicians to write what they did, when they did. The personal interpretation or association of a work is superimposed; it is the ...
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The Sixties - Years Of Hope, Days Of Rage
... against loans being made to South Africa. He demonstrated with a vast majority of protesters at the White House in Washington, DC protesting against the war of Vietnam. He went door to door recruiting and organizing Appalachian white immigrants from Chicago to join an interracial movement of the poor to support his theory. Todd Gitlin was publisher and editor of the “underground” newspapers. He voiced his democratic opinions to all who would listen and gave numerous speeches against the war of Vietnam. He went to conferences, walked many picket lines, and traveled to Cuba in 1967, where he shared his views and beliefs. During the Democratic Convention in ...
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Artworks Review
... there is a skull. On the
left side of the line there is a human skull, and on the right side of the
line there is a cow skull
On the African American man’s side, there is a city in the
background. Behind the city is a set of pyramids, among them is a
view of a sunset or sunrise. On the Hispanic man’s side there is a
small village in the background, and behind that is a set of volcanic
mountains. In between the set of mountains, there is a sun setting or
rising, and the scene looks very picturesque. The art work is
composed of both organic, and geometric shapes. An example of an
organic shape that is in the piece would be the cactus, and ...
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The Music Lessons
... you’re dressed decent-so people won’t say, “Those kids don’t have a father.” See you’re
not left with debts, like what happened to me. See you don’t make a mess (of) ...” (2,4).
Chizuko is trying to protect her young daughter, she is afraid that Aki is going to get hurt
if she pours all her emotions towards this grown man, by Aki not understanding this
Chizuko becomes angry: “CHIZUKO: I know you don’t care ... right now. I’m just
saying you shouldn’t let your emotions run away with you” (2,4). Chizuko feels that Aki
should be spending time with kids her age: “CHIZUKO: If you want a friend to talk to,
find someone your age who can understand you” (2,4). ...
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Pirates Of Penzance - Critique
... agrees to marry Ruth, Major-General Stanley’s many daughters stumble upon the island. After Frederic sees their beauty, especially that of Mabel’s, he renounces Ruth and pursues Mabel. The other girls are seized by the pirates and threatened with marriage. When the Major-General shows up he too is captured by the pirates. The Major-General eludes the pirates by telling them a lie about being an orphan. Having been orphans themselves and having a place in their hearts for them, the pirates let the Major-General and his daughters go. Over the next few days, the Major-General’s conscience gets the best of him and he confides to Frederic the lie that he told the p ...
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Medea And The Chorus
... For example, the
chorus often announced the entrances and exits of characters or
foreshadowed events in the action. It also recounted or interpreted past
events for the purpose of clarifying the plot. These functions aided the
movement of the story.
First off, when the chorus was introduced into a play, one of its functions
was to announce the entrances and exits of characters. This happened in many
places of the story. The characters that the chorus took on were the first
woman, second and third woman. All of them introduced new characters in
order to move the play along smoothly. Such as in 1.29 when second woman
and third woman introduce Creon ...
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The Power Of Speech & The Persuasion Of Writing
... accusing the Clergymen, King uses a softer approach.
By reading both the Dream speech and the Birmingham letter it is obvious that they were not attended for the same audience. King's Dream speech was spoken in front of millions of people and was correctly addressed. King starts out by speaking with a lot of emotion, and repetition. King says in the Dream speech, "One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is st ...
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The Turning Point Of The Civil War
... was possible. By creating 3 corps
from his 75,000 men, Lee made it possible to accomplish more tasks in the
same amount of time. The three commanders, A.P. Hill, James Longstreet, and
Richard Ewell, were, in theory, to be supported by the strategic
reconnaissance of Jeb Stuart's cavalry, a role in which he failed dismally
in the days and weeks leading up to Gettysburg. Lee decided to take the
offensive by invading Pennsylvania via Maryland in an attempt to end the
war quickly by threatening the Northern capitol and waging "total war" on
the Northern citizens. Unfortunately for Lee, Stuart's joyriding, Stuart
delighted in riding complete circles around the North ...
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The Sedition Act Of 1798
... liberty, that our governments are
too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival
parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the
rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior
force of an interested and overbearing majority_" Public perception of
factions were related to British excesses and thought to be "the mortal
diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished." James
Madison wrote in Federalist Papers #10, "By a faction, I understand a
number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the
whole, who are united and actuated by some common im ...
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Dazed And Confused
... on. captures 1976 brilliantly, from the bell bottoms and feathered hair to the soundtrack of early hard rock classics to a pair of statues painted to look like members of KISS. The drug and alcohol use is matter-of-fact. The production design had to be perfect, and it is. Anyone who can't quite recall a time when sex was safe and far fewer kids "just said no" should take a look just for the sake of historical accuracy.
It is directed by Richard Linklater and stars a cast of complete unknowns. This 1993 sleeper leads us through a day in the life of a loosely-aligned group of seniors and freshmen at a high school in suburban Texas. What happens?
It's 1976, school's ...
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