Essays on Folk.

What was the most Interesting thing you learned about Music?

Principally, my exposure to various styles and types of music has evoked new insights into my mind. Initially, my perspective about music was narrowed to entertainment, a notion that lately realized as oblivious of the actual parlance of music in the social discourse. Importantly, I have learned that music is a systemized melody that is used to pass or express a given message. Thus, the meaning and the message that a song delivers is by far greater than the melody it bears. Indeed, I learned that music bears the socio-cultural aspect of a community, which is the biggest predisposition ...

Comparative Analysis of Grimm Brother’s Bluebeard and Fitcher’s Bird of (1812) to, A Tuscan Bluebeard by Isabella Anderton (1905)

Introduction

The comparative analysis of the fairy tales of Grimm Brother’s Bluebeard and Fitcher’s Bird of (1812) with, A Tuscan Bluebeard by Isabella Anderton, takes a feminist viewpoint. Therefore, the comparative attributes of this essay will be embedded on social issues including; marriage, gender, sex, various accords of violence, relationships, among other lenses that determine the mode and trend of a society. Similarity of these viewpoint mean commonality of the same topic discussed in these book, while ...

Introduction

Music is often termed as the “window” into the souls of the individuals and the cultures that make the many musical pieces people enjoy around the world today. There are many genres or kinds of music. The kinds of music can vary from the simple chants and beats of many ancient cultures to the electronic hip-hop music enjoyed by the younger people of today. It is said that the composers of the various forms of music are inspired to compose their pieces. This short essay will look at the life and music of one of the most popular composers ...

Mass Culture

Popular culture is determined by other people and is observed from the perspective of the individuals rather than from those people who seek support over them. It emerged as a result of a group of individuals with shared interest. It is influenced by industrialization and commercialization. The development of technology and the production of the industry influence mass culture; however, it is asserted that it creates issues in regards to traditional concepts about society’s art and its cultural role. Popular culture is created not because of the mass production of automobiles or cultural products, but by the mass ...

Eliminative materialism represents perhaps the most radical complex of ideas within the philosophy of mind. The arguments which it holds may seem absurd at the first blush. Eliminativists have 'accelerated' physicalist/materialist views concerning mental states so that the concepts we usually use to describe our experience with (e.g. love, hate, desire) arrive as the aberrations and results of our long-term misconceptions and ignorance (in other words, 'mental states' never actually existed). Eliminativism main thesis is that common sense psychology shows outrageous poverty in descriptive capacity, facing the innovations of nowadays science (in particular, neurobiology). And while the theory of ...

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Introduction

It is impossible to avoid those racy headlines or steamy news in the newspapers or television about a person or group of persons or a certain condition or situation that is a threat to societal values. The mass media has always played an important role in shaping the society and its views. The term “moral panic" was coined by Stanley Cohen in 1971 to illustrate responses of the public and media to the disturbances in the society. According to Cohen, those elements that deviated away from the core values of law abiding ...

“Mulatto” is a play written by Langston Hughes in the thirties of the previous century. The play explores the issues of the race such as lynching and miscegenation as well as the tragedy of family relationships between father and son during a difficult and controversial period in the social relations in America. The author received the national reputation of a dramatist due to the performance of “Mulatto” in 1935 by Martin Jones on Broadway. The play appealed to the public of Broadway because it examined the theme of tragic mulatto that symbolized the failure of the myth of egalitarianism. ...

American Music culture, through the XX century has been setting the pace to the Europe and created several significant trends in music all over the world. In this work we will track some of the most influential American currents which have changed the cultural life all over the world. We will see how the Jazz and American folk proceeded to modern rock, indie rock and rap music. We will touch upon the historical events which were milestones in American pop-culture. The second music style which has originally developed from Rhythm and Blues and country music was Rock. It started ...

In the artistic oil canvas paintings of James Whistler, Nocturne, Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night, and Barnett Newman, Midnight Blue, the three components of art namely form, subject, and content tend to create the difference in the artistic talents displayed. The artist used the elements of art such as line, color, texture, shape, and value to produce a form. However, each of the artistic pieces tends to display varying degree of application of the artistic elements. This variance tends to create the observable difference in terms of shape, color, or texture of the pieces. A bid to compare and contrast ...

The African continent has become a place where advanced nations have resorted to for scramble for its natural wealth. Africa is is rich in in minerals and natural resources attractive to outside forces. The fact that many African continents are still recovering from slavery makes it even more vulnerable to outside forces who come to invest in the countries to get a share of the resources. Africa has been riddled by dictators and western powers have taken advantage of this fact reducing the continent to a beggarly state. With the high rate on malnutrition, disease and death there has been increase in ...

Question 1

Jazz has always been one of the most popular forms of music in the world. This is mainly because its improvisatory nature can easily be adapted by a community or to portray its individual identity. Originating in the United States, jazz music slowly crept into the larger Europe during the 20th Century. This was a period when most European nations were under the rule of communist governments. Jazz music was a form of cultural export by the United States to Europe through which it sought to spread its influence and neutralize some of the propaganda spread by the communist ...

History of Children’s Literature

In the time when there were no books and not everyone could write and read, mothers and grandmothers were able only to tell their children or grandchildren stories and fairy tales. Even when people became more literate, they did not begin to write down folklore for youngsters. It was Charles Perrault, who collected and published folk tales for children in 1697. However, speaking about folklore, people imagine more often not Charles Perrault, but the Brothers Grimm (Zipers, 2002). They are considered to be the first collectors of both folk and fairy tales. The reason for this is their ...

Questions for Women and Cinema

Part I

1. Transgender It is a state in which an individual’s gender is not matching his or her assigned sex responsibility. It refers to the trans-genders, such as homosexual, bisexuals, heterosexual. In the Paris burning film, the issue of Transgender is explored using various characters men and women. For instance, Trans women used as members of the club to show realness. The women are sued to enhance transgender in the film, this shows that as much as they are women they can also compete men and become real (Besnier and Kalissa 34).

2. Monstrous-feminine The female ...

- Suzuki, N. (2014). The anthropology of aging and well-being. 1st ed. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology

The article titled “The Values Transmitted by Lifelong Education in Denmark: The Conditions of Social Inclusion”, is written by Nanami Suzuki, National Museum of Ethnology, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies. There are six sections – introduction, History of folk education in Denmark, Social and Adult education, Folk High school and Conclusion. Suzuki has given the details of the system of education in Denmark from the 0th grade, through primary school, high school and adult education. Suzuki has emphasized the goals ...

Thomas Hardy is one of the most renowned poets and novelist in the English literary history. He was born in the year 1940, in the English village of Higher Bockhampton in Dorset. His father Thomas was a stone mason and a master builder, and his mother Jemima was a highly educated woman who enjoyed reading and narrating folk tales of their region t the time. His parents are said to have influenced his life a great deal because he indeed loved country folk and had a passion for literature, as well as music. When he was eight years old, Hardy began school at Julia ...

- “Appeal for Widows 2013.” Saynotoviolence.org. 2013.

This video is informative about the contemporary scenario of violation against women. The video gives detailed figures and message about the discriminatory activities against women folk of the world society. Coupled with pictures of widows, this video is emphatic about the baleful presence of chauvinism and patriarchy.

- Asinas, Edelwina. “Battered Woman” FamilyFriendPoems.

This is a stirring poem by Edelwina Asinas which depicts the tumultuous emotions of the heart of a woman. The poem explores the helplessness of a lady who is tortured by the man whom she is with. This is a harrowing ...

Everyone has listened to music at one point in their life. The effect that music has on people is phenomenal and such that the absence of music unimaginable. My musical experience is interesting as I have different tastes and sounds from different cultures. When I was growing up, I liked children’s jingles that mostly accompanied cartoon programs on television. On answering the question on my musical experience I realized that I had so much to learn about music from different generations and cultures. My first stop was my grandparents. They had an interesting taste and view about ...

Jimi Hendrix’s cover of the Bob Dylan folk song, “All Along the Watchtower,” adapts the song from Dylan’s mellow and malicious folk song to an exuberant, angry rock anthem for young people in the late 1960s. Under Jimi’s alterations, the instrumentation turns ominous and aggressive, his exuberant vocals sounding almost pleading. The song contains a limited chord structure and longer-than-usual musical sections, as well as unsettling improvisation and call-and-response from the vocals and guitar. The combination of all these musical elements make the listener, especially one who was young in 1968 (when the song was ...

Rhoma Irama is one of the most acclaimed Indonesian musicians of all time, innovating and exemplifying the best of the Indonesian dangdut style of popular music. After a difficult and intriguing childhood, he became a superstar in Indonesia in the 1970s, dubbing himself Raja Dangdut, which translates to the "King of Dangdut." Rhoma Irama's contribution to the world of Indonesian pop music is immense, and his popularity helped to provide some crossover success in the United States as well. His popularization of dangdut allowed the lower-class of Indonesia and Jakarta to express themselves in a culturally relevant and powerful way, ...

Growling Old Men

Growling Old Men is a bluegrass and folk trio from Montana. The trio has a contemporary bluegrass sound that is comprised of guitar, upright bass, and mandolin. Montana is rich in bluegrass artists. The lead vocalist does not have the traditional twangy sound often heard in the South. Instrumentally this band rocked. One of the great tenets of bluegrass music is its ability to showcase the talents of the performers. Picking and grinning is an art form and takes real skill and talent to pull off. This is primarily because bluegrass music is not comprised of lots of special effects added ...

Twang

Twang is a five-member traditional country and western band from Montana. Their sound is reminiscent of country and western music of the 1960’s and ‘70’s that was infused with steel guitars, and the rhythmic sound of foot-tapping guitar licks that people easily got up and danced to. As I watched the video I found myself tapping along to their sound and being taken back to the days when country and western music came from the real roots of the genre. Their music is upbeat and reminded me of the days of Porter Wagoner and Asleep at the Wheel. ...

Chinese martial arts are traditional sports that have developed over a long period of time. The unique features of these arts as suggested by Taoism are conquering the hard with the mild, bigger force by the smaller one and turn slow speed into a faster one. People from ancient china discovered some very useful techniques to attack and self defence as punching and kicking even in exceedingly antagonistic situations. In order of exercising these techniques they were also aware of dealing with the weapons bare handedly which could have been used against them. The Chinese martial arts emerged as very popular ...

The plight of the African American woman is a subject of critical concern in the modern world. In practice, the African American woman faces diverse challenges in the dynamic and complex information society. Key to note, the changes coming in because of world paradigm shifts and developments have continued to redefine and shape the position of women in the society. Developments such as industrialization, globalization, and urbanization have brought unique challenges to the modern family set-up. Precisely, the rising cost of living among other economic factors continues to redefine the role of the women. Practically, women are increasingly adopting the ...

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Political — Pablo Picasso “Guernica” (1937). Twentieth Century. Spain. Pablo Picasso was an artist best known for Cubism. He evokes powerful narratives in his work despite the fact that his paintings and murals are often non-realist in style. Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” is a good example of political art. The work is a mural and it was created in the twentieth century in Spain. The mural tells a story. It is an example of narrative art. The mural depicts the suffering people experienced during the Spanish Civil War. The Fascists had bombed the small town of Guernica. The ...

On July 12, 2015, Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, the leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, escaped from his jail cell in Altiplano prison, outside of Mexico City. With an estimated net worth of a billion dollars, Guzman is known as a brutal leader responsible for the thousands of murders, and the exportation of large amounts of cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana into the United States. To many Mexicans, he is also a folk hero like Jesús Malverde, a Mexican Robin Hood figure who robbed Mexican banks in the early 1900’s (Campbell). In the Mexican state of Sinaloa, he is a ...

The musical element of this selection is monophonic. She sings in a cappella scales in Thai vernacular, with light crescendos and decrescendos for added emphasis. The artist sings in strophic repetition. Thai culture is traditional and based on simplicity. This comes out while listening to the song. If this song were categorized today it would be considered folk music because folk music is considered to be a part of the culture that it derives from. I am from Thailand, and the rich culture there is maintained through classic music accompanied by dance in beautiful costumes. It is used for story-telling. ...

Produced in 1984, Yellow Earth was the first film directed by Chen Kaige, a graduate of the Beijing Film Academy. The film is a period piece, taking place against the backdrop of China when World War II broke out. The film focuses on a communist soldier who comes to a village to collect folk songs to serve as morale-raising communist propaganda for the Eighth Route Army. During his visit to the rural village, the young soldier stays with a family, motherless but with a father, a young boy, and two sisters. The elder sister has already been "married off" in an arranged marriage, and the 14-year-old ...

Uri Margolin’s assertion that “an individual's appearance, gestures, mannerism, dress, and natural and human-made environment are indicators for inferences about his or her mental and moral features” essentially claims that readers pick up on who a character is through their outside features as described in the prose (2012, p. 77). However, this assertion ignores the possibility of contrasts, societal pressures, and other factors that can provide needed context for further understanding of their true character. Tess in Tess of the d’Urburvilles, for instance, is a quintessential contradiction – somewhere between rich and poor, sophisticated and simple, strong and weak, etc. While ...

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Introduction

Globalization has made a significant contribution both socially and economically. Although, the focus was mainly on the socio-economic impacts of globalization, it is important to consider globalization from the cultural point of view. Since the 80’s in 20th century, Hollywood has been putting a lot of efforts in promoting strategies toward globalization, through which Hollywood movies have virtually reached each and every corner of the planet in an unprecedented speed and scale. Globalization in Hollywood films portray the inevitable result of globalization of world economy, where the “Chinese elements”, in particular, have become an epitome in the trend ...

Designing a floor plan

Eggspectation floor plan will depend on some factors. Dimension will have to be considered in respect to the size of settings. For instance, the dining area will only cover 60% of the total area. The remainder is 40% of the total area, which is left for kitchen planning and building. Designing the seating plan also will require some considerations. Since it will be an open type restaurant, it's vital to keep in mind of a 200 banquet seating facility and the 75 fine dining room areas. For a banquet, it would normally require 10 square feet per individual while, for the ...

Literature

Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Introduction: Geoffrey Chaucer had skillfully adapted the methodology of frame within frame story telling was a process of storytelling that had only begun to evolve during those times. This method involved the putting together of stories of a number of people. In the main story there is the gripping tale of a group of pilgrims who have taken on the perilous journey together to a pilgrimage to Canterbury. Among all the story tellers there are a wide variety among which some are of noble birth and a large number who are mere common folk. The more interesting ...

Indian classical music influencing western music in 21st century

The concept that Indian classical music has influenced western music has gained so much weight in the recent years. Classical music is the considered to be the music of east. While hip hop, jazz, rock and pop music is associated with western culture. Introduction: the influence of Indian music is very prominent on western music. There are various evidences that show how western music is inspired from the Indian classical music. When we see at the Jazz music, it’s played in clubs, concerts, and even in balls. In the beginning, it was played in few western countries ...

This gentleman has genuine mega-talent, spanning 6 decades of poetic writing, peaceful protesting, and the awakening of the youth movement.

Bob Dylan, is one of the musicians who sparked several genres of pop music which included electrified country rock and folk rock. This was evidenced in the height of his popularity during the 1960s. His influence in music has been echoed throughout various generations; this is because most of his music became popular standards and all of his albums became undisputed classic rock and roll canon. The influence of Dylan throughout the era of folk music was very powerful and it made a pivotal turning point in the 20th century. It was during this era that the genre of music ...

- Explain in your own words what you understand Sternheimer to mean by the term “folk devils”. She suggests, “video games, those who play them, and those who create them have become contemporary folk devils” (paragraph 4). Can you give examples of such “folk devils?” Sternheimer uses the term “folk devils” to represent the people who involve themselves in the act of introducing bad effects to the society. In this case, the folk devils are the people who create, the video games and those who play them are the “folk devils”. Examples of folk devils include the youth ...

Susie Orbach gives a new introduction in explaining how the female folk generations are developing in absorbing the anxieties that eat them by squarely reflecting on the society that is obsessed by body and increased diet. In this age where women are struggling to be domestic goddesses, nurturing, confident at work, sexy and feminine as well, women today are not well equipped for survival. Susie Orbach explores our relationships with food and gives a description of how at is more than just food. She says it is as a result of our response to the social situations which we are. The ...

Organization

Introduction: The literary treasures of third world countries are often lost in the melee of the practical problems that afflict these nations. In the wake of the war, there happened to be a person who somehow ventured to retrieve the lost assets of Vietnamese folk culture and ended up creating a beautiful compilation of poetry which we now know as Ca Dao. It is not that Ca Dao is a modern avatar of Vietnamese poetry; on the contrary, it is one of the oldest. However, thanks to the likes of John Balaban, the world is now aware of it spellbinding aspects. ...

Bob Dylan’s style is very much of the ages and he manages to strip down the music to the barest of its essentials. ‘All Along the Watchtower’ is a typical example of music which is stripped down to its bare essentials as Cantwell describes. All we hear is the basic instrumentation which makes the song all the more bleak and full of alienation as well as eventual resignation. These elements are reinforced by Dylan’s consistent exposure to folk music as well as other themes which make his songs so involving and full of character. Cantwell also identifies ...

Introduction

Hurricane Katrina was recorded as the most deadliest and destructive Atlantic tropical cyclone. It occurred in the season of Atlantic hurricane. It is a natural disaster which is recorded as one of the costliest disasters. In addition, this is a natural disaster classified under five other deadliest hurricanes, in the whole history of the US. Hurricane Katrina appeared as the sixth most intense hurricane in the 2005 season (Brenner, 2007). An approximate of one thousand eight hundred and thirty three people died as a result of this natural disaster. There were subsequent floods during this disaster making it a deadliest hurricane in the ...

While folk tales differ greatly from culture to culture, what they have in common is that they serve the same purpose. They offer give a culture a way to explain the world, its existence and offer insight into different cultures. For this essay three folk tales from three distinct cultures have been selected. While each is different, each offers insight into the culture from where they originated. The cultures selected are Native American Indians, Eskimo and the Celtic cultures. There is an Eskimo folk tale called “The Great Bear.” The story is about a bear that helps a woman as long as ...

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The teaching process is indeed quite delicate and involves a considerable amount of planning and preparation. The educational unit which is being prepared within this paper reflects numerous factors which have to be considered for a comprehensive and positively influential educational process. The topic that has been selected is “British Literature for Children”, and it takes into account national educational standards, innovative teaching techniques as well as the issue of interaction between peers in a classroom.

Rationale

The target audience for this unit is schoolchildren in the first grade. At this stage of learning they are normally ...

Abstract

Three types of examples from the genres of world literature are integral to the strength of investigating the works of different periods and cultures. Different eras represented sweeping views of war, the sacred, the secular, and expressions of stories that culminated in philosophical lessons or important pieces in historical sagas. This essay develops a critique based upon the prompt which looks at the literary works of: (a) Homer’s “The Iliad”, (b) Dante Alighieri’s “The Divine Comedy – Inferno”, and (c) Elphinstone Dayrell’s “Nigerian Folk Stories”. The richly contrasting nuances of the literary comparisons provide a marvelous rubric and background from which ...

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Appendix 14 Travel Grant Proposal to Egypt Introduction There are many reasons why Egypt is ideal place to study music. Firstly, Egypt has historical significance in world history and a study of its culture and music would help establish a link between modern culture and the cradle of civilization. Music in Egypt became a much relevant subject during the pharaonic period. Throughout this period, music formed a significant aspect of the Egyptian way of life. Majority of musicians assumed various positions in the Egyptian ...

Prison Gangs

Prison Gangs Gang violence has been a reality of the American people since not long after the Revolutionary War, though at that time the legitimacy of the predominant gangs was in question. The resurgence of gang life didn’t occur until after the 1870’s and then escalated into the 1940’s, when crime rates soared thanks to a nation that had become largely divided thanks to several contributing factors such as race, ethnicity, money, and control over illegitimate businesses. It’s not entirely clear when prison gangs became such a notorious aspect of the penal system, but one thing is ...

The start of cinematic vision in China was a contribution of a lot of factors pre-existing in the Chinese community. Before jumping into the factual statistics particularly related to Hong-Kong filming aura it will be apt enough to have an ideological understanding of the stream of certain social integrations in China which indirectly or directly affect the filming industry’s trend shifts in its evolution. To the viewer, martial- arts or the genre ‘Action’ might just be a mere theme of just another film but if the industry is responsible for producing several movies with same theme, this denotes the presence of ...

and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” The two poems Sir Walter Raleigh’s “The Nymphs reply to the Shepherd” in response to Christopher Marlow’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.” Both poems are love poems which tell of ones admiration for the other. In Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd, he cautiously and intelligently refuses the advances of the Shepherd telling him to “Come live with me and be my love” (Marlowe l.1). The shepherd offers many things that he cannot possibly fulfil and the nymph’s reply is but a frank and ...

Aesthetics refers to the nature and expression of beauty. In literature, this makes a literary work worth reading, with the combination of elements and styles both in prose and poetry showing its artistic value. Post Civil American War marked the change of America’s thought of itself (Oakes xii). Basically, the end of the Civil War led to the rise of African American writers and what they experienced during this time. However, there were also some White Americans who wrote of the aftermath of the war. The artistic value of literary pieces after the Civil War lies in the ...

WitchCraft

Witch is considered as an individual who have inborn ability to do mischievous acts, so that they can harm others. Witches do not always harm other intentionally, most of the time, they themselves are not aware of the fact they witch, and they may harm others unintentionally, as they do not have any idea that other individual will suffer badly because of this act. Witchcraft in the traditional societies is different than the witchcraft in the modern popular culture. The traditional beliefs regarding witchcraft are different as compared to the contemporary beliefs regarding witchcraft. There are several traditional concepts ...

The Asian American Art Center was started in the year 1974 as the Asian American dance theater in Chinatown New York. Formed as a community of art organization which was non-profitable in nature. Its sole mission was to promote creative vitality and preservation of cultural development Asian American by use of art. It is achieved through interpretation and presentation of the current Asian and American art forms, exhibitions, utilizing performances and communal education. This center has over their ears prolonged to comprise the following core areas. Exhibitions and catalog publication, folk art investigation and certification, performance and presentation (Samson 116). ...

According to Tolstoy, art should create a certain emotional connection between artist and audience that "infects" the viewer. Thus, the real art requires the ability to bring people together through communication “channel”, hence the importance of clarity and sincerity. Tolstoy`s aesthetic concept led to the expansion of the criteria of a work of art. He believes that the concept of art encompasses any human activity. Tolstoy offers the following example. The boy who was afraid when he saw the wolf, later, recounts his experience and infects the audience, making them feel as if they were in danger themselves. And this ...

George Gershwin was one of the most prolific composers in America for the twenty century, excelling in the field of popular song compositions and classical compositions. He wrote a lot of music but the pieces that made him famous and also remained in the history of music as representative for his own style were two orchestral compositions like Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris and also the opera Porgy and Bess. George Gershwin was born in 26 September 1898 in Brooklyn, New York. Gershwin came from a Russian and Lithuanian Jewish heritage and he was the second child ...

In order to understand music inside an historical background we have to begin from an ancient point of view and its 3 main elements: Rhythm; Melody; and Harmony and the significance has to do with the order of their discovery. Rhythm is the first and the oldest element of our earliest understanding of music first played by the cavemen. That could possibly be one man banging a drum. The second one is melody, when probably banging was first accompanied by humming. And finally, harmony was added. From what we know today, music is deeply affected by the special features of ...

Music is a reflection of the soul. When we are sad, we turn on some ballad and it seems that music empathizes and supports us, makes it possible to throw out all our emotions and make the right decision. Music relieves loneliness and adds confidence. It fills us with energy and sets the rhythm of life. Music is always with us. Each event is reflected in the music: with music, people confess their love and celebrate holidays. Heartfelt music is folk. It transmits all joy and tears of people. We understand everything it wants to tell us, regardless of age ...

In Toni Morrisons’s Beloved the use of the phrase “This is not a story to pass on” in three different iterations is confusing, because if history and literature has emphasized anything it is “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Morrison is making sure the story is literally passed but the real meaning is deliberately ambiguous, having different meanings depending on how you read or analyze the novel. It could mean “this is an important story, do not pass on it”; or miss the experience of knowing it. It could also be saying that slavery ...

Did Beatle­-Mania’s influence on Soviet teenagers contribute to the fall of the Iron Curtain? An argument can be made that Gorbachev’s opening up to the West through glasnost and perestroika was the final nail in the coffin of the Soviet Union. However, due to the overwhelming evidence of an underground musical movement amongst the Soviet youth, the demands of a disillusioned youth were the catalysts for these reforms. With this taken into consideration, a major change in the political landscape of Russia’s domestic and foreign policy may be observed through three stages, initial distribution, Soviet push back, ...

One of the most acknowledged composers in the Civil War of 1861 to 1965 was the Sousa Band. The leader of the group has depicted a unique integration in their work. Sousa is regarded one of the best and successful musician. In his argument, entertainment music was much important when compared with music meant for education. This is one of the philosophies that guided his work as a composer and more so a real musician (Bierley, Paul, 44). His first work can be dated back in the 1910. During this time, he put into book “mission in music” . In his opinion, the ...

Stravinsky was no stranger to pushing boundaries when he premiered the Rite of Spring in 1913. He had had immense success the previous year with his reimagining of the Russian folk tale of Petrushka. In that piece, as well, Stravinsky took liberties with his writing and the plot of the story. However, the liberties taken in the music for The Rite of Spring were far greater and more surprising than past compositions by him, or any other mainstream composer of the time. Coupled with the unusual choreography by Nijinsky, the event was understandably shocking to an audience unaccustomed to ...

Samsara, commonly known in English as reincarnation, is a Sanskrit word meaning the “continuous flow,” or the cycle of life that every being experiences, from birth to death and then rebirth (Sharf). Samsara also relates directly to the way one’s actions influence one’s cycle of birth and rebirth; actions have consequences, and when one acts in positive ways, one’s karma is positive; the inverse is true when one acts in negative ways (Sharf). Every Buddhist society recognizes the cycle of Samsara, although each society recognizes slightly different aspects of the process. According to Chinese Buddhism, the life ...

The story of women in science and technology throughout the ages is a deeply inspirational account of how a class of females, most of whose names have been lost through the great annals of time, helped change the world for the better. How can a lot of people have missed this truth? It seems, as one will reflect upon the current stature of women folk in society these days, that there has been a deliberate gap in introducing the concept to the populace. Most people have never heard about them. How come? In this present time and age where -- throughout the ...

Proppian analysis of the narrative of Perseus’ quest for the Gorgon’s head

Various elements of the Proppian analysis can be identified in the narrative. They happen at different sequences, yet show a clear picture of what Proppian describes. First, there is a need for love by Perseus. To get what he desired, he had to take an epic journey in serach of powers that will enable him get the love of his choice as well as authority. As he sets of, Perseus, who is the valiant realises that he needs some information that will enable him achieve his dreams. He could not get the needed information without tricking the daughters. He therefore took ...

Сulture of Saudi Arabia and native Canadian

The society is very multifunctional (labor, politics, economics, ethics, aesthetics, law, family, religion, etc.). Each of the spheres of society corresponds to a certain level achieved by the culture as a qualitative characteristic of his life. Culture plays an important role in the life of man and society, which consists primarily in the fact that culture is a means of accumulation, storage and transmission of human experience. Culture brings people together, integrates them, ensures the integrity of the community. Culture concentrates the best social experience of many generations, acquires the ability to accumulate wealth of knowledge about the world and thus to ...