Essays on Song

Introduction

The film, City of God, provides a broad perspective over which a number of issues can be drawn. A story is told of a generation of children trying to survive in one of the biggest slums in Rio de Janeiro in the sixties and the seventies. Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund direct the movie the city of God. The main character in the movie is Li’IZe. At a tender age, Li’IZe who is the main character in the movie had wanted to become a leader in the City of God. Through Li’IZe’s aggressive and ambitious nature, he becomes ...

“Barbie Doll” Questions

- In the poem “Barbie Doll”, the phrase “consummation at last” may mean two things. First, it may mean that in death, the girl no longer have to impress anybody. In death, she can be anybody she wants. The struggle to be accepted in society ends in death. She does not have to look and act according to the dictates of society. On the other hand, the line “consummation at last” may also mean that in death, the physical appearance that she wanted to have is finally given to her. With the help of the undertaker’s cosmetics, she ...

Social movements are the collective, unofficial and anti-institutional actions by ordinary citizens with the intent of changing the current status of their societies. Social movements have a great impact as compared to any legislation or political party. This is because according to various studies on social movements they are interwoven interactions with a strong cultural footing as compared to legislations and political parties. Reed uses the concept of culture in three different ways based on the readers. For example, students and general readers are presented social movements in the view of artistic and cultural expression. The aspect of social movements and culture ...

Introduction

Sexyback is a love song that was recorded by an American idol, Justin Timberlake. Justin Timberlake is famous and a celebrity worldwide known from his most hit songs that are secular and the lovers of soul, blues and rnb are their fun. He mostly developed his musical talents and singing throughout his life.

In 2006 Justin Timberlake wrote the song sexyback in his second studio album called future love sounds. The most loved song was aired and released on July, 18, 2006. The first people to receive the song was the US mainstream and their rhythmic radio stations. The lyrics ...

The chapter begins with an introduction of the traces of Tolteca that are found everywhere. They were involved in the invention of and production of various artifacts, which show how wise they were. They were involved in the interpretation of dreams and reading of the stars. Section one of the chapter shows how the sacred used to erupt into the human world. The words of the spirits could be revealed through art. They used the art to describe the beauty that existed in the world, the description was vivid and visible in the real world. One of the most ...

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

- History The Four Seasons or Le Quattro Stagioni is composed of four violin concertos that were composed by Antonio Vivaldi in 1723. This piece is known to be his most popular classical work and one of the most well-known in the said repertoire. The Four Seasons is also considered as one of the boldest program music in the baroque period. The concertos were first published in 1725. It was intended to be part of a set of 12 concerti, Vivaldi’s 8th Opus with the title “Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione”, which he dedicated to a Bohemian patron named ...

Little Russell learned to play the piano and trumpet from the very childhood, and he made his debut on the music scene in 1955 , playing in a cover band, performing songs of Jerry Lee Lewis and Ronnie Hawkins. Also in this period, he regularly participated as a session pianist in the popular American television program «Shindig».

1962: Russell began working in the Los Angeles studio musician (sometimes arranger) with clients like Phil Spector, for example, The Ronettes, Crystals and The Righteous Brothers. Indirectly, he honed his skills playing the guitar under the direction of James Burton. In 1968, Russell, along ...

Reggie is the direction of modern music that emerged in Jamaica in the late 1960s and widespread since the early 1970s.

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In the first half of the XX century, mento was the most common genre of music in Jamaica. These were the songs performed by roving musicians, is an alloy of religious hymns spirituals, work songs, calypso style and the variety of traditions of the Caribbean. Mento was folk music similar to the American country blues.

After World War II, the island has penetrated a lot of new music, mainly from the United States. This was due mainly to ...

- Explain Singer’s goal in this article, and then present his argument in relation to this issue. The article, “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” written by Peter Singer is all centered on one main goal. This major aim of the article is to encourage the affluent people to have the moral obligation and donate some of their vast resources, so that they can be used for humanitarian causes. He argues that affluent people who live in the developed world have a moral obligation to donate some of their enormous resources to numerous poor people living in the developing world. ...

Introduction:

Probably the most famous rock band after the Beatles, ‘The Rolling Stones’ hailed from London and were formed in 1962. This means that they have been active on the rock scene for over half a century. The band’s leader and frontman Mick Jagger is a legend in his own right and although he is now over 70 years of age, he is still incredibly virile and powerful both as a personality as well as a musician. Over a number of decades the band’s line up has obviously changed several times but Jagger and Keith Richards have remained in the band since its ...

Music is seen to be part of our everyday lives. I listen to music to pass time and sometimes because of the message the artist is trying to pass. Generally, music has positive and beneficial effects in my life. Hip hop music is my favorite style of music and is also commonly referred to as rap. Many people view hip-hop as a sub-genre of R n B. this style of music is divided into new-school and old—school. Old school hip hop entails the earliest recordings from 1970’s and early 1980’s. Later in the decade, different styles ...

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It includes a detailed study of three literary works and their importance and execution in daily life. The discussion discusses in detail with reference to the mood, style, theme and tone of the three compositions. The three compositions as chosen are

- The movie by Roman Polinski Starring—Adrian Brody, Emilia Fox, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman is the first non-literary work that I have chosen.

- The second non-literary work would be that of a photograph by Charie Cole taken at the Tianenmen Square in 1989 named the Tank Man.

- The third composition is a literary source by ...

Almost all classic songs are about love. Since ancient times, artists have endeavored to write songs of love to stir the heart. Their works have ranged from the saccharine and sappy to the truly moving. In spite of the artists’ varied levels of accomplishment and artistic merits, each of these songs relies on certain tropes and exhibits certain qualities that are endemic to the “love song” genre. In all quintessential love songs, three tenets (common qualities) have stood out; simple lyrics delivered with sincerity, use of a saxophone and they are sung in moderately slow tempos.

Quintessential love songs ...

- What did you learn from reading the article? I have learned that Identify Beat is a great method to create a tempo map especially for the live recorded track that has the tempo changed in the entire song. Moreover, Beat Detective is a primary method, which is used analyzing track to create tempo maps of the song. The drum track is a good choice to create a tempo map using the Beat Detective and Identify Beat also.

- What techniques were discussed? How to develop tempo maps when the song is not recoded is discussed. How to come up with ...

This paper looks at the relationship between businesses and the environment. It looks at the obligation business has towards environmental protection and the way it should work with other factors to make regulations necessary. Moral ethics in business and its relation to the people and environment is explained in detail. How the business relates to outside people and animals is described, and the right way forward is given. This paper seeks to find out whether peter singer agrees with either mark or William Baxter on how business should relate to the environment. It looks at each of the author’ ...

Introduction

Hip-hop culture has proliferated to the extent that today, one may speak of it as a modern-day cultural phenomenon. Hip-hop emerged from the Bronx ghetto and found its way up to white suburbia in the United States as well as Europe over a period of the last thirty years. Hip-hop has had a socio-cultural impact that is so intense that it has affected youth culture all over the world, especially in the manner of speaking, values, dress codes, etc. Since it was birthed in 1974, it has evolved tremendously. Sociologically, the expressive ways of African Americans, Latinos and Caribbean-Americans has spread to ...

The movie The Educators by Hans Weingartner puts forth all the struggles of the post-unification in Germany. In Berlin, consumer and proletarian societies have eventually been forged together, and thus the film mainly struggles appropriately to find a stable balance between the issues. The movie mainly represents a trio of three very rebellious liberals, who decide to break into the homes of wealthy capitalists to rearrange their belongings and furniture rather than stealing the precious items. Additionally, this trio decides to leave a note passing a certain message such as notifying them as well as warning others. As the movie proceeds, the trio ...

In her article 'Minds of Their Own' published in 2008 in the National Geographic Magazine, Virginia Morell discusses animals' ability to acquire language skills. By bringing the examples of Alex the Parrot, dolphins, primates and even crows, Morell dispels the age-old myth that animals cannot learn human language. While her article is compelling and indeed informative, one wonders whether these examples indicate true language acquisition, or otherwise are they merely a reflection of intricate imitative capabilities.

The following essay will attempt to examine the question of non-human language acquisition through discussing the distinction between language and communication, as ...

Popular culture has been described differently by different scholars according to different periods. Generally, popular culture refers to the vernacular or the culture of a given community, which is predominant in the society during a given period. Others consider popular culture as the entirety of attitudes, ideas, memes, perspectives, phenomena, and perspectives, which are informally accepted within the general culture. In the past, popular culture majorly comprised of books, music, fashion, and other daily ephemera, which a community within the society identifies itself. However, due to technological advancements and globalization, popular culture today includes mass media, celebrities, the internet, and a host of ...

The first setting mentioned was the street where the two met. They met on the High Street in Marchbury. This setting left and air of wonder and question in regards to why this person would be approaching Mr. Dale. This led to Mr. Dale wondering, why the other gentleman was approaching him. The feeling of this setting was an air of familiarity, until he had noticed the stranger, from the church.

The second setting was Mr. Dale’s home. While in the public street, there was talk about moving the conversation to Mr. Dale’s home, it left ...

Introduction

The duty herein is to assess and evaluate the speech presentations given. The paper covers those speeches given at the Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research, for the year 2014. Professor Bill Cunliffe is the key speaker, representing the Music Department at California State University at Fullerton (CSUF) and has delivered the longest speech presentation (taking up approximately half of the video) brief comments on the other three speakers shall be included. As a key academic field, speech communications empowers people to prepare for careers in many areas. For example, ...

Is Walt Whitman's poetry devoid of structure or shape

Walt Whitman is the typical poet that composes his poems based on the traditionally recognized forms of poetic structure and prose. His poems are unique and often appear to be unorganized in the most unorthodox of ways. Because of this, his poems might depict a lack in structure or pose. However, according to the fundamental forms of poetic structure, most of his poems do have a structure and shape needed to qualify them as poems. They are not easily recognizable, but that does not warrant their absence. Structure in poetry is inclusive of the arrangement of lines or stanzas that is ...

In the article Mindy McCready, a Singer Long Troubled, Dies at 37 by N.R. Kleinfield (2013), which was published on Feb. 18, 2013 in The New York Times, the author provided details about the death of country singer Mindy McCready who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The author also described the singer’s troubled life, which may have led to her demise. In particular, the singer got involved in abusive relationships, which caused her to feel depressed. She also suffered from drug and alcohol addiction and had run into trouble with the law (Kleinfield, 2013).

This current events news article ...

In terms of teaching adults, two intriguing ways to disseminate information are through the input sources of podcasts and songs. While songs provide a repetitive, consistent means of disseminating information through listening automaticity, I believe that the podcast format is a better means of adult teaching information dissemination. Firstly, podcasting is the better means of facilitating clustering, given the structuring of podcasts into discussions using sentences, which are the basic organizational unit of most languages (Kukulska-Hulme and Shield 273). Spoken language carries with it a lot of redundancy, which helps listeners to have more time to process information in between all of ...

Question 1

In my opinion, composition of workforce is a major factor in determining the company’s ability to produce future leaders. There are several reasons for this point of view. Firstly, management consulting firms or other companies with similar composition of workforce have a larger portion of employees that are already close to the CEO position. Holding managerial positions, they have abilities, skills, knowledge, and situation-specific experience that are directly related to leadership functions required to run a company successfully. Secondly, managers have a much better professional network within an industry than lower-level workers. As a result, they are well informed about job opportunities that ...

Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald are two prominent divas of jazz. To compare their stage performance is not a simple task. On the one hand, their impressive musical performance differs in that Ella has a unique gift of singing in a range of three octaves. She was using her unbelievable voice like a well-tuned instrument. It was best reflected in her scat singing.

Ella’s the “First Lady of Song” had the utmost success. On the other hand, Billie was known for her tones and nuances that triggered very strong emotions. Unlike Ella, Billie used a far more elastic approach to the words in ...

Gary Spearin's self-proclamation about his role on his personal website as an artist "to make what is invisible visible; to create something visible that summons the invisible" is an interesting statement about his postmodern meaning-making style. Not only does Spearin re-defines lines and strokes in a way quite expressionistically post-modern but he embraces viewers in a meaning-making process which does not end by a casual view online of his works or long reflections in an art gallery. This drift, so to speak, into a whirlwind of meaning-making and re-interpretation upon each "visit" is only emphasized in recent exhibitions. Consider iNifiNiTi.

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A poem titled “The Solitary Reaper” gives a reflection of the power of imagination and the manner in which imagination can transform events surrounding us in our day to day lives (Mahoney, Page 5-19). The poem gives a representation of various realities that surround our day to day life. It further brings out the poet as a romantic individual and that to him imagination is not just to be used as a synonym when writing poems by creating some fantasy. The writer saw an opportunity to relate the imagination closely with various intuitions, as well as emotions in his piece of work. ...

Annotated Bibliography

Au, W. "Fresh Out of School: Rap Music's Discursive Battle with Education." The Journal of Negro Education, 74.3 (2005): 210-20.

The purpose of this research paper is to determine how such discourse in education is challenged by the discourse in rap music. According to Au, rap music opposes and critiques education as a dominant discourse. In this study, Au makes an analysis of rap music lyrics from the perspective of the hip-hop culture on the African American education system. Au uses academic literatures, discourse analysis, and ground theories to support his findings from several lyrics of rap ...

Smagorinsky, Peter, Elizabeth Anne Daigle, Cindy O’Donnell-Allen, and Susan Bynum. “Bullshit in Academic Writing: A Protocol Analysis of a High School Senior’s Process of Interpreting Much Ado about Nothing.” Research in the Teaching of English 44(4) 2010. 368-405

The paper describes five protocols employed by Susan in completing her assignment. It offers a detailed explanation from the tape recorder used by Susan in the think-aloud part of the assignment (Smagorinsky, 46). The availability of the tape, original essay by Susan, and a detailed analysis of available text accord this article credibility. Further, the inputs of Cindy O’Donnell-Allen, ...

Born during the height of discrimination and slavery, Paul Laurence Dunbar strived to be educated and was able to write poems, short stories and novels from the perspective of his race, the African-Americans. Their desire to be free from the term Africans which has a connotation of being a slave was vividly described in his writings. These writings became the inspiration of the personalities of the Civil rights movement like Maya Angelou. This is specifically to Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

In one of his poems entitled, Lyrics of Lowly Life, he articulated how his race were ...

The Song of Songs poem has two voices that must be thought together. The voices within the poem are two women. The first one is holding back to love whereas the second one is giving herself too much to love. The girl must decide if she will marry King Solomon for his money or love a shepherd boy for love. In the beginning, she swoons for Solomon and is astounded in her good fate of marrying a dreamy but on the other hand she is disconcerted when her heart keeps on thinking about the shepherd back home. Her dilemma of having ...

Slavery is a scheme whereby individuals are taken as commodities that can be sold and bought like other goods. After being purchased, the individuals are forced to carry out certain workloads to their owners. This can be done against the slaves consent, beginning from the moment they are captured, their rights taken away, and when bought. The slaves have no right to refuse, to undertake the work given to them or to ask for compensation because of the services they offer to their owners (Ramey, 12).

Slavery entails many journals that were written and kept according to different cultures. Many ...

“Control” is a song by rap artist Big Sean, which is the stage name of rapper Sean Michael Anderson. The song lyrically develops a story of us versus them in terms of black Americans living in Detroit, the city where Big Sean grew up. The song showcases a common practice in hip hop music today—other artists collaborating with each other on their music. The song features Kendrick Lamar and Jay Electronica. The song is important of new rap music from a cultural standpoint in how it portrays the new scene, belongs to the old tradition, and paints the picture of what ...

- Transformation of the Americas

European powers arrived in the Americas, conquered and claimed large territories of land which they wanted to exploit through agriculture, mining activities, as well as industrial activities, but had no work force thus which triggered forced labor. The native Indians resented forced labour and some preferred to die rather than to be slaves hence the European powers used the trans-Atlantic trade to obtain slaves from Africa. The Africans were considered physically strong thus would provide a much needed workforce in the vast plantations. The European on their part provided the needed technology and innovation to ...

My current work place is in the church. I work in the church as a musician, and the experience I go through at my work place is related to Venkatesh’s experience in one way or the other. Serving in this organization is a calling that is not applicable to all, this is because; it requires one’s total commitment and full engagement, that is why not all people are priests. Team work is essential in such an environment; since various tasks need to be accomplished, from landscaping to indoor activities such as cleaning. Employee engagement is a major element in my ...

Thesis

This paper will discuss the 4 broad areas of information that are available in the prospectus of Tune Ins Holdings Berhad. Also, the paper will cover how these four factors can help investors to choose whether to invest in the company or not.

Four Information Areas and Importance

Four important areas of information in the prospectus that can help investors to buy securities from Tune Ins Holdings Berhad:

Business Overview: The business overview section in the prospectus is useful to understand the Initial Public Offering by the company. This section offers information to the investors that help them to develop a clearer view about what ...

“Greetings old friends, this speech is written in honor of all the lovers of music from classical, RnB, jazz and other genres. I also dedicate this speech to my chosen composer who not only took time to compose a song for this occasion, but also willed to perform it himself. I have so many composers in mind and naming them would take forever.

Firstly, let me explain the purpose of my speech. I happen to be a niece of a proud uncle and well, he is a great lover of music. As a gift, I sought to seek assistance, specifically from you. I ...

The society, today, is faced with numerous challenges on the effective ways of dealing with the rise in popularity of the hip hop and rap culture, the hardest task being, to draw the line between the negative and positive effects of this culture especially amongst the youth. Abortion in the other hand is an issue that that has polarized the society with opposing sides drawing hard stands on the issue. The debate has been given a new twist in relation to addict mothers and if they should be allowed or even forced, to abort their fetuses. This discourse will explore ...

It often happens that two people with the same height and weight may look differently. The reason of this lays in the different body composition. It is one of the most important signs of physical development and health state of the human being. Body composition depends on gender, height, food and heredity. It can be assessed in terms of mass composition and atomic composition. If we review the two-component model based on mass composition, body is subdivided into fat and lean, sometimes called fat-free, components. When you here the term fat mass, it doesn’t always foresee excessive weight ...

Monteverdi is one of the famous Italian composer, singer and musician. The audience regards his compositions as revolutionary composing in the Baroque Period. He created two new styles of composing, Polyphony and Basso Continuo technique of baroque. He was a renowned composition and enjoyed a lot of fame and popularity in his life. He has written many compositions, and most of them are revolutionary compositions. He faced a lot of criticism on his compositions throughout his life but still he is one of the most popular composers of his term.

Madrigal

A madrigal is a secular music composition, a part-song of the early baroque period. ...

Analysis

Clearly, music videos function to enhance an artists’ idea, and help the listeners understand the exact message they are trying to pass. As much as the music videos help an artist in making more money through more sales, they are vital in expressing the artist’s ideas. Therefore, music videos are more than just ideas, and when bonded with the lyrics, they create a perfect picture of what an artist is singing about. Evidently, this can be seen in Avcii’s video called Wake Me Up. His musical video creates a story about two stars who seem to be lost and ...

Introduction

Miles Davis is vital figure in the 1950s music as he drew together different trends in hard bop and cool jazz. His career travelled from cool jazz and bebop into the heroin addiction since his return at the 1954 caused the shifting to hard bop. Miles emerged a hero of jazz because of the magnificent change that he brought to jazz. From 1949 to 1969, he changed the rules of jazz five timers. Just as Coltrane, Miles’ organized a continuous music growing group that their music styles and concepts were very dynamic for the better. The two artists are considered ...

A fallacy is an erroneous reasoning or thinking. In logic, an assessment of fallacies is based on arguments and conclusion made from the premise. Fallacies are commonly used by politicians and media outlets to achieve specific goals and interests. In advertisement industry, it is employed to influence consumers’ preferences and boost sales. For example, the popular Taco Bell advert premiered on CBS Television Network on February 3, 2013 contained invalid arguments. The advert titled “Viva Young” was meant to promote the products of the company and popularize its new slogan “Live Mas” which is translated as “ ...

Introduction

Technological advancement has been one of the greatest dynamic phenomena of our time. In the past, a lot could not be done just because the kind of systems that existed could not match our expectations and needs. Currently, things have changed so tremendously. Every aspect of life incorporates technology. People are able to link up today in various ways, the easiest being through social media. Since the inception of Facebook and Twitter, many people have been able to connect with each other more profoundly, thanks to technology. Life has been made easier in different dimensions. One would therefore think of ...

Billy Joel’s 1973 song “Piano Man” is one of the most popular pop songs of its era, and an endlessly catchy and fascinating song to listen to. A piano and harmonica-driven ballad about a piano lounge singer and the characters that inhabit that lounge, Joel provides wonderfully clear, tenor singing to back up sprightly instrumentation

The song begins with a piano solo that has its roots in jazz improvisation; syncopated piano playing starts out the song, uneven rhythms providing an explosion of music right at the beginning before the song settles into its harmonica-and-piano melody. A steady 3/4 tempo ...

Introduction

The ancient and classical periods in the Chinese history made a great change on the production of multi-tons of iron when no one in Europe could melt a single ounce of iron. The Chinese later understood on how to reduce the excess carbon content to a low level such that the metal became strong and very resilient instead of brittle (Ward 181). They called the final item steel.

Papermaking was the second most pleasing contribution that led to the increased spreading of civilization. Tortoise shells, bones, and bamboo slips were ‘the main article used for writing before china developed framing them to ...

Ancient music had very distinct styles, musical instruments and elements were easily distinguishable as the songs progressed. The following is an analysis of five songs in terms of the style, tempo, musical elements and form.

- Analysis of the song “Crazy Blues” by Mamie Smith and her Jazz group (Recorded August 10 1920) (cfa.arizona.edu)

Several musical instruments as were use in the song. The sound of a trombone comes first then that of a clarinet and violin follow in unison. The sounds produced by these instruments produce a very distinct tune. When the Mamie Smith sings, several elements of music can be noted these are timbre, harmony, pitch and rhythm.

The song is in classical jazz style and I could tell ...

According to psychology, ways parents talk to their kids has a big impact on their learning and ability to listen to them. Parents are the first and very essential teacher to children. It’s harder to be fashionable as one get older. However, it is easier to be educated. RIAA was established to guide parents by placing a number of distinguished resources. Music almost varies with age, not all music is appropriate to all ages.

The music industries have a mandatory responsibility to help and guide parents to conclude what is appropriate for their kids. This led to establishment of Parental Advisory ...

Miles Davis and John Coltrane are commonly considered to be two of the greatest musicians of their time. Innovators, performers and artists, they contributed significantly to both the music and culture of mid-20th century America, at a time when civil rights was a hot-button issue and popular culture itself was experiencing a crossroads. The free jazz movement started in the late 1940s, as jazz musicians began to experiment with world music influences and other genres, creating new opportunities for composition and performance. While Miles Davis helped develop the concepts of cool jazz, both he and John Coltrane were extremely influential in developing ...

This preliminary movement began in 1985 to label albums that contain lusty lyrics. People have started pushing for a constant Parental Advisory Lyrics sticker in the year 1990. They were led by Tipper Gore, the wife of vice president Al Gore, seconded by Susan Baker. A contract was later reached between the PRMC and the Recording Industry Association of America in 1989, which additional the parental advisory stickers to albums (Arlington, 23).

The Parent Music Resources Centre (PMRC) was founded as an America committee with an aim and objective to state goals to enhance parental control over the access of ...

A. Introduce the three works you will be analyzing (suggested length of 4–5 slides) by doing the following:

1. Summarize background details about the three works, including author or artist names, titles of the works, and the disciplines to which the works belong. 2. Provide a thesis statement to clarify for your audience how all three works connect to a common theme that applies directly to your chosen profession.

B. Provide an objective analysis (suggested length of 4–6 slides) by doing the following:

1. Describe the literary work-- description includes:-

• Form

• Subject matter (Explain in 2–3 sentences.) a. Summarize, in list form, how the author approaches the subject matter (reveals what the work is about) without discussing your personal opinions. 2. Describe the first nonliterary work of art - ...

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 ...

1. What is YOUR first ( earliest or youngest) memory? Please describe it in as much detail as YOU reasonably can. About 200 words or more.

My earliest memory is with my father, when I was probably three years old. I remember vividly that I was in my parent’s room, lying down on the bed with my father. He was teaching me to sing “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”. He would sing one line and I would repeat it until we finished the whole song. He repeatedly sang with me until I was able to sing it alone. After teaching me the song, he taught me the actions for it. Together, we kept on singing it for almost ten minutes. When I did not ...

According to the Guinness World Records, the Beatles is considered the best selling group of all time. It was composed of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They were one of the first bands to write and play their own music that started the Beatlemania phenomenon during the 1960s. Their song “Yesterday” is also the most recorded song in history. They are included in Time magazine’s list of the 20th Century’s 100 Most Influential People. To date, they hold the record to the most No. 1 songs in Billboard’s Hot 100.

The ...

Introduction

Peter Singer in his article “Famine, Affluence and Morality” gives a seemingly devastating critic on our ordinary way of thinking about famine, relief, charity, and morality in general. Despite his arguments, only a few people have accepted, or rather responded on the conclusions he derives. In line with these facts one might say of Singer’s arguments, as Hume claimed of Berkeley’s arguments on immaterialism, the “they admit of no answer and produce no conviction” (Hume, 1999). While my view on considerations presented by Singer shows that people should actually do more than other people do, they do ...

Animal:

Welcome to a sensational curriculum structure that offers children a dynamic lesson plan to clinch their natural intellect of interest through practical education. This lesson will focus on and explore a variety of animals and their purpose. Also, the lesson will teach the life, home, food and related topics that can be used in each animal’s daily activity. For instance, a list of the word that children may not familiar with will be posted on the classroom wall with pictures to guide the lessons. Each animal’s purpose will be explained in detail, including communication/sounds for sensory, home and body cover such ...

The song, ‘Scream’, which Michael Jackson performed, featuring his sister, Janet, plays on the idea of someone being so bored or frustrated that they want to scream. The video carries this idea on by showing the two in a futuristic setting which draws on dystopian traditions to explain the pair’s boredom. The song itself mirrors the visual presentation of the accompanying video through its use of electronically-altered screams and shouting. The song and its video reflect Michael Jackson’s persona through its relation to teenage and childish boredom where children are literally so bored that they scream and ...

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 ...

1) Discuss some of the mythic and ritual elements, and the logical, rhetorical, and ethical aspects of Oedipus the King. Think about how Oedipus proposes to purge the city of the murder-pollution, the key arguments between Oedipus, Tiresius, and Creon, and the arguments Oedipus made to himself and acted upon to defeat the prophecy, the rhetorical device of irony that permeates the play, and the ethics of everyone's actions, the family members and others involved in the tragedy.

According to the traditional interpretations of classical drama, Oedipus the King was brought down by the gods or fate because ...