Essays on The Seasons

William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 73” is one of his easiest to read and, simultaneously, one of his most interesting poems. It covers several themes but the main theme is of aging, and the passing of time. The unhappy speaker muses about his impeding old age, and how this reminds him about the importance of love. Shakespeare uses many literary and stylistic devices to convey and enhance this theme. As the title suggests, the poem is in Shakespearian sonnet form, with fourteen lines and a rhyming scheme. The speaker and setting are inextricably linked and are central to the poem. ...

Water Resources

The Moscow city's location gives it access to Palouse River in Idaho as well as Paradise Creek whose upstream basins are the main water resources in the area. The Palouse River is from formation of the lava basins on both sides of the Moscow mountain that describes its high gradient at its youthful stage and thus flowing fast as it loses its height down the mountain. Just like most of the streams in active tectonic areas, the Palouse River has a straight channel considering the existence of alluvial fans as well. Regarding the fact that this stream has its ...

Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony #5 Mvmt I, 1804–1808

Ludwig van Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, first movement is one of the most well-known pieces of classical music. Of his time. He overcame many obstacles and his music was the beginning of the romantic are of the classical genre. It is also one of the most frequently played by orchestras across the globe. The symphony was played in Vienna at der Wien for a very cold audience in 1804, The famous first movement is called Allegro con brio, and has been noted for being a victorious piece in times of war. The piece, along with many other classical works ...

It needs to be reckoned that the television series, Prison Break, is surely one of the most famous programs ever aired in the history of television shows. Indeed, the immense popularity and critical acclaim of this show makes it a universal hit with its fan base transcending geographical boundaries and differences of cultures. A close scrutiny of the television show would provide an in-depth knowledge of the intricacies of portrayal and the thematic content of the program that have highly contributed to the show’s catapulting popularity and critical acclaim. There have been as many as four seasons of ...

Personal Statement – Reflections in the Garden

The butterfly garden has an ethereal quality about it. I have found a warm and quiet spot to sit. As I observe the little garden around me, I study its features to determine what gives it this special mood. Spring is arriving and I am grateful for the warmth of the sun on my back, through my jacket to my skin. It reminds me that warm weather and longer days are coming. Anticipation of better weather ahead lifts my mood. Perhaps even the butterflies and insects that fly around here are also excited for warm days ahead – they seem ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is common knowledge that every well-educated person should know, understand and appreciate music. However, no matter how well aware of various composers and genres people might be, many of us find it difficult to feel it. There are numerous examples of musicians who can technically perform a piece, but when you listen to them playing, you realize that you might as well listen to a robot. Only the emotion behind the melody gives music a truly human feel and makes it a universal human language that will be understood all over the world. Thus, it is extremely important ...

Culture:Roman

Medium:Marble Dimensions:Overall: 34 x 85 x 36 1/4 in. (86.4 x 215.9 x 92.1 cm)

Classification:Stone-Architectural-Inscribed

Credit Line:Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1955 Accession Number:55.11.5 The magnificent, highly detailed and splendid in design Late Roman marble sarcophagus displayed in Metropolitan Museum of Art immediately draws viewers attention. The exhibit is extremely well preserved for the work dated A.D. 260–270, it is clear even for non-professional eye. The museum records state that ‘it has been preserved almost intact and only a few of the minor extremities are now missing’. The literature available in the museum collection also states that ‘originally it ...

List of Figures

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Introduction

Seasons are caused by tilting of the earth around its navigational plane known as the orbit around the sun. Climate change involves the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere. When the earth is in the Southern and Northern hemisphere means that the season is at summer. Changes in the tilt of the earth lead to changes in the severity of the seasons, for example when there is more tilt leads to more severe seasons including warmer summers and colder winter and when the tilt ...

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 ...

Chapter 1 Lesson 1 Checking Your Understanding page 5

- There are a variety of different ways that art can be around the world. Art can be in a book that is being read, the furniture that is being sit on, and in the video games that people play on a regular basis. Basically, art can be anything that a person sees, has seen, or might imagine like advertisements on TV, Internet, toys, fashion, cars, paintings, and movies. - Perceive means to become aware through the senses of the special nature of objects. When a person uses their sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste to perceive an object, a person will better understand ...

Many haiku poems are often set on a theme but then the poet choses to capture a specific moment of the theme. That is always done in three lines that have a total of seventeen syllables. The first and last line both must contain five syllables and the second line often has seven syllables. The themes of haiku poems vary but the most common one is nature or seasons. Two examples of such poems will be the point of focus in this essay. The first one is a poem from Natsume Soseki and it is called Over the Wintry. The second one is ...

Ancient tribal religions around the world seem to have some commonalities and similarities. Ancient tribal religions predate institutionalized Judeo-Christian monotheistic religions and they are often observed by people in small communities who live basic lifestyles. However, in modern times, some people still adhere to these religions in different parts of the world. The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze two of these ancient tribal religions, the Shawnee Religion of Native Americans and Traditional African Religions of the Maasai of East Africa in order to deduce their differences and similarities.

Background of the People

The Shawnee are a Native American people who originally ...

The Mayan apocalyptic predictions of 2012 have long since passed, and civilization has essentially moved on from its portents of doom and gloom. However, with Gregg Braden’s Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age, elements of self-help spiritualism and pseudo-math are combined to create a work of New Age spiritualism that, while certainly illuminating to the converted, will not successfully convince those looking for philosophies to the universe that require greater rigor. Looking at the book through an air of skepticism, Fractal Time fails to convince, poorly using its own research and loosely connecting information together ...

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 is a text that describes different seasons in the life of a person. Seasons in this context can be used to mean the fitting time of something happening or doing something. It allocates time for twenty eight different things. These things have been listed in fourteen pairs of opposites. This shows the complexity and hurdles of human life. It brings out the effects of the forces that always come into play in every individual’s life. It also speaks to the conscience of the reader that at any given point will expect to have all things going in a particular ...

Among William Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets is Sonnet 18 because it is the greatest love poems of all times. Sonnet 18 presents a variety of poetic devices considering the distinctive structure Among William Shakespeare’s, most famous sonnets are Sonnet 18 because it is the greatest love poems of all times. Sonnet 18 presents a variety of poetic devices considering the distinctive structure that Shakespeare uses effectively. In as much as readers may want to look for a complicated structure, it is more straightforward, because its language is brief, concise and unto the point. Shakespeare starts by praising his friend and ...

The year is divided into phases depending upon the weather conditions. There are three seasons in some regions and four in others. Seasons are cyclical and correspond with specific months in the year in every region. The transition from one season to another is not abrupt; one season gradually changes to another and there is some overlapping. The cycle of seasons is natural and smooth. It is the result of the earth’s distance from the sun and the tilt of the axis at twenty three and a half degrees. Two seasons are in sharp contrast to each other in ...

For a long time, people believed that the earth was the center of the universe. This was until Nicolaus Copernicus radically transformed the traditional astronomical model of the universe. Born on 19 February 1473, Nicolaus was a polish astronomer who changed the perception in the nature of the universe. He came up with a working hypothesis that demonstrated that the sun was the center of the universe. The scientific and religious community treated the hypothesis of Nicolaus Copernicus with rejection because it disputed other hypotheses considered valid. These included the Aristotle and Ptolemy’s geocentric astronomical models that placed the earth in ...

Introduction

Every year witnesses a recurring flu season which is always synonymous with influenza outbreaks. In most cases, such a season occurs in each hemisphere’s cold half. Important to note is the fact that influenza activity can easily be predicted and geographically tracked. Although the outbreak of flu activity varies by location in each season, minor epidemics tend to take around three weeks before peaking. They then take a further three weeks to diminish significantly. In this paper, I seek to give an outline on how I will actualize my plan to teach the community on this aspect. In so doing, I ...

A Comparative look at the theme of nature in the poems “The Oak” Alfred Lord Tennyson and “The Road Not Taken” Robert Frost Both Alfred Lord Tennyson’s The Oak and Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken deals with the theme of nature. Both poets incorporate each word in a specific manner that adds literal and figurative meanings to the overall essence of the poems. Robert Frost and Alfred Lord Tennyson use symbolism, figurative language, and rhyme to convey their views of the road that Frost cannot choose and the oak tree that develops from a human perspective. Tennyson ...

One of the art works exhibited in the Legion of Honor museum, a subsidiary of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco (FAMSF), is Vincent van Gogh’s Flower Beds in Holland (1883). The FAMSF commissioned van Gogh’s work from the Intimate Impressionism collection of the National Gallery of Art. Art works in the museum will be exhibited from May 11 to August 3 this year. Van Gogh’s Flower Beds in Holland is considered a Post-Impressionist painting because it represents the artist’s subjective views or perspective of the world, particularly of nature. Since Post-Impressionist views are subjective, artists ...

One of the art works exhibited in the Legion of Honor museum, a subsidiary of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco (FAMSF), is Vincent van Gogh’s Flower Beds in Holland (1883). The FAMSF commissioned van Gogh’s work from the Intimate Impressionism collection of the National Gallery of Art. Art works in the museum will be exhibited from May 11 to August 3 this year. Van Gogh’s Flower Beds in Holland is considered a post-impressionist painting because it represents the artist’s subjective views or perspective of the world, particularly of nature. Since post-impressionist views are subjective, artists ...

Introduction

This led to humananity all over the world making up tales about those phenomenon, which resulted in the invention of gods and supernatural beings to provide the needed explanation. All the creation myths all over the world are similar in certain ways to one another, and that is exploration of human efforts of explaining the origins of the Earth, the Sun, the Moon and the stars, the animal life on their home planet. The best known sources for Greek-Roman mythology include Homer, Hesiod, later Roman poets such as Ovid, and Greek tragic poets, which give us an approximate ...

1)At what location on earth do the stars rise in the west and set in the east? (1 mark) Explain how

Stars appear to rise in the west and set in the east on earth if someone is positioned above the Northern celestial pole. There are two factors that cause stars to rise and set in the said manner. First, it is the northern celestial pole and second is the rising and setting of the sun. The northern celestial pole is 25 degrees away from the zenith which is to its north. So if one were in ...

Internship Journal #1

As an intern, the lead teacher of the class serves as my supervisor and mentor as I perform my duties as the teacher aide. Part of my daily task as an intern is to prepare the journals for the writing activity of the pre-K students and conduct an activity with small groups, with four to five students per group. I also monitor the listening center in the classroom and the listening activities of the students. I also facilitate the plan-do-review activity for the students’ center time. Part of my routine as a teacher aide is to stay with the ...

This documentary consists of three episodes in which Professor Diamond from UCLA is trying to find answers to some of the most interesting questions of today’s civilization, its causes and roots. The suggested answer is a simple one and as we go through the documentary we realize its truthiness. He gives obvious answers, but simple at the same time. I strongly recommend everyone to watch this movie so that he/she could go into an epic and historic journey and acquire better understanding of the past and series of events that lead to where we are today. The name ...

How Climate Has Shaped Australia

Australia’s annual rainfall is very variable, partly due to the effects of a weather phenomenon called the Southern Oscillation, including “El Niño”, which causes major variations in ocean temperatures. In “normal” years, i.e. when El Niño is not a factor, the surface temperature of the western Pacific Ocean to the north/northeast of Australia is up to 10 degrees warmer than the eastern Pacific. For Australia, this has the effect of causing major droughts in some years and extended wet periods and sometimes tropical cyclones in others. This long term variability in the climate has contributed to the unique ...