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As an individual, we have idolized common personalities categorized as Philippine idol, Korean idol, etc. Nowadays, the popularity of k-pop genre is the most common searches in the internet, together with the Korean products like k-dramas and k-idols. K-pop springs from new found economic surplus, and thus the ability to develop entertainment and cultural products. … Read more
Rape is a major problem when it comes to the modern world. Around 321,500 cases of sexual assault happen every year in the United States for women aged 12 or older. (RAINN) Just recently a lady spoke about being sexually assaulted but not knowing the whole story. The lady named Shiori Ito was drinking one … Read more
Prose Analysis: Sonata No. 12 Op. 26 Mvt. III by Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven has been widely considered one of the most renowned and prominent composers in the world since his time. This fame was not obtained by the light-hearted nature of his music; rather it is his intensity and cleverness that to this day … Read more
Have you ever spent three hours studying but still can’t remember anything? You panic because tomorrow is the day of your examination. Have you ever stared at your clock at 3 a.m. but still can’t fall asleep? Your eyes look like a panda’s the next day and people stare at you. Or have you ever … Read more
When it came to modernist poetry, imagery was important to flesh out the lavish artistic style said poets loved to express, which in turn allowed them to declare themes and concepts clearer. T.S. Eliot, consider among the great poetic modernists, masterfully utilizes imagery through his poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” to illustrate … Read more
What is Motown and what is Soul music? What makes them similar and what makes them different? Motown started in Detroit, Michigan the name is also defined as motor town. Motown played is an important role in the racial integration of popular music as an African American-owned record label that achieved significant crossover success. In … Read more
In the early 1900s, the time period in which the novel Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow takes place, expectations were that women should be submissive, obedient, and dependent upon their husbands. Women were considered weak, fragile, and in need of protection from men. In Ragtime, anarchist Emma Goldman challenges the perceived role of women in their … Read more
After watching “I Lived” I felt as if I could do more to live my life to the fullest. The boy in the video is unfortunately affected by Cystic Fibrosis, yet he lives as if he does not have it. He does not let it get in the way of leading as close to a … Read more
Hiding the Truth Many people like to live in an illusionary world, which they know is not true. One example is when a lazy, obese man looks in the mirror and he sees a different, well-built man. This illusion is apparent to him, but uses it as a cover up of reality. This pertains to … Read more
In my paper, I will be critiquing the influence reggae music has had on British society. I will be focusing on the impact that immigrants who arrived from Jamaica during the 1960 and 1970 had on the integration process of black and white communities in Britain. I will predominantly critique the effect that the rise … Read more
Fire in the Blood, a documentary by Dylan Mohan Gray, investigates on the injustice of AIDS treatment in Africa, millions of who die every year just because they cannot afford the antiretroviral drug that could have saved their lives. The documentary portrays how western pharmaceutical companies along with the US and European governments keep low-cost … Read more
The Wanderer is a staple of Anglo-Saxon storytelling and has been recited over countless centuries to new audiences. The poem follows the story of a former warrior who is currently living a life of solitude. After the loss of his lord and kinsmen, the warrior (the titular “wanderer”) sets out to sea in an attempt … Read more
Throughout time music has been used to heal and provoke emotion in the listeners. The melody of a song can bring one to tears, laughter, or even give them chills. People connect and come together through lyrics and their meanings. During severe times music gives groups hope, motivation for change, and a place to speak … Read more
King of Pop Michael Joe Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana, on August 29, 1958. Michael was the fifth of Joe and Katherine Jackson’s nine children. The Jackson house was always filled with music. Katherine taught the children folk and religious songs. Joe Jackson worked at a steel plant, had always dreamed of becoming a … Read more
Recently K-pop – Korean pop – has been dominating western music charts. It’s only natural that people have started comparing K-pop with western pop. Though these two genres fall under the pop category, they are completely different. I will be discussing the similarities and differences between the K-pop and western pop’s culture, selection process, and … Read more
Justinian of Byzantine era According to Lawler (7), the Byzantine Empire was one the periods after the fall of the Roman Empire. During this time many emperors tried to restore the previous glory. Thus, the end saw the success and the failure of many dynasties, Justinian being one of them. Justinian was one of the … Read more
In accordance with the increasing influence of Modernist thought affecting American literature during the twentieth century, William Faulkner was willing to exercise more experimental narrative techniques and styles. His novel that came from this experimentation, As I Lay Dying, is a testament to his critique of mankind as hopelessly poor, yet unyielding, communicators. The heavily … Read more
Man in the Mirror Many factors are used to determine a person’s value in society, but when simply defining what makes a man, three elements stand out — power, academia, and personality. Appearance aside, these three elements determine whether a man is worthy of a woman’s attention, worthy of being employed at a company, worthy … Read more
NY State of Mind Literary Analysis Even though it was released in 1994, Nasir Jones’ (better known by his stage name – Nas) Illmatic is still considered one of the best and most influential hip hop albums of all time. The opening track off his debut album, NY State of Mind, is one of the … Read more
I have chosen “Fiddler on the Roof” as a musical theatre piece to view. This particular piece that I am viewing is a film, which was adapted from the extremely successful stage production. This film is in English, but at some points it is still difficult to understand certain things that are said, especially how … Read more
The song that I have selected for analysis, is certainly one of Jackson’s most popular songs. Although Michael has been dead for quite some years now, his legacy still continues. Even today, every time I hear this song play on the radio, I get excited. Many of his songs are timeless and still as valuable … Read more
In Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Lady Russell convinces Anne not to marry Frederick Wentworth as she finds him unworthy of Anne. Similarly, in Hedda Gabler, Hedda herself conceals her knowledge of and destroys Eilert’s manuscript in order to end his and Thea’s relationship. Involving oneself in other’s affairs can satisfy one’s desire for control. However, this … Read more
Love and friendship were major themes for Society Drama during the 1890s. An established ‘stock storyline’ of the period was that of domestic life affected by a predicament, concluding in the reassertion of common ideas: fidelity, duty, forgiveness, etc. Although An Ideal Husband adopts these motifs, it also parodies them through the exaggerated conceptions of … Read more
Once upon a mattress is a “musical comedy” that started on Broadway in 1969. The music is written by Mary Rodgers, “the lyrics were written by Marshall Barer. However, the play of Hans Christen Anderson fairy tale The Princess and The Pea”. Which are the stimuli? When the play first started out there were mixed … Read more
The 2007 Tim Burton film Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a musical that tells the legend of Sweeney Todd (Johnny Depp). Todd is a barber who returns to Victorian London after being wrongfully exiled, by Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman). Turpin falls in love with Todd’s wife and after what appears as … Read more
One of the central thematic elements of As I Lay Dying is the distinction between fact and interpretation of fact. Clearly, any objective fact can result in a multitude of subjective interpretations because the characters all have individual points of view. Their perspectives of any empirical truth depends upon their prejudices and perceptions; as a … Read more
“A Streetcar Named Desire” is a story of damaged people. Blanche DuBois, a repressed and sexually warped Southern belle, seeks either atonement or reassurance; she wants someone to help lift the burden of her guilt for her twisted sexuality. Meanwhile, Stanley Kowalski, a horrifyingly abusive yet unexpectedly tender “common man,” seems to be crying out … Read more
In the 1971 film adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof, directed by Norman Jewison, the theme of traditions is prominent. The movie takes place in a small Jewish village in Russia. It follows the life of Tevye a poor milk man with five daughters. In the opening number, “Tradition”, Tevye, the main character, proclaims that, … Read more
Dolly Parton is an American singer who originally wrote the song ‘I will always love you’ in 1974 then later on she recorded another version for the 1982 movie ‘the best little whorehouse in Texas’ she originally wrote this song after a breakup. Whitney Huston was… In 1992 the late Whitney Huston remade the song … Read more
One of the most potent works by the writer D.H Lawrence is The Piano, a poem that explores the role of memory in life. A similar idea is explored in The Gift by Li Young Lee. These two poems show that memory plays a complex role in the journey of life and that it often … Read more
Apocryphally labeled a novel confined to the voracious appetite of mental illness, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath truly explores the societal ills in the role of young women in the 1950s. Despite the inevitable and universal recognition of internal strife, The Bell Jar’s main character, Esther Greenwood, is also faced with peremptory, pivotal physical … Read more
Response to Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band I double-check my purse before leaving my dorm room. Yes, I have my Sgt. Pepper’s CD. I’m all set to leave for Thanksgiving break, so I begin to lug my suitcase and laundry baskets down three flights of stairs. Once I get my various items loaded into … Read more
Operational risk is a risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems or from external events. It includes legal risk, but excludes strategic and reputational risk. Operational risk management has always been a complex function for banks. Today the scope of regulatory compliance and risk management has become much broader, … Read more
“My mother is a fish” is perhaps the most famous quote from William Faulkner’s Southern Gothic novel, As I Lay Dying (Faulkner, 1957, p. 84). William Cuthbert Faulkner was born in 1897 in Oxford, Mississippi. The setting of As I Lay Dying, as well as many of his other novels, resembles the bucolic nature of … Read more
The poem “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman is written in first-person point of view. Whitman writes the poem from his viewpoint using the word “I”. Whitman, as the narrator, hears and observes the hard-working individuals of America as they live their lives, carrying out their everyday responsibilities. We see through the eyes of … Read more
When reading or writing a story, you may wonder why the authors use symbolism. Well, symbols can show complex ideas with few words. Each symbol can have many different meanings; it depends on the person’s point of view. A novel or short story with good symbolism can be read and understood in two ways. The … Read more
After the Panorama festival entered the New York City music festival scene, Founders Entertainment, the independent promoters that produce the Governors Ball entered into negotiations with Live Nation for the large concert promotion company to purchase a majority stake in Founders Entertainment (Nelson, 2016). According to Billboard magazine online, “A festival arms race of sort … Read more
Street Fight “Street Fight” is a documentary film which revolves around the mayoral elections of Newark, New Jersey in 2002. The movie has been directed by Marshall Curry, who appears to be biased in favor of Cory Booker, then 32-year old. The Street Fight is not about knives, guns or physical combat, but rather a … Read more
Bob Marley’s Redemption Song song shows that the achievements of human beings usually have definite limits. To this end, the unnamed speaker observes that, although human beings have the capacity to generate atomic energy, these human beings cannot stop the time. In addition, after being sold by some pirates, the unnamed speaker becomes stronger, thanks … Read more
“Into the Woods” is a beautiful musical written by James Lapin with music by Stephen Sondheim that has a funny and unpredictable twist on childhood fairytales. The show made me laugh, cry, and feel as if I were in the woods with the characters. Through the heartfelt ballads such as “No One is Alone”, funny … Read more
After postponing the tour, after guitarist Eddie Van Halen underwent emergency surgery to treat a digestive disorder, Van Halen opened their first tour in Japan in 15 years at the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium in Nagoya. Van Halen is an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972. From 1974 until 1985 the band … Read more
Throughout the documentary Babies, the audience is given an insight on four different cultures: Africa, Mongolia, Japan, and the United States. The film focuses on the development and cultural traditions of bearing and raising and infant. According to Piaget, this entire film is documenting the child’s sensorimotor stage of life. The sensorimotor stage is from … Read more
“Some people build fences to keep people out, and other people build fences to keep people in,” offers the sage Bono one afternoon during his usual bonhomie with fellow refuse collector Troy Maxson. The seemingly minor line encompasses the entire leitmotif of August Wilson’s play, Fences. It is a play that takes place in a … Read more
For this assignment, I will be comparing Schubert’s “Gretchen am Spinnrade” and Adele’s “Someone Like You”. Schubert’s first successful lied was “Gretchen am Spinnrade”, which was written when he was just sixteen in 1814. The text was written by the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Adele’s “Someone Like You” become a huge hit in 2011. … Read more
Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy and the Old English poem “The Wanderer” are both testament to the enduring quality of literature. Writing in the sixth century A.D., Boethius discusses such varied topics as happiness, the existence of evil, and the path to God while locked in a cell with the goddess Philosophy. In contrast, “The … Read more
Boys of Zummer concert From the moment I went to my first concert I was in love with being near someone I had looked up to for many years standing directly in front of me and being surrounded with individuals whom I related to on an emotional level. The excitement, anticipation, and hype of getting … Read more
From “The Death of Emmett Till” to “Boots of Spanish Leather”, Suze Rotolo had immense amounts of inspiration in Bob Dylan’s songwriting as well as his pathway to folk music fame. Dylan also had a reciprocating influence on Rotolo, who ultimately would part ways with Dylan at the young age of 19 due to the … Read more
“Lord, to thee each night and day” was written in the Baroque era by George Frideric Handel as part of his work, Theodora. The Baroque era is classified as the years 1600-1750; following the Renaissance and leading to the Classical period. The era is often marked by the advent of opera as its beginning, and … Read more
Did you ever think toys could play a larger role than just a form of entertainment in a child’s life? Could toys possibly be serving as a reflection of the adult world and thus predisposing children to what the adult life should encompass? In 1957, Roland Barthes, a French literary philosopher, wrote an essay called … Read more
From “the Other” towards “the Subject” —A Study of Evelyn Nesbit in Ragtime Abstract The purpose of this paper is two-fold. I will analyze Evelyn Nesbit’s personalities presented in Ragtime as a recreated character that is not lifted straight from the pages of the history books. With the concept “the Other” coined by French feminist … Read more