...In the 2004 song “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” by Green Day, the speaker comments on his lonely and solitary life in order to reveal his self reliance, individualism, and connection to nature. He doesn't need anyone as his “shadow’s the only one” that walks with him as opposed to another human. The speaker doesn't work for anyone else, as he is isolated from the rest of society, exemplifying both his self-reliance and individualism. Because of that isolation, he can rely on himself and better himself rather than worry about others. The speaker extends his nonconformity by mentioning how “it’s only me and I walk alone” on his path. He’s perfectly fine with straying from the normal path that society agrees on and distances himself from the rest...
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...more contrapuntal. Instrumental versions by Dowland include Lachrimae for lute, Galliard to Lachrimae for lute and Lachrimae antiquae (1604) for consort. Dowland also published Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares (London, 1604), a collection of consort music which included a cycle of seven Lachrimae pavans based on the falling tear motif. Thomas Morley set the "Lachrimae Pauin" for the six instruments of a "broken consort" in his First Booke of Consort Lessons (London, 1599). Other composers have written pieces based on the work, including Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and Thomas Tomkins, while John Danyel's Eyes, look no more pays clear homage to the piece, as does John Bennet's Weep, O Mine Eyes. In the 20th century, American composer and conductor Victoria Bond wrote "Old New Borrowed Blues (Variations on Flow my Tears)". Benjamin Britten quotes the incipit of Flow My Tears in his Lachrymae for Viola, a set of variations on Dowland's ayre If My Complaints Could Passions Move. In 2006, the British electronic music group Banco de Gaia produced a vocoded version called "Flow my Dreams, the Android Wept". Lachrimae became one of the favorite improvisational themes of the 16th and 17th century. As they have not been preserved in...
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...Gabriela Cankova 12/3 03/11/2010 The Paralysis Caused by Wealth through Milkman and Guitar’s Characters (Essay) The book “Song of Solomon” represents a coming of age, a change, a metamorphosis in a young man. Throughout their lives Milkman and Guitar experience different childhoods, have different friends and live their lives dissimilarly due to their financial situations. When an opportunity for wealth comes up both of them start dreaming of different things, belongings and experiences. This desire for money paralyses them in that they can’t do anything to achieve their dreams. So even though Milkman and Guitar’s financial situation in their childhood is different, their longing to be rich and have money is equally strong, leaving them paralyzed. However, Milkman is able to escape the stillness in his life and does more than just “yearn”, he works towards achieving his dreams. Growing up Milkman and Guitar develop a different view on money because of their families wealth. In his childhood, Milkman had everything he wanted and grew up being the center of attention. As his family is driving down Not Doctor Street the reaction of the neighbors is described as, “In 1936 there were very few among them who lived as well as Macon Dead. Others watched the family gliding by with a tiny bit of jealousy and a whole lot of amusement…” (Morrison 32). The author is showing a picture in which Milkman and his family are better than everyone else, especially better than most...
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...paradoxical sleep. This is broken down into five stages. The first stage is the beginning of the sleep cycle. It is considered to be a light stage of sleep. It is a transition period between wakefulness and sleep. Stage one lasts only a brief time (around 5-10 minutes). The second stage is when the brain begins to produce bursts of rapid, rhythmic brain wave activity known as sleep spindles. This only lasts for about 20 minutes and your body tempiture begins to decrease and the heart rate begins to slow down. The third stage is a transition between light and deep sleep. Your brain develops slow deep brain waves known as delta waves. The fourth stage is a very deep sleep that lasts for about 30 minutes, this is where delta sleep occurs and bed wetting as well as sleep walking is most likely to occur. Stage five is where most of our dreaming occurs. This is where we have our REM sleep. Respiration increases and so does brain activity. REM sleep is also referred to as paradoxical sleep because while the brain and other body systems become more active, muscles become more relaxed. Dreaming occurs due because of increased brain activity, but voluntary muscles become paralyzed. Our text lists two common theories about dreams, Freud and Hobson. Our text explains “Freud believed that dreams are triggered by unacceptable repressed wishes, often of a sexual nature. He argued that because dreams represent unacceptable wishes, the dreams we experience (our manifest dreams) are merely disguised...
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...(La caverne Maudite, 1898), the first split screen with performers acting opposite themselves (Un Homme de tete, 1898), and the first dissolve (Cendrillon, 1899). Méliès tackled a wide range of subjects as well as the fantasy films usually associated with him, including advertising films and serious dramas. He was also one of the first filmmakers to present nudity on screen with “Apres le Bal”. (EarlyCinema.com) D. W. Griffith D.W. Griffith, in full David Wark Griffith (born January 22, 1875, Floydsfork, Kentucky, U.S.—died July 23, 1948, Hollywood, California), pioneer American motion-picture director, credited with developing many of the basic techniques of filmmaking, in such films as The Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916), Broken Blossoms (1919), Way Down East (1920), Orphans of the Storm (1921), and The Struggle (1931). (Global.britannica.com) The thing that really separated Griffith from other short filmmakers during his time at Biograph was his ability to recognize short film was not the same as a feature, therefore they should not be made in the same way. A short film has a slightly different narrative structure than a feature. Everything has to be set up rather quickly, but Griffith always made sure not to rush the narrative of the stories he was trying to portray. Instead, Griffith would telescope the action to fit within one reel so that he would shorten the story with a title card or narrative device. It was even reported that Griffith would often insist...
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...The Rental Heart – Kirsten Logan Without a heart your body is useless. When your heart stops beating, you live until your brain dies from lack of oxygen, but in this short story the narrator lives perfectly fine while changing hearts. This short story is basically about restarting peoples’ ability to love, but also of how real love can overcome technology in place to fake it. This subject is exactly what the main character is dealing with in the short story “The Rental Heart”. That leads me to the setting of the story. The shorty, “The Rental Heart” is written by Kirsten Logan in 2010. We do not know where and when the short story takes place. Neither do we know if the main character is a he or she. In my interpretation of the short story, I have interpreted the main character as being a she. The main character is portrayed by a third person limited narrator, because we hear the story from the main characters point of view. Seen from the main characters point of view we get a description of the surroundings and feelings the main person is dealing with. The short story has two big flashbacks. Grace is first presented as the girl the main character falls in love with, with no risk of being hurt. On the way to the rental place the narrator looks back and remembers all the times it has been done before and in the end we see the narrator in Grace’s arms again. In the beginning of the short story, we get introduced to the “heart rental place”. This is a place where u can rent a heart...
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...the price. She gave up her dignity, purity and virtue … her everything, all because of him. They could have had a future together, they would fulfil their dreams and wishes; complete the impossible mission. They would be the saviours; they would find the forgotten land. However … he betrayed her, he gave her up. He could not continue, even though they were the chosen ones… they were the lucky ones. She tried to fall asleep, though in vain. She knew that the memories would return in her dreams. Her thoughts wandered once again back to that dreadful day. Apprehension filled her aching bones, anxiety was driving her mad, she could barely breathe, when she found out that they had captured him. She was going to faint, but she was strong and could not show her weakness in front of her father. Her face flushed ten shades of scarlet, when he first confronted her with it. Her father, Christian Grey, was the leader of the people, and he would protect her no matter what, even if he found out that she was a part of the so-called scheme. She touched her hair, which was glowing like fire in the sun, Juliette would always do that when she was nervous, because she never touched her hair… they would never let her. The counsel were discussing how he was going to be executed, she knew that, they always did. Whenever someone had broken The Laws of the Island, Nembata, they would make...
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...but it wasn’t their priorities. But then on his Birthday, his father woke him up and gave him a pair of shoes. He was full of clear happiness, it was a smile from ear to ear and he recalls “ it was not the best shoes of the world but it was more than the best for me.” It didn’t end there, most that surprised him was an admission ticket for a football clinic. His lethargy broke as if he was ignited by some electrical current running on his nerves. On afternoon after school, he hastily ran to the field and tied up his new rubber shoes. He rose and inhaled seeing the whole field. It was still four and their clinic starts at five. Dedicated is he? For several months, his passion was still consistent and growing and burning; fueled by the dream he has hold on. After his clinic, He was about to cross the 7th street when he saw a classmate few meters from him, a yellow light and a buzzer arose he run towards his classmate, he then grabbed him and tied his classmate to himself. He saved him. The driver...
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...Hey you, what’s your dream? Hey you, what’s your dream? Hey you, what’s your dream? Is that all your dream is? I wanna big house, big cars & big rings But actually, I don’t have any big dreams Haha, I live quite comfortably Even if I don’t dream, no one says anything Everyone is thinking the same way as me I completely forgot about my childhood when I had a lot of dreams Don’t worry about college, I’ll at least go to a school that’s far away Ok mom, I’m going to the library right now What is the you that you’ve dreamed of? Who do you see in the mirror? I gotta say Go on your path, even if you live for a day Do something, put away your weakness Why aren’t you saying anything? You don’t wanna study but you’re scared to quit school? See, you’re already getting ready for school Please grow up, you’re all talk dude, you have a glass mentality boy (Stop) Ask yourself if you’ve ever worked hard for anything Hey you, what’s your dream? Hey you, what’s your dream? Hey you, what’s your dream? Is that all your dream is? That’s a lie, you such a liar See me, see me, ya you’re a hypocrite Why are you telling to go a different path? Take care of yourself Please don’t force me (Lalalalala) What’s your dream, what’s your dream? (Lalalalala) Is that it? Is that it? Sick of the same day, the repeating days Grown-ups and my parents keep instilling confined dreams to me Number one future career is a government worker? It’s not a forced dream, a ninth inning relief...
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...stranger that comes to town. Though women have longed to explore the world, they have always been denied participation in public life. “Women and Journeys” by Mary Morris discusses this problem. Mary Morris describes the differences in acceptability and possibility of travelling for the different genders. Historically it has always been the men who went out explore the world, while women stayed at home. This division continued up through time. Women were limited in order to keep them at home. In the western world women were to wear corsets. Significantly the bindings in the corsets were called “stays”. The corsets kept women from going far and from going fast, since corsets are very tightly bound together. In the eastern world women’s feet were broken repeatedly, in order to bend the toes under the bottom of the feet. This made it completely impossible for women to walk, since it was extremely hurtful. Eventually the women’s feet were caught with gangrene, which caused death. So not only were women psychologically restricted from going anywhere, there were literally restricted physically as well As a cause of the conditions women only got to experience the part where a stranger comes to town. As the feminist Elaine Showalter said it: ”Emotions rushed in to fill the vacuum of experience.” Women filled the empty space they had with their emotions, which made women’s literature overly romantic, because women showed their emotions through literature. On the opposite site men’s literature...
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...Running head: Dreams and Meditation Dreams and Meditation Student Name Allied American University Author Note This paper was prepared for Introduction to Psychology, Module 3 taught by [INSERT INSTRUCTOR’S NAME]. Part 1. In the dream, I am asleep in my room, when all of a sudden a nuclear bomb explodes. The ground starts to shake and debris begins to crash through the windows. Just as I am about to be obliterated, a vortex opens up and a group of scientists and soldiers grab me and pull me into the vortex, thereby saving me from destruction. I am now 50 years in the future. In my mind’s eye I see a group of scientists talking, while I am being hooked up to a strange chamber full of wires and a glass door. The scientists are discussing how they are going to remove a code from my brain. When they finally lock the chamber, with me inside, I start to get a strong sensation of pleasure as I feel myself hovering and swirling through a colorful array of shapes and structures. I also begin to feel like a weight has been lifted off of me and I can now think much clearer. The scientists explain to me that my migraines and head pain have been due to an overload of information due to the code implanted in my head. The scientists show me what has happened after the nuclear bomb hit. Cities with buildings in rumble and barely standing in place. Metal scraps everywhere. Broken and melted concrete jetting out from the foundations...
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...Barriers Influencing American Dreams Do obstacles in one’s life change one’s aspirations? If something hard or even Winston Patterson 5/17/10 9:49 PM Comment: TITLE SHOULD REFLECT OVERALL THEME OF ESSAYß Winston Patterson 5/17/10 9:35 PM Comment: Attention Getter unexpected occurs, does one turn his or her back on all that has been worked for? In an American society, there is an idea of a dream. Most people have dreams that differ from one another. Dreams are not limited only to society. Countless numbers of times in American literature, there are moments when an obstacle slows or possibly halts progression. Dreams can also be found in American literature; however, like the reality of society, barriers can be a component of having aspirations. Barriers create obstacles, whether emotional or physical, that make achieving a dream difficult or even appear to be impossible. In American literature dreams seem to be unattainable because of barriers. In all the years of literature, dreams, goals, and aspirations come in contact Winston Patterson 5/17/10 9:35 PM Comment: Broad Topic Winston Patterson 5/17/10 9:35 PM Comment: Narrow Topic Winston Patterson 5/17/10 9:36 PM Comment: Thesis Statement Winston Patterson 5/17/10 9:36 PM Comment: Clincher Sentence with a conflict. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby has a dream to be with Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby has a passion for his dream so fierce that he pursues ...
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...a person who is dating a lot of people and gets heartbroken every time they part ways so the main character goes to the heart rental place and rents a new heart to mend their broken heart. Throughout the story we hear about seven different partners, both men and women. The main character is currently dating Grace but looks back to past relationships. We are not told if the main character is male or female, so my interpretation is they could be gender neutral or a woman just like the author, it might be written from personal experience. She dates a lot of people, so she’s desperate for other people’s affection, but she can’t deal with the pain that comes with it, so every time she breaks up with someone she rents a new heart. She’s bisexual because she has partners that are both male and female. We don’t get any information about the setting, but it’s in the future because you can open your chest and switch out your heart for a new one. It’s a first-person narrative so we only see it from the main character's point of view. The rental hearts are a symbol of broken machinery that needs to be replaced, so the broken heart is equivalent to being heartbroken in real life. And opening your chest can be a symbol of opening your heart to other people. The whole story is a symbol of having your heart broken, wishing to replace your heart and to forget bad memories. Her first love was Jacob, and she was very in love with him. ‘Jacob was as solid and golden as a tilled field, and...
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...feelings. To ask, “What is love?” would be the same as asking, “What is running?” or “What is swimming?” If you ever seen someone run or swim, you know exactly what running and swimming entail. The story “The Rental Heart” deal with love and the feeling you get when love fails you. When you are in love everything seems much better but when you break up everything turns dark and empty. It is for most people a fact, that you during your lifetime are going to get your heart broken. The heartbroken feeling of an endless pain that never goes away. Have you ever thought about, ripping out your broken heart, and change it with a new functional heart that will spare you from the heartbroken pain. No? Maybe it is because it is not a possibility in our world, but in “The Rental Heart” the reality is a bit different. The short story is a science fiction story written by the author Kirsty Logan in 2010. The story is told by a first person narrator who also is the protagonist of the story. Try to imagine a life where broken hearts is not an option. That is how the society works in “The Rental Heart”. It is a world where instead of feeling the awful pain of heartbreaks, you can just change your heart at the local heart rental place. Kirsty Logan uses the saying heartbroken literally in this short story. When we use the saying, we use it as a symbol of being sad and depressed over someone we love, which sometimes might feel like our heart has been shattered, even though that is not case. The...
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...to be very relaxed, with little to no movement of the muscles. However, it is possible to observe occasional slight movements, called twitches, while one is in the REM stage of sleep. Despite the observable calmness of the body during this stage of sleep, heart and breathing rates increase during REM sleep. Moreover, dreams are likely to occur during REM sleep in the normal brain. This stage of sleep is also known as the paradoxical sleep because something known as sleep paralysis can occur during this stage; sleep paralysis occurs when you essentially wake up, but sill experience the inability to move your body. One is more likely to be in a deep sleep when in the non-REM3 stage of sleep, which is when REM sleep can actually take place. As a result, one has the ability to sleep through certain commotions in his or her surrounding environment. The difference in the patterns present in REM sleep and in a deep sleep in the normal brain between young and old people is that older people are more easily awoken during sleep, which impacts how much time is spent in REM sleep and deep sleep. 1b. Dreams experienced during REM sleep, specifically rather frightening dreams, cause the arousal of the genitals such as with an erection of the male genitalia or more vaginal lubrication in females. In older individuals, genital arousal usually persists for only a quarter of the total night’s sleep, whereas younger men experience genital arousal for about half of their night’s sleep. 1c. There...
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