...Reaction Paper: ‘The Interlude’ The narrative ‘The Interlude’ by Michael Anthony of Trinidad is an interesting and very descriptive writing. It sparks its readers desire to know what follows next with the troubled characters Willis the Tiger and Little John. The more I read, the more I was intrigued to know what would happen to Willis for returning to San Fernando after having been sentenced to two years in jail for fatally injuring Cyril and leaving him cripple. I have personally never had an experience or witnessed a scenario like this but reading along I felt involved in the street and among the crowd witnessing a chaos about to unravel before my eyes. Indeed, when tragic events happen in a community and someone is convicted for a devious crime, the community will remember the criminal and brand and impression of him or her. Convicted persons are not always or usually welcome into their communities due to the stigma that has been created about them. In this narrative, the people of the town of San Fernando had definitely not forgotten ‘The Tiger’ who had them at bay when he was part of the desperado gang. He had now returned and was confronted by Little John who was raged at Willis for having fatally injured Cyril and left him cripple. Strong emotion and feelings of anger and revenge by Little John are described in page four of the narrative “Tiger!” he shouted as if ten lions were awake in him. Willis, who was once the feared tiger of the town for his vicious act of branding...
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...Richard Gutierrez Music History II Giovanni Gabrieli’s Sacrae Symphoniae Giovanni Gabrieli was the organist and composer at St Mark’s cathedral in Venice. During his endeavor at the church, he experimented with the polychoral style, which had already been a feature of the works of earlier Venetian composers, Andrea Gabrieli, his uncle, being one of the composers. The cathedral was massive in size; the architecture of the building gave way for the stereo effect that Gabrieli experimented with. this was because of the huge balconies on both sides of the church. Gabrieli wrote a large number of pieces for cori spezzati, broken choirs, each having a call and effect type between the two choirs, and joining together during the climatic part. his most famous piece was written in 1597, gathering both choirs and instrumentalist to perform what we know as the Sacrae Symphoniae (sacred symphony), this which included the famous Sonata Pian’ e Forte. Pian’e Forte was the first piece in its time to specify the dynamics the composer wanted. The 1597 Sacrae Symphoniae is Gabrieli’s best work that represents his earlier works of music as the organist of the Saint Mark’s Cathedral in Venice, his job that he held from 1585 until his death in 1612. “Gabrieli’s years at the great Byzantine basilica coincided with the most brilliant period of its instrumental ensemble”. The ensemble being from the Doge’s palace at the time that had a very well established ensemble intact with more modern instruments...
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...Student’s name Professor’s name Course name Date Mozart Introduction According to Fisher (15), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a powerful Austrian composer whose success can precisely be dated from his childhood. The composer was born in Salzburg in 1756 and died in 1791 having written over 600 pieces of work of which many remain popular to date. Mozart could play clavichord at the age of three and began writing short compositions at the age of four. When he was 5, he gave his first public performance at Salzburg University. Between 1763 and 1766, Mozart, Nannerl, his sister who was talented in music, together with their father who was a musician as well toured Europe. They visited Paris, London among several other places where Mozart gave several successful concerts, even performing before royalty. This research paper examines the crucial role Mozart played during The Enlightenment. It further highlights the contribution made by the Austrian composer in the transition to romantic from the Enlightenment. Before and during the time of Mozart, composers served the royal courts or church as highly-skilled servants. In the same manner, he began his carrier by working for Salzburg’s Archbishop. Notably, his travels to France as well as England gave him an exposure to the ideals of equality and independence as well. This exposure prompted him to sever his loyalty to the master who employed him to offer services in a very rigid manner. He left for Vienna where he...
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...as well as other areas of intellectual inquiry. The Renaissance brought about a way of thinking focused on the bettering the person and having a well rounded and educated person in all aspects of the humanities as mentioned earlier. One theory as to the reason for this shift was the devastation brought on by the "Black Death" or Plague causing people to think more about their lives on Earth, as opposed to the afterlife or their spirituality (Wikipedia 2012). One distinguishing trait of Renaissance art is development and use of realistic perspective in paintings and renderings which more closely resemble how a natural scene or surroundings appeared. One such painting that demonstrates this perspective is "The San Zaccaria Altarpiece" by Giovanni Bellini (WGA, 2012 / Struth, 1995). The arch vaults and floor show a realistic perspective of how the Madonna and Saints may have actually appeared. Each of the characters within this painting have relative proportions to themselves and each other the lighting and shadowing are realistic and uniform throughout the work. Another trait of Renaissance is the study of light, shadow, and their interaction with the human body and a desire to depict the beauty of nature such as the works of Leonardo da Vinci. Mannerism is a form of European art that began to emerge around 1520...
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...In the film “Don Giovanni” (1787) also known as the second opera in the Da Ponte Trilogy one is able to come up with a scenario. Throughout the film I was able to come up with observations. First and foremost the audience gets introduced to Don Giovanni. With this in mind he is the main character and focus in this opera. From seeing Don Giovanni he has an appearance of rich, attractive, and prince charming look too him. Throughout the play Don Giovanni’s actions gives the audience a look at how selfish, twisted and dishonest this man turns out to be. By watching the film it is evident that this is a film within a film. With that being said Leporello (Don Giovanni’s servant) is watching Don Giovanni throughout the opera. Leporello the servant appears to do whatever he is told. While Leporello watching Giovanni he notices the seducing Giovanni has performed towards Commendatore’s daughter (Donna Anna). During this opening scene Giovanni tries to take advantage and attempts to rape Donna Anna. Giovanni tricks Donna into thinking he is Don Ottavio the person whom she is engaged too by wearing a mask to hide his identity. When Donna recognizes that it might not be him she calls for help and Commendatore enters the scene. At this point both Giovanni and Commendatore fight, ending with Commendatores death. In the next scene Don Giovanni overhears a female singing. This quickly grabs Giovanni’s attention causing him to approach her and hoping to seduce her. When he gets close...
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...has divers works that impact the whole music world. Don Giovanni and the Marriage of Figaro are the symbols of Mozart’s operas. The Marriage of Figaro is a humorous story that everyone in the castle has a happy ending at the end. However, Don Giovanni, one of the greatest operas in the world, is controversial since it first appeared. Some people think they have many commons, the others think they are totally different. In order to have a better understanding of these two famous operas, analyzing theirs similarities and difference will assist me to access Mozart’s opera world. As the opera productions of Mozart, it is obviously that both Don Giovanni and the Marriage of Figaro have several similarities. First of all, the count in the Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni in Don Giovanni are aristocrats, who uses their privileged position in classes and social to achieve sexual license in both features: in Figaro, the count is disloyal with his countess to convince Susanna to accompany him to a trip before her wedding; in Don Giovanni, the main character tries to control everyone, especially women he encounters, without fear and moral. Unfortunately, both female characters in these two feature reject the males’ requests: Susanna rejects the count’s advice and helps him back to his countess tactfully; Donna Anna also tenacious resist Don Giovanni’s violence and finally unite Donna Elvira and Don Ottavio to against Don Giovanni. Moreover, both operas uses similar voice types to express...
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...“Saint Giovanni Bosco” In a modern day world where we see so many people focused on themselves and motivated by accumulating wealth, power and recognition, it was a nice change to research and write my report on Saint Giovanni Bosco, better known as John or Don Bosco. As you will see from reading this paper, Saint John Bosco was an admirable and selfless individual, who dedicated a large part of his life to helping others in need. He was an Italian, Roman Catholic priest, educator and writer, but his most important role in life was his lifelong focus on the creation of betterment and education programs for poor, disadvantaged and delinquent street children. Many of these children were considered “throw aways” by society. Saint John Bosco became the champion for these forgotten children and treated them like his own. There is no doubting that he deserved to be made a Saint. He helped save the lives of thousands of young children and offered them an opportunity to live a good and meaningful life. We definitely need more people in our modern day world to follow some of the incredible acts of selflessness and charity that we have witnessed from the life of Saint John Bosco....
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...Sister Mathilde DeLucy Doctor Gloria Thurmond MUAP 2233-BB October 10, 2014 “An Emotion of Joy” Mozart’s “Un Moto di Gioja,” taken from his great work The Marriage of Figaro, is a classical piece relatable to anyone who has felt simultaneously the feelings of nervousness, happiness, and expectation in one fell swoop. The composer, who was born on January 27th 1756, was prompted by his father to become someone great. Mozart is famously known for his genius beginnings at the early age of five. A child prodigy, Mozart, was already performing before the royals of Europe by six years of age. As he was just barely reaching the cusp of adulthood, at the age of seventeen, he was employed in Salzburg. In only a few years, the restless heart of the musician would not let him be. In 1781, perhaps trying subconsciously to fulfill the promptings and longings of his father from early childhood, he found himself searching for more advantageous employment and greater prestige. Mozart made his way to Vienna. Here, he not only obtained much of his fame, but five years after his arrival, in 1786 Mozart composed the music of Le Nozze di Figaro. The opera was not at first approved in the Vienna Theater because it was adapted from the immodest nature of a previous work of Beaumarchais entitled La Folle Journee, ou le Mariage de Figaro. Mozart, however, with the skill of his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, expressed the story line in the beauty of the Italian language and the opera was first...
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...United States. He and his family came to the country from South Korea when Cho was about eight years old. They eventually settled in Centreville, Virginia, and ran a dry-cleaning business. He was known as a shy child who liked basketball and did well in math. Cho was also bullied by other children, including wealthy members of his church. In high school, Cho was described as sullen and aloof. After graduating in 2003, he went on to study at Virginia Tech University. Located in Blacksburg, Virginia, the school has an extensive campus with more than 26,000 students residing there. Cho stood out as a near-silent loner who wrote gruesome poems, stories, and plays. He sometimes referred to himself as “Question Mark.” One professor, poet Nikki Giovanni, had him removed from her class for disturbing the other students. She told Time magazine that “there was something mean about this boy.” She said that he was “a bully” and always came to class wearing sunglasses and a hat, which she would always ask him to remove. Cho was also photographing the legs and knees of female students in the class. Other members of the English department faculty were concerned about him as well. Lucinda Roy, the co-director of the school’s creative writing program, took him out of class and tutored him individually. She also encouraged Cho to get counseling. In addition to his odd behavior and dark writings, Cho exhibited other potential warning signs. He was twice accused of stalking female students in 2005...
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...PIAGGIO (A) By: Elena Bueso #10297661 This case study case will be addressing three main topics of discussion regarding Giovanni Agnelli’s strategy for growth as Piaggio’s CEO. The topics are the following: 1. Is Piaggio’s decision about building a new “green” engine manufacturing facility to be a strategic one? Why or why not? 2. The comparison and contrast of the strategies chosen by Piaggio, Yamaha, and Aprilia for competing in the PTW market. What are the relative strengths and weaknesses of each? 3. State whether or not Giovanni Agnelli should build the new engine facility First, I do not think that manufacturing a "green" engine is a good strategy. It is a good initiative but we cannot disregard that fact that ultimately, generating profits are the main goal of any company. Yes, they are looking into the future and planning ahead how to adapt to upcoming regulations on new environmental standards, but instead they should think outside the box, and come up with different possible solutions to ensure and to make this market breakthrough a success. I think they are under looking the possibility of having "green" engine external suppliers. Even though this may contradict their manufacturing standards, there are many hidden benefits. They could do a pilot of this genius idea without putting at stake the company's well being and further more take as an example Aprilia's recipe for success. This should give them a more broad range of possibilities and help them focus...
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...Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” Opera is a form of musical art in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and music in a theatrical setting involving stories of extreme human situations or stories regarding mythology. One of the most interesting challenges in an operatic composition, is the challenge behind composing music for all the individual characters in the opera and the job the composer has of distinguishing between the different characters through their music. A perfect example of an opera that was executed in a great way amidst these challenges is Mozart's “Don Giovanni.” “Don Giovanni” is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment and romanticism. “Don Giovanni” is in opera divided into two acts about a young, arrogant womanizer named Don Giovanni. Don Giovanni is the main character of the opera who takes advantage of any opportunity he can in order to seduce a girl, any girl for that matter. When the opera begins, a masked, Don Giovanni is at the Commendatore’s house with his eye’s set a young girl named Donna Anna who is daughter of the Commendatore name Don Pedro and is betrothed to Don Ottavio. As Donna Anna is attempting to figure out who the masked figure is, she cries for help and her father comes to her aid and challenges Don...
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...French Claims 1. Giovanni da Verrazano – Italian navigator who explored part of North America’s eastern coast, including New York harbor 2. Jacques Cartier – explored the St. Lawrence River 3. The French monarchy was preoccupied with European wars as well as with internal religious conflict between Roman Catholics and Protestant Huguenots. 4. Samuel de Champlain – established first permanent French settlement in America in 1608 at Quebec, a fortified village on the St. Lawrence River. He was later regarded as the “Father of New France” because of his strong leadership in establishing the colony. 5. Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette – 1673; explored the upper Mississippi River 6. Robert de La Salle – 1682; explored the Mississippi basin, which he named Louisiana (after the French king, Louis XIV) Dutch Claims 7. Henry Hudson –1609; sailed up a broad river (later named for him as the Hudson River), an expedition that established Dutch claims to the surrounding area that would become New Amsterdam (and later New York) . Early English Settlements 8. John Cabot – helped English defeat Spanish fleet – the Spanish Armada – in 1588. 9. The English devised a practical method for financing the costly and risky enterprise of founding new colonies. This was called joint-stock companies. Jamestown 10. King James I chartered the Virginia Company, a joint-stock company that established the permanent English colony in America at Jamestown...
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...Racial and Ethnic Groups xxxxxxxxxxxx ETH/125 February 11, 2011 xxxxxxxxxxxx Although I am Italian American I do not know much about my heritage. This had been a delightful learning experience finding out where I am from, how my ancestor got here and why they came. I have always had interest in my heritage and finding out more about Italian American culture but have not had the time. I have been forced to find information and research about who I am and I could not be more delighted. Christopher Columbus and Giovanni da Verrazzano were the first Italians to come to the New World and make discoveries. Columbus did the majority of his discoveries in what is now known as South America in the 1490’s, while Verrazzano sailed to North America in the early 1500’s. He landed in present day North Carolina and ventured up the coast to New York, Cape Cod, Maine and Nova Scotia. Both of these men are recognized for their accomplishments through National Holidays, statues, landmarks, and artifacts displayed in museums. They both were trying to find a passage to the east to make it easier to get needed spices and supplies for their country, but found that there voyages were unsuccessful. They returned to their countries and told of their discoveries. They did not stay in the Americas and colonize because they were in look for something that they did not find, the east passage, and there intent was to return to their home land. (Meehan, T. 1912). Italians stayed in their country...
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...In a quest to find a passage to Asia, Giovanni da Verrazano explored the North American coast as King Francis had ordered in 1524. Consequently, because of the exploration being done Jacquie’s Cartier made voyages between 1534 and 1543. However, Canada’s severe winters made him give up and as a consequence, the French ignored most of Canada only paying attention to a few fur traders and fisherman. As time went on the fisheries began having great success which made them grow in numbers that rivaled those of New Spain in volume of shipping. In 1550 the French spread to Havannah and along the Atlantic coast of Florida. This is where New Spain was settled in. As a Result, Pedro Mendez de Aviles attacked them in 1565, and executed those individuals who did not want to convert to Catholicism. Because of Francis’s wars of religion more efforts were blocked for the rest of the century. Then King Henry IV came into power and believed that the survival of the state should take precedence over religious precedence. Someone with the same ideals was a Catholic Soldier and explorer by the name of Samuel De Champlain. Champlain made voyages to Canada with the hope and belief that Catholics and Huguenots could work together and even intermarry. In 1608 he established friendly relations with local Indians where he established Quebec. In 1625 the French crown declared that only the Catholic faith could be practiced in New France. Furthermore, in 1638, Jesuit Missionaries made great efforts...
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...to theologians, authors and philosophers. During the Renaissance though, the people who had the means and desire to study classical art and literature were from a broad spectrum of royalty to merchants. The students were not studying for professional reasons but more so for pleasure. The interest in art broadened from works Classical Greece to what, at the time of the Renaissance, were referred to as contemporary works and existed as objects of learning or ideal beauty Literature had its foundation deep in classical roots and there are many similarities and contrasting points of view in their themes. One of the most significant documents of literature, during this period, was the theses (“intellectual propositions”) written by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola which was entitled Oration of the Dignity of Man. The theme of this work “…is that humanity stands at the apex of creation in a way such as to create the link between the world of God and that of the creation” (Cunningham & Reich, 2006). Stating simply that man is the peak of the two forces, one being God and the other being all that is around him. One of the scholars that Mirandola...
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