...The King and I The King and I has a long, intricate history. The events from the movie actually took place in mid-19th century Siam, during which time King Mongkut (Rama IV) was in the process of modernizing his country in an attempt to avoid annexation by the British. This process included the integration of western science, so the king sent for a British school teacher, Anna Leonowens, to educate his children. In 1944, Margaret Landon published Anna and the King of Siam, which she based off of Anna's memoirs. Twelve years later, Margaret's book would inspire Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II to co-write the 1956 musical, The King and I. The musical was a thriving success, and in 1971, a television series called Anna and the King aired...
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...Vocal Evaluation of The King and I On April 22, my parents and I attended a Sunday Matinee performance of The King and I at the Aronoff Center for The Arts. This was the touring cast of the Broadway Revival, which started in 2016. The King and I is a Broadway musical written by the famous duo, Rodgers and Hammerstein, that tells the story of Anna Leonowens, a English teacher who is hired by the King of Siam to teach his children. Through this agreement and her teachings, she finds herself attracted to the King and a romance begins. The show has two main leads: Anna and the King. Some of the supporting cast included Lady Thiang, Tuptim and Lun Tha. The woman who played Anna had a gorgeous natural voice. The original Anna in the film was obviously a inspiration to this actress as their voices were very similar. Her tone quality was warm yet a bit dark, as that was the norm at the time the musical was written and fit the music very nicely. My favorite song was “Shall We Dance?” because Anna’s vocal quality was superior to another singers I have heard. Overall, her vowels were pure and when she went for a high note, the vowel got taller and more rounded. You could tell that she knew exactly how to breath and used her breath to propel her sound without hurting her voice. The show was about three hours long...
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...Professor: Blake Harcup November 16, 2015 Part One: I never gave much thought to Worldviews, before taking this class. I was surprise to discover that I have been molded and shaped with someone else values, morals and principles. While listening to Dr. Lew Weider and Ben Gutierrez’s conversation on Worldviews, I being to think thought about “Frame Work”. Although I wasn’t raised in a Christian environment, I was raised in a home with a drilled sergeant as a stepfather. As I think back, my stepfather based everything on time management. Growing up, I found this way of thinking to be an emotional rollercoaster mentally and very challenging. As an adult, I am able to use this usefully tool for organization and balance in my life (Weider & Gutierrez, 2013). Part Two: There are different opinions on the Origin of mankind. How did life really begin? I have heard people say that we came into existence as a result of the “Big Bang Theory”. Some have concluded that matter has always existed and given enough time and chance, the end result is what you see around you today which are Naturalism. (Weider & Gutierrez, 2012) As a Christian, I believe what the Word of God has said; we are created in God’s image. (Genesis 1:1, 26 & Genesis 9:6, King James). Our identity comes from the image of God. As humans this makes us unique individuals. This shows up in our will, communication and our decision making abilities. I believe humans are more important than animals because...
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...How successfully did James deal with parliament during the period 1603 – 1616? * James faced many difficulties with Parliament during his reign in England. The king and parliament followed two mutually, extended exclusive views about the nature of their relationship. James believed that he owed his authority to God-given right, that the laws in his kingdom were only an extension of his royal prerogative, and that parliament was in essence a lower court to him, its laws and opinions always subject to his oversight and review; and that he was free to revise or overrule them completely whenever he wished. However, parliament believed that its rights were equal to those of the king. They also believed that in return for grants and subsidies to the crown, the king should take its views on policy formulation and execution into account. The end result of this fundamental disagreement was a series of difficult parliaments, two of which James dissolved in frustration. The first parliament brought in the idea of ‘The Great Contract’. This meant that they wanted James to give up the right to feudal dues, such as wardship and purveyance, in exchange for a fixed sum per annum to be raised in taxation. They offered him £200,000 after a lot of argument. They didn’t want to give him too much money because he wouldn’t need to call parliament. James didn’t like this idea as he thought that £200,000 wouldn’t be enough. The contract was finally sunk when James made a demand for another £200,000...
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...The Tragedy of Macbeth implements the idea of kings ruling by divine right. Shakespeare limits the belief of divine right by presenting the character of Macbeth as a traitor and supports it by giving his intemperate ambition a consequence. From Princesses to Kings, any person emerged in royalty entails a divine source of power. In Shakespeare's day and age, whether known for their tyranny or their loyalty, Kings and Queens were always the most authoritative and idolized figures. Shakespeare Shakespeare provides his writing with an efficient amount of historical context; his opinions on the Gunpowder Plot, Great Chain of Being, supernatural powers and witches all hold a substantial amount of importance in Macbeth. This play, written during...
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...immoral or virtuous. In consequence of Macbeth’s embracement of his best human quality (Evil) he called upon himself a death sentence. Shakespeare reflected greatly on the position of the king discreetly without stirring up too much controversy particularly on the theory of “Divine right of monarchs”. Though Macbeth attained the power of the thrown he did it through an unorthodox way excluding him from the power of God therefore made him susceptible to any pending attacks. Having Macbeth steal the thrown from Duncan in such a despicable manner is an offense to the Almighty and a violation to the natural order. Shakespeare puts great emphasizes on the legitimacy of his current non-fictional king by creating a psychopath of a king called Macbeth. Macbeth tyrannical decisions lead to his dismiss by others mutinying against him in; seem like Shakespeare borrow some inspiration from the actions of the gun powder plot in 1605. Macbeth can certainly relate to James I during the event of his attempted assassination since both experienced regicide or at least Macbeth did. Both kings’ were victims of their actions, with intent of advocating there best interest regardless of their countries issues. Furthermore the stance between social political conventions continues with the prediction of King James I...
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...factors stained James relations with Parliament too. Finance was the biggest issue between both of them, as the Great contract was caused of parliaments dissolve in 1610 and religion to some extent caused some strain. James's open-handed generosity, particularly towards his Scottish companions, won him few friends among the English. James would become unpopular for his choices of ministers based on personality – those who flattered him - rather than from talent. Robert Carr had been James’ pageboy in Scotland, was only 25 upon taking the position, and became corrupt and poorly skilled for the position. Both Carr and his wife were found guilty of the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury in 1615, this also proved unpopular with in parliament. This caused tension between both parts as there was a kind of hatred, which in return would cause problems with passing bills into laws. Parliament rejected union of England and Scotland, preferring the monarch to be King of both whiles each maintaining their independence. After the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 James and Parliament again stood on a better footing – James commented that if he had died, he would have done so with the “most honourable and best company and in that most honourable and fittest place for a king to be in”. The parliamentary session in 1606 allowed James three direct taxes. However things had started to become sour again by 4th July 1607 when a union of England and Scotland was again rejected by Parliament which James believed firmly...
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...“They provided a military reserve needed to intimidate the Indians…”(Taylor 86). But they eventually had enough years of torment that they decided to just come together as one and take over by causing the Spaniards to flee and also killing off some of them as well. The second topic that stood out to me was the establishment of Jamestown by the English colonist. After the new King James I succeeded Queen Elizabeth in 1603 and after a peace treaty with Spain was signed in 1604, “the great merchants and lawyers of London took a new interest in colonizing Virginia” (Taylor 130). King James granted a group of London investors a charter to go ahead and colonize and govern Virginia. They set out for Virginia from England in three vessels and decided to take the standard circle route southwest, “via the trade winds to the Canaries, westward to the West Indies, and then north with the Gulf Stream to Virginia. They arrived to Chesapeake Bay on April 26,1607 and established the new settlement of Jamestown about sixty miles down the James River by a marsh on the north bank. They decided to call the river James and the settlement Jamestown so that they could...
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...King James I believed in the divine right of kings meaning that he believed God had appointed him to rule and as such parliament should be obedient to the wishes and will of the king. James was reliant on parliament for money and parliament refused to agree to his demands. There was a clash over custom duties and although James was entitled to them as an income parliament refused to allow him to collect it without their permission. infuriated, James dismissed parliament and ruled for the next 11 years with the assistance of his friends who he rewarded with lands and titles. In 1621 parliament was recalled to discuss the prospect of marriage between his son Charles, and a Spanish princess. As the Spanish Armada was still fresh in everyone`s memory there was outrage and although the marriage did not happen, relations with parliament were still damaged by the time James died and Charles took the throne in 1625. Charles, also believed in the divine right of kings but he was also arrogant and conceited and it was his personality that would light the touchpaper for the English Civil War. For the next 4 years he was continually at loggerheads with parliament over money and to a lesser extent religion. He had married a French catholic and the protestant nation feared the rise of Catholicism in England. The Duke of Buckingham, who was a favourite of Charles was deeply despised as he had arranged the marriage between Charles and Henrietta and he was given charge of foreign policy and was...
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...each case, ambition-helped, of course, Prophecies of the witches is what drives the couple to ever more terrible atrocities. the problem, the play suggests, is the once decided to use violence to further one's quest for power, it is difficult to stop there are always potential threats to the throne. Quote 1 Third Witches: All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter! (A1.S111.L 51) The witches prediction that Macbeth will become monarch and that Banquo's heirs will be future kings sets the plot in motion. Up until this point, Macbeth doesn't seem to have kingly aspiration. Banquo was strong minded and laughed off the witches, but the witches spoke in riddles to Macbeth and told him very little. They addressed him as an upcoming king. This intrudged Macbeth. As we’ll find out that Macbeth had already had evil aspirations in his head. This moment also lays the groundwork for shake spear’s portrayal of the Stuart political myth. King James 1 of England (a.k.a king James V1 of Scotland) was the current monarch when Shakespeare wrote Macbeth (around 1606) and he traced his lineage back to Banquo, who "shalt get kings." We'll definitely want to keep an eye on how Shakespeare portrays James's supposed ancestor. Quote 2...
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...Assess the significance of religion as a factor in bringing about change in the nature of royal authority between 1540 – 1642 Between 1540 and 1642 England saw six different rulers; an examination into the religious changes, personality and relationship with parliament will bring about an answer in to the change of nature of royal authority. During 1540-1642 religious change led to rebellions and conflict proved highly embarrassing and potentially fatal to the monarchy ‘The church acted as a bedrock of authority. It had been a source of authority in late medieval society’ says Nicholas Fellows. After the reformation of the church Edward VI had to deal with situation of confusion left from his father. Edward was a firm supporter of the religious reforms and by 1549 England had made a caution step towards Protestantism. The western rebellion 1547 illustrated a strong sense of religious conservatism. The complaints that caused the rebellion were the changes that were thought to have taken place in the baptism and confirmation and the rebels wanted the restoration of many of the old religious practices. Article two’s call for the restoration of the six articles undermined all the work of the Edwardian reformation, they also had a strong desire for the ceremony and ritual of catholism. The rebels attacks communion and both kinds of the new prayer book which were symbolic of the new religion, clearly most of the demands was an attack of Protestantism and furthermore an attack...
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...Virgin Queen had not produced a child to inherit the throne, but her kinsman, James Stuart (James VI of Scotland), succeeded her as James I. the relationship between the monarch and his people and the relationship between England and Scotland would be sources of friction throughout his reign. After James died in 1625 and was succeeded by Charles I, tensions persisted and intensified. Charles attempted to rule without summoning Parliament at all between 1629 and 1638. By 1642 England was up in arms, in a civil war between the king’s forces and armies loyal to the house of Commons. The conflict ended with Charles’s defeat and beheading in 1649. Although in the early 1650s the monarchy as an institution seemed as dead as the man who had last worn the crown, an adequate replacement proved difficult to devise. Executive power devolved upon a Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell, former general of the parliamentary forces, who wielded power nearly as autocratically as Charles had done. Yet without an institutionally sanctioned method of transferring power upon Cromwell’s death in 1658, the attempt to fashion a commonwealth without a hereditary monarch eventually failed. In 1660 Parliament invited the eldest son of the old king home from exile. He succeeded to the throne as King Charles II. From a literary point of view, 1603 can seem a particularly capricious dividing line because at the accession of James I so many writers happened to be in midcareer (Shakespeare, Donne etcetera)....
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...King James I can certainly be blamed for the financial issues during his reign as ultimately he had the most power and the most control in the country. However the problematic nature of the financial structure in this period cannot be underestimated as corruption was rife and many aspects of the financial system were outdated. James didn’t inherit a very prosperous situation when he came to the English throne as the treasury was empty, the financial system was in dire need of reform and parliament were unwilling to contribute to major changes. The tax system was so outdated that people were paying four times under what they were supposed to be paying to the crown and only around 7% of the crowns income was generated by tax (4 times less than France). In addition to this, inflation was extortionate and the war with Spain and the Irish Rebellion conflict was costing the crown an unaffordable amount. For example, the Irish Rebellion had cost James £600,000 by the time it ended and money still had to be spent afterwards on maintaining border garrisons. James only made the situation worse with his extensive extravagance. A good illustration of is this is the £400,000 he gave to a Scottish favourite named James Hay (First Earl of Carlisle) throughout his reign. Although James had a lonely childhood and was keen to make close friends, he simply could not afford to spend as much as he did on his favourites; furthermore Hay dies penniless reflecting how James was not careful with money...
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...western perspective.) Topping the list at #1 is Muhammad. As the Prophet of Islam, Muhammads, s.a.w, teachings have reached and inspired many societies and their people. His teachings also indicate the best way to think and therefore live. At #2 is Jesus Christ, whose place as the central figure of Christianity has impacted the lives of his believers, all 2 billion of them (give or take). His existence has lead to the many holidays and churches that occupy mainly, western society. At #3 is Gautama Buddha, who is the spiritual teacher and founder of Buddhism. Lord Buddha has played a large role in the growth of many people of asian descent and offers a religion to the world that can be seen as very peaceful. At #4 is David, King of Israel or rather the Biblical King of Israel. As the founder of Jerusalem, he has empowered the Jewish nation to take on a large amount of influence in various aspects of the world, including the entertainment industry. At #5 is Ali, the founder of Sufism. Ali is a central figure in Sufism due to being anearly Caliph, expanding the religious world. Continuing the list at #6 is Joseph Smith, Jr.. He is one of America's religious leaders who actually founded a religion; in his case it is Mormonism. At #7 is Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi who was an Indian nationalist leader. Being instrumental in non-violence and...
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...believed witchcraft was real. The people of the 1600s had certain ways in which they believed helped tell whether someone one was a witch or not. One method was tying a rock to them and throwing them into a river and if they float they’re a witch. King James I was the son of Queen Mary. He was descended through the Scottish kings from Robert the Bruce, and the English Tudors through his great grandmother Margaret Tudor sister of Henry VIII. His parent’s marriage was short-lived and Darnley was found murdered 8 months after James was born in June 1566. His mother married again, but in 1567 was forced to renounce the throne of Scotland in favour of her infant son. James became King James VI of Scotland aged 13 months in July 1567, and was crowned at Stirling. Mary fled to England where she was eventually executed following Catholic plots against Elizabeth I in 1587. The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of England's Parliament on 5 November 1605, as the prelude to a popular revolt in the Midlands during which James's nine-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth, was to be installed as the Catholic head of state. Catesby may have embarked on the scheme after hopes of securing greater religious tolerance under King James had faded, leaving many English Catholics disappointed. His fellow plotters were John Wright, Thomas Wintour, Thomas Percy, Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes, Thomas Bates, Robert Wintour, Christopher Wright, John Grant, Ambrose Rookwood, Sir Everard...
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