...tense of the verb, tread, but also a noun that described a line or path of English grass that was a different shade of green than the rest of the field. Following the lengthy tutorial, the members of the Abroad Squad, simply said, “Far out,” and went searching through the verdant fields of North Philly for some trod to smoke. Members of the Guffawed Squad were the class clowns, cut-ups, and practical jokers. If you received a perfumed letter inviting you to a romantic rendezvous with the most beautiful girl in the class, heard your cadaver whisper your name, or watched an animated skeleton make an obscene gesture in the Anatomy lab, a member of the Guffawed Squad was probably responsible. The Odd Squad was made up of students who didn't fit into any other squad. Members of the Odd Squad were squads unto themselves, living legends, and one-of-a-kinds. A few members of the Odd Squad were also known as retreads, a term that identified those students who had left other professions to enter Medicine. If the members of the Odd Squad had one thing in common, it was that they were different. Unpredictable and frequently misunderstood, the members of the Odd Squad seemed secure in their notoriety. Unlike the rest of the class, the members of the Odd Squad appeared capable of maintaining their identity throughout the potentially dehumanizing process of medical education. The Shod Squad was a veritable All-Star team. Every member of this elite group was also a member of at least one...
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...Cool ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij ij The terms "satire" and "parody" are often confused, but the purpose of satire makes it generally very different from parody. When people do a parody of something, they may rely on many of the same techniques that a satirist would use, including exaggeration, but their primary purpose is to make people laugh, and if the author doesn’t really care if there is a real political effect or not The terms "satire" and "parody" are often confused, but the purpose of satire makes it generally very different from parody. When people do a parody of something, they may rely on many of the same techniques that a satirist would use, including exaggeration, but their primary purpose is to make people laugh, and if the author doesn’t really care if there is a real political effect or not. Some The terms "satire" and "parody" are often confused, but the purpose of satire makes it generally very different from parody. When people do a parody of something, they may rely on many of the same techniques that a satirist would use, including exaggeration, but their primary purpose is to make people laugh, and if the author doesn’t really care if there is a real pol The terms "satire" and "parody" are often confused, but the purpose of satire makes it generally very different from parody. When people do a parody of something, they may rely on many of the same techniques that a satirist would use, including exaggeration, but their...
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..."Milk Milk Lemonade" might at first seem like a laughingstock to amuse the people of the internet. However, could there be more to it than the imitation of a terrible song? The parody music video "Milk Milk Lemonade" uses humor and mimicry to emphasize the human folly that people see butts as the main object of desire in women while they are in fact "fudge machines." As well as the stress of women's bodies being the only significant thing about them. "Milk Milk Lemonade" happens to be a parody of one of Katy Perry's fairly old songs which was never released on an album. The genre of "Milk Milk Lemonade" would be a music video. There are many conventions to this genre like the lyrics, the music, the dancers, and vocalists. There are also conventions like cut scenes, editing, different sets, costumes, and...
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...The Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) is the deity of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster or Pastafarianism (a portmanteau of pasta and Rastafarian), a movement that promotes a light-hearted view of religion and opposes the teaching of intelligent design and creationism in public schools.[3] Although adherents describe Pastafarianism as a genuine religion,[3] it is generally seen by the media as a parody religion.[4][5] The "Flying Spaghetti Monster" was first described in a satirical open letter written by Bobby Henderson in 2005 to protest the Kansas State Board of Education decision to permit teaching intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in public school science classes.[6] In that letter, Henderson satirized creationism by professing his belief that whenever a scientist carbon-dates an object, a supernatural creator that closely resembles spaghetti and meatballs is there "changing the results with His Noodly Appendage". Henderson argued that his beliefs were just as valid as intelligent design, and called for equal time in science classrooms alongside intelligent design and evolution.[7] After Henderson published the letter on his website, the Flying Spaghetti Monster rapidly became an Internet phenomenon and a symbol of opposition to the teaching of intelligent design in public schools.[8] Pastafarian tenets (generally satires of creationism) are presented both on Henderson's Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster website, where he is described as "prophet"...
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...Shawn McGowan REL 120 Scriptures 11 December 2014 Modern Day Prophet A modern day prophet is someone who is an effective leader or spokesperson for a group/cause while promoting a prophetic message. I believe Bobby Henderson can be considered a modern day prophet because he leads a group of people promoting his own prophetic message. In a letter the Kansas State Board of Education Henderson reveals his newly acclaimed thoughts about Intellectual design. Bobby Henderson can be considered a modern day prophet, promoting his newly revived religion, Pastafarianism or the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. In 2005 Bobby Henderson wrote a letter to the Kansas State Board of Education protesting their decision to permit teaching intellectual design as an alternative to evolution in public school science classes. Henderson satires creationism by ranting in his letter about a supernatural creator who closely resembles spaghetti and meatballs that “changes results of carbon dating with his Noodly Appendage”. Henderson prophesies that intelligent design uses ambiguous references to a creator; therefore any conceivable entity could fulfill that role. After receiving no reply from the board of education he posted his letter virally gaining significant public interest. As Henderson’s letter grew in popularity, the satirical nature of his argument caught global attention and received many supporters. According to Pastafarian beliefs, pirates are the original Pastafarians, and are...
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...English 1010-22 Seminar in Academic Writing: Satire Spring 2009, Tu/Th 11:00am-12:45pm BCH 443 Instructor: Brandon Hawk Office: CLAS 151 Office Phone: 860-486-3706 Mailbox: CLAS 210 E-mail: brandon.hawk@uconn.edu Office Hours: Tu 10:00-11:00am (I am also available by appointment--I will be on campus most weekdays, so feel free to contact me to schedule another time.) "Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow." -- Lawrence Clark Powell Required Texts (Prices are approximations based on Amazon.com listings) Henderson, Bobby, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (New York: Villard, 2006). ISBN: 0812976568. $11.16. Strunk, William, and E. B. White, The Elements of Style, 4th ed. (Needham Heights: Pearson). ISBN: 020530902X. $9.95. Swift, Jonathan, A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works (Mineola: Dover, 1996). ISBN: 0486287599. $2.00. Course Packet (provided on first day of class--but which will expand throughout the course). Various supplemental handouts I will give you throughout the semester (all of which you must keep through the whole of the semester). An email address that you check daily. This will be my primary out-of-class form of communication, so be sure to stay vigilant for any and all emails I will send to you. You are responsible for reading all email correspondences and acting accordingly. Course Overview This course is a four-credit, semester-long writing seminar...
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...beginning of time have appreciated, enjoyed, and incorporated some form of music in their everyday lives. Music can serve as a means of communication between two people who have little else in common. They can share their memories have a laugh together. For example, a song called the fighter united many of the players taking part in 2012 Olympics and gave them inspiration. Music helps people with understanding and developing self-identity, promoting quality of life and maintaining well-being. “Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.” –Macklemore. Music is so diverse that it has many genres to choose, any genre that satisfies your tastes. In music there are hundreds of genres to listen from. Many have a rich history or geographical significance, or just the artists’ personal significance. I personally like almost every genre that there is, but my favorite one would be Rock and its subgenres, because these are the ones I feel most connected to. I feel connected to Rock because it’s where most instruments are real, and it’s one of the genres that have united a lot of people. From its subgenres, Punk Rock and Alternative would be the ones that I most prefer because they calm me down, and I can appreciate the music and meanings of the songs, and most of these songs I can relate to. The way I relate with music is with my personal experiences. I listen to it either to get hyped up before...
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...2017 COPYRIGHT LAW REGARDING MUSIC SAMPLING. To: Producers and artists of Tone Def Records. From: Austin Nagel Date: 15 October 2017 Introduction Music sampling has been an integral part of the music industry since time immemorial. In the past, music sampling was freely allowed, but when songs containing sampled music turned out to be very popular, owners of the sampled music saw the need to copyright their music. With this, anyone who wanted to test any genre of music for commercial purposes has to seek permission from the copyright owner. Sampling music without the knowledge and go ahead of the owner of the copyright is an infringement of the copyright, the sound recording copyright, and...
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...Thesis: In “Sonny’s Blues”, Baldwin chooses to use music and the idea of being enclosed and trapped as motifs to reinforce the theme that life is filled with constant suffering. Being enclosed and trapped is a major motif in “Sonny’s Blues”. It is repeatedly used to show people are constantly suffering because they are trapped. The narrator is trapped inside of the housing project that he hates: “It hasn't been up long. A few days after it was up it seemed uninhabitable new, now, of course, it's already rundown. It looks like a parody of the good, clean, faceless life-God knows the people who live in it do their best to make it a parody” (16). This describes the main thing the narrator is suffering with, feeling trapped in Harlem. And the housing project is the best physical thing the narrator can use to describe the anguish of Harlem. When Sonny is a child, he realizes that he will eventually be trapped in Harlem, and tells his brother he wants to join the army. The narrator asks why, and Sonny replies with: “I just told you. To get out of Harlem" (28). This shows that Sonny is determined to end his suffering even as a kid, as he knows he must get out of...
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...SILENCE! The musical is an unauthorized parody of The Silence of the Lambs. This play is not one for anyone sensitive to vulgar and raunchy acts, it is specifically for adults only. The project began in 2002 as nine humorous songs that retold the entire story of The Silence of the lambs. This music ended up going viral and becoming so popular, they created new songs and turned it into a live musical. Their version was adapted for the stage by Hunter Bell. The musical premiered at the FringeNYC Festival in 2005, where it received the award for Outstanding Musical. This musical received all kinds of awards during its two-year off Broadway run and ten years later and it’s still going strong all over the United States. The analysis of the seven elements of the play will begin in this order: the plot, characters, theme, language, movement, music, and spectacle....
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...How colonial music relates to our day music while helping us form a united country and patriotism. It has been found that music of the Colonial age wasn’t written in America; but, inclusively transported to help define the colleagues and for founders of this country. The music that early Americans have chosen to sing and play helps to clarify the understanding of the colonist themselves. 1 “Their music included ballads, dance tunes, folk songs and parodies, comic opera arias, drum signals, psalms, minuets and sonatas. Such music came mostly from England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Italy, France, and Africa, and it was played on whatever instruments were handy.” Many different styles and forms of music emerged in early America to express the full effect of colonial life. Colonial music included both oral and written processes; in which, people most commonly could recognize by ear but frequently came up with new words to the older tunes. The instruments we have today were brought to us by the Revolution age with some in their original form and prevalent. Men from all different classes, from slaves and indentured servants to Thomas Jefferson, played fiddles or violins. While prices varied from high to low violins were usually imported in great numbers. In addition to popular instruments such as the violin, the flute happens to be another prominent instrument that was driven by man. 1 Woman had limited musical options due to high levels of “maintaining reputation” for men. Wealthy...
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...Musical Experience You must either attend a live concert, watch a video or television performance, listen to an entire CD or watch a musical movie. You must only use something from this quarter for this assignment (not a concert you saw in another quarter). You may choose any type of music for this paper. Requirements for this Assignment: fill in the boxes below. Describe the Concert Setting and media (Video, CD, DVD, Live Performance): Grease | Date of concert, place of concert, name of group, programs provided, program notes provided, spoken remarks, include the names of all the selections: Date of Concert: June 16, 1978Place of Concert: United StatesName of Group: Grease CastProgram provided: DVDAny Spoken remarks: Various Movie QuotesNames of ALL the Selections you listened to: "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing""Grease" – Frankie Valli"Alma Mater""Summer Nights" – Danny, Sandy, Pink Ladies and T-Birds"Rydell Fight Song" – Rydell Marching Band"Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee" – Rizzo and Pink Ladies"Alma Mater Parody" – T-Birds"Hopelessly Devoted to You" – Sandy"Greased Lightnin'" – Danny and T-Birds"La Bamba" – Ritchie Valens"It's Raining on Prom Night" – Cindy Bullens"Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" – Jerry Lee Lewis"Beauty School Dropout" – Teen Angel and Female Angels"Rock n' Roll Party Queen" – Louis St. Louis"Rock n' Roll Is Here to Stay" – Johnny Casino and the Gamblers"Those Magic Changes" – Johnny Casino and the Gamblers; Danny sings along onscreen"Tears...
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...Music: Play Superman main theme audio, from live orchestra. (0:00-1:26) {Fade music out} Narrator Trevor Withers: Music has always been an important part of film. Soundtracks in Film allow the mood to be set for a particular scene, or In the beginning stages of film before the invention of “talking film” music was used in silent films to demonstrate mood, event or element. Music: {Fade in Music from Birth of the nation} Narrator TW: The first film to have a specific score written for it was Birth of a Nation. The majority of silent films were accompanied by anything from full orchestras to organists and pianists Music: {Cross layer Charlie Chaplin in The Dictator music from the globe scene} Narrator TW: The 1920’s saw the establishment...
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...Unity and Variety 1 The Concepts of Unity and Variety Let's begin by listening to two fundamental concepts that make a piece of music "work"—the concepts of unity and variety. Most people like hearing sounds that they find pleasing, memorable, and familiar. Within a given composition, the feeling of familiarity—fostered by, among other things, reiterations of a music idea—lends a sense of unity to the music. Whereas unity satisfies the human need for sameness and familiarity, variety sustains our interest and appeals to our need for, and enjoyment of, the new, different, and unexpected. To illustrate the relevance of these concepts, listen to how they are used in a piece of music by George Frideric Handel, a very famous musician who lived between the 17th and 18th centuries and whose music remains popular to this day. George Frideric Handel See Here the Conqu'ring Hero Comes George Frideric Handel Born: 1685 Died: 1759 Period: Baroque (1600-1750) Country: Germany/England See Here the Conqu'ring Hero Comes is one of Handel's most popular pieces. Three minutes and three seconds (3:03) long, it is a movement within a longer composition entitled Judas Maccabaeus written for an ensemble (group) of musicians. If you think of Judas Maccabaeus as a book, then See Here the Conq'ring Hero Comes acts as a chapter in that book. A movement may be enjoyed by itself; however, like a chapter in a book, it also fits into the structure of a larger composition. While you listen...
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