...Andrew Zobel MUS 1014 February 13, 2016 Analysis of “American Pie” and “Hotel California” Perhaps no other song better expresses the overall attitude of the United States (U.S.) in the 1970s than Don McLean’s “American Pie”. Released in November 1971, the song is still considered one of the greatest songs in U.S. history. Additionally, the Eagles’ song “Hotel California”, released in 1976, also exemplifies American culture during the turbulent decade of the 70s. “American Pie” is, for lack of a better word, a long song, with a run time of over eight minutes. The song consists of seven verses, as well as a chorus which is repeated seven times. The song begins with McLean’s voice over a piano. When the opening verse ends, the piano becomes less relevant in the song, and an acoustic guitar becomes the predominant instrument. The song employs a standard AABA structure, alternating between choruses and verses, except at the end, when the chorus is repeated, with the second iteration acting as the coda. Like most popular songs of the 70s, The Eagles’ rock epic “Hotel California” is written in a verse/chorus format. It contains four verses, two iterations of the chorus, a coda, and a lengthy guitar solo to end the song. The standard Eagles’ instrumental setup for the song includes drummer Don Henley singing, as well as playing the drums. Joe Walsh, Don Felder, and Glen Frey play guitars, and bassist Randy Meisner plays the bass. All four offer backup vocals during...
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...Aysen Alekseev, 511 Analysis of ''The Dangerous Corner'' Analysis of the fragments of the play “Dangerous corner” by John Boynton Pristley. John Boynton Priestley (1894 - 1984) is one of the outstanding English authors of today. His early books (1922-26) were of a critical nature. It was the success of his novel "The Good Companions" (1929) which brought him world fame. In early thirties Priestley began his work as a dramatist. "Dangerous Corner" (1932) — one of the series of Seven Time Plays — was his first effort in dramatic art. Priestley's other most famous novels are "They Walk in the City", "Angel Pavement", "Wonder Hero", "Far Away". "Let the People Sing". "Bright Day" and many others. These fragments of the play show readers very dramatic moments of protagonist- Robert Caplan’s life. First scene is exposition. Sitting with the characters in cosy drawing room, readers feel depressive atmosphere. Robert, his wife- Freda and their guests listen the radio play “Sleeping dog”. This play is about man, shoot himself. Stanton explained the title of play- truth as a sleeping dog. Author makes readers ready to tragic end of the story. All first scene is an exposition. We meet Robert, Freda, Olwen, Stanton, Betty, Miss M. Readers understand what is the main problem, raised in play. It is truth and its after-effects. Second scene is a complication. The problem becomes deeper. Stanton, Robert and Olwen talk about Robert’s brother- Martin Caplan, who committed suicide six...
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...For Colored Girls Play Analysis For Colored Girls is a play written by Ntozake Shange at the peak of the black feminist movement, in 1975. It is a collection of poems that tell the story of seven women of color and how their lives interconnect. The play deal with deep subject matter such as rape, abortions, domestic abuse, and faith, as is delves into the lives of these women. The play ends as all of the women come together with an empowering scene about the strength in womanhood. How do struggles, specifically ones imposed on women such as rape and domestic abuse, create strength and empowerment that would have never been attained without enduring such life experiences? In For Colored Girls, all of the women find strength in each other and faith in order to overcome their individual struggles and find strength to continue on with life. They become stronger individuals that they once were and that strong power that they now posses is from believe in themselves and their ability to persevere. In the 2009 film, Precious, a young girl lives through torment as she grows up in section 8 housing with an abusive mother and father, but when she decides that she has had enough she breaks free to try to obtain the life she has always dreamed of. Precious can be understood within the context of Ntozake Shange's play For Colored Girls because Precious endures many similar life experiences as the women of For Colored Girls. Precious is a sixteen year old girl who lives with her mother...
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... Centro Escolar University Makati "TAO: ISANG TAGULAYLAY" A Project Submitted to Mrs. Shirley M.P. Aglibot Professor In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in (Humanities 12) NATASHA MICHELLE C. GALO BSBAMM-2A September 3, 2014 APPENDIX B-RUBRIC IN THE PLAY REVIEW PROJECT Centro Escolar University Makati Name: NATASHA MICHELLE C. GALO Course/Year/Section: BSBAMM-2A |CRITERIA |TOTAL POINTS |SCORES | |Content (Intensive analysis of all the |40 points |_____________________ | |elements of the play focusing on strong | | | |and weak points with specific citations)| | | |Complete number of attachments (Title |10 points |_____________________ | |page, Report, Rubric and Worksheet for a| | | |Play Review) | | | |Observance of the Format (Presence of |15 points |_____________________ | |all the subheadings including the paper | ...
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...Literary Analysis Essay (The Bear) Farce The author, Anton Chekov, wrote a drama titled “The Bear”, which took place in 1888 and 1893 in Popova’s living room. “The author used a literary element, farce. It means, a light humorous play in which the plot depends upon the development of character, humor of the type displayed in such works, foolish show; mockery; ridiculous sham; cookery, and finally forcemeat (Google Sites-Farce).” In the story, Smirnoff was being foolish, ridiculous, and using mockery towards Popova. Of course, Smirnoff didn’t know how to act towards women; he is just a “cookery, forcemeat sham (Dictionary.com- Farce).” As Smirnoff said mockingly, “ I don’t believe this. It’s been seven months today since my husband has passed on, and I’m in a sad mood… And this doesn’t have to do with your husband. I have a mortgage to pay. Your Husband is dead (Chekhov, Anton 762-763).” He wrote about two people fighting over a mortgage and one was talking about being sad over her husband that died. Farce is about humorous plays, ridiculous behaviors. Also farce is a form of low comedy. “The contrast is focused on the characters actions, and comedy of manners. Comedy of manners means a comedy that the behavior is being made fun of in a particular social group, especially the upper classes (Web.cn.edu-Lit term).” The events were a bit amusing and at the end it was romantic in a weird way. Also Popova and Smirnoff was in love with Popova because of her actions...
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...radi An analysis of storytelling and Joseph Campbell’s universal themes and their role in animated films. Theodore Hicks Word count: 1,711 Feedback: quite broad terms. Where there is some analysis it is very short and this needs developing further. Much of this is down to Analysis, Argument There is some analysis here but it is very limited. ON the whole you are describing events and stories in animation in quite broad terms. Where there is some analysis it is very short and this needs developing further. Much of this is down to your choice of question. If you had picked a couple of Disney/Pixar films and analysed them in more detail in relation to Campbell, your essay would have been more focused. Outlining this narrowing in the question will help with this, as reading the essay, this is where the topic really lies. You need to be able to show Campbell’s theories working across more than one film for it to be a successful piece of analysis at this stage, and in doing so, it will help you reach a central argument about the use of Campbell’s theories in discussing these films – at the moment this doesn’t happen. This is the section you need to work on the most, to increase your word count and extend the overall discussion. Structure, communication, referencing/bibliography The structure is generally ok, with an introduction, and a conclusion. You need to work on some of the in between sections as the essay jumps between ideas of outlining theories, linking some...
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...Seven Steps to a Successful Business Plan This Page Intentionally Left Blank Seven Steps to a Successful Business Plan Al Coke American Management Association New York • Atlanta • Brussels • Buenos Aires • Chicago • London • Mexico City San Francisco • Shanghai • Tokyo • Toronto • Washington, D.C. Special discounts on bulk quantities of AMACOM books are available to corporations, professional associations, and other organizations. For details, contact Special Sales Department, AMACOM, a division of American Management Association, 1601 Broadway, New York, NY 10019. Tel.: 212-903-8316. Fax: 212-903-8083. Web site: www. amacombooks.org This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, or other professional service. If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Coke, Al. Seven steps to a successful business plan / Al Coke. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8144-0648-3 1. Business planning. 2. Strategic planning. 3. Success in business. I. Title. HD30.28 .C6422 2001 658.4'012—dc21 2001033579 ©2002 Alfred M. Coke All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system...
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..."Poe Literary analysis" In the short story "The Tall-Tale Heart" Edgar Allan Poe shows craziness through the mans actions. The man goes to the old mans house every night for seven nights. He goes there for one reason and that's to get the old mans evil eye. He had nothing wrong with the old man other than he doesn't like his eye. The man goes into his bedroom opens the door to see if the eye is open or not. As Poe says, "And then, when my head was well in the room, I undid the lantern cautiously--oh, so cautiously--cautiously (for the hinges creaked)--I undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye." (Poe). The man does this every night at twelve o clock for seven nights to get the old mans vulture eye. He will sit there watching the old man sleep....
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...Dylan Weber Kim Priest English 101 Rhetorical Analysis During the beginning of this article, Tom Bissel has a back and forth comparison of his opinion about the video game Fallout 3, and telling his imaginary children, Kermit and Hussein, what he was doing the day that Barack Obama was elected to be our first African-American President of the United States. He tries to make an argument that even though there was a widely-known national, and even global, event that took place, he felt like playing the open world game of Fallout 3 was just more important. He goes on to say, “And so, my beloved Kermit, my dear little Hussein, at the moment America changed forever, your father was wandering an ICBM-denuded wasteland, nervously monitoring his radiation level, armed only with a baseball bat, a 10mm pistol, and six rounds of ammunition, in search of a vicious gang of mohawked marauders who were 100 percent bad news and totally had to be dealt with. Trust Daddy on this one”. This analogy of two events shows that beating a video game like Fallout 3 was just as important as watching the election of the 44th President of the United States. And while the excruciating detail of the game makes it seem like there was a lot of responsibility on his hands and he makes it sound like an assertion, it wouldn’t matter in the end, because we all know it was just a virtual world, and he missed out on reality. His anecdote was very detailed, however, and I’m sure if there was anyone who was skeptical...
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...International Case Analysis – Heineken Ronald J. McIntosh MG 495 Strategic Management - Winter 2014 City University of Seattle Abstract Heineken begins it story as a company in 1864 when its founder, Gerard Adrian Heineken purchased a small brewery in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Since that time, multiple generations have expanded the Heineken brand to be the third largest brewer in Europe and expanded its branding reach globally. The company’s portfolio includes 170 international premium, regional, local and specialty beers to date and is considered one of the world’s great brewers. These premier brands are available in just about every country globally as well as being recognized as an international premium beer brand (Euromonitor International, 2012). In its branding expansion efforts, the company offers international premium, along with local, regional, specialty beers and ciders. Examples of this can be demonstrated by the acquisition of Scottish & Newcastle followed by the acquisition of FEMSA, Mexico’s second largest brewer and merging its position in the Middle East and Africa with purchases in Nigeria and Ethiopia (Euromonitor International, 2012). Key Learning Points External Environment ...
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...All Summer in a Day Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Critical Reading Identify the letter of the choice that best answers the question. ____ 1. What are the children doing as “All Summer in a Day” opens? |a. |They are teasing Margot. | |b. |They are reciting poetry. | |c. |They are peering out a window. | |d. |They are pushing Margot into a closet. | ____ 2. What does this passage from “All Summer in a Day” suggest about the setting? A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again. And this was the way life was forever on the planet Venus. |a. |Venus was a thousand years old. | |b. |Venus had rain most of the time. | |c. |There had never been forests in Venus. | |d. |There were no forests in Venus. ...
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...Ninsun, a minor goddess noted for her wisdom, and Lugulbanda was his father. Gilgamesh built the great city of Uruk and surrounded it with magnificent, intricately constructed outer and inner walls. He erected beautiful temples for Anu, the god of the heavens, and for Anu’s daughter Ishtar, the goddess of war and love. He laid out orchards and ponds and irrigated fields. A dauntless explorer, Gilgamesh opened passes through the mountains and dug wells in the wilderness. He traveled to the ends of the Earth and beyond, where he met Utnapishtim, the sole survivor of the great flood that almost ended the world. When he returned from his travels he wrote everything down on a tablet of lapis lazuli and locked it in a copper chest. As the story begins, Gilgamesh is terrifying and all-powerful. He sacrifices warriors whenever he feels like fighting, rapes his nobles’ wives, takes whatever he wants from his people, and tramples anyone who gets in his way. The old men of Uruk complain, saying that a king is supposed to protect his subjects like a shepherd, not harass them like a wild ox. The gods listen. They tell Aruru, the goddess of creation, that since she made Gilgamesh, she must now make someone strong enough to stand up to him. Aruru takes some clay, moistens it with her spit, and forms another man, named Enkidu. Shunning the cultivated lands and the cities, he lives in the wilderness with the animals. His most prominent physical feature is his hairiness. One day a hunter...
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...All Summer in a Day Children grow up not knowing how the world works. They don’t understand why people are different from each other, and sometimes they react to differences with jealousy or cruelty. In All Summer in a Day, by Ray Bradbury, the children are jealous and even angry with Margot because she has had experiences that they have not, and she suffers unfairly as a result. You could write a literary analysis about the Figurative Language in this story: The children pressed together LIKE so many roses, so many weeds intermixed. Simile They were remembering gold or a yellow crayon or a coin large enough to build the world with. Metaphor They always awoke to the tatting drum, the endless snaking of clear bead necklaces upon the roof. Metaphor They turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all fumbling spokes. Simile She was an old photograph dusted from an album, whitened away and if she spoke at all her voice would be a ghosts. Metaphor It’s like a penny. Simile The great jungle that covered Venus, that grew and never stopped growing, tumultuously, even as you watched it. It was a nest of octopi, clustering up great arms of fleshlike week, wavering, flowering in this brief spring. Metaphor You could write an essay about what Ray Bradbury is saying about mob mentality in "All Summer and a Day". "All Summer in a Day" shows Margot, the quiet, invisible outcast of the class, being singled out by the rest of her classmates, after telling...
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...SnapChat Company Overview SnapChat is a photo messaging application (App) developed by Evan Spiegel and Robert Murphy. Both of the founders were Stanford students. The application was initially developed for a project at Stanford. This app allows the user to share photos, videos, add text/drawings, and send them to a controlled list of recipients. Users have the benefit of setting a time limit for how long the recipient can view their snaps (Ranging from 1 - 10 seconds), after which the photos/videos will be hidden from the recipient’s device and deleted from SnapChat’s servers. The smalltime college project developed into a huge social media success due to its innovative feature (Magid, 2013). SnapChat is one of the fastest growing social applications ever. For a relatively new company, which was founded in 2011, SnapChat has reached dizzying heights of social media traffic. The company at present shares a minimum of 400 million photos daily. This is even higher than the 350 million photo shared on Facebook daily. Due to the immense popularity the app enjoys, many companies target SnapChat to market their brands. This provides a major source of revenue for the company (Malukas, 2014). The company rose to fame in 2013 when Facebook offered to buy out SnapChat for a whopping $3 billion. But SnapChat declined the offer and the details were splashed around in online tabloids thereby elevating SnapChat’s brand name (Colao, 2014). The SnapChat brand logo is called Ghostface...
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...actor treats the audience establishes, sustains or varies a particular kind of actor-audience relationship between them. In some plays all of the actors may adopt the same attitude towards the audience (for example, the entire cast of a production of a Chekhovian drama will usually ignore the audience until the curtain call); in other plays the performers create a range of different relationships towards the audience (for example, most Shakespearean dramas have certain characters who frequently adopt a downstage ‘platea’ playing position that is in direct contact with the audience, while other characters behave as if unaware of the audience’s presence). Audience is an essential part of the theatrical event. With the actor it comprises one of the two indispensable elements of theatre. There seems to be no dispute over this fact. Yet the audience is the most elusive element of the theatre to deal with, source material is scarce and complex; it does not submit to simple analysis or definition. Primary sources tend to mention curiosities connected with the extravagant behavior of spectators, or to ignore the audience altogether. But in Hansel and Gretel, I know Jonathan Aitken and Sheldon Rosen, Ryerson professors, have developed a unique twist on live performance. Incorporating interaction between live actors and animated typographic actors, their play Hansel and Gretel explores multiple modes of communication: between actors and audience, actors and actors, actors and animated...
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