...As the world gets older, the population will only grow larger. Crowded countries like india and china are all already packed, both with over one billion people. There is a lot of talk about the world and its crowded population. People are looking in the future and seeing an overpopulated world. In “TV as Birth Control.” Fred Pearce’s argument that television can influence behavior on individuals has some pros and some cons. With technology today it is very easy to attract the viewer and place a message in there mind. The author Makes good point when he talks about soap operas. Viewers make connections and bonds with characters they follow on a show. What one sees each time they watch there favorite soap opera, may start to effect and rub off on the viewers lifestyle. Pearce states “ TV offers on a world previously known to most women. Seeing is believing” (Pearce 216). Women see these fantasy lifestyles and it leaves a little bit of question and curiosity in there minds. If the viewers favorite character in there Tv show is against having children or being successful with only has one or two kids, there actions will effect the viewer. In this case it could cause a possible decline in fertility ,...
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...The relationship between words - music in the operas of the 17th and early 18th centuries Music and Words Early 17th century English lute song represents a perfect fusion of words and music, simultaneously conceived by poets and composers with a deep instinctive understanding of each other’s business. This is a critical commonplace with heavy implications for performers. Words and music have played important roles in culture ever since their emergence in prehistoric humans. which is responsible for speech, developed in humanoids more than 60,000 years ago, and the oldest known bone flute is 40,000 years old. Poetry, philosophy, and drama survive from ancient Western cultures, and both music iconography and music notation have also been discovered. The relationship between music and words is found in vocal music - songs, choral music, opera, musical theater, and so on. Beyond defying a traditional approach of absolute music in where music represents nothing other than itself words do not only add to the atmosphere of program music, but can be used as linguistic instruments in cooperation with the voice itself. Today, vocal music reigns supreme with its instrumental counterpart not seeing the same success. So it can be seen that most view words as the ultimate form of expression therefore it is also a vehicle to more clearly and efficiently declare whichever message an artist chooses to convey. Music is a way that many people express their thoughts and feelings about...
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...Phantom of the Opera What is a disability? The term itself can be defined as “a physical or mental handicap, especially one that prevents a person from living a full, normal life” (Dictionary.com). In media, disabilities are numerous and can be depicted in a variety of ways. In the film, Phantom of the Opera, the 2004 version, directed by Joel Schumacher, stereotypes for those with disabilities arise. The reason why the Phantom of the Opera can be looked at as a film that enforces a stereotype is because of the phantom himself. Due to his deformity, the phantom presents that the disabled are evil and should be kept away from their present societies. When a present society rejects one based on their disability, they are bound to seek revenge. According to Jack Nelson’s, “Broken Images: Portrayals of Those with Disabilities in American Media”, “disabled villains rail against their “fate” and vow to...
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...baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboardand violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position, always composing abundantly. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his death. The circumstances of his early death have been much mythologized. He was survived by his wife Constanze and two sons. Mozart learned voraciously from others, and developed a brilliance and maturity of style that encompassed the light and graceful along with the dark and passionate. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and his influence on subsequent Western art music is profound; Beethoven composed his own early works in the shadow of Mozart, and Joseph Haydn wrote that "posterity will not see such a talent...
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...Mountain Dew: Selecting a New Creative Mountain Dew is a Carbonated Soft Drink Invented by Hartman Beverage Company in 1940. It’s Bright yellow / Green in color and has more sugar, Citrus flavor, and Less Carbonation as compared to the other soft drinks available in the market. It was taken over by PepsiCo in 1964 and now stands 3rd in the soft drinks category (Bruce 1) “Do the Dew!” This was a long time tag line for the Mountain Dew brand. In 1995 marketing managers for Mountain Dew realized the tag line had lost consumer interests, understanding this they changed the direction of the creative. Though the creative changed, the target market for Mountain Dew remained in line. Mountain Dew’s ad campaign between 1995 and 1999 did not live up to the brands expectations. PepsiCo decided that in 2000 Mountain Dew would be featured during the Super Bowl rather than Pepsi. This was an enormous feat, as the Super Bowl had been an influential event for advertisers for decades. It was already October 1999 for the marketing executives and decisions had to be made to get the production started. Only three advertisements were going to be chosen, two to be played during the Super Bowl and all three throughout the year 2000. There were ten initial concepts proposed and five remained. Scott Moffit, the Marketing Director for Mountain Dew, was the least senior executive and first to evaluate the concepts. Throughout the years PepsiCo managers paid close attention to music and sports as these...
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...popular books, movies, and songs, we cannot help but admire, sympathize, and forgive these criminals. The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Perfume, The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind are two great examples of this psychological phenomenon. Both texts reveal the cultural environment on one hand and human nature on the other as stimuli feeding the internal drives of these monsters. In The Threepenny Opera, the main protagonist, Mac the Knife, is introduced as a murderer, rapist, and arsonist. The opening scenes of Perfume begin with the explosive cheers of a filled stadium awaiting the death sentence of Jean- Baptiste Grenouille. Yet, upon further inspection, both characters emerge as charmingly crafty masterminds that win the love and affection of those around them. Similarly, as readers and viewers, we too find ourselves drawn to these characters, as did Brecht’s audiences and Suskind’s readers in the twentieth century. Brecht and Suskind created this mass appeal through their deranged miscreants who personified human nature and related them to our everyday lives. Just as Mac the Knife and Grenouille searched for their ultimate pleasures, so would human beings if they could get away with doing whatever it takes. Both texts emphasize the cultural and societal influences on the values of Mac the Knife and Grenouille. The novel, Perfume, opens up with the birth of Grenouille in eighteenth-century France where “the streets stank of manure, the courtyards of urine” (Suskind...
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...Anthony Perraglia Professor Mattern Eng 10 10 December 2013 Orfeo ed Euridice During the transition from the Baroque to Classical period, opera slowly became entertainment focused on the middle class. There were less operas written about kings and queens, and more about mythical figures. The reform of opera might not have been started by him, but Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) is said to be one of the first operatic composers to adapt his newer works to the reformation styles. ( Hanning, 324) Some examples of the style included new stories appealing to the middle class, less attention directed at the singer, and more attention to the music. One of his first operas, Orfeo ed Euridice, is a prime example. Although Gluck’s 1762 production of Orfeo ed Euridice in Vienna is his greatest success, it was an opera previously used by Monteverdi, titled L’Orfeo. (Boyden, 79) Orfeo ed Euridice is somewhat similar to L’Orfeo, seeing as the two follow the Greek myth of Orpheus. Though there were similarities between the two, no evidence was found stating that Gluck was influenced by the previous production, or if he was even familiar with Monteverdi’s work. The myth describes a young shepherd, Orpheus, whose music had the power to tame the animals and win the affection of others. (Boyden, 79) On his wedding day, while walking through the fields of Thrace, he receives word that his wife, Eurydice, has died. (Boyden, 79)...
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...Drama 148A Part 2 I. Operetta: * * Mixture of classical singers and orchestras with lighter, often comical story lines, like opera bouffe. * * Contained popular dances: * Can-cans * Polkas * Waltzes * * A musical art for the masses 1. Operetta in Europe: * * Paris w/ Jacques Offenbach * “Operettes” * * London w/ Gilbert & Sullivan * * Vienna w/ Johann Strauss II * “The Waltz King” 2. French Operetta: * Jacques Offenbach * * The Grand Duchess of Geroldstein (1867) * Libretto by: Ludovic Halévy & Henri Meilhac (of Carmen fame) * Orpheus In the Underword (1858) featuring can-can (gallop infernal) 3. English Operetta: Gilbert and Sullivan * * William Schwench Gilbert (W.S.) * 1836-1911 * * Book & Lyrics * Pen name “Bab” * * Arthur Seymour Sullivan * 1842-1900 * * Composer * German trained * One-act opera: Cox and Box * First collaboration: Thespis (1871) * * Richard D’Oyly Carte, producer * * First hit: Trial By Jury (1875) * * D’Oyly Carte Opera Co. * The Sorcerer (1876) * W.S. Gilbert, *Stage Director a. * H.M.S. Pinafore (1878): * Staging had to be followed, no improvisation * Comedy * 10,000 vocal copies sold a day b. The Pirates of Penzance (1879): * * Revived in 1980 by the New York Shakespeare Festival * * Producer, Joseph Papp * * Starred Linda Ronstadt & Kevin Kline * * Premiered...
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...individuals believe this common item is actually detrimental to our society. With its overwhelming depiction of sex, and how sex is portrayed in our society, it is enough to make one think that our world is being transformed into an entertainment reality. Although many individuals realize that television is not real, and they understand how to comprehend the difference between reality and fiction in our society the studies and facts speak louder that television is more harmful than beneficial. To understand the effects of television and sex on our society and on our growing and impressionable children we can examine what acts are actually shown on television, who watches what, how children and teens respond to television, how soap operas and other reality shows shape our culture’s views and...
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...It is a well-known fact that good communication is a key factor in every relationship. Without it, other, more important parts will start to deteriorate and lead to larger problems. This is what happens to the heroine of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina when she leaves one relationship for another, more destructive one. In the novel Anna Karenina, Tolstoy creates a character whose lack of communication destroys both of her romantic relationships and eventually herself. The reader is first introduced to Anna while she is visiting her brother’s family in Moscow. Here, she is described by nearly everyone she meets as charming and animated, and she seems to feel a fire within her. Upon returning home in Petersburg, the fire has gone out and it is clear to readers that Anna is bored, stuck in the routine of her love life while she thinks of Vronsky, a man she met in Moscow. “Not only was the animation that had simply been gushing out of her eyes and her smile in Moscow no longer there: on the contrary, the fire in her now seemed quenched or hidden somewhere deep inside her” (Tolstoy 134). This line provides foreshadowing for the steps Anna will take in trying to find the same fire and happiness she felt while in Moscow, instead of reaching out to her husband for help. Soon, Anna finds herself in an affair with Vronsky, sneaking to parties to meet up with him. While her husband, Karenin, senses her infidelity, he buries himself in his work and ignores the feeling. While both of them...
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...NCFE-AUD-405 MUSICIANSHIP & THE MUSIC INDUSTRY NCFE LEVEL 4 IN AUDIO & MUSIC PRODUCTION WESTERN MUSICAL ERAS ESSAY Name : Abel Varghese ID No. : AAT/MPDN/00029/BLR Starting Date : 08/05/2016 Submission Date : 13/05/2016 Assessor : Raemus Casterlino Content Introduction…………………………………………………………………………..03 Medieval Music……………………………………………………………………....04 Renaissance…………………………………………………………………………..05 Baroque...…………………………………………………………………………….06 Classical……………………………………………………………………………...07 Romantic……………………………………………………………………………..08 20th Century music…………………………………………………………………...09 21st Century………………………………………………………………………….10 Introduction Music is said to be present in the ancestral period and it was first evolved from Africa and was later spread to the west, which later on became a fundamental constituent of life. Each era existed for a period of time, such as the pre-historic music, ancient music, biblical period , western musical period etc. The western musical era of music will be mentioned in detail below. This period consisted of the medieval music, renaissance music, baroque, classical, 20th century music, and 21st century music. Medieval Music The western music is popularly known for the Gregorian chant also known as the plain chant. This was during years 500 – 1400. It was more of the vocal religious practices of the roman catholic church. The plainchants had very little pitch change and had consisted of only a single melody and lacked harmony. There...
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...He was the total opposite from his brother, Ira, in personality. George Gershwin was a curious and noisy person, who enjoyed the full extent of the outdoors. At the time of his birth, jazz, especially from New Orleans, was spreading across America like a wildfire. Jazz was an inspiration for him and at ten years of age, he started piano lessons with Mr. Hambitzer. Afterwards he started to work as a song plugger in a local restaurant, receiving a lot of experience and skill. He constantly was transposing and changing the tempo of the songs in order to accommodate the customers’ vocal ranges. He was ambitious and wanted to be remembered as...
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...Hunter Lee Mountain Dew Case 10/16/12 For Pepsi Co. and BBDO to choose a specific advertisement to place into a slot during the super bowl; there has to be a varying degree of analysis on different aspects to decide which ad’s to place in the slots. Certain criteria need to be satisfied by the ad that is selected; it needs to hit the target audience, get across the correct brand image, have the correct brand symbolism, needs to be a “Story” in a sense, have a good product integration, and be in line with the campaign extension. If one of the ad’s can fall into line with these certain criteria all while “symbolizing that drinking Mountain Dew is an exhilarating experience” (Gopalakrishnan). BBDO is going to need to give Mountain Dew certain ad’s choices that are based off of certain filters that are factored into the decision that Mountain Dew makes. The first is that the ad’s need to expand to new customers also while still appealing to the current users. The selected ad needs to communicate a universal appeal. As well, the creative should bring out the product benefits: energizing, quenching, and great taste, emotional benefits: exhilaration and suiting to an irreverent, daring and fun personality. The outlying problem for Mountain Dew is selecting an advertisement that suffices all these criteria, but will be able to differentiate itself from the rest of the ad’s during the super bowl. Considering the super bowl advertisement market is possibly the largest...
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...two hundred miles northwest of New York City. It is part of Otsego County. Cooperstown is home to the Baseball Hall of Fame, Glimmer Glass Opera House, and Fenimore Art Museum. It had a population of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four people in 2013 with the mean age of 38. 93.95% of the population is white and 29.35% have a graduate or higher professional degree. 16.4% of Cooperstown’s population lives in poverty. From 2005-2012 there were no murders in this town. Theft is the highest crime with only twenty-seven reported thefts in 2012. Healthcare and social assistance are the most common industries with surgeons and physicians leading the most common occupations. Cooperstown has a low obesity rate of 20.2% of its population being obese and 81.1% of its residence reporting leisure time physical activity, compared with the national average of 74.0%. In Cooperstown 20.8% of adults smoke and 37.3% were hospitalized in 2007 for smoking related illnesses including COPD and CLRD. The number of hospitalizations are lower than the New York state average of 41.8%, but the percentage of adult smokers is higher. (NYS Prevention 2009) The birth rate for Otsego County is 38.3 per 1,000 women while the infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births was 7.2. The infant mortality rate is higher than the state average which is 5.6 and the birth rate is lower than the state which is 60.8. In 2006 the mortality rate per 100,000 population was 911.7. (NYS Prevention 2009) Cooperstown...
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...Rip Van Winkle Summary: “Rip Van Winkle” is an American masterpiece of the short story. It is based on local history but is rooted in European myth and legend. Irving reportedly wrote it one night in England, in June, 1818, after having spent the whole day talking with relatives about the happy times spent in Sleepy Hollow. The author drew on his memories and experiences of the Hudson River Valley and blended them with Old World contributions. “Rip Van Winkle” is such a well-known tale that almost every child in the United States has read it or heard it narrated at one time or another. Rip is a simple-minded soul who lives in a village by the Catskill Mountains. Beloved by the village, Rip is an easygoing, henpecked husband whose one cross to bear is a shrewish wife who nags him day and night. One day he wanders into the mountains to go hunting, meets and drinks with English explorer Henry Hudson’s legendary crew, and falls into a deep sleep. He awakens twenty years later and returns to his village to discover that everything has changed. The disturbing news of the dislocation is offset by the discovery that his wife is dead. In time, Rip’s daughter, son, and several villagers identify him, and he is accepted by the others. One of Irving’s major points is the tumultuous change occurring over the twenty years that the story encompasses. Rip’s little Dutch village had remained the same for generations and symbolized rural peace and prosperity. On his return, everything has...
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