...atonality. Atonal music (Schoenberg himself preferred the term “pantonal”) is not grounded in a single key; rather, it uses the full chromatic spectrum of pitches instead of the hierarchy of seven in a traditional diatonic scale, and relies on dissonant harmonies instead of consonant triads. Schoenberg composed Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) in three weeks in September 1899. He originally wrote it for string sextet; in 1917, however, he reconceived it for string orchestra, softening the broodiness of the original. The music is a response of sorts to a poem by Richard Dehmel from a collection called Weib und Welt (The Woman and the World). It was first published in 1896, but republished as part of Dehmel’s 1903 verse novel Zwei Menschen (Two People). The poem was modern for the time in which it was written, especially in regard to its realistic, rather lurid subject matter, in which a woman reveals to her lover that she is pregnant with another man’s child. The five stanzas are of uneven length, the silence between the third and fourth stanzas marking the moment in which the woman’s lover decides whether or not to forgive her (he...
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...“Blood Burning Moon” by Jean Toomer, the author takes the reader back in time to the rural south-1 during a time of Jim Crow laws. In a small town, Tom Burwell and Bob Stone challenge each other for the affection of an African American woman named Louisa. Louisa has no last name, which signifies that she has not taken on a name of the “master” or she is just any Negro woman. After bob-1 and Tom discovered each other’s-1 lust for Louisa, a fight breaks out in which Bob’s throat get slashed. Bob, a white man, was able to stumble back to the white side of town to tell others. An extreme racist mob formed quickly to lynch Tom and burned him at the stake. Throughout the story, the author accentuates racism, love and passion, imagery and Tom’s getting lynched.—Thesis needs a clearer and more unified sense of purpose and theme. The moon symbolized the eyes of God as it is lowered to the earth. Clouds symbolized the presence of God. The blood red moon symbolized the host drenched in blood. In this story, the moon is raising toward a dark cloud. These represent God hiding his face from the evil.—If you are gong to make these analytical claims about symbolism, you need to show and back them up with specific and concrete quoted support from the story. In exploring(,)-1 the feelings of Bob and Tom toward Louisa, Toomer portrays a relationship of love and passion through racism. In order to show racial conflict, Toomer creates a romantic clash between the two men for their possession...
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...Fahrenheit 451 Too much technology can tear humanity apart. Ray Bradbury shows this theme through the characters Mildred, Clarisse, Montag, and Faber. In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, he uses characterization to show the themes of humanity and technology. In the book Montag’s wife is Mildred. Her life revolves around technology. Mildred thinks their three full walls of televisions is not enough so she asks, “How long you figure before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a fourth wall- TV put in? It’s only two thousand dollars” (Bradbury 18). Mildred only cares about her television parlor, and money is no object to her. As Mildred sat at the breakfast table she, “watched the toast delivered to her plate. She had both ears plugged with electronic bees that were humming the hour away” (Bradbury 16). This is just...
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...Sometimes you have to accept the worst things life. This is a major theme that shows up through people lives everywhere on Earth, it also shows up in Walk Two Moons. Our main characters Sal and Phoebe both have had to accept several things they tried to deny throughout the book. The most noticeable thing that Sal had to accept was her mother's death. The entirety of the book was leading up to the point where Sal sat in front of her mother's grave and finally accept the fact that her mother, was not coming back. Sal says, “On the tombstone, beneath her name and the dates of her birth and death, was an engraving of a maple tree, and it wa only then, when i saw the stone and her name—Chanhassen “Sugar” Pickford Hiddle—and the engraving of that...
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...The review of the book „Moon palace” by Paul Auster „Moon palace“ is a contemporary novel written by modern American novelist Paul Auster. The book tells story about young man who tries to find himself in a world and about two other men from his previous generations. All three men are linked through fantastic coincidences. Author’s purpose is to remind and make us face some things, which we already know, but usually are afraid to face, things we usually sheer from. “Moon palace” has really diverse characters. The protagonist Marco Stanley (M.S.) Fogg is student in his early twenties, an orphan with no family at all. This lonely orphan seems to be spending entire story searching for his identity, mostly appears, indirectly. He is at a loss in his life and for some time works for Thomas Effing. Effing is wicked person. Man is disabled and blind, but is far from being pitiful. He enjoys laughing at and fooling everyone. All his life is a lie, so it’s no surprise that man is extremely lonely. The last of the main characters, Solomon Barber is trapped in his 350 pound body. He separates himself from the rest of the world by putting the mask of cheerful eccentric, but actually lives in complete solitude. The story takes place in New York, though some of the actions happen in the desert of Utah and in the other parts of America. The events largely take place in the late 60’s and 70’s, but sometimes narrative goes back to early and mid 1900’s. M.S. Fogg is the central...
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...“Don't judge a man until you've walked two moons in his moccasins” this recurring phrase in the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. (Moccasins are american indian shoes). Anywho some of the characters are Sal, Sal's mom, Mrs. Winterbottom,and Phoebe. the book was kind of boring, at the beginning, but hey, the book had lots of emotion, including sadness, happiness, and hopelessness, and would recommend the book to people who have to write a book report. Anyway This first paragraph connects Creech's idea of sal and phoebe in the beginning of the novel. The first quote that supports the idea is “ Mrs. Winterbottom cleaned, baked ,and did laundry.”(27) This supports my topic because Sal's mom and Mrs. Winterbottom both felt they are...
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...teens spend on their phones. But you take away a phone from a teen and it’s the end of their life. They don’t know what to do, they feel isolated from everyone. Now imagine a person being completely disconnected from all of civilization and escaping through the wild? It’s not going to happen; life now is all about social networking. In Edward Abbey’s book, Desert Solitaire, the chapter “The Moon Eyed Horse”, is not merely about Abbey’s encounter with a horse but Abbeys desire to escape society for good. As the chapter begins Abbey is helping his friend Roy roundup cattle in the desert. When they stop to get their horses some water Abbey notices foot prints of an unshod horse, “a wild horse” (Abbey 171). Abbey comes to find out that the horse was Roy’s “Old Moon-Eye is what you might call an independent horse. He don’t belong to anybody. But he ain’t wild. He’s a gelding and he’s got Roy Scobie’s brand on his hide” (Abbey 172). The horse left the ranch ten years ago and never returned back after he received a beating from Viviano for throwing a woman off his back. They called this horse Old Moon-Eyed because of moonblindness: an inflamed condition in one of his eyes. Abbey decides that he wants this horse and questions how the horse could be alone because he is “a herd animal, like the cow, like the human. It’s not natural for a horse to live alone” (Abbey 174). Abbey goes back to find the horse a month...
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...Achievement Test Name: _______________________________ Yr./sec.__________ Date_________ Score: ___ I. Directions: Choose the correct infinitives in each sentence. Encircle the answers. 1. Selfish people will not come forward —— others. A. help B. to help C. to helping D. to helped 2. My teacher came forward —— me in studies. A. help B. helping C. to help D. is helpful 3. —— in the middle of the road is dangerous. A. walk B. to walk C. to be walk D. walking 4. I like —– on violin. A. play B. playing C. be playing D. to play 5. Many women love —— delicacies. A. prepare B. to prepare C. preparing D. be prepared 6. Do you want —– a cup of tea? A. takes B. to take C. take D. taking 7. India is planning —– many atomic plants to generate power. A. builds B. to build C. building D. be build 8. Experiments are going on —– a remedy for diabetes. A. find B. finds C. finding D. to find 9. Try —– as many languages as possible. A. learnt B. to learn C. learn D. learning 10. It is not easy —— all people. A. please B. pleasing C. to be pleased D. to please Figurative Language II. Choose the correct type of figurative language for each sentence below. Encircle your answer. 1. The kitten is as soft as silk. A. idiom B. personification C. onomatopoeia D. simile 2. Nick's head exploded when he heard the bad news! "Head exploded" is an example of a/an A. simile B. onomatopoeia C. idiom D. alliteration 3. Silly Sally sings...
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...servant to Titania First Fairy, Second Fairy The Mechanicals (An acting troupe) Peter Quince – carpenter, leads the troupe and plays Prologue Nick Bottom – weaver, plays Pyramus Francis Flute – bellows-mender, plays Thisbe Robin Starveling – tailor, plays Moonshine Tom Snout – tinker, plays Wall Snug – joiner, plays Lion Play Summary A Midsummer Night's Dream opens with Theseus and Hippolyta planning their wedding, which takes place in four days. Theseus is upset because time is moving so slowly, but Hippolyta assures him the four days will quickly pass. Their relationship has not always been so loving. Theseus won Hippolyta during a battle. While they discuss their relationship, Egeus enters with his daughter, Hermia, and her two suitors, Lysander and Demetrius. Hermia is in love with Lysander, but her father wants her to marry Demetrius. Lysander argues that he is as good of a match as Demetrius, but Egeus won't listen. Instead, he declares that if Hermia won't marry Demetrius, she will die: This is the law of Athens and his right as her father. Theseus agrees that Hermia should obey her father but offers her a third option: spending her life in a nunnery. Hermia has until the day of Theseus and Hippolyta's...
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...In the book Fahrenheit 451, reading and owning books is illegal. Members of society describe in the book focus on entertainment, immediate, and gratification. If books are found they are burned, and their owner is arrested. If the owner refuses to let the fireman burn the books, as in the case with the old woman, he or she often dies, burning along with the books. People with interests outside technology and entertainment are viewed as strange and odd people. Censorship is one of the major themes presented in Fahrenheit 451. The impact of censorship is illustrated through submission in appearance, behavior, and thought. The association between appearance and social acceptance is already apparent in our daily lives. In order to be accepted in a group of people, we tend to do the things that our peers seem to be doing, and as a result censorship in appearance has become a common example of submission today. In the book Montag realizes that a big part of being a fireman is though appearance. “Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn ‘em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That’s our official slogan.” (pg. 8) Are the words that Montag says to Clarisse while walking. When Montag was saying these words to Clarisse, he was probably saying them to fit in that society, where people that don’t have some interests in technology are considered odd and strange. Between Montag and Clarisse’s conversation, Clarisse happens to ask Guy Montag if he ever read any of the books...
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...The new generation wanted to pass on more information to females that encourage them to walk out the home through magic girls so magic girls became the battle heroes. The most popular story of this genre is Sailor Moon (1992-97). The main characters in the Sailor Moon, five high school girls, not only need to care about their study, friendship and romance, but also have to practice fighting skills in order to protect Earth from enemies who come from other plants. Those girls are cute but also are soldiers. Audiences found women also can become excellent fighters as men in the Sailor Moon. Through Susan Napier: “Sailor Moon shows images of powerful young women...that anticipate genuine, although small, changes in women’s empowerment over the last two decades and certainly suggest alternatives to the notion of Japanese women as passive and domesticated” (qtd in Kumiko146). Such powerful characters reflected an idea at that time that women have the power to fight for what they want; those things can be something women want to protect but also could be some rights women want to keep. Additionally, more “gender-crossing themes” comics had published followed by Sailor Moon (Kumiko 156), which enhanced the voice of gender equality. By watching those animes, more and more Japanese females felt not satisfied with taking family duties, they also wanted to have a voice in the...
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...gathering berries and nuts, were facing a lack of food. A giant monolith appeared on Earth one day and began to experiment with many of them, probing and developing their minds. Among those in whom the monolith took an interest was Moon-Watcher, the only man-ape who walked fully upright. At night, a few select man-apes were taught and during the day, they innovated. Moon-Watcher discovered that he could fashion tools with which to kill animals for sustenance—the man-apes' hunger problem was solved. Time passed and the man-ape evolved. His brain grew, he invented language and organized into civilizations, and he invented weapons—first knives, but then guns and finally nuclear missiles. Such innovations had been central in man's dominion over earth, but "as long as they existed, he was living on borrowed time." Eager to embark on another space mission, Dr. Heywood Floyd arrived at the Florida launch location after meeting with the president. He offered no comment to the press, nor would he reveal the details of mission to the crew that served him so faithfully on board or to his Russian friend whom he encounters at the joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. space station, a stop on his journey to the Moon. Upon his arrival, Floyd is greeted by a top official of the Moon colony and whisked off to a meeting. A lead scientist explains that they had found a magnetic disturbance in Tycho, one of the Moon's craters. An examination of the area had revealed a large black slab, called Tycho Magnetic Anomaly-One...
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...Esther or Ruth or even Jonah. They're angst filled books. They're about judgement. Frankly, they can be downright depressing. But when one looks deeper within these books, some major themes that are applicable to today become noticeable. The themes of idolatry – who and what we worship, social injustices, and religious ritualism emerge. While we may like to think that these are issues of the past, they are still present and relative in 2013. Another theme emerges too: God's great and deep love for his people and the desire to see them restored. Israel wrestled over worshiping a God they couldn't see. No matter how many times God made himself known to them, they still assimilated into the culture and chose to worship man-made gods over the living God. God used the prophets to call Israel out and to give them fair warning to turn back to himself and to uphold their end of their covenantal responsibility. From the outset of his message on behalf of the Lord, the prophet Zephaniah condemned the people of Judah and their worship of false idols saying, "I will crush Judah and Jerusalem with my fist and destroy every last trace of their Baal worship. I will put an end to all the idolatrous priests, so that even the memory of them will disappear. For they go up to their roofs and bow down to the sun, moon, and stars. They claim to follow the LORD, but then they worship Molech, too. And I will destroy those who used to worship me but now no longer do. They no longer ask for the LORD's...
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...Nathaniel Hawthorne, and “A Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Poe insanity is the most prevalent theme. Each story takes place in a prison like environment and each protagonist is suffering from a form of insanity. The story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman takes place in the late 19th century , which anchors it in a very specific historical moment in terms of women and their perceived abilities. The narrator and her husband John are renting a beautiful, isolated estate for the summer. The narrator says the house is “The most beautiful place! It is quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village. It makes me think of the English places that you read about. For there are hedges and walls and gates that lock, and lots of separate little houses for the gardeners and people” (Gilman pg.552). It’s a fancy house but more saliently, it stands back away from the road and contains many "locks" and "separate little houses." Overall, this is a very isolating place. It’s separate from the road and therefore could be considered separated from society; the house itself is described as a place that binds and restricts. Within the house the narrator is primarily confined to a “big, airy room….with windows that look all ways” (Gilman, 552). This room is a converted nursery with the grimy yellow wallpaper still on the wall. In keeping with the theme of isolation and restrictions the windows that look out everywhere are barred preventing any...
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...Todd Terje-Inspector Norse (Dope as Fuck) Twin sister – lady day dream (coo) Twin sister – I want a house (coo) Mr twin sister – Blush (Dope AF) Mr twin sister – Sensitive (nice AF) Clark – winter linn (coo) Mr twin sister – Rude boy (Dope) Jodeci Acapella on soultrain(the intro) Boyz 2 Men – Don’t go/can you stand the rain (live) Jodice – What about us (This is a hit!!!) Jodice – Alone (dope) Isaac Hayes – Ik’s Mood (dope) Mark Asari –Revive (dope AF) Michael Jackson – The Lady in my life (Dope) Ericka Baduh – didn’t u know (ill) Switch- I call your name(coo) Erick Sermon – Fat gold chain (Dope AF) Silver Convention – Fly robin, fly (Checkit) SWV – Weak Mikey Dread – Roots and Culture (nice) Charles Earland – Happy ‘cause I’m goin’ home (Dope) Cortex – Juit Octobre 1971 (dope AF) Cortex – Triypeau bleu (coo) Cortex – Chanson D’un jour D'hiver (This shit is crazy!!!) Carole King – It’s to late (nice) The Shirelles – Baby it’s you (???) Tony! Toni! Tone! – Pillow (???) Luther Vandross – So Amazing (The Montserrat session) (nice) Melvin Sparks – Cranberry Sunshine Kaskade-Fire and Ice (kaskade mix) (Coo) Blank & Jones – Face La Mer (this shit is ill) Zeb – The Circle (This is it!!!) Smadj – Sel (Dope AF) Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Summertime (the end is trill) Joe – All the things (the break down in the middle is ill) Earl Klugh –A Certain Smile (intro) Earl Klugh – Another Time, Another Place Earl Klugh – Could it be I’m falling...
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