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- 12321: Breakdancing
- Breakdancing a form of African American dance that emerged from the hip hop culture of the South Bronx, New York, during the mid-1970s. Drawing upon several African American dance forms, break dancing coalesced in the 1970s and reached its peak in popularity during the 1980s. Breakdancing developed out of the Bronx, New York, disco scene. When disco DJs changed records, dancers would fill the resulting musical breaks, or "breakbeats," with movements that emphasized the rupture in rhythmic continuity. These highly acrobatic interludes developed into a new genre that mixed Afrodiasporic dance styles, reflecting the influence of the lindy-hop, the Charleston, the cakewalk, and the jitterbug as well as the Afro-Brazilian martial-arts dance Capoeira and the antics of ...
- 12322: Beethoven 3
- ... his natural spontaneity, or because he may sometimes have thought he was wasting time in jotting down everything and anything that occurred to him. But there was no real alternative for him - he was breaking new ground all the time and must therefore go warily. Slowness is the first quality in Beethoven's character making him typical of the change of attitude of musicians towards their art at the turn of ... be no doubt that, like Haydn, he would have produced a vast quantity of finished work, much of it consisting of masterpieces of the kind he must have felt were already too numerous in the world. Beethoven was not, it is important stress, an iconoclastic revolutionary, and a great deal of the music he did write was successful in fulfilling purposes similar to those of Haydn in many of his finest ...
- 12323: Banned And Censored Music
- ... in this country. Censorship is the control of what people may say or hear, write or read, or see or do. Censorship can affect books, newspapers, magazines, motion pictures, radio and television programs, and speeches. (World Book 345) Most of the early problems with the censorship of music came about in the early 1950's. This was the first real era of rock and roll in America. In 1954 a Michigan ... What is so offensive about that to have it censored from the public. Times have changed though, today we just sit back and laugh at that type of censorship. The 1960's brought about a new wave of censorship. During the 1960's, popular music diversified, and so did the censors. Although the censorship supposedly diversified, the uncalled-for censorship of certain music continued. In 1964 the state of Indiana banned ...
- 12324: BNL - When I Fall Poetry
- ... is afraid of failure. At this point the window washers troubles take on the form of deep mental anguish where he resorts to prayer and laments on the physically and mentally troubling aspects of his world. In the next stanza, the window washer comments on the prestige of the boardroom he looks into as he washes the windows. Here he addresses the change he wants to make in his life and ... this, his thoughts become radical and he contemplates suicide. By the end of the song however, he pulls himself together and realizes that what he does and who is does have some value in the world. All of this is brought to the reader by an abundant use of figurative language throughout the song. For Instance, the scaffold the man is standing on symbolizes his position in life (he is scared and wants to escape. In the third stanza, after describing the problems with his world and how he prays, he curses the windstorms. This is actually a metaphor for his mental confusion and despair. In the next stanza, the prestige of the boardroom is made evident by the allusion ...
- 12325: Analysis Of Casablanca
- ... that makes you feel that you are watching something artistic, rather than something that was produced off an assembly line as most films were in the 1940's . The film is set in Martinique during World War II. Wartime makes finding work hard for Bogart, forcing him to break his neutrality and take a job smuggling in a fugitive. Of course this leads to trouble: there are gun rights both by ... sex. There are no deep and meaningful symbolic representations. It's pure Hollywood, and although many will hate to admit it pure Hollywood can be good. To Have and Have Not may not offer anything new and exciting, but it doesn't need to, what it offers is something good, and that's good enough.
- 12326: Amistad 3
- ... Beyond of this simple representation, blacks were also viewed as threats, but they actually protected customs valued by their culture for posterity. Second, the arrival of the ship La Amistad brought forth passengers from another world further questioning human rights values supplanting the current mindless values of America. The appearance of the Mendes in America changed the lives of everyone; from the President of the United States down to the ... effect on his nation. I believe that whether it be the case of the Mende people or any other, the change was inevitable. While Baldwin and his team represent the opposing forces of old and new, the prosecution and judicial court exemplified the countrys current need and status. Specifically, Cinque symbolized change. In this manner, Baldwin argued that the course of history could be changed by any one person or ...
- 12327: Perspective In As For Me And M
- ... but ga conspiracyh (Ross, 95). After Steve left, Philip began spending a great deal of time with Judith. Philip was using Judith as an escape; an escape from his wife, Mrs. Bentley and her world. Judith offered everything that Mrs. Bentley could not; excitement, mystery, and lust. This prompts a mood change in Philip. gPhilip acts different now...h (Ross, 143). Philip appears to almost come around now, supporting Mrs ... never has the opportunity to talk with, or share Philips feelings. gOnce again, he closed the door behind him while entering his studyh (Ross, 64). Due to Mrs. Bentleyfs involvement with Paul, the new male of the house, and Philips involvement with Steve and Judith, it becomes impossible to recognize her views or narrative as be legitimate or true. Similarly, there are also a number of events in the ...
- 12328: Persuasion--austin Poor Dick
- ... novel s overriding themes. Austen presents the idea that one s merit is more a measure of usefulness and worth than the rank that one s family holds. This is a very powerful and relatively new idea for the early 18th century, a time period in which the aristocracy is still a powerful social class. Austen s exploration of usefulness vs. uselessness allows the reader to gain a glimpse of the ... aristocracy. Austen seems to be expounding on Richard s uselessness and his failure to live up to the promise of his birth and entitlement. This is a very important point. It seems that in the world of Persuasion, it is the qualities of usefulness, resourcefulness and capability that are attractive to the reader. To the aristocracy, what one does with one s day is of the utmost importance. The Elliots are ...
- 12329: The Chain Of Art
- ... be abstract and geometrical to an untrained eye, cubist art do depict real objects. The shapes are flattened onto canvas so that different sides of each shape can be shown simultaneously from many angles. This new style gave a 3 dimensional look on the canvas. The cubist movement gave rise to an extraordinary reassessment of the interaction between form and space changing the course of western art forever. The groundbreaking Demoiselles ... its innovators was Umberto Boccioni who said We want represent not the optical or analytical impression but the physical and total experience (Futurism 101). They now pinned less faith on the power of new subject matter and strove to complement their colour divisionism with fragmentation of the cubist sort (Futurism 101). Suprematism was influenced by cubism because of it geometric shapes but suprematism was not so much a movement ... art as it is an attitude (Suprematism 138). This non-movement was created by Kasmir Malevichs , His elemental forms were designed both to break the artists conditioned responses to his environment and create new realities no less significant then the realities of nature herself (Suprematism 138). A suprematist work, banishes every trace of subject, it used color and form and there interaction to form a subject. While cubism ...
- 12330: Masaccio - Innovator Of Perspe
- ... years after Masaccios death. This chapel is now a significant monument in the history of art. These frescoes had a tremendous impact on Florentine art thereof, and were used as a basis to teach new artists like Michelangelo and Raphael. It is on these walls that Masaccio created -Expulsion from Eden and The Tribute Money, and many others with Biblical subjects. Probably his most famous, The Tribute Money, gives a ... Art/ http://www.televisual.it/uffizi/masacci.html http://rubens.anu.edu.au/imageserve/texts//vasari/vasari.masaccio.html http://www.televisual.it/uffizi/masacci.html Bergin, Thomas G. PH D. Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. New York: Facts on File Publication, 1987. Borland, Bruce, ed, et-al. Civilzation Past & Present. New York. Harper Collins Publishers Inc., 1992. No
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