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- 7901: The History of Music
- ... called Guido d'Arezzo. This was made of four lines. A method of notation that made it possible to show the length of each note was developed in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Notes took new shapes and stems were added to some notes according to their length. By the 1600's the notes had become round and musical notation began to look like it does today. Today music is written ... years. It is fortunate that this picture language was developed. Today music is written so that it can be played and sung as the composer intended. BIBLIOGRAPHY Another Tell Me Why, Arkady Leokum, Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1977 Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia, CD ROM, Compton's New Media, Inc., 1995 The World Book Encyclopedia Vol. 13, Field Enterprises Educational Corp., 1965
- 7902: The Phonograph
- ... of shellac, which is used to make the metal molds from which vinyl records are mass produced. The Phonograph's early beginnings In 1876 Edison had opened the first industrial research laboratory, at Menlo Park, New Jersey. In 1877, the same year in which he improved the telephone mouthpiece in a crucial manner, he also made what he always said was his favorite invention--the phonograph (from Greek words meaning "sound ... place to make it. The output of gramophones from Japanese electronics companies, the main producers, peaked in 1983. Last year 4.7m gramophones were made in Japan, roughly half the number made four years before. World sales of records have fallen from 16 billion units in 1982 to 13 billion in 1986; sales of CDS started in 1982 and reached 140m units in 1986. A hundred years ago new inventions were much heralded, and took generations to perfect themselves in the market. Today new inventions stumble across each other in the race to the shops, and live but a little while before being ...
- 7903: The Return of the Native: A Relationship Destined for Destruction
- ... on Eustacia: “‘May all murderesses get the torment they deserve’”(Hardy 251). Shirley Stave believes that Clym: “…represents modern consciousness, Hardy’s grim projection of where the human species is headed”(56). With Clym’s new goal of becoming a school official , he disregards his new wife and her needs, and concentrates solely on his studies. He reads constantly until, finally, his eye sight gives out. This leads Walcutt to believe that Clym is “bent on self-destruction” (Hardy 492). Clym is driven by impulses with out the thought of logic. Hardy portrays Clym as a man with extreme ideas. Clym pursues his new goals in life without the thought of logic. He possesses an unbalanced mind: A well-proportioned mind is one which shows no particular bias; one of which we may safely say that it will ...
- 7904: Things Fall Apart
- ... of Umuofia falls apart, and becomes influenced by the West. In “Things Fall Apart,” Achebe uses Okonkwo and the village’s falling out to show how African culture, as well as other cultures around the world, suffered as a result of Westernization. In the book, Achebe focuses mainly on the character of Okonkwo. Okonkwo’s story follows the general pattern of a Greek tragedy. He experiences many successes in the beginning ... years. While in his exile, missionaries came to his motherland. These white men greatly disturbed Okonkwo. He especially became angry when he heard that his oldest son, Nwoye, was one of the converts to the new faith. His resentment for the missionaries grew, and he was appalled when he returned to Umuofia after his seven-year exile. He became extremely distressed when the men of Umuofia decided not to go to ... the demise of many ancient cultures. The reason this book sold so many copies, I believe, is because it can be applied not only to Africa, but to all of the other cultures around the world that were ruined by Westernization. In “Things Fall Apart,” Achebe not only describes the life and death of one man, but also the life and death of the world’s many different cultures, as ...
- 7905: Analysis of "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
- ... the poem is that of the horses heads looking toward eternity. Knapp believes that the final image allows the speaker's view to broaden from inside of the carriage to the rest of the outside world (94). Thus, the reader is given a broader image than what he has yet experienced in the poem. Now, the reader is left with the image of eternity. The number of images lessen as the ... the reader's mind to a variety of ideas about death. Surely, after reading the poem, the reader could never view death in a singular way again. Poetry at its best leaves the reader with new ideas about the topic at hand. As a result of the writing of the poets of the nineteenth century, readers are given many different ways of regarding various aspects of life. Works Cited Adventures in American Literature, Pegasus Edition. Ed. Francis Hodgins. Dallas: HBJ, 1989. 330. American Literature: The Makers and the Making. Ed. Cleanth Brooks. Vol. 2. New York: SMP, 1973. 1250. Davis, Thomas M. 14 by Emily Dickinson. Dallas: SFC, 1964. 101-18. Farr, Judith. The Passion of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge: HUP, 1992. 329-31. Knapp, Bettina L. Emily Dickinson. New ...
- 7906: Israfel By Poe, An Analysis
- ... oweing to us in that we are an outlet for his song on this earth. We allow for his creativity to be expressed, not just in heaven or the spiritual plain, but in the physical world as well. That way all of God's creatures may experience the beauty of his song and not dwell on the troubles of everyday life. It is a oneness with Israfel that Poe is hoping ... forty through fifty deal with Poe's bafflement over Israfel and his own inward struggle. He remarks of the perfectness of his muse's existence and the glorys of paradise before commenting on our on world, calling it " a world of sweets and sours." We have the good and the bad and must deal with it in a physical nature and not in a song. Poe then refers to flowers as just flowers, possibly ...
- 7907: Characteristics of the Beowulf Poem
- ... about whether the Christian elements are intrinsic or are interpolations by a tenth century monastic scribe. In any case, the Christianity does not much resemble that of the High Middle Ages or of the modern world. Frequently the poem seems a reflection of the traditional pagan value system from the moral point of view of the new, incompletely assimilated Christianity."(Foster 502) In Britannica it says that critics have seen the poem as a Christian allegory, with Beowulf the champion of goodness and light against the forces of evil and darkness. His ... of English history, heroism, and fantasy. It will remain a monument of Old English forever. Works Cited "Beowulf." Encyclopædia Britannica. 1990 ed. Beowulf. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed. M. H. Abrams et al. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1987. 19-72. Foster, Edward. "Beowulf." Masterplots. Revised ed. New Jersey: Salem Press, 1986. Raffel, Burton. Beowulf. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1971.
- 7908: Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... sections at a time in The Strand magazine in 1901. Conan Doyle wrote a true autobiography, Memories and Adventures in 1924. Arthur's last published book; Edge of the Unknown, was published in 1930.22 World travel played a big role in the backgrounds for Doyle's stories and novels. The Doyle family visited Berlin, Germany in 1890 to investigate bacteriologist Robert Koch's claim to have possibly have found the ... his family to Australia to spread the word about spiritualism.26 In 1926, The Land of Mist was published. Doyle had officially declared himself a spiritualist. He then wrote his first spiritualism book called The New Revelation, and a two-volume history book about spiritualism. In 1927, the death of Mary Foley Doyle, Arthur's mother, touched the entire family.27 In 1929, The Maracot Deep and other stories were published ... struck. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died of a heart attack at his home in Windlesham, Crowborough, weighing 243 pounds.30 He was survived by Jean Doyle and their three children. His death greatly saddened the world and all of his faithful followers. Although Doyle was a very clumsy person, he was still a lover of sports, who played rugby and billiards like a paid professional. Doyle was a person everyone ...
- 7909: Analysis of "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
- ... the poem is that of the horses heads looking toward eternity. Knapp believes that the final image allows the speaker's view to broaden from inside of the carriage to the rest of the outside world (94). Thus, the reader is given a broader image than what he has yet experienced in the poem. Now, the reader is left with the image of eternity. The number of images lessen as the ... the reader's mind to a variety of ideas about death. Surely, after reading the poem, the reader could never view death in a singular way again. Poetry at its best leaves the reader with new ideas about the topic at hand. As a result of the writing of the poets of the nineteenth century, readers are given many different ways of regarding various aspects of life. Works Cited Adventures in American Literature, Pegasus Edition. Ed. Francis Hodgins. Dallas: HBJ, 1989. 330. American Literature: The Makers and the Making. Ed. Cleanth Brooks. Vol. 2. New York: SMP, 1973. 1250. Davis, Thomas M. 14 by Emily Dickinson. Dallas: SFC, 1964. 101-18. Farr, Judith. The Passion of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge: HUP, 1992. 329-31. Knapp, Bettina L. Emily Dickinson. New ...
- 7910: Andrea del Sarto: A Statement Worthy of Examination
- ... Raphael. Browning attributes this to del Sarto’s wife, as is the case with most women, she binds del Sarto with “love,” thus oppressing him from his destiny, which is to become one of the world’s finest artists. Andrea del Sarto, one of, if not, the finest poems ever written by Browning contains a much deeper meaning that holds true for several of the poets, rulers and people that we have studied this past semester. That meaning, symbolized by del Sarto’s life, is summed up best in lines 137-138. Browning writes, “ In this world, who can do a thing, will not;/ And who would do it, cannot,. . .” These lines represent the struggles of most poets and writers we’ve read this past semester, in particular Byron, Shelley and Hardy ... to his inability to act, man must also labor under the restraint of God. Now, the literal meanings must be picked apart. This statement has two obvious parts, the first of which is “In this world, who can do a thing, will not.” The literal translation is those with the power and/or resources to make change choose not to make good in this world. This statement is obviously directed ...
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