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- 611: A Modern Day Odysseus
- A Modern Day Odysseus "I wanted to strengthen democracy, to ensure that Americans could protect their privacy." Philip R. Zimmermann, a modern day hero, started with one powerful goal - to create easy to use, publicly available e-mail encryption software. With patience, strong will, and the idea that privacy is a right of the people, he did just that, and in doing so held up a mirror to the world, showing it that it had permanently changed. The life of Phil Zimmermann is full of epic grandeur, and undoubtedly forms a modern day parallel to the hero Odysseus of Homer's The Odyssey. A basic quality that almost all heroes must have, including both Odysseus and Phil Zimmermann, is a mind of good intentions. This is a ...
- 612: Chopin And Ravel
- ... methodical and well conceived. Each note and phrase is in its place of importance. Alborada del gracioso is ˇ§of an extreme complexity calling for even greater dexterity on the part of the performer than Jeux dˇ¦Eauˇ¨ (Myers 1960). The performer should approach this music with imagination and sensitivity to imagery, colour and nuance. The ability to inject these attributes into music and project them in the performance with taste and ... del gracioso Section A1 Bars 1-11 Introduces two main motifs: a quaver motif with implied hemiola rhythm in the first five bars and a triplet motif in bars 6 and 8. Tonal centre is D minor; the melody is based on the phrygian mode and the harmonization of parallel minor 9ths in the first 5 bars and whole tone based chords is characteristically impressionistic. 12-30 Using the triplet motif and then the quaver motif, moves to B flat major, with a tonic pedal from bar 18. 31-42 Triplet motif, very flamboyant, in B flat major then D flat major. Last two bars contain rising parallel 5ths 43-51 Nine bars in C sharp minor (enharmonic key of D flat), mostly diatonic, with dominant repeated in triplet rhythm. 52-70 Quaver motif ...
- 613: The Big Day
- The Big Day I really hated the sound of that alarm clock, that piercing, irritating repeated beeping. After a second or two I slowly started realizing that it was not just another day, it was the day. I felt the movement in the bed as she reached for the clock and then the beeping stopped allowing me to slip back towards tranquillity again. "Love you," I whispered. "Excuse me, you were ...
- 614: Remains Of The Day
- Kazuo Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day gives an eloquent treatment of the issue of how a stoic English butler’s unemotional reaction to the emotional world around him is damaging and painful, and how he resolves to make the best of the "remains of the day"—the remainder of his life. Ishiguro explores some of the differences between the old English Victorian culture—that of the stiff upper lip, no show of emotion, and repression of personal opinion—and the no ... of opinion and emotion. The American culture’s spread into England is hastened with the two world wars, and it ends Stevens’ old way of work, if not the job itself. Although Remains of the Day concentrates on a particular culture, and an obsolescent one at that, Ishiguro makes many insightful observations on human behavior in general. I will explore a few of these observations here, and attempt to show ...
- 615: Chopin And Ravel
- ... methodical and well conceived. Each note and phrase is in its place of importance. Alborada del gracioso is ˇ§of an extreme complexity calling for even greater dexterity on the part of the performer than Jeux dˇ¦Eauˇ¨ (Myers 1960). The performer should approach this music with imagination and sensitivity to imagery, colour and nuance. The ability to inject these attributes into music and project them in the performance with taste and ... del gracioso Section A1 Bars 1-11 Introduces two main motifs: a quaver motif with implied hemiola rhythm in the first five bars and a triplet motif in bars 6 and 8. Tonal centre is D minor; the melody is based on the phrygian mode and the harmonization of parallel minor 9ths in the first 5 bars and whole tone based chords is characteristically impressionistic. 12-30 Using the triplet motif and then the quaver motif, moves to B flat major, with a tonic pedal from bar 18. 31-42 Triplet motif, very flamboyant, in B flat major then D flat major. Last two bars contain rising parallel 5ths 43-51 Nine bars in C sharp minor (enharmonic key of D flat), mostly diatonic, with dominant repeated in triplet rhythm. 52-70 Quaver motif ...
- 616: Water
- ... The second biggest user of water is agriculture and food processing, at 42% of total annual water use. More than 380 billion liters (100 billion gallons) of water are used for irrigation of crops each day in the United States. A fully grown cotton plant uses about a gallon a day. It takes about 3,040,000 liters (800,000 gallons) of water to grow an acre of cotton. Irrigation is the main agricultural use, but much of the water is used to feed and clean ... home. We use water for cooking, bathing or showering, cleaning dishes, clothes, and cars, watering plants and lawns, drinking, and the all-important toilet. One person uses an average of 50 gallons of water a day just in the house. First, cooking. Most foods need to be prepared, and most of that uses water. Think of boiling things, all the recipes that call for water, making rice, potatoes, muffins, cake, ...
- 617: The Children in "Sons and Lovers" by D. H. Lawerence and "What Maisie Knew" by Henry James
- The Children in "Sons and Lovers" by D. H. Lawerence and "What Maisie Knew" by Henry James The characters in Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence and the characters in What Maisie Knew each have a special meaning. They all seem to be interwoven with one another portraying a new cycle in another characters life. For instance, in What ... try and break the bond that Paul and his mother have. Thus, James and Law¬ rence seem to be using similar themes with different surroundings and events. Although the circumstances are different, Henry James and D. H. Lawrence characterize the children as being Impoverished. Henry James in his novel What Maisie Knew , portrays the main character, Maisie, as being impoverished emotionally. The emotional poverty that Maisie experiences in her life ...
- 618: Macbeth: Theme of Night vs Day and Evilness
- Macbeth: Theme of Night vs Day and Evilness “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” (I.i.10). This becomes the key phrase in describing Macbeth's downfall. It defines the night vs. day motif, foreshadowing the evil that will soon come. The night vs. day motif is so important in bringing out the theme of evil in this play because almost all of the elements of Macbeth's downfall are revealed at night. Sleeplessness, murder, and the witches' prophecies ...
- 619: An Exploration Of Femininity I
- ... hearts, As I do thee. (3.2.71-4) Horatio acts in very much the same way as Kent in King Lear. Kent devotes himself to restoring Lear's "frame of nature" to "the fix'd place" of "manhood" (1.4.268, 269, 297). For Horatio is a clear example for Hamlet of male rationality, "noble reason", and therefore is the antithesis for the woman within Hamlet, who "must like a ... the protagonist blames only himself for his loss of love. He refers to "The fair Ophelia", who reminds him of "all of his sins" (88-9), and then tells her: "You should not have believ'd me, for virtue cannot inoculate old stock" (116-8). This self-accusatory tone quickly changes into pure misogyny, as he is reminded of his mother's infidelity: Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou ... 122-5) Femininity becomes one: Gertrude's sin becomes Ophelia's. Hamlet's anti-female standards find expression elsewhere: he jokes about Osrick's formality, ("'A did comply, sir, with his dugs before 'a suck'd it" [5.2.187-8]), and says of his hesitation over the duel with Laertes: "such a kind of gain-giving, would perhaps trouble a woman" (5.2.215-6). However, Hamlet's perception ...
- 620: An Exploration Of Femininity I
- ... hearts, As I do thee. (3.2.71-4) Horatio acts in very much the same way as Kent in King Lear. Kent devotes himself to restoring Lear's "frame of nature" to "the fix'd place" of "manhood" (1.4.268, 269, 297). For Horatio is a clear example for Hamlet of male rationality, "noble reason", and therefore is the antithesis for the woman within Hamlet, who "must like a ... the protagonist blames only himself for his loss of love. He refers to "The fair Ophelia", who reminds him of "all of his sins" (88-9), and then tells her: "You should not have believ'd me, for virtue cannot inoculate old stock" (116-8). This self-accusatory tone quickly changes into pure misogyny, as he is reminded of his mother's infidelity: Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou ... 122-5) Femininity becomes one: Gertrude's sin becomes Ophelia's. Hamlet's anti-female standards find expression elsewhere: he jokes about Osrick's formality, ("'A did comply, sir, with his dugs before 'a suck'd it" [5.2.187-8]), and says of his hesitation over the duel with Laertes: "such a kind of gain-giving, would perhaps trouble a woman" (5.2.215-6). However, Hamlet's perception ...
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