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- 891: Jimi Hendrix
- ... most memorable introductions ever (Fairchild, Axis: Bold As Love 13). Little Wing s best attribute is its pleasing incorporation of Native American belief with guitar playing which could in no way be considered abrasive. The writing and production of Little Wing seems to mark the development of Hendrix confidence in both his lyrical and compositional skills. As for Castles Made Of Sand, Michael Fairchild states that rock music reached its sensitive ... to London, the Vietnam War, and the years of rioting and protest against war and racial injustice all infused themselves into Jimi s albums. The early commerciality and an undeveloped form of Hendrix later song-writing and playing are displayed on Are You Experienced? On the second album, Axis: Bold As Love, Jimi expressed his ethnic individuality, he expanded his musical repertoire, and he began his first voicings of malcontent. Electric ... a major change. His death in 1970 seemed to indicate a feeling of apathy from Hendrix; he died choking on his own vomit (Anonymous 1). Looking back on his albums, there is definite pattern of personal growth and decay, all influenced by everything that happened around, and inside, the legendary musician we know as Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix music can serve as an accurate interpretation of what was occurring around him, ...
- 892: George Walker
- "Walker is a down to earth blue-collar playwright with a vibrant, vivid, deliberate style of play writing; there's no dramaturgical chicanery in his work. But there is a rough and ready quality in it that is very refreshing." - Neville-Andrews George Walker is a Canadian playwright who has achieved a sort ... must continue, so let him go and start all over again. Power would like to think of himself as a sort of private detective to bring evil down from the inside. Here in lies his personal pursuit of justice. HEATHER- We should have called the police. POWER- Nah. They'd ruin everything. Besides, vengeance is mine saith the Lord and since the Lord isn't here tonight I'm standing in ... everything. It is this that calls for justice, which is always sought but not always exacted as planned. "Walker is a down to earth blue-collar playwright with a vibrant, vivid, deliberate style of play writing; there's no dramaturgical chicanery in his work. But there is a rough and ready quality in it that is very refreshing." - Neville-Andrews George Walker is a Canadian playwright who has achieved a ...
- 893: Allen Ginsberg : Howl
- ... typed list of "all the spirits broken, impaired , or thoroughly destroyed by a force he would not name until the second part of the poem." (Burns 104). Since he did not feel that he was writing for publication, Ginsberg felt free to experiment. He replaced his normally short lines with the Kerouac and jazz influenced long line. He employed a cataloguing style similar to that used by Walt Whitman in "Song ... the world, making a crippled living outside of family and academic shelter--this motif accounting vocational failure or readjustment, leaving the city, or nervous breakdown, typical post-college crisis." (Schumacher 226) C. Lines "grouping together personal apocalypsis, estrangement, breakthrough to social solitude, disaster or triumph, mixed illumination and/or madness, travel, unthinkable dramas, comedies and tragedies of maturation--arrest, hospitalization, outcast status--degradation and transcendence. D. Verses conjoin images of practical ... Davis. 3. "Cool bluesey and lyrical feeling similar to the moody music played by John Coltrane." (Ehrlich 73) This similar cataloguing style is utilized in Part III of the poem, but the focus is more personal. A brief excerpt from David Burner's Making Peace with the Sixties (University Press, 1996): Ginsberg's stay in the mental ward was not intended to help him realize his desire for life to ...
- 894: Calamitatum Of The Individual
- ... a movement towards individual thinking. He traveled a lonely path of individuality, and when his ideas were suppressed, he found different ways to express his individuality. The beginning of his life was marked by extreme personal freedom. As his journey through life continued, he found himself compounded with innumerable restrictions. The role of monk could not change Abelard, and his individuality brought him even greater misfortune. He may forewarn others against ... child in his family his life was intended for a military career, but as he tells us, he abandoned Mars for Minerva, denouncing the popular and glorious profession of arms for that of learning. In writing this he shows his clever and distinct way of thinking by referring to dialectic, the art of examining options or ideas logically, as a weapon of war. "I chose the weapons of dialectic to all ... career. He tells us in graphic language the tale of how he fell in love with Heloise, niece of Canon Fulbert. In the midst of his exploits he met Heloise, and in the first time writing about her in The Story of My Calamities he describes her individuality. "...in the extent of her learning she stood supreme. A gift for letters is so rare in women that it added greatly ...
- 895: History Of Music
- ... remind the listener of that time or place. It is impossible to analyse individual interpretation of music, however it is interesting to examine what caused musicians to write what they did, when they did. The personal interpretation or association of a work is superimposed; it is the music “going on to become.” By correlating musical developments with historical events or conditions, we can see not only why certain styles of music ... musical style throughout Europe. It was modified to reflect local tastes in Italy and England, but the French roots of the inspiration remained prominent for many years. However, Italian composers continued to develop a more personal style, combining French Ars Nova concepts with Italian styles. In Germany in what came to be known as the Baroque Period, Johann Sebastian Bach was working as a musical director at St. Thomas’s Choir ... and The Art of Fugue. After the French Revolution, a bloody affair lasting three years from 1789 to 1792, one of the most prominent composers was Beethoven. It was at this time he that was writing such pieces as the Eroica Symphony (1803) and the Waldstein Sonata (1804). By 1804, Napoleon had just returned from Egypt and been crowned Emperor of the French. This prevalent militarism and theme of ‘conquest’ ...
- 896: Things Fall Apart
- ... a traditional African society, and by reading this book I now have a much better idea of what life is like in a non-western society. I think that this was Achebe's goal in writing this book, to educate people about some of the struggles people have and life in traditional African societies. The title Things Fall Apart is a good choice for a title of this book. The main ... this crime anyway. Basically Okonkwo's life fell apart on him, hence I feel that the title Things Fall Apart is very fitting for this book. I thought that Achebe did a good job at writing this book. After getting into the book I found it very easy to read and follow. It took a while to get use to the names of the people in the book, and the Ibo ... important to the survival of the tribe and the people often work together for the betterment of the tribe. There are also individual aspects in the Ibo society. Each person has his own chi, or personal god. This personal god is to watch over a person and protect them. Some people have a stronger chi than others, and they will achieve a higher standing in the society. This is very ...
- 897: Mark Twain and the Lost Manuscript of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... of Huckleberry Finn exists containing material excluded from the first printing of the book. I. Twain's biographical information A. Childhood B. Education C. Professional life 1. Jobs 2. Literary works 3. Financial conditions D. Personal life 1. Life style 2. Family life II. Original manuscript of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn A. General information 1. Discovery information 2. How the manuscript was lost B. Legal battle for printing rights C ... Twain: Biographical Sketch). At age twelve he was apprenticed to a printer and at age sixteen he worked under his brother, Orion who was a newspaper publisher in Hannibal. Clemens made an early attempt at writing by sending comical travel letters to the Keokuk Saturday Post in Iowa under the pen name Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass. These letters contained purposely inserted errors typical of Clemen's later work. When he was twenty ... Mark Twain” (Works of Twain: Brief Account). Clemens got the name from a river term which means two fathoms, or twelve feet of water depth (“ Twain”). “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaverous County” the first writing of Twain was published in the New York Saturday Press on November 18, 1865 and won him almost instant recognition (Works of Twain: Brief Account). That same year he was sent to Hawaii as ...
- 898: Child Psychology
- ... was that they emerged from an interest in evolution and genetics. Consequently, environmental influences were largely dismissed as unimportant and were excluded from (Kroll 1995). About the time observational work was flourishing, other researchers were writing about the role of the environment in children’s development and behavior. Sigmond Freud, who emphasized the effects of environmental variables on development, particularly stressed the importance of parental behavior during infancy. To the present ... viewed as being overly narrow (The Volume Library 1990: Volume 2). In the early 1960’s attention was focused on the work of the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, who since the 1920’s had been writing about children’s cognitive development. Piaget called himself a genetic epistemologist-that is, a person who studies the origins of human knowledge-and his theories led to more advanced work in child psychology. This work ... ability to develop hypotheses and figure new concepts Kroll 1995). Theories of personality are attempts to describe how people behave in satisfying their physical and psychological needs. An inability to satisfy such needs creates a personal conflict. Personality formation is viewed as the process by which children learn how to avoid conflict when possible and how to cope with conflict when it inevitably occurs. Overly restrictive or overly permissive parents ...
- 899: The Dead: A Necessary Introduction
- ... are not provided in the text. It seems, however, that Gabriel is more liberal than some of the other guests at the party. He is accused of being a "West Briton", by Miss Ivors, for writing a literary column in "The Daily Express". Gabriel is not, as Miss Ivors suggests he should be, ashamed of himself for doing so. Gabriel sees literature as above politics, and "saw nothing political in writing reviews of books" (Joyce, 188). He is able to be affiliated with a "West Briton" newspaper without feeling any political responsibility. It is important that the reader form a personal opinion of Gabriel in order to fully appreciate the climax of the story. Joyce deliberately does not display him as a good man, or as a bad person. An example of how indifferent he ...
- 900: Beethoven
- ... had a gift, or a natural knack, for this form of art which allowed him to become one of the greatest composers of all time. This paper will dive in to Ludwig van Beethoven s personal life, chronologically and precisely explaining factors that shaped him into the man he was. After his personal life is thoroughly charted, a shift in content will lead the reader to explore his many works and elements there of. The material will be presented as accurately and objectively as possible, as the use ... late 18th century played an important role in shaping his musical personality. Ludwig obtained most of his fully mature musical language from Haydn and Mozart. This was a key element in the development of his writing style in that it gave him a sense of freedom to drive his compositions to a new level.(Merek, 195) Beethoven s mastery of writing a sonata was largely due to the inspiration and ...
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