Many have attempted concept albums throughout the years, but very few have done as well as Operation Mindcrime by Queensryche. The album was released in 1988 as the follow up to Rage for Order. The album starts out in a dialogue of a strung out character named Nikki. He has been picked up by the […]
In response to the various lists of greatest albums of all time (compiled by the writers of Rolling Stone and Spin magazines), I have compiled a short list of the five most underrated and generally left-out albums. These records should receive some credit for their originality, energy, and musicianship: 1. John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers […]
18th Cent. French writer’s life, career & contribution to historiography & its relationship to literature. Voltaire, born Francois Marie Arouet, was born on November 21, 1694 in Paris, France. As a teenager, Voltaire attended a Jesuit college in Paris, Louis-le-Grand, where he said he learned nothing but Latin and the Stupidities. This statement will be […]
Francis Ford Coppola, director of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, modified just a few minor components of the plot from the guide. Though the film and guide differ barely, they each are nice works. One of the apparent similarities between Dracula the guide and Bram Stoker’s Dracula the film, is the setting and style. Each the guide […]
The first is that there may be an over-preoccupation with one particular feature that may well minimise the significance of others that are equally important. (Wetherill. 1974, 133) The second is that any attempt to see a text as simply a collection of stylistic elements will tend to ignore other ways whereby meaning is produced. […]