We all like certain kinds of music but we aren’t born with our tastes and other characteristics. I am a pianist and I liken to think a good one. Depending on the time or mood, I mostly like country and rap music. Many people think of country music as the kind of music that “hicks” […]
Religion is the main theme that emerges quite strongly throughout the novel of purple hibiscus. European missionaries took Christianity to Nigeria. They tried to convert local people from their traditional religious practices to follow Christianity, the ‘true’ religion. The novel is divided into 4 distinct sections and they are not in chronological order. The reference […]
Glory of Women, by Siegfried Sassoon, is an Italian sonnet with an rhyming pattern. In general, the poet addresses women and uses juxtaposition- what the women think war is and what it really is. This poem is very sarcastic. It marks the beginning of anti-women literature. Men resented the fact that they had to fight […]
Manchester Orchestra’s latest album, I’m Like A Virgin Losing A Child, is a must have for all fans of indie-rock. Manchester Orchestra is very different from what the name implies. The band, a quintet from Atlanta, Georgia, is composed of members averaging nineteen years old, and it is not an orchestra, nor is it from […]
On the opening track of her new album, Jukebox, released on January 22, 2008, Cat Power belts, “these vagabond shoes/are melting away” with just as much believability as Frank Sinatra, who made the song famous. Born in 1972 in small-town Georgia, Charlyn “Chan” Marshall, under her alias of Cat Power, brings a new definition to […]
“Sea Change” is a sharp divergence from Beck’s previous albums and offers another dimension from which to view the musician. Most noticeably, it is almost entirely acoustic. There are no electric beats, no grinding guitar, just Beck singing and strumming. Strings and sound effects are used to accentuate the existing music, not mask it. Unlike […]
Lawrence Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development changed the way psychologists and parents thought about the development of their children. Kohlberg expanded on Piaget’s theory of only 2 stages, to three levels and six stages total. He worked with groups of young children by interviewing and researching their answers to questions. These questions arose from fictional […]
Growing up Asian in America by Kesaya E. Noda deals with growing up culturally different in America. There are some important components of a culture like identity, beliefs, values, and dialect. These components are influenced by our family, friends, social environment, and the community we live in. In her essay, Noda talks about dealing with […]
I bet you’ve never heard of Four Shadow, huh? FourShadow is a group of male a cappella singers unlike any other. Karl, Andrew,Stacy and Kevin live in Minnesota, are in their early 20s and are all quitecute. On their first CD, “Where Have You Been,” you can findany kind of music, from pop to rap […]
Something the Lord Made is a story about the development and incredible miracle of the Blue Baby procedure. The movie is based upon how Vivien Thomas, a young black lab technician, and Dr. Alfred Blalock, a wealthy white physician, are brought together in friendship and medical research of a procedure to save cyanosis, bluish skin, […]