Owl City is a one-man-band created by the cleverly poetic and young at heart, Adam Young, who surrounds listeners in a light-hearted, innocent dreamland of insomnia; a land of fireflies, vanilla twilights, violet eyes, hot air balloons, and plenty more. Adam Young tells you tales of that bittersweet four-letter word. Love. His song, Hot Air […]
Abel Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd has recently come out with a new, six song EP titled, My Dear Melancholy. He uses his smooth vocals and spin on the mainstream R&B style to express his feelings over break-up with celebrity Selena Gomez. Although the EP is quite short, it explores so many of his […]
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. […]