Background Investigation – Now that you have listened to this piece once all the way through, find out a little more about it. Besides the album notes with the CD, look for other references, specifically ones pertaining to this particular song or album, if possible. Is there anything significant or noteworthy about this song, album, or group of performers? 20 points…
While these stories of death and restoration add to a long history of dialog, including mental health and the requirement for a cathartic affair, I question was taken the same way these two in number people took will lead me, or anyone to the same conclusions they found. However the way I trust numerous are attempting to trod is a way of self-rise, where one's innovativeness and confidence is…
During the 1950’s, Johnson toured and recorded with his quintet, but then during the fall 1960, Johnson decided to break up the band because he states in the passage that he began to wonder that musician or artist could be much to dedicated so much that he felt living in a narrow world. Although he still continued to make and perform music. Therefore, in 1961 and 1962, J.J. Johnson returned to work with Davis and continued to perform with Saxophonists Rollins, Jimmy Health, and Sonny Stitt. Every now and then, he had arrangements to form small groups of his own, but he mostly devoted himself completely to composing. Regardless of his success in Hollywood, J.J. Johnson stayed focus on Jazz music especially with his trombone. He practices his trombone every day to keep the skills sharp because even though he doesn’t record that much, he kept…
The short story by Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is a story of many different feelings. The story causes the reader to visualize the preciousness of life itself and takes the reader on a roller coaster of different feelings on as to what is going on and in doing so, Bierce’s style tells the story through visual aids and highly descriptive language. The story begins on a railroad bridge, where many northern troops stand with Peyton Farquhar standing on the edge of the bridge on a plank of wood in his last moments of life.…
It is no accident that Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son opens with a bloody, fatal car wreck on a rainy two-lane highway under a spread of “Midwestern clouds like great grey brains.” This incident from “Car Crash While Hitchhiking” sets the stage and the tone for what follows: a series of head-on collisions that Johnson’s narrator—an on-the-run junkie—encounters over the course of eleven electrifying stories. Johnson hurls his readers on a shotgunned journey through emergency rooms and dope dens, detoxification wards and rest homes for those whose “impossible deformities…made God look like a senseless maniac.” The world of Jesus’ Son is a place, a purgatory of sorts, where “the rapist met his victim, the jilted child discovered its mother. But nothing could be healed.” These are the kinds of moments around which Denis Johnson shapes stones that are destined not only to linger but to last, moments that once they are lived through (for to read this book is to live through it) will never—an never-be forgotten.…
Often times, we endure problems within ourselves that can either be solved or left alone to embrace. Whether it is mental or physical, many of us find it natural to undergo inner-conflict. In the two passages, “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” and “Quicksand,” the authors provide the audience with a theme that connects them both. After uncovering their internal conflict, they eventually decided to unknowingly distract themselves from the issue. This includes the way the authors utilized the setting and characters to convey their theme. When dealing with inner-conflict, the theme is developed by expressing personal past issues, discovering new people, and ultimately uncovering a sudden romance.…
This lead is so exhilarating that it made me as a reader continue his writing. He uses precise vocabulary to make his point clear and real life examples to show what will never change, but what is everlasting. He uses tone to make the reader happy and excited of his point of statement. This I Believe, by Alan Pryce-Jones,comes towards afterlife by saying that one doesn't know what afterlife can give us and what will happen afterwards. He states in the beginning with a starling statement.…
It seemed like I was wandering into a different dimension. My senses were becoming acquainted to new feelings: guttural whispers, excruciating odour, ponderous glass-like air and the cemented, pungent, taste of death! As I opened the door candlelight rose to greet me but who lit them? I was informed that the secluded house I was purchasing has been unoccupied forever.…
Discrimination has been present throughout our country’s full history, and even now. It has existed in many forms, whether against blacks, non-catholics, women, or anything else. However, in one location, the Confederacy, there has been more of it than anytime else in US history. Slavery was legal there for centuries, and after it became illegal, discrimination stayed and the Jim Crow laws, along with the KKK, arose. This area has been known for its racism throughout the years, and is a prime example of discrimination in modern history.…
Life is not only stranger than fiction, but frequently also more tragic than any tragedy ever conceived by the most fervid imagination. Often in these tragedies of life there is not one drop of blood to make us shudder, nor a single event to compel the tears into the eye. A man endowed with an intellect far above the average, impelled by a high-soaring ambition, untainted by any petty or ignoble passion, and guided by a character of sterling firmness and more than common purity, yet, with fatal illusion, devoting all…
The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury, spins together tales of fascination and of adventure that develop across a man’s mesmerizing back. In “The Highway” and “The Last Night of the World”, two of the many stories, depict alike characters experiencing doom day and not realizing how disastrous it is. The result of something as life changing as the end of the world leaves us shocked and overwhelmed.…
Williams, Kitty, and Stevie Mack. Day of the Dead. Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, 2011. Print.…
I find all out the versatile options of the afterlife very interesting. There seems to be a pattern with these stories. Most of them consist of some type of unknown variable. This emphasizes the fact that there is still so much that is not known about the afterlife, even when it is completely fictionalized. This also brings up an interesting point. It makes sense that due to the fact that there is a great deal…
Do you ever wondered how does it feel or what does it like being dead? Or what would happen after death? Do you ever wish to read people’s minds? In this story we reflected a lot of things. What if just like Penelope in the story, people will stab you in the back, people will spread misleading and untrue rumors about you, what if you would know everything?…
Not only does Crichton provide startling and factual themes, but uses real life oppositions like imagination vs. reality to enhance the eerie message: that divulging too far into imagination can release the grip of reality. But, as science allows, imagination can also be a very good thing being that it relieves all kinds of stress and anxiety. Crichton’s stories can sometimes be quite confusing. The rollicking labyrinth of cryptic messages and strange symbols may boggle some readers. But while using the literary theory Deconstruction and establishing a theme, Crichton’s novels can be much simpler to understand and more enjoyable to read. And so, let imagination be the bridge between creativity and greatness as the realities of life emerge through the…