NOTE: Picture below is after 48 hours of all three samples sitting in a warm place.…
| Think of your favorite local bands. In what ways do the music, attitudes, styles, and lyrical references of the band reflect local culture? In what ways does the band attempt to reterritorialize popular culture in the local context?…
2. I understand that most of you didn’t understand a word I just said, but to me, music is my second language.…
My Thirteenth Winter is a phenomenal memoir of Abeel ’s life as she struggled with a disability named dyscalculia. Dyscalculia is an Impairment of the ability to solve mathematical problems, usually resulting from brain dysfunction. As she succeeded in all other subjects, the concept of basic math, she could not quite grasp. Samantha tells us her life story before and after she was diagnosed with dyscalculia. I Learned a great lesson from this book, be thankful for what god has given you.…
A person is a person through other persons…” means that an individual is who they are thanks to the society that they are in. People change and differ because of where they live in and what the people around them do. The book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and Othello by William Shakespeare give perfect examples of this.…
This short drama film follows two protagonists and their struggles with bullying, social media and trust. The “popular” girl Abby Hull is beautiful, seemingly confident and can be very mean when she wants to be. Although she has no trouble being a bully in the really world, Abby prefers to do it behind the protection of her computer. Abby picks on numerous girls over social media because of dark issues that reside inside her due to her everyday struggle with her home life. Abby has no control at her house so she feels the need to make others lower than her so she can feel more powerful. When Abby begins to feel more than ever helpless with her home issues she picks a new victim, Erin Geller. Erin is almost the opposite of Abby as she is very self-conscious and is a daily victim of bullying. Because Erin is very critical of herself and is “different “she proves to be the perfect target for Abby to pick on. Abby begins her quest to make Erin’s confidence drop by commenting, messaging and posting awful things on Erin’s profile. After numerous cyber-attacks by Abby, Erin finally decides that enough is enough and takes action.…
9. About how many hours a day do you watch TV during the week? On weekends?…
1) Describe the three basic types of music heard in original scores during the silent film era and cites specific examples from The Birth of a Nation. (10 points)…
The film Tous les Matins du Monde, produced in 1991, stars Jean-Pierre Marielle, Gerard Depardieu and Anne Brochet as the main characters of the film (IMDB). This film is set in seventeenth century France where music was a prominent part of French culture and was a part of everyday entertainment everywhere from the great palace of Versailles to the small countryside villages. At the time, orchestral music was very popular and the learning to play the violin and or cello were of the utmost important during the time period if one desired to succeed in the entertainment industry.…
Reynolds, J. R. (1997). Babyface & Co. whet appetites for LaFace `Soul Food ' soundtrack.…
In Elf music is used to enhance the mood by slowing down the tempo or speeding up the…
By the start of 20th century movies started to play a big role in entertaining people all around the world, the earliest movies were made only in one shot with no editing or specific story but little by little movies started combining different scenes to tell a story. Slowly by producing different movies, different movie genres were shaped. Nowadays we have nearly 20 different main movie genres and some of them contain subgenres. Most of the movies are a combination of different genres. In this article the focus is on only three main genres: Comedy, Horror and Action.…
The article "Why We Crave Horror Movies" by Stephen King examines the popular trend of attending horror films and he explains several explanations for this craving behavior. King claims that attending these gory films is not just a trend; he believes that it is a necessity. As a result, King claims that we need/crave horror movies for various basic reasons. First, he suggest we need to view these horror films to fulfill our basic need for entertainment and excitement. Also, we need to view these horror films to satisfy a certain psychological requirement. King states that we need to subject ourselves to such irrationality periodically in order to exercise our dark side and release certain evil fantasies, so we do not act on them. Besides that, he indicates that we go to "re-establish our feelings of essential normality". With great subject description, sufficient example and fact support, and dramatic writing King's article appears to present it's self to be accurate. At the same time, some of this article tends to overstate and amplify the facts.…
In movies, plot structure helps project the tone of the movie. The generalization of movies usually commences passively, and gradually builds into a climactic scene. Then, it dies down to its peaceful way once more, but usually not in a horror or comedy. Throughout the history of horror and comedy movies, the plots usually ended on that climactic scene and had most of the movie be the foundation for that climax. As time went on, plot structures of the two genres started to develop and one could see that they help convey their tone similarly yet differently at times.…
Sayre, H. M. (2010). A World of Art (6th ed.). Retrieved from The University of Phoenix eBook…