(Gioia‚ N.D.)‚ Ted Gioia - a man of many hats - grew up in Hawthorne‚ California and graduated from Hawthorne High School. Gioia focused his studies at Stanford and Oxford University‚ with degrees in English‚ philosophy‚ politics‚ and economics. Dabbling in the business world as a consultant‚ Gioia proved himself the jack-of-all-trades as he also made himself prominent in the music realm as an author and musician. Gioia has written many books‚ including History of Jazz‚ Love Songs: The Hidden History‚
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On the website it states that my diet is horrible considering what I have consumed in these 3 days I don’t each much and it shows I need to start eating more than what I have been and doing better than what I have consumed. With the Milk intake I only did 1 cup equivalent this is pretty hard to change since I’m lactose intolerant and can’t handle soy well where it should be 3 cup equivalent. The meat and beans intake was at 3.5 oz which I do not eat meat much so this is not a surprise it’s suppose
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The life experiences of Sir Walter Raleigh influenced the style of his writing. The style of his writing is revealed in his poems “the lie”‚ “sir Walter Raleigh to the queen”‚ and “the nymph’s reply to the shepherd. Raleigh was born around 1552 in Hayes Barton‚ Devonshire (pg.1063). Raleigh was famed for being a courtier‚ a navigator‚ a poet‚ and a historian. After a failed expedition in South America he was arrested in connection with destruction of a Spanish settlement (pg.1063) with his confrontation
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During the Harlem Renaissance‚ Langston Hughes becomes a voice. In his writing and poetry he spoke with the word I. “I” representing the African American culture. During this time period the African Americans were experiencing extreme hardship. Life was difficult for them. Throughout his literature he writes about the concept of dreams‚ but he also digs deeper into the souls of the African Americans and spreads hope to all of his people‚ especially during that specific time period of the Harlem Renascence
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However‚ this stiff structure juxtaposes the nostalgic‚ yet sorrowful‚ tone and simplistic diction of the poem. This mixture of forms and expression allow Hughes to effectively communicate his social commentary by conveying his modern ideas in a typical intellectual format. In her article “Langston Hughes’s Transnational Literary Journeys: History‚ Heritage and Identity in ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ and
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Compare and contrast blues and jazz poems of Langston Hughes When you’re reading a poem written by Langston Hughes‚ you can feel his energy. The way he uses his words to describe what he’s writing about is amazing. Many people feel like Langston Hughes is one of the greatest poets of all-time‚ and I’m one of those people who believe in this. Most of the poems written by Hughes has that blues like feeling in it. There’s no wonder why his poems are always being compared to blues songs. The way he
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The princess bride Based on a story written by William Golding in 1973‚ the movie The Princess Bride a 1987 an American comedy‚ romance and adventure film was rated number 50 on Bravo’s 100 funniest movies‚ number 88 on the Americans film institute’s greatest film love stories and 46 in channel 4’s 50 greatest comedy films list. The princess Bride is a wonderful romance‚ comedy and action sequence as it promotes ideal heroes for us to follow. It has a nostalgic feeling that reminds us of our childhood
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Corpse Bride I chose to see the Corpse Bride an animated film by Tim Burton. I picked this film because I thought it would have used an extensive soundscape. There was so much going on that I was paying so much attention to the audio that I missed a lot of the beautiful details in the animation. The movie was somewhat of a musical with about five songs that were composed by Danny Elfman. Usually I wouldn’t sit through a quasi musical but since it was an animation it just seemed to fit. The
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Only a fully formed human being with a capacity for reason can understand the Noble Lie and be persuaded by it." Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Yes‚ I agree with this statement in the sense that a reasonable human being should always work towards exploring his own mind as opposed to thinking through other people’s mind. For example‚ Thrasymachus justifies this statement when he says‚ “What folly. Socrates‚ has taken possession of you all? And why‚ sillybillies‚ do you knock under to
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Bollywood’s kitsch to be actual kitsch. But to confuse Gurinder Chadha’s delicious‚ walloping and wacky adaptation of Jane Austen as a take on the Bollywood formula is to‚ quite simply‚ confuse the wood for the trees. Jane Austen meets Manoj Kumar in "Bride & Prejudice". And they are finally moulded into a vision that’s entirely and incontrovertibly Chadha’s. In her projection of the classic and the kitsch in the same range of vision‚ Beckham begum has achieved what no other filmmaker from any part of
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