Joyce Carol Oates has been a literary genius‚ which is one of the many reasons I decided to go to her event at Clowes Auditorium. I have also recently read her book‚ Black Water‚ which was an interesting read. It was a fictional telling of the Chappaquiddick Scandal that had happened several years before I was born. One the aspects of Black Water I particularly appreciated was that she took a real life event and created a fictional story around it. At this reading‚ on September 28 2015‚ she read
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Every song tells its own unique story; however the stories they tell are often up to interpretation. Bob James‚ the creator of the song Orpheus‚ wrote the song based on his interpretation of the myth. The music of Bob James continued to evolve and captivate audiences thought the world. Discovered by Quincy Jones at the Notre Dame Jazz Festival in 1963‚ Bob recorded his first solo album‚ Bold Conceptions‚ that year for Mercury Records. 36 more solo albums would follow through four decades; that number
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Kerry James Marshall was born on October 17‚ 1955‚ in Birmingham. He received his education at Otis Art Institute located in Los Angeles‚ which he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and an honorary doctorate in 1999. The subject of his paintings‚ installations and public projects often stems from African-American popular culture‚ which is rooted from where he was born. He has said‚ “that you can’t be born in Birmingham‚ Alabama‚ in 1955 and grow up in South Central in Los Angeles near the Black Panthers
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some people have lost faith in forensics and the justice process‚ all because of a few people who couldn’t handle the power they held. Ethics in forensics isn’t all black and white‚ there are grey areas that make some decisions incredibly difficult. Joyce Gilchrist is someone who didn’t know how to handle the power she possessed and she wanted to be seen as this hero like complex‚ one that could do no wrong and would always catch the bad guy. Gilchrest began working with the Oklahoma City
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The artwork by James Gleeson is stunning. A piece of his that stood out the most to me was “Spain”. Painted in 1951 with oil on a w470 x h670 canvas. The painting has ten figures in the scene‚ with colors ranging from different spectrums of reds‚ oranges‚ blues‚ and blacks. I chose this painting‚ because as soon as I saw it‚ I felt eerie‚ and some type of heaviness. The very first thing I saw was a woman floating above the blood red ground‚ and she looks to be made of stones. I look further into
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Character Analysis In the tragedy Macbeth‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ many character traits are portrayed through the various characters throughout the play. Macbeth was one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. It was completed in 1606 and was most likely first performed before King James I and his royal family at Hampton Court. King James I is believed to be a direct descendent of the character Banquo. Probably the most potent character trait expressed in Macbeth would be integrity
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Poetry – The Sea The poem “The Sea‚” by James Reeves‚ presents to the reader a whole new different and imaginative view of the sea. You would expect that the sea and a dog are two completely unrelated things in this world‚ but whilst reading this intelligently thought out poem‚ you come to realise that they are in fact very alike and share many similarities. The effective use of onomatopoeia‚ metaphors‚ personification and assonance woven together by the poet shows you that the world is a peculiar
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Araby: Dream and Reality Ahsan Habib James Joyce’s “Araby” deals mainly with a young boy’s psychic journey from first love to despair and disappointment and also with his discovery of the discrepancy between dream and reality. In the story‚ an unnamed boy who lives with his uncle and aunt in the midst of an unfavourable situation for love and affection falls in love with a girl. Finally‚ he realizes that love and life differ from dream. Throughout the story the boy
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Marketing James Patterson James Patterson is a popular crime fiction author with a unique business strategy: he produces approximately 3 times more books annually than comparable authors and employs unconventional advertising tactics. Patterson’s unique writing style and use of co-authors to write more books has proven to be successful‚ generating annual book sales of $120 million. Using his advertising background‚ Patterson has turned his name as an author into a well-known brand. Patterson
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Stephen Kumalo and James Jarvis:Comparing Their Character DevelopmentThis essay will compare the character development of Stephen Kumalo and James Jarvis in Alan Patons novel‚ Cry‚ The Beloved Country. Even though the two men are of two races‚ they experience a parallel journey. The first three paragraphs will describe Kumalos path of how he tries to find the truth about his son‚ and then the healing process after his sons trial. The fourth and fifth paragraph will depict the path James Jarvis took‚ learning
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