Pudge‚ Alaska breaks down crying‚ drives off campus and dies in a car wreck. Alaska’s friends must come to terms with their guilt and grief and accept that they will never know if the wreck was an accident or suicide. There are several themes in this novel. One theme is that there is more to life and more to any person than can be experienced or known. Pudge reads biographies and memorizes people’s last words to try to understand what kind of people they were. He looks for meaning in the facts and
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ClOUDSTREET By Tim Winton The title‚ Cloudstreet‚ although a bit plain‚ couldn’t be more appropriately named as everything that happens within the story revolves around the house nicknamed Cloudstreet. Winton sets this book around Perth‚ Western Australia‚ around the time of the second end of the Second World War over a span of twenty years. From reading other Winton novels it’s easy to see that his part of the country has had a big impact on him and he has a strong affinity with his country and
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by living in a stylish house and buying luxuries items. This setting is very ironic since if there is a shortage of money‚ the family would save up instead of spending to keep them in style. Also this ironic setting introduces the conflict and the theme‚ and it is the massive spending eventually led the family into financial problems‚ and money is everything the mother worried about. As a result‚ this use of irony effectively established the setting and introduced to the
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study guide in that it is not based on what the actual midterm looks like‚ as we as your TAs do not have access to the actual exam. Rather‚ this “skeleton” of questions (the hope is) could be of use to you in ordering your notes‚ remembering certain themes‚ concepts‚ terms‚ etc. that have been covered in this course so far. Answers to these questions are not provided herein‚ as it is your responsibility to find those either individually or with study groups. Happy studying. Your TAs How can we
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Beethoven compositional innovations Beethoven compositional innovations all of which we will observe in his symphony no.5 are arrayed around a single Centro Beethovenian article of faith the music is that its essence a form itself expression. Beethoven attitude might have appeared too many of his contemporaries with the hindsight of the history can see at the time was right for the development of such an entirely egocentric attitude towards music‚ combine in equal parts one the enlightenment emphasis
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1. In the first half of the lecture we discussed an example of a "pathosformel" and how it was recycled from ancient Roman times to the twentieth century. What exactly was this pathosformel‚ what did it mean‚ and how did it evolve over time? Be sure to name names and be as detailed and as specific as possible. Aby Warburg found the term – Pathosformel‚ the feeling formula to describe motif‚ which has emotional charge. To Warburg‚ the history of image likes a complex family tree‚ motifs and pathosformel
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After listening to this pieces‚ I decided it was composed in the Baroque period of music. When I listened‚ it sounded as if there were two separate pieces but the radio personality did not announce a new piece or a change. For this reason‚ I assumed they were movements. The first movement sounded dark and frantic. It reminded me of sitting down to take a test and being filled up with anxiety. The mood of the piece changed and became lighter. It was not necessarily happy but rather soothing and romantic
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The reading of belonging in Cloudstreet is one of the more apparent and dominant readings. We as human beings have an innate need to belong‚ which makes the reading all the more prominent for the reader. For Winton to put such a focus on belonging in his book‚ he must have struggled with belonging sometime during his own life. Although we are told that as a child he had a close-knit family where everyone belonged‚ no matter how strange they were. Initially in Cloudstreet‚ no one belongs anywhere. The
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In Manha de carnival by sigman and bonfa‚ I think there are two musical ideas‚ A and B. Idea A is played from the beginning until 1:19. The rhythm is being repeated by percussion instruments with a flowy melody played by piano‚ brass and woodwind instruments. Idea B begins at 1:20 with a saxophone improvised solo and as it progresses‚ the notes appear to get shorter and scattered‚ similar to how jazz sounds. The sax solo continues until 2:19‚ followed by a piano solo‚ following the same idea B. Percussion
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The opening of the first movement in Keeping Score: Berlioz starts very slowly‚ then becomes very volatile. After some long and stormy developments‚ the ending alludes back to the opening. The second movement becomes an elegant waltz‚ which completely contrasts the first movement. The ending of the second movement sounds like a whirlwind before it comes to a brilliant close. The third movement is long. While these first three movements sound rather like a dream‚ the fourth movement sounds like a
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