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    Rites & Rituals

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    In an arrange marriages‚ the bride and groom is selected by a third party‚ rather than by each other. It is especially common in Indian‚ Southeast; Asian and African cultures‚ and I believe this is a ritual that I would strongly recommend to be eliminated in contemporary society. From my point in view‚ arrange marriages are just unfair and it is cheating life. Usually‚ in arranged marriages it basically forces two human beings that can be incompatible for each other and are forced to spend the

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    The Rite Of Spring. The Rite Of Spring is broken into two parts‚ the Adoration of The Earth and The Sacrafice. Each part is then broken up into movements which are chapters in the story of a sacrificial rite where a young girl dances herself to death. These movements do not have a strict form‚ but definite changes in mood can be observed‚ for example; the piece opens with a peaceful bassoon solo based on a folk melody‚ but it lasts for no longer than thirteen bars before darker themes are presented

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    Stravinsky's Rite of Spring

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    Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring -MUS 337 -Emily Costin In the early 20th century‚ many composers were beginning to not be so pleased with the status quo of what Romanticism had set for them. Composers such as Arnold Schoenberg and Claude Debussy began to experiment with new ways or writing music. They began to experiment with new sounds‚ textures‚ idea’s‚ compositional techniques‚ etc. They‚ as well as other composers‚ reached success

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    Together‚ they chanted One! Two! Three! and they crashed the log on to the great pile” (Golding 39). This quotation uses the repetition of the word “together” because the author is trying to express the positive relationship between the two boys. This passage also symbolises the beginning

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    Critical Analysis

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    stream-of-consciousness narrative corresponds to the survivor ’s perception of time which suggests that memories of such a trauma often exists in a present consciousness‚ therefore interrupting personal life and history. The event is subsequently such a critical incident in one ’s life however not one to define Septimus ’s identity. Furthermore‚ through this‚ Woolf combines the past and future with the present in a "continuous flow of narrative form". However‚ DeMeester also explains that quite like the

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    find that the light source is actually a harbinger of death. Comparing Gatsby’s guests to moths implies that they are attracted to the brightness of the party’s extravagance‚ yet unknowingly leading themselves towards self-destruction. In this passage‚ Fitzgerald is explaining that as the night goes on‚ people are getting more and more intoxicated. Thus making everything seem different. (i.e the lights are brighter‚ and the pitches are higher) There is the connotation of alcohol flowing thorough

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    This passage is important to Romeo and Juliet because it further develops Benvolio and Mercutio’s characters‚ while establishing the dynamic and roles between the three best friends. The scene takes place outside of Capulet’s house‚ moments before they ‘crash’ the party. Romeo questions what to do‚ deciding between causing a scene or dancing for a bit and leaving swiftly. Benvolio is first to give his opinion‚ by suggesting that they ‘have no Cupid hoodwink’d with a scarf’ (1.4.4) and ‘Nor not without-book

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    In a poem of reminiscent adolescence‚ Sharon Olds defines a young girl who has the capacity to judge adolescent emotion with the benefit of time‚ for she is now a mother herself. This definitive view of adolescent values and thought is mingled with the mystery of symbolic mathematics‚ which represents a maturity of this thought and a colorful insight into the development of a young girl as she becomes a woman. This poem also accentuates the mystery associated with the minds of the female gender‚

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    A passage to india

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    The Politics of Representation in A Passage to India The discussion on A Passage to India as a political fiction has for long been dominated by the followers of a mimetic theory of literature‚ whose quest for empiricism tied to didacticism is achieved when they find the narrative content to be an authentic portrayal of India and a humanist critique of British-Indian relations during the last decades of the Empire. Since the accession of critical methods concerned with representation as an ideological

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    Ballet and War: Review on Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age The Rite of Spring by Modris Ekstein examines the cultural history at the start and in World War I and the consequences that would follow after the end of the war. Ekstein separates his book into three acts- pre-war‚ during the war and then after the war. Act One takes the reader first to Paris and the premier of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet‚ Le Sacre du primtemp translated to the Rite of Spring. Choreographed

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