Yasunari Kawabata: The Dancing Girl of Izu My favorite author is Yasunari Kawabata‚ was born in June 14‚ 1899 and died in April 16‚ 1972. He is a Japanese short story writer and the first Japanese author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. His works combined the beauty of old Japan with modernist trends. Kawabata’s books have been described as melancholy lyricism and often explore the place of sex within culture and within individual lives. “The Dancing Girl of Izu” is a story like this‚ my
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In any story‚ the repetition of a word‚ theme‚ or symbol typically marks that thing as important to the author and reader. It reflects the message of the piece as a whole. In Tom Whitecloud’s Blue Winds Dancing‚ the word in particular is “home.” It represents more than where he grew up; more than just a birthplace. “Home” means family. It means friends‚ love‚ comfort‚ and protection. “Home is where the heart is” so the saying goes‚ and for Whitecloud‚ this couldn’t be any truer. Home is the most
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cannot help but link the two as the maenads mirror the hounds of Artemis from a generation earlier that turned against Actaeon. For my research paper‚ I will explore the relationship between women in Greek antiquity and the social function of the wild in religious rituals‚ proposing that the wild acts as a pharmakos to adapt young girls to the domesticated life of wives. As case studies‚ I will be gesturing to both the Arkteia at Brauron‚ as well as the Bacchic maenads found in Euripides’ Bacchae. As
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Dionysus causes an earthquake and gets away. There is no way to stop him‚ because after all he is a God. In the end‚ Dionysus gets his revenge when he orders his maenads to rip him apart. His own mother Agave is the one to bring back his head to the king Cadmus. The Maenads are very calm and blissful when they are at rest. The maenads would dress in fawn skins and carry a thyrsus which was a long stick wrapped in ivy or vine leaves. They would weave ivy-wreaths around their heads or wear a bull
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lifting the lid of a box‚ which most likely contains rolls of sheet music. This scene brings to mind the leisured and relatively educated world of affluent Athenian women. On the other side of the vase‚ are three women dressed in the attire of maenads‚ the female followers of Dionysus preparing for their ritual roles in his cult. They’re all holding pine branches while the woman in the middle is also holding a torch; these may be the same women on the front though there is not a sufficient amount
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Essay Comparing and Contrasting “Two Kinds” vs. “Blue Winds Dancing” While both of these stories have different themes regarding cultural issues‚ the characters involved similarly have their own reasons that compel them to oppose their individual situations. In Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” and in Tom Whitecloud’s “Blue Winds Dancing”‚ both narrators choose nonconformity regarding their unique situations‚ but have different motivations for doing so. In “Two Kinds”‚ the narrator struggles to be the ideal
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Shay Conley 11/09/2011 Research Paper Dancing “Fun.” “ Flowing.” “ Elegant.” “Wild.” “Graceful.“ “Beautiful.” These are all words describing a body movement to the rhythm and beats of music. “Dancing is your pulse‚ your heartbeat‚ your breathing. It’s the rhythm of your life. It’s the expression in time and movement‚ in happiness‚ joy‚ sadness and envy.” ( “What is the Meaning of Dancing“) Dancing can be done with a partner or alone. The origins‚ styles‚ and important forms
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also be ceremonial‚ competitive or erotic. Dance movements may be without significance in themselves‚ as in ballet or European folk dance‚ or have a gestural vocabulary or symbolic meaning as in some Asian dances. “There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.” Edwin Denby. Dance has not left behind identifiable artifacts that prove when dance was created. It is not possible to place a date on when it became part of human culture. For billions of years people
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Dancing has been an important part of my life for more than eight years. When I was eight‚ my mother enrolled me in dancing classes‚ never realizing it would lead to anything serious. For the first few months‚ dance was entertainment‚ something to keep me busy. Although I enjoyed taking classes‚ I did not become serious until the following year‚ when my favorite tap teacher told my mother to consider getting me involved in more competitive classes. That was the beginning of my long and successful
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Hula Dancing Hula dancing is a Hawaiian tradition that‚ through dance movements‚ chants‚ and varying levels of instrumentation‚ tells stories. Most of the time they are legends or accounts of historical events. After reading the article I have realized that hula dancing is much more than just people moving their bodies to music. It is a tradition that runs very deep in Hawaii and it has been a very important part of their culture for hundreds and maybe even thousands of years. I have learned in
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