Music wk 3 1. Read Chapters 4 and 5 (pgs. 48-75). 2. Listen to assigned music in the text. 3. Take chapter quizzes 4 and 5 4. Respond to Discussion Forum questions for Week 3. 5. Assignments are due by 11:59 PM CST on 9/13/09 WEEK 3 Discussion: 1. What connections can you make between the musical style of plainchant and the monastic lifestyle? > I do not believe that there exists a more simplistic form of music than plainchant that could be more filled with color‚ texture and passion. On the surface
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researcher from the University of Huston who has been on the New York Times bestselling list‚ TED‚ and studies vulnerability‚ courage‚ worthiness‚ and shame states that “The darkness does not destroy the light it defines it.” In the novel The Human Comedy by William Saroyan‚ which takes place during World War Two in Ithaca California‚ the citizens show qualities of moral foolishness and evil. Homer a young adolescent‚ Mr.Grogan‚ and the messenger of death portray qualities of good morals‚ foolishness
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at the heart of this play. To what extent do you agree? Comedy can be defined as ‘Popular entertainment composed of jokes‚ satire‚ or humorous performance’ and is said to expose ‘A humorous element of life or literature’.1 William Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ undoubtedly presents these common comedic traits and exploits them‚ primarily through the incorporation of foolishness within many aspects of the play‚ therefore conforming to comedy by that definition. However‚ within the play‚ arguably at
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In Peter Goldsworthy’s novel Maestro‚ the main character Paul Crabbe who is a young adolescent that narrates the story in two time-spaces as a memoir. First we see him when he is a self-absorbed‚ selfish arrogant teenager and then when he has matured into a young man. Paul was one of the teenagers that had the feeling of being invincible and believing that he was better than everyone else around him‚ this being shown through the immaturity‚ self-absorption and selfishness of him. This image of
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Deindividuation is a process whereby people lose their sense of socialised individual identity and engage in unsocialised and often antisocial behaviour. Generally‚ people refrain from acting in an aggressive and antisocial manner because they are easily identifiable. When a person is deindividualised‚ they lose their sense of self awareness and their sense of personal responsibility. For example‚ in a crowd‚ where a person is less likely to be identified and held responsible for their aggressive
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We forget things for two reasons‚ firstly the memory has disappeared- it is no longer available or secondly the memory is stored in the memory system but cannot be retrieved. The first theory is more likely to be applicable to forgetting in the short term memory and the second in the long term memory. You can differentiate between availability and accessibility. Availability is whether the information has been stored in the memory or not and accessibility is the ability or inability to retrieve information
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Harper describe motivation of slaves and former slaves by capturing the excitement and sense of independent that came with achieving the literacy. Many teachers‚ missionaries‚ and philanthropists help found hundreds of school for black children and grown-ups. Susie King Taylor for an example taught Union solider sir contraband camps to read and write. Many if the people who helped were abolitionists and former slaves themselves. Slaves who were released from plantations realized that they had to
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10th Poetry : The Frog and the Nightingale Poet: Vikram Seth was born in Calcutta in 1952. He left India to study at Oxford where he earned degrees in philosophy‚ economics‚ and politics‚ and went on to study creative writing at Stanford and classical Chinese poetry in China at Nanjing University. His first novel‚ The Golden Gate‚ is written entirely in tetrameter sonnets‚ something that had never been done in the English language before. The Suitable Boy‚ his prose fiction debut‚ examined multigenerational
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In the article “How Bridesmaids Set the New Standard for Women in Comedy” published on the website The Artifice‚ the authors emphasizes how actresses in comedy are just as entertaining as men and can now make jokes that actors use to only make and women would stay away from. The article disects the film Bridesmaids and goes into detailed examples as to how actresssess in comedy are starting to break down the barrier of whats acceptable from women in film. The first type of joke the author(s) go
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Throughout history philosophers and scholars have widely debated the theory of comedy and laughter‚ the types of laughter and the reasons why we laugh. In his essay “Ontological Laughter: Comedy as Experimental Possibility Space” Timothy Morton‚ discusses his views on laughter and states that “comedy is the genre closes to the ontological structure of how things are” (332). Morton begins by proposing that “a thing is exactly what it is‚ yet never exactly as it appears” (Morton 322-323)‚ therefore
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