Question: Explain how the elements of dance are used in Alvin Ailey’s Cry to engage the audience. For example space/time/dynamics‚ relationship In 1971‚ Alvin Ailey created one of his best-known ballets ‘Cry’ as a birthday present for his mother Lula Ailey. Ailey dedicated it to ‘all black women everywhere‚ especially our mothers.’ The three-part ballet was to popular and gospel music by Alice Coltrane‚ Laura Nyro and Chuck Griffin. The Ballet is interpreted to display the hardship and servitude
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Flannery O’ Connor Essay Imagine that the sun high in a clear‚ blue sky in the middle of July. The air has a slight breeze to it and the birds are softly chirping in the background. Your mood at the moment is calm‚ almost peaceful. All of a sudden‚ you get a text that your grandmother just died. The sky begins to form big‚ black clouds and the wind starts to pick up its speed. As tears start to roll down your eyes the rain is falling from the sky! Your mood is equivalent to the weather. In Flannery
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Elements of Design – Sleepless in Seattle The clip chosen for this assignment is from Sleepless in Seattle. The title of the clip is Sam is Sleepless in Seattle. This film came out in 1993 and was one of the feel good movies from that season and one of my personal favorites. The focus of this paper is on the elements of design and creative talents that brought things together in this film. My hope is to give everyone a better understanding of what it takes to bring a movie like this to the screen
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Elements of Modernism in American Literature by Audrey Farley‚ Demand Media RSS Email Share Modernism in American literature was greatly inspired by the avant-garde trends in art. Related Articles How to Cite a Literature Book in APA Format African-American Literary Traditions How to Write the Intro Paragraph of a Literary Elements Essay Elements of Poetry Including Figures of Speech Modernism was a cultural wave that originated in Europe and swept the United States during the
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1. Why do we need to study literature? * Literature is filled with ideas that need to be explored. * Literature helps us to see our world in new ways. It brings us to a deeper understanding of life. * It is important to study literature since when we begin the study of literature‚we find it has always two aspects‚one of the simple enjoyment and appreciation and the other of analysis and exact description. Usually what happen when we go through literature in our classroom either by
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Mr. Judd Name__________________ CH. 14 America and World War II Study Guide It was the bloodiest‚ deadliest war the world had ever seen. More than 38 million people died‚ many of them innocent civilians. It also was the most destructive war in history. Fighting raged in many parts of the world. More than 50 nations took part in the war‚ which changed the world forever. For Americans‚ World War II had a clear-cut purpose. People knew why they were fighting: to defeat tyranny. Most of
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Literature Literature (from Latin litteraetantri (plural); letter) is the art of written works‚ and is not bound to published sources (although‚ under circumstances unpublished sources can be exempt). Literally translated‚ the word literature means "acquaintance with letters" (as in the "arts and letters"). The two major classification of literature are poetry and prose. "Literature" is sometimes differentiated from popular and ephemeral classes of writing. Terms such as "literary fiction" and
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He did not realize it at first‚ continuing as if they were still there. The plotting subconscious fabricated their warmth around; he drew comfort from the illusion that he was not alone. He playfully rolled against the floor (filled with reckless joy‚ wondering how amused they were by his childish display of happiness) his ears smudged against the cold tiling and picked up the fractured noises of the midnight revelry in the apartment below. He denied it at first‚ the sounds were coming from his
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The Importance of Literary Elements “The Swimmer” is a short story written by the author John Cheever. This interesting and erratic short story is about the main character Neddy Merrill. Neddy Merrill is an ostensibly light hearted‚ vigorous‚ happy and youthful man in an affluent community‚ who decides one summer afternoon that he will swim his way home from a cocktail party through the array of public and private swimming pools scattered throughout his neighborhood. As the story evolves‚ it becomes
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wisdom and simplicity in all literature." In the words of Edmund Gosse‚ "Parson Abraham Adams‚ alone‚ would be a contribution to English letters." He indeed is the hero of the novel‚ and not Joseph Andrews. Fielding was aware of giving a new literary form with Joseph Andrews which he called "a comic epic in prose." Fielding is a great master of the art of characterization also. Fielding’s broad human sympathy coupled with his keen observation of even the faintest element of hypocrisy in a person is
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