“I think music in itself is healing. It´s an explosive expression of humanity. It´s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from‚ everyone loves music.” Billy Joel The music has reached different themes through history‚ this is relevant because depending on what society is living‚ thinking and feeling is what the music will be about. Music is a meaningful topic when we talk about change and revolution‚ people are influenced by the music they hear and normally‚ it tells us the
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In a nation that produces around 800 films a year Indian people see films a a very important part of their culture. For Indian people "cinema is integral to their lives; it is not a distant‚ two to three hour distraction‚ but an explicit life-style for them."(Jaya Ramanathan). The large screen provides an alternative‚ an escape from the realities of day-to-day life. The protagonists are totally identified with‚ the hero is applauded‚ the virtuous is worshipped and the villain is condemned. The actors
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Brian Menezes 02/27/2013 ENG 98 Critical Summary Critical Summary of “What is an American? This historical perspective relates an important theme of the way that Americans are defined in "What is an America" by Jean De Crevecoeur. By using European cultural integration within the theme of being "American"‚ Crevecoeur essentially reveals how opportunity has made America a nation of many cultures and ethnicities. In being a new nation that could welcome the destitute of Europe
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a new concert to write about and I had a chance to go a live music concert on May 3. I attended to The Rites of Spring in Shepard Recital Hall. The Department of Music School of Fine and Performing Arts presented the concert. It is the same hall that I took my class so I was very familiar with the concert hall. I used the same chair that I use in my Masterworks of Western Music class. Before the concert I did a little research about what does “The Rites of Spring” means. It means like a spring ceremony
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harmful and potentially deadly. Tobacco was discovered by the American Indians and believed tobacco to be more than it actually was. It was used in many ways and all of them was thought to be totally positive effects‚ not knowing how harmful it really was. They had no idea that tobacco caused lung disease‚ buerger’s diseases and was also highly addictive. It was not until now that the world started to realize the major negative effects it has on the human body. It’s so bad that the government had to
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The movement into the Indian Subcontinent by the Indo-European Arayans was something that would greatly influence life for thousands of years to come. Not only did Islam and Hinduism introduce the caste system but it was probably had the biggest impact on the Indian Subcontinent. This system was so appealing that Hindus‚ Buddhist‚ and Jainist all took part in implicating it into their society. They had common beliefs buts also different forms of this system‚ that varied based on each religions belief
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When the Europeans began their settlement of the New World‚ it was both complicated and aided by its indigenous inhabitants. The native people alternately became allies and enemies of the newly arrived settlers from Europe. These two totally dissimilar cultures were hurtling toward each other in a clash of cultures that would be the end for one of them. Did either of them expect what was to come when the first Europeans came to America? What did the settlers expect of the Native Americans when they
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Discuss 3 ways in which creolization has impacted the development of Caribbean art forms. Creolization is the coming together of new-comers and cultural strangers in a subordinate society. Creolization has highly influenced the development of Caribbean Art form in quite a few ways; Caribbean literature‚ fashion and music‚ all due to the colonial experience. Creolisation has played a major role in the evolution of music into several subgenres and fusions. Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that
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African American religious music is the foundation of all contemporary forms of so called "black music." African American religious music has been a fundamental part of the black experience in this country. This common staple of the African American experience can be traced back to the cruel system of slavery. It then evolved into what we refer to today as gospel music. The goal of this paper is to answer three main questions. What are the origins of African American religious music? How did
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and the American wilderness liked and respected Native Americans. They even interbred with them and sold them guns‚ which was very often illegal. Traders had a special status in Native American society. A trader could travel thousands of miles in his canoe without once being robbed or molested. Contrast that with Europe‚ where anyone from another town was fair game. However‚ the English settlers‚ after a very brief period of good relations in Massachusetts‚ came to loathe Native Americans. There
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