How does the piece ‘Ocean’ by John Butler use guitar techniques to appeal popular to the 21st century audience? The piece ‘Ocean’ by John Butler appeals popular to the 21st century audience through his variety of guitar techniques. Butler uses an 12 stringed semi-acoustic guitar with open C tuning and Capo on the 4th fret giving an open chord of E Major. The song is through composed and consists of several sections that demonstrate guitar techniques and musical concepts. 0-27sec: The introduction
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‘Dystopia is merely a utopia from a different point of view’. Discuss this statement in relation to two pertinent literary or filmic examples. The following essay proposes to consider the concepts of dystopia and utopia‚ analysing the ways in which they can be deemed to constitute the same phenomenon understood from a different point of view. For the purpose of perspective‚ we intend to consider the problem from the standpoint of H.G. Wells’ A Modern Utopia (1905) and Aldous Huxley’s A Brave New
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has proved‚ by its extended use of dystopia and its focus on the human/machine relationships‚ to be a worthy extension of Brian Aldiss’ short stories‚ going deeper than what the author originally anticipated. To fully grasp the nature of the changes between the story and the film requires a good knowledge of the concept of dystopia‚ a careful examination of its applications in this particular story‚ and a general overview of the human/machine relationships. Dystopia is a word meaning: "1: an imaginary
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Following the fall of the U.S.S.R.‚ North Korea has almost directly become the empire of repression that George Orwell illustrated in Nineteen Eighty Four. Although North Korea is lacking in a technological sense compared to “The Party”‚ they have some very similar tactics such as the invasion of privacy‚ the creation of class systems and the use of propaganda to hold their oppressive power in place. North Korea’s use of flooding their civilians heads with images of the “Eternal President” and
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philosophers adhered that the conception of religion is an inherent predilection of rational beings such that if lions and oxen have hands and feet‚ they too would conceive of a god that would look like a lion or an ox. In the Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler‚ one of the major themes of the novel is the evolution of a new religion called “Earthseed” espoused by the main protagonist of the story Lauren Olamina. Unlike most other religions‚ Earthseed is devoid of reference to a supernatural being but
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Butler states’ “I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people" (Butler). Slavery caused people to become emotionally‚ psychologically‚ and physically disabled. In the article‚ Slavery as a Sexual Atrocity‚ by Patricia Gay‚ she states‚ “when
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group in “their place” while creating a universal understanding that the other is intrinsically better. Kindred a novel by Octavia Butler‚ is one of the greatest works that gives voice to the position of reductionism that the African American community faced but from the removed position of a woman from our current time. This science fiction novel captures the heritage of Butler who has roots in a Grandmother who was a slave and a single parent mother who worked relentlessly as a maid to provide for
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kill me if I did not meet its demands “ ( Butler‚ 191) Even the slightest form of disrespect could get her in trouble “At first I stared back. Then I looked away‚ remembering that I was supposed to be a slave. Slaves lowered their eyes respectfully. To stare back was insolent” (Butler‚ 66). It had happened to many slaves “Once I was called over to the slaves cabins – the quarter – to watch Wyelin punish a field hand for the crime of answering back” (Butler‚ 92). Some advice Luke gave to Nigel was
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Kindred Essay In the novel “Kindred” by Octavia Butler; time travel was used to show the view of slavery from the perspective of a black woman named Dana who is from modern times. The author used Dana to show and help the readers experience the dehumanization of African Americans during the Ante-Bellum South time period. The conflicts that Dana faces shows the twisted heritage slaves had to endure. Dana‚ the main character views slavery from a modern point of view because she is from the 1970’s
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Kindred by Octavia Butler‚ Butler writes about a modern black woman Dana and how she travels back to the antebellum South every time her ancestor needs help. Fiction writing that deals often playfully and periodically‚ with the nature of fiction‚ the techniques and conventions used in it‚ and the role of the author therefore metafiction applies because throughout the story it deals with the writing of fiction or conventions of fiction. Now in our modern daytime it is used more common but Butler approached
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