Art genres

Flamenco is a folk art and culture from Iberia, or present day Spain. A genre that has been the musical outlet for the poor and the troubled, Flamenco is not merely a style of music, song or dance from Spain but rather a way of life that influences the daily activities of many individuals. The art of flamenco was intended to be an outward expression of an individual’s most profound emotions and the flamenco way of life. It was never intended to be a technical art performed with enduring…

David Suzuki’s, “The Breath of All Green Things,” an excerpt from The Sacred Balance, is a moving piece about life’s most vital resource; air. He causes readers to think twice about how largely air is taken for granted and how we must change our ways if we want to continue to have this precious “substance” (Suzuki pg. 54). Suzuki creates a compelling piece about air by using a very influential writing strategy. He uses three common literary devices to make his factual article sound poetic;…

The monologue is from the Twelfth Night. That monologue encompasses various literary elements that have varying significance to the monologue itself and the readers as well. The extent of this significance is dependent on the extent of the meaning that the literary devices add to the monologue. Therefore, the literary devices and elements employed in the monologue add meaning to it, make it more interesting, provide an understanding of how various elements can be analyzed in society and…

Why do so many people rely on drugs to forget about all their problems that they face? In Denis Johnson’s short story Emergency the topic is highly discussed, as how the characters use drugs in order to not think about their normal everyday life and how they try to escape reality by getting high off the pills from their work. In doing so, Johnson presents a conflict of man vs. himself, in which he tries to forget about his problems and act as if everything is okay when in reality it is not.…

A Broken Puzzle “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change” (Shelley). The two stories “The Red Convertible” by Louise Erdrich and “The Brothers” by Lysley Tenorio demonstrates that a sudden change can turn a lifetime of memories into betrayals, In “The Red Convertible,” the brothers Henry and Lyman has a strong bond filled with amusement and adoration but disintegrates as a result of an unexpected event that happens to Henry. In comparison, in “The Brothers,” the…

hollyofwood blockbuster. There are other types of film that a not re inportant to the culture. Art film is one that many people may not see or if they do mayapretiate it. They may be bscuse art film is a bit more dificult to follow along with. Hollywood films ussaly have a rubric that they fallow. These rules are considered safe because most people enjoy the simaler plot lines on tthe films. were art films plot lines deal with how the movie is filmed or the cinamotography of the fim. It might…

create a gothic romance complimented with shades of horror. Therefore, when you judge it as a gothic romance, you have one hell of a film. Many of the elements in this film will prove to you that this movie is in fact a member of the gothic romance genre. To get a sense of the story, after Edith’s father is brutally murdered, Edith and Thomas marry and return to his home in England. They arrive at Allerdale Hall, Sir Thomas’s rickety mansion, which sits atop a red clay mine thus giving it the…

searches endlessly to find his identity. Anil’s quest for the truth of his identity is characteristic of a crime fiction novel. While Ondaatje provides other elements to make his novel more complex, he follows the basic features of the crime fiction genre. The novel is typically fictional, but with a lot of research to support its contents. Ondaatje has clearly stated his novel as a work of fiction; however, it is based on true events in Sri Lanka’s history. Ondaatje himself was born in Sri…

Music is not only calming to the mind and soul but it has been around for a long time. People are constantly listening to music and often turn to it as a source of inspiration. This literature review will look at how the music industry has changed over the years by giving a semiotic analysis on the comparison of 2 well known music artists’; Dolly Parton and Nicki Minaj’s in terms of their song lyrics, how they were considered style icons of that era, their physical appearances. In this research…

Praying The beautiful thing about music is its ability to reach millions of people everywhere. And out of those millions, almost every single one of them, if not all, have faced some sort of difficulty. Music has the power to let those people know that they are not alone. While there are a multitude of songs to listen to and connect with, Kesha and Ryan Lewis’ collaborative hit, “Praying”, encourages those who face adversities and gives them that extra push in the right direction. As humans,…