Bagpipes

In creating “The Reeve’s Tale”, Chaucer incorporates many literary elements such as character, theme and symbolism. “The Reeve’s Tale” involves a Miller named Simpkin, who stole wheat and corn. A deceitful Miller lived with a wife, young woman daughter, and infant. Two college scholars go on a trip to the Miller’s house to get their grain ground, and the Miller attempts to cheat the two scholars. The two scholars are too intelligent for him, but the Miller unties the scholars’ horses, so the…

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Musicians often use their songs as a vehicle to make cultural or political observations. A persistent trope in modern music has been the anti-war song. Often when a song’s message strikes a certain cord, is so powerful that its message is perennial, other artists will issue their own renditions — covers. Eric Bogle’s“The Green Fields of France” is one such song. This is a song that has been covered by everyone from The Clancy Brothers to the Dropkick Murphys, always maintaining its serious and…

For this assignment, we were tasked with interviewing people from different backgrounds. As a person of Arab descent, I tried to find two people with vastly different ethnic backgrounds. The first person I interviewed was a fellow student from University. The student is a male, and his background is Irish and English. The student is an American, but his grandparents had migrated from Ireland over 80 years ago. The second person I interviewed was my neighbor. My neighbor is an American as well,…

the tempo of each dance. I believe different tempos can help to portray the culture better. An Irish dancer is going to use their feet more and I have always thought that was an interesting thing. When I see Irish dancers, I sometimes think of the bagpipes and the different dances that they do. Furthermore, the Early Christian Dance helps me develop deeper insight by thinking of how the Early Christian Dance is performed. One example that helps me appreciate other cultures is the Hawaiian dance.…

During the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, Greece saw monarchies banishing of royalty, brutal political fights, assassinations, and dictatorships, wars that added neighboring territories and new population, but also brought economic devastation and poverty. After the defeat of Germany and the end of World War II, Greece joined NATO in 1952. Then, they experienced a hostile civil war between communist and anticommunist forces. In 1967, a group of military…

There have been multiple dances throughout the life of man. Some are used in rituals. These could include the Haka, the Morris Dance, and Rainmaking dances. Others are used to interpret a person’s emotions and feelings. It has more of a modern feel and began in the 1900s. However, that isn’t the dance of focus at the moment. Ballet; an artistic dance form performed to music using precise and highly formalized set steps and gestures, is the center of attention. The first form of ballet that was…

regions incorporate a variety of different instruments into their music to produce authentic and even more adverse and original music. Instruments used to enhance the traditional sound of music in consist of but are not limited to ancient celtic roots, bagpipes, trumpets, etc. From these unique and wonderful styles of music of course comes unique and wonderful forms of dance that have spread from this cultural center of Europe to the Spanish speaking countries of Latin America. It is amazing to…

Scotland's Superman Few words are more abused in Hollywood than historical and epic. While historical is such a broad term that can refer to anything in the past, epic is often the colloquial of anything that’s awesome. However, when the words combine they form a favored genre of moviegoers. According to FilmSite.org, “A historical epic is defined as film that takes a historical, mythic, heroic figure, and adds an extravagant setting accompanied by lavish costumes and a grand musical score.”…

Arguably, the “shadowy tableau” of “droning and drooling” enslaved bagpipe players readied Babo’s slave army for the attempted mutiny and murder of Cereno later on. Because the mediums of communication were incomprehensible to the white men, the white men did not recognize the collective intelligence of the slaves. By the…