Bowery Songs

He wrote some of the first popular anti-war songs of that era, songs like Blowin’ In The Wind and Masters of War in 1962. Some protest songs fit into different categories, songs like Say It Loud: I’m Black and I’m Proud (that’s chorus was sang by multiracial children,) and A Change Is Gonna Come were based off and protested against racism and were important during the Civil Rights Movement of the sixties. Another category was women’s rights with songs like the hit by Aretha Franklin, Respect.…

government, causing the end of the quartet group. Although the group ended, Seeger continued to record and perform songs. Pete Seeger’s songs impacted the American…

For this paper, I will analyze the essay ‘No Name Woman’ written by Maxine Hong Kingston. This was a roller-coaster of a story with high emotions and dark secrets reveled throughout the essay. Kingston’s culture is known as family oriented and strict, through her essay she shares her family story and how this culture affected her family personally. Being Chinese decent, she was raised in a very strict, superstitious, tradition holding household. She goes on to explain to us, how her mother…

Ever Salmeron Alberto Professor Bobby Jones English 1302 25 March 2018 Rhetorical Analysis of “I Have a Dream” Martin Luther King, Jr in his speech “I Have a Dream” furthers his purpose of call justice, liberty, and equality for all people in America, he did an excellent job as leader inspiring people by effectively employing Logos, Ethos, and Pathos in his speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. One technique that Luther King, Jr furthers his purpose is through his use of Logos. Near…

The term Ghost has a Germanic origin which means Spirit or Soul. The term ‘Soul’ is complicated because various established and widely followed spiritual doctrines like Buddhism neglect the existence of soul in anybody. But it is strange that Chinese Buddhism has a concept of Hungry Ghost; quite similar to the term ‘Preta’ in Indian Buddhism and Hinduism. So Buddhism will not accept Ghost as somebody’s soul which is appearing on earthly realm to fulfill his desires indeed Ghost is used as…

Throughout the long history of China, there are many extraordinary thoughts created by a lot of famous philosophers. Although there are many different schools of teachings and most of them are in opposition to each other, they still share some similarities. In the textbook, Kongzi and Laozi’s teachings serve as a good example. In the Analects, Kongzi emphasizes on ren and xiao which mean benevolence and filial piety, respectively. He believes that filial piety and benevolence are interconnected…

Gagaku is the traditional court music of Japan. The word gagaku originates from the literal Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese characters for the term “elegant music” (Britannica). The origins of gagaku trace back to mainland China where it was first developed as music for the imperial court of the Tang Dynasty. This music then spread east to Korea where it was adopted as the music of the imperial Korean court. During the 5th century, musicians from the the Korean imperial court travelled to…

Vietnamese Art In ancient Vietnam, art was more than something pretty to look at, it was a part of everyday life. Pottery from as early as 8,000 BC has been found in recent archeological dig sites in Bac Son, Vietnam (“History of…”). The pottery found was most likely used for cooking or holding water. Pots and jars did not have a lot of design, mostly geometrical patterns from the woven patterns used to make the jars. Around 2,000 years later, people began using bronze in their pottery.…

Qingming Festival is the masterpiece of Zhang Zeduan who is a painting artist in the Song Dynasty. The painting vividly captures the thriving life of people from Bianjing (Kaifeng), capital of the Song Dynasty. The entire painting was painted in hand scroll format, deployed the method of scatter perspective mapping, and bringing in varied landscape and numerous human characters all dressed differently. Moreover, with the development of a population of more than one million, it was really a…

Buddhism was first accepted by the lower class. Many Confucian scholars and high ranking officials begin to consider Buddhism a threat. Some people thought that Buddhism poisoned their culture, while others thought it was the greatest thing in Chinese history. The people in China respond in different ways to the Buddhism. While, some Chinese scholars praised and defended the belief because it offered comfort and justified sorrow (Doc 1 & 2). Confucian scholars sided with the emperor in…