Counterpoint

Although not focused exclusively on female enslavement, Philip D. Morgan’s Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake & Lowcountry echoes the contrasting identities between white and black Americans and its impact on the moral development of society. According to Morgan, “Slavery was not curious abnormality, no aberration, no marginal features or early America. Most eighteenth-century Americans did not find it an embarrassment or an evil. Rather, slavery was a…

Critical Review of Barbara von Schewick 's part of Point Counterpoint: Network Neutrality Nuances Net neutrality is a problematic subject that has been around now for a number of years, and is now becoming a widely known and heavily debated topic. The basic definition of net neutrality is that any major ISP or the government cannot provide a bias on, or modify data packets coming from online servers. In the article “Point/Counterpoint Network Neutrality Nuances” partially written by Barbara von…

Ballaro, Beverly, and Laura Finley. "Counterpoint: Gun Control Saves Lives." Points Of View: Gun Control (2015): 3. Points of View Reference Center. Web. 7 Oct. 2015. Ballaro, Beverly and Finley, Laura points out the main theme of this article as “Gun control regulation is the best tool we have in the fight to reduce gun violence in the United States.” Both agree that the United States has one of the highest rates of gun-related violence in the developed world. Gun control has remained the…

Composers have been coming up with new and inventive ways to expand the realm of choral music for centuries. New instruments and techniques are constantly being developed, but many of these techniques fail to secure a lasting foothold and gain traction. Many techniques of the twentieth and twenty-first century incorporate additional dissonances to compose chord resolutions, chord successions, and chord progressions that are atypical of classical music before 1910. Composers continue to push the…

alto the soprano answers by repeating the subject at a higher pitch. Following the soprano’s answer the bass reintroduces the main theme at a lower pitch and is answered by the tenor. During this subject-and-answer interaction Bach uses imitative counterpoint to merge the four voices into one cohesive texture. Episode one is introduced with the soprano and tenor performing binary imitative passages. The bass and alto also perform binary imitative passages alongside the soprano and tenor. With…

In the Literary Criticism “Counterpoint”, by James M. Mellard, the critic analyzes the juxtaposition between components in the novel, A Separate Peace, by John Knowles. Mellard strongly suggests to his readers how Knowles uses “counterpoint in character development, symbolism, plot and structure” (Mellard 56), which brings forth the ultimate question of how does counterpoint support A Separate Peace’s “ultimate theme” (56). The fundamental answer to this proposed question, in the eyes of…

about effective ways to combine sounds. Counterpoint Creating parts that work together and create independent melodies is essential to music. Counterpoint is a concept that entails creating multiple independent lines. In counterpoint, composers learn about dissonant and consonant intervals and how these work in a composition. The methods of employing multiple independent melodic lines are crucial to the development of a contrapuntal style. Counterpoint instruction is broken up into five…

the music influences the viewer on how they should interpret, feel and respond to what the scene is showing. In contrast, counterpoint utilizes incongruent music in relation to the visuals and adds new possible meanings to the scene. The musical concept of counterpoint is when two or more melodies that differ from each other are put together and sound harmoniously. Counterpoint on film acts in a similar way, except that rather than having melodic lines, we encounter visuals and sounds being the…

private matter. Point: Consensual sex is for the participants to decide, provided it is not interfering with anyone else. Other people may not approve, but that does not mean they are right to curtail the freedom of those that disagree. Counterpoint: There is a social cost for sexual relations outside of a monogamous relationship. The spread of disease, and children born to single mothers have a cost that the taxpayer has to front. B. You can't turn the clock back on the…

debating about this on a daily basis. Some believe it's something that we should do this to "restore traditional values, strengthen families, and encourage education", while others believe that "Being able to do something doesn’t mean we should do it"(Counterpoint para 8). There are various points that support these two ideas quite well, but the stronger opinion is that it shouldn't be done. The act of de-extinction is a dangerous task to do. It puts other wildlife and humans…