Counterpoint

Mato-Tope as a tribal hero and imposing leader. His military and ceremonial accomplishments connect each figure and show Mato-Tope’s prominence. Mato-Tope’s wife literally supports his accomplishments by holding his buffalo robe and offers a feminine counterpoint to her husband’s masculine image. She and their son are used for balance rather than their individual identities or familial…

Gay Hate Crimes in America Jordan Schaeffer was just at the ripe age of 25 when his life was almost taken from him. On a trip to Miami, also known as one of the many safe havens for gays, his life turned around. Jordan and his boyfriend had just shared a kiss in Burger King when Jordan was taken from his comfortable life. Coming from California where he was accepted and homosexuality was okay, he had never been face to face with a hate crime. As he was slammed into the ground and being kicked,…

Dream or Reality: The aesthetic strategies in Ivan’s Childhood Soviet auteur Andrei Tarkovsky is well-known by his understanding of cinema as art and a form of poetry. He emphasizes and utilizes this cinematic poetic logic in his film in order to interpret his aesthetic ideology as presenting inner reality rather than recreating external reality. In his first film, Ivan’s Childhood, he uses the protagonist’s perspective to present what the war looks like and has the impact on a child soldier…

“Chile, province fertile and marked / in the famed region of Antarctica / by remote nations respected / for its strength, nobility, and power” is part of the poem La Araucana, written by Alonso de Ercilla Zúñiga, and considered as the first work piece of literature in Chile. A Spanish soldier, he wrote his epic poem while he spent two years in Chile in the 16th century. As with other dimensions of Chilean social, economic, and cultural life, literature has also been influenced by the European…

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is where the best basketball players from around the world have a chance to showcase their skills and play against the best of the best. With it, comes the never-ending debate of who is the best player in the NBA. Past players like Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and Lebron James have been considered the best basketball players in their respective era. In an article titled, “Stephen Curry has Replaced Lebron James as the Best Basketball Player in the World”…

lessons when he started out. In 1899, he completed his piano education at Elmira college under Mary Selena Broughton. In 1903, Mary financed his musical education in Berlin, he studied with Ernst Jedliczka and Gottfried Gaston, composition and counterpoint with other important people as well. In 1905, Griffes left the Stern Conservatory to study privately with Humperdinck. When he returned to the United States in 1907, he had composed many songs and a “Symphonische Phantasie” for orchestra and…

Encountering difficulties is part of our daily life. They test our capacity to resist adversity and make us stronger. Moreover, challenging moments that we face can be compared with a storm, which produces intensive winds and heavy rain causing flooding and disaster but, after it everything returns to normal and the calmness will come. This is because a bad season or a moment in our life cannot last forever. Based on that principle, I interpret the overture of Don Giovanni composed by Wolfgang…

Caleb Hubble HS 105 D Loyola University Maryland Professor Diehl 2/6/2015 A Change of Heart Natsume Soseki's 1914 novel Kokoro is an extremely layered novel. While on the surface level, Kokoro is about complicated interpersonal relationships, a closer reading of it reveals some startling and widely apt symbolism. Kokoro isn't just focused on using deep human relationships as metaphors though, the novel retains an incredible humanity. The characters and relationships in the novel are both…

Ken Kesey novel, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, tells a fictionalized tale regarding a mental asylum in the 1960s. By analyzing the novel, we can see that Kesey argues that games are the ideal and natural manner in which homosocial communities and friendships are created, both of which benefit men in curing their issues with masculinity; Kesey argues that games are the antithesis to the authority observed in society and institutions which aim to control men within stated rules and standards.…

The American Dream is a concept that was always deeply embedded in the American psyche from the very beginnings of its earliest settlements. The concept emerged through the cognition of America as the “promised land”, the mythical symbol of a “new Eden”, a “Kingdom of Heaven on Earth”, where man was in complete control of his political, social, mercantile and religious destiny. Despite the internal tensions the Civil War brought forth, the rapid growth of industrialisation of the nineteenth…