Duke of Albany

The piano is one of the most beautiful and most influential instruments invented. It also happens to be my personal favorite instrument. Several members of my family play the piano as well, my mom is a pianist and has recorded several albums playing the piano in accompany with her voice. Needless to say I have grown up listening to the piano and is crucial in my developing interest in music. All this personal history with the piano has made me interested to learn about the piano. In this paper I…

Verdi chooses to replace “Poor Tom” with the peasant who offers Lear shelter in the rain. However, there is no way to rectify Edgar’s importance in the final scene: In Shakespeare’s play, Albany and Edgar take the throne in Lear’s stead, providing a solid ending to the piece, though tragedy has taken the lives of the rest of the characters. But this conclusion is not needed in an opera. In fact, Verdi concluded his Otello with the death of…

Atlantic coast in search of a faster root to Asia. This new settlement was later called New Amsterdam and established as Dutch trading colony. After the British took control in 1664, New Amsterdam was then changed to New York after the English Duke of York and Albany. “Fewer than 300 people lived in New Amsterdam, but grew quickly in 1760 when the city’s population grew to 18,000; becoming the second largest city in the American colonies”². As decades passed, New York becomes the largest city…

Imagine an arrogant king of England who plays the game “Who loves me the most?” with his three daughters. This unconventional contest will decide which daughter will receive the largest portion of land from his kingdom. Two of the daughters exaggerate their love for him, but one chooses to remain silent. Little did the king know that he would lose his power due to this competition. As the king loses everything and faces the consequences for his poor decisions, he starts to see the world in a…

With this newly built trust of Gloucester in Edmund, his father secretly informs him that “there is division/ between he dukes” (3.3.8-9) and “there’s part/ of a power already footed; we must incline to the/ King. Gloucester will look him and privily relieve him”, although he is already in unity with Cornwall, Goneril, and Regan’s plot to rid their father, King Lear. Due…

France ‘Thee and thy virtues I seize upon [...] Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France’ (Shakespeare I.i . 252-57). Cordelia is not the only one who receives power from marriage, her two sisters Regan and Goneril do as well as they marry the dukes of Albany and Cornwall. The theme of power through marriage is an extremely misogynistic view expressed by Shakespeare throughout the play as it demonstrates the traditional and outdated gender roles for women. In Shakespeare’s King Lear, it is…

Beginning in the early to mid 1800’s the United States started to experience a flow of immigrants settling in the urban United States, and the rapid immigration went on to continue for the next few decades. The circulation of people and the Market Revolution had an enormous impact on the United States in various ways. These events during the nineteenth century brought many benefits to the American economy such as increased production of goods, the creation of new technologies, and higher…

I spent one year training at Ginásio Clube Português which is located near a refined square where a beautiful garden stands. My ping pong teacher took me and two other colleagues into somewhere in a white Renault 4; later I met Canina there at the football field. I have met two Canina´s. Canina means a boy which is short in analogy into dogs. The first Canina scored a good goal at my elementary school while the second was traped in our high school though he could fought back and around 1995…