Evocation

The Serpent and the Rope is a diffuse and garrulous book, and Ramaswamy’s parade of learning, his intellectual arrogance and his bouts of self-pity can be irritating, while Rao’s tremendous linguistic resource can occasionally turn into sheer verbal jugglery, which brings diminishing returns with every new metaphysical hair meticulously split as in ‘Meaning is meaningful to meaning’. But with all its limitations, The Serpent and the Rope is a dazzling performance, … Few Indian English novels…

Quang H. “Neon” Le ENGL 110 Prof. Gangel Essay. Have To Go My Own Way Bobbie Ann Mason is an American short-story writer and novelist known for her evocation of rural Kentucky Life. She has a distinctive style in writing that is known as "minimalist" -- a stripped-down, unadorned, almost consciously unliterary style (Mason, 230). She has won many awards in writing such as Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for the memoir, "Clear Springs"; Arts and Letters Award for Literature from the American Academy…

Dance may be perceived by some as merely choreography overlaid with music that governs the tempo and overall feel of the piece, however the art of dance is rooted in deeper facets such as culture, ritual, spirituality, and tradition. The culture and traditions that lead to certain dance styles and moves can be traced back somewhat to the economic and political status of the time period and location of the dance. For example, in Mary Wigman’s Hexantanz, or “Witch Dance” (1914), it’s not hard to…

Conservation of wildlife is an issue that is relevant to today in people’s everyday life. The importance of this topic, was not introduced recently. Although a poem published in 1967, still have relevance today shows the importance of modern contemporary poets, whose voice can be heard to this day. W.S. Merwin’s “For a Coming Extinction” emphasizes the importance of saving animals and the environment that is still relevant to today’s issues. In this short poem, concepts of everyday wrong-doing…

The wealth and Poverty of nations is a book that covers almost six centuries of long economic analysis of dozen of countries. The book has been written in a progression in economics throughout history. The main idea he believes the Western Nations became such wealthy nations because of political, economic institutions but most important social and culture. David S. Landes explains in the book by asking the big question, “why are some nations wealthily and other some nations poor? He explains…

In their article, “Paulo Freire and ICTs: Liberatory Education Theory in a Digital Age,” John F. Freie and Susan M. Behuniak mainly discuss liberation and oppression in education when ICTs involved. They stand on the same side as Paulo Freire, arguing that the dominant tendency of computers employed in college class reinforced Freire’s “banking system” type of education. They also presented Freire’s Liberatory Pedagogy and applied different types of ICTs to prove the reliability of Freire’s…

“What a Trooper!” Last Wednesday, Brian Turner appeared before an audience in the Adams State College Theater. As the famed author of the award winning Here, Bullet, he attracted an audience worth of his fame. That September 5th night at 7:00pm, he awed audiences with an epic and personal first-person glimpse of the war in the Middle East. The main stage in the ASC theater was brightly light, a contrast with the darkened rows of seats. Focus was on Brian Turner as he read from a selection…

Having said all of this, before drawing any conclusions based on Céu’s multilayered evocations of the virtual and its oscillations between the “no longer” and the “not yet,” I would like to turn to the other two films and to the notion of the ordinary, which, along with the virtual, is central to contemporary documentaries. Excavating the Ordinary Although Céu’s characters are unique, and in a sense extraordinary, we can also think of Sérgio Borges’s film as an immersion into the ordinary world…

In her article, Heffernan talks about the story of “Moby Dick” and relates it to her argument. The following statement was taken from her article: “In ‘Moby-Dick,’ Starbuck tries to distract Ahab from his monomania with evocations of family life in Nantucket. Under the spell of “a cruel, remorseless emperor” …Ahab’s doom comes from his undistractibility” (Heffernan 114). By adding a summary of “Moby Dick” into her article, Heffernan demonstrates knowledge of what she is arguing…

In this essay, I will be taking an in depth study into a musical idea or possibly referred to as a musical movement or genre. This process will then further consist of looking at a single composer and a chosen piece of work. The musical idea I chose to be electronic music, as I feel in this current musical era, its is incredibly popular and so wanted to have a look into its roots and someone who impacted the growth and style - Pierre Schaeffer. This composer had his very own particular outlook…