Fantasia

Imagine a world where civilization constantly walks the streets, looking down in their hands they hold tiny screens that hold the world. They follow in the same line and routine as the day before like they were in 3rd grade playing follow the leader. Working 50+ hour weeks in small boxes with crowded spaces while the phone rings for the 100th time in the next box over while the boss yells down the hall about company deadlines. Focus on the constant sound of clicking from keyboards, the stench of…

During the 16th century, composers focused mainly on church music since the Renaissance in England started much later than in the rest of Europe. The most popular secular music style was the partsong until innovative composers such as Thomas Tallis and William Byrd paved way beyond three- and four-part homophonic pieces. Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 – 1585) and William Byrd (c. 1540 – 1623) were versatile composers who wrote for the Catholic, Anglican, and Puritan churches alike. Tallis, best known…

The Baroque Era stretched across a century and a half of European history. It took place between the years of 1600 and 1750. Baroque is derived from the term “barroco,” which means irregular shaped pearl. This term is used to describe this period because it was a time of turbulent changes in politics, science, and the arts. Milestones in intellectual history were reached as Galileo, Copernicus, Descartes, and Spinoza expanded the ideas in physics, astronomy, mathematics, and philosophy. William…

Starting at a young age, Walt Disney had ambitious visions of creating something spectacular no matter what difficulties he would have to face. Disney worked as a commercial artist prior to setting up a studio in Los Angeles to create animated cartoons. In 1928, his short film Steamboat Willie, featuring the character "Mickey Mouse," was a national sensation. It was the first animated film to utilize sound, and Disney provided the voice to Mickey. From that point on, Disney cartoons were in…

Religion and magic are different from one another in three ways; intention, attitude, and action. According to Versnel, the intention behind magic is that it is employed to achieve concrete and mostly individual goals whereas religion focuses on intangible long-term goals which concern collective issues of society (11, 178). This can be seen when Elsa creates her ice palace golem “Marshmallow” to protect her from the outside world, this is an individual goal that solely benefits Elsa. In Elsa’s…

During the life of Cervantes, Spain was a place of confusion, disparity and change. On the one hand, it was at the height of its European domination due to the huge influx of wealth provided by its American colonies, but on the other, it was suffering some of it’s most crippling defeats in its history such as the annihilation of its seemingly invincible Spanish armada in 1588. Therefore, during this somewhat chaotic time, popular literature was usually fanciful and used as a form of escapism…

Otto Luening was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Otto spent most of his early childhood on a farm outside of Milwaukee. He started to take piano lessons at the age of four with his father and just two years later at the age of six he began to compose his very own music. When Otto was around 12 years old, he and his family moved to Munich, Germany. Here he studied about orchestration, harmony, flute, and piano at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik. Four years later when Otto was 16, he made his…

He spent his days at his local library while he spent his nights at his typewriter. In 1938, he published his first short story, Hollerbochen’s Dilemma, in Imagination!, a magazine for amateur writer. In 1939, he published four issues of Futuria Fantasia which is his own fan magazine. In 1940, he made his first professional sale - with the help of Robert Heinlein - to Script, a West Coast literary magazine (Weller). In November 1941, the pulp magazine Science Stories published his story,…

The magic, cast members, and entertainment such as rides, parades and shows offer an experience that is worth people’s time and money. Many people in today’s society take a trip to a Disney resort for many reasons. One of the most important reasons is because of its magic. What about Disney makes it so magical? What makes it an experience that is worth time and money? There are many things on Disney property that make it so magical and popular around the globe including the workers,…

The play, As You Like It by Shakespeare, is a medieval love comedy. Orlando, one of the main characters, falls deeply in love with Rosalind. However, they both have different perspective of love. Orlando has to demonstrate that he is very in love with Rosalind. In the play, there’s a conflict of realistic love and fantasy love. On the side, Orlando seems to have problematic relationship with his brother, Olivier. Oliver does not like Orlando due to his personality and people’s perspective of…