Homesickness

Justin Gedeon Professor John Tribelhorn MUS 100 – 1343/Concert Report 26 November 2016 Echoes of Nations On Friday evening, November 18, 2016, at 8 PM, the San Diego Symphony Orchestra presented Beyond the Score: Dvorak Symphony No. 9: Whose World? inside the beautiful Copley Symphony Hall in San Diego. Instrumentation included one piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, horns, two trumpets, three trombones, one tuba, timpani, triangle, symbols, violins, violas, cellos, and…

The television series Master of None, created by Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang, centers on a 30-year-old Indian American actor, Dev Shah, played by Aziz Ansari himself. The comedy of the show is gleaned from Dev’s experiences living in New York. Many plot lines of the show incorporate discussions of race, gender, and sexuality. For this project, we focus on the second episode of the series, “Parents.” This episode’s theme is the child-parent relationship in America, when the parents are immigrants.…

Nothing interested him until he found the prince's personal combat field. Arranged in rows of twelve, one hundred forty-four porcelain vases stood in the middle of several towering weapon racks. Twenty years wasn't enough to dilute the sweep of homesickness that Ramses thought he'd left behind.…

Things like death and a sense of homesickness hurt these men greatly. Sometimes the characters seemed to accept death because they knew it was going to happen, but some characters were sometimes affected a lot more than others. In O’Brien’s stories about Ted Lavender, he always mentions how…

Bharathi Mukherjee is an erudite, Indian born American writer whose literary career started as early as 1970. Calcutta born, She migrated to the US to do her M.F.A in Creative Writing, in 1963. She is presently a professor at the University of California, Berkely. She is married to Clark Blaise , an American writer. She is an ardent admirer of the writings of Malamud and V.S.Naipaul. Shashi Deshpande, Jumpha Lahiri, Anita Desai and Shoba De are some of her contemporary writers. Bharathi…

Robert Frost: Timeless Style What makes a piece of literature unique? Its diction? Its syntax? Maybe, but true value can be achieved when an author masters the ability to make a book, story, or poem applicable and relatable to all age groups— to make his or her work timeless. The literature then has the potential to be enjoyed and understood by all ages. Robert Frost holds a highly esteemed and exclusive position in American poetry because of his theory on poetic composition, his modern…

This quarter has been truly unforgettable. There have been both countless hardships and happy moments that I have been able to learn from. This paper will include my strongest and weakest Emotional Intelligent Leadership capacities, the experiences that have molded me in my past and present, and how Emotionally Intelligent Leadership will help my future development as a leader. My strongest capacities were Authenticity, Achievement, and Displaying Empathy. My weakest capacities are Emotional…

Introduction Manju Kapur is one of the most distinguished Indian English writers of the contemporary times. She has been able to make a mark with her five novels written in the last two decades. Her stories mostly hover over frustrations, refusals, retaliations and breach of conventional expectation. The Immigrant, published in 2008, is her fourth novel. With her profound understanding of human nature, Kapur discusses a wide range of issues in this work of hers. Commenting on the themes of…

Isabel Allende, in her memoir My Invented Country, connotes her experience as an Immigrant around the world before settling in America with feelings of misery and emptiness. She recalls her experience escaping her homeland and traveling as the step-daughter of a diplomat as incredibly lonely without a defined sense of direction. Allende experiences reveries of Chile that nip at her heels and cause her to crave home. She rejects the racism of the society and experiences difficulty in assimilating…

Since the 1800s the United States has made dozens of accomplishments. From gaining land in the West, to industrializing the nation with modern railroads and canals. What seemed nothing more but a land only for a handful of wealthy residents in the territory of California, will impact the country in various ways. The discovery of gold in 1848 marked the beginning of a wave foreigners and Americans to a new life. The California Gold Rush was a historical event that impacted Westward expansion,…