In all honesty, it had always been difficult for me to follow a television series. I could never understand how my friends could invest a decent amount of their time into watching multiple series. That was until I started watching Game of Thrones late summer of last year. Although the pilot of the series aired on April of 2011, I finally got around to binge-watching it last summer to understand what the fuss was all about. Granted, I held off watching the show due to its’ excessive nudity and…
Music has influenced all regions in different aspects of life, contributing in the making of history. A genre of music that is considered to be the basic foundation of all genres ranging from the old days to the twenty first century is the blues. When you think of the blues, you tend to think about personal adversity. A common theme in the genre of blues is that people talk about problems they are having, any feeling of regret they may have, and feelings of betrayal. However, the blues is also…
When I got accepted to Union, I thought all of the waiting would be over. I was wrong. All I could think about for the first half of last summer was my housing situation at Union. My main concern was that I would be stuck in a dorm besides Davidson. I had heard from students here that Davidson was the most fun dorm, and I definitely wanted to be a part of that. One of my biggest fears before college was making friends. I thought that if I was in a suite, it would be easier to make friends.…
” Over the years of her marriage with Mr. Wright, she became dull and reclusive. Mr. Wright was known as a good and honest man in the public eye, but behind closed doors was gloomy and stony-hearted. Minnie kept a pet bird because she enjoyed the music and liveliness it brought to her, but Mr. Wright in a fit of rage broke the cage and snapped the bird’s neck, evidence discovered by Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters. The two women found many clues gone unseen by the men, such as her bad quilt stitches…
an effect that added a unique quality to the music, but sometimes felt overwhelming and cluttered. Unimagine maintained the overall sound but added clarity, dampening some of the heaviness and electronics that clouded the music. The third album is likely to sit somewhere in between: “It’s almost a combination of the two records. Unimagine was a lot cleaner, crisp and refined, whereas I think we’re heading for a bit of a darker side…
Elizabethan Era Music Facts Music was an important form of entertainment in the Elizabethan Era. 2. Music and Elizabethan instruments could be performed by musicians, or simple songs and ballads could be sung in the villages and fields to take time from the tasks undertaken by the lower classes. 3. Elizabethans usually attended church on Sunday’s which led to the popularity of many songs. 4. Music had been used to help write poems during the Medieval Era. 5. The importance of music to the…
backgrounds, we are finding that musical training can alter the nervous system to create a better learner and help offset this academic gap”. Often times, music is used for memorization. Teachers have set uninteresting things to music, such as the Preamble, to music so students will remember it. However, setting facts to music is not the only way music increases learning. In a study done by E. Glenn Schellenberg from the University of Toronto at Mississauga, discovered higher IQs in…
world. Because of this, the content included in curriculum is a widely debated subject. Everything from math, to physical education, to the arts is included in different curriculums. However, some disagree that the arts, such as dance, drama, and music, shouldn’t be included in the school system. These people propose that these are luxury topics, and not necessary for success in the real world. This concept might apply to some kids, but others find delight in the arts, and even wish to pursue a…
If I could summarize my career and day to day goals they would be to create, inspire, and achieve. In whatever circumstance that may be. As I reflect on the time that I have already spent at Western Kentucky University, my professors and peers have helped me to do exactly that. From both the encouragement and the discipline I have learned as a student, I have grown as a person and a dancer. I believe that the outcome of the dance program is not only the degree, but life lessons and knowledge to…
get too passionate about their art classes and completely neglect their core classes”, and, as a result, these “poor, unappreciated artists still cannot understand Shakespeare’s poetry”, since they “paint abstract nothingness [and] sing bad choral music” (Abramson). While Abramson believes in the abolition of arts programs entirely, others believe that the funding that is going to arts programs should be going into sports programs. It is seen that in most schools, “sports are the favored…