Ian Read

Composed in 1967, the Modern work is characterized by its playful form. The piece was impressive to say the least; the program from the show best articulates the musical qualities of the piece. It reads, Humoresque is a “ . . . blistering perpetual motion that puts a cellist through a range of techniques . . . it requires rapid arpeggios, double stops, glissandos, and quick leaps across the finger board” (La Jolla Music Society). It was undoubtedly…

British Dance: Influential Black Dancers Made an Impact on Britain “Like Britain itself, British dance has been informed by different waves of immigration”, says dance history professor Ramsay Burt (Roy). Ballet “took root” through a determined Polish woman, Marie Rambert, and Irishwoman, Ninette de Valois (Roy). Modern dance was arranged by exiles form Germany in the 1930s and visitors from America in the 1950s and 1960s (Roy). The stories and history of black British dancers however, tends to…

because there is no clear moral to the story. Paradoxically, this ambiguous trait is a key reason readers come back to the grotesque tale of Marlow’s journey in the Congo and the Natives being colonized by the Europeans. This novel can be re-read and re-read with multiple critical lenses, and still, readers do not know the specific center. Of course, this is the main goal for every book out there. Unfortunately, in Joseph Conrad’s case, the full-on racism and hate crosses the thin line between…

According to Ian Lovett of the New York Times, Washington state governor Jay Inslee “mentioned the costs that taxpayers incurred in death penalty cases, which can wind through the court system for decades” (Lovett, Source A). Not only do death penalty cases encounter…

others? But which is it? In my opinion, technology is a wonderful creation. Yes, I agree people are losing their lack of face to face conversations. However, think of all the positive things technology offers. How is Technology Impacting Our World? I read the article “How is Technology Impacting the Changes in the 21st Century Workplace?” By Ruth Mayhew. It talks about how Technology has impacted the efficiency and growth of businesses and how unlikely we will ever go back to “traditional…

science as their framework. The popular use of quantitative research methods such as election polls, scales, and sample surveys, etc., drove political philosophy apart from political science because their methods were in contradiction to one another. Ian Barbour (1979) claimed that not only was their content and subject matter different but also their ways of knowing. Behavioralism may have been a success as it contributed to the rise of policy making, political institutions etc., and many…

Throughout history there are few people more evil and powerful then Adolf Hitler, being responsible for almost sixty million soldiers in the war and the execution of around 500,000 Jewish, homosexual, disabled and political enemies in concentration camps. But to orchestrate these acts Adolf first had to get to a high point of power, he achieved this primarily in three ways, the Reichstag fire and the aftermath of the Reichstag fire, the Enabling act and the Night of Long Knives. The fire was…

And as Ian Hutchby(2001) said that technologies have different communicative affordances: the possibilities that they offer for action, communication technologies afford particular kinds of general use, without determining the particular uses to which they may…

This benefits these children when they enter high school to read Hamlet and knowing the plot because of their favorite childhood movies. Not to mention the expansion of Shakespeare's effects still happens everyday because of movies like this. Shakespeare effects were not just limited to the listening crowd. Shakespeare's…

The 1940’s and 1950’s, an era where conformity, materialism, and sexual repression was the norm in America. Conformity was encouraged by President Eisenhower and if anybody thought differently they were dubbed a communist or “commie”. A counter culture group emerged aiming to radicalize young people to open their eyes to deception in America society and culture-enters the Beat Generation. The Beat Generation was a social and literary movement that was forming post World War II. The Beats were a…