Jan van Eyck

Bram Stoker was a revolutionizing author of historical horror fiction in the 1800s. Stoker found most of his inspiration from spending many dinners with Henry Irving’s Theatre Company and his extensive time in the Theatre. Stoker began writing Gothic Horror due to his interests in vampiric mythology and all the stories his mother told him when he was bedridden as a child. Although myths and legends about vampires have been around for centuries, Stoker put his own spin on the tale and made it…

There are many interesting differences and similarities between vampires and werewolves. The main conflict between both werewolves and vampires arises from believable fact they’re not real, but fictional. First of all, vampires are shape shifting beings, also cold blooded killers with no feeling or sympathy; also as well as remoras for their actions. Vampires come in different forms to rich to poor, with powerful fangs to directly pierce human pray. They are not human, but an undead…

In my third concert, I decided to oppose Opus 15 with other Lieder that were composed in 1908 and 1909 and performed works by Pfitzner, Reger and Berg. While the first two contextualisations appeared to be logical points of departure in my exploration of Opus 15, as they were related to aspects that seemed more or less directly accessible through the score and offered the opportunity to potentially discover internal similarities between Opus 15 and the other repertoire in the form of a certain…

The novel Dracula is based off of several different Gothic Motifs. In Gothic Literature is writing that is based off of scenery that is dark and wicked, overwhelming and dramatic scenes, and filled with the mystery of events. Gothic literature most of the time revolves around an event or object that has a meaning of evil or secrecy. Novels that are Gothic have supernatural events that take place, or romantic events. Dracula consist of many of these elements that take place in Gothic…

Bank of the United States debate Joe W Pfingsten HST201 CSU Global- Online Campus September 6th, 2015 Jonevic Hular Angco Bank of the United States debate INTRODUCTION Even though Clay and Webster were the ones that were right that the bank to stay open and was not bad for the people. Andrew Jackson side of the Bank of the United States debate was the right way. He was right the bank had too much power and enemy of the common people. The Economic privileges and social inequities of the…

The Fault In Our Stars takes us on an unforgettable journey through the tragic business of being alive and in love. The young teenagers Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace find peace and hope within each other throughout the endless days spent with one another. The horrific moments of the past haunts them but suddenly the sweetness of the future begins to brighten their world. Hazel Grace, who suffers from stage 4-thyroid cancer, is a conscientious 16-year-old girl yearning for a regular teenage…

promised impossibilities… They have acquired new and almost unlimited powers; they can command the thunders of heaven, mimic the earthquake”(Shelly 87). In the passage Victor states “the ancient teachers of this science promised impossibilities”, like Van Helsing, he emphasis the gain in understanding the old institutions. This is obvious to the reader since his tone of voice contains a euphoric tone. Frankenstein becomes obsessed with the old science to confront the unknowns of the world,…

Extra Credit On September 30th I attended my second SWIC Music Recital at the Schmidt Art Center. The venue for the afternoon recital was held in the same gallery room as my first experience. The rooms plain walls were adorned with art of varying mediums, in the front of the hall sat a white grand piano on parquet floors, played by Professor Gail Long, the only accompaniment for the day’s performers. This recital difference from the first event was rather than professors performing for…

Ludwig Van Beethoven, was the composer who changed music more than any other composer, the sound of music and what the other composers that were to come after him thought. He wrote nine symphonies, five piano concertos, an opera and many pieces of chamber music that jolted music right out of itself. Beethoven changed music by creating a new era called Romanticism, influencing the other composers and changing the old methods by adding a special twist. The first way that Beethoven changed music…

“Someone I once knew wrote that we walk away from our dreams, afraid that we may fail or worse yet, afraid we may succeed” (IMDb, 2000, p. 1). This is a quote from William Forrester in the movie, Finding Forrester. The quote is saying that one does not conquer their dreams without courage. Finding Forrester is set in the busy city of New York. Here lives the teenage boy, Jamal Wallace, and an unlikely mentor named William Forrester. As a dare, Jamal breaks into Forrester’s apartment, and…