Joseph E. Brown

more enjoyable life. To follow your bliss, you need to find what you love to do, your ‘calling’. This being accomplished, the journey to your future starts to make more sense. To be able to achieve one’s bliss, they must follow the steps acquired by Joseph Campbell in his monomyth. The monomyth is perfected by three steps which include: separation and departure, challenges and trials, and return and reintegration. My personal bliss would be to find genuine happiness in life. No matter what the…

On September 8, 1841, Antonin Dvorak was the first born of nine children. Being born in Nelahozeves, he became adapted to music very early in his life. He knew the violin really well as a young child. He moved to Zlonice when he was just twelve years old to live with his aunt and uncle. There, he studied piano, harmony, and organ. While here, he wrote one of his most valuable pieces called the Polka. Dvorak worked hard from the 1850's to the 1860's. During the 1860's, he tutored many students.…

In this essay, I will be taking an in depth study into a musical idea or possibly referred to as a musical movement or genre. This process will then further consist of looking at a single composer and a chosen piece of work. The musical idea I chose to be electronic music, as I feel in this current musical era, its is incredibly popular and so wanted to have a look into its roots and someone who impacted the growth and style - Pierre Schaeffer. This composer had his very own particular outlook…

Solidarity played a critical role in Poland’s ability to have a peaceful transfer of power in 1989, and escort Poland into a new era of a successful democracy. This democracy had its roots in a legacy of nonviolent civil resistance to communism. I. Pre-Solidarity The Soviet forces that liberated Poland from Nazi occupation after World War II instituted a government whereby workers could not organize or represent themselves. During the 1970s, frustration with the one-party system grew and by…

When Hitler came to power in 1935, his ultimate ambitions was to one day conquer the world. That pipe dream came to a halt when in 1945, as the Allied powers closed in on Berlin and Hitler died by a self inflicted gunshot wound. However, to say that even though Hitler did not have an influence on the world after World War II, one is surely mistaken. The whole reason why the Cold War existed was because of Adolf Hitler. To trace this, one has to go to the moment before Hitler invaded Poland in…

The composer i am writing about is Richard Wagner. Richard was a German composer and he was born in Leipzig, Saxony and on May 22, 1813. He died February 13, 1883 and his cause of death was heart failure. The genre of his music was classical. He began in the 1830s to write his music. He was the ninth child in the family of Carl Wagner, a police clerk. Richard was only six months when his father died. Wagner studied piano from the age of 7 and soon developed ability to…

Prompt: How does Conrad show the relation between insanity and physical illness? How does this book show the impact of someone's environment on their mental health? Intro: Have you ever been to a new place and felt uneasy? Perhaps it was creepy, unusual, or just foreign. That is how the characters in Heart of Darkness felt when they traveled to the Congo. Everything was foreign and strange and, after a while, it took a significant toll on their mental and physical health. Thesis: Conrad shows…

Beethoven relationship with his father was considered unsatisfied and inferior. The father was always hard and cruel to Beethoven when he was a children, which make Beethoven did have a content relationship with his father, due to the actions the father gave him. Beethoven generally suffered a tragic childhood; his father was also an alcoholic, creating more complications in Beethoven’s life. Moreover, his father would frequently abused him. The father would consistently force him to…

The tell-tale heart The tell-tale heart was a mysterious book. It seems that the narrator was as crazy as a Christmas nut. The way the story is laid out give it more of a sense of mystery. Later the narrator killed the old man just because his vulture eye. That is the work of a mad man. The narrator of the tell-tale heart was a murderer because it says in the text that he killed the old man just because his eyes. The narrator said that the old man’s eye is the eye of a vulture. The way…

Forest, the Congo begrudges intruders. The Congo mirrors the natives’ hopefulness that Marlow will leave Africa. According to Martin Green, professor at the University of New South Wales in Dreams of Adventure, Deeds of Empire, the River represents the brown, quarrelsome natives. Green explores the idea that the Congo reflects the aboriginal peoples’ viewpoint that Europeans are a threat, because Kurtz is the only one they have encountered (217). In Tim Kring’s novel Heroes, five select…