Joseph M. Juran

John Dunstable was an English composer that was born in 1385 and died in 1453. 68 years seems like a short life, but Dunstable accomplished a lot of things during his lifetime. Due to the age in which Dunstable was alive, not many records reveal much information about his personal life, but there is some very interesting information that can still be found about Dunstable. As well as being a composer, Dunstable was also a mathematician and astronomer. It is also known that he was in the service…

Beethoven & Tchaikovsky: Musical Geniuses of Their Time and Ours When performing a song, how do you make it yours? Do you sing it faster than is written, add extra harmonies or play an instrument with you? The way you perform a song is unique to your style. The same concept applies to composing a song- and is exemplified by Ludwig von Beethoven and Pyotr Il'ich Tchaikovsky. Beethoven’s parents were extremely persistent on getting Beethoven to be a Mozart-esque child prodigy when he was young (c.…

The Heart of Darkness has racism in it that people today, would consider horrible and insensitive. The use of the word “nigger” is constantly being thrown around. He, Conrad, says “nigger” so many times as if he couldn’t call them something else, such as, Africans. Or if he wanted to continue to be a racist he could have called them: those people, or these blacks. At least if he would have said that, it would have been a little less racist. In this passage, The Heart of Darkness has shown how a…

Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is a novel that remains significant in the 21st century. The Heart of Darkness explore issues that include imperialism, race, madness and good versus evil, all particularly relevant in today’s society. Apparently, director Francis Ford Coppola realized the novel’s persistence when he adapted the story into the award-winning and critically applauded film, Apocalypse Now. Coppola’s film moved the Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness from colonial Africa to…

Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin, known as one of the most murderous dictators in history, transformed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) from being a benighted country to a world superpower, at the cost of millions of lives. Stalin’s regime was solely based upon the ideology of Marxist Communism, dogmatically asserting utilitarian beliefs in all policies formed. Stalin’s need for total power over the Soviet states brought him great paranoia and insecurity, ultimately resulting in the…

The main exposition in Catch-22 is Pianosa, a small island in the mediterranean sea. This is where Yossarian and his Squadron live and where most of the story takes place. When Heller first describes the island he says, “There was nothing funny about living like a bum in a tent in Pianosa between fat mountains behind him and a placid blue sea in front that could gulp down a person with a cramp in the twinkling of an eye and ship him back to shore three days later, all charges paid, bloated,…

A journey story is typically portraying a hero traveling from one place to another trying to reach their goal, either mentally or physically, or perhaps both. The theme became well known by the publication of The Odyssey, by Homer. Many authors are influenced by the archetypes from Homer’s work and often have a different interpretation of a journey based story. One of the most crucial archetypes is the protagonist need to have a major flaw. Mary Shelley, who is the author of Frankenstein uses…

Joseph Campbell, an American mythologist, writer,and lecturer, created a theory called the Monomyth; “The hero is the same, but the costume changes,” is the idea he used to create this. The Monomyth, also known as the cycle of the Hero’s Journey, essentially states that the storyline remains the constant and follows the same 11 stages. An example of the Monomyth theory is Matt Alacran’s journey in House of the Scorpion, in which he goes through all the stages of the Hero’s Journey, including…

The black cat and the tell tale heart both had a very similar theme but they differed in many ways the black cat dealt with alcoholism would the tell tale heart delt with a misconception that drove him to a paranoid state that made him insane. In the black cat the the narirator gets drunk and ends up geting drunk and atacts the cat when the cat trys to fight back the the narirator grabes him by the trouat and cuts his eye out this show that achouhall can make you do terrible things and in the…

The concept of the hero’s journey was developed by Joseph Campbell. The journey is made up of a series of stages the hero has to endure and complete. Ender’s Game, a science fiction novel by Scott Orson Card, is about an alien species called the buggers attacking Earth twice and almost destroying the human species. To make certain that the incident would never happen again the world government has started to breed military geniuses and train them in the arts of war. The early training takes the…