Lute

The readers have to listen carefully to be able to hear the greatness of Edgar Allan Poe. He puts words into life to really be able to understand how great each line is. The poem is acquainted with the choices of heaven or hell throughout each line and expresses how in depth Edgar must go to represent the decision. In the poem, Poe uses a decaying and haunted mansion as a chilling metaphor for the big decision. Reading this story can leave one confused or in chill bumps depending on how the…

on in Keita’s career, it was his ethnic Mali background along with his European influence that played a major role in his musical identity. In his song “Africa”, he uses traditional African instruments including “the talking drum, kora (large harp-lute), and djembe (goblet-shaped hand drum)” (Lesson 6), but he also utilizes other instruments like “electric guitars, bass, synthesizer, and keyboards to produce African-flavored music with a techno beat” (Lesson 6). However, later on in…

I interviewed Coach John Hegwood, because he was the reason that I kept playing the sport of basketball. I also wanted to dig deeper as to why he chose to go to the NBA instead of pursing the chance he was given to play in the MLB. John Hegwood was my former AAU basketball coach and one of the greatest mentors in my city. A former recipient for Calgary’s 2009 Citizen of the Year Award. An award given to someone who has spent countless amounts of hours giving back to the community. Aside from…

This semester, Fall 2015, is the end of my Humanities Honour Program. It has been a meaningful two years with Professor Lindahl and Professor Movassat. In this class, I have learned a lot of knowledge on the topics humanities. Humanities are very important because they had a great impact on today’s society. William Lund once said that “We study the past to understand the present; we understand the present to guide the future.” Without the knowledge of humanities, we won 't be able to communicate…

By seeing this, Poe’s major readers were, at length, from French. The meaning of the poem was “His heart is a tightened lute; as soon as one touches it, it echoes.” It could be assumed that Poe quoted the poem because he would like to mention the nature of his main character, Roderick Usher, was weak, and unstable. Also, the words of the narrator when talking about the ancestors…

Childhood On July 6, 1921, Anne Frances Robbins was born in New York City, she was an only child to Kenneth Robbins, a salesman, and Edith Luckett Robbins, an aspiring actress. From an early age, Anne acquired the nickname “Nancy”. During Nancy’s infancy, her father Kenneth left the marriage, leading to Edith to send her daughter to be raised by her aunt and uncle, Virginia and C. Audley Galbraith, in Bethesda, Maryland. While there, Nancy attended Sidwell Friends School. Her aunt would also…

A light drizzle tapped the roofs of houses, and the heads of people. A large storm came in a few days ago from the east and the remnants are still lingering throughout the air. Cold, and muggy, the air clings to the faces of bystanders. The paper white breath of people stay in the air for a split second and disappear after only a few milliseconds. Wind dashes throughout the town. Weaving in and out of alleyways, through the streets, and over the top of buildings. Smoke billows from chimneys.…

Nicknamed the “Bull fiddle”, the bass is one of a handful of instruments that played a significant role in the development of music during the 20th century. The bass gained much of its momentum as the popularity of the New Orleans brass and jazz bands was spreading throughout the US, and it eventually took on such an essential role that it was forced to evolve. The new bass players were slowly transitioning the bass from accompaniment to a solo instrument. As it moved from the background to the…

In March of 2016, Carthage College staged a new production entitled the Breath of Stars, which was advertised as a modern adaption of Shakespeare’s the Tempest. In the same month, the College of Lake County offered a traditional performance of the Tempest, which served as an excellent means by which to evaluate the relative proximity of Carthage’s production to Shakespeare’s original text. This essay will begin with a detailed description of the College of Lake County’s production of…

Margaret Atwood’s novel the Handmaid 's tale, uses repression, denial and sublimation to convey the tenets of psychoanalytic theory. Repression is when a person does something unconsciously because they want to hide what is going on with a specific situation. Denial is when someone does not want to accept reality, in most cases this can be not accepting the death of a lost one. Sublimation is when someone does something to hide their emotions. “The theory of psychoanalytic is fear of intimacy,…