Monk

few characteristics that describe Thelonious Monk’s music. Monk was one the few American jazz composers that gave a spiritual feeling in his music. During his lifetime he played melodies and used chord progressions that no one has ever played before. He epitomizes what a jazz musician is supposed to be, whether if it’s through his compositions, his piano playing or someone else playing his music, you know right away it is Thelonious’. Monk kept to his own style, which was a unique and difficult…

Sonny Sharrock Sonny recorded with Miles on the sound track of the film named A Tribute to Jack Johnson and on the album Yesternow. Interestingly enough, his participation in the sound track of A Tribute to Jack Johnson was not credited. The soundtrack also includes John McLaughlin as guitar player. His tenure with Miles was from 1970 to 1972 approximately. One of his greatest contribution to Miles's group can be seen in this quote from "The Sharrock way of knowledge" by Robert Palmer (1991),…

Hawaiian Monk Seal. It’s Hawaiian name is ilio-holo-i-ka-uaua or na mea hulu (NOAA, n.d.). Also, the scientific name of the Hawaiian monk seal is Monachus schauinslandi (The Marine Mammal Center, n.d.). The Hawaiian monk seal is one of the most endangered marine mammal. Due to the fact that it’s endangered, they are now protected by the Marine mammal protection Act, the Endangered species Act, and also protected by Hawaii’s state law (The Marine Mammal Center, n.d.). The Hawaiian monk seal’s…

What makes a good person sin? More specifically, what makes a monk start raping and killing people? Matthew Lewis would answer Catholicism, for it corrupts even the most virtuous person as shown in his book The Monk. The main character Ambrosio was left at a monastery when he was just a year old, leaving him to be raised by monks. Later in life, at the peak of his success, Ambrosio succumbs to the temptation of sins such as lust, murder, rape, and sorcery, and breaks his monastic vows. Hinting…

painter is Alyssa Monks When she was little she started painting with oils at 8 years of age maybe younger. She loved to paint from the beginning taking art and oil painting classes when she was in kindergarten. By the time she was 13 she knew this is what she wanted and it was her path. Her family tried to convince her that it’s not something she should do but, by 17 she was completely committed and fighting hard to be an artist ( “ Interview with Alyssa Monks”). Alyssa Monks changes…

ability to handle unpleasantness and create a better world. In the novel, The Secret Life of Bees, the author, Sue Monk Kidd, illustrates how all of this is true. Monk Kidd’s novel focuses on a fourteen-year-old white girl named Lily Owens and shows how she is able to overcome her problems with the help of her new friends when she is on the run away from home. Using Lily’s experience, Monk Kidd portrays in her novel that there are many cruel things in the world such as lies, loneliness, and…

There have been many speculative reports that a romantic relationship had existed between one Margaret Monks and John Dunn reputedly formulated during the lead up and time of the Binda Boxing day raid on the 26th December 1864 by Ben Hall, John Gilbert and John Dunn and that as a result of the supposed evening spent by the bushrangers and women a relationship had developed between Dunn and Monks which would result in the near future the birth of a son between the two? At the time of the evenings…

In Q&A on ABC Television same as the statement above had announced, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks was answering the question related to the existing of White Australia Policy, She said’ White Australia Policy of course does exist, today, 2014, make no mistake about, I live with a real discrimination, I live with hatrust of my colour because I am the first Australian….” (Kunoth-Monks, R 2014). The feature of colonialism in Australian History for Indigenous people are marginalised, discriminated, unjust…

“Lewis’s Narrates the progress of Ambrosios destruction as his lust leads him to atrocious crimes.” These words of David McCracken concisely depict The Monk which takes the readers through a chaotic journey . In the book The Monk there are many conflicts that are in the way of the characters. Through the use of religion, Romance, and Greed, Matthew Lewis reflect the elements of the supernatural, sexual temptation, and Fallen man thus expressing Gothic Literature. The element of supernatural…

When looking through book titles, somehow people’s eyes just jump to a specific title without any rhyme or reason. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd was the title that jumped out at me. I knew that there is no way that the book is actually about the lives of bees. I wanted to find out what it really meant. I read that it was set in South Carolina and was about a 14 year-old girl named Lily. So I thought that I could comprehend it easily from a voice of a girl around my age. I could relate…