Music of Japan

The country of Japan was an agricultural set of islands. In 513 Prince Shotoku came to power as a regent for Empress Suiko. He sent more people to sail over to China and Korea to gain new teachings and ideas. A big idea that came from India was Buddhism. Buddhism was a big part of lives in Japan. Japan also learned the government structure of China and copied it. One of the big parts that Japan copied of China was the social structure. Japan made a little adjustments to it but it ended up being…

Susan Derges was born in London in the year of 1955. All of her work is mostly visual metaphors. She captures the relationship between nature and self. In one article it said the, “she endeavors to capture both visible and invisible scientific and natural processes. The physical appearance of sound, the evolution of frogspawn or the reflection of the moon and start on water.” Most of her famous work is her capturing water that goes into river and shorelines. Lately she works on photographs that…

I was given the chance to visit the Boise Art Museum recently, and was pleasantly surprised at the artwork on display. As well as the various stories behind them. The artwork was separated into different exhibitions and galleries for the viewing. Including the Modern and Contemporary Ceramics Kay Hardy and Gregory Kaslo Collection, Tall Tales, Laura Heit: Earth and Sky, etc. However, the exhibition Minidoka: Artist as a Witness caught my attention in particular. It was based around…

was felt by all Taiwanese people, as the aftermath of the tropical storm included fallen trees, debris, and destruction. These typhoons are formed in the monsoon trough; meaning there is minimum sea level pressure. Typhoons usually strike in Taiwan, Japan, and Guam because they are located in the “convergence zone”, where wind patterns from the northern and southern hemisphere collide. In Laura Hillenbrand’s novel, Unbroken, chapter 17, the main character, Louie and his friend Phil were drifting…

Toward the end of the century, artists in Florence and elsewhere began to move toward naturalism, signaling some of the changes that led into the Baroque style of the seventeenth century. Michelangelo never relaxed his republican principles, although briefly, toward the end of the life, he entertained the possibility of returning to Florence to work at the duke’s court. Michelangelo’s panoramic vision of the subject meant that the two windows on the altar wall had to be closed and Perugino’s…

little people informed or prepared. First of all, Meyer addresses a magnitude-9.0 earthquake on the current coast of Oregon and Washington. On January 26, 1700, the Pachena Bay citizens died from a flood and a tsunami crashed into the east coast of Japan 10 hours later as results from the earthquake. A similar earthquake possibly happening is a widespread theory that many are trying predict. In addition, the article discusses the research and statistics found…

Sin of Omission Throughout the course of American history, racial discrimination and acts of xenophobia are often reoccurring trends. Whether the acts of bigotry and prejudice were at a microscopic or macroscopic level, it heavily affected the psychological mentality and perceptions amongst those who were victimized. This is shown in a “Wilshire Bus”, a short story written by Hisaye Yamamoto to initiate a conversation and standpoint of often overlooked anti-Asian semantics. Through the hostile…

Felicia M. Salgado Mr. Belmont College Composition 2 13th February 2017 Compare and Contrast Elementary Children Independence in America vs Elementary Children Independence in Japan Most children in America depend on the adults to do almost everything for them, but Japan is very different because children are nearly always seen doing things by themselves. Although there are many children in America that are very independent, the majority are not, especially children in elementary school. They…

Japanese War was one of great importance for the world as a whole. It is said to have been fought from 1937 till 1945 but many argue that this strife was much longer than those dates would imply. Not only did this war largely impact relations between Japan and China, but it made public many of the atrocities that the Japanese committed against the Chinese. While these atrocities had been ongoing for decades, if not centuries, the rest of the world only found out around this time period. While…

Taiwan was where my father was born, where it was still a third world country when he was born in 1959, to after he left in 1973 to escape from the Taiwanese military draft. When the Japanese took over Taiwan during World War II, it began to help modernize them Taiwan, but it stopped after the Japanese signed the surrender treaty (Hays). The people who lived in Taiwan still lived in wooden houses, traveled by rickshaw or animals, and still had rice farmers (though there are still today). A few…