Glasper, Hiatus Kaiyote, etc. Music itself has no limit or boundaries, names were given to categorize different sounds, to target audiences of different race/social status and to help fostering music business along the years. According to Mark Nero, a professional journalist and music critic, the category “neo-soul” has been around in the late-1990s, essentially describing soul music with hip-hop elements. Artists that represents the genre are Raphael Saadiq and D’ Angelo.…
The era that rests between the collapse of the Western Roman Empires and the established beginning of early modern European history is known as the Middle Ages because it appears to sit between two superior periods of human history. Often over looked or generalized when looking at the larger spectrum of written history, this millennia contains two of the most important developments in the history of the Europe and the development of the modern world. The history of Medieval Europe is one of two…
Hyrcanus II, Aristobulus II, and Antipater Hyrcanus gave up his priesthood after a major defeat from his brother, Aristobulus. Then, after receiving help from Antipater, an Idumean governor, and the Nabatean kingdom, Hyrcanus was successful in pursuing Aristobulus once again. Aristobulus took refuge in the temple area and fortified himself. Roman armies, under the leadership of Pompey, came on the scene, supported Hyrcanus, and defeated Aristobulus. Pompey forcibly entered the Holy of Holies…
Tiberius Claudius Nero and Livia Drusilla gave birth to a son named Tiberius Julius Caesar in 42 BC and this is when the story begins. Tiberius was born from an aristocratic father and when Tiberius was little they were forced to flee from Rome because of his father’s republican beliefs and because he had opposed against Octavian in the civil wars. Two years after this happened his mother and father divorced and soon later remarried to Augustus his father’s enemy. Tiberius was very indifferent…
Political assassinations have destabilized and changed the very nature of countries and in some cases the entire world. The practice of assassination stretches back to ancient times with the first notable, or significant victim, the Egyptian pharaoh Amenemhet I who gained power by usurpation in 1986 B.C. He unwittingly set an example to his courtiers who devised his killing. The course of human history is studded with countless acts of assassinations and even more we do not know about and…
As the scene comes to a start, it opens up the scene at a hall in the castle. In the castle, it starts off where Hamlet goes to the players and starts telling them some sort of advice for the performance. He tells them that this play should become as natural as possible, and not at all too aggressive or tame during their performance. Another piece of advice he gives the actors would be that they must keep their actions into mind and make a fool of themselves for laughter. They must focus on the…
I. Jesus was born almost 2000 years ago. He lived in Palestine and was baptized by John. Later then he became a preacher, and was publically executed. We knew so little about him because the sources does not come from the actually times of Jesus. He was an average like peasant during the Roman Empire era. He was poor, had no distinction of royalty and lived in less desirable conditions. For historians there was nothing historically remarkable about his status. Therefore, his daily life was not…
During its height, the Roman Empire spanned across the entire Mediterranean, encompassed many peoples and cultures, and contained roughly twenty percent of the world’s population (Bairoch). It follows from this fact that the portrayals of Rome from the perspective of early writers were certainly very diverse. Indeed, early writers had much to say about Rome’s history and then-present condition. These portrayals include Rome as a glorious city, Rome as a morally depraved city, contrasts between…
In “The Souls of Black Folk” by W.E.B. DuBois, he writes about his own realization of racism and its importance amongst African Americans. He starts by asking himself, through conversations with others, “how does it feel to be a problem?”. He continues by describing his first realization of his race, and how it changed his outlook on life, by associating himself with being different than the other children. He describes how his outlook on life drastically changed throughout his childhood years,…
Soren Kierkegaard was born on May 5th, 1813 in Copenhagen, Denmark and died on November 11th, 1855 in Copenhagen. He was a Danish philosopher and theologian who was often viewed as the father of existentialism. He was the seventh and last child of Ane Sørensdatter Lund and Michael Pedersen Kierkegaard. His father had worked himself up to become a businessperson after coming from a background of poverty and slavery, while his mother was the maid of Michael's first wife. One of the factor that…