as the ‘Ballroom Decade’. Popular songs included All I Do Is Dream of You and The Aba Daba Honeymoon. You Made Me Love You was also a popular song by Al Jotson. Its was WW1 so there were many war songs. Some war songs were Til We Meet Again and Oh! How I hate to get Up in The…
Game of Thrones is the primetime fantasy series produced by HBO, based on the novel series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin. Game of Thrones has earned its fame not only as the most pirated TV show in the world (Sweney, 2014), but also won 38 Emmy awards setting a new Emmy primetime record in the history of television (Ledbetter, 2016). The record-setting viewer ratings of the TV show estimate around 23 million per episode (as of season 6), which solidifies Game of Thrones as the…
It is an undeniable fact that language and communication are essential components of the human experience. There are countless languages and dialects across the globe. Most people are generally familiar with natural languages; languages that are commonly implemented in native speech and everyday life. However, artificial languages, which are created for specific and often recreational purposes, are also integral to human culture. They are specifically relevant to artistic expression. Artificial…
Tolkien's writing have been produced through movies that have been very popular to this day. Amazon is now going to be showing “The Lord of the Rings” for a television show (Koblin 2017). It is supposed to be similar the show “Game of Thrones” which is one of the biggest shows in the world at the moment. The creator of “Game of Thrones”, George R.R. Martin, says Tolkien was a big inspiration to his series (Koblin 2017). The reason Tolkien…
with no answers. What produced this “crime of the century”, why has there been so much controversy over it, and how did it affect the next presidents? John F. Kennedy wanted peace. In June 1963 Kennedy gave a famous speech in front of university students on the ways in which America could achieve peace. Kennedy wanted space exploration and under his administration, NASA was created. Instead of building bombs America would build rockets to the…
reading, an explosion of writing in the science fiction and fantasy genre, and also in the production of movies. Tolkien inscribed a world onto paper that was made believable to society because of his languages for the races and the histories he produced for his mythical world. Tolkien altered the manner of which authors would write book and what they would put down on paper. Very few novelists have been able to publish works at his level, and those who have say that Tolkien was an influence,…
used extensively as they are in real life. The Elves speak Quenya and Sindarin, whereas the Dwarves speak Khuzdul. In the Star Trek series, Klingon is a completely developed language that the aliens speak. On the other hand, in A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin has created only a few words or phrases of the native languages for example the nine Low Valyrian dialects or Dothraki, the language of the steppe nomads of Essos. Here they are used mostly as plot devices that add a dash of…
Angeles. Artists like N.W.A., a group that grew up in South Central, and Ice-T represented California and constantly alluded to their experiences growing up in the “ghetto” in their songs. N.W.A.’s debut album, Straight Outta Compton, boasted it’s most controversial and popular track titled “Fuck tha Police”. Lyrics from the song state, “Young nigga got it bad cause I'm brown/And not the other color so police think/They have the authority to kill a minority”. N.W.A. did not sugarcoat their…
1. Introduction Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, bringing an end to German democracy. Guided by racist and authoritarian ideas, the Nazis abolished basic freedoms(3)The Third Reich quickly became a police state, where individuals were subject to arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. By mid-July 1933, the Nazi party was the only political party permitted in Germany German resistance to Nazism (“Widerstand”) was the opposition by individuals and groups in…
Neither Dale Carnegie nor the publishers, Simon and Schuster, anticipated more than this modest sale. To their amazement, the book became an overnight sensation, and edition after edition rolled off the presses to keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win Friends and InfEuence People took its place in publishing history as one of the all-time international best-sellers. It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post-Depression days, as…