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April 29th 1996, Broadway’s Nederland theatre is sold out to capacity and the audience is gritting their teeth with excitement, but an overture is nowhere to be heard, the curtains are missing and the haphazardly placed lighting rigs have not yet dimmed. All at once, the stage erupts with cast members running in-between and out of the industrial themed set, a strum of a guitar is heard and a critically acclaimed overnight sensation is born in the image of Jonathon Larson. Adapted from the…

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a tragedy by William Shakespeare following the love story of two star-crossed lovers. In Verona, there is an ongoing feud between the families of Capulet and Montague. After a fight breaks out in town between the two families, the Prince warns that anyone who disturbs the peace again will be sentenced to death. Lord Capulet wants his daughter, Juliet, to marry a man named Paris once she is a few years older. Later that night, Juliet meets Romeo from…

Reading Attitude of young people and how social media encourage reading Reading is a complex make up. It is an aspect process involving word recognition, comprehension, fluency, and motivation. Others prefer to read printed texts (such as books, newspapers, journals etc.) while others prefer to read online, especially now that we are living in the 21st century or most preferable named as the digital era. Online reading on the other hand, is a process of getting information or meaning of the text…

Throughout history we as humans have tried to improve our environments by developing and pushing the technology we have created, to become faster, more efficient and ultimately do the work of man. This advancing technology has always, killed the jobs for many people. Since the industrial revolution, within a factory setting this became the norm and as the creep of technology continued, less and less man hours were required, yet productivity escalated However, there is a new way in which…

men as how is currently established. The laws throughout history have proven the enslaving of man and those laws have become unbearable meaninglessness for their existence. The world does not transform innovations and political reforms, machines, techno-scientific apparatus, and scientific advances; the world transforms the inherent feature of human individuality. And no moral veto solves the tragedy of the human condition, all morality and all law came too late. Religion, as an institution,…

The vibrant, high-energy music blasts from the speakers on all four sides of a dimly lit room as an inspirational instructor voices words of encouragement. Indoor-cycling, otherwise known as spinning, has become the most recent fitness craze across the world. This workout consists of riders sweating it out together from all different levels of fitness experience. Yet, the spinning community not only promotes the health of an individual but expresses the importance of having an enriching…

The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines music as "the art of combining vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion" (Concise Oxford Dictionary 1992). However, the music genres known as Noise music and Musique concrète, for instance, challenge these ideas about what constitutes music's essential attributes by using sounds not widely considered as musical, like randomly produced electronic distortion, feedback, static, cacophony, and…

Globalization is a phenomenon resulting in, increasing flow of goods in international borders and is the same in case of service, people, technology and culture (Held et al 1999,p.16). Robert Giplin, a decorated political scientist quotes globalization as, “increasing interdependencies and national economies in trade, macroeconomic policies and finance”(Giplin 1987,p.389). Jones argued this by stating that economical growth is a subset of globalization. It is not the only growth one looks for…

Long live reason and common sense! Long live the Autonomous Republic of Kunigunda (ARK)! What is wrong with the world we live in? Can you imagine a more tolerant and lavish world for everyone, irrespective of someone’s color, form or size, regardless of someone’s god, size of their package and their wishes? The Autonomous Culture Zone of the ARK shall enable all visitors of the 19th Kunigunda Festival of Young Cultures to experience exactly that! Free of prejudice, intolerance and emancipated…

“He is one of the most amazing, popular, and iconic characters in the history of motion pictures. His 1933 debut was a legendary piece of pure cinema - simultaneously a terrifying monster movie, epic fairy tale, tragic love story, and deeply resonant cultural myth. His name is King Kong.” (Morton, 2005) This research essay will be analysing the film(s) King Kong 1933 directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack and the remake King Kong 2005 directed by Peter Jackson. The essay will…