The Prelude

In “Two Kinds,” by Amy Tan, the relationship between a Chinese mother and her Americanized daughter, Jing-Mei, is described through the mother’s efforts to make her daughter a prodigy. At first glance, Jing-Mei’s mother appears to be controlling, uncompassionate, and disgruntle towards Jing-Mei. Although this impression is accurate at the beginning of the story, the reader begins to learn more about Jing-Mei’s mother and her past, as well as her intent with forcefully encouraging Jing-Mei…

way to modern day musicals like the previously mentioned ones. Franz Liszt composed the first ‘tone poem’ or ’symphonic poem’, an orchestral composition that is based off of a non-musical piece of work. This is shown in pieces such as Liszt’s Les préludes. To this day, tone poems are used by composers to convey particular themes. For example, Osmo Tapio Räihälä’s Barlinnie Nine is based around and a tribute to the Scottish football player Duncan Ferguson. Current protest music can also be…

Written after the death of Wordsworth’s younger brother John, “Elegiac Stanzas” was inspired by a painting by Sir George Beaumont of Peele Castle in Lancashire. Through extensive personification of natural forces, Wordsworth speaks of his shifting vision of the painting over time to lament the fact that he no longer views the world with the blind and blissful innocence that he used to. Therefore, the work serves not only as a subtle elegy for the death of his brother, but also commemorates the…

For this activity, I selected two gods and a hero: Zeus, Hera, and Achilles. Zeus and Hera are principal actors in the Olympian thread of the plot, and inseparable in their entanglements, both with each other and with mortals. I felt that I would understand the Iliad itself better if I understood these supreme gods better. Achilles is, of course, the hero of the Iliad and is the axis of the entire storyline. I will present, in order, the biographies of these three characters. Then I will explain…

the Friar's plan at hand, Juliet "fantasizes about being surrounded by corpses, and she herself being a "fresh" corpse (IV, i). In IV, iii, Juliet says to the Nurse, "Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again," (ll.15) giving a prelude to her own apparent death. Juliet then ponders what she will do if the potion does not work, and decides to take a dagger with her to bed. She hopes that she will be able to use the dagger if she wakes in the morning to truly dispense…

Children literature includes books, magazines, stories and poems that children enjoy. It can be traced to stories and songs which were part of the oral tradition that adults shared with their children before the advent of publication. The development of children literature is difficult to trace. However, from the 15th century AD, a large volume of literature, often with a religious or moral message, has been targeted specifically at children. Many of the children books acknowledged today as…

of an upper-middle-class cocktail party, sitting room conversation, and October evening visit to enjoy Chopin's music or see the movie and opera in well-furnished theatres. It is remarkable that Eliot's poems The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Preludes, Rhapsody on a Windy Night and Portrait of a Lady give us a recognisable locale of human beings at the crossroads of 20th-century industrialised society. However, this artistic pattern may not be linked to a "song" of segregated blacks with the…

Introduction One of the most remarkable composers of the nineteenth century, Chopin composed exclusively for the piano and his music is innovative with a particular repertoire of technical and expressive devices. His musical style can be described as unique because of his variety and complexity of compositional techniques. The Piano Sonata Op.35 No.2 is an illustration of Chopin’s musical style where he explores several elements found in the nineteenth century music such as the “idea of…

From page one of The Presidents’ War it becomes immensely apparent that DeRose has undertaken a very ambitious task. His purpose is to present the prelude period of the American Civil War from the perspectives of the six presidents that were alive during the period. These presidents; John Tyler, Martin Van Buren, James Buchanan, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, and Abraham Lincoln, all had different agendas that they pursued throughout their terms in office, differing views about the role of…

H.J. McCloskey conveyed an article called "On Being an Atheist," in the journal Question One. In his article, McCloskey makes a great degree connecting with illumination in why the conflict of God's existences misses the mark. This paper responds to McCloskey's conflicts by methods for a supernatural point of view. McCloskey attempted to show that secularism is an extensive sum more sensible, and pleasing than confidence in higher forces. McCloskey uses "confirm" instead of "theory" to add…