The Rite of Spring

China and it is the single strongest influence on Chinese society from about 100 BC till now. It is the basis of Chinese tradition and belief. Confucius (/kənˈfjuːʃəs/; 551–479 BC)[1] was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. The philosophy of Confucius emphasizes personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. He championed strong family loyalty, ancestor worship, respect of…

An Abbreviated, Non-Autobiographical Memoir of Alice Coltrane The Coltrane name remains ever-pervasive in the music community, dredging up echoes of wailing saxophone cries ahead of their time – and ahead of poor Tommy Flanagan. Countless musicians have found inspiration in John Coltrane’s career and his second wife, Alice Coltrane (1937-2007), is no exception. Accomplished musician in her own right as a pianist, organist, and harpist, she made a successful career for herself prior to and…

Malta. Although the temples were large in overall extent, the individual chambers were quite small. Based on the size of these chambers huge public worship gatherings weren’t possible. Instead, scholars believe that the priest or priestess carried out rites inside the temples and the general public wasn’t invited. Additionally, some of the temples were used for astronomical…

existence of a social system. In ancient Greece, myths featuring monsters, heroes and heroines as well as gods and goddesses formed a crucial part of the way of life. Stories were handy in explaining everything ranging from the weather to religious rites and helped people to draw meaning from the world around them. Like in most other ancient cultures, women were the subservient gender in ancient Greece. On the one hand, women were widely regarded as troublesome and symbols of negative normative…

group of stresses: “bright images”, “ravaged plain”, or “shot boy”, “white sheet”, “own blood” “saw blood” and “brave still, trying” “stop himself” “white girl waiting” and in the third stanza still more in lines 2,6, 7,8,10, 11 which make for an emphasis and pulsation beyond that of ordinary speech. Word or phrase repetition together with sound repetition also heightens the rhythmic quality, while the run of stressed syllables in “All day/ I have thought” gives weight, the heavy pace of her…

worship and sacrifice to the Great Goddess Demeter. Persephone gains title as Queen of the Underworld and has to stay in the underworld during the off season and at the change of the seasons she leaves and goes back to land of the living to bring forth spring. Had she not eaten from the pomegranate fruit, the fruit of the underworld, she would have been freed from Hades…

Wicca is the second-fastest-growing religion in the United States with the first being Islam. When we here Wicca we usually think of straight up black magic but there is much more to Wicca then magic. Wicca means “wise ones” or “to bend or shape”. Wicca is a predominantly Western movement whose followers practice witchcraft and nature worship. The people involved in Wicca see themselves as a religion of pre-Christian traditions of Northern and Western Europe. The origins of the ancient Wicca…

Stemming from my deep-rooted desire to aid humanity, medicine is the perfect blend of emotion and academia, combining what it means to be human with the intellectual and social skills needed to build relationships with patients and colleagues alike. Through a range of work placements, I learnt how to approach life as a doctor. At a lead clinical neuromodulator centre at Guys’ & St Thomas’ Hospital, it has become clear to me that humanity’s view of medicine is the antithesis to reality. What…

the wall across the “room” running into and knocking down every table and chair in their way. The mixture of pedestrian props and real movement creates the look and feeling she reaches for in most of her pieces. On the contrary, her version of Rite of Spring exemplifies the willingness to pull away from the obvious pedestrian cues and use underlying human based movement as opposed to new creation movement. In both pieces however, she uses simple walking phrases that make the dancers look like…

come emidiatly largely because of the self imposed waiting time that the group placed on themselves knowing full well the risks of public backlash at their discovery which is why the group did not go ahead and put recombinant DNA into a living cell rite away until they went and got ethical clearance from Stanford university which they did need but got away way. This gesture is significant not because of its contribution to science itself but rather it is one the finest examples of self…