The Velvet Underground

Yoshitomo Nara is a Japanese artist who is well known for the girl character who is bulbous-headed with large eyes and cynical grins. As a contemporary of Takashi Murakami within Japan's Neo-pop movement, Nara is influenced by elements of popular culture from both East and West. Nara creates drawing, painting, and sculpture that express intense emotions while his practices explores themes of isolation rebellion and music. In this essay, I would like to explore both internal and external factors…

Edward Kennedy Ellington was one of the most famous jazz composers and performers of the twentieth century. It is a well-known fact that Duke Ellington went down in history of jazz music as one of the most significant composers, as well as outstanding bandleader, who led his own musical group of about fifty years. Thus, the main aims of this project are to think about Duke Ellington, and discuss how he fits into the history of jazz, dwelling on his style and other details with more attention.…

In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Importance of the Single Effect in a Prose Tale.” Poe reveals what he considers to be the building blocks of a Short Story. Poe believes that when writing a short story the author should always have a “Single Effect” in mind and tailor the form of the story to this single effect. In other words, every aspect of the story should be specifically written with the desired emotional effect in mind. This single effect which conveys a specific emotion or idea to the reader…

For anybody who has considered themselves a musician, songwriter or artist of any kind usually has a source of inspiration. Be it a favorite band or solo artist, to which it gives them their own ideas, motivation and personal sense of style. One musician who has particularly influenced me is the artist David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust. His career spanned several decades in which he like his fellow musician “Bob Dylan” was not constrained by the music that he made and has reinvented himself, his…

TV INFLUENCES- Fifty Years of Fashion by Valerie Steele p.118- Yuppie culture may have helped to be defined by popular TV shows such as Dynasty, a popular obsession and 1980s nighttime TV series. End paraphrase. The show garnered worldwide popularity, coinciding with the increased demand of cable within the households in Western culture. The show exhibited the lifestyle of the wealthy, wearing luxurious designer garments, perhaps responsible for furthering the ‘wealthy’ appearance trend of the…

enine Tobias October 27, 2015 BCSE Yale University Title: The Slave Dancer Author: Paula Fox Genre: The book the Slave Dance was written by Paula Fox. After reading this story I think the genre of this book is Historical fiction.I believe the story is historical fiction because of the events that happen in the story. This story was based around the trading of slaves from Africa, and because of these events that happened I think the story is historical…

As my heavy eyelids open, I immediately look out to identify the scenery around me. After two years of traveling, the landscapes begin to slowly blend together. The red ground tells me I’m in Arizona. No, it’s too flat. Arizona has miles of towering mountains that make you feel tiny in comparison. It must be Utah. No, there’s way too much green. Utah is so red you feel like you could drown in it. It’s New Mexico. New Mexico has seemingly endless roads of nothing that rarely lead to any place of…

Edgar Allan Poe endured many difficulties throughout his life. Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1809. Poe was one of three children in his family. Following Poe’s mother’s death, he was sent to a foster home and separated from his other siblings. Poe’s foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allan, were wealthy. However, Mr. Allan only gave Poe about one third of his needed money to attend school in England. During Poe’s life he struggled to find a sustainable job. Poe worked as an…

milestone of their success happened in 1976, when they got the opportunity to be an opening act for the Ramones, the legendary punk rock band from America, which was one the bands that started the initial punk rock wave along with the Pistols and Velvet Underground. The Stranglers started out with the typical aggressive vocals and lyrics, inspired by the early punk mentality, angry attitude and alienation from society. They maintained this spirit through most of their musical career, but they…

Edgar Allan Poe’s Writing Styles Edgar Allan Poe’s writing style and techniques are very unique to him. All of his stories are set around with the following themes or ideas. They all are considered suspense type stories that involve murderous or insane character as its protaganist. Usually, always the protaganist in his stories commits some type of crime, such as murder, and tried to conceal it from other characters in the story. Another, view to identify that a story is written by Poe, is…