Trance

The day was June 11, 2017, and I was shaking all over. I had just finished playing my song at the annual summer piano recital and I was disappointed in myself. Twenty minutes later, I was sick and crying in the bathroom, ready to go home. About three months later, I walked into my first piano lesson and was shocked to hear my piano teacher, Mrs. Graham, praising me for my ‘beautiful and soulful’ piano solo. Mrs. Graham listened as I voiced my concerns and waited until I finished before saying…

In “The Fall of the House of Usher,” many conflicting theories exist on what is going on in this rather ambiguous story. Are the Ushers vampires, is it all just natural causes, or perhaps are they haunted? However, it is truly, none of these, for the abounding evidence favoring the house and the Ushers to be linked by a curse. Evidence such as the house, reflecting the condition of its residence or that it is stated that figures in robes of sorrow came and Madeline’s “resurrection” all lead to a…

Reading Journal Number Seven Romanticism- Poems By Samuel Taylor Coleridge and John Keats Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rhyme Of The Ancient Mariner” and John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” both exemplify the new direction for the world and message that poets of the romanticism era were trying to covey to the reading public. Both poems encompass the turn toward the fusion of a number of aspects that romantic poets felt was needed to connect to the reader. In Coleridge’s “Rhyme Of The Ancient…

Tragedy struck as Romeo swigged his poison down. Soon after, Juliet woke from her fathomless trance, as her perception of reality began to unveil the horror that is her deceased lover's corpse, she contemplated suicide; and conclusively does so. However, the question lingers; whom is the individual(s) that is at fault for their miserable denouement? There are numerous candidates worthy for this spot: Friar Lawrence, Nurse, Parents, Romeo and or Juliet, as well as Tybalt. Although these…

Clairaudient- In clairaudience voices can be heard, internally, almost like at thought, or externally, like someone is speaking. A song may be heard playing that will be relevant to that person at the right time. It is said that clairaudience is most often experienced in dreams or in altered state of consciousness. Clairsentience- means clear sensing, the ability to feel the present tense and future physical and emotional states of others. A person may sense or feel someone they have an…

The early Greeks developed order and form within dance that was called choral dance. It was a more communal form where the lines of dancers would move circularly or straight within ranks. These dances would be performed at events such as Athenian festivals and were accompanied by procession, sacrifices and games. The Greeks would also dance at religious ceremonies; they would perform fertility dances to ensure fertile fields as well as fertile women. They would dance in preparation for war and…

Humans are always creating new pieces of modern technology that can make daily lives easier. More and more are developed that becomes necessary in the world we live in. However, some pieces of technology can cause people to be lazy and less informed about the world we live in. This makes me think of an animated film, Wall-E a Disney animated film that takes place in the “future.” In this film, the humans sent themselves into space to save them from the severely polluted earth. A small robot…

Lee was an anthropologist studying the !Kung Bushmen. The !Kung Bushmen celebrates their version Christmas differently by having activities that include December Congregation at the cattle post for trading, marriage brokering, and several days of trance dance feasting at which the local Tswana headman is host (Lee 1). Instead of the essential Christmas story of “praise the birth of white man’s god-chief” (Lee 1). The !King Bushmen rarely had days supply of food on hand, (Lee 2) so Lee wanted to…

flashing lights and lasers pointing in capricious directions, and smoke spreading through the vibrating floor like a fog over a busy city that never sleeps. This kind of phenomenon has become a grasping event for those who want to enter a state of trance, and disappear into the rhythm of electronic music. Like every genre of music that has been invented, each has a beginning and a story behind it. The first kind of electronic music was formed as early as the 1920’s. There was an instrument…

In Acts 22, citizens of Jerusalem began advocating for the execution of Paul. To defend himself, Paul gives a speech which attempts to show he has not transgressed the Old Testament Law. His speech concerns the righteousness of spreading the gospel to the Gentiles. He addresses this primarily by demonstrating God has given him instructions to go to the Gentiles. Paul makes this argument shortly before a Roman commander takes him into the barracks to question him. A large crowd gathered around…