Waltz

In the play Tomson Highway uses his play The Rez Sisters to show the impact of white culture on Native culture and to show that there is a hope for Native culture. The women of the play are influenced by materialism and white societal beliefs especially in their materialistic dreams. They overcome these influences, and return to their roots at the climax of the play: Marie-Adele’s death scene. The play shows the aftermath of the cultural collision between white culture and Native culture.…

of nuclear weapons, two world wars alone led to the deaths of 70 million to 100 million — a difference of a decimal point” (Spalding).So in about a 70 year period 90% less people died in war than in about a 30 year period. Also according to Kenneth Waltz, one of the world’s most respected scholars in international relations, before nukes, the great powers of the world often settled conflict with a full fledged war, but now there are more diplomatic negotiations. But of course, some people argue…

Stony Brook Symphony Concert Report The orchestra is an aspect of music that dates back several centuries. Due to it’s long history and various advancements in musical instruments, the orchestra has evolved tremendously. Today, a typical orchestra contains a vast amount of instruments from the string, woodwind, brass, and percussion families. This is no different for the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra. I had the pleasure of attending one of this ensembles breathtaking concerts on November 7,…

It started with a dead cat, and it ended with a dead cat. Well, it technically ended with therapy, but you get the picture. Flashback to ninth grade: a friend of my mother called us up to tell her one of the stray neighborhood cats had died, leaving behind a litter of day old kittens. She said she didn't have the time or resources to care for them, and asked if my mom could take them off her hands until they became old enough to give to the SPCA. My mother, with her wretched bleeding heart,…

flappers (Zeitz,). As the Jazz age rolled around, many couples enjoyed going out dancing. New types of dancing became popular such as, the Fox Trot and the Charleston, as couples danced closer than ever, they broke the traditional framework of the waltz…

course, entertained by cocktail music played by a typical jazz orchestra consisting of oboes, trombones, saxophones, violins, cornets and piccolos, low and high drums (p.35). They know how to play popular jazz songs, for example the “neat, sad little waltz of that year” (p.82). This shows that jazz music was being played at Gatsby’s parties. This also shows how Gatsby parties were. In the book it included details for you to visualize his crazy parties. The movie was very similar. It did just…

1. World War II had four outcomes. What were they? The most important outcome was the emergence of two superpowers United States and the Soviet Union. The second outcome was the differences between these two superpowers in both national interests and ideology. The United States democratic liberalism was based on an economic system that provided opportunities to individuals without government interference: capitalism. However, the Soviet state embraced Marxist ideology, which holds that under…

Many people are effected by crime in the United States and one way to help citizens is to arm them with concealed weapons or in the case of Texas you can openly carry any firearm, for example if you are at a gas station and someone walks in and proceeds to pull out a knife or another weapon to rob the gas station. you would feel more secure if you had a weapon to defend yourself or even stop the crime from continuing any further. Though some presume guns are the cause of crime in reality,…

Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475. People believed the he was homosexual. He loved someone with the name of Tommaso de’ Cavalieri. Tammaso would later get married and have children. Michelangelo was 57 when Tammaso was in his teens. Michelangelo wrote this to his lover, “If one soul in two bodies is made eternal, raising both to heaven would be with similar wings.” About the age of 16 he was inspired to do sculptures. Soon he went to live with Lorenzo the Magnificent and started to do a…

quote” from Fitzgerald concerning Jarre that states, “One could say my life has been one long soundtrack. Music was my life, music brought me to life, and music is how I will be remembered long after I leave this life. When I die, there will be a final waltz playing in my head, that only I can hear” (Carbery, 2009), Jarre’s entry in Wikipedia becomes accurate because all the information is referenced from reliable primary sources, such as CNN, Los Angles Time, and The New York Times. Therefore,…