Yo-Yo Ma

Decent Essays
Improved Essays
Superior Essays
Great Essays
Brilliant Essays
    Page 1 of 13 - About 126 Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Yo-Yo Ma Concert Analysis

    • 900 Words
    • 4 Pages

    I enter the music room really nervous about asking Mia to the Yo-Yo Ma concert, What if she say “No”. I mean I have done this other time so why am I nervous so I am just going to ask her, “Have you heard of the Yo-Yo Ma dude?”. She rolls her eyes and say “Everyone’s heard of the Yo-Yo Ma.” I grin and hooked my ringed thumb out toward the quad, “I don’t think you’ll find five people out there who’ve heard of YO-YO Ma. And by the way, what kind of the name is that? Is it ghetto or something? Yo Ma?” She answered right away “It’s Chinese.” I shook my head and laughed. “I know plenty of Chinese people. They have names like Wei Chin. Or Lee something not Yo-Yo Ma.” I found it very amusing the way she expresses about Yo-Yo Ma. “You cannot blaspheming…

    • 900 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    strokes are utilized as a method, to reveal a message that enters deep into the subconscious mind, leaving people feeling different emotions. Artists or even art enthusiasts have a better sense of emotions, giving them a different understanding of the world around them. Yo Yo Ma, an artist, a visionary, a cellist, a connoisseur of the rare beauty, believes that society should integrate the arts into the STEM based curriculum. He speculates that integrating the arts into the current education…

    • 1217 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    adored and played by many. One of the most acclaimed cellist is a Yo Yo Ma. He is a songwriter of Chinese decent known for playing the grand classics. Yo Yo Ma is not only an artist of music, but diversifies one’s understanding of what music was like in the past. One example is how he had the role of serving as the artist director of the Silk Road Project. The Silk Road Project explores music that was present, established and exchanged during the Triangle Trade. Yo Yo Ma uses various directions…

    • 943 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Yo Yo Ma Research Paper

    • 1633 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Yo Yo Ma is the picture of a modern day musician. Growing up in France and then America, he has always struggled to find his individuality. After years of rebellion he finally settled down career, he created the Silk Road Ensemble and went on to win many awards and recognitions. Ma has changed the face of music forever. Born in 1955, Paris, France, Yo Yo Ma changes classical music forever. His father, a professor of musicology and a composer, and his mother, an opera singer, both knew he was…

    • 1633 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Professors encourage their students to skillfully analyze and asses problems to mindfully solve them, and that is an amazing thing. However, we are forgetting to teach our students to think empathetically. In Ma, Yo-Yo, “Necessary Edges” Emerging: Contemporary Readings for Writers, 3rd edition, edited by Barclay Barrios, 2016, p. 257, he informs us that, “advances in neurobiology make it clear that we humans have dual neural pathways, one for critical thinking, and one for empathetic thinking”.…

    • 835 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    acronym for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Yo-Yo Ma in his essay “Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education” makes the claim that it should be STEAM, adding arts into the world arguing that artistic ideas are essential as well as the others. Yo-Yo Ma is a brilliant man, he is a cellist that graduated from Julliard School and Harvard both are top schools. He has won over seventeen Grammy awards; therefore, Yo-Yo Ma is a very creditable man. The purpose for Ma writing…

    • 583 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    apprieciation or art apprieciation if they are majoring in biology or law. According to Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education by Yo-Yo Ma, “The value behind arts integration-collaboration, flexible thinking, and disciplined imagination- lead to the capacity to innovate” (Ma 258). In today society people live in a world where art is all around them, but they don’t know it. This is why universities and college makes the student have music appreciation and art appreciation mandatory…

    • 1614 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Ash Ball Market Research: Yo Yo Yogurt A.S 2.4 v2 Plan and Design The aim of this research is to assess the longterm viability of YoYo Yogurts in its current market, to determine whether or not the business should look to expand in the future. YoYo Yogurt is a new frozen store which is located in the centre of the Johnsonville mall. YoYo Yogurt has a variety of flavours of yogurts, fruit smoothies and juices. YoYo Yogurt primarily attracts younger people more than older people because the…

    • 1400 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Great Essays

    Yo-Yo Knots In the novel The Things They Carried, written by Tim O’Brien there are many different rituals of war and symbols of rituals that are portrayed throughout the story. While many rituals and superstitions are apparent throughout the novel, the ones that will be discussed in this paper will be focused on Mitchell Sanders and his yo-yo. Mitchell Sanders is a steady character throughout the novel and while his yo-yo is only mentioned in one chapter, it can relate to many different stories…

    • 2104 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Alfred F Jones Analysis

    • 1861 Words
    • 8 Pages

    while he signaled a waiter for drinks. The waiter set two cups of whiskey on the wooden table. Honda took a long drink before he set the cup onto the wood with a thump. "Talk less." Alfred looked on in confusion, "what?" Honda leaned forward, "smile more." Alfred chuckled and Honda continued. "Don't let them know what you're against or what you're for." Alfred looked at him with a raised brow. "You can't be serious" "You want to get ahead don't you?" Alfred nodded, "yes." "Remember that…

    • 1861 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Previous
    Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 13