As a response to the disapproval of homosexuality, popular songs promoting gay rights through meaningful instrumental music and lyrics have been effective to bring the attention of the issue to the general public. Even way before same-sex marriage was legalized, the first openly lesbian singer in the 1990s Melissa Etheridge released “Come to My Window” and “I’m the Only One”...
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In this essay, I am going to discuss the history and development of jazz dance for musical theatre. I am going to do this by exploring the works of Andy Blankenbuehler who choreographed ‘Hamilton’ and Jerome Robbins who choreographed West Side Story. These two shows are incredibly different in their choreography. For example, in ‘Hamilton’ the choreography is a mash-up...
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In Suzanne Collins’s dystopian novel “The Hunger Games”, she portrays a post-apocalyptic world in which 12 Districts in a nation known as Panem are oppressed by the rich ruling class in a city known as the Capitol. In societies such as these, great heroes are needed. One such hero is the protagonist of the novel: Katniss Everdeen. She is quite...
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A record sixteen Tony nominations were given to Hamilton (Hatzitolios). Winning twelve of those nominations, including best musical, it also won a Pulitzer Prize for drama, a Grammy award, seven Olivier awards, was honored by the Kennedy Center, and received raving reviews from seemingly everywhere (Klotz). One wonders why there are still those who haven’t listened to it yet today,...
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Criticism will invariably persecute any artwork released into the public domain with no discrimination between renowned and anonymous authors. As expected, even Lin-Manuel Miranda’s preeminent, award-winning Broadway musical, Hamilton, has encountered dogmatic people who have condemned details of the exceptional production and pointed them out as sufficient evidence to ban the musical. The alleged support for slavery and white supremacy,...
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Suzanne Collins`s The Hunger Games trilogy, a dystopian story set in post-apocalyptic North America - now Panem, has been heralded as one of the greatest Young Adult book series, losing only to Harry Potter in NPR`s poll of the one hundred best teen novels. The Hunger Games is largely a tale of conflict, exploitation, and rebellion, with political and economic...
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‘12 Angry Men’-Group Influence: The movie 12 angry men revolves around a jury that must arrive at a verdict, either guilty or not guilty for an 18-year-old boy who has been accused of murdering his father. The members of the jury have to take a cohesive and unanimous decision on the verdict. Enough evidence, proof, and the boy's weak alibi...
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In 1998, one of the most original movies in history came out, yes I’m talking about the ‘’Truman Show’’ By Peter Weir with the amazing performances of Jim Carrey(Truman) Ed Harris(Christof) and Laura Linney(Meryl) Imagine living in a world, where everything is fake. Imagine, every day waking up to go to work and then coming home to watch tv, in...
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Introduction to Dystopian Panem In a place where poverty is common and a country that is ruled by a tyrannical dictator, it isn't possible for an individual to trust others when their own life is always at stake. The novel The Hunger Games, written by Suzanne Collins, demonstrates the significant issues in the real world today, which are poverty, violence,...
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Challenges Katniss faces in ‘The Hunger Games’ The twelve districts of Panem are run by the Capitol, and as a punishment for a rebellion in the past is made to select a boy and a girl who might be tributes who will fight to the death inside the hunger games arena, which is held every 12 months. Primrose Everdeen is...
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Love, communication, and most importantly respect are the basis and the foundation of a blooming and booming relationship. ‘The Help’ is a novel that presents ideas of strong relationships between black maids and the white children of the families they work for. Throughout the book, we can see this kind of relationship between Mae Mobley and Aibileen as well as...
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As the newest South Park short movie was released on December 16, 2021, it helps recall my memories of South Park. I have been a fan of South Park for 5 years, And among all the characters in South Park, Eric Cartman, this FAT kid, gave me the deepest impression. Not only he has been ranked number 19 on Bravo's...
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African-American Politician Martin Luther King Jr. once said: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” This is a quote he used in his famous speech “I have a dream” on August 28th,...
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The Great Depression was a time society had taken a big hit, it brought pain, and drought to many working civilians and people all around the United States. The Great Depression was the worst thing that has ever happened to the American Economy and it lasted the longest, from 1929 to 1941. When the Great Depression reached its absolute bottom,...
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Book Review The book The Help written by Kathryn Stockett is a wonderfully written book that is worthy of being read. Some people who have read The Help do not like it because they believe it is racist and shallow (Maslin). Many more people consider it to be an important work of fiction. Filled with accurate historical information, it deals...
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Introduction This paper is a cultural assessment of the movie “The help”. The setting of the movie is Jackson Mississippi in the 1960s. During this time, racial discrimination was very prevalent as well as the civil right movement. The cultural assessment will include a description of the movie family, family processes, values, socialization and child-rearing, healthcare beliefs, adaptation, and assessment...
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Justice is not a simple issue of right or wrong. When you look at it more closely, it is far more complicated. Justice is defined as “the quality of being just or fair, the act of determining rights and assigning rewards or punishment.” This may generalize the meaning of justice but when it is further looked at it arises different...
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This dissertation entitled Comparative study of racial discrimination in the novels: The Help by Kathryn Stockett and Beloved by Toni Morrison is an attempt to compare and analyze the relationship between Blacks and Whites in the chosen novels using the theory of internalized racism by Karen D Pyke. This tries to focus on how black people suffered for reconstructing their...
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Today I’ll be discussing two different representations of dystopian societies in films. The term “dystopia” comes from ancient Greece (meaning bad place). It is used to describe a society or community that is considered to not follow the typical structure of an efficient society and instead reflects the possible lives we could be living if the worst-case scenarios did ever...
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Dippermouth Blues – King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band 'Dippermouth Blues' is an early Jazz tune first recorded by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, one of the first groups of black musicians to get to record. The tune was recorded by Gennett Records and Okeh Records in April and June respectively 1923. Due to King Oliver’s release being the first it...
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Romeo and Juliet is a classic story about a pair of ‘star-crossed lovers’ being controlled by fate and destiny. Love is naturally the play’s dominant and most important theme as it focuses on the intense passion that springs up at first sight between Romeo and Juliet. In the story, love is depicted as a violent, ecstatic, overpowering force that supersedes...
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Rationale: This written task has addressed the language option of language and mass communication. I have written my opinion column on one of the few things I truly loathe in one of my favorite artists of all time’s music. I decided to write this text on Eminem’s songs, as he is a personality I am extremely familiar with and he...
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After watching the movie '12 angry men' again, I found that through the movie, there are several organizational behavior lessons that are highlighted throughout the film and the interaction of the juries. Because when I watched it for the first time, I kept my focus on the plot of the film, and it was hard to observe the detail. I...
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In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Tom Robinson, an innocent bird, is degraded and eventually killed by the court after being falsely accused of hideous crimes. His accuser, Mayella Ewell, is actually the person who is emotionally touched the most by Tom, but her dreadful home life and upbringing by a racist, alcoholic father forces her...
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Throughout the novel, names have significant roles in identifying both people and places by matching their characteristics with their definitions. In the beginning, on page 21, there is an introduction to districts, and later on page 80, it begins to describe how each district is characterized by something different from the rest. For example; District 12 is coal miners, District...
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What is intertextuality? Intertextuality refers to how one text can affect and add meaning to another text. The more you look, the sooner you realize intertextuality can be found almost anywhere and is most commonly found as references to other texts adding a specific meaning for a greater impact on the reader. Today we’re going to be exploring intertextuality between...
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This semester in Literature we read two best-selling science fiction books, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Divergent by Veronica Roth. There are many similarities between the two books in setting, characters, plot, and themes. Both The Hunger Games and Divergent take place in dystopias after some future apocalypse in North America. Both books have a 16-year-old female protagonist...
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The film The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and the text Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll both examine the notion of point of view. However, both plots are formed through the close interaction between the reader and the narrator. The narrator’s influential role forms what will be expressed through the narrative and what will be portrayed for the reader...
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Music is everywhere. It is heard, it creates music everywhere. Everyone listens to and produces music, no matter what their job or status in life. The inclinations or the type of music we like are different. Sometimes the music we listen to depends on our mood. Sometimes jazz, sometimes classical, and who knows what else. We are united by music,...
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The author of this book wants students who are studying orchestration to have clear and detailed analysis of Mozart’s famous opera compositions, one of them is ‘The Marriage of Figaro’. This book contains all the four acts of the opera. Figaro and Susanna, two servants of Count Almaviva, get married despite Almiviva’s attempt to seduce Susanna. Figaro and Susanna find...
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