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American English Compendium by Marv Rubinstein

slang and colloquialisms (of the world) smack of American English (1), and that this is true even in England. He credits this fact...

Edmund S. Morgan/American Slavery, American Freedom

to describe the experiences of the early colonizing efforts. This description includes social, political and economic factors, whi...

Racism from an Asian American Perspective

of racism, of course, are not limited to the U.S. History has proven, in fact, that multiethnic and multiracial societies in gener...

American Revolutioin from Different Perspectives

how things were effected, but rather, the investigation goes to why. One may glean, from reading this book, that America was prope...

US Societal Values and the Progressive Era

since the latter 1800s facilitated greater and greater industrialization. With that industrialization the ethic of hard work beca...

Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt and Use of Satire

live up to its name with a great deal of glass, chrome and a lot of managers and executives with a great deal of attitude but few ...

Creation and Development of the Universal Music Group, Formerly Known as MCA

independent music publishing giant Rondor Music in the summer of 2000 from its co-founders Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, it became t...

Duncan Phillips and Arthur G. Dove

work regularly at his famed 291 gallery in New York City....Stieglitz considered Dove, along with Georgia OKeeffe and John Mann, t...

Life and Song Cycle of Composer Franz Schubert

them - and his brother replied in the affirmative. This seemed satisfying enough an answer to Schubert who passed away later that...

Hong Kong and Hip Hop

in its early days was solely the province of black youth, who took a combination of social comment, alienation and African roots t...

Piano Concerto in A Major by Wolfgang Mozart

provides color, form and melody throughout the work (Landon, 1956). In general, Mozart employed two types of punctuation tools t...

Human Expression and Art as an Essential Component

boundaries of time to impact audiences of today. Take the popular artistic design dubbed "Kokapelli", for example. Kokopelli is ...

Classical Style Comparison of Franz Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

endlessly variety of moods (Machlis, 1970). Mozarts Music - in general Machlis (1970) comments that there is something of the "m...

Fine Arts and the Impact of Interactive Media

concept is fairly recent, beginning with the Internet explosion during the mid-1990s and the introduction of the CD-ROM during the...

The Life and Art of Armando Morales

life. According to a biography at LatinArt.com (2001), he then moved on to combine "figurative elements with broad abstract forms....

Maria Callas and Billie Holiday

"Ive lived songs like that" (Billie Holiday, PG). MARIA CALLAS Born to a Greek family, Maria Callas was "American by birth and I...

Music and Poems

played slightly louder, i.e. piano. The rhythm of the piece would be uniform 4/4 time, but the overall effect of the rhythm would...

Aesthetics of Japan

as Josiah Conder notes in his classic study of the subject, "the clipping and carving of trees and bushes into shapes such as moun...

Martin Scorsese's 'Raging Bull'

It is likely that DiNiro, a highly acclaimed actor put a lot of himself into the film and also Scorcese was brilliant as usual. Go...

Life and Music of Composer Oliver Messiaen

book has had a significant influence on his characters and destiny (Johnson 9). During World War I, he lived with his mother and...

Emily Dickinson, Popular Music, and Death Fascination

17). While this image is certainly chilling, the overall tone of the poem is one of "civility," which is actually expressed in lin...

Moral Dilemmas in Menken's Musical, The Little Shop of Horrors

Circumstances come to a crossroads for Seymour when he discovers an odd looking plant after a total eclipse of...

Ambient Music of Brian Eno

recorded "Music for Airports" in 1978 (Brian Eno). While this story is certainly appealing, the student researching this topic sho...

Frida Kahlo's Colors and Artistic Intimacy

as well as her physical problems from contracting polio as a child and injuries that had been the result of a bus accident in 1925...

Chartres Cathedral Architecture Compared with Music of Valkyrie by Richard Wagner

cities and castles to defend lands against invasion, and they created bridges and hostelries to facilitate communication. But it ...

Artist Mark Rothko's Development

them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas. They are the sy...

Analysis of This Old Man Folk Song

cohesion-one must sense a beginning, a middle and an end. In "This Old Man," the melody follows a simple line that makes it easy...

Christina Rossetti's 'In An Artist's Studio'

the perceived flaws in their models and so alters their appearance to fit their ideal image. Rossetti seems to find this appalling...

The Artists of Brazil

the obvious contradictions between his life and his works (Candido Portinari, 2002). For example, although he was a staunch Commu...

Embodiment of Modernism

painted some of the most widely admired, critically discovered, and revered paintings of the nineteenth century. It can be said th...