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3 Generations of a Black Woman's Family and the Transmission of Personal Identity and Strength

out. My grandmother had little education in the formal sense yet she had overwhelming common sense. She learned to appreciate th...

Music During the Elizabethan Period of William Shakespeare

ways to evoke feeling and mood. This was an important aspect of the plays he wrote and the inclusion of music was standard for hi...

Literary Influence of the Romantic Period

self realization, self expression and self reliance were all an aspect of the awareness of the self within the natural world. The ...

Disintegrating Cultural Identity fo Aymara Peoples?

of society. In short, to outwardly encourage assimilation would be nothing short of advocating the quest for control. The ways i...

Musical Differences Between Classical and Romantic Eras

melodies.5 The Classical era artists deviated from this example, and their music was considerably simpler in texture. New genres w...

Raising Children in America Today

200,000 violent acts on television alone" (Chatfield, 2002; p. 735). The study indicated that "Between the ages of two and 18, an ...

Islamic History in Spain

independent from Arab roots, thus making Spain a Muslim country, but without the interference of Muslim rule from afar (Spain, 199...

The Basque Tradition

but amusing chatter among themselves, laughing at times and it is this apparent joy that draws in the crowd causing them to share ...

Popular Music and the Effects of Technology

to downplay the drawbacks and imperfections of the recording medium. Naturally, this fact influenced what music was selected for r...

Literature, Film, Identity, and Travel

conversation" (Clifford, 1997, p. 37). Similarly, the identity of the Moe family remained Hawaiian, despite the fact that they t...

U.S. Multiculturalism and Nationalism

to answer those questions and come up with support for the answers to those perplexing queries, a student writing on this subject ...

Literature Review on Coping with Social Prejudice

patterns that were shown (Link, 2002). Between the ages of three and six there are some interesting attitudes. These may be seen a...

World Music of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

common between music of the world. The student can, for example, quote musicologist Bruno Nettl and his works, that basically stat...

American Identity Concept and Benjamin Franklin

of his definition of self as it relates to Americans is scattered and often vague. Bearing this in mind we turn to the philosophic...

Self Identity According to David Hume

and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...

India, Africa, and the Effects of European Music

of music is the inference of influence from similarity. For example. Nettle (1986) uses the example of a Jamaican song that has rh...

Psychology and Identity Approaches

people and in some way negates the assumption of uniqueness. Yet, psychologists recognize that while people are unique, there are ...

Indian Music and the Tabla Drums

the emission of harmonics(Courtney, 2001). Musicians play the tabla (or a smaller one at least) by placing it in their la...

Young People Suffering from Seizures and Construction of Identity

particular illness. An excellent example is gay men with AIDS. Due to their own perception of what AIDS involves, many gay men c...

Teens and Negative Influence of Music

from this close, intact family, there is certainly a lack of discipline. The lax attitude towards the children is indicative of a ...

Identity and Gender Reflections in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Kate Chopin's The Awakening

it threatened who she was as a member of the white race and the upper classes. Therefore, it can be seen that Ednas desire to pa...

Composer Frederic Chopin's Life and Music

falls in love with the young Robert LeBrun and befriends the old pianist Mademoiselle Reisz, whose music arouses in Edna "the very...

Ireland's Version of Masefield's 'Sea Fever' and Barnby's Setting Of Tennyson's 'Crossing The Bar'

poems took on an even greater sense of emotion with each mans haunting melody, clearly expanding the meaning of the words. "Every...

French Composer Oliver Messiaen

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the life of this French composer and analyzes his music in terms of his uses of bir...

Identity Search in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

his true intellect becomes completely clouded over and his ability to understand who and what he is becomes an even more distant p...

Methods of Stress Reduction Access Report

In eight pages relieving employee stress is discovered and suggested methods include holiday parties, fitness center access, music...

Electronic Music History

Debussy advocated the "emancipation of dissonance" (Machlis, 1961). A more immediate precursor of electronic music was Edgar Vares...

Characters Created by Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Manifestation of Personal Identity

conflict of his characters. It is recommended that the person who is writing about this topic consider that much of Nathaniel Haw...

Critic's Role

put into words the experience for people to identify with. In many ways a critic is there to let the consumer know, who will pay ...

BPI Organizational History

In six pages United Kingdom's music industry is examined in this historical overview of the British Phonographic Industry. Six so...