In the movie ‘The Shawshank Redemption’, the main character Andy Dufresne is accused of the murder of his wife and her lover. Andy’s wife was having an affair with another man. Andy is sentenced 19 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Andy is put into one of the worst prisons at the time, Shawshank. The life...
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The fact that the strict principles classical music from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries adhered to became the foundation of pretty much any musical genre that was going to emerge after the heydays of its original composers should not be surprising to anyone remotely into music. Listen to how Beethoven epically channeled his inner turmoil, Handel’s oratorios, the complexity of...
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‘Forrest Gump’ is a movie that follows the life events on an underrated and underappreciated man that suffers from not only a low IQ, but also mild case of cerebral palsy. Throughout his life, Gump faces many burdens and tribulations, but he never allows anyone to interfere with his happiness and mental well-being. Gump, despite facing many problems, continues to...
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K-pop is a type of music originating in South Korea. Korea pop music is influenced by styles and genres from around the world. For example, jazz, hip-hop, country classical are all K-pop roots. K-pop idol culture began with the boy band H.O.T. in 1996. In 2003 TVXQ and BOA started a new generation of K-pop idols. Now as for development,...
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In ‘The Truman Show’, Peter Weir uses setting, motifs, and features of the cinematic medium to demonstrate the complex and multifaceted interconnectedness that exists between the environment and the individual. Truman’s entire physical world has been fabricated and orchestrated in such a regard that every blade of grass has its place. The rigidity of Truman’s behavior and the conformist mentality...
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My early exposure to cinema was not unlike that of most American children. At the age of eleven, I still watched the movies that premiered on the Disney Channel and still felt slightly rebellious when watching any movie with a PG-13 rating. My parents had, for the most part, done a thorough job in shielding me from all the evils...
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Mozart’s overture to ‘The Abduction from the Seraglio’ was initially designed as an opera. His opera was first performed in Vienna in July 1782. Mozart wanted the public to appreciate his work. This specific piece showed lots of emotions and depth with the way the instruments were played. There were three acts in this one movement. The abduction from the...
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Mozart was an extremely influential composer whose breadth of musical compositions spanned various genres and took the listener on an emotional journey. He was a genius in his own right, unrecognized in his own time, and revered long after his death. Mozart had many influences which affected his musical style. Mozart's father was a huge influence on this budding musician....
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Movie Summary Set in Berlin during the 1940s, ‘The Boy in Striped Pajamas’ explores the complex, yet considerably simple, concepts surrounding morality and goodness through the eyes of an eight-year-old German child, Bruno. Son to the Nazi commandant of the German concentration camps, the young boy moves to the countryside from Berlin with his family. Confined within his new house...
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Attitudes are defined as having positive or negative judgments of people, things and concepts. It is believed that attitudes are formed from affective, cognitive and conative components. Societal and cultural norms have a significant influence on many individuals’ attitudes. Societal and cultural norms of physical attributes, socioeconomic status, and health status are portrayed throughout the media. The media has a...
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One of the most famous films about 1960s or ‘Long Sixties’ time frame in the United States history is ‘Forrest Gump’. In fact, ‘Forrest Gump’ is a 1994 film, which is directed by Robert Zemeckis and acted by the top-credited stars like Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump, Robin Wright as Jenny and so on. The main character Forrest Gump with...
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Big changes in technology bring big changes in the music world. With every new discovery in the technological world, we find a way to improve the quality of our music and the techniques behind it. One of those inventions which paved the way for more complex audio recordings was the magnetic tape recorder. The use of it brought big changes...
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When someone is in love, it is natural to behave out of the ordinary. More importantly, many factors lead them to think about things they usually wouldn’t do if they weren’t in love. A great example of this plays out in Shakespeare’s play, ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Initially, Romeo was depressed after getting rejected by another girl, but his perspective of...
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In his article ‘How Walt Disney Ruined Our Lives’, which appeared in the Brandeis Magazine in 2013, Harvard-trained psychologist Robert Epstein talks about the impact of some of Walt Disney’s most famous films on the nature and dynamic of committed human relationships, specifically marriages. He mentions how these Disney movies, which are themselves based on ancient (and quite sinister) folktales...
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Parents should write a petition to Disney to make their princesses fit the mold of young girls across the world and protest the amount of sexualization that is being presented to girls through TV and the Internet. Stephanie Hanes (2011), author of ‘Little Girls or Little Women? The Disney Princess Effect’, claims that Disney stated: “The Disney princesses teach girls...
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What I remember the most from my early childhood is my dad’s Sony DVD player. He bought it in 1997 when he married my mom, right before the China-Japan Relations worsened and Sony got rare in the market. It cost my dad three months’ worth of salary, but the money was well spent because the DVD player became the primary...
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The film ‘The Boy in Striped Pajamas’ written by John Boyne uses an array of language features such as descriptive language, imagery, tone, and atmosphere to comment on issues of concern. This includes the marginalization of the Jewish culture, discrimination of people based on their culture and race, and prejudice. In the opening scenes of the film, we are introduced...
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For my paper, I have chosen to focus on South Korean popular music. The genre of South Korean music I am very interested in learning more about is the K-pop genre, primarily because I noticed how big it has become in recent years. Interestingly, I discovered that you can actually trail and follow the origin of the K-pop genre all...
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K-pop is a genre of popular music originated from South Korea. It is basically a musical genre that consists of an assortment of other genres such as electronic, hip-hop, rock and R&B music. First and foremost, in this essay I'm going to talk about the birth of K-pop and how K-pop has been steadily building into a global phenomenon. In...
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The 2001 film, ‘A Beautiful Mind’, tells the story of John Nash, a brilliant mathematical mind and Nobel prize winner in economics who has suffered from schizophrenia throughout his life. The film faithfully portrays the passages of his illness, from the onset to the stage in which he chooses to ignore the hallucinations that will continue to accompany him throughout...
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Schizophrenia, like many other disorders, is an invisible illness that affects about 1/100 people within society. The illness itself is cognitive and emotional dysfunctions, including delusions, and hallucinations, disorganized speech and behavior, and inappropriate emotions (Barlow, D. H., Durand, V. M., Lalumiere, M. L., & Hofmann, S. G., 2018).) Many individuals have mistaken schizophrenia as a ‘split personality’ which is...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is widely known as one of the best classical musicians of all time. Not much is known about his life top given his early passing at age 35. Symbolic of the saying stars that shine bright burn out too soon. While we can draw modern parallels of musicians in the modern era who passed as it seemed...
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This essay covers the definition and origins of jazz, how jazz started developing over the years and the changes involved. It will then focus on one of the many subgenres of jazz, orchestral jazz, and one of George Gershwin’s orchestral jazz compositions called ‘Rhapsody in Blue’. Starting off with what jazz is. Since jazz was described as “a piece of...
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Jazz and contemporary classical music are a like in many ways, while also being very different. Music culture in itself is something that is developed slowly over a great deal of time, with constant study and rehearsal in the given genre. Each music culture having its own set of ‘rules’ of dos and don’ts. The better you know these rules,...
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The Nazi takeover of Germany in 1933 brought many changes, often prohibitions and restrictions to parts of society that the Nazis deemed inferior to, or at odds with their ideology. One of the most prominent of these changes was the control and prohibition of music in Nazi Germany. Considering how vital and valued music is in society, many would question...
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The German Nazi Party has lived on in infamy as one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century. Few things compare to the horror of the Jewish Holocaust brought about by the racist ideology and practices of this tyrannical political movement. Any reasonable person in the 21st century looks back and wonders, ‘How could this have happened?’. ‘How could...
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Until now, gaming meant looking at a screen for hours. Regardless of how detailed a game's graphics are, people are always aware that they still sit in their living room while killing zombies or shooting enemies on their large flat screen TV. However, playing virtual reality games gives them the opportunity to enter a totally different world. Therefore, the aim...
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Stop-motion is a form of animation in which figures are made, positioned, and photographed to build up frames individually to complete a film from the resulting images. I question the relevancy of stop-motion animation regarding its effectiveness in comparison to the digital advancements that has led to digital animation becoming, arguably, the mainstream form of animation. Typically, it is an...
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The media plays a significant role in our daily lives by providing us with cultural, educational, and supplemental information that cultivates our knowledge while also shaping our political aspects and framing our cultural guidelines in society. It has the role of being an effective educator, by informing us of anything newsworthy, which is quite true, but what most people don’t...
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‘Forrest Gump’ is an American drama-comedy movie written by Eric Roth and directed by Robert Zemeckis that focuses on the character Tom Hanks, who shares the same name as the movie. The movie rotates on the life history of Tom (Gump), a simple man with a low IQ of 75, short and wears braces on his legs. Despite his disability,...
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