Essays on Louder

Even if Macbeth and the Tell-Tale Heart, penned by Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe respectively, were written centuries apart, it’s the common theme of guilt expressed so well in the latter that helps us imagine Lady Macbeth’s state of mind (Deighton). In particular, it is the pangs of guilt that she suffers from throughout the play after coercing her husband to commit regicide - to kill King Duncan - who consider Macbeth to be an ally and friend. In the Tell-Tale Heart, the killer suffers from delusions after committing the deed in killing the old man and ...

The teardrops of constellations are shimmering in the cloudless night sky. Another summer is fading away just like her hopes for his coming. Bit by bit coldness of the end of August steals all joy and summer plants that are never meant to be. Standing by the large study window and gazing into the darkness of garden Misha could feel how hot current of pain, despair and anger goes through the whole of her body and pinches her right into the heart thus spreading incurable venom of apathy through her veins. Suddenly burning emotions turn into cold indifference making ...

Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)

Introduction

Music can serve different purposes that are important on setting an emotional pace on a movie in order to enhance the storytelling and the experience of the audience. This is the film score’s strongest function as it can set the tone of the movie or a certain scene in the movie. With the film score, it makes it possible to classify the genre and the level of drama present in the movie. It is also used in order to create plot twists in the movie. Another strong function of music is by getting into ...

Fully inclusive environments have become a norm in most public schools throughout the United States. That can, depending on the special education classification involved and the subject matter, pose challenges to both the student and teacher. One such possible challenging pairing can be teaching music class or music ensemble to students with hearing impairments. Under the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) which has 13 identifiable conditions that warrant educational protections and laws, deafness is a kind of hearing impairment so severe it impedes processing oral language, regardless of amplification. Hard of hearing is classified by IDEA as a hearing ...

The story is about the narrator and an old man. The narrator has an illness that increases his senses and image. He is friends with an old man but does not like the old man’s eye. He thinks the eye is evil because it is blue with a clear substance over it. The eye makes the narrator angry, and he wants to kill the old man to be rid of the evil eye forever. After a week, he sneaks in to kill the old man, but the old man dies of a heart attack. The narrator explains in ...

In this essay, I will compare and critique three different renditions of the same piece by Johann Sebastian Bach, Prelude and Fugue in C major from the Well- Tempered Clavier BWV 864. For making the interpretation, I have pick three different pianists; Glenn Gould is the first one, Samuel Feinberg is the second one and Daniel Ben Pienaar is the third and also the last one. After I will listen to all three interpretations, I will discuss the different performing style of this three pianist approaching music components such as dynamics, tempo, colour and articulation. Furthermore, I will comment ...

The Tell-Tale Heart was written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1843, and is a short story about a man entering a battle for his sanity as he commits a murder. The story is a monologue told by an accused murderer who remains nameless. He murders an old man in the middle of the night because he sees an eye on the man’s forehead that he believes needs to be removed through killing. The main theme in this story is mental illness. The narrator is mad, but he is convinced that he is not. Among this theme, sanity and paranoia are the two main ...

Introduction

Music therapy is an evidence-based clinical use of musical interventions to achieve individual goals within a therapeutic relationship by a certified practitioner. Music therapy may sound not like a very much practiced medical procedure but that is not true. In fact, music therapy dates back as early as ancient civilizations like Egyptian, Indus valley and old Chinese civilization. Music combined with various dance forms was used at that time to treat various illnesses. Even today music therapy is used to address physical, cognitive, emotional and social needs of an individual. After assessing the problems of a patient, a certified music therapist provides treatment which ...

Of all the myriad ways in which the 60s counterculture challenged perceived notions of morality and the status quo, the anti-war song was perhaps its most popular. Given the stakes and devastation of the Vietnam War, which necessitated the draft and angered an increasingly independent and rebellious generation, songwriting and instrumentation increasingly took on these pacifist subtexts. From a Neo-Confucian perspective, the case of Jimi Hendrix’s cover of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower” defies the Confucian ideal of yayue, combining aggressive instrumentation with its cryptic vocals to create an atmosphere conducive to an anti-war, rebellious morality (consistent ...

Hearing my heart beating faster and faster, my palms get sweaty, and the feeling of restless butterflies in my stomach all let me know that my nerves are strung tight. Looking around me, everyone seems like they are a sea of calmness. Soft murmurs can be heard from an occasional speaker while questions fly around in my mind. I look down at my drink and back up at the room, still thinking about the moment that has not come. Waiting for someone to step forward with a greeting while hoping I can succeed this time. Occasionally, someone looks my way. ...

There can be no doubt that Edgar Allan Poe is one of the best writers in the history of American literature. One of his most well-known short-stories, “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a classic that has endured decades of critical research and analysis. Throughout this lengthy scholarship, it immediately becomes apparent that Poe is one of the premier gothic writers of his generation, with his ability to tell a story as if he was his own demented protagonists. Critics and scholars also conclude that Poe has mastered the writing style of the first-person narrator (Ronald 2). In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, Poe uses ...

Tuk. Tuk. Tuk. The sound of the watchman beating his stick on the pavement fell upon Neal’s ears. The sound stirred his sleep. He thought as if his own heart was pounding. Was he getting a heart attack? The sound became louder and he was scared stiff. He was perspiring. He pushed off the blanket. The sound became louder. It was followed by a shrill whistle. It was faint at first, but slowly became louder and louder. When he heard the whistle, he realized that the sound was made by the watchman, beating his stick as he made his rounds. ...

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Introduction

Physics remains a very useful field in the modern technological lives. Without physics, there would be very little understanding of how things work. Physics creates an understanding of the functioning mechanisms of the world and the different elements through such topics as kinetic energy, laws of motion, laws of gravity, mass, etc. Almost every aspect of people’s lives revolves around physics. Consequently, without physics, there wouldn’t be development such as lighting from electricity sources, motor-vehicles, electricity and so on. Physics is, therefore, an arm of science that involves the study of matter characteristics, energy and their ...

I recently attended an MDC Faculty Recital conducted by Dr. Virginia Carruvias featuring music by Claude Bolling. My enjoyment and appreciation of his music will be the subject of analysis and appreciation throughout this paper. I also wish to comment on the feelings I experienced while listening to the music and what my general understanding of the technical aspects were during the evening. This analysis varies with the different movements of the music for each suite. During the evening, three movements of the suite for flute and piano (Irlandaise, Sentimentale, Baroque & Blue) and 3 movements of the suite for ...

Animals have always been used in fiction literature to display the character and nature of human beings. People have diversified characters, which can be best defined by specific behaviours displayed by certain animals. In the story of Pi, the tiger has been used to display the strong, dangerous and daring nature of Pi character. The articles, Little red riding Hood and The company of Wolves tell the character of the wolf and how the animal has been used to represent the devil or the beastly acts of men on women. The two animals, the tiger and the wolf not only ...

When people’s emotions change, their body language, voice and facial expression changes, as well. Not a lot of people can pick up the changes in pitch, tone and volume. These are important factors to consider when analyzing the emotion of someone you are speaking to, especially if the conversation is over the phone (Gobl, Christer, and Ailbhe Nı́ Chasaide 189). Voice quality plays a vital role in communicating emotions, attitudes, reactions and moods. By knowing or understanding these things, an individual will be able to judge the emotion of someone that they are talking to. When you are speaking ...

Communication: Oral Language is a Bag of Air (How the Environment is responsible for Speech and Oral Language.)

Oral language is like air is a concept that has been used in linguistics to express the importance of environment in shaping the development of language in society. Man has for instance made inroads to other planets other than the earth. However, under these circumstances man has depended on sign language to communicate because the condition in space do not allow for the creation of sound waves. This is contrary to how the situation is here on earth. The environment of earth allows for the travelling of sound. The thought patterns of human being and the communication process is shaped ...

Alton Barbour (1976) in his book, Louder Tan Words: Nonverbal Communication indicates that nonverbal communication adds up to 93% of any communication. This therefore shows that effective nonverbal Communication is very essential in communication. While nonverbal communication is very important, it worth noting that all communication including nonverbal communication takes place within cultural contexts. All meanings are learned and developed in the eyes of our different cultures. Cross cultural communication can be difficult in working context as different cultures have different meanings for different nonverbal cues.

Keywords: nonverbal, culture, differences.

One of the nonverbal differences that you can experience ...

Alice Walker’s The Color Purple is a heroic story of a female protagonist Celie, who starts her journey as being a tragic heroine to finally gaining a voice and a sense of self-worth. By being surrounded by social outcasts such as Shug Avery, and being taught how to appreciate herself and her sexuality, by taking back the identity that has been cruelly taken away from her through abuse and sexual exploitation, by the end of the novel, Celie will emerge as the victor and sole owner of her own happiness. At the very beginning, the fourteen year old Celie’s finds herself ...

Behind the Bloody Footsteps

“After a war, people, should return to their homes, set everything right and start life again,” Eliza told herself for about the fiftieth time in the past fifty seconds. She heard a strange whispering voice and jerked her head around. Her lovely almond shaped green eyes were wide with panic and fear. Her breathing – no she was not breathing, she was holding her breath waiting to hear the voice again. Nothing, only the silence of the breeze across burnt out yards. She noticed that the yards were all flat and charred black. They looked like they were asphalt because they were ...

As I step on the granular surface of the mildly sun-drenched beach, I feel the refreshing gush of ocean air, caressing my nostrils. The water is glistening in pearly evanescence, its serenity humbly interrupted by a thunderous squeaking of the children, valiantly rushing towards the water, only to huddle even faster back, to the safety of terra firma. The circular, luminous ball in the sky is not acknowledging the arrival of noon yet, and the lack of people, sunbathing on the beach feels more than good. As I am walking, I can feel the little grains of sand protruding through ...

Analysis of The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe

In Edgar Allen Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart, he illustrates how ignored guilt and remorse cause anguish for the individual experiencing the guilt. Poe’s narrator and antagonist experiences guilt and anguish through the sense of sound. The senses of sight and sound push the antagonist into committing murder.

Poe’s antagonist admits that he is a “nervous” individual. He admits this is an illness and that his illness heightens his senses, particularly “the sense of hearing”. It is ironic that the narrator admits the old man has never wronged or insulted him yet the narrator feels compelled to kill ...

Actions Speak Louder Than Words; or Do They?

Usually people first hear that actions speak louder than words very early, from parents or close relatives. I think that it is a very positive fact, as it allows them to understand the basic moral and communication principles and make them a basis for their character formation. If these principles are really taken as a basis of morality, it is a perfect situation and a background for becoming a good person. But in order to understand whether it is really so, it is necessary to analyze this idiom in detail and draw appropriate conclusions. Besides, it is useful to see, in what circumstances the situation ...

Netflix’s marketing strategy change

Introduction Change is an integral part of everyday life both for organizations and individuals. It is often considered negative, since it involves a certain level of stress for the system and a disruption of the conventional organizational practices. However, along with the negative side, change also entails benefits, if it is conducted in the right way. This paper aims to present an example of the recent change in Netflix strategy and to explain the possible reasons for its failure. This example applies change management theories and concepts to the Netflix case, in order to identify what went wrong and, thus ...

Summary

The article by Yehuda talks about the influence music has on human beings. Indeed it touches on the origin of music and explains how even our fore fathers understood the intriguing power that music possed in relation to our everyday lives. Examples are given of personal life experiences like that of William Styron who wished to commit suicide but was withheld by music from a movie he was watching after listening to the content (message). According to Yehuda (2011) it is very natural for human beings to identify with music just like a baby identifies with certain sounds. From the article, ...

Dislocation and Dysfunction

Winesburg, Ohio (1919) by Sherwood Anderson is full of characters who lead unhappy, unfulfilling lives – who feel alienated and isolated from one another and from the town in which they live. It could be described as a novel or it could be described as a collection of twenty-four stories which are connected by being set in the eponymous town of the title or by the development of George Willard, who features as a protagonist or secondary character in sixteen of the stories, and is mentioned in three others. George Willard is also privileged as a character since his parents won a boarding house and ...

Sherwood Anderson’s novel, Winesburg, Ohio (1919), is interestingly constructed. It consists of a series of short stories really which are connected by the town of Winesburg. Ther is a good case for saying that the town itself is the central character. Characters re-appear sometimes in other stories, and it is also possible to trace the coming-of-age of George Willard who knows most of the residents of the town, partly because his parents rent out rooms, but also because he becomes the town newspaper’s reporter. In that sense, George Willard holds the novel together, but Winesburg is the real focus. ...

“The Tell Tale Heart” is a short story from a first-person narrator, whose name remains a secret. The narrator tells about his manipulative murder of an old man whom he was responsible to care for. He addresses the reader directly as he tells the story. The motive behind the story is to prove to the reader that the narrator is not insane. However, his narrative depicts mental imbalance and the reader is confronted with evil possibilities within human beings. In this work, I have provided a literary analysis of the above short story, and evaluated the success of the author in using literary ...