Mary Catherine Bateson's Improvisation In a Persian Garden, Annie Dillard's Seeing and Leslie Marmon Silko's Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagi

Stories give people new ideas and experiences along with lessons that they are unable to realize in their own lives. The narrator feels as though he is in the land of Balzac’s Ursule Mirouёt even though he has never before seen France. He is so fascinated with the story that he does not put the book down until he has finished the last page (Sijie 57). This allows him to experience life in an entirely different manner from which he is accustomed. From these stories, the boys gain insights into thoughts and emotions that are completely foreign to them. While Luo visits the Little Seamstress telling her of the stories he as read, the narrator feels one of these unfamiliar emotions. He states, “Suddenly I felt a stab of jealousy, a bitter wrenching emotion I had never felt before” (58). Although jealousy is not usually seen as a good feature and while this emotional awakening may seem like a negative effect of storytelling to some readers, it is actually an amazing accomplishment. Stories provide their readers with a new perception of life. They are able to feel what they have never felt, to see what they have never seen, and to be what they have never been. While these experiences may not be the most enjoyable, all experiences leave people with a more extensive idea of what life really is.

Many composers use various techniques in which they communicate the distinctly visual. John Misto’s ‘The Shoe-Horn Sonata’ and Alexander Kimel’s ‘The Action in the Ghetto of Rohatyn, March 1942’ represent significant issues in our world by using various literary and dramatic techniques. Through using these techniques it is evident that the composers of these texts allow the audience to ‘see’ with our eyes as well as with our minds. The many literary and dramatic techniques have the ability to create a visual that

On Saturday, November 4th, I visited the Denver Art Museum in Denver, Colorado. The piece of art I decided to write about is called “A Mountain Symphony (Longs Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado)” This two-dimensional oil on canvas painting was completed in America in 1927 by Sven Birger Sandzén. This painting has not been on public view since 1927 and is located in the Denver Art Museum in Denver, Colorado. It was a “Free Day” at the museum, so I decided to attend by myself. I was unable to get a picture of myself in front of the work of art I decided to write about, but I did get several pictures of the artwork and a picture of myself with the “Free Day” sticker. I decided to write about this work of art because it was the only piece in the museum that really stood out to me and really caught my attention. A Mountain Symphony is a lively, beautiful landscape painting with a vibrant pallet filled with luminosity and broad brushstrokes. The sculptural quality of the paint surface reflect the influence of turn-of-the century modernist techniques. The balance of color and light brings happiness and joy to the viewer.

author wants to show that a little child does not have the same interests and experience as an old

Daniel Ridgway Knight was an odd American artist who loved to paint relaxed French peasants in luscious landscapes. Ironically, he lived during a stressful time when the Industrial Revolution displaced numerous farmers and polluted the environment. He seemed to ignore the harsh truth and shut himself in his imaginary serene world. For instance, In the Premier Chagrin, translated as The First Grief, Knight paints two healthy girls conversing on a stone wall in front of gorgeous fields. At first, it appears as merely a pretty painting that is nicely contrasted to show depth and realism. Yet, with a closer look, this contrast in the colors and lines of the landscape and the figures creates tension to suggest the painter’s conflict between longing for serene freedom and feeling trapped within the stiff society.

In chapter 5 of Mavericks, From Space to Territory Aritha van Herk writes about the West and its romantic appeal along with different men who were given the task of surveying and exploring the West where upon in turn they became captivated by its romantic appeal. In her writings about these men, and the West that they were tasked with “discovering”, there is a connection to regionalism, landscape and subsequently Plains identity. Regionalism refers to the unique characteristics of a geographic area, or to people’s perception and identification of that area. Landscape refers to that geographic area’s features that help form the characteristic qualities of a people in the region. Landscape also dictates how a region will develop over time. Plains identity follows as it is formed by regionalism and landscape. These three concepts can be found in van Herk’s writings in this chapter as she analyzes how people perceived the West.

The theme the author is stating is how children are oblivious and ignorant to the world around them. They are usually self-centred and only focus on their own goals of survival,

Finally, both works are travel tales, which expose the main characters to many perspectives. This allows the authors to satirize many aspects of society.

Even when that one perspective may not be the most accurate way of viewing something in a particular situation, it can be tempting neglect other perspectives or “tools”. The example given in class was Freud and his psychosexual theories. Freud believed that everything we did was a result of our sexual desires. Freud’s only “tool”, or perspective, was this belief , and he used it when viewing everything, even when it may have not been the best “tool for the job”.

As the story opens up, Silko makes it a point for the reader to realize the

The interior landscape of Maya’s agonized soul is a tribute to the poetry of her life. The imagery of insanity—moon, drum, desert, rodent and lizard show her hysterical condition.

For this assignment I listen to a variety of composers. The composer that spoke out to me by his music and style of music was Manuel de Falla. The specific piece of music I listen to was his famous piece “Nights in the Gardens of Spain (1915)”. This piece was publish by Chester Music Ltd in 1915. The piece is about 23 minutes long and consist of solo instruments such as the piano. What impressed me the most about this specific piece of music is it depicts three gardens, En el Generalife, Danza lejana and En los jardines de la Sierra de Cordoba. He also referred to Nights in the Gardens of Spain as “symphonic impressions.” The piano part is amazing, brilliant and eloquent but rarely dominant. In my opinion it was a great piece of music to listen

The poem “I Am Learning to Abandon the World” by Linda Pastan is closely similar in context with Sharon Olds’ “Still Life in Landscape.” Each of the two poems narrates an ordeal with the persona being the writer of the poem. The persona directly speaks to the audience. However, these two works differ in the number of lines, the length and appearance of each line and the entire apparition of the poems. The two authors employ a similar tone as both use a melancholic and reflective tone. The poets present their thoughts in a simple diction and understandable language. It is evident that both authors have an impeccable interest in narrating their story.

This essay is an attempt to investigate how the Eastern landscape has been othered by the West through inspecting Gertrude Bell’s travel book Persian Pictures (1894). The essay adopts Edwa

Story telling is an important aspect of indigenous culture, “It’s how we make sense of the world around us” (Chris Bose). The characters used are often portrayed as animals and mythical beings to instruct and entertain the moral lesson of the story. Most stories were told to pass knowledge from one generation to the next on how things were created. People would tell stories as Chris Bose did with his performance of “Mosquito Woman,” sharing how the wild women of the woods was pushed into the fire and exploded into mosquitos. Additionally, written story form originated so stories could be recorded and remembered without a story teller. Originally an oral story, but translated into written form is “The Raven and the First Men” by Bill Reid. The story depicts the story of human creation by a raven that landed on a clamshell. By comparing these two formats, it is evident that oral stories are superior to written because oral allows the story teller to engage the listeners by using nonverbal communication, and can tailor the message to the audience.