Nicholas J Cotinha Essay

their whiteness, become black, and try with every means possible to bring about the liberation of

     The madrigal is a distinctive type of secular song that originated in Italy. It was an aristocratic form of poetry and music that flourished at small Italian courts. In the piece, Cruda Amarilli, Monteverdi uses many musical devices that are typical of a madrigal. The lyrics in this song are repeated, the music accompanies the text in interesting ways, and there is a wide range of vocal notes. After listening to the piece just once you can immediately feel the unrequited love Monteverdi is displaying through his words and music. The music and instrumentation in this piece aid the voices to establish form and mood through word painting. He uses word painting and cadences to develop a theme of unrequited love.

Listen to Aaron Copland’s “Hoe-Down” from Rodeo with the interactive guide in MindTap. Your textbook claims that “[Aaron Copland’s] best known works are examples of music with an American quality.” After listening to “Hoe-Down,” do you agree or disagree with this statement? Why?

In the play Cosi Louis Nowra challenges the important themes of love, fidelity, sanity and insanity within a range of dramatic techniques. Cosi is set in Melbourne, during the early 1970’s. Numerous political and radical events were occurring. The Vietnam War protest was raging, the sexual revolution was rolling, and mental illness was still misunderstood and mistreated. Due to these contexts, love, fidelity, sanity and insanity are big issues that surface throughout the play. Nowra comments on society’s issues. Firstly, he uses dialogue to convey the characters various thoughts and feelings towards these issues.

Page 29, Question #2: What is meant by the idea that race, class, and gender are interactive systems rather than individual variables? Think about your own family of orientation, and take one particular aspect of your family life as an example. Discuss briefly how race, class, and gender act simultaneously to shape that aspect of your family life.

Patient safety and hospital acquired infections (HAI) are deemed highly important in the health care setting. My organization uses quality indicators pulled from EPIC, which is our health information system, to ensure we are meeting regulations for catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI). Data includes rates of infections, length of foley catheter placement, reasons for foley placement, as well as facility specific documentation that is used to aide in the prevention of CAUTI. By pulling this data, one could identify trends affecting rate of infections. This may lead to a change in policy or procedure that can improve the rate of infections for those patients with foley catheters. Thus decreasing the percentage of HAI’s for

Many people have been born that have struck a chord with the world. Some people have become legends, patriots and even heroes. Though one person stood out among the rest, this one was not made a hero, but was born to be one. He was a hero at what he strived to be in life and he has captured the attention of the public like no other solider has done before or since. This great Canadian Air Force Ace became one of the legendary figures in 20th century air warfare. With his daring and dramatic dogfights in France, he achieved a record of 72 kills in his many encounters. His role on the ground during the Second World War training pilots changed and inspired a whole new generation of fighter pilots. This man is known

Andrew Wyeth was born July 12, 1917 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest of five children. Andrew was a sickly child and so his mother and father made the decision to pull him out of school after he contracted whooping cough. He received schooling in all subjects including art education.

During that summer he took many different back strengthening exercises, and in September he was accepted by the Navy. In March 1943, as a lieutenant he took command of a PT (torpedo) boat in the Solomon Islands. On the night of August 2, his boat was cruising west of New Georgia it was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer. He rallied the survivors and managed to get them to an island after being thrown across the deck onto his back. He then towed a wounded man three miles through a rough journey through different seas. He was a very brave man, for several days he risked his life repeatedly, swimming into dangerous waters hoping to find a rescue ship. He finally met up with two friendly islanders and sent them for aid with a message that he carved on a coconut. Back home he received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, and the Purple Heart, but his earlier back injury had been aggravated, and unfortunately he contracted malaria. After an operation on his back, he was discharged early in 1945.

When most people hear the word hero, they think of a larger than life character, someone who is large in stature and has a very strong presence when they enter a room. However, that is not necessarily the case. In fact, heroes come in all shapes and sizes and from all lifestyles. Most heroes do not set out to be heroes. Situations arise and where they must act and place their life on the line for the sake of others. CW4 Novosel is one of those heroes.

General Hospital fans have been waiting to hear about Nikolas Cassadine (formerly Tyler Christopher) for a long time. The story goes that Valentin (James Patrick Stuart) killed him on Cassadine Island, but his body was never recovered. Fast forward to May sweeps and his name is all over social media once again. General Hospital spoilers teased that the month would be filled with returns and surprises, and there is plenty to look forward to with some newly-released information.

In every masterpiece there are flaws and strengths within it. When analysing the film Paris 1919 there were many drawbacks to the film in comparison to the book. Unlike the book, the film takes more of a bias towards the material; this is evident through the pictures, music, and documents presented. While there are many strengths associated with the Paris 1919 film, one of the biggest issues that was evident throughout the film were the bias opinions that were displayed through the primary sources.

In the Romano Pitesti case, Tickton-Jones’ Management Team is faced with a situation that is not altogether uncommon in the business world, in that some employees feel that members of the Sales staff are being given “special” treatment by the company. Romano’s actions have probably not been as bad as what has been described to Management, but due to the fact that employees are still trying to find their place in the new, combined company, any hint of “unfairness” is immediately put under a microscope by other employees, and therefore, Management will have to take some sort of action, in order to show the other employees that their concerns are being taken seriously.

Michael Abella is currently a professor at Lyceum of the Philippines University, he resides in Marikina City. He graduated from University of Santo Tomas under the program Bachelor of Science in Hotel Industry Management then later took his Masters in Tourism and Hotel Management at De La Salle University. Michael Abella had been in the Hospitality Industry for 20 years. His first job was a manager at a restaurant. After working as a manager at a restaurant, he pursued his career and started working as a Room Attendant in a hotel, which is the lowest position in a hotel. From a Room Attendant to a General Manager, who would have thought that a young man who once dreamed of something impossible, made it possible. Michael Abella believed that

1. For Marbella, chef Mauro Civiero created a Mediterranean cuisine menu where bread and pasta (carbohydrates) are only a part of the whole variety of ingredients that represent the gastronomic heritage of the Mediterranean geographical region. The magic encounter of several different cultures resulted in the Mediterranean cuisine, enriched and refined by the different communities and their culinary traditions that inhabited the "Mare Nostrum" shores during the centuries.