Frédéric Bastiat

Language plays a central role in almost all aspects of our lives. This paper will focus on examining the cognitive processes that are involved in using and understanding written language. Because language almost always involves units of language larger than an individual word or a single sentence, it is important to emphasize how people understand connected discourse, such as stories. Understanding these central cognitive processes will help school psychologists understand how to facilitate reading

George Crumb, an American avant-garde style composer born in 1929, once declared, “It is easy to write unthinking music” (Bio.com, American Composers Orchestra). In his piece, “Dream Images”, Crumb intentionally uses both tonal and post-tonal techniques, such as set theory, melodic borrowing, and specific usage of dynamics, to create an unconscious feeling, as if in a dream. Although the theme of “Dream Images” is one of “unthinking” and fantasizing, because of its intricacies, it was definitely

retrieved when necessary. Even so, retrieving memory was no longer the process of picking out an asymmetrical experience from storage, rather than the reconstruction of experience of using the schema as a guide. (Gray 2010) Definition According to Frederic Bartlett, schema is the knowledge, beliefs or

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Liszt was not only a principal figure in the Romantic Period but also a composer of enormous originality and arguably the greatest piano virtuoso of his time. As a composer, he radically extended the technique of piano writing, extended the harmonic language, and later developed chromatic harmony which led eventual breakdown of tonality, revolutionizing the music of the era. As a pianist, Liszt was the first to give complete solo recitals, and he did a great deal to encourage

The Romantic Fiction of Edvard Grieg Edvard Grieg is Norway’s most beloved composer. His work in the late romantic era helped to create a national identity for the new country. However, despite the frail persona he has been assigned by society, his true personality was that of a Bergener, as seen through his letters and essays. The late Romantic Era (~1790-1910) was a time for experimentation. The individual composers, starting with Beethoven, moved away from the technical form of the baroque and

Melissa Morelli Lacroix’s first book, A Most Beautiful Deception, is compiled of three collections of multiple poems. Each collection represents a piece of music by a composer: Frederic Chopin, Clara and Robert Schumann, and Claude Debussy. It is written in a form that reflects the nature (intro, coda, movements, etc.) of each piece. She wrote in the notes of her book that, “the poems quote quite freely from the composers who have inspired them” (Lacroix 105). The touching personality of her poetry

The Musical Life of Frederic Francois Chopin When I think of Frederic Chopin, light-handed piano playing and distinctive compositions come to mind. Before being well-known for those characteristics, Chopin wowed audiences including royalty, at the tender age of seven with his compositions, and one year later with his prodigally piano playing. Chopin was deemed a child prodigy, and was often compared to Mozart. Born Frederic Francois Chopin on February 22,1810 near Warsaw, Poland, at the age of five

The Virginian The cowboy hero, The Virginian, as portrayed in Owen Wister’s novel was the first of his kind and today is known as the stereotypical mythic cowboy figure which our view of the western frontier are based from. The Virginian was the first full length western novel apart from the short dime novels which marked the final stage in the evolution of the cowboy hero to a national icon. The Virginian was published in 1902 and at that time was wildly popular because of the settlement of

Frederic Bartlett (1932) is argued to have laid the foundation for a schema theory with the “key assumption of previous knowledge affecting the processing of new stimuli” (Carbon & Albrecht, 2012, p. 2258). Bartlett’s interest was in the role played by prior knowledge in the interpretation of stories. This may explain why the concept “knowledge” appeared as a key term in Rumelhart’s (1980) famous definition of the notion of schemas, or as he prefers to call it, “schemata”: [S]chemata can represent

From a young age, Johannes Brahms loved the era of music he was born into in the 1830’s and eventually went on to shape and redefine the music of the Romantic period he was born in with his revolutionary composition the German Requiem. The romantic period was a movement in art and literature that started in the 18th century. This revolution emphasized on inspiration, subjectivity and how the individual felt about the art. Morner, Kathleen and Ralph Rausch “Friedrich Schlegel is given credit for first