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Magi came and the physical journey being undertaken. The contrast between the frigid winter climate of the first stanza and the milder conditions of the second “Then at dawn we came down to a temperate valley”, indicates that a change in climate parallels a change in attitude. “Three trees on the low sky” alludes to the Crucifixion, foreshadowing Christ’s sacrifice and the death that is to come. Enjambment follows the allusion “and so we continued/And arriving at evening”, drawing the reader’s attention

her from developing correctly, so one half of her body is paralysed. Living with her family of devout baptists, Adah seems to be the clear outlier in her family. She is, for all intents and purposes, sinister. She has a strange ability to equate parallels in word. In her own words, “My hobby is to ignore the rewards and excel when I chose.” Adah spends her time reading dark authors such as Edgar Allan Poe. She is able to read in french and when she finishes a book she reads it backwards because it

Southern Musical Tradition and the African Tradition The second major tributary of the southern musical tradition comes from the African continent and is the heritage import of the five million slaves brought to North America against their will to provide the bulk of the labor in the pre-industrial agrarian south. Contemporary blues, while not exclusively black music by any means, remains largely black in terms of its leading performers and, to a lesser

In the scope of the jazz community, Ornette Coleman is one of the most prominent representatives of free jazz. Coleman is known for his free jazz compositions as well as his saxophone performances. Throughout his piece, “Change of the Century”, one can hear the saxophonist and trumpeter playing trills and scale patterns. The sounds are abrupt and are played on random beats of the measure. To give some historical context, when Coleman’s album, Change of the Century, was released in 1960, Martin Luther

Reader Response to Sydney's Sonnets, Astrophil and Stella As we discussed Astrophil and Stella in class, I felt a familiar knot in my stomach. At first I could not pin-point the reasons for my aversion to these sonnets. However, as we discussed it in class, it became clear to me. I could identify with Penelope Devereux Rich. Although Astrophil and Stella could be interpreted as an innocent set of love sonnets to an ideal woman and not a particular woman, they reminded me of the letters I received

Poverty. Unemployment. Potential foreclosure. Words all too familiar to Americans everywhere. The PBS Frontline documentary, Two American Families, is the heartbreaking, yet hopeful look at the struggles of two Milwaukee families, the Neumanns and the Stanleys, over roughly two decades, 1991 to 2012. While ideally the concept of meritocracy would indicate the efforts of these hard working families should influence their social standing, the reality of social stratification remains, with their wealth

Compromise prohibited slavery in all remaining territories above the 36’30’ parallel and allowed slavery below the line. (Pg. 16). This division of the states still brought disruption between the Union and the Confederacy and by allowing this “compromise” not only brought the states farther apart but the birth of the Abolition Movement and concerns from both sides became public. “Southern complaints struck a sympathetic chord with conservative northerners,” May adds, “who worried abolitionist provocations

Parallel to the developments that led from the vocal chanson, in France, to the instrumental canzona, primarily in Italy, was the development of the dance suite. Early sixteenth-century dance tunes in all countries of Western Europe usually had

Would you give your life for a life you love? Sydney Carton does just this in his sacrificial and heroic death to save his loved ones. Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, before and during the French Revolution tells the story of the Manettes, a flawless daughter and her previously imprisoned father; Charles Darnay, a French aristocrat who abandons his wealth to live an earnest life in England; and his look-alike, Sydney Carton, a miserable and inebriated attorney who

Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go centers the main character, Kathy, and her journey through her unique life. Kathy grew up at a place called Hailsham; she and her fellow classmates are all clones, but for most of the story are unaware. They are clones with the sole purpose of one day donating their organs to people who are their “possibles,” the people after whom they are modeled. Kathy becomes a carer, someone who delays their donations by volunteering to assist others in their donation process