Essays about Culture Page 61

Mike Klenosky11/24/96AP History per. 4Ms. ValentinoOn August 1, 1794, President George Washington was once again leadingtroops. Only this time Washington was not striking out against the British butrather against fellow Americans. The occasion for this was the Whiskey Rebellion. Various efforts had been made to diminish the heated opposition towards the taxon distilled liquors. However,…

ettingHills Like White Elephants: The Symbolism of the SettingIn Ernest Hemingway’s story “Hills Like White Elephants” an American couple issitting at a table in a train station in Spain. They are discussing beer,travel, and whether or not to have an abortion. The train station and itssurroundings are symbolic in this story. The station itself represents…

Music Defines DressOften I have found myself people watching for the amusement of everyday life. Not by luck or sheer investigation, I have noticed something that everyone shares in common guys and girls alike, their personal style of clothing in reflection of their choose in music. I am not talking about or brand names or…

The Great Gatsby, by F.Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel about one man’s disenchantment with the American dream. In the story we get a glimpse into the life of Jay Gatsby, a man who aspired to achieve a position among the American rich to win the heart of his true love, Daisy Fay. Gatsby’s downfall was…

l Instrumentationand Compositionby Michael AndersonPhilosophy 101″Music is the harmonization of opposites, the unificationof disparate things, and the conciliation of warring elements. . . Music is the basis of agreement among things in nature and of thebest government in the universe. As a rule it assumes the guiseof harmony in the universe, of lawful government in…

Nontraditional TradtionsWe live in an age in which it is hard to spend time together as a family. Many families today wonder if having quality time together is a thing of thepast. We are inordinately busy, for one thing, whether household bread-winnersor college students. Also, the definition of family has changed. We aredealing with new…

In the opening situation of Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho, we’re at a hotel room where a man named Sam and a woman named Marian are seeing themselves privately. Marian seems like a very respectful woman, however, early in the film we see her steal $40,000 from her boss in the first opportunity she has. She…

Madonna first arrived in the national popular culture in 1984 with her song “Borderline”. She moved very quickly in the ensuing years to make several records (many of which have gone multi-platinum) and to take several world tours with sold-out concerts, and has caused quite a bit of controversy in what she has done in…

Authors sometimes use symbols in their novels to represent different objects, people or ideas. One example is the S on Supermans uniform, which symbolizes him being supper. In The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne creates the symbolism of the letter A to have different meanings. As the novel unfolds, the meanings of the letter A on…

Judahs TriumphWilliam Wyler is the director of the 1959 award-winning version of Ben-Hur. The film is an adaptation of General Lew Wallaces novel. Karl Tunberg is credited with the actual screenplay. Sam Zimbalist was the original producer of Ben-Hur, but he died before the completion of filming. The two main characters are Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton…