Literature

Load https://www.resonanceschoolofmusic.com/german-lieder/ Read pages 1 and 2 of the featured article, and listen once again to the excerpt from Schubert’s “Erlkonig.” Visit the Favorite Classical Composers website and read the article about Brahms’ “Wiegenlied” (Lullaby).  Read the poetic translation; however, you will need to listen to the song here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t894eGoymio Read the short article introducing French melodie and some of its early composers. Listen to Berlioz’s song “Le spectre de la rose” (The Ghost of the Rose). Listen to Berlioz’s song “Sur les lagunes” (On the Lagoons). Use the musical examples and the articles to respond to the following prompts: How are the lied and the melodie similar? How are they different? Which came first? Two specific composers are mentioned in regard to developing this type of song; one German, and one French. Who are these two composers and how did their contributions to lied/melodie help to popularize the genre? In general, what do you think about the songs presented here? Does the combination of voice and piano reflect the poetry in each different song? In your opinion, does the piano accompaniment serve as a partner to the voice, or does it take a background position? Which seems more important to you in the delivery of the emotion the poetry describes; the piano or the voice? Or do both sounds provide an equal contribution to describing the poetic emotions? “Erlkonig,” “Le spectre de la rose,” and “Sur les lagunes” all speak of death. Describe your impression of each song. How do you feel that the representations of death are similar and/or different? Do any of these songs give you a positive feeling? Describe your feelings toward the Brahms “Wiegenlied.” What do you hear in the piano and voice parts? Have you heard this song before? Where and when? Which of these songs was your favorite? Why? What makes you like or dislike this music?

You are to respond to the prompt found below in a four-page paper. Please read through all of the instructions that follow before beginning the assignment.  Prompt: Following the conquest of Mesoamerica, European (and Asian) artistic materials, forms, and subjects were introduced to the region. What resulted was the merging of cultural practices, referred to as cultural hybridity (mestizaje or tequitqui). Cultural hybridity presents itself in the art of viceregal New Spain both visibly and invisibly. Select four artworks studied thus far to describe and analyze taking into account the issue of cultural hybridity, as it pertains to the artworks’ media (the materials they are made from), formal properties, subject matter, and/or creators. Questions to consider in the discussion of each artwork: How is cultural hybridity visible and/or invisible in the artwork’s media, forms, and/or subject matter?  Who produced the artwork? Is knowledge of the artist and/or their background relevant to understanding the work? Why? Artwork selection: Choose the artworks thoughtfully. The four artworks must be selected from the assigned readings and they cannot be the same artworks already discussed in the weekly assignments. The artworks should be exemplary of a range of media (different materials), and they should be dated to different decades/centuries within the colonial period (1521-1821). Properly identify each artwork discussed (include the artist, if known, title, and date). You must address the artworks’ media, formal properties, and subject matter, as well as what is known about the context (time/place) in which they were produced. THE FOUR ART WORKS: 1. “Burning the clothes and books and costumes of the priest” from Diego Munoz 2. “Map of Cholula”, c.1581 from Unidentified artist    3. “The Lamentation” c.1556 from Unidentified artist at the monastery of San Andres.    4. “Saint Bernardino and Indian Patrons”c.1605 Unidentified artist in Church of San Bernardino de Siena , Xochimilco, Mexico City References: Your paper must be phrased in your own words and it should expand upon information found in the assigned readings and course assignments (successful papers will not include content copied and pasted from course assignments, but instead consist of new text generated for this assignment). You may conduct additional research, but only reference the following credible sources: books, scholarly articles, museum websites, and Khan Academy. If you quote from or closely paraphrase your sources, please keep it to a minimum, and include proper citations in MLA or The Chicago Manual of Style format. Attach a bibliography to the end of your paper. Formatting Guidelines: Your paper must be at least four full pages of text (and no more than five full pages of text) and contain an introduction with a strong thesis statement, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. It is to be typed in Times New Roman 12-point font and double-spaced, with one-inch margins. Proofread your work for typos and grammatical errors. You do not need to upload reproductions of the artworks. Please follow the instructions carefully as failure to do so will negatively affect your grade on the assignment. Plagiarized assignments will not receive credit.

After reading Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” and Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” and “The Story of an Hour,” do you notice any common themes? What are they? What do the stories have in common and how are they different? (350 words) Essay type the times new ROMAN 12 font . Please watch the video and from use the information in the essay.Thank you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUtWKOCfPyM&feature=youtu.be

irections: Read Judith Ortiz Cofer’s essay “ The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria”. Answer the questions below. Be sure to copy and paste the questions and then respond. You must provide extensive analysis and use evidence from the story. Thereafter, do not forget to respond to one classmate’s work for this assignment. 1. Why does Cofer initiate her essay with an anecdote? Why did the man start singing a song from West Side Story to her? 2. Why didn’t Cofer’s parents assimilate into the mainstream American culture when their daughter was young?  Do you agree with their decision? Explain. 3. Why did Cofer’s parents monitor closely during her younger years? How was their sheltering significant in molding  4. What were some cultural conflicts the Puerto Rican girls encountered?  5. How did the Puerto Rican girls dress create a misrepresentation of their character?  6. Explain the sexual harassments the women faced. Who is responsible for it?  7.  Why does Cofer provide a background at Puerto Rican’s social codes?  8. How do you feel about the provocative aspect of their dress codes?  Can it cause any detrimental consequences? Explain. 9. Why do you think nearly most of the world at that time had two references of Latinos: West Side Story and Evita?  10. How is Hollywood responsible for some of the Puerto Rican stereotypes? 11. During Cofer’s poetry reading, how did the older woman react after hearing Cofer read the poem? (40t) 12. Do you think Cofer’s presentations have debunked the Latin women myths? Explain.

1. Which philosopher talked about utilitarianism, happiness, in terms of pleasure/pain as a moral compass or appraisal for behavior? 2. Which philosopher talked about Man in the state of Nature, and Social contract as the beginning of morality in human society? 3. What types of pleasure did John Stuart Mill talk about? 4. According to Aristotle, a Virtuous lifestyle leads one to———————? 5. Would you say that one ethical theory is superior to the others; why? # 5 points for the above five questions. # 15 points for the Essay question below. According to Mintzberg, professional organizations have two unique characteristics: (i) they are democratic, and (ii) they bestow extensive autonomy on individual professionals. How can these two characteristics lead to advantageous results on the one hand and to unfortunate consequences on the other? A good essay will either:?Articulate Mintzberg’s argument, providing solid reasons and examples demonstrating that these two characteristics can lead to both negative and positive results; or? Articulate your own counterargument, providing solid reasons and examples demonstrating that these two characteristics need not lead to both negative and positive results in this manner.

Assignment Instructions The purpose of this assignment is to try to help you to see writing as it is—an important means of communication. To accomplish this, please analyze your research topic more fully by identifying your thesis statement and carefully considering your rhetorical situation. Remember: your challenge in the research paper is to communicate your purpose clearly to your reader. Place your thesis statement at the top of the page, below the required heading, and answer the questions shown in the box below. Be sure that the questions are copied to your assignment; each question should be followed by a one to two paragraph answer. The purpose of this assignment is to help direct your research and organize your thinking on the topic. Remember that your thesis statement should be a single, complete sentence that is NOT a question. Write your thesis statement here (one complete sentence that is not a question): Write paragraphs that respond to the questions below: What research question(s) led me to this thesis statement? What is my purpose in writing this paper? What do I already know about my topic? What are my feelings toward this topic? What do my readers already know? What are my readers’ feelings toward the topic? What do my readers need to know to understand my point? What information do I need to research and add to my paper? Begin by looking at the research question(s) which triggered this thesis statement. Then explain your purpose (and passing the course is not the purpose here). Your thesis statement is a good place to start, but you need to go a bit further. Are you trying to inform, entertain, persuade, or do something else? Consider the “audience take-away”—what do you want your readers to know, feel, or believe when they finish reading your research paper? A clear understanding of your purpose will help you decide what information to include in your paper and how to organize your paper. Next, consider your audience; in this case, your audience is your classmates. Consider how much they know about your topic and what they need to know to understand your purpose. Will you need to explain complex terminology? Will graphs help your audience? If your topic is a controversial one, think about the best way to present it to your audience. For example, think about your tone and word choice here. Once you have an understanding of your purpose and audience, consider your subject. How much information do you already know about the topic? What information do you need to research and present to your audience in order to fulfill your purpose? Careful consideration here will help direct your research.

Using materials around your house, make a mosaic of something that is important to you. You can use any small material and attach it to a larger background. Examples of the small pieces would be paper, beads, macaroni, rocks, rice, beans, cereal, candy, etc. Once you have made your mosaic, take a picture and upload it in your Word or Google doc assignment. You must also write a statement explaining what materials you used. Then answer the following questions. 1. Why did you choose your subject matter and what is its importance to you? 2. Where in the world are you most likely to find mosaics? 3. In a “real” mosaic, what are the pieces typically made out of?

Read “Pablo Neruda,” pgs. 1178 – 1180 Read Neruda’s various poems pgs. 1180 – 1193 Neruda and Yeats used their poems as a response to the revolution for their people and/or country. Compare and contrast one of Yeats’s poems to one of Neruda’s poems.  What are the similarities / differences in their poem structure? Use the provided link on poem structures to help with your response. MLA format required. Minimum of 300 words. https://www.masterclass.com/articles/poetry-101-learn-about-poetry-different-types-of-poems-and-poetic-devices-with-examples#what-is-poetry

For this assignment, you may either write a 4-5 paragraph essay or you can create a PowerPoint presentation on one of those topics.  If you decide to write an essay, don’t forget to review the guidelines for How to Succeed in the Written Assignments and the Sample paper in MLA format.  All writing assignments have Turnitin enabled for plagiarism detection.If you wish to create a PowerPoint, follow the directions given after the topics below. 1.  Unit 1B’s introduction to the Five Great Themes of World Literature states with regard to the hero:  “The surest way to understand what a culture of the past most values is to focus on what it considers heroic, in that a culture recognizes its heroes as embodying its most important ideas, the values that are essential.”  Discuss the diverse values that our two epic heroes, Rustem and Dante, embody.  Which values embodied by these epic heroes are endorsed or celebrated by their societies?  Are any of their values condemned or rejected by their societies?  Illustrate your discussion with specific examples of the heroes’ obligations to their societies and what their values reflect about their cultures. 2. Although two very different literary works, both the Shahnameh and Inferno deal centrally with the existence of human suffering and mortality.  Discuss how the two deal with such issues as  what causes human suffering; what seems inevitably tragic about human existence; how one should deal with suffering; what one should learn from an understanding of human mortality. From the Shahnameh your essay will probably focus on Rustem, Sohrab, and/or Saiawush; for Dante, you have many options, but the following characters and their sad stories make especially good choices for the subject (but you can choose others if you wish; just one will do):  Virgil, Francesca, Pier della Vigna, Brunetto Latini, Guido de Montefeltro. The reading material from Dante’s Inferno can be found at this link: http://www.online-literature.com/dante/inferno/ please read these cantos for the assignment: Cantos I-IX (Beginning and Sins of Incontinence); XII, XIII, XV (Sins of Violence); XXVI, XXVII, XXXI-XXXIV (Sins of Fraud and Treachery).

Question 1 Explain the Pythagoreans’ understanding of the relationship between the world and mathematics. Make sure to use examples. Support your explanation by using a quote or two from the reading. If you use outside sources, make sure to cite them. Question 2 Explain in detail the relationship between Socrates’ philosophy and Plato’s philosophy. (Hint: consider their perspective on the importance of philosophy, the soul, and their overall ethics).