The Accidental Artist "--- you don’t reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings ... serendipitously." -- John Barth‚ The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor by Angelo T. Salazar Elmo Makil’s career in music apparently happened by accident. "I did not decide to get into music. It was decided for me!" he reflects. He recalls attending a summer music seminar in Baguio City. After two days‚ he walked into the church
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to be a good woman and a good wife. She has to do household tasks the same way as the Japanese families. As mentioned on page 195 the wife did the same things "his wife went about her household tasks as briskly as ever". Another similarity in these two cultures is that Japanese families do have high level of respect for the elders in their family‚ and Iranians I believe have the same respect that Japanese people have for the elderly. In an Iranian culture when a foreigner comes into the country‚
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Which way to go? I have attended to two different colleges in the United States and the fact is that they are quite different in some points. After graduating Quincy High School‚ I enrolled in an English as Second Language program in the Suffolk University to get accepted to the school. One year later‚ I transferred to Quincy College. According to my experience‚ I recognize the differences between a university and a community college in terms of their campus size‚ tuitions and fees‚ and their
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becomes the hinge of my perception of arts. There I met my professor‚ as well as a mentor of my life‚ Tula Telfair. I still recall the first day I see her sublime paintings. All of her images are invented‚ and only employed with her memory—the memory of living in Africa and Asia when she was a child‚ or the daily three hour driving between the New York City and Wesleyan—but not from observation or even the utilization of any photos. Like a conductor‚ she assembled the movingly and powerful elements from
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OLD GAMES OR NEW GAMES In the past‚ there were old people who are telling the stories of children who were playing in the streets‚ parks and gardens‚ but now‚ their grandchildren cannot be seen at those places anymore. As old people remember there were games which depend on good feelings such as love‚ respect and friendship. There is a strong possibility that much of people can remember “seksek”. It was played with a stone and area that covered with lines which refer boundries of areas‚ especially
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"Syllabus A paper is way too easy to pass and its level can hardly be compared with the level required for the AS-Use of English paper we take in Secondary seven. The two years we have in Secondary six and seven do not give us enough time to fill the gap‚" said Zero So Chi-ho‚ a secondary six student in a Chinese Medium of Instruction school. All students who attend Secondary five in English Medium of Instruction schools take Syllabus B paper in the English Language but not all students in Chinese
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Listener‚ analyst‚ critic and performer must all take the text as their starting point for the simple and obvious reason that that was where the composer almost invariably began. This dictum applies with equal force to solo and choral compositions‚ old music and new‚ nothing diminished by a few notable exceptions. It is now taken for granted that the analysis of a vocal work ought to take at least some account of the text that provided its raison d’être and generated much of the music’s structure and surface
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to the Renaissance style from Florence‚ Rome and Venice in the 1520’s. Unlike Renaissance artists to strove to make their art look as realistic as possible‚ mannerism artists broke away from this convention. Some of these key characteristics include abnormally elongated limbs‚ contorted bodies impossible poses and most importantly‚ artifice. Renaissance artists tried to disguise artifice where mannerism artists reveal imbalanced compositions‚ ambiguous space‚ departures from expected conventions and
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American artist. She began her artistic career in New York City under the wing of artist‚ Alfred Stieglitz in 1916‚ and her drawings and paintings quickly became a prevalent part of his already prominent studio‚ 291. After a stint of teaching in the great spaces of the vast plains and vibrant canyons of Amarillo‚ Texas‚ and Canyon‚ Texas‚ O’Keeffe had an intense desire to find a new source of inspiration. She moved to New Mexico after being captivated by the enchanted land in 1929. The artist was
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First of all‚ the term “Old World” is to define the world where people in the Bronze Age live. This “Old World” is the continents‚ which is now known as Africa‚ Europe‚ and Asia. People in the Old World had no idea about any other continents outside this “Old World.” However‚ some Europeans who were travelling found a new continent. Amerigo Vespucci then named it as the New World‚ which now is known as America. It makes a little bit clear why the Old World and the New World were separated for so
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