Despite these pieces having separate themes and backgrounds they all seemed to mesh with the mixed feelings the snowy weather had invoked that night. ... This piece is written and composed by Dana Wilson and was my favorite performed that night. ... The tone of the piece alternates from jolting and heavily accented to a smoother flowing ride. ... As for the ending, this piece ended the same way it started. ... The different themes presented through the different compositions were accurately hit by the amazing CSU honor band. ...

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• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A piece of literature will be acknowledged with acceptation into a literary canon. Unfortunately, it is only when a piece of work is in the canon that it is legitimately analyzed. ... Now, unless there is a canon that separates children's and adult's literature, This argument cannot take place. ... Quality from my perspective has to to with how the literary piece catches my attention. ... If not that, they contain a moral lesson that guides the reader into understanding what things one should avoid to prevent the themes of dystopian fiction to become the salty favoring to the autobio...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Every spring these two men get together and fix any damages that may have come to the wall that separates their two houses. ... This justifies the narrator's views of the irrelevance of the wall separating the two peers from one another. ... Frost wrote this poem in blank verse, using subtle assonance and undeveloped vocabulary, adding to the conversational tone of the piece. Without the use of structure or a definite rhythm, the style of this piece reflects the theme of the poem. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This group of people separated themselves from the norm of society in order to think about daily life in a new light and go past just using their five senses to form conclusions. ... Throughout this piece, Emerson presents the motif of self-sufficiency. ... In it, he expresses the theme of the 'over soul' or the relation between the body, God and nature. ... Both transcendentalists, Emerson and Thoreau, presented this theme in their works Self Reliance, Nature and Walden. While this theme was eminent during that time period, it can be related to present day as well. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This theme, the "tragic past," presents itself in both The Kite Runner and Pulp Fiction, two noteworthy pieces, albeit in separate media. ... These two storylines appear to differ extensively when initially compared to one another, but when author intent and underlying themes are considered in whole, multiple parallels between the pieces materialize. ... In each piece, a groundbreaking shift in lifestyle marks the beginning of a streak of unfulfilled hopes, and the reason lies within the character's past of contradictory morals. ... Another recurring theme in these works lies in...

• Word Count: 1170
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I will then finish by writing about the zoomorph and giving my view of this monstrous astonishing piece of art. ... In Pazstorys section, she points out how the Mayan art revolves preponderantly around three major themes, these are the accession or establishment of the ruler, warfare with the acquisitions of captives, and the drawing of blood by the ruler and his family as an indication of commitment to service of the cosmos. ... Both Miller and Pasztory, give more and detailed information on this section, so I decided to write a separate paragraph. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The seemingly separated and unrelated spheres of socio economics and culture are linked by what Marx defined as Ideology. ... One of the most enduring themes in Marxism is the insistence on history and the realization that society and cultural reality are not static. ... A piece of literary work, then, is inevitably conditioned by the society that produced it, thus it cannot be stripped of the value inherent in it. ...

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With the new Longchamp racetrack being build in the mid 1800s French artists were able to depict the horse in a whole new perspective, separate from it's previous use in war portraits for the salon. According to the Eyewitness Art book on Impressionism "Degas produced 45 paintings, 20 pastels, some 250 drawings, and 17 sculptures on the racehorse theme.... This piece is no different. ... Not only do I find it an appealing and noteworthy piece of impressionist art, the techniques and style speak for themselves as that of an era breaking all ties with the predecessors lying glorified i...

• Word Count: 1067
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate