Andries van Dam

The Infant Prodigy, written by Thomas Mann, is a story of Bibi Saccellaphylaccas, a young prodigal artist. He plays piano for an audience of ridiculers. Through this story, readers are given a real look at the art of music, also the thoughts from the audience when observing Bibi’s performance. Thomas Mann describes a complete picture of Bibi, the audience and the relationship between them and culture through the all-knowing point of view. When we get into the story firstly, it is the time also…

“Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere...” (Longfellow par. 1). These words by Longfellow seem to spring into the mind when looking at The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Grant Wood. Grant Wood’s painting presents an idealized portrayal of a well-known event in American history in a time when when America had lost its luster. Upon first looking at the painting, the eye is drawn immediately to the church that stands in the foreground. The white church…

How Democratic was Andrew Jackson? Did you know that Andrew Jackson had many people who disliked even though he may have been the most popular president? Andrew Jackson was born without a father to raise him. Andrew Jackson enlisted in the Revolutionary War, when he was thirteen, and was captured by British soldiers, but was released through prisoner exchange. Andrew Jackson came home finding out his mother had died. Growing up Andrew Jackson was a rebel, causing mischief with his buddies. When…

Bram Stoker was a revolutionizing author of historical horror fiction in the 1800s. Stoker found most of his inspiration from spending many dinners with Henry Irving’s Theatre Company and his extensive time in the Theatre. Stoker began writing Gothic Horror due to his interests in vampiric mythology and all the stories his mother told him when he was bedridden as a child. Although myths and legends about vampires have been around for centuries, Stoker put his own spin on the tale and made it…

There are many interesting differences and similarities between vampires and werewolves. The main conflict between both werewolves and vampires arises from believable fact they’re not real, but fictional. First of all, vampires are shape shifting beings, also cold blooded killers with no feeling or sympathy; also as well as remoras for their actions. Vampires come in different forms to rich to poor, with powerful fangs to directly pierce human pray. They are not human, but an undead…

In my third concert, I decided to oppose Opus 15 with other Lieder that were composed in 1908 and 1909 and performed works by Pfitzner, Reger and Berg. While the first two contextualisations appeared to be logical points of departure in my exploration of Opus 15, as they were related to aspects that seemed more or less directly accessible through the score and offered the opportunity to potentially discover internal similarities between Opus 15 and the other repertoire in the form of a certain…

The novel Dracula is based off of several different Gothic Motifs. In Gothic Literature is writing that is based off of scenery that is dark and wicked, overwhelming and dramatic scenes, and filled with the mystery of events. Gothic literature most of the time revolves around an event or object that has a meaning of evil or secrecy. Novels that are Gothic have supernatural events that take place, or romantic events. Dracula consist of many of these elements that take place in Gothic…

Bank of the United States debate Joe W Pfingsten HST201 CSU Global- Online Campus September 6th, 2015 Jonevic Hular Angco Bank of the United States debate INTRODUCTION Even though Clay and Webster were the ones that were right that the bank to stay open and was not bad for the people. Andrew Jackson side of the Bank of the United States debate was the right way. He was right the bank had too much power and enemy of the common people. The Economic privileges and social inequities of the…

The Fault In Our Stars takes us on an unforgettable journey through the tragic business of being alive and in love. The young teenagers Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace find peace and hope within each other throughout the endless days spent with one another. The horrific moments of the past haunts them but suddenly the sweetness of the future begins to brighten their world. Hazel Grace, who suffers from stage 4-thyroid cancer, is a conscientious 16-year-old girl yearning for a regular teenage…

promised impossibilities… They have acquired new and almost unlimited powers; they can command the thunders of heaven, mimic the earthquake”(Shelly 87). In the passage Victor states “the ancient teachers of this science promised impossibilities”, like Van Helsing, he emphasis the gain in understanding the old institutions. This is obvious to the reader since his tone of voice contains a euphoric tone. Frankenstein becomes obsessed with the old science to confront the unknowns of the world,…