Keith Jarrett

When I was twelve years old, my neighbour told me the only way I’d ever be beautiful would be if I started wearing makeup. It wasn’t uncommon for me to hear this- since about the age of nine, individuals had been telling me to dress better, fix my hair, and start shopping at more fashionable stores. Makeup was simply the newest weapon they could hurl at me, the best way for them to tell me that I did not conform to their standards of beauty. They hid insults within their helpful suggestions like one hides a knife within a cake, covering up their nasty commentary with flowery words and silky tongues. To be honest, it wasn’t just those directly around me either. Television suddenly became a dangerous minefield, attacking me without mercy. Perfect faces and skinny hips leered at me from advertisements, laughing at how I didn’t look like them, act like them, talk like them. Wherever I turned, it seemed like there was always something there, a constant reminder that I was not beautiful enough. Quite obviously, being bombarded with messages like that from society does wonders in crippling someone’s sense of self-worth, and how they perceive themselves. Girls are dieting, vomiting, and shaping themselves to fit these unattainable standards they see on television and billboards, at the cost of their health and overall well-being. And, in the end, the consistent barrage of negative messages aimed at young girls today directly stems into a shocking lack of self-esteem, particularly…

Having an ideal body to fit the mold that society has placed on young women. Slender bodies represent beauty, intelligence and confidence while other body shapes exclude you from that title. It is well known that in American culture the beauty standard is set to a ridiculously high expectation. One that most women will never be able to accomplish without some sort of unnatural modification. And what is it that society continues to do? Social media, advertisements even the television programs we…

In the novel Looking for Alaska written by John Green, Miles “Pudge” Halter is looking for his “Great Perhaps” to happen, and later finds himself living it after moving to a boarding school in Alabama called Culvert Creek. The fictional book focuses on Pudge the adventures he has with Alaska, the crazy, wild, clever girl that he meets at the school, along with a few other friends he meets on the way. Miles talks to Alaska often realizes that there is some mystery to Alaska that he can not quite…

“Rock Awhile” by Goree Carter and “Devil Got My Woman” by Skip James have their similarities and their differences. These two male baritone’s songs have a similar format to their lyrics as well as a similar topic. These two songs differ in instrumental set up as well as delivery. In both songs Carter and James both talk of women in their lyrics. In “Devil Got My Woman” James sings of being “that woman man”, how she “changed her mind”, how he “loved that woman…took her from [his] best friend”,…

Barbara Bonney Barbara Bonney said, "In this day and age, I find it important to reflect on what we have, why we have it, and how we can share it.” Not many statements like this one have encompassed her passion and love of music and teaching. Her long musical career was and is a great one; including over 100 recorded albums and starring in over 65 operas. She won a Gramophone award and has been called “the leading lyric soprano of her generation.” Barbara Bonney was born in Montclair, New…

Currently, Nestle Romania products are found on every shelf on every store and its portfolio of products includes the following products: 1. Breakfast Cereals: Nestle Fitness, Musli Tropical, Musli Classic, Lion, Cheerios, etc.; 2. Chocolate and cereal bars: Lion, Nesquick bar, Nestle Fitness, Lion, Kit Kat, etc. 3. Tea: Nestea is well known to Romanian Consumers. 4. Ice cream: Aloma, Best, Joe Ice Cream, Topgun, Nirvana. 5. Food: Maggi products and condiments are sold by Nestle…

Queens of the Stone Age - s/t Kyuss died in 1995. Joshua Homme, Alfredo Hernandez and Nick Oliveri, all former members of the“stoner metal” band, came together again in 1997 to form Queens of the Stone Age. Queens of the Stone Age, the new group’s first album, continued but polished the musical stylings of their previous band. What Queens of the Stone Age did differently than Kyuss was to alter the songwriting formula. Instead of angry, angsty, growling vocals and jams that lead nowhere (see…

The Beatles mostly sang about peace and love, experimenting with different concepts on the subject and various instruments. George Harrison introduced the sitar in some of their later albums. Originally, they started as a simple pop band and eventually grew and developed into a rock and roll band. Most of their fan base was composed of teenage girls, while the Rolling Stones attracted every one of every age. They would have to think of creative and clever ways to sneak lyrics about sex and drugs…

Kotler splits the product life cycle into 4 phases: Introduction, growth, maturity and decline. Introduction is described as a “period of slow sales growth as the product is introduced in the market”. Growth is described as a “period of rapid market acceptance and profit improvement”. Maturity is a “slowdown in sales growth because the product has achieved acceptance by most potential buyers”. Lastly, decline is when “sales show a downward drift” (p. 310). The chasm lies within the growth…

Ask anybody around the world if they recognize the name Julie Andrews and their answer will undoubtedly be a resounding yes. She is known far and wide for her roles in Mary Poppins and The Sound Of Music, and more recently, the Princess Diaries. Some know her offscreen as well from her days playing Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, and Guinevere in Camelot, or from her leading role in Victor/Victoria. To the world, she represents kindness and a ‘spoonful of sugar’ type of person, who just…