Song of Songs

and Money, which documenting the government’s policies and socio-economic since the ancient Han dynasty. The book shows that the relationship of market value, gold, and silver. In the Han dynasty, 500 gram gold could exchange 1500 gram silver. In the Song dynasty, 500 gram gold could exchange 6500 gram silver. Finally, in the Qing dynasty, 500 gram gold could exchange 15000 gram sliver. There are two possibilities reasons could cause this phenomenon. Firstly, based on technology limitation, the…

It starts out in a conversation with a child asking what grass is. The line of answer is "the beautiful uncut hair of graves" (Whitman 2747). When we die, we are buried in the ground. We are returned, in a sense, from whence we came. God did form Adam, the first man, from the earth. William Cullen Bryant says in "Thanatopsis," "earth that nourishes thee, shall claim thy growth, to be resolved to earth again" (Bryant 2673). The earth has now become our home, our resting-place, our lap,…

‘Two Kinds’ is portrayal of difficulties in mother-daughter relationships in San Francisco’s China-town. The focus of the story is the often troublesome but unavoidable “interval between mothers who were born in China before the communist revolution and thus have been cut off from their native culture for decades, and their American-born daughters who must find a way to work through the twin burdens of their Chinese ancestry and American expectations for success”. While the protagonist and…

Voltaire changed the history background form Spring and Autumn period to the late Song dynasty. When Genghis Khan has occupied the Central plain of China he commanded to kill all members of the former imperial family. While Zamti and his wife Idamè tried their best to protect the last children of the imperial family. Genghis Khan was…

The song is called Dreams by Nuages. It blends ethereal vocals, uplifting beats and part of an excerpt from Alan Watts' speech The Dream of Life to enforce the significance of action rather than passivity. "And finally you would dream where you are now." These…

literature is often portrayed as the guiding spirit of the sixties counterculture. Dylan’s politically committed songs in the 1960’s articulated a vision of society that was radically different from the existing political realities. The paper highlights the cultural resonance of Dylan’s radical lyricism amidst the countercultural era. It depicts the close affiliations that existed between Dylan’s songs and liberation movements of the times. The counterculture milieu in 19th century Europe…

eight of the fourteen songs in “Please Please Me” together. Some of the influences the band had were Elvis Presley, Little Richard, and Dylan Thomas just to name a few. The song “Yellow Submarine” appeared in the album Revolver in 1966, the seventh studio album they had made. The album was on the UK Album Charts for thirty-four weeks. This album was more of a turning point in the band’s history from a pop and a rock sound to more of a different type of music. In this song they use a lot of…

The song “Cranky Spanky” by Al Blakey and the Jazz Messengers is performed by a small combo band even though the fast tempo and hard hitting sound seems like it comes from a big band. The song is composed of an intro, outro, and twenty two choruses. The first chorus states the theme and melody of the song and is then repeated in the second chorus. The twenty first and twenty second chorus repeats the theme and melody introduced at the beginning of the song. I believe the song is composed of a…

frequently alluded to in songs, like “Sirens Song,” “Carolina,” and “Song to the Siren,” as a way for the listener to picture how drawn one subject of the song is drawn to another, and how it can affect their current lives. “Sirens Song,” by Miss May I, alludes to the Siren to show how he is torn between two women. It sings “A harlot caught his eye/ Over the queen he had/ The queen by his side” (Miss May I). Miss May I uses this allusion to show how the woman in the song that catches his eye…

et al.2010) supports one of the points made in this paper; the song sparrows have various song types. Males have not one song but a song repertoire of 6–12 different songs (Nulty et al. 2010). There are other different types of songs used for sending particular messages, for instance When they give out the short phrases that have a sharp chip note, it indicates alarm or anxiety (Girard et al. 2012). Both the male and the female song sparrows make the sound when they are excited or if predators…