The Prodigy

Child X, unfortunately this child isn’t Professor X’s super power wielding prodigy, they have another power instead. X has the power to decide their own gender role. The excerpt “Night to his Day” written by Judith Lorber analyzes and shows the significance of how society perceives and controls the everyday thought of how people are judged. Judith Lorber hits the point that is becoming increasingly relevant in my life and the lives of many others growing up in today’s world. “At the end of the…

Shakespeare and Beethoven were a huge deal in the Romantic period. Shakespeare was known for his dramas that many people, of the time, went to go watch. Beethoven was a musical prodigy of the time who many young composers looked up to. These two were especially influential and inspiring to Hector Berlioz. Berlioz was a composer of the Romantic period, as well. He is most famous for his program symphony that he composed, Symphonie Fantastique. A program symphony is a symphony that portrays…

Investigating Writers: Assignment This interpretation of writing varies from author to wordsmith, and with great appreciation I have gathered various insights to various writing processes and approaches displayed by the following correspondence which has not been without it’s detractors certainly. While there are different strategies for developing an idea, Stephen King allows us to delve in and explore his own beliefs and theories of the foundations of writing. By recognizing another great…

Feeling lost in a world of obedience and strict rules, a rebellious child searches to find himself outside of the straight-and-narrow path of life children are supposed to live. In Mark Twain’s autobiography, Mark Twain’s Book for Bad Boys and Girls, he writes of his childhood, his troubles of being a rebellious child, and the perks of his whimsical nature. Mark Twain wrote many highly influential books throughout his life and gave many speeches to children and young adults. Subsequently, he…

Hector Berlioz was born near the French town of Grenoble on December 11th, 1803. Berlioz started music at the much later age of 12, meaning he was never a ‘child prodigy’. After learning enough theory, he began writing small arrangements and compositions.Due to his father’s discouragement, Berlioz never learnt how to play the piano, instead Berlioz became proficient at playing the guitar and flute. The first performance was at the Paris Conservatoire in 1830. This symphony is the perfect example…

“Let him that would move the world first move himself,” said Socrates. This is just one of the new and radical ideologies that Socrates attempted to show the city of Athens in his teaching. Over the course of this month, our class has been discussing those teachings and how profound and deep they really were. Socrates demonstrated that he was the wisest man mainly by exposing flaws in democracy, using Socratic questioning, and finding inconsistencies with opinion and morality. According to…

Shaniqua Turner 11/18/14 Enc 101 Ms. Pennington The King of Pop Michael Jackson also known as the King of Pop had a legacy of great music. Michael appeals to many different types of people different races, and different cultures. Michael has been a very inspiring person throughout and before his career. There isn’t really one particular way that Jackson helped shape or impact on society. “Michael Jackson connected with his millions of fans through his sounds, fashion, videos, culture and…

inspired Dustin Hoffman’s character in the Hollywood movie. He has arguably the best memory in the world. Now that I’d spent some time with Daniel, I decided to visit Kim in his hometown in Utah to make a comparison, to find out what the two celebrated prodigies had in common, and what they could tell me about the nature of savant syndrome” (181). If you liked the movie Rain Man and are very interested in memory like I am I would very strongly recommend Moonwalking with Einstein: The art and…

Austrian musical prodigy of the seventeenth century who wrote a wide range of symphonies, operas, concertos, and sonatas, and has left behind a legacy for people to embrace. Proposed into a life of music, the virtuoso was born on January twenty-seventh, 1756 in the city of Salzburg, Austria. His father, Leopold Mozart, was a violinist that served as an inspiration for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his musically inclined older sister, Maria Anna (Nannerl) Mozart. The well-known prodigy spent his…

Albert Einstein, a respected Nobel Prize winner and scientist who had a great impact on the science community through his research that created answers to the mysteries of the physical world such as the general theory of relativity. He was an intelligent individual, obtaining many honors and titles in the science community. Einstein truly represents something that many of us long for, success. As a society, we often praise him and others who seemed to have been gifted with the desirable gift of…