At the beginning of The Outcasts of Poker Flat, the character John Oakhurst is introduced as a gambler, who has a calm tone and handsome face, with a compassionate, generous, honorable attitude, along with valuable leadership skills. Throughout the story, John Oakhurst shows qualities of being the strongest and then the weakest character. He shows his noble side when he returns money to Tom Simson, also known as “The Innocent”, after he won a gamble. Mr. Oakhurst considered it to be an unfair match due to Tom’s little experience with gambling and returned his money to Tom and told him to not gamble. However, the town of Poker Flat “a secret committee” gets rid of the improper citizens and Mr. Oakhurst was designated as one of them due to strong and lucky gambling skills.
‘Playing Beatie Bow’ published in 1980 encompasses the contrast in the social and cultural context between the 1870’s and 1970’s in the Rocks Sydney. In this book the scenario is a teenage girl who is part of a prophecy and is transported to the 1870’s to the Rocks, Sydney to the Bow and Tallisker hold. ‘The stranger’ (teenage girl) must make the gift strong again so it is enabled to allow the Bow and Tallisker to continue on through the family. The gift has the ability to provide a sense of seeing the future and teleporting to the past and present, and enables to heal the wounded.
How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland’s Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe The author Thomas Cahill was in 1940 in New York City and had Irish-American parents that raised him in Queens and the Bronx. He is said to be a lifelong scholar by the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau. He studied ancient Greek and Latin literature as well as medieval philosophy, scripture, and theology at Fordham University where he completed his Bachelor of Arts degree.
But the group is making an album at the moment, a fact they mention while performing. So other people must found their music to be enjoyable. They sang a song called Forgotten. A group called Luddy Mussy present me with a similar reaction when I heard them. Luddy Mussy sound like I was hearing folk music playing.
The Scotch-Irish people were one of the numerous immigrants who looked for shelter and alleviation in America. The Scotch-Irish appeared in the mid-seventeenth century when the English government, on edge to dominate Ireland, removed Lowland Scots as pilgrims to the province of Ulster in northern Ireland. For around a century the Scotch-Irish squeezed out a living in Ireland, yet in the early piece of the eighteenth century their monetary condition endured a progression of grievous inversions. As a result, a flood of maybe five thousand Scotch-Irish moved to America in 1717. Before the end of the eighteenth century, four more influxes of Scotch-Irish withdrew Ireland for America and a few hundred thousand Ulstermen settled in about each area of the English provinces.
The oppressive past that the Scots-Irish faced in their home country optimalized the isolated geography of the Greater Appalachian region, as they were able to construct a society that was rooted in individual liberty as opposed to materialism. When living in Great Britain, the Scots-Irish were forced out due to a large increase in rent put upon by the landlords. As noted by a Scot-Irish in American Nations, “We having been, before we came here, so much oppressed and harassed by under landlords in our country, from which we with great losses, dangers, and difficulties came [to]... this foreign world to be freed from such oppression” (Woodard 104). Thus, as evidenced, the Borderlanders travelled to the New World in search of a life free of oppression.
Irish integration to America was a very important part of the immigration history of this nation. James R. Barrett, professor at the University of Illinois, writes The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City, an account of the story of second and third generation Irish immigrants whose experiences in America changed their lives in more ways than they could have imagined. The book primarily focused on the social history through; their shaky relationship with African Americans, politics and “The Machine”, religious opposition from other immigrants, and their strife in the workplace. Thoroughly developed with illustrations and facts, this book provides new insight into the topic of “Americanization” among immigrants coming to our nation.
(Morin) The fairly difficult piece of music I chose is “Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta” by Bela Bartok. This piece of music is fairly difficult because of everything that you hear. It can be overpowering because of all the instruments sounding as you are being pulled in a lot of directions during
The short stories “Gwilan’s Harp” written by Ursula K. LeGuin, “The Washwoman” by Isaac Singer, and “The Last Leaf” by O. Henry all show the loss of something valuable, as a theme. Each of the characters in the stories experience the loss of something special to them, such as the loss of a matchless harp, the loss of a caring son, and the unforeseen loss of a friend. In “Gwilan’s Harp” a young harpist named Gwilan has an irreplaceable, flawless harp. Unfortunately, when her harp gets crushed, Gwilan begins to struggle with the loss of her most prized possession. In Isaac Singer’s “The Washwoman” an elderly washwoman tells the Jewish family which employed her, about the loss of her adult son, not by death, but by the embarrassment of her profession.
No one is perfect. Not even heroes. No matter how perfect someone may seem, they always have faults. For example, the main character, Odysseus, in the epic ‘The Odyssey’, is very noble, and heroic. However, Odysseus still has many faults by giving in to his emotions.
For a long time in American history, there has been a desire for “Irish” music. What qualifies as “Irish” has been left to interpretation; a concept that will be further explored in this thesis. The first Irish Catholic immigrants in seventeenth century America were, in many cases, indentured servants and treated poorly. The music the Irish brought with them took on romantic associations among the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASP) Americans, as well as among the Irish themselves.
Whenever I tell someone that I am an Irish dancer, they always say something along the lines of, “Oh, like leprechauns?” and put their hands on their hips and kick their feet wildly in the air. Outside of the dance world, large numbers of people believe that that’s all Irish dancing is, but it’s actually the exact opposite. Imagine this: you are standing on stage, the rush of excitement and anticipation pumping adrenaline through your body like a race car speeding down a track. The harsh lights wash out all the faces in the audience. All you can see are the judges, ready to critique your every move.
Music Music will be the backbone of the film. We want the soundtrack to become synonymous with the plot, so that the film springs to mind on hearing just a view chords. This is what we'd like to create here. A piece that underlines all the different parts of our story and punctuates the playful drama of the spot. It will also help change the tone from joy, to the drama, despair and then finally to the harmony and perfect synchronicity with find in our haven at State Farm.
The band paints a picture on the beginning of the song, then as we get deeper along into the song, everything is explained to us. At the end of the song, a full circle is drawn from the first line to the last line. “Sunday Bloody Sunday” was written in 1983 in the album War, during a time of great hostility in Ireland. This period was called, “The Troubles”, it was mostly a religious conflict where Northern Ireland wanted to stay protestant along with the United Kingdom, but the rest of Ireland wanted to become its own nation with a majority Catholic population. During “The Troubles”, there were guerilla warfare in the streets, the gang called Irish Republican Army (IRA) would set off explosives in the streets, no one
I’d like to take it a step further, however, and say that the opening song in The Sound of Music does a fantastic job of matching the imagery and communicates the drama in a clear manner. The beginning lyrics are as follows: “The hills are alive with the sound of music…with songs they have sung for a thousand years. The hills fill my heart with the sound of music…my heart wants to sing every song it hears.” What beautiful words! As Julie Andrews uses her sweet voice to bring words written on paper to life, she sings, “the hills are alive with the sound of music”, and the imagery indeed shows that they have sung for a thousand years.
