The Cage Essays

flying, but trapped in a cage. All of a sudden, the cage is opened and the bird must make the decision: do I fly away from all that I know into the unknown with the hopes of soaring high in the sky as a free spirit, even with possible danger ahead, or do I stay in my cage where I will be perfectly safe, but will never know what I’m capable of? This scenario captures the struggles and decisions of the transition from middle school to high school, middle school being the cage around the bird and high

John Cage was a major innovator who opened up new musical possibilities in the latter half of the twentieth century. Cage’s perspective of composing music was very popular in the twentieth century. The composition of music developed to another period in twentieth century. As a pupil of Schoenberg, Cage went further to create new method in his music composition. His ideas of envisioning the music, and using time and duration to compose, were pioneering. The vocabulary of music expand to all kinds

Feldman, Pierre Boulez etc., but John Cage became the principal figure and the most influential composer to whom chance became a standard tool for composition: he used it in practically every work composed after 1951. Although Cage had used chance operations on a few earlier occasions, the first pieces fully written in this new approach were: “Imaginary Landscape No. 4” for 12 radio receivers and “Music of Changes” for piano, written in 1951. Earlier that year, Cage was presented with a copy of the I

in life when I was trapped by a monstrous creature. I could not figure out how it pertained to what happened that day, but the images were so clear and seemed relevant to the topic even though it occurred so long ago. I could smell the wood from the cage I was put in, day in and day out, when the creature did not want to torture me any longer. She would grab my arm and pull me up, hurting my shoulder. Every night there were songs that played through my ear- such a cacophony. I would lay awake at night

the beginning of the novel who is constantly shot down for speaking its mind. Edna is also treated poorly for voicing what she believes. Another parallel between the bird and Edna is the cage. The parrot is left in a cage in the front hall, unable to spread its wings and fly. Edna is trapped in a metaphorical cage. Ironically, the house that she moves into toward the end of the novel is labeled the pigeon house. Many more instances in the novel relate Edna to birds, all showing how she is trapped

customs and traditions and question the injustice they faced. The novella begins with a very blatant symbol: the bird trapped in the cage is symbolic of all the women in society who feel as though they are trapped by gender inequality. Chopin wants all women to embrace their wants and desires; Chopin calls on women who long for independence to finally escape from their cage and find their independence. The ending of the novella remains ambiguous. Edna, who has learns how to swim, ventures out deep

Right at this moment, just as we had sat down, most likely the worst teacher in the whole school had just walked in the room. Ms. Gulon was her name, she was ugly, as like ugly I meant she had a big, brown, three dimensional mole right on the left of her nose. She always wore dirty and baggy clothing on, and smelt as if she had cut onions in her pockets all of the time, her teeth were as bright as caution tape. I had described her teeth that way because caution tape means you 're too close to the

was the first suspect to go in. Minnie sent Mrs.Hale and Mrs.Peters to her house to get some of her meaningful belongings. Mrs,Hale and Peters dug for her belongings and they discovered a dead bird, a broken through bird cage and more. Through the use of the bird, the bird cage, and the setting of the play, Susan Glaspell depicts the death of Minnie Foster’s life in

throughout the story to show the bonding between the women. She used specific objects that only the women could understand and relate to in order to symbolize female bonds. The men in the play didn 't understand the jar of cherries or even notice the bird cage without a bird because, as Glaspell showed, the men don 't think or notice the same things women do. This again, just shows the difference between male and female perspectives. During this time, it was a male dominance era and females were taken advantage

Hip Hop is seen as something inspiring, but most people see it as a way to speak out the truth about a problem. As in “Hip Hop planet” being able say the truth can sometimes worsen any situation because sometimes what we say can promote violence and whatever happens after is not in our control. The essay is about how hip hop has changed into speaking out the issues that need to be taken care of in order to maintain a proper society. McBride talked about how rappers use violent lyrics to degrade women

The man in the old world party mask continues to chase after us, and I 'm not so sure we can keep up this run for much longer. We haven 't eaten in three days, and I know for a fact my body is upset about that, but Mykel, I 'm not so sure. I 've never really asked myself, but do angels need to eat? Do they thirst or have to relieve themselves as we do? Based on the brokenness plastered on his face, i 'd say one of the above is true. Right now, as we 're being chased by a man who can shoot fire

Loken: Lonely Broken Lion Project ID 618539-Xlibris Written by: Ashley Broadway Copyright 2014 Children’s Book About the book: The story is set in the heart of the jungle, where there is a lost, lonely, broken lion named Loken. This lion has not had the easiest life, and has seen many hard times with is father. Loken is a different lion; he has the strength of many lions; but the heart of a lamb. He is looking all over for a friend that understands him, and can handle is unique behavior.

Safety is an important factor in sports especially in hockey. Since this is the case should college hockey players have to wear cages or be allowed the privilege of wearing visors. It also brings up the point that college students should be allowed to wear visors because of the risk it puts the players into. However, both sides have great arguments but I feel the visors take the cake here. Safety is important that’s why college players should be allowed to wear visors. Visors are the better choice

feet are tired and its wings are clipped. “ but a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of Rage his wings are clipped and his feet are tied.” (pg17)The Caged Bird see how happy the life of the Free Bird it is but it can't do nothing but feel angry. the kids bird feels trapped because it sees its dreams but it also sees boundaries, limits, end it all seems hopeless, not only is the cage that surrounds the bird

This is a tale of someone who escaped slavery, their tale passed down many generations to warn others of their tribe. This is the story of a young boy named Abeeku. I was twelve when the white men came, almost thirteen actually. My family was small, just me and my parents. My family was famous for it’s good hunters, and I had to try to live up to that. Problem was, I was terrible at it, and so I had decided that morning to have my father help me out. I figured he could show me what I was doing

Being treated equally, and having equal rights as others, was a constant struggle during the 18 and 1900’s for people of color. There was no valid reason as of why they were being oppressed, resulting in riots, battling for justice. In “Caged Bird,” a poem by Maya Angelou, she creates a scene in which one bird is free, soaring wherever the bird wishes, happily. While another bird is caged, miserable, with clipped wing, tied up. In addition, written in “Sympathy,” by Paul Laurence Dunbar another highly

Winston Peacock’s Mystery Mr. Winston Peacock was found in his home January 2nd. Jenny Goodheart, the mail carrier, discovered his body after peering through the side window of the house. She’d noticed the previous day’s milk bottle and mail still on his front step, unusual for Mr. Peacock, so she had investigated. When the police arrived, what they were greeted with was a puzzling scene. They found evidence that seemed to point to murder, then some towards suicide. However, the most tangible evidence

We should get another bunny because our old bunny should have a friend to play with. I would play with it as a baby so it won't be scared about being touched. When I bring our old, shy bunny into the house, we all crowded around it, but it’s shy, so it tries to hop away, and our new bunny wouldn’t. This bunny could also go to the fair. Bunnies are so soft, and cute. All we want to do is hug them. Mom would love the bunny a lot, because they are nicer than cats, and don't give her an allergic reaction

Music, like most forms of art, often shares subjective views with its listeners. An individual favourite song may be the next person's most hated song. Although different factors come into play when determining if music is good or not, there is no concrete definition of ‘good music’. Society continues to label certain songs originating from genres such as hip-hop, blaming the music for violent acts committed within society. In 1994, a 17-year-old shot a cop in Milwaukee, telling police that he was

At first glance Sara Smolinsky looks like any poor Jewish girl. She is small and skinny but she has a powerful mind and voice that surprises others. When she speaks her true personality shines through. As she grows from 10-17 her priorities change and how she handles things changes. Sara is very strong willed when it comes to her own thoughts which is why her nickname is Blut-und-Eisen. Even her own mother says “when she begins to want a thing there is no rest, n let-off till she gets it” (20) .