Painting

This painting is very romantic because it offers atleast three different climates in one setting, which is a very rare and awesome thing to find in nature. The light comes out of the clouds in a way that seperates the scene into a dark vs. light type setting the helps add a very "epic" feel to the picture. You could almost imagine yourself camping on the side of that lake watching the storm above the mountains or enjoy the dense forest with the light shining through the tree tops.

There are alot of things within the picture that make your mind adventure through to each part making it very romantic.

And so is this one!

Rambo is a character that represents romanticism through violence. He's that soldier seems to never go down and he spoils enemy's plans just like we wish we could do if we were in a battle situation. Kick some Arse! His ability to turn the intense gruesome violence into something that makes him a hero is what makes this romantic.

The Ropewalk

The point of the poem is him trying to find enjoyment out of his work as a ropemaker. Almost every part is very visual and he describes many situations where the rope he is making would be used describing how he would like it to be as if maidens were swinging in the air like doves while looking at their shadow clench the rope on the grass. Almost every single image stood out very hard and was very easy to understand. This makes it a very good piece of romantacism because it offers alot of things that you would want to escape to while your working.

Thanotopsis

This poem is talking about death. They want you to just except death and not worry about it, and he paints a picture of it being dark but then melds it into concepts of them earth. When you die your body will be burried in the ground and you shall return to the earth, joining all the others that have died before you and becoming a brother of all elements such as rocks or clods. You will also eventually be joined by more and so you should never feel alone in the sence of death and should rather die peacefully as if going "down to pleasant dreams."

Rip Van Winkle

Rip Van Winkle is the story of a man who is liked by everybody in town, despite this he has trouble at home from a nagging wife who gets on to him for being to lazy; he just wants to have fun. Much of this nagging causes him to leave the house with his dog Wolf, and do just that, going squirrel hunting in the Kaatskil Mountains.

One day he left to squirrel hunt one day and found some rather odd people. These people were short and strange looking, still human but more dwarven like. They were carrying kegs up the mountain and apparently having a party. Rip Van Winkle watched curiously on the weird party of strangers, eventually letting this get the best of him and took a sip of Gin they were drinking while they weren't looking and then passed out out in the wilderness. He awoke to find what he thought was a rusty gun someone had switched with his when they stole it, and he couldn't find his dog when he tried to whistle for him.

Unable to find his dog or the people he had seen the night before he ventured back to town to find that it was completly different. The people were new, with no site of anybody he had known the previous day and his house was abandon with no site of his family and a dog outside that, although resembled Wolf, did not remember Rip at all. He goes to what he thought were his usual spots and found them replaced with other things, such as a new star spangled flag. Unknowing to Rip, the American Revolution had occured and people were different now, more uppity and ready than the towns previous citizens. The people found rip odd and questioned him, finding that he was very confused and had no idea how old he was or even if he was himself after pointing out what was apparently Rip Van Winkle. They all realized he had been out for about 20 years and all of the people he knew were dead or had moved on to other things and his son was the new Rip Van Winkle. After these realizations passed, Rip was able to adapt and live fine in the town, telling his story to many people.

Writing Three

Frank Zappa The Greatest Composer in American History Frank Zappa is one of greatest musical composers in the history of the United States, and can partly define the meaning of true self expression and hate for the normal mainstream way of life. Much of his music can be considered absurd, obscure, confusing, and very controversial and can take some getting used too, but also presents influences that make up an easy listening sound for everybody to enjoy. His career which lasted more than 30 years almost completely self produced more than 60 albums stretched music from hard rock to free-form jazz or even a country song or two. He was also involved in film, art work, and politics.

Zappa’s inspirations are a key part in his success as a composer. He started playing with percussion instruments at a young age; this is a talent that showed up in his career as Zappa’s bands are highly acclaimed for their percussion. Works written by Zappa such as “the Black Page” have been cited as one of the most complex rhythm structures ever and one of his own drummers Terry Bozzio is known as one of the greatest drummers in the world. Zappa also became known as one of the greatest guitarists of all time; upon receiving a guitar he developed his own personal style which he considered to be the equivalent of “air sculpting”. During the end of high school he was also composing and conducting works for his school orchestra. Because of these influences, Zappa had amazing knowledge and creative ability with rhythm structures and song framework. He also tried to be severely precise and in tune with almost any jam or show or recording, making it possible for him to record all these things and mix them together randomly to create a masterpiece.

Imagine walking into an empty room, but then a herd of animals, clowns, cars, and businessmen come strolling out of the wall making the most noise they can with a faint saxophone in the background, and then it’s all gone as soon as it was there with only a bassist and a xylophone player in the middle of the room playing up and down the notes at a steady pace which is soon joined by a drummers high hat and snare when you hear a deep voice that sounds like a mountain speaking within your head making you feel as if your spinning and loosing your mind once you realize the sound crept its way back into the herd of animals for a split second and everything goes silent to the sound of what you might think is a seal crying out for help in the background. That’s what a Zappa song sounds like.

Zappa was also involved in politics and freedom of speech rights as well. When the PMRC (Parents Music Resource Center) started slapping warning labels on what they considered to be offensive and mind altering music to kids, Zappa slapped his own disclaimer on his albums:


“WARNING! This album contains material which a truly free society would neither fear nor suppress. The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business. This guarantee is as real as the threats of the video fundamentalists who use attacks on rock music in their attempt to transform America into a nation of check-mailing nincompoops (in the name of Jesus Christ). If there is a hell, it’s fires wait for them, not us.”


He also made another attack comparing the PMRC to the situation of the Holocaust where they made Jews where big Js to show they were Jewish. These things were something Zappa strongly opposed and he deserves much credit for the progress and influence he has contributed to the rights to freedom of expression and speech.

Zappa's music has been inspirational not only to advante-garde experimental music, but to key artists in the history of music, the Beatles notably, were very influenced by Zappa's band's first album "Freak Out", helping them produce their album "Sargent Peppers Lonely Hearts Clubs Band". Through the inspirations he has given other bands, the skill, and imagination he has shown, not only through himself but through others as well, he is one of the only people who I can actually consider a Musical Genius and his masterpiece's are a must listen before you die.

Exhibit F

This is a comic that I think is against stem cell research. An old angel sits on all bummed out about dieing, and brings it up to the much younger angel next to him, who claims he was the embryo killed in the process of trying to do stem cell research.

This comic is kind of sad and makes you look at stem cell research in a different way putting the character in a personal situation that causes guilt.

Exhibit E

The Truth about Stem Cells, for Catholics!

In this article, a member of the Catholic church explains the reasons why stem cell research is wrong. He also references Mel Gibson, a fellow supporter of the Catholic Church against stem cell research, who used the perspective that, at some point, we were all the same thing as those litttle cells in a petri dish, it would be wrong to kill them. They also explained that not only is it morally and ethically wrong to kill of what could be a potential human, but it is absolutly against god's laws to take it upon yourself to create beings.

Although I am a supporter of stem cell research, and not really a fan of the Catholic Church, I liked this point of view because the writer actually explains the good qualities that could come from stem cell research and explained the advances that could be made, but claims it still ultimatly goes against his religion and beliefs.