Bitter Sweet Symphony by the Verve A contemporary song must be carefully chosen to be put in the UTD time capsule. The song must cover the many characteristics assembled in this class as well as the many characteristics of our generation. ìBitter Sweet Symphonyî by the Verve is the perfect song to combine these positive and negative aspects. It will fairly portray to the future the many colors of the students of UTD. ìBitter Sweet Symphonyî should be chosen by the class, because it is the
The Bitter Sweet Symphony of Life Time capsules are a trendy way of preserving the past for a period of time, in hopes of capturing physical proof of the advances in our society. Therefore, I am not surprised that many educational institutions have embraced the concept of a time capsule. However, this creates a problem: How can singular items be chosen to represent multitudes of ideas, creations, and people? The only logical conclusion to this dilemma is to allow those being represented
Bitter Sweet Symphony by Erin Flannery True, it was a hard decision when I was decided which of my classmatesí papers to choose as ìthe one.î I considered a question when trying to decide. I asked myself, ìWhat purpose this time capsule will serve?î My answer told me that the song inside this time capsule must be one that can still teach a message while telling the future generation something about our time. I believe the culmination to this answer was found in Erin Flanneryís ìBitter Sweet
Analysis of the Songs Bittersweet Symphony, Fixing a Hole, and Creep Music has played an important role in the daily lives of people everywhere and perhaps the most influential music has come from British artists. The Beatles faced a problem when, John Lennon innocently stated that The Beatles were, in fact, more popular than Jesus. In the song "Fixing a Hole", The Beatles sing about the problem with the media. The song "Creep", by Radiohead, deals with a personal problem. It illustrates the
morning. My alarm erupts with a harsh blast, and I am roughly dragged from the world of dreams to drudge once more through the world of the living. I wipe the sleep from my eyes, and contemplate for a moment escaping back into the world of sleep – how sweet would it be to fall back on the bed, close my eyes, and drift once more through my dreams. Perhaps if I were more alert, I could have dramatized the situation, “To sleep, perchance to dream”. But frankly, I'm not awake enough to quote anyone (with
for a grand American symphony, Antheil settled in Hollywood and started composing scores for movies as well as television; this was not an artistic decision, but purely a financial one. Antheil found film composing to be painful and stunted his career with Hollywood’s hate for modern sounding music. He was so bitter that at one point he wrote a caustic article for The American Mercury entitled simply “Don’t be a composer.” The big success of his late life is his Fourth Symphony that was heralded as
face. Maybe he was still sleeping? –‘Get real Nina’, I thought. How could I be so naive to think that he was still sleeping; amidst so much destruction and desolation? I could hear screams of a macabre quality, a terrible symphony of pain, each note dripping with sadness. A bitter song filled with rage that got softer every now and then. It was the official announcement that someone, somewhere beneath the rumble was no longer apart of the cacophony of screams. That they had died. As the hours passed
Evil or Mistreated? It is proven that the way you are treated as a small child affects the way you act as an adult. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, the readers see this kind of effect. The creature created by Dr. Frankenstein was terribly mistreated. The creature wasn’t evil in the beginning, but as time went on he started behaving like a monster. Although he did not seem evil in the beginning does not mean that he was not. He could have turned out that way without being mistreated, yet because
Beethoven, from life to death, was a great musician. As a composer or as a pianist, he is known as great. Many of his pieces are still known to people today. He wrote music from when he was a young boy to shortly before he died, despite going deaf. He is also widely known as the greatest composer of all time. Even in his last years of deafness and death, he wrote some of his most famous pieces of music. He was the first musician that had a salary to compose when and how he felt. (Ludwig van Beethoven