...Droning in Modern Rock The song being analyzed in this assignment is titled, “Slip to the Void” by the Orlando based rock band Alter Bridge. The song was the opening track in the band’s third album titled, “AB III”, which was released on November 9, 2010 (“Alter Bridge – Music”). The song was composed by Myles Kennedy (the band’s vocalist and rhythm guitarist), Mark Tremonti (the lead guitarist), Brian Marshall (bassist) and Scott Phillips (drummer/percussionist). The song’s lyrical content deals with making poor decisions and slipping into a useless state. The technique of droning can be traced back to the Near East. In music, drones are described as sound effects where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout most or the entire piece. It is usually achieved through a sustained sound or through repetition of a musical note. Though the song being discussed above doesn’t use a drone instrument to sustain the pitch, it achieves a similar effect by the repetition of the same note/chords. The song opens with this repeated harmony, which is played by a clean rhythm guitar. The same chords are repeated in this note and a sustained sound is produced over which the vocalist sings the entire first verse. This combination of unchanged chords borrows from the ancient drones as it involves a sustained sound which serves as a monotonous baseline over which the vocalist sings, which is similar (not same) to the Near-eastern technique. The repeated harmony can be heard till the...
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...ecclesiastical hierarchy. Primarily through the force of political power, Arian sympathisers soon took to undoing the condemnation of Arius and his theology. Eusebius of Nicomedia and others attempted to overturn Nicaea, and for a number of decades it looked as if they might succeed. Constantine adopted a compromising position under the influence of various sources, including Eusebius of Caesarea and a politically worded “confession” from Arius. Constantine put little stock in the definition of Nicaea itself. During the reign of Constantine the creed of Nicaea was sacrosanct, although the Arian leaders who had been exiled returned and Eusebius of Nicomedia became the leader of the anti-Nicene coalition. Due to Constantine’s view of the creed Eusebuis of Nicomedia policy was to not attack the creed but the personality behind it; The Emperor Constantine. Arius along with two other Bishops Eusebius and Theognis refused to sign the creed of Nicaea and were consequently excommunicated however, soon after their banishment, wrote a declaration that they had changed their opinion, and now agreed in the belief that the Son and the Father are of the same substance. Although...
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...society. Though America creates programs and means of financial aid in order to help the poor, there is a general understanding of American society that the rich are celebrated and the poor are considered disgraceful in the public eye. This does not reinforce my own opinion, it is just a fact of some of the prominent parts of society. Balboa addresses his former state of poverty along his journey of upward social mobility along the pursuit of the American Dream. “Adrian, it's true. I was nobody. But that doesn't matter either, you know? Because I was thinking, it really don't matter if I lose this fight. It really don't matter if this guy opens my head, either. Because all I wanna do is go the distance. Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, and that bell rings, and I'm still standing, I'm gonna know for the first time in my life that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood.” Balboa’s quote is another important sign reinforcing the upward social mobility of Balboa along his pursuit of the American Dream, in which he realizes that the money and the fame really couldn’t change him. The genre of the film is a drama, giving audiences an expectation of how the movie’s formatting will be. This film is very clearly a drama based on the serious and often tense dialogue, accompanied by a lack of humor and lightheartedness; rather the movie is filled with brutal fighting and constant external and internal struggle from the main character, obviously...
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...Alexis Klein March 23, 2012 The Future After The Council To Constantinople and Beyond: The Council of Constantinople was held by to promote a revised version of Nicaea’s creed. This creed is the one we use to this day in Christian masses. The controversy was from the non-Nicene Christians and the pro-Nicene. Eventually the creed was revised and the non-Nicene group became isolated ecclesial groups. The Nicene Creed was revised through reading scriptures to understand the meaning of the spirit is within the father and the son. Process: * The council was called by the Emperor to end disputes on if God was three persons or one person with three characteristics. * The Nicene Creed is still used today from back in 381 when they revised it from the previous Nicaea’s Creed. * The spirit is the spirit that dwells within us all and the community. Many forget through all the material things that doesn’t matter how pure we are but it is more the spirit from God that makes us holy and pure. Challenges: * The idea of how the controversy evolved around God being three different people or God being his own individual and the Son and spirit are their own character. It becomes very confusing. * The complexity of the Council of Nicaea and how many were present and voiced their opinion but many just wanted to believe in their own ways without fully answering the dispute. * Another challenge is that wrapping my mind around the disorganized process that the Council...
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...The Athanasian Creed, or Quicunque Vult (also Quicumque Vult), is a Christian statement of belief focused on Trinitarian doctrine and Christology. The Latin name of the creed, Quicunque vult, is taken from the opening words, "Whosoever wishes". The creed has been used by Christian churches since the sixth century. It is the first creed in which the equality of the three persons of the Trinity is explicitly stated. It differs from the Nicene-Constantinopolitan and Apostles' Creeds in the inclusion of anathemas, or condemnations of those who disagree with the creed (like the original Nicene Creed). Widely accepted among Western Christians, including the Roman Catholic Church and some Anglican churches, Lutheran churches (it is considered part of the Lutheran confessions in the Book of Concord), and ancient, liturgical churches generally, the Athanasian Creed has been used in public worship less and less frequently, but part of it can be found as an "Authorized Affirmation of Faith" in the recent (2000) Common Worship liturgy of the Church of England [Main Volume page 145].[1][2] The creed has never gained much acceptance in liturgy among Eastern Christians. It was designed to distinguish Nicene Christianity from the heresy of Arianism. Liturgically, this Creed was recited at the Sunday Office of Prime in the Western Church; it is not in common use in the Eastern Church. Today, the Athanasian Creed is rarely used even in the Western Church. When used, one common practice is to...
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...I Search Paper on Assassin's Creed What I know , Assume or Imagine Assassin’s creed is a very famous computer game of action- adventure genere. It is more famous for its graphics capability which is far ahead of its rival games. This game is devloped by Ubisoft for both single player and multiplayer. This game is available accross all popular gaming platforms like Playstation , WII , Nintendo, Mac , Xbox and Windows . Later it was customised by Gameloft for mobile platforms like Windows phone, Nokia symbian and Android too. Taking idea from the name, i imagine it as game plotted on fictional history. By the cover page of game box am very much excited about its content and level of difficulty.I assume this game will warfare kind of genere. I wanted to see if it can beat games like Call of duty and Battlefield. The game mainly based on the Hashshashin sect secret order of assassins , with the plot revolving around , in 1191 , during the Third Crusade in the Holy Land takes place . Player "protest " name through the use of a machine , is allowed to see and in this case , Altair Ibn genetic memories of his ancestors controlled protagonist Desmond Miles , who called the play a modern -day reality as man in -La'Ahad, is a member of killers . Through this plot device, details a " Piece of Eden " mind control used to eliminate an artifact of an ancient artifact known as the two factions, conflicts emerge between the Knights Templar and the Assassins. The game received generally...
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...Assassin's Creed Brotherhood review Introduction After the success of the first two games in the Assassin's Creed series, Ubisoft has released their highly anticipated game. Introducing a new setting, new characters, and new challenges, and an all new multiplayer mode, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood tries to raise the bar for the series. Story Brotherhood is set in the Italian renaissance, and it follows the character from Assassin's Creed 2, Ezio Auditore da Firenze. The game is set in multiple cities, including Rome, Venice, and Florence. Following his family's death, he is out for vengeance. Ezio is part of the brotherhood, meaning he is an assassin and serves to protect their order. The missions include taking out targets and helping others, all while on his personal quest. We would definitely recommend playing Assassin’s Creed 2 first, therefore, you will fully understand the story. The story continues progressing into something very big that we will not spoil in the review, but we can mention you will be in contact with Leonardo da Vinci, and you get to try out some of his inventions. (Hint, it might contain a human flight machine.) Gameplay Perhaps the best thing about the Assassin's Creed series is the gameplay. You are able to go wherever you want within the cities-- climbing buildings, jumping into haystacks, running around the streets, rowing gondolas, and even riding horses! You have so much freedom inside the game, and it opens up so many doors and opportunities...
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...looked at that can change. Administration expressed the need to look at classroom management for some teachers. Teachers lately have seen the need to in act punitive punishments towards our students. Punishments that include taking away extracurricular activities, electives, and things students enjoy with their time outside the classroom. This is in direct conflict with our school vision of “redefining excellence: and the student creed we developed last year. This creed includes the procedures we hope all students will follow. Students are to be on time, be prepared, and to respect people, property, and the learning process. This was to take the place of the traditional student rules that every teacher had. The student had to have seven different rules to remember and the need to act different in every class. The student creed was an easy alternative as the teachers can just point and the student would cite the creed. The table below will show the leadership team I would assemble in order to re-visit the rules and procedures to follow in regards to classroom management. The people on the leadership team all have different strengths and different input to develop a process to combat these punitive discipline actions. Table: School Improvement Team: “Problem to Address." |Objective: To eliminate punitive punishment for students, by following the student creed at Sandcreek Middle School. | | ...
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...entered the classroom I could tell that the teacher was not enthusiastic and did not want to be teaching. “Teachers hate Valentine’s Day, or any holiday for that matter. I can guarantee that the kids are going to be off the walls crazy today. Trust me when I say that you are going to hate these days,” my teacher said to me. I knew then that she was not in the right mindset to be teaching the kids, especially on a holiday. Throughout the day I noticed that...
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...Declaration of Human Rights Charter explicitly states that education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages of every child www.un.org. Therefore countries are by law bound to provide education to their citizens and even foreigners on conditions set out by their sovereign constitutions. Large sums of money are pumped into education to meet the targets of conventions which countries are signatory to, in line with universal education for all. Education for all is not the same thing as quality education for all (World Education Forum, 2000). The implication that can be drawn from the afore stated words is that, although countries are in pursuit of Education for All goals, they experience problems like low quality of teachers and high teacher pupil ratio which impede upon the quality and standards of their education systems especially at the level of primary, junior and secondary schools. It is thus the intent of this essay to focus specifically on the public concern about the declining quality of Primary School Leaving Examinations in Botswana with distinctive attention on the use of John Dewey’s philosophical trends to transform and improve the quality and standard of our education. This will be done in a pragmatic manner as maybe espoused by the head of department responsible for quality and standards in the ministry of education. Although the transformative philosophical approach discussed herein, focuses on primary education for purposes of avoiding generosity...
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...Education is a co-current state level subjects and under the Indian Constitution education is made a Fundamental Right and Directive Principles of State Policy further needed free education and other facilities to children. There is no discrimination among the people on the basis of religion, caste or creed/faith etc. However, the minorities are given right to run their own educational institutions with financial aid from Government and they are free to introduce their religion, language in their institution. Education is compulsory and free upto primary standard. Indian education system has a wide structure and the educational institutions can introduce the education or learning pattern as below VA years in pre-nursery schools, in the primary schools upto V class or so. Education is further upgraded upto 10+2 system where the examinations are conducted by the Board at 10 and 12. Thereafter, students are free to choose the courses of their own at any stage, i.e. primary, secondary, senior secondary level. Schools are of different levels. Local Boards run the schools upto Primary, V standard, both in mother tongue and English medium. Thereafter the schools may upgrade themselves upto X known as Secondary schools. They can also be upgraded upto 12, called Senior Secondary schools. The education is a co-current (state level) subject and the Central Government cannot interfere in their functioning. As such schools are pre- primary, pre-nursery, then primary, secondary and senior...
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...The Evolving Role of Government in Education The Evolving Role of Government in Education Kenneth Davis Grand Canyon University: EDU310 June 5, 2011 The Evolving Role of Government in Education The United States governments play an ever evolving role in education. They are responsible for many of the exceedingly particular rules and regulations that drive schools and districts to change. All of these legislative rulings are supposedly made to help America’s youth, but some of them are more idealism than realistic. This essay will describe some of the many cases and laws that have evolved or have had an impact on U.S. education. The United States educational system began on the laws and moral of the religion. In colonial times schools and religion went hand in hand. All of this country’s first schools and educational systems were the product of some particular religious sect. The first schools were used to educate the colonist children but the religious tensions and sectarian rivalries among early colonists had also used schooling to advance their ideals. Particularly the Universities such as Harvard founded in 1636, and Yale founded in 1707 were founded as seminaries to train future clergymen. Although this type of thought about how schools should be run still is around today, there has been much government involvement to change that stat quo. In cases such as Everson v. Board of Education, and Illinoisex rel. McCollum v. Board of Education...
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...Many Americans believe that access to a good education is all that is needed to overcome inequality in our society. Take a position on whether you agree or disagree with this statement. Support your position with examples or evidence. - I disagree with this statement. Inequality comes in many forms in our society. Some people are not treated equal because of race, creed, religion, or gender. Inequality is also found in employment, income or wages, funding in public schools, interest rates offered on loans, education, punishment, contribution of health care centers, criminal inequality, and wealth to name a few. There have been occasions when I have personally walked into a store to shop and was being followed by store employees, whereas other customers were not. Although this is called "racial profiling", I feel that I wasn't treated like other customers in the store. Of the educational problems identified in the chapter, discuss which you feel is the most pressing problem facing our schools today. - I believe that a growing educational problem in America is access to higher education. College tuition maybe too expensive for Parents to afford for their children. For those students that manage to get student loans, will become thousands of dollars in debt before they are even employed. If education is too expensive, many may opt out of educational advancement, which could in some cases eliminates them from applying for higher waged jobs which require a college degree or slow...
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...Teaching for the Future Valentonia Somers Miami Dade College - Wolfson Campus Teaching for a Future Many now and upcoming teachers have different ideas when it comes to the type of image they want to imprint on their students. Growing up I have had many teachers, some have left good and bad experiences in my life that has ultimately brought me to where I am today. “John Dewey was possibly the most influential educator of the twentieth century and probably the most controversial one”(Sadker &Zittleman 2010). I believe in being a progressive teacher in that I want to see my students at any skill level continue to improve. As a progressive teacher I will have 3 main goals: to inspire, grow and groom individuality into each student under my care in the classroom. I will a teacher whose image will never be forgotten and whose tenacity for education is never questioned. I believe that, if possible, every child no matter the age or ethnic background should be treated as an Individual in the classroom. In my own personal experiences being a student I have seen how even in a college setting the connection a teacher or professor can have with a student one on one is much more satisfying than a teacher who just teaches a class. Education, according to John Dewey, is the “participation of the individual in the social consciousness of the race” (Dewey, 1897). As such, education should take into account that the student is a social being. The process begins at birth with the...
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...Office of HUMAN RESOURCES 495 N. Indian Creek Dr. ( Clarkston, GA 30021 ( 404/297-9522 Ext. 1190 ( FAX# 404/298-3601 POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT |POSITION: |ABE/GED Math Teacher (P/T hourly) | |PRIMARY LOCATION: |DeKalb County | |DESCRIPTION: |Instructs and supervises students in a variety of areas. | |ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: |• Develops math program and course outlines | | |• Evaluates students’ progress in attaining goals and objectives. | |MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: |A degree from an accredited college or university *and* completed course comparable with the curriculum taught *OR* | | |experience/expertise in the area of curriculum taught. Faculty must be credentialed to satisfy all appropriate | | |accrediting bodies for the courses assigned. | | ...
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