Joy and Praise Magazine

Although his composition lessons were not impeded by the decimating injury, and his strength did, in fact, lie in creating his own pieces, a sense of loss is felt when one examines Schumann's praise of his contemporary pianists. ... Coinciding with his love of the composition of music, he also found joy in the critiquing of music. ... Three years later, he founded the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, or New Magazine for Music. ... While it was titled a new magazine for music, it could have been aptly named Magazine for New Music. ... Raro is the Master in use in the magazine; s...

• Word Count: 2854
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

A cult is considered a subculture, or a category of people who share distinguishing attributes, beliefs, values, and/or norms that set them apart is some significant manner from the dominant culture (Kendall, 2003, 86) Focus magazine defines a cult as "a therapeutic or unconventional religious movement (McBride, 1985, 22)." ... Replace uncertainty, fear, and confusion with the promise of joy, but only as part of the group. ... In contrast, if a member did something desirable or exceptional, they were rewarded by Jones, this usually did not include tangible items, merely praise by Jones himself...

• Word Count: 1472
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Considered a harsh taskmaster by many Harley Hotel staff, Helmsley has always maintained that her greatest joy in her work was not making money or amassing power, but rather the opportunity to work near the man to whom she remained devoted until his death in 1997. ... "Other men wouldn't put up with my getting all the attention," she once told New York magazine in praise of her beloved Harry. ...

• Word Count: 1481
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Rural slaves used to stay after the regular worship services, in churches or in plantation "praise houses", for singing and dancing. ... These churches were heirs to shouts, hand clapping, foot-stomping and jubilee songs, like it was in plantation "praise houses". ... Popular groups included The Dixie Hummingbirds, The Mighty Clouds of Joy ('60s and '70s) and The Fairfield Four. ...

• Word Count: 2473
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

After studies at the Royal Academy of Arts, Blake started to produce watercolors and engrave illustrations for magazines. ... Dualism is the tendency consequent upon it in Western culture to make absolute judgements between the contraries, accepting, praising, and empowering one, rejecting, suppressing, and attempting to exterminate the other. ... He points out that no such choice is possible or desirable, and that we are not going to be offered the truism that innocent joy is preferable to "the sorrows of experience-. ... » "The Lamb- was the poem that evoked the joy and delight o...

• Word Count: 2099
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He wrote unoriginal poems and stories for popular magazines and made political speeches, for which Tammany Hall democrats rewarded him with the editorship of various short-lived newspapers. ... In the 1856 edition, Whitman printed Emerson's letter of praise, which called the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom yet contributed to American literature.""... After the war Whitman's books began to sell well, and he contributed several articles to magazines. ... Probably the most famous quote was given by President Kennedy "his death impoverishes us all; but he has beque...

• Word Count: 3004
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Seeking the American Dream of Success Arthur Miller"'s "" Death of A Salesman"" could be described as a study in the American Dream ideology, a system that at times is indescribably brutal and at other times compassionates. Author Miller's plays are usually associated with real life issues filled with failure and disappointment. The author's main character, Willy Loman, is a traveling salesman that spends his whole lifetime trying to find success based on looks and popularity. Willy Loman is a product of this ever-increasing society, obsessed with measuring success by popularity...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

An ode the woman herself, Queen Victoria, and the subsequent characteristics of the Victorian period In an unpredictable, tumultuous era, the stern, staid figure of Queen Victoria came to represent stability and continuity. The adjective "Victorian" was first used in 1851 to celebrate the nation's mounting pride in its institutions and commercial success. That year, the global predominance of British industry had emerged incontestably at the original "world's fair" in London, the "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations," which Prince Albert helped organize. Arra...

• Word Count: 6746
• Approx Pages: 27

This lack of formal structure was criticised by Ruskin, who refused to submit Goblin Market to the newly established Cornhill Magazine. ... Later reference is made to Jeanie as having "joys brides hope to have." ...

• Word Count: 3193
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography