Composer: Bedrich SmetanaWork Title: The MoldauDate: 1874-1879Genre: Symphonic PoemFor my first selection of music for this final project I chose "The Moldau" by Bedrich Smetana. The reason I chose this piece was first, it is a symphonic poem and second, because it perfectly exemplified the use of n...

John Lennon's "Imagine" is one of the most inspirational songs of all time. It always made people think about the words of his song. Some questions rise, such as how would the world be if there was no violence, religion, or countries bound by boundaries? The song came at a time when there was...

The Calaloo PotAs a young girl my passport was filled with custom stamps from various countries. Home was where ever my mom had family or friends. Being a foreigner, that meant traveling outside the U.S., Jamaica, England, Italy, France. My mom was a bird and my sister and I were the delicate feat...

C.H. Sisson -born in Bristol in 1914-very distinguished poet-in 1993 was made a Companion of Honour for services to literature -Carcanet published all his poems, translations and prose writings -abandoned the writing of poetry at age of twenty -started again eight or nine years later on battleship ...