John Milton Cage Influence On Society

John Milton Cage Influence On Society
The classical period was a revolutionary start of music for decades to come. Many composers prior
to the 1920s gained their fame and fortune through music and their creativity in composing. John
Milton Cage, Jr. was born in Los Angeles on September 5th in 1912. Cage was the son of John
Milton Cage, Sr., an inventor, hence the creativeness yet to come through his music. In 1928, Cage
graduated from Los Angles High School with the intent to pursue a degree in writing. Cage studied
about two years at Pamona College, travelled Europe for around eighteen months, and then resumed
school at UCLA. He discovered at The New School in New York and at UCLA, whilst studying
with Richard Buhlig, Arnold Schoenberg, Adolph Weiss, and Henry Cowell, his desire ... Show
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Cage began experimenting with music by placing screws and plates between the strings of a piano to
generate different sounds, known as the "prepared piano". He also experimented with tape recorders,
record players, and radios, finding the music around him in the simplest objects, otherwise not
considered instruments by the typical composer or musician. After realizing his makeshift
instruments were not what he needed, he began brainstorming ideas for new instruments. Pieces
such as "Imaginary Landscape No. 4" and "Water Music" were just a few examples of his creativity
in music. For "Imaginary Landscape No. 4" Cage used twelve radios played at once to create this
composition. "Water Music" was created by combining shells and water to form a masterpiece. Cage
used unimaginable items such as kitchen gadgets, metal sheets, various common objects, and even
silence to create a discovery no other composer had considered before. Through his music, he turned
the everyday sounds we hear into something so much more. He performed with his percussion
ensemble in New York at the Museum of Modern Art in 1943. This was the start of a life– long
musical career to call his
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John Milton Cage Jr.: The Most Influential American Writer
John Milton Cage Jr. is easily one of the most influential American composers of our time. John
Cage spent his early life in Los Angeles, California after being born to Lucretia Harvey and John
Milton Cage Sr. on September 5, 1912. Cage's embarked on the first steps to his music career when
he began taking private piano lessons when he was just a kid. As the years went by it seemed as if
Cage became more interested in literature and writing than music composition. Cage graduated from
Los Angeles High School as valedictorian and went on to give a rather enticing speech that gained
recognition at the Hollywood Bowl. Cage's speech seemed to have foreshadowed his most popular
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However, his very first teacher was his Aunt Phoebe, his mother's sister, who gave him his first
piano lessons. This is a woman who may very well be responsible for the blossoming love and
creation of the prepared piano. After John decided he wanted to continue with a career in music, he
attended UCLA to learn under classical American composer Arthur Schoenberg. In a way,
Schoenberg taught Cage to be different. Cage decided he didn't want to be just any old classical
composer. He wanted to be remembered, and to do that he knew he had to embark on the ultimate
path of creativity and innovation, much like his father. Cage moved on and went to Black Mountain
College where he joined forces with Merce Cunningham and Robert Rauschenberg. Although these
two artists were a major part of who Cage became, it was not until he began adopting ideologies
from Marcel Duchamp that he started to come up with ideas for meaningful work. Duchamp's
"found art" inspired Cage to be convenient and use the natural beauty of the world to express his
work (PBS, American Masters). Cage began experimenting when he would find a way to modify
instruments. These alterations continued for a while until he realized maybe it was best to take on
the career sense of his father and possibly create an entirely new and unique instrument. About a
decade later he dabbled into the more tech side

John Cage Research Paper
John Cage (1912–1992) was an American composer whose most famous work is actually not music
at all. The piece is called, 4'33", otherwise known as "The Silent Piece", is just that, four minutes
and 33 seconds of silence. Since I didn't know what to expect, I thought the sound on my computer
was broken!!! I waited and waited for him to begin, then, just like that, it was over. The significance
of the piece is its simplicity. It is meant to teach us that there is no such thing as "true silence"
(NPR). No matter how quiet you think it is, there is always a sound if you are still and listen
carefully to what is actually going on around you. The piece was fist played in August 1952 in a tiny
auditorium called Maverick Concert Hall in Hurley, New York and the musicians sat on stage for
four minutes and 33 seconds. ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
There is even an app for your iPhone that will show you what sounds are around you while the piece
is actually NOT playing. You can sit through the performance of all three movements and then share
the sounds of your environment. Not to mention, there is a web–site dedicated to teaching you how
to play the piece for yourself. It may have been a statement the first time, but enough already. I
understand the concept of the piece, I guess I just don't know

Creative Writing: Cages
"Experiment Eleven, step forward." ~ The bars on my cage opened, letting me out. Two guards were
one either side, preventing me from escaping. ~ I looked around, gray walls surrounding me. The
guards picked up the cage, going out the door and walked out, the door locking. ~ I stopped
scratching at the shock collar around my neck. I had on a hospital gown, dirty and torn. The biggest
tears were on the back, two for my wings. ~ They were white, with a bit of gray in them. ~ The gray
walls shifted, turning into a maze. "The rules are simple. You have to keep running to try and find an
exit. If you slow down, you'll get an electric shock. If you manage to find an exit, we'll let you out
for some time." ~ I walked to the beginning of the maze, getting ready to ... Show more content on
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The jagged ground hurt my hands, a bit of blood staining the ground. I felt electricity run through
my body, making me scream in pain. ~ "Get up." I bolted up, running again. This continued for what
seemed forever, me begging my body to keep running even though it was worn out and I had no
energy left. ~ I found an exit, the adrenaline coming back in. I ran to the door, gasping for air. ~
"Well done, Eleven." ~ The door opened, two doctors coming in. They both had bunny masks, one
carrying a cup with a straw, the other pushing a wheelchair. ~ They gestured for me to sit down, and
I did. The doctor with the wheelchair put straps around my arms, waist, and legs to make sure I
couldn't escape. ~ I knew better than to struggle. The person controlling the collar would shock me
until I passed out and I wouldn't be let outside. ~ I closed my eyes, trying to get my breathing back
to normal. Something pressed against my mouth, a straw. I drank a bit, feeling the cold water run
down my throat. ~ I drank faster, trying to drink as much as I could before it was taken away. The
straw was taken out of my mouth, a towel wiping my mouth. I sighed, opening my eyes.

A Dead Boy
Dewey Skeates had just seen a dead boy. The image had been running through his mind all day.
Blood on his chest and blood on his hands and blood in his mouth. It didn't make any sense. Death
didn't exist. It just wasn't something that was physically possible until someone reached at least one
hundred and fifty years of age or so. The government had issued a statement during the genetic
renaissance that said that the whole population had had their genetic codes altered to allow for
enzymes to quickly fix anything that was broken. Dewey being an incredibly smart boy for his
eleven years, a genius one might even call him, was left stumped by the image that was replaying
over and over in his head. He saw no way for death to be possible. His older sister, Ariata, had
suggested that maybe some people could die but no one knew when they did. He had
wholeheartedly rejected that theory, but it left his mind whirring with possibilities. Oh the endless
possibilities, he thought to himself.
Several hours after the days gruesome events, Dewey found himself alone in his room, pondering
the unlikeliness of the situation. His room was filled with a myriad of scientific instruments. They
were strewn across his floor along with several pieces of paper covered in calculations and ideas. A
hamster cage sat on a table in the corner. Dewey stared at the cage. It was home to his Hamster
Daxel, who was just about as old as Dewey was. Dewey silently approached the cage wondering if
hamsters

Comparing The Cage And Black-Colored Bird Experiments
The first illusion I conducted an experiment with was the "Bird in a Cage" illusion. In the illusion,
there were two parrots. One green parrot and one red cardinal facing each other with a cage in–
between them. The instructions were to concentrate on the eye of the red parrot for twenty seconds
and then look at the center of the cage. The following instructions were to do the same experiment,
but with the green cardinal next. When looking in the cage after the twenty seconds, you could see a
glimmer of a faint cyan–colored bird. Likewise, with the green bird, you could see a faint magenta–
colored bird. This illusion is based on the idea of an 'afterimage'. An afterimage is fairly self–
explanatory. It is essentially an image that your brain continues to see even after you have looked
away from the object itself. Light sensitive cells, called cones, are affected by the colors of what you
are looking at. The sudden change of these lights can cause a ghost image that is a different light
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Both the black lines and white lines had a grey rectangle inside of the line. From first glance, you
assume that the two greys are completely different shades. That, however, was not the case. Once
you remove the black lines entirely, the greys magically appear to be the exact same shade. This
illusion shows how your brain is highly affected by the difference between the dark light and the
bright light. The lighter looking grey was in the black line, while the darker was in the white line.
This shows how our brain changes its perception based on comparison of the light around

John Cages Influence On Society
As one of the most radical composers in the 20th century, John Cage introduced new ideas of what
music is. Breaking away from the traditional idea that music stems solely from the musician's
preconceived and structured arrangement of sounds from specific instruments, Cage's philosophy of
music is based on the idea that all sounds can work cooperatively to create music, including those
from the environment.
Strongly influenced by the principles in Zen Buddhism and Indian music, Cage began to explore
new medians for music; He incorporated different elements by relying heavily on chance and
randomness. Cage worked hard to create pieces that detached himself, as the composer, far away
from the piece itself as possible– to allow the listener

John Cage is a controversial composer. Some may say he revolutionized music composition and
changed music history of the 20th century, yet others do not even acknowledge his compositional
contributions as music. I believe John Cage was a brilliant artist, and his works push the boundaries
of both sound and music to create a genre of his own by using the elements of silence and chance.
Through his compositional development, one can track his changing music philosophy as it grew
from a limited notion of silence, to the enjoyment of the element of chance, to a redefined meaning
of silence that reaches beyond the grasp of most innovators still today. In a recording of Cage's piece
Seven2 one can hear a landscape created through sporadic sound. ... Show more content on
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The Juilliard Journal referred to John Cage's compositional experimentation as "transforming a
familiar instrument into something enticingly alien." Cage began experimenting with instruments
early in his musical career by first altering pianos with metal plates and screws before playing them.
In the 1960's Cage began a new movement appropriately titled "found Sound." ("John Cage: About
the Composer"). He used unconventional instruments such as handheld radios, water, and sea shells.
He was pushing the boundaries of music by claiming that sound is a form of music. The randomness
of it added an element of chance to these experiments, some recordings could never be duplicated.
What makes the music of John Cage easily recognizable is it's unpredictability. The two well known
pieces employing chance operations are "Imaginary Landscape No 4″ and "Water Music." While I
personally find these pieces hard to listen to, Cage's philosophy regarding the role of chance within
music is an important development in the world of music history, for it led to him furthering the
definition of music. Music doesn't have to be written and replicated specifically for it to be
considered a fully composed and developed work. "Imaginary Landscape No 4," consisting of
twelve radios played at once sounds different every time based on the broadcasts playing, yet it is
still a fully developed musical

A Short Story : The Story Of My Childhood
I remember coming home from my preschool as a little shy 3 year old. The day prior, I had painted
what I thought was a masterpiece which was a large green dinosaur. I was so eager, I couldn't wait to
show my mom what I had made. Right when I opened the front door, before I could run off to hug
my mom, I heard my sisters giggling. Completely ignoring my painting, I tossed it onto the ground
and ran up the stairs as fast as my little legs could carry me to where my sisters were. Out of breath,
I saw my sisters were crowding around a tiny, colorful box. Before I could even move, I started
screaming out of joy. My mom and my older sisters had gone into the pet store and had gotten a
plump, reddish–brown syrian hamster, which I had soon named Kelly. My sisters also picked out a
large enclosure with many tunnels for Kelly to explore in. My favorite accessory my sister got was a
large purple ball in which Kelly could run around and explored in. I thought that was the ultimate,
greatest thing ever made for hamsters, so while my dad was setting up the cage, fascinated I
watched Kelly run around in the ball. After a long, pain–filled 10 minutes of asking my dad "Is it
done yet?" the hamster's cage was finished. I was so exhilarated to put the hamster in I ran over to
the ball, that's when I noticed Kelly had opened the top of the plastic ball and was trying to escape! I
wasn't sure if I should tell my dad the incident, because I thought I just put the lid of the ball on
wrong, so I just ignored it. After scooping up Kelly, my dad put her in her new cage and she loved
it! She started borrowing in the bedding and was exploring all the tubes. My dad then suggested that
we should go eat dinner, so we closed her cage and went upstairs to eat dinner. After dinner, my
sisters and I went to go put Kelly in the ball to run around. "Kelly got out of the ball before dinner."
I said to my sisters. "It's fine. We'll watch her the whole time so we will see if she's trying to
escape." said my oldest sister, Molly. Convinced I agreed to let her run around in her plastic ball. We
were all mesmerized by watching Kelly run and explore our basement. She would run as fast as she
could and then stop and turn in a different

Book Review : Cecil The Snake
Once upon a time in a zoo in Virginia, there lived a snake named Cecil. This story takes place in the
year 2017. One Friday night, Cecil the snake was going to commit a serious crime. This is how he
did it. Cecil watched the digital clock in the reptile room. He was waiting for the clock to switch
from 7:59 to 8:00.
"Closing time," Tyler the mouse thought as the clock struck, "Time to go hang out." Tyler lived in
the cage next to Cecil.
"Attention,tourists",the zookeeper said on the announcements,``The zoo is closed so everyone
please leave the zoo.`` The zookeeper walked to her car and drove out of the zoo parking lot.
"The zookeeper is gone,time to party!" thought Cecil.
Dusk, the raven, cawed at the zookeeper's car when he drove ... Show more content on
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"What are you doing to that wall?!"Sasha roared.
"Nothing." Cecil lied as he escaped quickly in the air duct.
Sasha growled furiously. She growled so loud that even the polar bears up in Antarctica could hear
it.
The next morning, Holmes, the security dog, was inspecting the animal cages. When he ran past the
reptile room,he picked up a scent. He followed the smell to the reptile room. He sniffed the poison
dart frog exhibit.
"You're not guilty,"Holmes announced.
"Well, I guess we are all done here,"Cecil glanced around nervously. Holmes inspected every cage
in the reptile room except Cecil's.
When Holmes was three steps out of the reptile room, he unexpectedly picked up a scent, which was
about to reveal the animal who was behind the vandalized wall. The scent was coming from Cecil's
cage.
"I'm getting a smell."Holmes said,sniffing the air. The smell lead him all the way to Cecil's cage. He

inspected Cecil's cage. `Ì'm smelling traces of mud!"Holmes informed, `ànd it coming from that
pile of rocks!"
"Now, what is your name?" inquired Holmes.
"Cecil."Cecil responded.
"So,Cecil,"Holmes said curiously,``Were you sneaking out of your cage last night?"
"No."Cecil stammered, `Ì......I was......in my cage,.......organizing...Ummm.........the plants."
"Why is there a bucket of mud in your cage?"
"I...Ummm......I Ummm..........I usually use mud to paint.........rocks."
"So if you didn't vandalize the wall,who did?"
"It was......Tyler. He did it."
That

Personal Narrative: Phoenixville
It was the last game of the season. We had won every single game except for one. Our team had tied
with Phoenixville, and today was the day that we would beat Phoenixville. Almost every day of the
week we would show up for practice for 2 hours, and we have improved by a lot.
Our game was in Phoenixville at the school, and the game was away. It was not the best day to play
a game, but our team was ready. Clouds filled the sky making it look like it was going to rain. The
ground was a little muddy from rained yesterday, and the sky was turning a shade of grey.
"You got this. Don't give up no matter how tough the game gets. You're ready."My coach said to me.
" Ok, thanks." I responded. I stood in the goalie cage, and saw the field being covered ... Show more
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Great job Samantha!" The other team's parents had yelled. They stood up and cheered as teammates
from her team gathered around her patting her on the back. They made their way to the middle of
the field giving the ball to my team.
" It's ok Amanda! You got this!" My coach had said. The ref blew her whistle indicating we can
start. Maddie passed the ball to raina who passed it to maggie, making their way up the field towards
the other goal. One of the girls from the other team stole the ball and came at me.
" Come on! Come on!" The parents from the other team screamed. I got really nervous, I knew my
team was ready, they just had to push their limits. Everyone looked so tired on my team, and some
on the other. But the one girl with the ball did not slow down. I remember the last game we tied with
them. The same girl that was coming at me now was the girl who shot the last goal. She always shot
in the right corner, but she kept switching it when she scored that last goal. It happened the last 30
seconds of that game, and when she shot it last game, I knew I couldn't let that happen again.
" 30 seconds!" The ref

Essay On Luke Cage
The Netflix original hit series Marvel's Luke Cage aired September 30, 2016, is an adaption of the
comic book of the same name created by Archie Goodwin and John Romita, Sr. The Netflix series'
creator is Cheo Hodari Coker, known for his work as one of the writers on the film Notorious, the
story of the life and death of Notorious B.I.G (a.k.a. Christopher Wallace). Additionally, the film
boasts a list of renowned Producers known for their participation in several Superhero genre films,
most notably Stan Lee, the former director of Marvel comics.
Luke Cage is supported by an ethically diverse cast in both lead and supporting roles as well as both
a strong male and female presence. The lead actor is played by Mike Colter, known for his role ...
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Enter detective Misty Knight, the complex main character joined by her longtime partner Rafael
Scarfe, both operating as their own antitheses. Misty the good cop, seeks to find the truth behind the
emergence of Luke Cage and the flow of dirty money throughout the city. While her partner Scarfe,
plays the morally ambiguous cop, who for years lied to Misty while working as one of Cottonmouth
henchmen in the force.
The beauty of their relationship is how much Scarfe respects Misty even serving as her personal
mentor. When it is revealed that Scarfe was crooked cop on Cottonmouth's payroll, he had a heart–
felt conversation with Misty. Scarfe revealed, all the lies and crime he committed after losing his son
and that he could sympathize with Misty on hard it is for a woman and even more so for a woman of
color to make it as a detective in the force. Scarfe's relationship with Misty reveals that, while he
was acting on a criminal's payroll he never faltered in his respect and support of her.
In a similar fashion to Misty and Scarfe's relationship, Cottonmouth, Shades and Mariah Dillard
relationship starts of as a mutually benefiting relationship only shift into a downward spiral when
circumstances begin to change. Cottonmouth, partners up with his cousin Mariah in order to launder
her money as a way to legitimize her campaign funds as councilwoman. With the emergence of
Luke Cage disrupting Cottonmouth's operation and the influx of funds

Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar Essays
At a point in time in the life of every person, a feeling of being trapped or stuck occurs. The poem
"Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar represents the speaker's vast knowledge of the feeling of
being enclosed in a place where they are tremendously uncomfortable. The speaker explains the
actions of a bird trapped in a small cage and explains the motives behind the actions. The speaker
reveals that the song the caged bird sings is not a melody exuberating joy, but a cry begging for
freedom. The title of the poem, "Sympathy", represents the feeling that the speaker has toward a bird
enclosed in a cage. The speaker relates to the bird by repeating the words "I know" and following
them with an action of the bird, revealing that he has also ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net
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The bird then returns to his former place in the cage, the speaker emphasizing the pain in the bird's
"old, old scars", imparting that the bird has attempted to escape in this manner multiple times in the
past. From the line in which the speaker says "And they pulse again with a keener sting," which
refers to the bird's scars, the reader can assume that the "keener sting" is a fire in the bird's wings
fueled by determination to achieve freedom, and that the bird will continue attempting to escape
relentlessly. The speaker states that he "knows why he beats his wing", meaning that he knows the
forces that can drive a creature to harm themselves in the process of trying to achieve something,
and he has come in contact with those forces in his life. Lastly, the speaker talks of the motive
behind the caged bird's song. When people hear birds singing in nature, or in cages, they often
assume that the bird is singing a jocose tune. People typically fail to analyze the potential emotions
of the bird and its feelings toward its environment. Rather than singing a tune of joy, the caged bird
sings a tragic melody of sorrow, a desperate cry for freedom. When the speaker says "a plea, that
upward to Heaven he flings", he is alluding to God and Heaven, to which the bird directs his cries in
the hope that they will be heard. The attitude that the speaker has towards the woeful bird is, as the
title says, sympathetic. The speaker is able

John Cages Research Paper
The music of John Cage is highly criticized, yet highly revered within the same societal realm. The
question that has yet to be answered, even after fifty plus years, is John Cages music really "music"
or is it just noise? The dictionary definition of music is the following: "vocal or instrumental sounds
(or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of
emotion." My personal version of the definition of music is a variant of the definition listed above. I
believe that music is the combination of vocal, instrumental sounds, or silence (or all the above)
produced in a way to express a feeling or emotion. Based on my own personal definition of music, I
do consider John Cages pieces to be music.
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it is my opinion that this John Cage piece is considered music. John Cage talks about how all you
need for noise to be music is for there to be sound created in some form and fashion and for the
sound to create rhythmic patterns. I agree with him in that sense. Music is simply different sounds
combined in different rhythms. However, simply because my definition of music similarly matches
with John Cage's definition doesn't mean that the listener must modify their definition, because in
any definition of music that a person creates they cannot argue the fact that music is varying sounds
combined with rhythm. But John Cage music isn't simply about the music itself, but he argues that
it's also about the performance. Each time a piece is performed the audience will be different, the
performer may be feeling different, and therefore, the piece will be different. For "Water Walk"
specifically, it doesn't include any visual effects nor would they be necessary for the performance.
There is a visual stimulant when watching him start a new contraption to create each sound,
however it is not necessary for those visuals to be seen by the audience to listen to the

How Did Cage Influence Theater Artist
Influence on Theater Artist and Practitioners.
Whether Cage directly influenced artists, it is difficult to put into context. Hence, one can argue that
Cage as stated in the introduction paragraph, made an impact on modern music through his
incorporation of avant–garde instrumentation and the idea of ecological music was dictated by
chance. However, Cage had examined the use of avant–garde music in experimental cinema. He
used chance, avant–garde instrumentation, electro acoustics, ambient sound, and silence in his film
scores. In addition, Cage had collaborated with theater artist/practitioners such as Maya Deren,
Sidney Peterson, and Herbert Matter, who were central figures in American avant–garde filmmaking
as well as experimental design. One can argue that indeed, Cage dealt with experimentation, and
innovation, chance operations, which is what avant–garde, is essentially about. Therefore, this is the
major reason critics laud him, as one of the leading figures of the post–war avant–garde movement.
It is worth mentioning, that other experimental, artist and practitioners inspired some of his works.
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Jones also viewed Cage's work as an act of composition, and the execution of the composition, as
well as the experience of the auditors as separate activities. Jones asserts that Cage had assigned a
higher priority to the author's intent or choices of presentation than to the audience's capacity to
interpret that intent. (Jones 7) It quite clear, that although these examples of these artist/practitioners,
theoretically, are not considered to theater artist, one needs to mindful that these artists such as
Cunningham, Jones, performed their pieces in a theatrical space. Therefore, the evidence now points
to that, it is possible for Cage to have had an influence on avant–garde theater artist and

Social Irony in Connell’s Short Story “the Cage Man”
Muhammad Rizky
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17/01/13
Social Irony in Connell's Short Story "The Cage Man"
Irony can be defined as a double significance which arises from the contrast in values associated
with two different point of view (Leech and Short, Style in fiction; 223). The most usual kind is that
which involves a contrast between a point of view stated or implied in some part of the fiction, and
the assumed point of view of the author, and hence of the reader. In the Richard Connell's short story
entitled "The Cage Man" it is Horace Nimms, the main character of the story, who is involved in
contrast social value; between Horace Nimms point of view and my point of view. What makes this
short story unique is that when in another Connell's short ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net
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Furthermore, the reason of being of S. Cowan, the Efficiency Expert Extraordinary, actually is to
make Horace out of the cage. Cowan took the part in the story as a "stimulus" for Horace and
therefore for the story itself. Through his "unusual" anatomical and psychological observation
Cowan decides to place Horace from his "mathematical cage" to "mechanical cage", replacing his
position with the previous elevator man of where he worked at the moment. He makes Horace
struggle to get back his "altar of addition and subtraction", in which later in the story acted as the
main reason on how Horace finally got the ear of Oren Hammer, a man who washes the faces of
forty million people every morning.
The loose of his cage motivates Horace to take what the Efficiency Expert Extraordinary had taken
from him which used to be his dwelling for the last twenty–one year. In search of the way to "get his
home back" Horace crucially confronts a chance while he is escorting his car. His eagerness and
desire on getting his exalted temple back braces him to declare his existence, ignoring the cutaway
coat and the dazzling top hat and the worth fifty–thousand–a–year jutting jaw which used to be

How The Cage Can Be Treated For Adults And Adolescents...
alcohol in the morning to elude withdrawal and to steady their nerves (Aertgeerts, et al., 2004).
These transitional questions, in spite of missing discriminative value, are beneficial for familiarizing
the subject, as well as making the consultation less threatening (Aertgeerts, et al., 2004). Item
responses are scored zero to one, with a higher score a suggestion of alcohol problems. The total
score can range from zero to four (Aertgeerts, et al., 2004). This screening apparatus is simply
administered and scored and can often times be committed to memory. The CAGE can be used in
general medical populations in a primary care setting and be administered at no cost to adults and
adolescents over the age of 16 (Aertgeerts, et al., 2004). It has been distinguished that the CAGE
takes less than one minute to manage and score. However, it does not screen for drug–related
difficulties (Aertgeerts, et al., 2004). The CAGE has been used in numerous cultures worldwide, but
often vigilant rendition is essential to maintain accurateness (Aertgeerts, et al., 2004). However, the
CAGE presented with inferior performance than the AUDIT in recognizing alcohol use disorders
amongst African American men, white women, and Mexican American patients (Bradley, et al.,
2007). The CAGE has been found to perform poorly in younger age groups. Some propose that this
is for the reason that the items may be less pertinent to adolescent populations, such as morning

Why Is John Cage Four Minute Thirty-Three Seconds Of Silence
John Cage's 4'33"
By Farah El Baba
FAAH 229G
Miss Rayya Badran
March 5 2016
1 4'33", also known as "four minutes thirty–three seconds of silence", is the most famous and most
controversial musical creation of the American experimental composer John Cage (1921 – 1992).
Known best for his unusual or different kinds of compositions, Cage composed this piece in 1952
for any instrument or group of instruments and divided it into 3 movements, throughout which the
performer is instructed not to play the instrument during the entire 4 minutes and thirty–three
seconds. And despite the fact that it is commonly known as "the silent piece", it aims to manifest or
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As long as his sight does not leave the stopwatch, he cannot perform it in a different pace (too fast or
too slow), nor can he play a different tone or hit the wrong keys. Hens it seems that it is all
controlled under predetermined conditions.
On the other hand, the piece in itself and by its nature is in fact more of a matter of chance and
coincidence than it is anything else. That being said, we can fairly confirm that any sound that the
listener hears during its performance is entirely and absolutely due to chance and is in fact not
intended by the performer nor is it even written by the composer.
In conclusion, John Cage's 4'33" is considered one of the most dazzling and confounding musical
pieces. Free of any predeterminations or intentions, this masterpiece is the first and only of its kind
to require a very open mind to grasp it with all the deep meanings it holds. It is never–
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ending in the sense that it does not have a beginning neither an ending. It's an attempt to express
nothing by expressing everything in the

Analysis Of Michael Harvey 's ' The Hero ' Essay
WRITING ASSIGNMENT 2
Michael Barlow
Saint Leo University
When I think of a hero, I think of someone who is not only mentally strong, but has the endurance to
go the distance. We all have has some heroes in our lives. Just ask any kid these days who their hero
is. I am sure you will hear a familiar name such as, Superman, Spiderman, Ironman and the most
recent one my son says is the Avengers. They are the best superhero in the world, but I say to my
son what about all the hero that are no on the TV. He looks at me like I have lost my mind.
I look at the hero, and I see a broad variety of hero aside from the comic books, but in everyday
people that go through life doing the very same thing as we do. Not all hero's wear red capes and
masks to hide their identities. If you look at the day to day people like the fire department and the
police department, those are some of the best heroes. They volunteer every day to keep people out
harm's way while in most cases placing their own lives in jeopardy to save lives. Those people do
whatever it takes to get the job done with little to no recognition of what they have done besides the
self–satisfaction and a pat on the back for a good job.
Another example of hero's that stands out to me would be the U.S. service members who are serving
in all branches of the military. These guys and gals are volunteers that decide to serve their country
from whatever the reason weather it was a family tradition or they sought the

John Cage Is The Epitome Of A Cutting Edge Composer
John cage is the epitome of a cutting edge composer. This is due to the fact that cage has achieved
an appreciation for music which is unmatched by any other composer. Cage enjoys sounds because
of their dynamics and their lengths, something other composers usually overlook. This gives him the
advantage to compose music in a unique manner; he can make music that is unmatched by others.
This is what undoubtedly makes him one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. One
significant reason why cage is considered unique is because of his experimentation with unorthodox
instruments such as the prepared piano and tape recorder. This was in efforts to break the musical
boundaries of traditional music in the west, this style was a change from his traditional musical
styles early on in his career, which were more alike to his mentors and followed more of 12–tone
style. The ideas brought forward by cage made him more of a philosopher than a composer, he
broke the normal role of a composer by encouraging people to focus on sounds rather than music
and by promoting eastern philosophies, specifically Zen Buddhism. He has extended his teachings
for years to come after his death by publishing many books such as "silence" and "lectures and
writings". Cage always placed an emphasis on the ideas conveyed by his music more than how they
sounded, for example cage composed a piece in which the performers are silent, only with ambient
sounds in the background. This goes to show

Short Note On Raising Mice And Rabbits
When I turned 8, my parents bought me and my sister a hamster. We were so excited. I promised
them that we would take a full responsibility for her. We didn't think twice about all the work we
had to do. We were just thrilled about our new family member.
The next day, we began to do some research on how to raise hamsters. First, we went through all
kinds of them and their personalities so that we could pick the best one. We came up with the tiniest,
cutest little hamster. Back then, we didn't know it was a dwarf hamster, the sensitive, annoying kind.
Then, we googled to see which cage and food would be nice for our hamster. The cage we chose
was very expensive. It was a three–floored cage, with an eating room, a bed, ladders, and a ... Show
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She looked so lovely and cute in her new shelter. But she refused our hands. After that, we were
hurt. Both physically and emotionally. She bit us.
I put her back inside the cage. This time, instead of moving around, she went directly to the bed: the
only place where we couldn't see her because of the shadow. We knew she wanted to avoid us. Our
mother told us that she was just stressed right now, but that didn't make us feel any better.
The next day, we found a yellowish liquid on the top floor in the corner. We knew right away that
our hamster had peed last night. "She thinks the cage is safe." , I thought. "But why doesn't she think
we are safe to be with?".
We replaced her food every day and cleaned the bath powder whenever we could. She still didn't
seem to like us. We tried to touch her, but in return, she bit us. I gave up. I didn't want her anymore.
I regretted I even bought her in the first place. I hated her, to be honest. But everything changed the
next day.
She wasn't sleeping in her bed. She wasn't rolling in the bathtub. She wasn't running in the wheel.
She wasn't hiding under the sawdust. She was gone. I panicked when I realized the fact that she'd
escaped. But where? At that moment, I heard a soft rustling sound under the refrigerator. "No way.",
I thought. I found a flashlight and I lay down flat on the ground. At first, I couldn't see anything. But
a few minutes later, I finally found her. She was wandering around. She

Descriptive Essay : ' A Cry Comes From Inside The Cage '
My small, pudgy hands reach towards the bright green eyes glowing inside the cage. A furry head
pushes up against my fingers, longing for the familiar touch of an old friend. A tear rolls down my
cheek, following many others that had already come, and proceeding many that would follow. A cry
comes from inside the cage; a goodbye. How could I ever live without the only pet I've ever known?
When did things go so wrong?
It was a hot day in July, with the air as sticky as the popsicle juice covering my hand. The heat was
unbearable. It was going to be a lazy Saturday. My family separated after breakfast. Out of sheer
boredom, I went outside to the front yard. Settling down in the long grass, fatigue came over me. I
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Mary immediately jumped onboard with my idea. We made posters, highlighted with a picture of
Liam, and hung them around the neighborhood.
Kapitula 3
'We checked the mail everyday,' I think, 'everyone wanted to know why our cat hadn't returned to us.
But we were not a fan of the answer.'
Later in the week, we received a letter, with the address being on a road a couple streets down from
us. We tore it open eagerly.
Dear residents,
I hope this letter finds you all well. I have seen the posters you have posted around the
neighborhood, and I believe I have found your cat, 'Liam'.
We rejoiced upon hearing this news. My dad continued reading the letter aloud:
I call him Sparky. Sparky is alive and well, and he's very energetic. I have enclosed a picture of him
for you. I found him without a collar. I have decided to keep your cat. On Saturday afternoon, I will
bring your cat in a crate to say your goodbyes.
Our faces grew more and more dismal after each sentence. After concluding, I pull the picture out of
the envelope. All I saw was a angry cat stuffed in a revolting pink collar. It was the saddest picture I
had ever seen.
We all looked forward to seeing our cat again, but at the same time, dread gnawed at our stomachs
as we waited for the day we had to say goodbye.
'And now it's here.' I mourn. I whisper to my cat: "I'll always remember you Liam. You always
understood me, even when

Analysis Of John Cage 's ' Song Books '
Luiza Arefyeva
Music History – Icons
October 12, 2015
Prospectus
John Cage – "Song Books"
John Cage was born in 1912 in Los Angeles. His father was an inventor, and his mother worked as a
journalist for the LA Times. Cage was first introduced to the piano music of the 19th century by his
aunt; he began taking piano lessons in fourth grade. By the time he graduated from high school, he
was convinced that he wanted to be a writer, and in 1928 Cage became a theology major in college.
However, two years after he decided that going to Europe would be more beneficial for his future
writings than studying at school was. He spent a couple years in Europe, studying various forms of
art. In 1931 he came back to California, and started earning money by teaching private lessons on
contemporary art.
In 1933 began to focus on music rather than on visual art, and moved to New York, and later to
California (UCLA), to study with Schoenberg. In Cage's autobiography, he mentions:
"When I asked Schoenberg to teach me, he said, "You probably can 't afford my price." I said, "Don
't mention it; I don 't have any money." He said, "Will you devote your life to music?" This time I
said "Yes." He said he would teach me free of charge. I gave up painting and concentrated on
music."
Schoenberg prided himself in daunting his students:
"I consider it as one of my merits that I did not encourage composing... [in that I treated] hundreds
of pupils in a manner that showed I did not think too much of

John Cage 's Theory Of Silence And Chance Operations
During the twentieth century, one composer in particular, John Cage, challenged the idea of music,
sound, and art. Because of a distinct style and the utilization of innovative mechanisms, Cage
proved to be one of the world's most original composers. He took music into a new direction
creating sounds and works that have never been performed before. Through his philosophy of
silence and chance operations, John Cage distinguished the difference between sound and music;
sounds possess the ability to stand independently while the creation of music depends on sounds and
their particular arrangement. On September 5, 1912, in Los Angeles, California, John Cage was
born. From the start, environments of "constant innovation, improvisation, and exploration" had
surrounded Cage, as his father was an inventor (Kozinn "John Cage"). Growing up, he studied and
learned how to play the piano. At the age of twelve, he had created his own weekly radio show in
which he would feature his own performances (Kozinn "John Cage"). After graduating from Los
Angeles High School, Cage began to study at Pomona College. Shortly after, he discontinued his
education at the institution, and saw the education he received as "a lack of original thinking"
("Music Is Everywhere: John Cage At 100"). This action first introduces how Cage lived life by his
own rules, and foreshadows how he would eventually bend the rules and traditions of music. In
1931, Cage began to study composition while under the

John Cage, an American composer and philosopher, was deeply interested in aleatory, or chance,
music, in which musicians used non–traditional and random approaches in order to determine
several factors of their pieces. This particular style of creating compositions is a sharp contrast to the
methodic and precise style of Classical composers. Throughout his life and career, Cage adopted the
use of intended sounds to create tension in pieces of work. One of his most famous conceptual
composition that uses this specific idea is 4'33" whose purpose is to make people genuinely listen. In
my opinion, I strongly agree with Cage's belief that the music around us is just as valid as the
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For instance, Cage has claimed in a interview that he loves sounds just how they are and they do not
to be anymore than they already (John Cage about Silence). In more simpler terms, he is asserting
the fact that he believes planned out music with specific notes and certain melodies is no better than
the sounds heard through daily life. Moreover, the significance one might find in 4'33" is the utter
simplicity and beauty that can be found within the piece because of it's compelling and influential
nature (Pritchett, 10). Another concept that made Cage's music one of the most misunderstood
pieces ever written is how people now a days are often used to music being in an exact way. Music
in today's society is at a certain pace of tempo, contain repetitive chants, and a specific rhythmic
pattern. Yet, for many, Cage's 4'33" was a kind of artistic prayer in a serene, calm environment that
opened the ears and allowed one to hear the world anew. Likewise, Cage used an act of framing, of
enclosing environmental and unintended sounds in a moment of attention in order to open the mind
to the fact that all sounds are music (Kyle Gann, 2). The essential reason behind this new approach
to listening is to establish a new understanding of music itself by blurring the traditional boundaries
between art and life. Overall, the context within Cage's composition is different to every person
since each individual finds a distinct interpretation because sounds can not be replicated to be
sounded the same in every

John Milton Cage Jr. Essay
John Milton Cage Jr.
John Cage became famous for his unorthodox theories and very experimental compositions. He was
an American composer born in Los Angeles on September 5, 1912. Neither of his parents went to
college, and John himself dropped out after a mere two years in college. His father earned a living
being an inventor. Cage credits his father, being an inventor, as very influential to the way in which
he wrote music. John also considered himself as an innovator and discoverer in the field of music.
John Cage took traditional classical music and turned it into a futuristic collection of sounds totally
different from what everyone was used to. He has expanded the idea of what sounds constituted
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Cage, in 1938, once conquered the challenge of creating percussion instruments for a dance in a
theatre that had no wings or orchestra pit, there was just barely enough room for a small grand piano
built into the front left of the audience. Being so limited on space and not being able to neither find,
nor fit an African twelve tone row, he invented the prepared piano. The prepared piano he created by
adding screws, bolts, rubber, wood and weather striping between the strings of the grand piano. The
piano was transformed into a percussion orchestra, with the loudness of that of a harpsichord. Cage
later went on to earn awards for "Sonatas and Interludes" which was one of his most important
works for the prepared piano in 1946 to 1948. Cage later went on to say "My favorite music is the
music that I haven't yet heard. I don't here the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I have
[not] yet heard." This quote summarizes his philosophy on indeterminacy. This belief led to the
creation of 4'33'', his recording of the sounds around you. The only thing specified is the length of
the piece. It is said that he used 4.33 minutes which equals 273 seconds. And ––273 centigrade =
zero degrees where everything would be completely silent and atoms quite moving. What do you
think about this theory? Later John went on studying Zen Buddhism and the "I Ching" which is
what steered him more so in the direction of indeterminacy. With this style he would

John Cage
John Cage – Music in Silence When the word music is heard, generally the first thing that comes to
mind is how one would be able to relate to the piece. John Cage, a contemporary composer,
expanded the normality of music by sounds with no meaning or emotional connection and silence.
The propinquity between mind and music is difficult to sever, and to have music without an
emotional connection is unfathomable. John Milton Cage Jr. is an American contemporary composer
born September 05, 1912 in Los Angeles, California. (cite) Cage attended Pomona College in
Claremont, California momentarily before returning back to Los Angeles. (cite) His return was due
to following his mentor, a classical composer by the name of Arnold Schoenberg. (cite) Due to Cage
not paying for his lessons, it is difficult to say what classes he attended. (Hicks 128) Between 1935
and 1936, Schoenberg taught at both the University of Southern California and the University of
California. (Hicks 128) The classes consisted of composition, harmony, analysis and counterpoint.
(Hicks 128) Many of Cage's earlier compositions are based on the teachings of Schoenberg. The
compositions of Solo Obbligato Accompaniment of Two Voices in Canon, and Six Short Inventions
on the Subjects of the Solo (1934) and Composition for Three Voices (1934), are both similar pieces
to music of that time. Each voice in the piece is limited to a range of two octaves. Cage tried to
space the repetitions of the tones as far as

An Analysis Of Susan Glaspell 's ' Trifles '
A Love Gone Bad A woman who was once full of life and happiness is now left with no joy in her
life. In the play, "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell, we see how Mrs. Wright has changed over the years.
We see how cheerful she was before marrying Mr. Wright. While trying to solve the murder, the
author uses symbolism, conflict, and irony. The are many examples of conflict in this play. The most
apparent conflict is that between the men and the women in the play. In the first parts of the
investigation, the sheriff is already showing his feelings towards women. "Well, can you beat the
woman! Held for murder and worryin' about her preserves" (Glaspell). To Mr. Peters, the concerns
of women mean nothing. Even Mr. Hale's view of the women is crude. "Well, women are used to
worrying over trifles" (Glaspell). Mr. Hale even thinks that what the women are worried about isn't
important. The county attorney is also in conflict with the ladies in the story. Mr. Henderson can't
even dry his hands without finding some excuse to talk bad about Mrs. Wright. "Dirty towels"
(Glaspell). "Not much of a housekeeper, would you say ladies" (Glaspell). In the eyes of Mr.
Henderson, the women are nothing more than housekeepers. Mrs. Hale doesn't see things the way
the men do. "There's a great deal of work to be done on a farm" (Glaspell). She wasn't only
defending Mrs. Wright when she said this but also defending herself and Mrs. Peters. She knows
that the job of a housewife is a lot more than just

Personal Statement : My Assistant
In 2000, I was twenty–four years of age. I was working in one of the most–prestigious financial
institutions the country. I reported directly to the CFO. I never knew what my official job title was. I
was plucked from the trading cage. My boss had four executive male secretaries, who in turn had
eight male secretaries. Two each. I knew I wasn 't a secretary. I knew I made a lot of money. I hadn 't
the slightest clue what for. Until recently.
During the winter, the 72nd second floor resembled a boat deck in the sky. Surrounded by white
mist, white shirts, and stock market screens, the teetering floors in high winds became the highlight
of my day. At 600: AM it resembled the starship enterprise or NASA control room. Flickering lights
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The Group of Seven was made up of seven men in white shirts who spoke to no one, except one
another, behind glass walls. I rode in an elevator with one of them once. Not a peep. Not even an
acknowledgement. I felt as though I should hang my head in shame. Why? I hadn 't the slightest
idea. Seventy–two floors are a long ride up.
As four thirty rolled in, the last male secretary put his coat on and departed for the drifts below. The
markets were closing in eight minutes. The Group of Seven glowed in their glass vestibule as their
meeting commenced. Their shirts, for once did not match the colour of the sky. Once again the
building swayed. The wind was not only felt but heard as it blasted through the forced air systems.
Perched in my cage, I noticed a yellow ticket falling in mid air like a feather to the ground. I could
not leave my cage. I was to be reprimanded for doing so. FIRED. A yellow ticket signified an order
to buy. If ever a yellow ticket was filled in error a procedure existed to void the transaction. The
pink slip was not attached therefore it was a live order. Four minutes remained. The Group of Seven
seemed as if they were several kilometers away (although they weren 't.) They glowed like nuclear
power plant. Two minutes. I couldn 't page them; I couldn 't scream for ticket rescue. I

4-33 By John Cage
John Cage, an American composer, once stated "There is no such thing as an empty space or an
empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear." In Cage's musical career, he
challenged the concept of sound by finding a compelling beauty in silence. His philosophy was that
silence let people feel the sounds in the environment and that silence can give off a deep pleasure,
which is shown in his piece "4'33". However, silence isn't viewed as a common conception of music,
and at first I found Cage's philosophy very abstract, but then realized its validity and how it can be a
breakthrough in the American culture. Overall, silence is just like music, it can be very powerful
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Silence is a time for the true self to connect to the flow of energy around. For the silent piece "4'33",
the performance usually goes like this: a performer goes on stage, sits at the piano and opens the
keyboard lid but sits quietly for the duration with seldom turns of music pages. After each
movement, the performer closes and reopens the lid and sits again, at the end he closes the lid, bows
and walks off stage (Peter Gutmann, 1). However, the reactions of the audience and the sound of the
environment is what create the music. The tension builds in the hall because people are confronted
with an unexpected silence which stimulates many responses and makes sounds r through the
ruffling of the audience and the area of the hall. In the hall, coughing, sneezing, un–wrapping of
gum or mints, shifting in seats, opening a door, the air conditioning, or any other aspect can occur as
the nature of the outside world such as wind, the passing of an airplane, crunching of leaves, and
other natural aspects also occur (Eric Rockwell, 1). This piece becomes a personal sound because
every listener can create their own reaction. Overall the balance between nature and human sounds
are what John Cage considers music. Each sound has a distinct tone and duration that the audience
can become aware of instead of how they usually disregard it. Through this silent piece, Cage helps
the audience see that

The Fuzzy Family Member : Where Are We Going?
Luke Schmidt
Ms. Claes
ELA 9
22 September 2015
The Fuzzy Family Member
"Where are we going?" I asked. "You 'll see soon," replied my dad. "But I want to know now!"
whined my little brother. My brother was only five years old, and had the attention span of a fly.
When we stopped, my brother had already fallen asleep, and probably forgot about the whole thing.
By the time that we got to our destination, it was already dark and it was hard to make out what was
across the street. We walked up the cracked driveway of a house, and turned onto the brick pathway
leading up to the front door. There were vines climbing up the side of the house, sprawling in every
direction looking like a spider web. There were neatly trimmed bushes, all across ... Show more
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"That 's Cesar, he 's probably one of the most playful." the man stated. He talked to my dad as if he
knew him. Are they friends? I wondered. They seemed to talk like they knew each other from a long
time ago.
As we walked around the same corner that Cesar just recently tore around, two teenage girls came
into view. Both seemed to be either Juniors or Seniors in High School. One of the teenagers were
leaning against the counter in the kitchen, and the other was playing with Cesar using a ball toy.
Thump! Thump! Thump! The ball slammed around all over the kitchen floor. Cesar trailed right
behind, following the toy and slamming into everything the ball did. Cesar was making a smiling
face and his tail was going a hundred miles an hour, slamming into everything in its radius. The girl
sitting on the floor with the toy asked me, "Do you want to try?" I replied hesitantly, "Sure." I was to
little to have any memories of our first dog Wiley, so this was the biggest dog I could remember
being around. When I started to play with Cesar, I forgot all about being nervous. Cesar was running
all over, and it was so funny I completely forgot about my fear.
"Do you want to see the other ones?" asked the man. "Sure. Let 's go check them out." replied my

dad. We left Cesar back in the kitchen with the two teenagers, and went into what seemed to be a
garage. There were four cages lined up in a row, three of the four cages

Cage in Heaven Essay
Cage in Heaven
Process writing:
This was me when I was growing up in my little world. This was my feeling of pain, sorrow, and joy
during my childhood. I felt all these emotions and more growing up in the busy Hong Kong City.
Looking back at my childhood, I realized why I came to the United States. I adore my father and
siblings for all the hard work they have done for me to come over. I realized the warmest and only
love is that of a family.
Hong Kong is six million hearts beating in rhythm. This pellet of land bustles with boiling
commotion. Sirens scream like tea kettles. It is modern and prosperous, just like a little New York
City of the Orient. The majority of people in Hong Kong hanker to live in loft ... Show more content
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He was leaving me and my mother in Hong Kong. And there was no way to grasp anything about
America, even where it was because of its distance. I could not remember the faces of my family
members, but only a melancholic childhood.
Childhood was a word that I would never forget. My childhood was full of embarrassment. When I
was in elementary school in Hong Kong, there was a 10–minute break everyday. The short breaks
were precious moments for all of the kids there except me. When the bell rang, every child rushed to
the cafeteria. Some bought snacks while some played games. And there were many waiting to make
phone calls.
Mary asked, "Dad, can you bring me my math homework? I left it on the desk in the morning."
"Sure!" Her daddy replied without hesitation.
Peter said, "Father, I...I forgot to bring my pencil–case, can you..."
Peter's father laughed, "Ok! Ok! Silly boy!"
John cried, "Mommy, I am very hungry, but I don't have a cent."
John's mother worried so much about her dear son, "Are you okay, my sweetheart? Wait for me, I'll

be there soon."
The bell rang again and urged us back to the classroom. Everyone was gone. I stepped on the
wooden box and reached the phone. I shouted, "Papa, mama, I am a smart girl. I got a 100 on my
English test..."
Before I finished my words, the shortest boy in my class came over. Suddenly, he became a giant
when he yelled, "Ka Wing, you have to go to class right now!" I

The Music Of John Cage
John Cage lived a very interesting, non–traditional life that allowed him to form his outside of the
box philosophy on music that questions the very definition of music. After exploring many different
careers in the art world, he decided to compose music and through a winding, tumultuous road, he
rose to the top of the classical music world. His life greatly influenced his music. His study of
Buddhism and working with the choreographies of Merce Cunningham allowed Cage to discover
the other side of music, silence. Cage and his philosophies not only changed music for the better but
also changed the path that all types of art for the good; without Cage's philosophy on silence,
musicians and composers would be doing their jobs differently. ... Show more content on
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Cage says that Schoenberg has had the biggest influence on his work. With Cage being very young,
he had trouble paying for the lessons from Schoenberg, so Schoenberg cut a deal with Cage. He
would tutor him for free as long as Cage promised to devote his life to music. This is why even forty
years later, Cage was still drafting compositions, he was so grateful for Schoenberg's generosity that
he did not want to break the promise. After studying under Schoenberg for 2 years, Cage met Xenia
Kashevaroff and married her. She was a dancer and they moved to Hollywood where Cage
choreographed music for his wife's dance routines. During this time, Cage began using irregular
instruments. After teaching at UCLA and other colleges, Cage left to go to Seattle, Washington, and
become a composer.
In the 1940s, Cage and Xenia moved to New York and stayed with good friends, but after a falling
out, Cage was left homeless without any money, even after he just had his most successful concert
yet. After the rough patch in the 40s, Cage's life started to come together after a few of Cage's
compositions became very successful in the 1950s. In 1952, Cage composed what is perceived as
his most famous work 4'33", a composition that lasts four minutes and thirty–three seconds where
the musicians do not play their instruments, but the sound comes from the audience. For example, if
an audience

Analysis Of The Poem Caged Bird
In the poem "Caged Bird" by Maya Angelou about freedom, emotions, feelings, and depression. In
the poem she wrote ''A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current
ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky" (1–5). There is nothing for
the bird to do anything better than freedom. Because any cages, even the gold, can be captive. It's
meant, like a beautiful girl, who doesn't think about love, but she is thinking only about money and
when she got it, and she married, she cannot be happy in the huge house, with gold furniture, big
pool, expensive cars and without love because this girl just a doll for her husband. She lives in the
gold cage without freedom. First, there is no other bird next to anyone, and with no one to bet on the
song. Secondly, the bird will not be able to spread wings its wide and fly far. Thirdly, independence,
life and destiny are completely lost in the hands of the owner of the cage. There is such a state of the
human soul when one wants to live and love, to fly to heaven, to laugh and sing, and to give his joy
to all who are near. Such a feeling is called happiness. But, apparently, no one can give an accurate
definition of this concept, as no one has yet to determine exactly what is happiness. Some people are
trying to be happy and from time immemorial trying to figure out how to achieve it. The fact is that
happiness is different for each person, depending on the personality of the person. And this, in turn,
depends on education, environment, living conditions and many other factors. However at the poem
"But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage, his wings are
clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing"(10) Actually for me, all my life was a
cage – has been about getting an education. My dream was attend a medical university. I graduated
high school in Ukraine and after school, I got married and I didn't have the choice to study. My mom
said at that time, "I have money only on one event–wedding or university", my choice was a
wedding because my husband didn't want me to wait so long because he was almost thirty and I was
only seventeen. He was scared to lose

Essay John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr was born on September 5, 1912 to John Milton Cage and Lucretia ("Crete")
Harvey in Las Angeles, California. Neither of John's parents went to college (Inamori Foundation ,
1990). However, his father was an inventor and his mother was the founder of the Lincoln Study
Club and later became the editor of the Woman's Club for the Los Angeles Times. John describes his
mom as a "sense of society." John went to Pamona College for two years when he realized that
college was not for him. After he dropped out he decided that he would travel the world (PBS,
2001). He traveled to Europe for a year and a half and worked with Jose Pijoan for a little while.
There he became interested in music and painting. He left Paris, moved to ... Show more content on
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Subsequently, he went on to be an assistant for Oskar Fischinger, a filmmaker. He hoped that he
could someday write music for one of Oskar's films. John remembered that Oskar had once told him
that "Everything in the world has its own spirit which can be released by setting it into vibration."
He and his aunt, Phoebe began experimenting with different items around the house and even
writing percussion music and playing percussion with his friends (Kozinn, 2009). In 1938, he
became an employee at Mills College and worked with choreographer, Marian van Tuyl and several
different dance groups. There is where he became interested in modern dance (The Biography
Channel, 2013). From there he moved to Seattle, Washington and began to work at Cornish School
as a composer and pianist for Bonnie Bird, a choreographer at the school. At Cornish he discovered
what he called micro–macrocosmic rhythmic structure. He also invented the "prepared piano." In
1941, Laszlo Moholy–Nagy, a painter, asked John to teach at the Chicago School of Design. There
he was hired to do the sound effect music for Columbia Broadcasting System, Columbia Workshop
Play. His soundtrack was very successful and lead to him going back to New York in 1942 (Bloopy,
2011). In New York, John and his wife, Xenia Andreyevna Kashevaroff lived with Max Ernst, a
painter and Peggy Guggenheim. Max and Peggy introduced John to many prominent artists like
Andre Breton, Jackson Pollock, and many more

Birds In Kate Chopin's The Awakening
Birds are a common sight in most places people tend to be. These winged creatures are seen in
bustling places like the pigeons that are in urban and suburban areas, the woodpeckers in rural
regions, the crows on farms, and even in cages within buildings. In fact, these elegant creatures are
so common a sight in society that they are often overlooked and underappreciated. This is similar to
how women were and sometimes still are treated within society; they are given little appreciation
when they are present and doing as they are told, but when they do not do as they are told they
become a problem. This parallel that can be drawn between women and birds is used throughout
Kate Chopin's novel, The Awakening, in which its main character Edna Pontellier is often likened to
and symbolized by a bird. Throughout the novel, the bird acts as a theme and symbol of both Edna
and women in general. To start, many comparisons can be drawn between Edna and an imprisoned
bird. The first lines of the novel describe "[a] green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside
the door" (Chopin 5). Starting at the bird's physical description, the brightly colored feathers of this
creature strongly represent the power and ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
Though the main character was unable to survive her flight, many other women both in the novel
and in reality were able to embark and finish theirs. And the interesting thing about it is that these
fictional and nonfictional females inspired each other to go forth and attempt their metaphorical and
literal journeys even if there is a chance they are unable to succeed. It is because of these brave birds
that women's roles in society have changed so greatly within the last century. In no other time in
history has there been such an expansion in women's rights and roles and it is all due to women both
real and fictional who went against societal

Descriptive Essay About A Boat
I almost stepped foot into what I thought to be my watery grave, but I hesitated as my foot broke the
surface of the water. I thought back to the boat ride out here and my feelings of uneasiness as we
rode the waves. The small boat contained six rows of benches for the tourists to sit at the front of the
boat. Directly behind the last row, a captain's station sat with the controls to steer the boat. Behind
the control room, or the back of the boat, sat one long bench. A metal railing encircled the entire
boat, except for a small portion at the back. Resting below the open area, hooked to the side of the
boat, sat a three–rung ladder. I still tasted the wintergreen lifesaver I enjoyed on the car ride over
here. The boat took us three miles off the north shore of Oahu, I couldn't help but admire the beauty
of this paradise. Looking at the green mountains, lined with thick and healthy trees thanks to all the
rain, and the exquisite white beaches, calmed me and helped me forget the anxiety that overcame
me. The cold, early morning ocean breeze pulled my hair back, but no goosebumps graced my skin
thanks to the warm sun shining down on us. My fellow boat passengers all seemed to appear calm
while we rode on this death trap that closed the distance between us and the cage. My idea of fun
consisted of reading a book or watching a movie with family and friends, not jumping into a cage
surrounded by sharks. Adventure and risks are not a part of my life. The boat's captains included
five men. Each man had a beard and browned skin from all their time in the sun. Sunglasses rested
on each of their eyes, shielding them from the bright, hot sun. The boat engines loud roar came to a
stop, only the waves crashing against the boat made a sound. The oldest of the five men spoke first.
He lifted a crooked, dark finger and held it over the left side of the boat and exclaimed in a gruff
voice, "The cage is over there and you will need to swim in 15 yards of free water to get to it. If the
sharks come at you just hit their nose." Looks of terror graced every traveler's face. The looks didn't
fade until another one of the boat's crew spoke up telling us that the older man played that joke on
every tour group. I studied the man

Freedom In Boy's Life By Corey Kienson
One similar theme in each text is the idea of freedom. In Boy's Life, the main character, Corey, feels
trapped inside of his classroom on the last day of school. All he wants is to begin his summer
vacation, where he is free from the burden of books, facts and figures, and dates and quotations. In
paragraph 8 he's dying to get out of class and shows major impatience when the class down the
hallway is let out early. He even says, "My insides quaked at the injustice of it." Freedom is also a
theme in the fable because the story is about an animal born into a cage, and this animal has never
experienced freedom. In fact, the animal "saw above and about him confining walls, and before him
were bars of iron." The theme of freedom is present through the voice of the narrator, Corey
Mackenson, in Boy's Life. The theme is immediately developed through the use of onomatopoeia
and repetition of paragraphs 1, 3, and 6 saying, "Tick...tick...tick." The narrator takes on the attitude
of an average school boy on the last day of school. He's dying to begin his summer adventures
where he and his friends are free from the burdens created by school. This is shown in paragraph 5
where he states, "The world was out there, waiting beyond the square metal–rimmed windows." The
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They each long for the joy and adventure that freedom will provide them. In fact, Corey is so
excited about freedom he can hardly contain himself, "My heart was a frog leaping out of murky
water into clear sunlight. I said, 'Thanks!' and I ran for the door." The animal realizes the joy and
adventure from freedom after he accidently escapes his cage when, "On he rushes, in his mad flight,
heedless that he is wounding and tearing his sleek sides – seeing, smelling, touching of all things."
Both Corey and the animal find great joy and adventure in their

Barnes And Noble
WHAT IS STRATEGY? How to develop a good strategy for one's company? It goes from Taking
very much reputed organizations thoughts, techniques, and objectives like Be minimal cost supplier
Seek after a worldwide system Coordinate an arrangement of local acquisitions Unrivaled client
administrations Continuously be the principal mover Move from guard to mechanical applications
how to make a good strategy for one's company. It goes from Taking well–reputed companies ideas,
tactics, and goals like  Be low–cost provider  Pursue a global strategy  Integrate a set of
regional acquisitions  Unrivaled customer services  Always be the first mover  Move from
defense to industrial applications The video is emphasizing that these are just objectives, which are
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BARNES AND NOBLE: The largest booksellers in U.S, offers wide selection in books and products
through bookstores all over the U.S. Apart from this they also operate in book publishing business.
But for some years now, Barnes and Noble are facing hard times due to couple of strategic reasons.
To present the company with a better strategy, the above learned tactics, theories and points will be
applied. First, Barnes and Noble's aim and objectives must not be mixed with strategy. As we have
clearly learned from the video, how these two are very separate things. Their strategy should cover
the four questions provided in the video i.e. 1. Location of their competition: U.S 2. Their unique
value is strong presence, reliability and image in the e–market, but they need to work on their costs
to gain competitive advantage with other companies. 3. Resources and capabilities needed:
globalization, full advantage of internet services to expand e– services. 4. Sustainability of unique
value: maintaining the technological presence. Launching of products that are difficult to imitate or
not imitable by

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