The Choir of Hard Knocks now called the Choir of Hope and Inspiration, was first evolved in 2001 under Dr. Jonathan Welch who is an awarding singer, conductor, composer and recording artist. In the year 2000, Dr. Jonathan’s inspiration sprung through an article about the Montreal Homeless Men’s Choir in Canada and led him to create the Sydney Street Choir specifically for Australians who were experiencing homelessness and disadvantage in their lives. The choir played an important role in many people’s lives as it has given huge opportunities for members to change and find new purpose in life but also allow them to obtain new expertise and reconstruct their individual confidence and self- esteem about themselves. From the recommended youtube
clip, former original singer Sheree Daly states “it’s about touching people’s hearts, doesn’t matter where you’ve come from… (the choir) gives me the ambition to move forward in my life”. She reflects that the choir had made a positive change in her life, opening up unknown self-confidence and change. Amongst many singers, fifty original singers went to either their part-time job or completing their full-time study, one of them being Sheree as she comments that she is “currently doing a hospitality degree”. Through constant contacts and meetings, the Choir of Hard Knocks created lifelong friendships and relationships and a unique opportunity for the members to make a positive and enduring contribution back to the community. Through Dr. Jonathan’s lead in the choir, it has inspired a global movement of ‘street choirs’ today.
Outcast United, written by warren St. John, illustrates the numerous struggles refugees face and how they can look past complex differences and come together with a little help from Luma Mufleh and her soccer program. The outcast united is used symbolically to indicate the union of a town, a team and a coach in a spontaneous social experiment. It is a story about refugees from Sudan, Congo, and Burundi among other countries who were resettled in a small town named Clarkston. In this book, St. John tells a true story of refugee families that moved to Clarkston, Georgia. As all of the families struggle to make their new and better life in the small town of Clarkston, Georgia, Luma Mufleh changed the refugee community of Clarkston for the better
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis1:1.) God’s perfect wisdom created everything. In Genesis 1 and 2 we can see that God has loving and gentile nature when He created the earth and heavens. God created man in his image and we are the only creation that God breathed in the breath of life for human beings (Genesis 2:7). God did not do this for any of other creations but only for humans. The Bible has many scriptures that tell us how creative God is. Genesis 1;26 states “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” God created all of this for us to have fellowship with him.
Toni Cade Bambara’s short story “The Lesson” teaches more than one lesson. The reader learns experiences offer invaluable education to students beyond what they may learn in a traditional core curriculum. In this story, the narrator Sylvia is recounting a trip to an expensive toy store that serves as the setting for a lesson on income inequality. Education, by one definition, is “the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university” (Google search). Miss Moore, Sylvia’s educator focuses on the other definition, “an enlightening experience”. (Google search) Miss Moore has no ties to Sylvia or any of the children in the neighborhood, however, Miss Moore involves herself because “She’s been to college
The Day the Voices Stopped is the autobiography of Ken Steele, a man who suffered from schizophrenia for the majority of his life, only finding peace and solace after finding the right anti-psychotic medication.
The singular effect that is present in the Fall of the House of Usher is gloom and depression.Gloom is partial or total darkness. gloom can bring around depression. depression can bring about craziness.gloom is all around and no one is immune to it.
By 1945, nearly everyone in the African American community had heard gospel music (2). At
In “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe, the death of Madeline and Roderick Usher represents the ending of something, and in this specific case, the ending of a generation. Throughout the story, it is made very clear that Madeline and Roderick are the last living people of the Usher generation. Roderick Usher explicitly states on page four, “‘Her decease,’ he said, with a bitterness which I can never forget, ‘would leave him (him the hopeless and the frail) the last of the ancient race of the Ushers.’” Therefore, when they both die at the end, it is clear that it is the end of a generation. The ending of their generation creates a depressing and serious feeling through this story due to the fact that the Usher’s will be no more.
Contemporary, as well as older, Gospel music originated from the “Spirituals.” The spirituals, also known as the “Negro Spirituals or African-American folk songs,” were religious songs sung by the African Americans slaves in Southern America. The spirituals spawned from teachings of Christianity from slave owners, the church and even hymns. The songs were usually about love, hope, peace, oppression, freedom and even used as a secret code. The African American slaves would sing while working so much so that slave o...
The Falling of the House of Usher,starts off in a sorrow living and scares setting. It started off with the characters and the house condition that it is very poorly. Then it leads to the bizarreness of the house as the narrator came upon he notice how deeply poor it is and how they accidently buried his sister that was also sick.Then the violence of how things became the house that fell apart. Not just the house died but also the house died along with him and his family that came along with the mystery of the causing of the death. The house is also a symbol of gothic death along with the character's health ,and the smell and how they are presented in the story as a bad poor condition of health.
There are several sociological theories in the study of contemporary labor unrest. However, this essay will start off to examine the rationale of capital mobility and labor transformation processes, as a coherent point of departure. To what extent is this approach significant? A simple answer is the sociological framework of Silver (2003), which is our central focus, is in contrast with the above approaches. Therefore, it’s imperative to provide an overview of what Silver was critical about. Silver conceived that the above approaches and numerous other literatures about labor unrest and globalization comprise severe methodological ramifications. Contrary to these she states that a coherent methodology should be able to situate ways in which workers from various geographical settings are connected to each other, by the paradigms of global division of labour and world political processes (Silver 2003:26). On a radical approach, however, Silver has not only shown optimism to the formation of new working class, but equally conceived an inevitable repercussion from those working classes being deconstructed. Therefore, she argues that Marx-type and Polanyi-type labor struggles is crucial in providing a comprehensive global sociological inquiry of future labor movements and unrest (Silver 2003:19-20). As already mentioned above, the first section of this paper will provide a critical summary of theories, which uses capital mobility and, the transformation of labor and global capital processes, as plausible explanation to the inquiry of existing labor unrest. The principal argument of this approach is summed under the hypothesis of the “race to bottom,” i.e., global productive capital has diametrically shaped conditions by which worker ar...
As it is, my senior year, I have accomplished spiritual and moral guidance by participating in the Hispanic Church Choir and taking religion class. I will be describing how they have helped me grow spiritually and morally.
In The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allen Poe, setting is the one of the main factors of the story’s theme. From the beginning, the narrator gives a clear idea of what the story is about. The narrator remembers, “During the whole of the dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year” (3). Poe shows what season it is and what it feels like. He uses multiple descriptive words to help readers identify what he is writing. Poe records, “There was an icinesss, a sinking, a sickening of the heart” (3). On page 6, he while observing, the narrator comments, “A pestilent and mystic vapor, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leaden hued. Poe uses his words to create a vibe of what the setting of his story is. If he does not give
The Fall of the House of Usher written by Edgar Allen Poe is a prime example of how setting can be used to convey very important moods and themes in the text. In The Fall of the House of Usher, the description of the setting more specifically the Usher house is used to emphasis the overall theme of this text which are insanity and death. The story infamously opens with the most deary description of the house of Usher which was observed from a reflection in the water. The narrator describes it as the “mansion of gloom” (Poe, 4). The house’s appearance alone made a “a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.” (Poe, 3). All of these descriptions of the house and it’s ambience deliver the important of message that house itself is a separate
The American Renaissance was a time period where the movement of many different things started. It was known as the richest period in history & was closely related to transcendentalism. American landscapes were very popular around that era there were paintings done by many artist around that time. Many writers wrote stories that included American landscapes.