Urban Hymns Essays

  • The Bitter Sweet Symphony of Life

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    The Bitter Sweet Symphony of Life Time capsules are a trendy way of preserving the past for a period of time, in hopes of capturing physical proof of the advances in our society. Therefore, I am not surprised that many educational institutions have embraced the concept of a time capsule. However, this creates a problem: How can singular items be chosen to represent multitudes of ideas, creations, and people? The only logical conclusion to this dilemma is to allow those being represented

  • Bitter Sweet Symphony by the Verve

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    Bitter Sweet Symphony by the Verve A contemporary song must be carefully chosen to be put in the UTD time capsule. The song must cover the many characteristics assembled in this class as well as the many characteristics of our generation. ìBitter Sweet Symphonyî by the Verve is the perfect song to combine these positive and negative aspects. It will fairly portray to the future the many colors of the students of UTD. ìBitter Sweet Symphonyî should be chosen by the class, because it is the

  • Analysis of the Songs Bittersweet Symphony, Fixing a Hole, and Creep

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    Analysis of the Songs Bittersweet Symphony, Fixing a Hole, and Creep Music has played an important role in the daily lives of people everywhere and perhaps the most influential music has come from British artists. The Beatles faced a problem when, John Lennon innocently stated that The Beatles were, in fact, more popular than Jesus. In the song "Fixing a Hole", The Beatles sing about the problem with the media. The song "Creep", by Radiohead, deals with a personal problem. It illustrates the

  • An Acceptable Sacrifice of Praise and Worship Songs in Today’s Church

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    worship songs," or would it be better to simply have multiple worship services each week, one devoted to traditional and one to contemporary worship styles? Or should we cling tightly to our organs and gospel hymns, in spite of dwindling attendance? While I dearly love the great traditional hymns, I feel compelled to argue that these more popular choruses, too, are acceptable in God’s eyes. Praise and worship songs... ... middle of paper ... ... Chicago: Loyola Press, 1999. Longhurst, Christine

  • Analysis of the Epic Poem, Beowulf - Beowulf and Caedmon’s Hymn

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    Beowulf and Caedmon’s Hymn In Beowulf the Christian element, which coexists alongside the pagan or heathen, may have originated in part from the works of Caedmon. The Christian element in Beowulf had to be included by the original poet or by minstrels who recited it in later times because it is so deeply imbedded in the text. The extent to which the Christian element is present varies in different parts of the poem. While the poet’s reflections and characters’ statements are mostly Christian

  • Prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird

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    In the world people are always preconceived based on who they are or what they look like. Even though it isn’t as big of a problem in some areas as in others, we need to fight it. If we don’t then it will continue to get more serious and at times lead to death. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Alexandra tells her niece that she can’t play with a schoolmate simply because of his class. “‘You can scrub Walter Cunningham till he shines, you can put him in shoes and a new suit, but he’ll never

  • Adeste Fideles

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    Although it is one of the most popular Christmas hymns "O come all Ye Faithful" origi-nally known in Latin as "Adeste Fideles" has a few mysteries behind it. Currently the song is at-tributed to John Francis Wade, born in 1711 he was the son of a cloth merchant and fled reli-gious persecution. However this is disputed because of the religious background people thought it had to be older. The song was originally written in Latin, and only five of the original manu-scripts are known to exist all written

  • Simple Pleasures

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    Simple Pleasures " Tis a gift to be simple, tis a gift to be free." --Shaker hymn Someone once asked me when I had felt the most alive. I pondered for some time and let the memories walk slowly across my consciousness. A vision of a cold, crisp, sunny , fall day kept coming back to me, the kind of day that invites you to be outdoors, and when you get there, treats you to a blast of air-conditioned air. Everything seemed to be changing as if someone had sent a notice saying, "fall is leaving

  • Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

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    throughout Cold Mountain. Throughout the novel, Inman, Ada, Ruby, Stobrod, and many other characters experience music that allows them to keep faith against the odds or even heal their wounds! There are three major types of music used in this novel; hymn music, folk music, and “natural music”. It is through these types of music that the characters in this novel regain their strength to continue their journeys. Many critics of Cold Mountain claim that Frazier ignored certain historical facts in order

  • The Man in the Black Suit

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    thoughts by the scuffling of feet and saw everyone entering the room. I stood outside for a long time, not wanting to see Eric in his final resting place, wanting to remember him alive. As I entered the small, cramped room, some were trying to sing the hymn, "Father in Heaven, We Do Believe," while most wept, catching a final view of my friend before the oak coffin was closed and his earthly life was officially over. I was standing in the crowd, looking at Eric. He looked so peaceful, as if he was just

  • ANTIGONE

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    on an actor who interacted with the chorus. The actor was called the protagonist, from which the modern word protagonist is derived meaning the main character of drama. An important part of Dionysus was dithyrambs which meant chronic hymn. This chant or hymn was probably introduced accompanied by mimic gestures and probably music. It began as part of a purely religious ceremony. MASK/CHOROUS Plays where performed in day time. The annual drama competitions in Athens spread over several

  • The Tapestry Metaphor

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    the pulpit when speaking. Also up in front sits the musicians, two pianists and a guitarist. In the main part of the sanctuary sit the congregation in rows of pews. The service usually begins with a reading of scripture, church announcements, or a hymn. Then there are small orders of business, like prayer concerns, special music sung by church members, or other scripture readings. The climax of the hour-long service is the pastor's sermon, in which he preaches about some specific topic centering

  • Fanny Crosby Accomplishments

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    For many people, going to church also includes singing one of the numerous hymns. Has anyone ever wondered as to who wrote these cherished songs or why? Shocking as it is to find out, many of the hymns we have today were only written during the 1800s. Even more shocking, the person responsible for these inspiring songs was blind! Frances Jane Crosby, or Fanny as she would become more widely known, was born on March 24, 1820, in a one-story cottage at South East, New York. From the start of her

  • Song Analysis: Why Did I Get Married Two?

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    Janet Jackson enters R&B paradise anew, giving every chick in the game, a heavenly musical sign of her return, on bass-bluesy “No Sleeep,” the buzzworthy single inside the profoundly anticipated eleventh studio album. Also, see the appropriate lyrics leap into the spirit during the infectious chorus, "You're missing me, I'm missing you, Whenever we meet, we ain't gonna get no sleep." This song is present of sorts for loyal, authentic fans of albums, The Velvet Rope, and Janet. Burning gently in the

  • The Impact of Negro Spirituals on Today's Music

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    field of music, much less the realm of gospel music today. However, church members often do not make the time to reflect on the heritage of a hymn or song to realize the meaning that the particular piece has carried with it through the decades, even centuries. With this in mind, I am going to look at the history of the Negro spiritual and then at specific hymns in the 1991 Baptist Hymnal, published by Convention Press, to see just what impact the Negro spiritual has had on today's church music. I

  • The Egyptian Book of the Dead

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    second time, meaning how not to die in the underworld and thus having no chance of being reborn or living a full afterlife. The original text--at least, the bits and pieces that modern scholars possess--consists of a set of hymns, beginning with the Hymn to Osiris. This hymn is meant to call up the king of the underworld and make him aware of the presence of the soul. After summoning Osiris, the presiding priest would begin a series of ceremonies designed to give the spirit all the faculties it

  • Dante's Lucifer: The Denial of the Word

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    to him. At the same time, they are not his, since they are a quotation of the first line of a hymn by Venantius Fortunatus.3 And yet, the last word, inferni, must be attributed to Virgil under all respects, for he utters it without borrowing it from the hymn that Venantius Fortunatus wrote in honor of the cross and Christ. Through Virgil, Dante the auctor, therefore, rewrites and parodies this sacred hymn at the conclusion of the infernal cantica exactly when the two wayfarers approach Lucifer.4 Although

  • Analysis and History of Arianism

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    doctrine is laid down by St. Paul, in his undoubtedly genuine Epistles to the Ephesians, Colossians, and Philippians. It is reiterated in the Letters of Ignatius, and accounts for Pliny's observation that Christians in their assemblies chanted a hymn to Christ as God. But the question how the Son was related to the Father (Himself acknowledged on all hands to be the one Supreme Deity), gave rise, between the years A. D. 60 and 200, to number of Theosophic systems, called generally Gnosticism

  • The Pursuit of God, by A.W. Tozer

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    adapted from A.W. Tozer, whose little book, The Pursuit of God, has a chapter entitled, "Following hard after God." Tozer wrote this book in 1948 but if anything it is more relevant today. After showing how Moses and David and Paul and all the great hymn writers were even thirsting after more of God he writes How tragic that we in this dark day have had our seeking done for us by our teachers. Everything is made to center upon the initial act of 'accepting' Christ … and we are not expected thereafter

  • Too Weird To Live Too Rare To Die Analysis

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    “This is Gospel” is the First recording on Panic at the Disco’s album “Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die”, and with good reason. The song was written in the midst of a fight between the vocalist and a friend over their drug and alcohol abuse. Feeling powerless having to watch his friend fall apart, Urie wrote the song as a form of release. The lyrics and performance both reflect a fight between living and dying, in a sense, parallel to the album’s title of being too weird to live and too rare to