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As a student of music at the University of Arizona, the emotional impact of art is no stranger to me. Once I told a friend that music is "the communicative method of emotions for which no words exist." Coming here, it is my turn to express those for which

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Arts & Humanities > Playwrights & Plays Existentialism in Samuel Beckett's Endgame: 1 of 3

ENDGAME AND EXISTENTIALISM In life, we are often confronted with tasks that seem meaningless and downright cruel. They serve us no purpose apart from burdening our schedules and preventing us from doing the things that we enjoy. When times become so tedious, we ask what the point of being is. A response offered by Samuel Bec...
Arts & Humanities > Arts & Humanities (Other) Wagner and Romanticism: 1 of 3

Wagner: The Faux Romantic? When Richard Wagner began to compose his opera Tristan und Isolde in 1857, he was recounting romantic virtues by which he didn't live. His German nationalism was only a hope as he lived in Switzerland. Clearly his morals weren't admirable, and his relationships were weak. However, despite his lack ...
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Learning to welcome new friends into your life: 6 of 16

A few years ago I learned the true nature of friendship (a story for another day). Since then, I have been learning more and more about the value of creating and maintaining great relationships with friends. Because of the effort put into a friendship, and the people whom you choose to be your friends, your life can be enric...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Lost in the woods: 32 of 53

While a young boy I spent several summer months exploring my heritage among my mother's family in a small suburb of Sherbrooke, QC. Unfortunately, a young boy like myself would often become mortally bored listening to old people discuss the liberation of their independent society in a verbiage that was considered serious onl...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Global warming: 58 of 68

When instructed to ask Earth one question - Just one, and no more - I did not ask her why she sweats, For every man knows this. I did not ask her why she wept, For her tears brought life. I did not ask her how she thought, For I'm sure I could never understand. I did not ask her how she was made, nor how she sustained, nor w...