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The Best Music for Writing, Reading, and Studying – StudySuccessful | Living a successful college life
This is a guest post by the writing team of BusinessInsuance, if you would like to feature a guest post send me an email! I know. Not everyone prefers listening to music while studying or reading or writing or creating art or whatever. But I think most of us can agree that it’s nice to have music around for activities like these. They can help set a pace for your project, break up the monotony, and (in their greater moments) inspire us. Sigur Rós What music is better for working and proving something of yourself than an epic dream-like post-rock band from Iceland that uses a hybrid of Icelandic and English and bowstrings on their guitars? Most of Sigur Rós’ albums are great for any quiet creative or knowledge work, but in particular, Takk…, Agaetis Byrjun, and (). Do Make Say Think While Do Make Say Think (DMST) falls under the post-rock genre, it sounds quite different than most post-rock bands. The Field Yo La Tengo Some of you may be thinking, “Yo La Tengo has lyrics. Flying Lotus Battles
Shakespeare in eleven steps
1. Begin early.The Misses M-mv (now fifteen and seventeen) met the bard in Kenneth Branagh's Henry V ("O Kate! Nice customs curtsey to great kings"), but they fell in love with him (yes, at six and eight) during a Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. A rappin' Puck. A show-stealing Bottom. The grace and wonder of that stage. They became hooked -- for life. (On the other hand, their older brother met and became hooked on Will during the same CST production (staged a few years earlier) of Dream but didn't fall in love until a few months later, when he watched Julius Caesar, with Jason Robbards as Brutus and Charlton Heston as Mark Antony.) 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. ■ Asimov, Isaac. 9. 10. And your older students? For example, eight years ago... And last year... From Harold Bloom: Bardolatry, the worship of Shakespeare, ought to be even more a secular religion than it already is. What we've covered in the last few years:
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Urban Dictionary, August 22: ego waffles
What Shakespeare Sounded Like to Shakespeare: Reconstructing the Bard’s Original Pronunciation
What did Shakespeare’s English sound like to Shakespeare? To his audience? And how can we know such a thing as the phonetic character of the language spoken 400 years ago? Shakespeare’s English is called by scholars Early Modern English (not, as many students say, “Old English,” an entirely different, and much older language). 1. 2. 3. Not everyone agrees on what Shakespeare's OP might have sounded like. You can hear an example of this kind of OP in the recording from Romeo and Juliet above. Whatever the conjecture, scholars tend to use the same set of criteria David Crystal outlines. If there's something about this accent, rather than it being difficult or more difficult for people to understand ... it has flecks of nearly every regional U.K. For more on this subject, don't miss this related post: Hear What Hamlet, Richard III & King Lear Sounded Like in Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation. Follow Open Culture on Facebook and Twitter and share intelligent media with your friends.
The Seven Ages of Man William Shakespeare
The Seven Ages of Man William Shakespeare All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, 5 His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms; And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, 10 Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Making Meanings First Thoughts 1. Shaping Interpretations 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Extending the Text 7. Challenging the Text 8. Back to the Table of Contents
Need Some Motivation Right Now? Read This IMMEDIATELY
If you’re in desperate need of some motivation, we’re going to fix that problem, right here, right now. Prepare yourself. WARNING: I’m going to swear and yell a little in this post. Desperate times call for desperate measures. You said you needed motivation. I’m going to do what needs to be done to get your ass in gear. If this isn’t the kind of motivation you need, leave now. Alright. Here goes. Do you want some motherfucking motivation right now? I SAID, do you want some MOTHERFUCKING MOTIVATION RIGHT NOW? Do you want to get some seriously useful shit done today? Do you want to get off your ass and start producing instead of wallowing in despair, depression, self pity, fear, doubt or whatever is holding you back? Are you sick of not getting anything done? Let’s DO THIS. The point of this exercise is to give you motivation to do something right now. Follow the steps below carefully. 1. The world doesn’t care. We all face obstacles. Did you catch that? Let me say it again. We all face obstacles. 2.
An infographic that keeps track of all of Shakespeare's deaths for you
I remember watching Titus. Damn uncomfortable movie. SExpand But visually stunning. Still one of my favorite opening scenes. The kid is playing war with his toys and is delivered to a stadium where real soldiers march in like clockwork toys. Oh, hey, don't get me wrong. It's just that Shakespeare's goal was to write a disturbing and tragical play that the movie succeeded in accomplishing to the degree that it made me uncomfortable. P.S. : Really? It's what you get for jumping in a time machine and coming to the future with your archaic English vocabulary. Assuming by archaic, you mean educated, and by educated you mean graduated 6th grade, then yes. One of my FAVORITE adaptations of my FAVORITE Shakespeare play.
