Battle Hymn of the Republic
A1: When I listened to the song in its entirety, rather than what we were instructed to sing in church, I heard many lyrics and music that I had not heard before. The song reminds me of growing up in church. We would sing this song often. However, it was the lyrics were always only accompanied by the piano and maybe the organ. I appreciated the song much more with all the instrumental pieces in the background.
This is a song that I believe will always make you feel patriotic and think of the military. I can’t imagine thinking of anything else while you listen to this song. It catches your attention with the snare drum fanfare and then the trumpet sounding. You can’t help but to stop and listen. A2: One of the
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Scientific materialism was also an important characteristic of the period. At this time, Industrial Revolution was happening and Karl Marx was making his mark on the world by highlighting the role class conflicts could play. He urged workers to fight for their rights and break what was holding them back (MindEdge, Inc., 2014).
This time period was also marked with the Age of Doubt. People were confused by the distinction of the past with new certainties of the current time and the unknowns of the future. Thus, the period was marred with hopefulness and nervousness. The realism period saw works by Charles Dickens and Honoré Daumier that portrayed the conditions of the lower class. This was also when photography was presented as a major way of showing visual pictures (MindEdge, Inc., 2014). B2: Julia Ward Howe was born in New York City in May of 1819 to a poet and a stockbroker. She had a limited social life due to the fact that her mother died young and her father’s conservatism. She was privately schooled and later went to a boarding school for girls (Biography.com,
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While there, she heard troops singing, “John Brown’s Body.” She was inspired to write new lyrics to the song and in February 1862, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” was born. This song became a rousing cry for the Union during the Civil War. It was also used in the women’s suffrage movement (Biography.com, 2016). Interestingly enough, this song had gone through two other lyric changes before this one. It was originally, “Say, Brother’s Will You Meet Us?” and “John Brown’s Body” before becoming “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” (Civilwar.org,
After her husband’s passing in 1829, a turning point in Stewart’s life includes the time when she met David Walker, the author of the book, “An Appeal to the Colored People of the World”, and after his passing, she carried on his idealisms about slavery through her own work (PBS). “She went through a religious conversion in which she became convinced that God was calling her to become a ‘warrior’ ‘for God and for freedom’ and ‘for the cause of oppressed Africa’” (African American Registry). Her early life shaped who she grew up to be: an influential, strong black woman who was not afraid of society’s staggering labels and
There are numerous songs written during the War, perhaps none is as strongly identified with the Union cause today as Julia Ward Howe's stirring The Battle Hymn of the Republic. For over 138 years this song has been a fixture in patriotic programs and is still sung in schools and churches across the nation.”Battle Hymn of the Republic”, performed by Frank C. Stanley, Elise Stevenson, and a mixed quartet in 1908. The “Battle Hymn of the Republic”, also known as “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory” outside of the United States, is a song by American writer Julia Ward Howe using the music from the song “John Brown's Body.” Julia Ward Howe was an American poet and author, best known for writing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." She was also an advocate
Marx begins his analysis of social order with the historical development of materialism that results in the industrial capitalist society. For him, the history of society depends on the understanding of “real process of
Conform. Do not deviate. The only joy that one may experience is the happiness one shares with one's brothers. These phrases illustrate the world of Anthem, in which a young man struggles to find his place in a world of collectivism. Ayn Rand's dystopian novella Anthem employs effective metaphors and well-placed diction in order to ardently claim that individuality holds the key to separating those who justifiably earn the joys of life from those who demonstrate unworthiness.
Her mother died giving birth to a sibling and her father was a successful banker. Women’s education was limited at the time, but Julia took it upon herself to educate herself and some siblings. An older brother that traveled the world would send books back to the family. Julia loved to read them, expanding her knowledge and increasing her love of writing. She married Samuel Gridley Howe, who was famous for his work on the Greek Revolution reform. Julia and her husband, Samuel, lived in Massachusetts where her husband was a teacher. Julia would write letters to her sister when she was first married and those letters showed Julia was depressed. Julia and Samuel separated leaving two kids to stay with each parent. With a collection of poems Julia had written, she had them published anonymously, but the author was figured out because the poems were so personally descriptive. Becoming involved in reform movements, supported issues, women’s rights, and education, Julia developed friendship with intellectual elite, William Ellery Channing, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Theodore Parker. Though her husband objected to her working, Julia helped edit a newspaper for a short period and was able to secure her own interest of work. Being fluent in seven languages and a scholar of philosophy helped Julia with her writings. The “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” was published in 1861 and made her and instant celebrity, and made her one of the most famous women in the 19th century in America. Continuing to study on Women’s Suffrage kept Julia involved, and she became a preacher, a reformer, a writer, and a poet. After the passing of her husband, Julia felt free and answered to no one but herself and God. She traveled the world promoting Women’s rights and Education Reforms. She also helped in creating Mother’s Day, a day were women could gather and discuss how to achieve world peace, and a mother’s
Where the “Battle Hymn” consists primarily of Bible verses and has no distinct hostility towards the Confederacy, “John Brown’s Body” explicitly references “hanging Jeff Davis,” as well as reminding Southerners of the terror of John Brown. In contrast, the Confederate anthem “Dixie” was far more accepted by Union soldiers. In late 1862 during a battle the bands would amicably trade songs such as “Dixie” and “Home Sweet Home,” for which everyone cheered, but “John Brown’s Body” could not be shared in the same manner. And although he was a Northerner and a Republican president, Lincoln loved the song “Dixie” and had it played upon the final Confederate surrender: “...we have captured the Confederacy and Dixie now belongs to the
I think about my dad, my uncles, my cousins, both grandfathers who fought in the Vietnam war. I think about how my grandfather paw paw Tim would ask me to sing this song for him every time I saw him and how he would make me turn the other way to sing it so he could just weep and cry as hard as he wanted because it meant so much to him. I think about all of our troops I got to visit with and spend time with in the Middle East when I went over seas to sing for them. I think about all of the men crying because they missed their wives so much, or the man telling me he hadn't seen his baby girl yet since she was born. When I sing this song I think about them. This song is about them. It's not about me. That's what I think about every time I sing it. I love our country so much. And we should all love and respect each other because this is the greatest country in the world. I see the love. I see the unity in all walks of life on a daily basis and It makes me so proud to be an American..... so In the words of Forrest Gump. That's all I have to say about
“We are nothing. Mankind is all. By the grace of our brothers we are allowed our lives. We exist through, by and for our brothers who are the State. Amen” (Rand 21). This sentence is a good example of the themes and moods of most dystopian literature. Society and government has crumbled, and people are oppressed. There is usually one main character who wants to rebel, to stand against the oppression. Dystopian literature and film appeals to modern day teens. Dystopian literature shows teens possible scenarios of what life could be like if society and government fails. Usually the main character or ‘hero’ is a teen or a young adult; teens can relate. Teens are at crossroads; growing into an adult, making decisions
What does it mean to be American? The American identity has always been a complicated discussion. It is by nature identified by diversity. Many think it has to do with the birthplace of the person and others think it has to do with their inheritance. In 2011, Amy Chua published Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother as a memoir. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother presents the evolution of this American woman. The elements of Chuas evolution seemed to involve; native identity; inherited identity; resisted identity and resolved identity.
At his last trial he delivered a speech that represented his core beliefs on slavery. John Brown left such a positive impact on people, in particular other abolitionists, that they were led to create a song in his honor. The “John Brown Song” discusses the injustice behind John Browns death and the fact that although he has passed his soul
The pieces were quite odd for me at the first time, first hearing, but I got used to it at the end of the each piece. “The Gospel Train” and “Little David, Play On Your Harp” were African-American Spiritual songs, which I kind of enjoyed, because I was also, very spiritually active. The last song, “Precious Lord Take My Hand” was very calming songs. I liked the lyrics of the song. The lyrics were very touchy that it made me ponder after the applause.
Christopher Frank, the composer of B5’s soundtrack, is a genius who can make you cry and yet cheer in victory at the same time. I know, as I did when the EAS Churchill rams itself into the EAS Roanoke in the Second Battle of B5, also known as the Battle of Independence for B5. The Churchill, along with B5, are resisting illegal orders issued by the president of the Earth Alliance, President Clark. In response to B5’s succession, the Earth Alliance immediately sent a squadron of destroyers, including the EAS Roanoke, to take the station back. The battle on its own would be dramatic, but Christopher's soundtrack Messages from Earth takes it to a new level with its sombering yet encouraging music that times in perfectly with the
The story of Anthem takes place in dystopian future in which freedom and human rights have been obliterated. Equality 7-2521, the protagonist, is a street sweeper who finds a tunnel where he conducts his science experiments which are considered a sin. Throughout the book we see him change and discover how capable he is through a multitude of literary devices. In the novella , Anthem, Ayn Rand utilizes vivid imagery and a profusion of diction to frenetically emphasize the idea of love.
On Wednesday August 24,2016 in the Atkinson Recital hall location in the NMSU Campus horseshoe, Paul Blackstone, Brian Brown, Audrey Good and Gerry Wood is a group of Horn players called The Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse. This laid back group showed musicians and residents of Las Cruces, New Mexico their versatile style in playing the horn. As the group came on to the stage with such formal look, they started out on a strong introduction piece called Swords of Valor composed by John Wasson (b.1956), the piece was very powerful and you could feel the way the music spoked to you. It was a world premiere and the second time the group has ever played that song. As the recital went on they showed us their different ways of playing the horns with songs like Earth song composed by Frank Ticheli (b.1958) to Blues Rondo a la Turk composed by David Brubeck (1920-2012). Each song was very moving and the styles of the songs made you think of the horn in a different way than before.
Karl Marx, also a philosopher was popularly known for his theories that best explained society, its social structure, as well as the social relationships. Karl Marx placed so much emphasis on the economic structure and how it influenced the rest of the social structure from a materialistic point of view. Human societies progress through a dialectic of class struggle, this means that the three aspects that make up the dialectic come into play, which are the thesis, antithesis and the synthesis (Avineri, 1980: 66-69). As a result of these, Marx suggests that in order for change to come about, a class struggle has to first take place. That is, the struggle between the proletariat and the capitalist class, the class that controls