Inside - people’s inner beauty
Outside- how the people look like
Narcissism- inordinate fascination with oneself
Enchantment- something that enchants
Virtue - moral excellence
In Susan Sontag essay, she shows the meaning of beauty for women and how society treats beauty. She uses history to deliver her opinion to the readers, like “the Greeks to distinguish between a person’s ‘inside’ and ‘outside.’” The Greeks thought that if a person was so intelligent, brave and seductive, then that person must be very ugly. In early Christian time, Christianity considered beauty as one of moral virtues.
I agree with this essay. In this world, many people pay more attention on the appearance. They even use the appearance to judge other people. Sontag tells us that beauty is very important for women, because women are often being judged in beauty from their body parts, but the men are totally different. They are being judged as a whole, not only their appearance but also their intelligence. Beauty has become a burden for women. They think that only dress up themselves can show their intelligence. I hope that there will be no more judgment for one’s appearance. That’s what the other girls hope too. Women’s real charm will be proved by time.
How do you think about beauty of women?
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Chu Yi Kang - Billie Holiday's Lady Sings the Blues
1. Definitions
A) Blues-A state of depression or melancholy. Often used with the.
B) Jazz-A style of music, native to America, characterized by a strong but flexible rhythmic understructure with solo and ensemble improvisations on basic tunes and chord patterns and, more recently, a highly sophisticated harmonic idiom.
C) "Lady Sings the Blues"-A song writen by jazz singer Billie Holiday, and jazz pianist Herbie Nicholas, which chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint as a prostitute, early tours, marriages and drug addiction are featured.
2.Summarization
Billie Holiday(April 7, 1915-July 17, 1959).Nick name Lady Day, born Eleanora Fagan,was an American jazz singer and singwriter. In the book "Lady Sings the blues" is basically talked about Lady Day's life. Billie born in a young and poor family, "'Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen, and I was three''(Billie).Her father was a guitarist in Fletcher Henderson's orchestra, and played a significant role in Billie's musical apprenticeship. Later years Billie's father divorced with her mohter and gave none money for them to live, so Billie and her mother worked hard to earn money for lives. Even though Billie faced many obstacle during her life, she still trys her best to overcame it, and became a famous jazz singer and song writer in front of the stage and to show the people her successful. Billie Holiday wrote many songs which symbolysis her life and the thing happened in the period of the time.
"I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music; it's close drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music"(Billie).
3.Question
Billie Holiday loves music and respects music.And she became a famous jazz singer. Why/How she used music to represent her life, and how did she overcome and face optimistic obstacles in her life, if there's no one can help?
A) Blues-A state of depression or melancholy. Often used with the.
B) Jazz-A style of music, native to America, characterized by a strong but flexible rhythmic understructure with solo and ensemble improvisations on basic tunes and chord patterns and, more recently, a highly sophisticated harmonic idiom.
C) "Lady Sings the Blues"-A song writen by jazz singer Billie Holiday, and jazz pianist Herbie Nicholas, which chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint as a prostitute, early tours, marriages and drug addiction are featured.
2.Summarization
Billie Holiday(April 7, 1915-July 17, 1959).Nick name Lady Day, born Eleanora Fagan,was an American jazz singer and singwriter. In the book "Lady Sings the blues" is basically talked about Lady Day's life. Billie born in a young and poor family, "'Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen, and I was three''(Billie).Her father was a guitarist in Fletcher Henderson's orchestra, and played a significant role in Billie's musical apprenticeship. Later years Billie's father divorced with her mohter and gave none money for them to live, so Billie and her mother worked hard to earn money for lives. Even though Billie faced many obstacle during her life, she still trys her best to overcame it, and became a famous jazz singer and song writer in front of the stage and to show the people her successful. Billie Holiday wrote many songs which symbolysis her life and the thing happened in the period of the time.
"I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music; it's close drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music"(Billie).
3.Question
Billie Holiday loves music and respects music.And she became a famous jazz singer. Why/How she used music to represent her life, and how did she overcome and face optimistic obstacles in her life, if there's no one can help?
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