One of the goals of this assignment is to assess student competence for each of these objectives:
Written and Oral Communication— write organized essays with a clear thesis; support the thesis with details,
examples, reasons, and other evidence; vary sentence structure and length as appropriate; employ strategies
in a manner appropriate to a given audience; conform to the grammar, punctuation, and spelling rules of edited
American English with a minimum of errors.
Critical Analysis and Reasoning—apply the critical thinking skills of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation for a
variety of texts; employ rhetorical strategies to express complex ideas
3. Technological Competence— utilize learning management systems and word processing programs as
appropriate to the academic environment.
4. Information Literacy— conduct research; access and choose appropriate academic sources; evaluate
sources by examining authority, currency, validity, and reliability; incorporate appropriate academic sources into
essays by summarizing, quoting, and paraphrasing correctly; document sources according to the assigned
formatting and style guide.
5. Local and Global Diversity— examine a variety of complex texts from diverse perspectives and authorship;
demonstrate an awareness of historical, social, and political contexts.
FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENT:
How can we address the novel we’re reading (the Metamorphosis or Brave New World) as a CULTURAL
ARTIFACT?
Analysis is an essential skill needed to for success in college and in life. An analysis involves first breaking
down the information presented in a work into individual pieces and then examining the pieces to better
understand the whole.
Almost anything can be analyzed. This assignment asks you to analyze a cultural product, which must be
approved by your teacher. A cultural product may include images, videos, advertisements, written and oral
texts, and much more.
Music was to communicate the work and achievement of the laborer through conventional Russian and Soviet melodies. Straightforwardness was to be a component in the compositional style. Stalin and the Party were to be celebrated through proper nationalistic subjects. These realities are terrifically significant while considering the components found in Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 and No.7.
The Fifth Symphony was written because of occasions that were happening in the Soviet Union under Stalin. It was important to have music the endorsement of the Party authorities and Stalin so as to endure. He was adjusting to strain to make less convoluted music that would fit into the styles worthy to social authenticity yet he expected to remain consistent with his convictions.
Because of the political environment of the time Shostakovich couldn’t communicate his sentiments, thoughts, or perspectives transparently in the event that they were in opposition to the partisan loyalty. As of now, the Great Purge or Great Terror was occurring during Stalin’s rule where he disposed of anybody not faithful to his beliefs. The gathering had objected to Shostakovich’s past melodic arrangements as excessively specialized or brutal. The drama Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District which was acted in 1934 was from the start generally welcomed. Nonetheless, when Stalin went to the drama, he found the subjects and music “pre-communist, negligible average, Russian attitude” and not in accordance with fitting Communist perspectives. The official state-run paper Pravda gave the drama a poor survey. Likewise, a few articles were vilifying concerning the drama. Consequently, Shostakovich got the message to extend the partisan principal through his music. The individual was not significant. The decision was to agree or get undetectable. Also during this time, huge numbers of Shostakovich’s companions and family members had been captured or sent to the Gulag, or just vanished. He was anxious about the possibility that that he may endure a similar destiny. Shostakovich needed to build up a style that would be adequate to the gathering yet discretely depict his melodic perspectives and articulations. The Fifth Symphony was to be a case of his political change in plain view to the gathering complying with the style of brave elegance.
In the Fifth Symphony, Shostakovich was showing how the Communists could impact an author’s composing yet still figure out how to communicate his individual emotions. The Symphony is organized around a structure of a few repeating melodic and cadenced thought processes. It starts with an extreme articulation between the lower and upper strings.