Why Are These Television Shows So Popular? Television soaps have accumulated their popularity by extending our relationship with them. If the majority of people who watch soaps were asked to describe them with regards to reputation, on the whole most would respond with suggestions that soaps relate to their audiences. To some degree this is [...]

The type of music I prefer to listen to is affected by what I am doing. When I am having dinner with friends or in a group intent upon conversation, I prefer classical music and jazz or old-fashioned Christmas carols if the season is right. If I am driving or working in the garden, I [...]

I recently watched a movie called Urban Legend: Bloody Mary (2005) and since it was a very good film, I would recommend it to anyone. I love the genre of horror and this was a classic horror film featuring an avenging ghost. Usually horror movies are gory with lots of blood and guts, spilled out [...]

In 1905, using oil on canvas, Henri Matisse created a painting called The Portrait of Madame Matisse, The Green Stripe. Henri Matisse uses loose brushstrokes and allows the white-painted canvas to be shown. This thickly applied paint used from the tube creates a rich, strong, heavy image to the viewer, revealing the fauvist technique. “The [...]

For this assignment, I chose to read the modern Canadian fiction book, Unless by Carol Shields. I first noticed this book was when reading BC BookWorld for assignment 1. However, I did not have much interest in this book at first, not until I was doing research on the internet. When I was trying to [...]