Reading/Work times

Reading 

Lung cancer research/reading

4/25-30 min, 4/26-30 min 

Things fall apart

4/27-1h and 30 min

Work 

Blogs

4/24-30 min 

The Rising Genre of "Epic Music"

If you've ever been to a movie and watched the main character charge through battlefields, or save the world or even just their family, you've heard this music. It's everywhere and you just have yet to notice it. The genre is casually referred to as "epic music" or "movie music" but really, there is no true genre that can encompass the entire volume of these musical masterpieces. Each song or piece or whatever you choose to call it, is a combination of rock, classical, choral, electronic, and orchestral music. It is not all thrown together but is carefully crafted to create a piece of music that inspires and excites. Some songs are not for all but each person can find the music as a whole to be incredible. It's hard to explain. You listen to the music and you recognize it from somewhere but you don't know where. It's probably because you have heard it. It's the music behind every great movie scene or show and at the peak of every great song. It's the best of everything you've ever heard.

As people find it online and in whatever they listen to, they realize the greatness in it and share it. One of the most popular composers of this music is Two Steps From Hell. This band alone has had over 50 appearances in different shows, movies, events, and functions that I'm sure all of you have at least heard of let alone seen. It is truly everywhere and everything and as more people hear it, they recognize it and begin to appreciate it as music instead of accompaniment. It's amazing and... awesome. I encourage everyone to at least give it 10 min.

Try the albums: Sky World, Invincible, and Archangel         

Reading/ Working Times

Working 

Nervous Conditions Projects
4/7-2 hours, 4/8- 30 min,  4/10- 2 hours

Reading

Nervous conditions re-reading (every day that i worked on the projects, 15 min)

Things Fall Apart
4/12- 30 min, 4/13- 30 min

Total= 5 hours, 30 min.

Statement #2: If something is destined to happen, it will happen without your interference.

I agree with this statement, but only barely. In most societies, destiny exists in some form such as prophecies and fate but its there with an important presence. Whether it's vague or precise, it always has a role and usually it's undeniably permanent... but not always. Some people say you can change you future by just knowing about it and many do their best to deny it. People shouldn't follow a script but cultures insist that they should. For the most part, if something is destined to happen it will even if it is not the way it was supposed to occur.

In Macbeth, the witches, which function like fates, predict the main characters future and determine his destiny. Had he not killed King Duncan, the same  future would have come truee just not how Macbeth would've imagined. In the stories written during the time of Shakespeare, destiny and prophecy drive each story and what is predicted happens whether or not the characters interfere. Though some tales break the mold, these, such as Macbeth, remain true to the everlasting reliability of destiny.   

Statement #1: Ambition is a positive, desirable trait in a person.

For this statement, I can neither agree nor disagree. Ambition is considered to be good, but too much can be harmful. Ambition gives us drive and purpose but can push us to do things we weren't meant for or that can harm others. It's constant battle of self-control. Ambition drives us to do wonderful things. America had ambition enough to go to the moon and back but we also had ambition to maintain slavery in the south and to fight it when we could. It results in great achievements and great death in many cases. There would be no great achievements  or great death without ambition. It's a delicate balance.

For example, in Macbeth, we have our main character who required ambition to become the man he is portrayed as in the book but also requires ambition to become the dead man he is at the end of the book. If he hadn't been ambitious, he couldn't have became a great fighter or the Thane of Cawdor and since he was overly ambitious, he killed the king and was decapitated because of it. The balance results in my opinion. I can agree that ambition can be positive as well as negative. I cant agree or disagree that ambition is a positive, desirable trait in a person.