Tuition in Canada
;Facts and figures
*In 2003, undergraduate arts students paid roughly around $4,000 CAD in tuition. In 1990/91 the national average undergraduate arts tuition cost $1,464 per year.
*Between 1990/91 and 2000/01, tuition rose 126.2%, or six times faster than the 20.6% rise in the rate of inflation during the same period.
*If tuition had risen according to inflation, the average cost of attending a university in Canada as an arts student would have been $2,100 in 2001.
*Undergraduate arts students in Nova Scotia pay the most tuition for that program at around $5,557, while residents of Ontario are second at $4,923.
*The largest average tuition hike in Canada occurred in British Columbia from 2002/03 to 2003/04 with a massive increase of 30.4%. This rise was initiated by the British Columbia Liberal government having lifted the tuition freeze, and as a consequence, institutions have increased tuition. Many students from universities and colleges around the province have complained, and have protested against the hikes, some teaching assistants even going on strike.
*Residents of Quebec have had seven consecutive tuition freezes since 1996/97 and currently have the lowest tuition in the country of $1,675 per year. In order to avoid over-population of the Quebec university system, $4,300 are charged for students from other provinces, closer to the national average.
*Professional programs such as dentistry, medicine, and law average the highest tuition across Canada and have also posted the largest average increases in fees this year with hikes of 20.9, 16.7 and 19.4% respectively, compared with 2002/03.
*Between 1990/91 and 1999/2000, university tuition rose by an average of 9.6% a year.
;Facts and figures
*In 2003, undergraduate arts students paid roughly around $4,000 CAD in tuition. In 1990/91 the national average undergraduate arts tuition cost $1,464 per year.
*Between 1990/91 and 2000/01, tuition rose 126.2%, or six times faster than the 20.6% rise in the rate of inflation during the same period.
*If tuition had risen according to inflation, the average cost of attending a university in Canada as an arts student would have been $2,100 in 2001.
*Undergraduate arts students in Nova Scotia pay the most tuition for that program at around $5,557, while residents of Ontario are second at $4,923.
*The largest average tuition hike in Canada occurred in British Columbia from 2002/03 to 2003/04 with a massive increase of 30.4%. This rise was initiated by the British Columbia Liberal government having lifted the tuition freeze, and as a consequence, institutions have increased tuition. Many students from universities and colleges around the province have complained, and have protested against the hikes, some teaching assistants even going on strike.
*Residents of Quebec have had seven consecutive tuition freezes since 1996/97 and currently have the lowest tuition in the country of $1,675 per year. In order to avoid over-population of the Quebec university system, $4,300 are charged for students from other provinces, closer to the national average.
*Professional programs such as dentistry, medicine, and law average the highest tuition across Canada and have also posted the largest average increases in fees this year with hikes of 20.9, 16.7 and 19.4% respectively, compared with 2002/03.
*Between 1990/91 and 1999/2000, university tuition rose by an average of 9.6% a year.
Advanced Theory (also called Advancement Theory) is a theory of pop culture invented by Jason Hartley and Britt Bergman in 1990 and popularized by Chuck Klosterman. Hartley and Bergman formulated it as an "optimistic" antidote to overly rigid taste trends among rock hipsters. According to Klosterman:
Core concepts
An artist is Advanced when they do something that is neither expected of them nor the opposite of what is expected of them. Most Advanced Artists go through an Overt period, during which their work is overtly weird. For instance, the Velvet Underground's introduction of the viola to rock 'n' roll was Overt. True Advancement stems from an artist's following his (or in Cher's case, her) own idiosyncratic genius, which results in a kind of weird that makes even the artist's biggest fans uncomfortable. For example, Lou Reed's haircut in the late 1980s. Ultimately, the artist's fans catch up with him and grow to appreciate the work they rejected. Lou Reed's album Berlin is such a work.
The Flaming Lips, The Killers and The Darkness are given as examples of Overt artists (the later two for being anachronistic). Klosterman called the 1993 collaboration between Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and author William S. Burroughs the definition of overtness
There are subgroups of Advancement, most notable of which are the Advanced Irritants. The prime example of this is Lou Reed's 1975 record Metal Machine Music, which consists entirely of guitar feedback.
Advanced artists
According to proponents of Advanced Theory, a partial list of Advanced artists (and examples of their Advanced works) would include:
* Alkaline Trio - for releasing the anti-radio song "We've Had Enough" as a radio only single.
* Beck - for his 2006 performance on Saturday Night Live, which included marrionettes of his entire band and a "pointless guy" onstage playing cowbell on "Nausea", among other things.
* David Bowie - forming Tin Machine; his cover of "Dancin' In The Streets" with Mick Jagger
* Garth Brooks - The entire Chris Gaines debacle
* David Byrne - for his cover of Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody"
* C-Murder - for actually murdering someone
* R. Kelly - for making "Trapped in the Closet"
* Kiss - for creating the soundtrack to a nonexistent movie.
* Korn - for making a radio friendly version of their anti-corporate single "Y'All Want a Single".
* Mark Mothersbaugh - for "continuing Devo as he has", not explaining his work in ads or television and for creating the Devo 2.0 project with Disney.[http://advancedtheory.blogspot.com/search/label/Advanced%20Listening]
* Prince - for covering "Best of You" by the Foo Fighters at halftime of Super Bowl XLI.
* Lou Reed - the "most advanced artist", his most advanced moment being the single "The Original Wrapper" where he raps about AIDS, Louis Farrakhan, and waffles. Other advanced moments include his concept album about Edgar Allan Poe. and performing two songs with The Raconteurs (unannounced and only playing songs he wrote) at the 2006 MTV VMAs
* Robert Smith - The lead singer of The Cure. Considered advanced for the collaboration with pop singer Ashlee Simpson . Also for giving Christmas 2006 as his due date to finish lyrics for the band's thirteenth album .
* Sting - for his album of the lute music of 16th century madrigalist John Dowland, as well as for reasons even Advancement Theorists do not understand.
* Rufus Wainright - Advancement Theory co-creator Jason Hartley considers him "born Advanced"
* Scott Walker - for releasing 2007's And What Shall Go to the Ball?, a 25 minute, four movement instrumental work [http://advancedtheory.blogspot.com/search/label/Scott%20Walker]
* Brian Wilson - for the 1989 rap song "Smart Girls" from his unreleased Sweet Insanity album, which Hartley proclaimed was "the most advanced thing ever heard" [http://advancedtheory.blogspot.com/search/label/brian%20wilson]
Non-musical advanced works and artists include:
* Val Kilmer - for virtually every career move he has made, since he injects none of his personality whatsoever in his works.
Advanced films:
* the motion picture Stranger Than Fiction - because " every aspect of the film is meticulously orientated towards exploration of the concept of narrative film itself"
* The musical We Will Rock You - because the "The idea that rock 'n' roll could save a civilization is extremely Advanced"
Core concepts
An artist is Advanced when they do something that is neither expected of them nor the opposite of what is expected of them. Most Advanced Artists go through an Overt period, during which their work is overtly weird. For instance, the Velvet Underground's introduction of the viola to rock 'n' roll was Overt. True Advancement stems from an artist's following his (or in Cher's case, her) own idiosyncratic genius, which results in a kind of weird that makes even the artist's biggest fans uncomfortable. For example, Lou Reed's haircut in the late 1980s. Ultimately, the artist's fans catch up with him and grow to appreciate the work they rejected. Lou Reed's album Berlin is such a work.
The Flaming Lips, The Killers and The Darkness are given as examples of Overt artists (the later two for being anachronistic). Klosterman called the 1993 collaboration between Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and author William S. Burroughs the definition of overtness
There are subgroups of Advancement, most notable of which are the Advanced Irritants. The prime example of this is Lou Reed's 1975 record Metal Machine Music, which consists entirely of guitar feedback.
Advanced artists
According to proponents of Advanced Theory, a partial list of Advanced artists (and examples of their Advanced works) would include:
* Alkaline Trio - for releasing the anti-radio song "We've Had Enough" as a radio only single.
* Beck - for his 2006 performance on Saturday Night Live, which included marrionettes of his entire band and a "pointless guy" onstage playing cowbell on "Nausea", among other things.
* David Bowie - forming Tin Machine; his cover of "Dancin' In The Streets" with Mick Jagger
* Garth Brooks - The entire Chris Gaines debacle
* David Byrne - for his cover of Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody"
* C-Murder - for actually murdering someone
* R. Kelly - for making "Trapped in the Closet"
* Kiss - for creating the soundtrack to a nonexistent movie.
* Korn - for making a radio friendly version of their anti-corporate single "Y'All Want a Single".
* Mark Mothersbaugh - for "continuing Devo as he has", not explaining his work in ads or television and for creating the Devo 2.0 project with Disney.[http://advancedtheory.blogspot.com/search/label/Advanced%20Listening]
* Prince - for covering "Best of You" by the Foo Fighters at halftime of Super Bowl XLI.
* Lou Reed - the "most advanced artist", his most advanced moment being the single "The Original Wrapper" where he raps about AIDS, Louis Farrakhan, and waffles. Other advanced moments include his concept album about Edgar Allan Poe. and performing two songs with The Raconteurs (unannounced and only playing songs he wrote) at the 2006 MTV VMAs
* Robert Smith - The lead singer of The Cure. Considered advanced for the collaboration with pop singer Ashlee Simpson . Also for giving Christmas 2006 as his due date to finish lyrics for the band's thirteenth album .
* Sting - for his album of the lute music of 16th century madrigalist John Dowland, as well as for reasons even Advancement Theorists do not understand.
* Rufus Wainright - Advancement Theory co-creator Jason Hartley considers him "born Advanced"
* Scott Walker - for releasing 2007's And What Shall Go to the Ball?, a 25 minute, four movement instrumental work [http://advancedtheory.blogspot.com/search/label/Scott%20Walker]
* Brian Wilson - for the 1989 rap song "Smart Girls" from his unreleased Sweet Insanity album, which Hartley proclaimed was "the most advanced thing ever heard" [http://advancedtheory.blogspot.com/search/label/brian%20wilson]
Non-musical advanced works and artists include:
* Val Kilmer - for virtually every career move he has made, since he injects none of his personality whatsoever in his works.
Advanced films:
* the motion picture Stranger Than Fiction - because " every aspect of the film is meticulously orientated towards exploration of the concept of narrative film itself"
* The musical We Will Rock You - because the "The idea that rock 'n' roll could save a civilization is extremely Advanced"
Genesis Rhaspodos is a character in the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII who was created in the PlayStation 2game Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus. His initial appearance was in a secret ending for players who reached a certain requriments. Genesis would then appear again in the prequel to Final Fantasy VII, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII. Genesis appearance was modelled after Japanese singer Gackt who voiced him in the Japanese versions.
Background
Genesis was born similarly to his friend Sephiroth while at the fetal stage he was injected with G-Cells which gave him great powers. Genesis grew up loving the book Loveless a collection of the words of the Godess Minerva. Genesis was also a childhood friend of Angeal. The two both joined SOLDIER and rose to the ranks of First Class with another companion, Sephiroth.
Betrayal
Genesis would always spar with Sephiroth with the help of Angeal due to Sephiroth being better than both of them. But during the last time the three friends were united Genesis decided to fight Sephiroth alone. He failed in his attempt to kill Sephiroth due to Sephiroth's skills and Angeal's intervention. During the Wutai War Genesis began to degenerate due to the presence of G-Cells.
Desperate he kidnapped Dr. Hollander and forced him to try to find a cure for his degeneration. He created many copies of himself using Second and Third Class Soldiers with his DNA molded onto them. Zack and Angeal were charged with finding Genesis. After searching greatly Genesis discovered that Jenova cells could stabalize his condition. But when Sephiroth went insane and took Jenova's head this proved impossible. However Genesis discovered that Jenova cells had been experimented on Zack and Cloud. Genesis however proves too weak to fight Zack and is defeated but still alive. Weiss takes away Genesis.
Awakening
Many years later all of Genesis records and history are removed except for several cryptic notes in the G-Report. Genesis awakens suddenly when Weiss body is dropped to him. Genesis walks up to his body and says "It is not yet time for slumber. We still have much work to do my brother."
Background
Genesis was born similarly to his friend Sephiroth while at the fetal stage he was injected with G-Cells which gave him great powers. Genesis grew up loving the book Loveless a collection of the words of the Godess Minerva. Genesis was also a childhood friend of Angeal. The two both joined SOLDIER and rose to the ranks of First Class with another companion, Sephiroth.
Betrayal
Genesis would always spar with Sephiroth with the help of Angeal due to Sephiroth being better than both of them. But during the last time the three friends were united Genesis decided to fight Sephiroth alone. He failed in his attempt to kill Sephiroth due to Sephiroth's skills and Angeal's intervention. During the Wutai War Genesis began to degenerate due to the presence of G-Cells.
Desperate he kidnapped Dr. Hollander and forced him to try to find a cure for his degeneration. He created many copies of himself using Second and Third Class Soldiers with his DNA molded onto them. Zack and Angeal were charged with finding Genesis. After searching greatly Genesis discovered that Jenova cells could stabalize his condition. But when Sephiroth went insane and took Jenova's head this proved impossible. However Genesis discovered that Jenova cells had been experimented on Zack and Cloud. Genesis however proves too weak to fight Zack and is defeated but still alive. Weiss takes away Genesis.
Awakening
Many years later all of Genesis records and history are removed except for several cryptic notes in the G-Report. Genesis awakens suddenly when Weiss body is dropped to him. Genesis walks up to his body and says "It is not yet time for slumber. We still have much work to do my brother."
Throughout the history of music, there is a genera called rock and roll. It's emergence in the early forties was created by an influx of African and White cultures, and dominated by males. As time progressed, females started to get a presence, but it was mainly in groups or as a stereotypical diva. Chosen for looks and rarely for talent it wasn't until the 1960's until the first talented females that relied on singing and song writing skills rather than looks. They sang a form of rock that was shedding the "rock and roll" type stigma and sang songs with meaning rather than made up nonsense words. These songs also utilized the electric guitar like non other before them. Woodstock would bring these people together and really get hard rock underway.
Janis Joplin was perhaps the first female to make it big based on talent alone. She put her sole into her music and was well noted for it. Her performance at Woodstock was extremely well noted and her fans loved her for it. If she hadn’t overdosed in 1970 who knows where her music would have gone.
Joplin influenced women to not worry about sex appeal and to focus on talent. The band Heart took to her example and took off in the mid 70’s. Nancy and Ann Wilson started the band; they’re also the bands vocalists. They created hits like Barracuda and Crazy on you, which are authentic hard rock songs. In an era where disco reined supreme Heart held their own.
These women strayed way from the diva persona. In the eighties grunge band L7 and metal band Vixen stood as equals to their male counter parts. Both of these bands where made up completely of women, and proved that women could not only sing, they could also play instruments.
In the nineties trends continued to rise as music got easier to come by. Downloading made new artist able to be heard just by placing a song on a shareware program. Artist like the Nightwish and Lacuna Coil from Europe began to gain fandom in the US. Later in that decade Evanesance with their female vocalist went platinum with their plethora of top hits. Women continued to see how far they could succeed and in 2001 Arch Enemy, one of the hardest bands in music, picked up Angela Gossow to replace their male front man. Many fans renounced the bands decision but in 2002 with the release of Wages of Sin, Angela proved that women could rock as hard as any man.
Janis Joplin was perhaps the first female to make it big based on talent alone. She put her sole into her music and was well noted for it. Her performance at Woodstock was extremely well noted and her fans loved her for it. If she hadn’t overdosed in 1970 who knows where her music would have gone.
Joplin influenced women to not worry about sex appeal and to focus on talent. The band Heart took to her example and took off in the mid 70’s. Nancy and Ann Wilson started the band; they’re also the bands vocalists. They created hits like Barracuda and Crazy on you, which are authentic hard rock songs. In an era where disco reined supreme Heart held their own.
These women strayed way from the diva persona. In the eighties grunge band L7 and metal band Vixen stood as equals to their male counter parts. Both of these bands where made up completely of women, and proved that women could not only sing, they could also play instruments.
In the nineties trends continued to rise as music got easier to come by. Downloading made new artist able to be heard just by placing a song on a shareware program. Artist like the Nightwish and Lacuna Coil from Europe began to gain fandom in the US. Later in that decade Evanesance with their female vocalist went platinum with their plethora of top hits. Women continued to see how far they could succeed and in 2001 Arch Enemy, one of the hardest bands in music, picked up Angela Gossow to replace their male front man. Many fans renounced the bands decision but in 2002 with the release of Wages of Sin, Angela proved that women could rock as hard as any man.