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Song Analysis - “A Separate Peace” The musical composition Guardian by Alanis Morissette connects with the character Finny, from John Knowles’ novel, A Separate Peace because the lyrics represent Finny, and his relationship with Gene after, the “accident” in which Gene purposely pushes Finny out of the tree leading to major injuries, which then affects his sports career. In Guardian Alanis Morissette sings,“You, you who has smiled when you're in pain.” (Line 1).
Henry and his girlfriends named Della go to the Sleepy lagoon when all of a sudden they hear a party going on at a ranch across from the lagoon then the downey gang appears and the leader of downey gang wants to finish the fight they started with henry. Henry ended up all bruised up because it was him versus everyone in the downey
Neil Diamond 's documentary “Reel Injun” depicts the historical portrayal of the treatment of the First Nations in America. It brings awareness to the truth behind not only First Nations, but other stereotyped groups. For example, that many people often mistake all members of the Muslim community as Extremists who commit inhumane acts of terrorism. Small percentages of the population who fit the stereotyped criteria may often unintentionally represent their background negatively and as a whole. These are then misinterpreted by society ultimately having a biased view on groups of people.
“Sober Song” by Barton Sutter is arranged as a free verse poem with a rhyme scheme pattern within every other line. This poem describes a man saying his goodbyes to the memories he has had with alcohol. The poem’s beat and rhythm reminds the reader of a broken love song to the liquor that had once taken over his life. In lines in 1 through 4, we have a special pattern displayed not only in these lines, but throughout the entire poem.
Nikky Finney's book Head Off and Split is a work of art in every sense. It combines both historical elements and personal elements. She shines the light on our countries habit of oppressing and enslaving African Americans. She masterfully weaves together the history of the time and her own memories in an unabashed way that lays bare the wrongdoings of our country. Forcing the reader to see part of our history that is often glossed and skimmed over in conventional textbooks.
Urinetown is the fall musical that our school magnificently performed. It centers about this town in which people have to pay to pee and a love story about two young adults trying to change the way of the town. The musical premiered in 2001 with the music by Mark Hollmann, lyrics by Hollmann and Greg Kotis, and book by Kotis. What interested me was that the musical mocks capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism,and the whole idea of going against the corrupt government. Also, the concept of going to the bathroom is not free is unique to me.
The crew was in an endless sea, where they are lost and
Set in the year of 1911, Joe Turner Come and Gone seems like it would be a play past the rhetoric of slavery and struggles of African Americans. However, August Wilson’s, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, speaks of the vivid history of many African Americans post slavery days and powerfully displays the themes, images, and language of newly free slaves interactions in the North. The play explores the reality of a troubled history, memories forgotten and remembered, and the idea of personal struggles. Furthermore, many of the characters in the play are searching for something in their life. The search for answers from the past, hope for the future, and struggles of everyday life bind the characters together in this short play.
Music carries each and every one of us to a new awareness. It can reach to the innermost part of an individual. Music can envelope our emotions from tears all the way to our joy. It captivates and motivates. As I attended a concert on Saturday, November 7, 2015, Lynyrd Skynyrd performed with power and feeling to their audience.
Slaves faced struggle, despair, and torture while working on Southern plantations. Often these slaves would sing songs not to comfort themselves, but to express their disdain of reality. While online articles and videos offer a glimpse of the past, these songs will be analysed as they are presented in two books - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Souls of Black Folk - by Frederick Douglass, an ardent abolitionist, and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois, respectively. Although the aforementioned are both Black Americans, slave songs were conferred differently in their respective books; this is related to the author’s personal experience, intention, and living period.
Unit 2 Assignment Two album covers that I chose to analyze were both from the same artists, in the band Coldplay. The name of the first album cover is called Viva La Vida or Death and His Friends, which was released in 2008. The second album cover is the Prospekt’s March, which was also released in 2008. I chose these two albums on how similar each cover is too one another.
Frances Fitzgerald, in her analytical essay “Rewriting American History” (1979), asserts that over the course of time, content in history books has evolved to “such an extent that even an adult would find the unrecognizable.” She supports her assertion by intermitting robust diction, utilizing convoluted syntax, and capitalizing on cogent anecdotal evidence. Fitzgerald’s purpose is to reveal the consequence of rewriting history and how it creates a “certain level of unpleasantness” to history schoolbook writers and publishers, teachers, and school districts in order to expound the struggle students must endure with the inconsistencies. She embraces an astute tone (“Even more surprising than the emergence of problems is the discovery that the great unity of the texts has broken.”) to accentuate to history textbook publishers and writers, teachers, and school districts that history textbooks need to be as objective, candid, and free from superfluous additions as possible with the production and teaching of them. Appendix: 1.
The people come in and they are Otto Klopp, the master of mechaniks, and Count Volger, his fencing master. They woke him, to tell him that he was going to be operating a walker in the nighttime. Meanwhile on the Darwinist side of things the main character is a girl named Deryn Sharp. Deryn wanted to pass the Air Force middy test. Deryn knew that the test would be easy, but the problem was that she was a girl, and girls were not allowed on the air force.
In the song, “Whiskey Lullaby,” written by Jon Randall and Bill Anderson and sung by Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss, the message being sent is that love so strong can be ruined with just one mistake that could lead to worst outcomes. Told in second point-of-view, the author supports this theme by describing the setting of a gloomy country home establishing the major conflict of love and death and incorporating the use of irony, tone shifts, imagery, and word choices. Paisley’s purpose is to imply that love can become something putrid and could end up hurting loved ones very deeply. This song creates a mood of sadness and mournfulness for an audience that have experience this type of situation being described in the song. Throughout the whole song the singer used different tones when singing different parts of the song.
“In the streets it 's getting hot, And the youths dem a get so cold…” are the famous lyrics of Reggae sensation, Richie Spice, that pivots around writer and director, Ian Strachan’s Gun Boys Rhapsody. It is one of Ringplay and Ceibo productions’ latest and most heart-wrenching dramas. It provides a host of parody, humor and tragedy on a fictional Caribbean society, I-Land. Strachan dedicates the theatrical piece to his former student of C.I Gibson, Marcian Scott, who was brutally brought to his demise in his driveway by a convict out on bail, in 2006. Gun Boys Rhapsody investigates the impact of crime and violence on the youth of the Bahamian society.