Most people may not even realize it, but songwriters incorporate world events into the songs we hear every day. Take for example, “The southern rapper Young Jeezy, who recorded The Recession last year…” (RPC 89). He sings about the economy in a lot of his songs because it’s a way that singers/songwriters use their music to reach out to people who do not watch or care to watch the news. It is a way of using entertainment as an informative tool. “Sometimes normal musical imagery crosses a line and becomes, so to speak pathological, as when a certain fragment of music repeats itself incessantly, sometimes maddeningly, for days on end.”(100).
One of the main differences is that in the Millers tale (movie) Alison was a singer at his husband’s bar, which was Nicholas excuse to approach to them and make up the story that he was in the music industry. That way he could spend time with her and at the same time get her to have sex with him. The next difference is that in the movie the guy who felt in love with her was a hair stylist and not the church priest Absalom. All the things Absalom did in the “text” were done by the hair stylist guy in the movie (who also sang with her at the bar). Nicholas used him as a bait to distract John’s attention from him.
At first they were charging people at the beginning but then so many people came they tore down the fence and barged in and they decided to just make it a free concert. Woodstock had good meaning around it, its intentions were to promote peace and stop the Vietnam War. So I tried to research points on what other good intentions did Woodstock have. All I was able to dig up from this day was that the best parts of Woodstock were getting intoxicated, ingesting and injecting drugs into your body And people said Woodstock wasn’t that bad I beg to differ, those three days were taken out of contexts. To try and promote peace, they make it seem as if drinking, getting drugs, and fornicating was the only way to promote peace there were plenty of other ways to promote peace and if they didn’t see it that way I don’t think they should metaphorically be the spokes people of peace.
When people can’t use their own words, music says it all. Two music genres that are viewed by a lot of individuals today are Hip Hop and Classic Rock. Researching articles on these two genres has given insight to what was unknown. Classic Rock developed in the late 1940’s. Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Elvis Pressley introduced this Genre.
` Racial Profiling I have been teased for my race but I have never been profiled before. A few people I mow have been but it didn't really affect me until my close friend who happened to be Hispanic was and I was with them. Brian, is like any average teenage boy who gets into trouble some times but never with the law usually with his parents for getting a C. He wouldn't ever do anything intentionally reckless on the road but the cops who pulled him over also decided to give him a curfew ticket, a ticket for having a lighter in his car, and a speeding ticket although he was going 2 miles above the speed limit. Due to high-strung immigration laws, cops in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas are now "20 times more likely
Going to church as a family was not a choice, growing up, but a weekly mandate. I enjoyed going to church, I enjoyed the songs that we say, and the verses that were read, but it wasn’t really my choice to go. It wasn’t until I left for the Marines that I had to make the conscious effort to attend church. I remember waking up and in my sleepy daze almost see the angel and the devil on my shoulders arguing about whether I needed sleep or church more. For the longest time, sleep won out.
Rogers was raised in the country where he spent many lonely times in solitude and as his parents felt that they did not want their children to be influenced by society their children had very little opportunity to mix with other young people. This lack of contact from an early age had a pyscholosophical effect on Rogers who, in later life, identified his poor self-confidence and social skills on his childhood and teenage years. When he was nineteen years old and through his father’s influence of religion, Rogers decided to that he wanted to be a Christian minister. To prepare him, he enrolled to study history at the University of Wisconsin During his time there, he met a group of likeminded students whose home and religious back ground were similar to his own. At the age of twenty, Rogers had an opportunity to visit China along with his group of friends to take part in a Christian conference.
Conversion Testimony I have not always been a Christian. Having been raised by my mother and step-father that are committed Christians; I have been attending to church all of my life but I did not understand what was going on due to no Sign Language Interpreter. I used to think that church was just family and friends gathering on every Sunday. No one sat down with me and made sure that I understood. They just assumed that I was a deaf and dumb.
I’m not like the poster boy for Islam… I still got flaws and stuff like that, so I don’t really wear that on my sleeve… I don’t go to clubs, I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, you know like my whole – the whole groupie situation is shut down.” Born and raised on the Westside of Chicago Lupe is the fifth child on nine brothers and sisters. He has been rapping since the eighth grade, but was put off by the vulgarity and violent imagery of his father’s N.W.A. records. Lupe Fiasco is a rising star but with the albums that have been released and the one’s that haven’t been released yet by him shouldn’t be a surprise to the public to see him as an established icon within a couple of years. In a recent interview with Lupe I asked him what was an interesting project or project that he has done in the past and he said, “An interesting project that I have worked on in the past would be when my very first solo album Food & Liquor was released on September 19, 2006.” The main effect it had on his career was that when the album got released and a lot of people kept on buying it because they liked it and it made me want to create more music because my music is different than other rappers.
What’s In a Name? Growing up in the city of Sanford, in the year of 1980, I do not recall seeing a mixture of discrimination between our races; therefore I do not understand Gates feeling during that time of his life, but in the 1950’s, I do remember my parents telling some stories of how discrimination was still among us. Due to their beliefs in God, they did not focus on how they were treated or misunderstood from the other race but continued to walk by faith and not by sight. My parents told stories but did not educate us on how things were in the 50’s but how things got better. Based on Gates childhood and their current family status, I personally do not feel as if it was a necessity to educate him on the social stance in their