With various members undertaking solo projects or touring with other bands, and their lack of permanency in the lead guitar spot, the Peppers always seemed on the verge of breaking up. In 1999, though, they reunited the lineup that appeared on their 1991 breakthrough Blood Sugar Sex Magik and released the album Californication to critical and popular acclaim. The two men who have been Peppers from the beginning, vocalist Anthony Kiedis and bass player Michael Balzary, became close friends in high school in Los Angeles. They joined with fellow classmates Hillel Slovak on guitar and Jack Irons on drums to form the band Anthem. Their band, Anthem, ended shortly after the creation.
Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999). Review submitted by: Abigail Wagoner History 103, Sec. 216 January 31, 2014 Adam Hochschild, the author of King Leopold’s Ghost, is a well-known writer whose main job is that of journalism. However, when Hochschild was a college student, he spent time in South Africa which led him to begin writing books about difficult periods in history. He has since then written five books and, in 2012, received an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
This novel feels like many weeks worth of a journalists’ research printed in a newspaper before putting together into a novel. The journalist starts with a normal day for the Clutter family and then the preparations of the murder, then the murder its self, next Dick and Perry are in Mexico, eventually leading up to the capture of Dick and Perry, and finally having them executed. Capote is like an artist with his work of journalism. This to me is truly a great journalists’
For my second historical event, I will be informing you on the 9/11 terrorist attack on the U.S. which relates to the band through one of Green Day’s hit songs, Wake Me Up When September Ends. Green Day is an American punk rock band that originally derived from the band, Sweet Children, which the two 14 year olds Billie Joe Armstrong (lead guitarist, vocalist) and Mike Dirnt (bass; born Mike Pritchard) had formed in Rodeo, California. By 1989, the group had added drummer John Kiffmeyer and changed their name to Green Day. Shortly after the band released their first studio album, 39/Smooth, the band replaced Kiftmeyer with Tre Cool (born Frank Edwin Wright, III); Tre Cool became the band's permanent drummer. Later after playing in the band as a session and touring guitarist for 13 years, Jason White (guitarist and backing vocalist) became a full member.
The Wave, written by Morton Rhue is a fascinating novel based on a true story in California. In order to convey how Hitler and the Nazi party gained power before WW2 Mr Ross, a history teacher, creates a movement called The Wave, after believing his students didn’t pay enough attention to his WW2 documentary. His students dedicate themselves to The Wave and its values of discipline, community and action, creating a cult that equalizes its members and excludes and degrades non-members. Morton Rhue uses literary devices such as metaphors, sarcasm and rhetorical questions in a way that shows all who come into contact with this tangible story, the strength of Power, the flaws and advantages of Human Nature and the importance of Individualism. In The Wave, Individualism is conveyed primarily through the use of the characters, Laurie Saunders, Principal Owen and Mrs Saunders.
Rhetorical Analysis: “Jeremy” Rhetoric appeals are used for impacting society. Since the start of the Music Television Channel (MTV), music videos have become a popular means of employing rhetoric to capture, as well as maintain the audience’s attention. After Pearl Jam lead vocalist, Eddie Vedder, read an article printed in a newspaper he sat down and wrote the lyrics to the song, “Jeremy”. This particular article was about a 16 year old boy from Richardson, Texas, who committed suicide. The intentions of this song is to educate the audience, while also describing factual details in the order of which they occurred.
“Trying to Hit the Brake on Texting while Driving” The author of the article “Trying to Hit the Brake on Texting While Driving”, Matt Richtel graduated with his bachelor’s degree from University of California. After successfully gaining his bachelors Matt went on to earn his master’s degree, he attended graduate school at the Colombia School of Journalism in New York. In two thousand and ten while working for the New York Times Matt was awarded the highest honor in journalism with a Pulitzer Prize, the prize was for National Reporting for his series of articles on the rising epidemic of distracted driving. The date of publication for “Trying to Hit the Brake on Texting While Driving” was on September 13th, 2014 making its contents very recent information; the title of the publication is self-explanatory as it contains information aimed at
Limitless director Neil Burger has worked with the music industry directing music videos and producing commercials for MTV. Neil Burger directed the Films Interview with the Assassin in 2002, The Illusionist in 2006 and The Lucky Ones “in 2008. His most recent film to direct is Limitless in 2011 based on the novel The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn. The film Limitless is about a struggling writer named Eddie played by Bradley Cooper. Eddie takes a pill by the name NZT that allows him to access one hundred percent of his brain power.
Scott Anderson 2/18/09 Writing 160, Trupiano Do you think that rap music glamorizes drug use? Through recent research I have found an article about a study on the glamorization of drugs, University of California- Berkeley; New study finds glamorization of drugs in rap music jumped dramatically over 2 decades. Denise Herd, associate professor in the division of Community Health and Human Development at the University of California Berkeley’s School of Public Health, and a team of hers conducted this study. During the study Herd and her team looked at the lyrics to the top 341 rap songs from 1979 to 1997 – as determined by Billboard and Gavin music rating services. Researchers involved with the experiment examined the songs for mention of drugs, behavior and contexts surrounding the mention of drugs, as well as attitudes and consequences stemming from the use of drugs.
Joyce Carol Oaes • Began writing in 1963 • Themes of writing : violence, brutality, and emotional disturbance • Born in new york atteneded Syracuse university and university of Wisconsin • English professor at Detroit unvertity for 20 years, now a professor at Princeton • *Joyce Carol Oates was inspired to write "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" after reading an account in Life magazine of a charismatic but insecure young man who had enticed and then killed several girls in Tucson, Arizona, during the early 1960s. Transformed into fiction, this story was first published by the literary Journal Epoch in 1966 Summary Connie was your averaged 15 year old teenager girl. Nothing mattered to her