MUS 123 Homework 2: Cover Songs A cover song is a recording of a song that was originally recorded or made popular by somebody else. I realized many music artists have covered Beatles’ songs. So‚ the song I chose for this assignment is “Blackbird” performed originally by The Beatles. For the cover version‚ I chose Kenny Rankin’s “Blackbird” cover version. The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The band consisted of four members: John Lennon‚ Paul McCartney‚ George
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of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas‚Australia and North Africa. Many ballads were written and sold as single sheetbroadsides. The form was often used by poets and composers from the 18th century onwards to produce lyrical ballads. In the later 19th century it took on the meaning of a slow form of popular love song and the term is now often used as synonymous with any love song‚ particularly the pop
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Singer CeeLo Green has released a song called “Robin Williams” which is a tribute to the late actor. Williams‚ a seemingly happy man‚ was battling depression and committed suicide in August 2014. "Robin Williams" is the first single from Green’s upcoming album Heart Blanche. Although the song is good‚ I can’t help but think that it’s a blatant cash-grab. The upbeat and catchy song features lyrics that relate to Williams and his battle with depression. The lines "we don’t know what the next man’s
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Dear John By: Alisha Wallace ENG225: Introduction to Film (GSK1249D) Instructor: Dwight Paulsen 01/18/2013 Dear John is an endemic and heartbreaking story‚ which has a fiction story based on nonfiction events. This is a love story written by Nicholas Sparks. This novel was made into a movie and was directed by Lasse Hallstorm.“Dear John” the letter read. And with those two words‚ a heart was
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Fight the Power “Fight the Power” is one of the most controversial songs from the late 80’s hip hop generation. This song is written and sang by the group called Public Enemy. Public enemy was known to be very influential through their controversial lyrics. Their music is very much pro black power; Although this song is focused more towards the African American community‚ it can be used to influence any type of social class being affected by social injustice. The civil rights movement from the
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JOHN McGRATH: AN ANTI-CLASS BASED SYSTEM PLAYWRIGHT One of the most prolific and outstanding figures in British drama‚ John McGrath was committed to socialism and used the stage as a political arena ( Kershaw‚ 1992: 149) to promote his opinions and provoke the labour class audience to react against the established capitalist system in Britain (Holdsworth‚ 2002: xvii). With socialist insights into the nature of social struggle and the provoking tone concerned with the issues of oppression‚ McGrath’s
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MIS Study guide Quiz #2 1. Which method is used to assign weights to various features of a system? a. Scoring model 2. The organizational activities working towards the adoption‚ management and routinization of a new information system are called? a. Implementation 3. Which of the following is not one of the activities of a systems analyst? a. Formulation of capital budgeting models 4. Change management is a process that? a. Should
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Texts are a product of their contexts‚ how true is this statement? To see how true it is‚ we need to look at the poets John Donne and William Wordsworth from the Metaphysical and Romanticism Eras respectively. The context of these different eras heavily impacts the poems written by the poets. This is done through the different values these two eras possess‚ for example‚ the belief of logic and rationalism in the Metaphysical period and the deep reverence for nature in the Romanticism Era. The Metaphysical
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wild boy image‚ recorded many gospel songs such as: Where Could I go to but the Lord‚ How Great Thou Art‚ Crying in the Chapel. Bob Dylan was later to declare “The highlight of my career? That’s easy. Elvis singing one of my songs.” Gospel songs were frequently sung by church choirs and performed in events‚ such as Billy Graham’s four month “Down Under” Crusade of 1959. Graham claimed: “…young people today are searching for something to believe in……….and a song to sing.” He talked about a fear of
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This might come off strong‚ I know I met you not long ago-oh-oh. (Mhmmm.) When I heard you sing‚ I thought you were the cutest thing‚ that I’d ever seen‚ that I’d ever seen-en-en-en. In a verse or two‚ you caught me staring over at you. & I thought of somethin’ funny to say‚ but I didn’t want to sound cliché-ay (Oh oh whoa oh oh.) & this is how I plan to break the ice-ce: Say something nice. But I had to go before I could‚ sittin’ here thinkin’ if I really should. But I’ll have some fun-un‚ take
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