“The sky was the limit” This is a quote taken from Tom Petty’s Into the Great Wide Open.…
“All were merged into one smoothly working machine; they were, in fact, a poem of motion, a symphony of swinging blades”, this quote stated by Daniel James Brown, author of The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. This inspiring biography is about the enthralling story behind US gold medal winner Joe Rantz. The book describes in detail the tremendous amount of work he and his fellow teammates at Washington University accomplished to take bring home the much coveted gold medal, at a time of great political strife throughout the world. In this enthralling book, Daniel Brown writes about the harsh life of Joe Rantz, where he faced abandonment by his family. The book is set during the Great Depression and during Hitler’s genocide of Non-Aryans. Through the use of pathos that is evidence of emotional…
When a song is as heavily covered as Fats Domino’s “Ain’t That A Shame” from his album Rock and Rollin with Fats Domino you know that there is something special about it. With recording artists such as Pat Boone, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and even the 1970s rock group, Cheap Trick recording the song many people know at least one version. However the original version has a special something about it that helps it stand out from the many covers. The song has an enticing hook, interesting historical context, and is an earworm that was with me for several days after I first heard the song.…
Claimed as Spike Lee best work since Malcolm X, He Got Game is a film about the relationship between a father and his son. In this film the father, Jake Shuttlesworth (Denzel Washington), is serving time in prison for murdering his wife. His son, Jesus Shuttlesworth (Ray Allen), is the nation's top high school basketball prospect. The governor, being an avid basketball fan, has made a deal with Jake that will cut back his sentence if he can convince his son to go to the governor's alma mater, Big State University. Jake agrees, but much difficulty lies in dealing with a son who still hasn't forgiven him for taking his mother's life. It is around this difficulty that the plot is built.…
From the time African American men were introduced to America, they were treated wrong: seen as a treat and abused. Black men have gotten the worst of it all. People stereotype black men as being violent and criminals. However they are not seen for who they really are. Young black men are more likely to be seen this way simply because of their age and color of skin. In the piece Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space by Brent Staples, Staples talks about his experience being stereotyped of the color of his skin. Black men have always been wrongfully stereotyped as being a threat because of their appearance.…
Following a career of your dreams comes with consequences and the realization of who the real supporters in your life are. In the movie A Hard Day’s Night it portrayed the members of The Beatles as a band with a perfect mythical life of mischievous acts and female screaming fans that run after them everywhere they go. While Johnny Cash, in the movie Walk the Line, undergoes a more realistic and factual lifestyle with struggles of being an absent dad and a depressed person that gets dragged into a life-changing addiction. Although A Hard Day’s Night and Walk the Line are similar in symbolizing the motto “follow your dreams” I favored Walk the Line more because it's more relatable in the sense of tough love from Cash’s father.…
There are just some things that distinguish the good authors from the bad ones. Those things include character development, language choice, plot development, and making a story relate to everyone. Because Paul Beatty has all four of these in his book, "The White Boy Shuffle", he must be classified as a good author. Now I realize he has other books and they could all be horrible, or even better than this one, so you can't base talent of an author on one book(if that were the case and you based my skills off of this paper you would assume I am horrible, which I like to think I am not). But for the sake of making my life easier I am going to base Beatty's talent off of this one book.…
The Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry shows the journey of how Soapy finally ends up in the comfort of the Blackwell jail. Underneath the storytelling, O. Henry portrays the unfortunate reality of the New York during this time period.…
I feel like Johnny Cash in his music video Hurt is using a lot of imagery and symbolism to demonstrate the remorse and sadness he feels. In the video, there was a part where it showed this woman crying, and it probably means that woman was probably hurt by him or hurt someone she loved. The part where it showed Jesus on a cross probably symbolizes the pain because being nailed to a cross isn’t pleasant at all. I found the video a little confusing because there was so much going on at once. I wasn’t really sure why Johnny Cash was hurt or why he wrote the song, and who is it directed to.…
The song that I chose to listen to was “Hound Dog” by Big Mama Thornton and the cover by Elvis Presley. This is a very popular song and I’ve known it for a long time (as it was in the Disney movie Lilo and Stitch), yet I didn’t know until I was reading the textbook this week that Elvis Presley was not the original performer of this song. I really enjoyed listening to Big Mama Thornton sing it. She has a very deep, rich voice. I like that she sang it more smoothly, kind of legato, than Elvis Presley did. She also had a different instrumental sound and made barking sounds at the end. In contrast, Presley’s version is more bouncy and had different styling to make it so that he wasn’t making a complete copy of Big Mama Thornton’s song. In my opinion,…
It’s basically been proven now, the world needs change as a balanced part of a delicious breakfast, but it simply isn’t getting that part. One song written and sang by John Mayer explains about the lack of change. The song titled “Waiting on the World to Change” has even stated that “The fight for change just ain’t fair.” Also, the tone of John’s voice sets the mood of disappointment in the song. The world really needs to have it’s dose of…
In the essay "A View from a Bridge," the author, Cherokee Paul McDonald attempts to describe the world through words to a boy with no sight. McDonald uses very detailed descriptions of this account and in turn realizes that beauty is too often overlooked in everyday life.…
James Douglas Morrison’s poetry was born out of a period of tumultuous social and political change in American and world history. Besides Morrison’s social and political perspective, his verse also speaks with an understanding of the world of literature, especially of the traditions that shaped the poetry of his age. His poetry expresses his own experiences, thoughts, development, and maturation as a poet — from his musings on film at UCLA in The Lords and The New Creatures, to his final poems in Wilderness and The American Night. It is my intention to show Morrison as a serious American poet, whose work is worthy of serious consideration in relation to its place in the American literary tradition. By discussing the poetry in terms of Morrison’s influences and own ideas, I will be able to show what distinguishes him as a significant American poet. In order to reveal him as having a clearly defined ability as a poet, my focus will be on Morrison’s own words and poetry. I will concentrate on his earlier work to show the influence of Nietzsche and French poets such as Arthur Rimbaud and Antonin Artaud and the effect they had on Morrison’s poetry and style.…
Johnny Cash Was born February 26,1932 in Kingsland, Arkansas. “He grew up listening to his family play music,” says biography.com. Johnny Learned guitar at the age of 12. He played after that for the rest of his life. Johnny only grew from there.…
Andy Warhol, in February 1968, showed his first exhibition at the Moderna Museet gallery in Stockholm. The quote “In The future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes,” appeared in the exhibition catalogue. This quote is known as one of Warhol's most famous quotations. The quote soon became tiresome because at every interview Warhol was asked about it, but in the end his quote became quite true. Warhol stated that “In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes,” and is now true in society today with the emergence of reality TV shows.…