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- 111: Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry...
- In the novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry many characters took risks the two that stick out in my head the most is of papa and TJ. TJ didn t study for a test so he wondered his ...
- 112: 90s
- ... in the nineties can be simply described as diverse. Diverse meaning that music has been segregated into hundreds of groups. This report will refer in detail to three genres of music: Alternative Country, Rap, Alternative Rock. It will also cover certain aspects indicative of the 90's. Alternative Country Music In 1990, a band called Uncle Tupelo from Belleville, Illinois, released their debut album. Titled No Depression, it featured a rough mixture of punk-rock songs, but it also added something different: several toned-down, acoustic ballads that had a distinct country flavor. A few years later, that simple little song and album title became the name of an internet ... Rap of the late 70's and 80's, commonly called "old school", was made by DJs scratching records and playing drum loops, with MCs rapping over the resulting rhythms. As the genre progressed, hard-rock guitars and hard-hitting beats were introduced by Run-D.M.C., the first hardcore rap group, and the scratching techniques were replaced by sampling. With their dense collages of samples, beats and white ...
- 113: Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry
- "Jeremy Simms & TJ Avery are two relativly minor characters in the story ROTHMC. However, they both reinforce the themes." Discuss Aprox 1000 words There are many important Themes in the novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry. These themes include: racial prejudice, loyalty, honesty, friendship, personal integrity and respect for others. Although Jeremy Simms and TJ Avery are fairly minor people in the book, their characters are ...
- 114: Creative Writing: In An Oldster's Mind
- ... my forehead. They remind me the number of inerasable past events that I had involved in. Rapidly, I climb on the bed. Bed is my lovely place. I call it, the gymnasium. I used to roll on my bed. Whenever my mind cannot function or do not know what should do next, I would roll, roll and roll. This time is unusual because my head is crashing the fence of the bed. It is not much painful. The crash stops me rolling but starts me getting recall of my friend, ...
- 115: Best of Van Halen: Volume I
- ... Still awesome songs, they just don’t get me psyched up like the later tracks. These songs include “Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love”, “Runnin’ With The Devil”, “Dance The Night Away”, “And The Cradle Will Rock”, and “Unchained”. My favorites are from number seven on. “Jump” off their 1984 album is one to rock too. Next comes “Panama” a song that is a good driving song because, well, it’s about driving. Van Halen delves into the realm of love songs with the next couple of tracks. Track nine ... when bad times come. We need to be human. I like the song especially for the long guitar solo. It proves that Eddie has still got the talent to keep up with today’s newer rock bands. The last two tracks on the album, “Can’t Get This Stuff No More” and “Me Wise Magic” were written especially for Van Halen Best Of Volume I. These two songs also mark ...
- 116: Robert Hunter
- ... contemporary/traditional and form their own categories. One of the main traditional themes that Hunter uses is the gambling theme. The poems "Candyman" and "Loser" exemplify this motif the best: Come on boys and gamble Roll those laughing bones. Seven come eleven, boys I'll take your money home. --"Candyman" Last fair deal in the country, sweet Suzy Last fair deal in the town. Put your gold money where your love ... the observation that life goes on: Fare you well my honey Fare you well my only true one. All the birds that were singing Have flown except you alone... ...Lovers come and go - the river roll, roll, roll. Many of Hunter's contemporary poems use a theme of nostalgia and express a desire to return to a better time. "Standing on the Moon" is an eloquent example of this, expressing feelings ...
- 117: Robert Hunter
- ... contemporary/traditional and form their own categories. One of the main traditional themes that Hunter uses is the gambling theme. The poems "Candyman" and "Loser" exemplify this motif the best: Come on boys and gamble Roll those laughing bones. Seven come eleven, boys I'll take your money home. --"Candyman" Last fair deal in the country, sweet Suzy Last fair deal in the town. Put your gold money where your love ... the observation that life goes on: Fare you well my honey Fare you well my only true one. All the birds that were singing Have flown except you alone... ...Lovers come and go - the river roll, roll, roll. Many of Hunter's contemporary poems use a theme of nostalgia and express a desire to return to a better time. "Standing on the Moon" is an eloquent example of this, expressing feelings ...
- 118: The Life of Sid Vicious
- ... who he was, Sid Vicious. Sid led an unconventional life that will forever be remembered. Sid Vicious, the bassist for the "Sex Pistols" and singer for "The Vicious White Kids", was an epitome of punk rock. John grew up in the slums of London in the 1960's in a shoddy flat house that contained only two rooms. His mother was an avid alcoholic and drug user. John and his mom ... 12 at one of their shows Sid was so anxious to see the band that he started jumping up and down on the spot in a speed-fuelled frenzy, thus inadvertently giving birth to punk rock's very own dance, the pogo. The Sex Pistols refused to play the pub circuit or follow the traditional path of up-and-coming bands, they promoted themselves, played unusual venues and often didn't ... after about a year and a half because of differences between the band members and the manager. The band members went on to work on different projects. Sid starred in a movie called "The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle" which was about his life. He also started a band called "The Vicious White Kids"; he was the singer of the band this time, not the bass player. While being a ...
- 119: Jimi Hendrix
- ... there, it was released on August 26, 1967 in the United States (Fairchild, "Are You Experienced?" 5-6). On Are You Experienced?, Hendrix shows for the first time in a studio album the heavy bluesy-rock and extraordinary guitar playing that Chandler observed an embryonic form of in Greenwich Village. However, the album definitely has a commercial feel to it, probably necessitated by Chandler’s desire to collect on his investment ... his guitar, and if his woman won’t love him any more, he says "I know her sister will." With "Red House," Jimi extended his identity in relation to pop culture to include not only rock star status, but great musician -- both blues and otherwise -- as well. In a 1967 Rolling Stone article titled "Hendrix and Clapton," Jon Landau states: "He [Jimi Hendrix] is... a great guitarist and a brilliant arranger ... be considered abrasive. The writing and production of "Little Wing" seems to mark the development of Hendrix’ confidence in both his lyrical and compositional skills. As for "Castles Made Of Sand," Michael Fairchild states that "rock music reached its sensitive fragile depths when Jimi’s Indian lullabye whispered ‘Castles Made Of Sand’" (Fairchild, "Axis: Bold As Love" 17). On the track "If 6 Was 9," Hendrix sings "White-collared conservative ...
- 120: Essay 2
- ... be considered a threat in today s society. The poem by James Joyce, I hear an Army Charging Upon the Land, contains evidence of a threatening force. The threatening force in this poem is punk rock kids at a punk rock show. Threatening forces are very apparent in this poem. A prime example of one is when he says Arrogant, in black armor. He is talking about kids in leather jackets. It is there way of ... think that anything that stands out is scary and people in black leather jackets stick out like a sore thumb. Obviously, when James Joyce says in black armor, it is a threatening force of punk rock. Punk rock is a very firm theme of this poem that is supposed to be menacing. This is established when it says, Clanging, Clanging upon the heart as upon an anvil. This is saying ...
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