Dancing On My Own By Robyn

To start off, the first stanza in her song represents a sense of how unavoidable change is and how the confusion of the bond combined with the stress of the blame game can lead to a doomed

When she sings “Your words were supposed to get me through my hard days and your words were supposed to get me through my heartache before my heartbreak” she is singing about and too her mother. When we are young the first love we receive is from our parents. It is what makes us grow. Kehlani didn’t have that love. Her mom was never there for her. She didn't have anyone to comfort her when she got hurt, to help her up when she was down. In this song it’s clear that she can’t help but feel like she’s missed out on an important relationship. It left her as line 7 says with “an emptiness that only few ever feel” This first verse of the song conveys her sadness. She visualizes what could have been when she sings “I can hear your laugh”, and reflects on all she missed out on.

If I stay, which is an outstanding novel written by Gayle Forman, was published in 2009 and is an emotionally gripping story. The most interesting part of the novel starts with Mia’s life after the accident. The readers also learn about her life before the tragedy with the help of plentiful flashbacks. She recalls her colorful and vibrant family members so vividly that they could easily step off the page and break the hearts of the readers. Furthermore, her remembrances also highlight her passion for music and romance with her boyfriend. Moreover, the readers will find the entire novel very interesting and inspiring and will also find the climax of the novel very satisfying. The story revolves around seventeen year old Mia, who finds herself dealing with the aftermath of a terrible car accident which killed her entire family. During the coma, Mia goes through an out-of-the-body experience and observes all her friends and family that gather at the hospital. The memory of Mia flashes before her and she debates about whether or not she should wake up and face the grief of losing her family or, if she should die. Before summarizing the story, it is pertinent that the main characters of the story should be discussed briefly.

In the student essay “It’s Hard Enough Being Me” written by Anna Lisa Raya, the author portrays herself as a credible source for understanding the role of identity in an educational setting. Raya then appeals to an audience of Latinos and other minorities through her emotions such as stating, “I had never questioned who I was or where I was from” (Raya 121). In the end, she resolves the life-longing issues of identity crisis and cultural shock by staying true to herself and “Soy yo and no one else…Punto” (Raya 122). The author asserts the idea of “not only experienced culture shock, but for the first time I had to define myself according to the broad term “Latina”” (Raya 121) throughout the essay. Raya then appeals to her audience through

Under the lights by Abbie Glines. There are three teens that grew up together in a southern small town. Willa’s mom had her when she was a teenager. Willa had gotten into some trouble at a young age and had to stay with her Nonna. Willa’s two best friends were Gunner and Brady. Willa has made some bad choices in her past life which made her go down the wrong path in life. Brady’s a high school quarter back now and with the choices Willa has made Brady sees Willa as a different person. Gunner is also a football star in high school. Gunner is living a good rich life the only matter though he cares about himself only, except for Willa. He understands the person she has grown into over her time. As they were known to be child hood friends secrets start to come out and the truth may be the reason of them losing each other.

This song is full of multiple literary devices such as hyperboles, metaphors, and imagery. The hyperboles in the song emphasize strong feelings such as love, hate, and pain. For example, “Just [going to] stand there and watch me burn” (Rihanna, 1), is emphasizing that she is in extreme amounts of pain and all that her significant other is doing, is watching her suffer. “You ever love somebody so much you can barely breathe when [you are] with [them]” (Eminem, 33), emphasizes and how he is so in love with

Literature can be a powerful tool for social change. Red Rooms by Cherie Dimaline is about the weaving of indigenous stories through the common element that they were patrons of an urban hotel. The narrator, Naomi, works as a housekeeper at the hotel and imagines the past, present and future existence of the patrons by what they left behind. Dimaline shows how indigenous histories and knowledge operate, in that they are not linear, and they do not have a definite beginning or an end. The novel subtly shows the need for an Indigenous resurgence, but the book itself is an act of resurgence because it shows the importance of indigenous literature. This paper will argue that Red Rooms itself acts as an act of indigenous resurgence

Jamie Fader’s book Falling Back which was published in 2013, is based on ethnographic research over three years, from 2004 to 2007, of black and latino males on the edge of adulthood and that were incarcerated at the Mountain Ridge Academy reform school located in a rural area: “within a dense forest in western Pennsylvania, is Mountian Ridge Academy … ninety-acre campus contains eight dormitories, each of which houses thirty-two young men between ages 14 to 18” (p.1). The criminal thinking approach was intended to help young people identify the patterns that had led them to delinquency and replace it with corrective and prosocial thoughts. These young boys had been involved in drug offenses and violence within their suburban communities and were now in the process of behavioral change in order to help them reflect and be able to make better decisions which would lead them to a better life.

Throughout the course of any being’s life, they are greatly influenced by the people and environment around them. In the coming of age fictional biography, She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb, the reader follows the protagonist Delores Price throughout her journey in life from the age four to forty. Delores goes through many trials and tribulations in the course of her life, which include witnessing abuse and infidelity, experiencing rape, alienation, the deaths of her loved ones, suicidal tendencies and rebirth. Many of the experiences and traumas as well as deaths Delores witnessed and was subject to made her personality revolve around dysfunctional relationships and left her lost on how to approach life.

Within the first two verses of the song, this young woman presents an issue that is all too common for many people. She has big dreams and wants to make a name for herself, but to succumb to making that dream a reality, she would have to desert the loved ones that have made

Based off the lyrics, the song is all about how Beyonce truly feels deep down inside. The message behind

"I wanted to make a song that captured in essence of what it means to be an independent female and from there Bad Girls came to life..."

In Demi Lovato’s song, “Confident”, it sends a message that means to be comfortable in your own skin or just be yourself. In the song in couple occasions the artist says that you need to let yourself “go” and just to be yourself. The entire song in basically telling the person listening to it to just be willing to be who you really are and that no one would judge you. The entire song Demi Lovato she that she is going to take “charge and run the show”, she means that the person who is listening is to take charge and do what you want to do and not what someone else is telling you to do.

“I am an intelligent, classy, educated woman who just happens to be crazy old me.” by Anonymous. This is one of my favorite quotes because it describes me. I have many, many different hobbies and personalities that describe me. I love reading and listening to music. Another aspect of my personality is my hard work and dedication. Lots of people tend to stereotype me on one aspect of my personality. In this essay, I hope to show you differently.

These lyrics express that the speaker in the song is trying to help and love someone, but the other person does not believe they deserve it, and does not believe it is true because of her depression. Another line of lyrics in the song, “Oh, Miss Believer, my pretty weeper/ Your twisted thoughts are like snow on the rooftops” (15-16), represents that the woman’s thoughts are weighing her down and hiding who she truly is. This song focuses on depression and how it warps one’s mind, hides one’s true personality, physically and mentally weighs one down, and how ones does not believe the compliments one receives because one does not believe they could be