Fame High Analysis Essay

This speech is Karl Paulnack’s welcoming address for incoming freshman students. He addresses that music isn’t apart of arts and entertainment rather music is an invisible force that helps us piece ourselves together. Paulnack believes that music is an essential part of life and goes to prove it by telling his experiences with it. He describes the first moment he truly understood music and the impact it has on people. Paulnack portrays the day after 9/11 after he struggles to find any meaning in being a pianist. After a long time of questioning himself he observes the city and notices something. He sees that in this time of grief and sadness people are singing. From this he learned that music is a form of expression, it allows people to express their feelings when they have no other words to describe them. Paulnack goes on to describe what he says was the most important concert of his life. He and a friend were playing a concert at a nursing home. During their performance, one man began to cry, it was at that time Paulnack knew the man was a veteran. After Paulnack and his friend finished the piece, they announced that the piece they were playing was Aaron Copland's Sonata, which was a work

An important convention of the interactive genre of this documentry is the participation of Micheale More in the Interviews throughout the film. More takes out many Interviews throughout the documentry but the interviews that I felt were significant were with James Nicholos, Marilyn Manson and Carlton Heston. More

From the creation of harmonies to singing to instruments, music has been an abstract form of human expression. Although an auditory collection of pitches and volumes, musicians can manipulate the same notes and bring them alive for their audiences. The true emotion and energy that’s felt in music really comes from the player as feelings are transferred to and through the listener. This interaction between performer and the house is catharsis, the complete release of strong repressed emotions. Thanks to the musician, music has the ability to grasp people and cause them to sense emotions and feelings without lyrics or images even being necessary. Although it’s believed we can only hear with our ears, something about music makes it emotionally if not physically tangible. In James Baldwin’s short story “Sonny’s Blues,” a narrator certainly unaware of the impact of music invites himself to experience jazz for the first time. Baldwin uses the final scene of his story to argue that music has an effect on those who are able to experience it. Baldwin does this in one single moment by letting the fixed, practical minded, “well-intentioned” narrator experience catharsis from jazz as his growing, free-spirited brother communicates with him through jazz.

In the memoir A Long Way Gone, author Ishmael Beah describes his survival journey as a lost child in his country, because of the civil war in Sierra Leone, then becoming a child soldier facing war daily, afterward the process that Beah went through during rehabilitation and finally in fear escaping the civil war. Ishmael Beah emotional journey has three stages of development in which Beah utilized music. In the first stage, Beah uses music as a survival mechanism to keep sane and safe. In the second stage, begins when he loses his brother and friends, Beah reaches the lowest point with the loss of his entire family again, some friends, music, and being forced to join the war. In the final stage, is the process of rehabilitation where Beah connects with music once again. Ishmael Beah exposure to music at a young age stayed with him throughout his life. (Beah, 2007, p. 5-218)

The rhetoric device, pathos, creates an appeal to emotion in order to gather support for the author's purpose. The novel demonstrates pathos through personal anecdotes depicting the struggles of survival on low wages. In particular, the description of the Parente family, who after a series of unfortunate events found themselves barely able to survive. Both the parents are jobless and unable to gain much help because they cannot afford the requirements of certain programs, Medicaid requires an expensive MRI of the injury before aid can be given. They're seven year old daughter highlights their state of poverty in her class ”Brianna's wish was for her mother too find a job because there was nothing to eat in the house”(233). The inability of a child to eat creates a feeling of sadness for the family and their situation while also demonstrating the

As a result, the narrator 's lack of understanding creates a barrier in his relationship with his brother, because even though the narrator has witnessed music within his community and has seen how it can be used as a form of expression, he does not yet realize the connections that he has with music and other artists within the community.

The example that represent pathos in the beginning of the music video informs the readers on what the situation may be. The begining scene is of a mother sitting in her bedroom smoking while her daughter, Angela who appears to be the age of 6 or 7, is walking off to school by herself. As she walks alone, she observes another mother hugging her

The movie is shot as a documentary about a British band in the 1980’s while they are on tour in the United States. Eventually through a series of mishaps, the popularity of the band starts to wane. We learn that the band has troubles keeping drummers, the permanent members are not exactly the brightest, and reminiscent to Yoko Ono, one of the main character’s girlfriend starts to interject herself into the band’s business.

The author truley uses all rhetorical weapons at her disposal, though mor eimpressively (in some cases) are the vessels in which they are carried. Obviously pathos, and to be more emotionaly specific, sypathy is going to be a vital component in the conveying of a purpose that is to garner adult support of our nations students. But, what is found most impresive is th eway in which the author presents this early in the film using the soundtrack as a vessel through wich to carry pathos. The same song is used at the begining of the film as well as the end. The lyrics repeat, "Nobody knows me at all" This along with images of children who look overworked are shown to evoke feelings of sympathy and pit. Also signifigant is the decision to include this song at th ebegining to set the tone, but again at the end druign the call to action. This is done smartly to show that simply having watched the documentory

The perception of one’s role and how they fit into a particular community can very important, so it makes sense that feelings of exclusion can be particularly devastating, especially at a young age. Shelby Martinez, who has been my closest friend since high school, has shared her adolescent experiences with these feelings of exclusion, with me on numerous occasions. On many of those instances, she reflected on how much time she spent by herself in her bedroom with headphones on, just listening to music. It was clear that music played a big role for her growing up, so I decided to do my musical ethnography on her. Shelby spent her adolescence in Yuba City, which is a relatively small Northern Californian town that embraces country life, with big focus on agriculture, hunting, and country music. However, Shelby was didn’t hold this same affinity for a rural

The character openly feels empathy for his daughter, and near the middle of the piece the character seems to feel helpless as he describes the way his daughter “seemed to crave a companion, or an activity that would lift her spirits.” He soon discovers musical therapy as that exact activity and it gives him a feeling of hope. He has a way now to open a channel where she can express herself through music “in a way that she cannot express-has never been able to express-in

This was my favorite writing assignment, because it was a fun topic. In this essay, we were allowed to analysis a text for its rhetorical appeals. I chose to write about a song. I chose this because to me music is universal, music can change your mood, and music can change your perspective. Ethos, logos and pathos where the big three in this paper and when writing the paper, you had to show how the writer builds these rhetorical appeals. I chose the song What I Love About The South by Rodney Atkins. Before writing this time I wanted to make sure I had a firm understanding of what I needed to write about, so I read the book about the three things that make a good rhetorical triangle, asked question and worked really hard on all of the in class activities. Ethos is the use of persuasive language that appeals to the character of the reader/listener. Pathos is the use of language to appeal to the reader/listener emotionally in terms of beliefs. Logos is the use of language to appeal to the reader/listener on a logical level. Ethos, Pathos, and Logos all made me immediately thing of the song What I Love About The South. While writing this paper the first time, I just knew that I had an “A” paper. I felt I had a great understanding of a rhetorical analysis. I wrote about how Rodney builds his rhetorical appeal. I noted within the paper where you could find ethos “Grew up down here

In Book Two, Chaucer changes his course from the past into the present. The topics of Book One and Two are linked as two sources of the poem, tradition and

Through three decades, Mr. Holland is closer to students at John F. Kennedy High School than he is to his own son. He addresses a series of challenges created by people who are either skeptical of -- or hostile towards -- the idea of musical excellence within the walls of a typical middle-class American high school. He inspires many students and but never has private time for himself or his family, forever delaying the composition of his own orchestral composition. Ultimately, he reaches an age when it is too late to realistically find financial backing or ever have it performed.

The cinematography of this film features numerous close-ups of its adolescent protagonists as well as point-of-view shots acquired predominantly from their perspective, thus making the viewers position themselves firmly on the boys’ side of