Michael Jackson Sang The Famous Line, If You Wan Na Make The World A Better Place

The universe is created for society to cherish all God’s creations; it could be anything to admiring nature to loving all animals. The expectations for the world are difficult to maintain, so unfortunately, society often leads to major destruction. There is unnecessary homicides, animal cruelty, toxic waste in the rivers and many more heart-wrenching actions that deteriorates the world. As a society, we have to turn a negative into a positive, but firstly, we have to change ourselves before we help others. Michael Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror”, exposes all of the humanity issues and suggests that we should fix the world by recognizing our flaws first. The theme of the song is about self-improvement and imagery, tone and repetition are the poetic devices that are used in the song.

This paper primarily explores Michael Jackson’s song, "man in the mirror." The song "man in the mirror" is inspirational about making a positive impact and personal redemption in the world. It was released in 1988. This catchy song tries to explain that changing the world is possible (Wallerstein 2). Many sociological concepts are displayed by Michael Jackson in the context of song’s lyrics. The band of the song tries to express their concerns with the actions and views of the world of the present day. Basically, the band reflects upon the world's realism as their question the mentality. This song is surrounded by the

The poem “Invictus” by William E. Henley, and the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand, both have common themes that discuss the importance of individuality. Each of the themes that these works have to offer will be discussed throughout the paragraphs of this essay.

Millions of people in the world listen to music for all different reasons. Most people all over the world listen to different genres of music in order to relax, but not too many people pay attention to the actual lyrics of a song. If you listen to the lyrics of a song you will realize that many songs have important messages or themes to them. An example of this is the lyrics of the song “Changes” by Tupac Shakur. If you listen to this song, you will realize that Tupac raps about not only the problems that African Americans face from society, but also the struggles that poor people in society have to endure and overcome. Many

Many individuals is faced with the decision of conforming or choosing personal desire, and it is not an easy decision. It is hard because being shunned by others for being different is not a good feeling. Choosing to conform over personal desire, often leads to loss. On the other hand, personal desire is what sets others apart and gives them joy. In the poem, “The Jackhammer Syndrome”, Al Purdy discusses the good and bad memories he has experienced. He goes through his memories of when he had fun and made mistakes, but he reflects on what he could have done better. The author of “The Jackhammer Syndrome informs against choosing the welcoming joy of conformity over the long-term gains of personal desire. Making the decision to pursue conformity over personal desire may seem easy at first, but if the choice is to conform, the joy it gives will not last. Making the decision to pursue conformity over personal desire Conformity may seem to give joy at first, but it does not last. When Al is playing pool with his brother, he wants to win badly, but losses. However when he did not care to win, Al wins! Conforming can lead to loss but personal desire has much to gain. If the choice is to conform, personal identity may be lost. In my life, I recognize several instances in which I found several similarities between Al and myself. I have made decisions that were not always good ones such as swimming across long distances with friends.

For this journal entry, I chose to compare Audre Lorde's Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference to the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards. In Lorde's piece, she talks about how oppressed people are often taught to ignore the fact that they are oppressed. We are taught to handle the difference we face by either ignoring them, copying them or destroying them. Lorde says that society as a whole has failed to see differences as a "springboard for creative change." Her article focuses on the fact that refusing to see creative differences makes it impossible to see the different problems and pitfalls women face. Some problems all women share and other problems all women do not share. For example, the experience of a white woman is different

Words can affect people in a negative aspect, individuals strongly influence people from their degrading words. Many times, men and women nonchalantly state opinions society has formed, not considering their meaning. Angelou states, “But I personally had never heard it before. Never heard the words, despite the thousands of times I had sung them” (Angelou, 2015, p.188). Angelou during this statement refers to the Negro National Anthem. People proclaim statements, ideas, and opinions often based on the norms society has created. Even if men and women proclaim the words their culture and community has stated, often they can forget the true meaning of the words. “The man’s dead words fell like bricks around the auditorium and too many settled in my belly” (Angelou, 2015, p.186). The actions of Mr. Edward Donleavy, including his speech, allowed his words to negatively affect the audience, leaving them feeling humiliated. Individuals voice their comments without thought of the true message others insinuate from their words. The result from the impact of the words leaves an everlasting effect upon the individual receiving the impact.

Individuality is held captive by people who have conformed. Development into a individual takes plenty of strife but will lead to finally discovering one's true self. Equality from Ayn Rand novella Anthem is broken down by others, but eventually will come out victorious and empowered to walk his own path. Others negativity and lack of knowledge pushed Equality to reach for his goals and never give up. He is extremely motivated to establish a world where information isn’t limited and people are able to live the way they want to. Equality has finally uncovered his purpose and is willing to fight for it. Equality’s mindset generated as a reaction from the nurture he received made it capable for him to defeat any opposition that came his way.

“Like circus performers, we smear on makeup to become someone else. Far beyond applying a little lip gloss or hair dye, our mask attempts to cover up who we really are. Our mask attempts to cover up who we really are […] what we’ve been through, what we know to be important, and what we are afraid to share with others”. (O’Leary, 36) John O’Leary focuses heavily on the concept of taking off our masks in his inspirational book, On Fire: The 7 Choices to Ignite a Radically Inspired Life. What O’Leary means by this analogy is that we should all break the barriers which we have erected to protect ourselves from the world, walls that were built after being hurt, experiencing something traumatic, or perhaps after being betrayed. However, such walls oftentimes do not benefit ourselves in the way that we may wish. Instead, more often than not, our masks do the opposite, and they isolate us from what we as humans need most: friendship, companionship, and love.

The hysteria of society can easily drown a voice or an idea. It easily sweeps people off their feet and can change their mood in an instant. There is one single exception to this case, Chris McCandless. He was the type of transcendental that was a complete nonconformist, one who tuned out authority and acted upon self-experience and intuition. The ability he had to stay true to himself was phenomenal. Emerson’s saying “envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide,” could easily be Chris’s motto.

“Man in the Mirror” is about a man who believes that only by changing himself will he be able to change the world. The main focus of the song is a man’s struggle to improve himself morally after witnessing his inability to impact the lives of those in need. Michael Jackson reflects on how the world around him is suffering while he lives a life of comfort, and the guilt triggers his decision to change himself so that he can eventually help the world. . The song raises up questions such as,“What purpose does an individual serve in a community? How can we bring about positive changes to the world? How can one person make a major impact in the world? “Man in the Mirror” sends a very universal message, basically telling the world to improve themselves individually so that the whole improves as a result. The discussion will focus more on the symbolical lyrics because there is a lot of straightforward vocabulary in each verse.

In those years, racism was a strong and violent issue that not only referred to women but also to minorities such as black people, gays and single mothers. Today people are still struggle with these very issues. Racism in America is proving that this essay is sadly very relevant today and this minorities group reacts in different ways but always similar to Lorde’s description of poetry as a form of creativity as a class issue, thinking that in the 80’s poetry was the most economical way of communication. In recent years there has been an explosion of creativity by minority groups in form of: street-art, rap music, and

Man in the Mirror Change is something that every person goes through in their lifetime, whether it be a huge change like a close family member dying or a small change like buying new clothes. In the song, ¨Man in the Mirror¨ by Michael Jackson, he talks about seeing homeless kids in the street with nothing to eat and how he feels bad for them. He has always been looking past these kids and pretending not to see them but one day he did. He wants to make a difference in the world and help these kids, but he realized that he can't change the world if he does not fix himself and his own selfishness. He started looking at ¨the man in the mirror¨ and started to address the bigger problem which was himself.

Throughout history, art has provided an outlet for humanity, allowing for visual creations to explore complex social issues. Art forces the viewer to confront his reality and the context of his surroundings through another’s perspective. Art creates a frame narrative through which the viewer can come to understand a reality that they fail to personally experience due to some form of privilege. The true horrors of racism and the twisted minds of those who oppress their fellow man may deny words, but art forces confrontation and creates a visual reality that refuses to be ignored. Perpetrators of oppression and inequality may deny the validity of words, but to deny a visible truth, such as art, reveals a nature of evil. In both Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Natasha Trethewey’s Thrall, the authors explore the relationship between races, trying to draw attention to and understand the systematic glorification of white people and their actions while non-whites suffer, as the world considers them less than human.

In 1984, an iconic song was created by two sensational artists Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie. A song they created inspired millions, originally created for people of Africa during the time of a horrific famine, was later recreated for the earthquake of Haiti. And for many years our world has been through so much trauma, trauma such as diseases, shootings, and devastating natural disasters. That song we know as “We Are The World” created such an inspiring notion that sparks to change our perspective of the world, how it is ours the children like Jackson said’ “ We are the world, we are the children” meaning we are all connected and the lyrics of this song represents that.