Song Analysis : Martha And The Vandellas

“Tale of Two Citiez” by J Cole is a song featured in his 2015 album “ Forest Hill Drive”.The song is inspired by the book “Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens, the book is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution some of the themes that the novel focuses on is the conflict between rich and poor. In an interview with Tavis Smiley Cole explains how the song compares two side of Fayetteville; the more prosperous area Forest Hill Drive opposed to the crime-ridden inner city area. In the song Cole speaks about dealing with peer pressure in living in a crime ridden place and trying to find a way out. In Monster, Steve is dealing with living in a crime ridden neighborhood where most kids around his age are into drugs,

Many people think that the poem A Song, by Helen Maria Williams, is just a love letter when, in fact, it is more of an expression of her relationship with her inspiration of writing.

The song has a lot of lyrics to it but there are three words that are used a bunch throughout the song. The phrase “bring them home” is used 42 times throughout the song. Seeger was trying to make his point clear that the American troops should be brought home not shipped over to Vietnam. When the song says bring them home it also could be talking about reuniting the boys and men with their friends and families. There is a line from the songs that says, “If an army invades this land of mine… You’d find me out on the firing line” (Vietnam War). When he is saying that he is just stating that if some foreign threat invades our country he would support the military, and be right out there with them defending this country. During one of the song lines he says that he isn’t a “pacifist” which means he is not against war. He just doesn’t believe in what the United States is doing in Vietnam. The Vietnam Article says, “This song is definitely against the Truman Doctrine. The Truman Doctrine states that we should supply military aid to struggling countries” (Vietnam War). Seeger probably didn’t have a problem with the doctrine in itself he had a problem with where the aid and the help was going. Especially to a fight that the United States was losing. Pete wasn’t the only person to write a popular protest song. There were more protest songs than just “Bring them home” such as Phil

This song was written during what was hoped to be an ending point for the war, and directly refences an event that had happened earlier that year. This event was Operation Homecoming, dated February 12, 1973, which was supposed to bring home almost 600 prisoners of war. However, it’s main point is the inability of soldiers returning from war to re-adjust to domestic life. It worked to emphasize the terrible illness many soldiers were going through, and to further condone the return of American troops. This song, while not terrible popular, succeeded in reaching those who were willing to protest the war and empathize with the returning veterans, especially the African Americans who were disproportionately hurt in the

The song "U.N.I.T.Y." by Queen Latifah, released in 1994, is a hip-hop song with a theme about the harassment, domestic violence and sexist slurs against women, black woman to be specific. Should “U.N.I.T.Y” be considered literature, specifically is it a poem? I think that every song, no matter what the genre is free verse poetry. However, this artist and song are important in the hip-hop as literature genre movement because of both the artist’s credibility and the message that she is delivering.

2. Is the intent of this song to promote or protest the Vietnam War? Why?

The soldiers in the war had a chance to visit other plantations where some of their family and friends were located. They sung to express their oppression and true feelings of this enslaved environment and the struggles that came with it. The songs used animal characters to supplement the slaves and their masters and were very popular and powerful. This was also a part of

Her song was “warm and cool at the same time. And distant. It makes you feel in control’ ” (Baldwin). During the 1960s, the African Americans did not have the power or the control over their lives.

While reading page nine through fifteen in the Wake Tech English 111 Reader I learned new strategies and tips on how to improve my song summary essay. I learned how to implement new strategies in my song summary essay so that I could write my introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion proficiently in my paper. Mutually, before reading the Wake Tech English 111 Reader I also did not know that when writing a rough draft for an essay a conclusion, introduction or body paragraph could be written first. Similarly, Ashley I always thought that an introduction had to be written before any other part of an academic essay. Primarily, I thought that an introduction had to be written first because my previous English teachers stressed

These lyrics show that men went crazy due to the war or they came home with PTSD. Reread the introduction to refresh the mind on one of the effects PTSD has on Veterans.

America was a much different place during the 1960s. The eternal struggle for African American’s rights was still a very big part of our culture. It was because of the struggles of many civil rights activist that they ended the hatred and prejudices aimed at their race. There were many different ways to protest, and speak up for your rights. People like Martin Luther King, Jr and Rosa Parks were some of the famous people who stood up for a change and fought back against the hatred. Another way to fight back was through music. Music was a big part of the 1960s and has many influences on the way culture was changed at this time. Many artist at this time like Bob Dylan and The Beatles were putting out song of protests about many things. Maybe

Civil Rights Songs were originated from the Black Church. Song that were borrowed Civil Rights Song were called Freedom Songs that were used to support the movement.

Although the critically acclaimed album titled Lemonade received positive feedback for the way its visuals captured the struggles of black Americans, specifically black women, there is one song off the album that obviously emphasizes the adversities they are facing. In the beginning of the first verse of Freedom (featuring Kendrick Lamar), she uses the imagery of storm to reference her struggle towards being free. This is a reoccurring theme throughout the song, she continues to use words that are synonymous to disaster and generally negative.

The label promoted a message of unity among the American people, and urged the black community to uphold their right to equality and reverence. Motown was a model for black accomplishment, inspiring African Americans to pursue their aspirations, and demand respect from the white community. In addition to supporting black empowerment, Motown also supported unity of the nation as a whole, and gave white and black people a common ground on which to communicate and understand each other’s perspectives, allowing them to unify and eliminate the prejudice between them. The success of the civil rights movement and the current equality between the races of our country can be greatly attributed to Motown’s constant endorsement of opportunity for all races and strong promotion of national

The folk music of the Civil Rights Movement “came out of tradition, common experience, and generations of resistance” (Dunaway 2010: 140). The songs used throughout the movement derived from the shared experiences and struggles of African Americans while connecting “the gentle, idealistic world of folk music and the integrationist world of civil rights” (Dunaway 2010: 145). Songs, such as “We Shall Overcome”, were put through the folk process, where a song is passed on and alterations are made to verses (Dunaway 2010: 141). These folk songs evolved to embody the movements they were used for: “Those songs came out of the movement. The songs came out of very specific movements” (Dunaway 2010: 139). Folk music, which can