Summary: After Listening To Knock On Wood

Lastly there was the genre Motown which hit its peak of popularity in the 1960s. It brought a new rhythm called the “back beat” that was enjoyed because it was easy to dance to. Berry Gordy Jr. started the Motown Company in 1962 and brought up artists like Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Little Stevie Wonder, The Jackson Five, and Diana Ross and the Supremes (Holland 109). All of these artists are well known and still listened to today.

Analysis of 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night by Simon and Garfunkel In expressive arts we are studing the topics the 60’s. We listened to the song “7 O'clock News/Silent Night” Simon and Garfunkel. In 1956, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel were juniors at Forest Hills High School in New York City. They began playing together as a group called Tom and Jerry, with Simon as Jerry Landis and Garfunkel as Tom Graph, so called because he always liked to track hits on the pop charts.

After extensive philosophical examination of the play Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim, suggests that the most compelling key points to analyze are the ethical problems that occur throughout the play. As a matter of fact, to create a better understanding of the play on the ethical context and the text itself, the New Criticism and Issues of Evaluation approach is necessary. In particular, a remarkable ethical problem that must be considered are the decisions taken by the Baker and his wife, and the Witch throughout the play, decisions that play a very important role throughout the play and the field of ethics. In fact, philosophers such as Immanuel Kant and David Hume– philosophers that extensibly contributed with ethical views regarding respect and dignity– may agree or disagree with the ethical decisions taken by the characters on specific instances. In fact, Kant and Hume have developed a set of views that determine what is right and wrong; very useful to decide whether or not the Baker’s decisions are ethically correct in the aspect of respect and dignity.

Instead of the usual stories about the transition of disability to normalcy, Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter’s Life with Autism covers the progress of a person with autism from childhood to adulthood as she manages her condition in the real world. The narrative is written by and based on the perspective of the main character’s mother as she follows along on her daughter’s journey of living with a disability. So, based on the experience of taking care of and observing her daughter, Clara Park reveal the difficulties Jessy and the family have to face because of the limited information on autism and the different disabilities during her time. Furthermore, knowledge mental health issues and rehabilitation was still developing in the 20th century, which

Thanks to the critically acclaimed “Muscle Shoals” documentary, music lovers are finding their way to the small town in northwest Alabama where some of the world’s greatest hits were recorded. This was the very town where, at Rick Hall’s FAME Studios and the rival Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Aretha Franklin found her groove, Paul Simon developed “Kodachrome” and Wilson Pickett cranked up “Mustang Sally.”

Eric Tang’s Unsettled is an ethnographic account of Cambodian refugees in the Bronx, New York that evokes a nuanced understanding of the refugee experience. Unlike many other ethnographies, Tang’s work centers around one individual named Ra Pronh, a fifty year old woman who survived the Cambodian genocide and has lived as a refugee for most of her life. The bulk of his work draws upon two main sources: Tang’s notes that are gathered from his work as a community organizer in refugee neighborhoods and his interviews with Ra Pronh over a three year time period. Throughout his interviews with Ra, Tang often encountered a language barrier with her. There were times where Ra’s children would translate her words from Khmer to English for Tang to

Motown is well known for it’s girl and guy groups of the 1960’s such as the Temptations and the Supremes. The songs “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” by the Temptations and “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” by the Supremes both have a very similar pop/soul sound that represents that of Motown. Both songs have background vocals, which is consistent with Motown’s production style, as the label had more groups than solo artists. Unlike the Stax label, Motown had production teams to create their very polished and uniformed sound that is heard in both songs. The act of being spontaneous was not a practice used by Motown, and can be better identified with the songs produced by Stax.

Every song has a story to tell, and some contain hidden stories or lessons, while others are completely blatant. In Billy Joel’s song, “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” he does not hesitate to be very obvious with what he tries to prove, which is how all of the events in his song contribute to one large fire. I chose to remediate Joel’s song because it spoke to me with historical context. When researching the song, I read a majority of the history behind it and decided to reflect upon it in a visual picture collage, combining a majority of the elements he mentions with pictures--all circled around a fire in the middle. I decided to also make red-dyed cupcakes reflecting the fire Joel speaks of and ice them with a flame, yet placing an X over it,

I Felt that Night was a very depressing story and that it truly showed the horrors of the holocaust. Night mostly talks about everything that Ellie went through during the holocaust. It tells how he lost his entire family and how he struggled to stay alive in the camps. Years after he got out of the camps he won the nobel peace prize for This book. He wrote an acceptance speech for it about how thankful he was to the Americans for saving him. He wrote a speech called The perils of Indifference. In all of these writing pieces he talks about the holocaust.

Captain Leopold and Monica were once married. When Monica wanted to go pursuit her career and her dreams in California as an actress, Leopold refused to go with her because he just started on the police force and his future looked bright. Monica left him. Shortly after arriving in California and having no luck with the acting career she had a nervous

While child abuse can indirectly cause obesity, it is often directly responsible for child death. The Song “ Concrete Angel” written by Martina McBride illustrates the pain and hardships of a child who was abused, neglected and then died. McBride explains the fear and the worry the child felt each day and then reminds listeners that many abused children don’t even live to adulthood. Often times, the long term effect of child abuse and neglect is death. She argues that people need to do more to help those that are abused when she sings “ She hides the bruises with the linen and lace, oh/The teacher wonders

Establishment of Motown in April 1960, granted opportunities to young African-American singers or a platform to reach vast audiences, were in the past were subjugated. Motown provided various church gospel singers like Sam Cooke, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and others to showcase their talents. Writes Ricky Vincent: “The music followed the people, as both matured and grew to new levels of independence and meaning”. (Vincent, 3) Sam Cooke’s brilliant “Change is going to come”, “Keep on pushing” and Stevie Wonders “Heaven Help us All”, are some of the great example of popular black music. The song’s depicted decade’s long struggles and racial brutality faced by blacks, and challenge society to change the status quo. Vincent Writes “Music that went beyond the personal issues, dealt with higher forces and spoke of the society.”(Vincent, 4)

Entrails torn from the body with bare hands, eyes gouged out with razor blades, battery cables, rats borrowing inside the human body, power drills to the face, cannibalism, credit cards, business cards, Dorsia, Testoni, Armani, Wall Street; all of these things are Patrick Bateman’s world. The only difference between Bateman and anybody else is what is repulsive to Bateman and what is repulsive to the rest of the world. Bateman has great interest in the upper class life, fashions, and social existence, but at the same time he is, at times, sickened by the constant struggle to be one up on everybody else. On the other hand Bateman’s nightlife reveals a side of him never seen during the day. Bateman is relaxed, impulsive, and confident

Parallels in Poe's House of Usher and Bierce's Beyond the Wall, Poe’s The Black Cat and Bierce's John Mortonson's Funeral, and in M.S. Found in a Bottle by Poe and Three and One are One by Bierce.

High upon a lonely hill surrounded by a great dark forest, stood an ancient, crumbling manor, known as the Haunted House. The windows were all smashed and it looked like the house was used a long time ago and was never used again. The font gates were as old as the hills. It belonged to a greedy old man, he was as short as a stump, he was really grumpy and fat who everyone said he was a wizard. Even though he owned the immense haunted house he didn’t dare to go inside because he was frightened like a child in dark, so he lived in the small cottage in the grounds of the manor, with just his black cat for company. He was as lonely as the master who has go to war, but hews happy, because he had a true love. His true love was gold, and he had