The Gift Of Song By Patricia Mcconnel

Calvin and Hobbes embodied the voice of the Lonely Child is an article written by Libby Hill. In this article, Hill digs deep into the famous comic strips of the 80’s and 90’s, and uses her now adult mind to examine the deeper meanings of the comics and how they shaped her childhood. Hill’s main focus is on the theme of loneliness, and how Calvin is able to find ways to cope with the loneliness that often plagues children in the modern world. As a child, she related to Calvin, because Calvin’s character, despite being complex in nature, was portrayed in such a way so that children could relate to him. As the article progresses, she begins to draw comparisons to reading the strips as a child and then rereading them as an adult, and she explains

After watching “The Language You Cry In” in class, I found myself reflecting on how music has impacted my life and with whom I have shared it with. It’s truly incredible how a simple, 5 line chorus ultimately allowed this woman to discover her history as it traveled from Sierra Leone all the way to the Gullah society in Georgia. The really displays the power that music can have over not only individual societies, but over the globe. No matter what political movements were occurring and throughout the immense inequality and slavery that was being faced, music has always remained reliable. This song brought people together and allowed them to embrace their heritage even in the worst of times, and I believe that this is still true today.

Can you predict if it was the last day of your childhood and freedom? Lucia and her family couldn 't. Lucy Lipiner’s haunting memoir “Long Journey Home” documents when Nazis invade their homeland and forced them to flee away and find shelter. With limited options on where to go, their family stays together throughout the strenuous journey to find safety throughout Europe to America. This memoir tells in detail the mental and physical struggle to get to safety and freedom. Even when tumultuous events occur, you still have a chance to become resilient no matter what circumstances. To illustrate this theme, Lucy Lipiner uses extensive imagery.

In the poem The Gift by Li-Young Lee, I believe the figurative “gift” portrays a memory of compassion and forgiveness. In the beginning of the tale, the narrator recites a memory from his childhood; a memory of his father pulling out a metal splinter buried within his skin. As the poem recites, “the flames of discipline he raised above my head,” displaying that his father's anger was directed above his head and not precisely at him. This shows the affectionate and merciful side of his dad, as he was trying his best not to scream, but be there to comfort him. Now, later in life, when the once young boy is now a man, he does the same with his wife. His wife has a splinter and it is now his turn to take the same position as his father

The poem “Mothers and Daughters” is written by Pat Mora. Pat Mora is a contemporary award winning writer, who writes for children, youngsters and adults. She was born in El Paso, TX in the year 1942. She attains a title of a Hispanic writer; however, the most of her poems are in English. In her literary work, one can observe the different aspects of the immigrants’ lives such as language issues, family relationships, immigrants’ experiences and cultural differences (1187).

Universal healthcare is known to be a luxury in most counties. However, in North Korea where the economy is continually struggling, universal healthcare is a disaster. The communist country has major commitments to education and healthcare which both failed once the economy crumbled. The health of North Koreans suffered dramatically with a declining economy because it created famine, malnutrition, absence of medication, and ultimately extremely limited healthcare. A recent documentary, called Inside North Korea, allowed a foreign physician to come in the country and perform cataract surgery to countless individuals. This physician was needed to not only to bring modern surgery equipment, but also education North Korean medical professionals

Jimmy Santiago Baca’s poem “Oppression” discusses the importance of remaining emotionally and mentally strong when enduring oppression. For those suffering from the emotional trauma of being held captive illegally, singing is one solution a poet offers to those who are oppressed as he states, “Look deep to find the grains of hope and strength,/ and sing, my brothers and sisters” (Baca 6-7). Singing is an act that a person can generally freely participate in, which is why Baca suggests it since it is a small symbol of retaliation against the oppressors. Even though captors may rob a person of his physical freedom, the person can still show self-control by choosing to make the best of the situation by singing to uplift his emotional state. In

Through my understanding of the book, Homeward Bound by Elaine Tyler May explores two traditional depictions of the 1950s, namely suburban domesticity and anticommunism. She intertwines both historical events into a captivating argument. Throughout the book, May aims to discover why “Post-war Americans accepted parenting as well as marriage with so much zeal” unlike their own parents and children. Her findings are that the “cold war ideology and domestic revival” were somewhat linked together. She saw “domestic containment” as an outgrowth of frights and desires that bloomed after the war. However, psychotherapeutic services were as much a boom then as now, and helped offer “private and personal solutions to social problems.” May reflects her views on the origin of domestic containment, and how it affected the lives of people who tried to live by it.

In the Bad Kids, the filmmakers Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe are trying to relay the idea that many young adults who live in communities surrounded by poverty, are deemed as “Bad”, Fulton along with Pepe wanted to explain how most of these young adults want to free themselves of these circumstances, but restrictions of their past always find a way to hinder those actions as they try to graduate high school and make something of themselves. To develop this idea the filmmakers, draw the audience emotionally into private moments in the subjects’ lives using music, editing style, rhetorical techniques and camera placement. Utilizing music without lyrics allows the audience to develop a feeling toward the lives of each individual subject, without

In this scene, the author describes how people turn from scared to peaceful because of Coss’s melodious voice. Even the terrorists, who are heavily burdened from the stress of the impossible mission, find the singing comforting. The mood transfers from intense to relaxing as music sheds some bright colors into the people’s lives.

They were not singing the words, or even the correct notes, they were singing because they simply wanted to. At this moment I realized why the Parisians sang along to Bruce Springsteen’s song of being born in America. They were singing along not because they wanted to imitate Americans, but because the music made them feel something. The music elicited a response that created pride in the audience, the same pride as felt through the lyrics of the song. Music draws out every emotion conceivable, as I have seen grown men cry over Frank Ticheli’s haunting piece,

Most people find themselves getting lost to soothing sounds of music, both the melodies and lyrics are able to take them to another world. A world of serenity and peace, a world where there is no longer anything but the sweet sounds of a song. It’s funny how something so trivial can possibly have such a great effect on a person. They ignore the horrors around them as they are too busy focusing on how a simple chain of notes and rhythms can be so beautiful regardless of what the song itself might be about. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, he writes a book centered around a time period rampant with self deprecation and despair but is somehow able to maintain a sense of hope and possible happiness as an outcome through various writing

Literature is a vital key for anyone pursuing a passion in the vocal arts. Most songs we encounter have text with a great amount of emotion, whether affection, bliss, anguish, or despair, that we as singers must convey to our audience. As a vocalist, I find that understanding the significance of each phrase is almost more important than the notes and rhythm of the piece. Though notes and rhythm create form and tone, they do not create the depth or meaning that we as singers are responsible for conveying. While learning a new piece of music, I always investigate the history and meaning of the text. Often times, music is derived from poetry, hope, or events that emotionally move listeners.

While stuck in traffic on a Los Angeles highway ("Another Day of Sun"), Mia Dolan, an aspiring actress, has a moment of road rage with Sebastian Wilder, a struggling jazz pianist. After a bad day at work, her subsequent audition goes poorly when the casting director takes a call in the middle of an emotional scene. That night, Mia's roommates take her to a lavish party in the Hollywood Hills, where Mia hopes for a breakthrough ("Someone in the Crowd"). She walks home after her car is towed.

From the very first part, the reader is introduced to literary work of the thirteen year-old Briony, and through it, the reader can see how she tends to use literature to affect others’ lives. She believes that the fictive world of literature can affect the real world. Also, Briony views people around her as characters. As she imagines her brother’s reaction to the play she wrote for him. She imagines: