Third Eye Blind Research Paper

In a large city, full of diverse people, finding a musical performance is not hard to come by. Luckily, as I was searching online for different performances I ran across The Flex Crew performing at Skully’s music diner. I have been to Skully’s once before to watch a folk band perform. The atmosphere was a lot different than when we saw The Flex Crew. Obviously, the genre of music was a lot different, along with the atmosphere of the crowd. I was very surprised by the number of people in the bar that evening. Mostly, because the performance started at 11PM and the world series was on. On top of this, online their website said the show began at 10PM, but like a very great band they came out at their own pace. In the meantime, there was a DJ performing to keep the crowd alive. The Flex Crew is a reggae band from the Columbus area. After doing a little research I learned they are known as “the best reggae band in the Midwest.”

This song is a wakeup call for America to set a better example for the next generation. People are hurting other people. Some are paranoid of what will happen next. Life should not be scary, but there are people afraid to walk out and be among the chaos. Everybody is against one another, and they are not willing to compromise. “It’s time we stop” and look at what we are doing and what has become of us. There are wars for ignorant reasons, there are people hurting, there are innocent children watching, WAKE UP AMERICA! The riots and wars are not worth all of this pain and suffering.

“Through Deaf Eyes” was a documentary that really opened my eyes and allowed me to understand just a small fraction of what it may be like for a Deaf person to live in a hearing world. The first thing that really stuck with me was the fact that the film was all silent. The part that made it easy for me to understand was the fact that there was closed captioning. All throughout the film, all participants, both Deaf and hearing, were signing at what seemed like lightning speed. If it were not for the closed captioning, there was no way I would be able to catch up and really engage in the film. Then it hit me: this must be how Deaf people feel if the situation was reversed. I always used to get irritated

I personally think Trent Reznor wrote this song to have deep political meanings about the government (in this case it would be the

The song expresses how people are not living up to society's values and norms. It suggest that the socialization is at fault and that they contribute to improvement of self being. The song implies the way society goes against values and norms by one of the very first lyrics in the song. The lyric goes, “What’s wrong with the world, mama, People livin’ like they ain’t got no mamas…” (lines 1-2). This makes one aware of the lack of values in one's family. Values is the belief or an idea that a person or group has to determine is correct or not. Another verse of how the band shows one disobedience of the values and norms comes toward the middle of the song. “People killin', people dyin’, Children hurt and you hear them cryin, Can you practice what you preach, And would you turn the other cheek…” (lines 50-53). These verses show of society has failed to act stable and logical way that society once viewed as correct living. These actions show that citizens have not lived up to the expectations of society. Social norms are likes the laws of society. Laws are things that are illegal behaviour and norms are like behaving in a way society wouldn’t like. For example being in gangs, like the bloods, or the crips, or a big group that goes against society's norms like racial groups. An example of a racial group would be the KKK.

Throughout history music has been used as a method of communication and protest. This trend spiked particularly during the Vietnam War in the 1960s and is shown throughout the decades with different groups or genres to continue in increasing popularity throughout the decades (Candaele). One particular song that portrays this is “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” written and sung by Billy Joel. “We Didn’t Start the Fire” exemplifies a popular song taking a stance against contemporary social issues in 1960s-1980s America, particularly involvement in the Cold War.

Deaf and hard of hearing people are just like us. They are not any different, but hears like us. There is some common misunderstanding, that is really annoying for Deaf and hard of hearing people. Those misunderstanding are can you understands us? Are you able to drive? Do you need a wheelchair? Can you read and write? Do deaf people have sex? Etc.…These kinds of questions annoyed deaf people the most. People do not realize that deaf people do not have as much as difficulty as normal folks thinks that they have. They can do almost everything and just as much no less. Sometime, they begged to be considered the same as hearing folks. They want to be equals, respected, and value just as much as hearing people. Sometime, we forgot to ask ourselves.

In, the article “Legally Blind: Why I’m Against Legalizing Marijuana” by Dr. Howard Samuels he discusses his research on why Marijuana should be illegal. Although, he believes that recreational use of Marijuana should be outlawed he does concede that the part of Marijuana without the THC that is used for medical purposes should be legal. The author tells us that adults that are smoking THC are using it to solve their personal problems. Hence, its developing hardcore anxiety in adults and ruining people’s ability to adopt new skills or enhancing skills. Furthermore, because of it adults are largely becoming dependent on the high. Also, he talks about that smoking THC is holding back people’s own thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Since, his belief

The 1960’s in America was often referred to as an age of protest because of not only the social protests that have taken place, but also for the upbringing of protest music, which became very popular during that era. The roots of protest music were largely from folk music of American musicians during 1950’. Folk musicians, such as Joe Hill, composed labor union protest songs and distributed song booklets, hoping to “fan the flames of discontent.” (Rodnitzky pg. 6) Symbolically, this meant that the songs, the fan, would reduce the uncontrollable social protests that the United States government caused with the misleading information that they did not keep their word on, or the flames of discontent. Other folk musicians, such as Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, traveled around the United States spreading their “message music” and becoming involved in political movements. Guthrie and Seeger were the pioneers of protest music, bringing their folk music to New York City and merging it with urban music. Woody’s songs were about the masses, often identifying problems and offering solutions. While Seeger was cautious about referring to his music as folk music, preferring the term “people’s music,” meaning that not everyone may had the same thoughts, but they all expressed it in their own unique musical sense. For both Woody and Seeger, folk music was a necessity in these protests, when the needs

These lyrics are an attempt to open the eyes of the folks that wrap themselves in a robe of “better than” ideals. Society is broken into a cast system and to those unaware they may have the impression that it is possible to rise above it to a level of imagined success. These lyrics are trying to rip away the blind fold to show these gawkers that they are drowning in the same morose conditions as those that are punching a time clock everyday nine to five. The lyrics are screaming to stop laughing open your eyes, you are drowning in muck, but you have been blinded to think there is a difference between us. Even more important than the words in this verse is the sound of the music.

In a world full of light, darkness tends to walk hand in hand. With both stories, the darkness is full of isolation, sacrifice, and anxiety as it goes against the love, happiness, and acceptance both stories desire in the twisted fairy tale, "The Fluted Girl" by Paolo Bacigalupi, and the philosophical fiction, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. LeGuin. These stories intertwine as they share a common persona to System of A Down's "B.Y.O.B." "Blast off, it's party time, and we all live in a fascist nation, blast off, it's party time, and where the fuck are you?" screams lead guitarist, Daron Malakian. The lyrics describes how people live in comfort and how they are enveloped in popular culture and marketing.

In addition to being positive role models, they themselves are also advocates for the enhancement of the treatment to indigenous people in respect to the way they are portrayed in media. The members of the band obscured their faces during a performance in New York at the America is Hard to See exhibit’s grand re-opening. They were also negotiated different terms for a performance that would have subtly supported a racist event at a theatre feature where white actors were acting in red

To begin, Nina Simone described this song as “a show tune” but a tune for which “the show hasn’t been written”. For at least a few moments, the song sounds like a show tune and one can easily imagine Simone’s audience letting their collective guard down just long enough for the anger of its message to take root. “The show” Simone described might be the collapse of a society built upon injustice; from there, the song takes an almost apocalyptic tone. Fear and anger has become palpable, and bad omens abound. After venting her personal frustration, Nina Simone turns a scornful eye upon a society that reaps rewards from injustice. For example, she uses the phrase “Do it slow” to mock the South’s reticence to move on federal rights legislature.

Protest Music Assignment For this assignment, I chose the song “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday. She first performed this song in 1939, several years after the Civil War took place, but before the end of the Jim Crow South. Billie Holiday was born in the North, which was more supportive of equality between the races, but she was African American, and this was something that affected her life, even if she did not live in the South. This song is a protest song, subtle as it may be, against lynching and the Jim Crow Laws. It describes the lynching, and what can be seen after this deed is performed.

They are individualist they want to be able to get out of the re-education program. To do that Four-Eyes has to gather folk songs and print them. They are corrupt in a way they are