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Gerald Mast, “Before the Ball: American Musical Theater Before American Musicals,” Can’t Help Singin’: The American Musical on Stage and Screen, 7-24 This dense excerpt provides the reader with a rapid overview of American Musical Theater Before American Musicals. The reading explains the reasons why multiple shows and musicals failed and how their plot and lyrics were preserved in writing. It recounts how the shows embraced the new technologies to provide more powerful shows. One of the multiple

Throughout history, music has been seen as a medium in which different people all over the world can relate. Adorno criticizes, however, that songs that have the most “hits” on the top music charts or are most listened to, otherwise known as popular music, are being produced for and consumed by the masses as a commodity. He identifies popular music as being a part of a culture used for capitalism, and that we as listeners, are falling into a trap in which we believe songs have individuality and

songs structure by saying, “It’s a strange song in the sense it doesn’t have a hook, and it doesn’t have like a fixed structure. It just has this folky vibe that progresses through the ages and lets you grow with the song.”(Forchhammer) The first verse and chorus focus on Lukas’ early childhood. He reminisces about when he was seven

The Beatitudes may appear as if they are merely a simple arrangement of blessings, but in reality they are full of meaning and beyond any ordinary passage in the Bible. Every line in the Beatitudes is not only a blessing, but a call for action directed towards the people of Israel. The passage seems to focus on Jesus as he speaks to his disciples and the crowd listening about how they could achieve the righteousness that will create the foundation of Heaven. He is not simply encouraging people to

faces / Blurry’s the one I’m not” (Joseph). This further likens the use of this character to narrative therapy by saying that he is not this externalized culmination of his problems. Comparing verse 1 and 2 of “Fairly Local” also shows displeasure with Joseph’s perception of himself, and an effort to fix that. Verse 1 goes “I 'm evil to the core / What I shouldn 't do I will / They say I 'm

And Still Is Our’s Today While Matthew and Luke both describe Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, each writer emphasizes different themes of Jesus’ teaching and gives different messages to their respective audiences. Matthew, likely writing for a Jewish audience, highlights how Jesus’ message resonated with the poor, how his teaching was not intended to abolish the established religious law, and how Jesus’ followers should live by the spirit of the law. Unlike Matthew, Luke wrote to a predominantly Gentile

Comparison between Roman 12 and Matthew 5-7 God created a perfect world with the supreme ruler, the people. He created us by clay and his breath, so we are part of God, just different forms,the humanities are living in God. Therefore, we should love our neighbor and our enemy as yourself because they are part of God so when you love them, you are loving God. That is the basic idea of Christianity which was mentioned in both bible Roman chapter 12 and Matthew 5-7. According to bible Matthew chapter

brings humanity to the next great adventure. In Kesha’s spaceship the main theme is that life can be difficult and filled with hate and negativity, but there is a place reached after death and in ones dreams that is full of love and joy. The second verse helps to prove the theme by showing the negative feelings about life on Earth, and also beginning the reveal the yearning for life after death. She sings, “ I knew from the start I don’t belong in these parts / there’s too much hate, there’s too much

was released as a single that would end up being the hit song on their first album. The lyrics of the song are about the nostalgia from growing up. The main chorus of the song takes place at different age every time, depending on the verse. After the 4th verse the song changes the tense and starts to talk about his present life, what the future may hold. At this point Instead of saying “Once I was” he changes it to “soon I’ll be.” Graham describes the songs structure by saying, “it’s a strange

My fathers dream was for every single one of his kids to be the very best in sports. He would always push me to succeed, So the way he did that was saying bible verses from the bible. Many of times when I'm hitting, pitching, or shooting the ball he says 4:13 Phipps or he would say 23:1. He says the bible verse numbers instead of the words because he knows that I know them. However he would always ask me how scHave you ever had hunting fever? What about the longing