Bronski Beat

What My Hard Work Has Shown Me The beat of my heart thumps harder by the second as my high school volleyball coach announces at the 2016 end of the year banquet, that their is one Honorable Mention and one All-Conference award within the Wright County. After playing volleyball for eight years as a setter, assisting 1,134 kills (with my two and a half years on varsity), and receiving Heart-Beat of the Team Award, mentally and physically I knew there might be a chance I had a shot at getting one

Schanck, and a relaxing beat begins to play as we are shown the breathtaking view, creating a desire by the audience, to be there and experience it firsthand. We circle a rock, gradually zooming out to a birds-eye view of the vast blue sea, symbolising that there is so much more about Australia, people have yet to experience. The footage then swaps to show a green rainforest, a sunset, ocean, grass, sky, Australia's natural beauty capturing the audience's attention. An uplifting beat grows louder, as we

Introduction Stress is one of the most common symptom of life. No one knows how to treat it. There has been no “forever” cure. Only ways to prevent it, short-term. Listening to music has always been beneficial to a person’s health through stress-reducing effects (Thoma et al., 2017). This is comprised of: the decrease in blood pressure and heart rate, the ability to worry less about what has happened and more on the future. Stress varies with the heart rate therefore, when a high rate equal higher

A Special Adventure I was walking into the kitchen about to get a snack, when I heard a familiar voice shouting to me, “Sadie, guess what? I got tickets to a Britt Nicole concert!” my BFFTLEWE (best friend for totally-like-ever without exception), Macey, beamed happily. “My parents said that I could take a friend!” While she kept going on about how much fun it would be to go, I kept thinking to myself. Will she pick me? Will I get to go to that concert to see one of my favorite stars perform? I

The lyrics to "Pumped Up Kicks" are written from the perspective of a troubled and delusional youth with homicidal thoughts. It addresses the growing trend in teenage mental illness and helps us understand the psychology and resoning behind it. It is shocking to me how mental illness among youth has skyrocketed in the last decade alone and brings to the question of, “why is this happening?” The unfortunate inspiration for this song was a mixture of Mark Foster’s first-hand knowledge of being bullied

And yet in this time some writers have influenced the work of others. Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg who are separated by a time gap have a kind of connection. Both of these amazing writers wrote pieces of work that are considered a catalyst for the Beat Generation. These two courageous writers went against the norm and wrote about something different. Although they are different they both explored new topics. Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” and Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” have similarities right

“Soldiering is 99% boredom and 1% of sheer terror”, a civil war soldier wrote this to his wife in a letter and since then the composition of war has not changed. So, what did the soldiers do in those periods of boredom? Well, especially for the men in the frontlines, who were far from any form of entertainment, writing letters, diaries and poems were some of the few available options. These were the forms of war literatures that soldiers used to express and share their feelings with their loved ones

documented in countless forms of literature, film and art. On the Road by Jack Kerouac was written and published at the outset of the counter-culture movement of the 1950s and 1960s. This novel provides a first-hand account of the beginnings of the Beat movement and acts as a harbinger for the major societal changes that would occur in the United States throughout the next two decades. On the contrary, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, a Hunter S. Thompson novel written in 1971 provides a commentary

Post WWII culture in the United States was built on conformity and intolerance, and free spirits, anti-capitalists, and homosexuals had been repressed. After the victory of the Second World War the constrained consumer demand drove the U.S. economy to grow exponentially. The automobile industry effectively converted back to producing cars and previously minor industries such as aviation and electronics grew into major corporations. A housing boom, that had been influenced by easily affordable mortgages

In the winter of 1954-55 America was in an economic, social, and cultural interregnum. One style of life, one mood — like Victorianism or Edwardianism — was giving way to another. The industrial age based on the mechanical exploitation of coal and iron was giving way to electronics, computers, automation — with all the social and intellectual results such a basic revolution implies — but as yet few indeed understood what was happening. The country was in a minor economic depression following the