Johnny Mercer

The song I chose for the listening guide is “Crystalize” by Lindsey Sterling. The song was released as a music video on her YouTube channel. Lindsey Sterling, an American violinist, dancer, performance artist and composer, picked up learning the violin at age 5. Since then Sterling was in a band at age 16, introduced her own YouTube channel in 2007, and was a quarter finalist on Americas Got Talent in 2010. Americas Got Talent gained her both popularity and more traffic on her YouTube Channel and

In the film Edward Scissorhands directed by Tim Burton, there is a particular scene in which Edward, the title protagonist, is having a breakdown – he is storming through the neighbourhood, destroying his topiary works and the clothes Peg, the women who took him in, gave him. By the heavy background music and Edward’s aggressive movements, we can see the obvious hostility towards the events that are happening. This use of non-diegetic sound gives a voice to Edward, whose rare use of words is one

Background Information I decided to do this report over the artist, Joanne Shenandoah. I found her on Spotify and took a quick interest in her music. Joanne is a popular Native American musician. She is an acoustic guitarist, but she also sings and composes music (“Joanne Shenandoah,” 2017). In the Oneida language, her name means “she sings” (Wright, n.d.). I think this is the perfect name for her because she has a beautiful voice and such a broad career in music and singing. When she was a young

George Strait Introduction “I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music (“George Strait Quotes,” 2018).” George Strait made this happen too, with hard work and persistence. Being turned down by multiple record companies was very hard on Strait. He kept working though, and it paid off. George won many awards, was inducted in the Hall of Fame, and kept old country alive when the “urban country” era started, making him one of the most influential

Tim Burton Analysis Tim Burton is a very skilled director. His first job was with Disney but he was more into the dark stories, his first project was Vincent(1982) . He likes to combine child friendly stories and dark/mysterious stories/movies. He had many influences like Dr.Suess, Edgar Allan Poe, Vincent Price, Grimm’s fairy tales, and Roald Dahl. Burton is great at using Cinematic Techniques. He makes the movies pull at the viewer's emotions, either in a happy, sad, or scary way by using framing

Rite of Passage "Greasy Lake" by T.C. Boyle is a tale of one young man's quest for the "rich scent of possibility on the breeze." It was a time in a man's life when there was an almost palpable sense of destiny, as if something was about to happen, like a rite of passage that will thrust him into adulthood or cement his "badness" forever. The story opens with our narrator on a night of debauchery with his friends drinking, eating, and cruising the streets as he had done so many times in the past

Tim Burton is a director and makes some very dark and erie movies. Burton uses camera angles, music/sounds, and lighting to create an odd and creepy scenes. He uses all these in his famous movies Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Edward Scissorhands. Tim Burton expertly uses long shots to make a scene feel erie or to show the immense size. Like in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the long shot in the beginning shows the size of the factory compared to the town. In Edward Scissorhands the

Johnny R. Cash, a Songwriter, Singer, and a musician. He is one of the greatest musicians of all time. Johnny was raised in Kingsland Arkansas on a cotton farm where most of his child life happened. As he got older he started getting into the Air Force. He started to get a love for airplanes. After the Air Force, he came back and was with a woman named Vivian. He came back home and was a business man. Then he got a little band together and wrote his first single (Folsom Prison Blues). After that

Stevie Wonder, whom was an American musician, once said, “Mama was a great teacher, a teacher of compassion, love, and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” This quote by Stevie Wonder helps us understand the fact that mothers try, in the best ways, to see you succeed by teaching from the mother’s perspective and the experiences she has been through to get you to see the world in a different way. Just like the quote, in ‘Mother to Son’ we also see

How far would you go to get a pair of shoes; Murder, Theft? In “Thank you Ma’am,” a short story by Langston Hughes, A boy named Roger tries to steal from a lady named Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones. Little does Roger know, that he should’ve picked someone else, he gets dragged home with Mrs. Jones. The two get to know each other over dinner and 10 cent cake, and then Roger gets sent home with $10 for a new pair of blue suede shoes, all thanks to Mrs. Jones, a lady who believes in second chances