Mentos

The metal bar pressed against my legs. My feet were up on the bar in front of me. I heard the sound of the ride starting. And then we went back and forth, back and forth….. My grandma, sister and I were walking down the lit path of carnival lights at the Escanaba State Fair. We saw the Supernova 360 hanging upside down, people screaming to get off. And we saw a kid barf on the spinning apple ride. “Sweetie, do you see any rides you want to go on?” My grandma asked me. “I don't know, I want to

was originally coined in the 1960s. Derived from rege-rege – Jamaican for “rags or ragged clothing” – the genre was used to describe the raggedy music style found in Jamaica at the time. Reggae incorporates the traditional Jamaican music such as mento and ska, rhythm & blues, and rocksteady. Ska characteristics such as the walking bass line of the guitar and piano off-beats are used in reggae. However, ska is much faster than reggae, so the use of rocksteady in the genre slows the ska tempo. Reggae

“How, then should I live my life”? What constitutes a well-lived life in today’s society? Everyone has a different perspective about how an individual must live a well-lived life. Every individual has a unique life purpose. What might be considered important to one, might not be important to the other individual. For instance, acquiring a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree or even a doctorate degree might be valuable in certain families while in others acquiring a high school diploma is sufficient

The music industry, a large industry that had captured the ears, the talents, the emotions of its listeners. Music has become an item that affects the lives of people everywhere, at all times. With our countless number of ways to communicate, through words, images, and sound; music has used these to speak to billions of people. Because of the wide variety that the industry has, they are separated in different genres that different type of people can listen to. Among all these genres, a genre that

brother, Harold-boy, was discriminated by his mother. The mother said that “you not going get one good job is you no talk good English (Kanae).” Kanae thinks that the mother think Harold-Boy has one “speech impediment” which Kanae thinks that idea is “mento”, which is crazy. She thinks that idea is crazy because Kanae believes that Harold-boy is smart and he can communicate with his family just fine. I can relate to this because I was told that speaking Pidgen in the classroom or in the work place is

Reggae music is the result of a number of different styles and genre of music being mixed together and interrupted by Jamaicans. Reggae was really created in the late 1960s as a result of music genres such as ska, rock steady, mento, American jazz, rhythm and blues, new Orleans R and B and calypso. Ska and rock steady are very much the foundations for not only Reggae but a number of these other genres too. Ska music originated in the late 1950s and was the precursor for rock steady music. Ska music

Mount Vesuvius Mount Vesuvius is located in Italy more specifically on Italy’s west coast. It overlooks the City of Naples and sits in the crator of an ancient volcano named Somma . Vesuvius is most famous for its 79 AD eruption that destroyed several roman cities’ most famous of which was Pompeii. The city of Pompeii had volcanic ash and pumice rain down on it at a rate of six inches per hour until the city was completely buried within twenty four hours. People who tried to escape the impending

Reggae music was a big part of Jamaican culture. Many artists practiced the style of reggae and some of the artists like Bob Marley influenced and showed people internationally all about this music. It originated around the time that Jamaica was being attacked by European countries like Spain and native people being taken into slavery. Bob Marley was born after the time of slave trading but whites still effected the native people and this is how he got his inspiration for his music. a) The music

Relative to its size, population and economic standing in the international arena, Jamaica is arguably the most influential nation as it relates to the propagation of music internationally. Jamaican music, primary roots reggae and dancehall can be heard on every continent in the world. Like most of the Caribbean islands, Jamaican music is influenced by its African influence through the presence of the institution of slavery on the island, that of the European colonizer and to some extent the Indians

Jamaicans could not get enough of it. This was considered the first Jamaican music to be widely recorded in Jamaica, United Kingdom and Britain. Ska music is considered to be the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. This type of music had elements mento, calypso, jazz, and R&B. In the 1960s, musicians Prince Buster, Duke Reid, and Clement "Coxsone" Dodd created sound systems. They began to play American rhythm and blues and then began recorded their own songs. With the introduction to sound systems