Songs of the Free

Gospel music is church music. But it has a deeper meaning than that it has a history and it also has a race background. In general Gospel music is a genre of Christian Music. The word Gospel means good news. Gospel music spreads a message of christianity of God, it expresses a message of good news. Gospel Music is joy and hope; it helped African American slaves to go through their daily challenges and still have hope and faith. During the late 1800’s African American churches started developing

December 1850, Tubman's niece, Kessiah, and her two children were going to be sold. Kessiah’s husband, a free black man, made the winning bid for his wife, niece, and children at an auction. Harriet then helped the entire family escape to Philadelphia. This was the first of many trips by Harriet Tubman, who earned the nickname, “Moses.” In 1850, the Fugitive Slave Law was made. This law stated that free slaves could be captured in the North and returned to slavery. Law enforcement officials in the North

relatable, and powerfully composed song. This song relates to all of us and also strongly expresses the story of Chris McCandless in the book Into the Wild. "McCandless was thrilled to be on his way north, and he was relieved as well—relieved that he had again evaded the impending threat of human intimacy, of friendship, and all the messy emotional baggage that comes with it…” (55) going into the wild was so that he can let go, and that’s what he did. The song Make It Rain contains Ed Sheeran singing

The ending of Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon is both satisfying and ambiguous. The last chapter manages to address everyone's story yet not in a cheesy or over explanatory way. In addition Toni Morrison leaves room for a reader to interpret certain parts of the ending. The array of different endings in Song of Solomon provides a depth to the story that enriches the emotions felt by the reader. When Pilate and Milkman go back to Shalimar to bury Macon they are confronted by Guitar who shoots and

writers. Songs are a type of literature and the people who write songs are writers. I can tell you for a fact when songwriters Nicki Minaj, Polow da Don, Sir Mix-a-Lot, Jonathan Solone-Myvett, Marcos Palacios, and Ernest Clark were writing the famous song Anaconda, they were not thinking of ways they could reinvent Shakespeare. If they were, I’d listen to the song more often. Unless I’m missing something and Shakespeare wrote about a guy named Michael that used to ride motorcycles. The song Stressed

An Analysis of Margaret Atwood's Siren Song Throughout her many years as a poet, Margaret Atwood has dealt with a variety of subjects within the spectrum of relationship dynamics and the way men and women behave in romantic association. In much of her poetry, Atwood has addressed the topics of female subjugation in correlation with male domination, individual dynamics, and even female domination over males within the invisible boundaries of romantic relationships. With every poem written, Atwood's

Siren Song This poem, clearly alluding to the Siren’s of the tale of Odysseus, is a clear reference to Greek mythology. In Greek mythology, the Sirens creatures whose songs were so enticing, mariners could not resist following the music to the Sirens’ voices only to be killed by the ocean’s ravaging tides.This poem contains no meter and is a free verse poem. Additionally, there is no set rhyme scheme. This poem is a siren speaking to the reader in a normal meter, nothing emphasized. The speaker of

1. There is a sex scene in the first five minutes of the movie that is not in the original Solomon Northup slave narrative. Why would the director invent and include this scene? This scene set the tone for the movie. It helps to put into perspective the stripping of humanity that slaves endured. It is as if the slaves had a moment of freedom and they were capable of having enjoyable moments. However, when that moment was over, the reality that their lives are not enjoyable creeps back in, this is

killed for their music by the Catholic Church. Troubadours carried the main theme of love in all of their songs. Songs consisting of many different kinds of love were played in courts and sometimes at public meetings. These songs always had to be appropriate for the courts that they were played. Troubadour music in some courts may have even been considered to be racy in current times. The songs helped to show the growing equalities amongst the classes. All troubadours had to show a massive

social issues. Siren Song, a well known poem by Margaret focuses on the role that psychology plays in death and femininity. Margaret Atwoods Siren Song and Anne Sextons Her Kind have many similarities