I Wanna Be Another Wave Essay

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“I don't wanna be another wave in the ocean” lyrics truncated from Bon Jovi song Because We Can. He is expressing that people need to take a stand and not just float by like a wave. The singer is refusing to go along with the flow of life anymore. Displaying he is not conforming to following the masses, going through the motions and relationships. The word wave has many different meanings, but they all have to do with an undulating motion or shape. First, a wave is a disturbance on the surface of a body of water. Next, a wave is a rush of emotion, wide spread feeling and a mass movement. Lastly, a wave is a transfer of energy that travels through space. In addition to wave’s many vast definitions it is included in every day dialect in the use of idiomatic phrases. For example, ride the waves and make waves …show more content…
For example, the sound of the waves crashing upon the shore, created a calming effect. An earthquake sends a tsunami of waves over small islands in the ocean. A wave can also become a swell, a rush, of a certain condition. A wave of small pox permeated throughout the country, or a wave of anger swept over her when she was robbed. In physics any regularly recurring event such as, a surf coming in toward a beach, that can be thought of as a disturbance moving through a medium. A wave in science is a disturbance, oscillation or vibration, either of a medium and moving through that medium(Waves). The discovery of the wave by scientistists have created an essential part in helping develop inventions. Sound waves generate music through the use of speakers, microwaves led to the invention of the microwave using radiation, and light waves produced the development of the light bulb. Without these creations this world would be changed as we know it today. For this reason, wave is a necessary component of the English

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