In the song “Upside Down” by Jack Johnson, the author, who is also the artist and performer, expresses the feeling that turning over a new leaf or taking a new angle is a good way forward when you feel trapped or overwhelmed in your present situation. Throughout the song, the author conveys to the audience that when things are changing, sometimes memories of how life was before the change, fade, in lieu of new memories and experiences to come using the lines, “I can feel in change in everything/ And as the surface breaks reflections fade”. Using this line, he uses metaphorical devices and an allegorical aspect to the song to convey his message and purpose. Another thing that Jack Johnson attempts to convey within the song is that nothing is…
From a solid elite New England pedigree family there was a young man name Ernest Lawrence Thayer who had a dream to change the poetry world. Growing up Ernest was pushed to best he can be even though school came easy to him. When he graduated college from Harvard University, he followed his friend from college out to San Francisco to join his friend’s dad’s newspaper company, “Hearst’s Paper “(Author Biography 56). Working at this company Mr. Thayer worked on obituaries, ballad poems, and editorials. On October 8 1915 he watches the World Series game of baseball and then that is when the inspiration struck.…
Jim Valvano is a legend. On March 3, 1993 at the ESPYs, Valvano was awarded the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage. In making his acknowledgment discourse, a growth stricken Valvano moves his audience at Madison Square Garden and everybody viewing the nation over to tears, to laughs, and even to a reality check with an end goal to bring issues to light and subsidizing for disease research. In his dialog, he notes to always remember about "where you started." Therefore, it would be appropriate to begin toward the start of Valvano's life and profession to see what shaped this man to convey such a discourse.…
The speaker, Lou Gehrig, uses 3 rhetorical devices, irony, hyperbole, and metaphor to convey his message that even though he’s in a bad spot right now, he has had and still will have a good life. Lou starts off his speech with, “Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” Lou stated that he has had a bad break but still considered himself the luckiest man on earth, which is situational irony. His use of situational irony helped show that even if he has gotten a bad break, his still considers himself to be the luckiest man on earth which helped convey his message, he has had and still will have a good life even with his bad break.…
In the late 1760's, Americans were on the verge of war with Britain. They needed an excuse to fight and gain independence. Patrick Henry's famous speech created one of the many excuses that drove the people to fight. In his speech, Patrick Henry emphasizes the use of rhetorical devices such as anaphora and allusion to expose British atrocities to the people so that they could join the war effort.…
He had most bought album of the year twice in 3 years. He got kicked out of his house as a teen and overdosed on drugs several times. Despite this, he is the reason a lot of teens are doing good. Kurt Cobain is remembered as debatably the leader of one of the best bands of all time although having a horrible life. Kurt Cobain is remembered as debatably the leader of one of the best bands of all time and had a pretty sad life.…
On Saturday, November 30, 2013, at approximately 3:30 in the afternoon, Paul Walker; the actor who played Brian O’Connor in the Fast and the Furious movies, was involved in a tragic car accident in Santa Clara, California. He and a renowned racecar driver were speeding down the streets in a 2005 Porsche Carrera Gt, when they suddenly collided with a lamppost and two trees. Paul died instantly, and the driver died of broken bones from the crash shortly afterwards. When news broke out that it was Paul Walker who was killed in the crash, the world was struck with an unendurable pain. It was unfathomable to think of life without Paul Walker.…
In Black Hawk's Surrender Speech, Black Hawk is writing to demonstrate the effort and energy he has devoted to stand up and fight off the white men. Sadly, he does. It win the fight and explains his feelings using rhetorical devices like similes, imagery, and setting a mood from the atmosphere he describes. There are also many feelings and emotion brought into his final words.…
Whether blatantly stated and actively convincing, or subtly incorporated and subconsciously compelling, every author has a purpose. To entertain, to teach, to persuade the reader to take a stance or to take action – every author’s purpose is unique, rooted in his or her own values and experiences. In writing The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck had his own purpose in mind. He used his story to reveal the truth of the tragedy and hardship experienced by the migrant workers of the 1930’s, through the combined employment of a moving plot and purposeful rhetorical devices. The story elicited a surprising reaction from all its readers – both those directly affected by the migrant workers, and those disconnected from the issue.…
It is well known that death is inevitable and unescapable to all forms of life. In Virginia Woolf’s, “The Death of the Moth ,” Woolf utilizes metaphors, powerful imagery, and tonal shifts to explain the struggle between life and death as a battle, that in the end, is never won. The uses of these rhetorical devices depict the intense power that death has over life. The tonal shifts throughout the piece strengthen the idea of an all powerful death. Woolf’s final words, “death is stronger than I am,” reveals the main idea of her narrative.…
“The wind cries Mary” is a song written and performed by Jimi Hendrix. The song has a very atmospheric intro. It begins with three ascending chords which will be repeated throughout the song. One thing about this song that gets your attention is how difficult it is for the listener to follow the rhythms emphasizing on the beats which are expected to be weak. In another word, the rhythm makes it difficult for the listener to identify the “down beats” of the song.…
My paper’s approach to Louis Armstrong’s small band performance in Australia is organized by song. In each of these song sections, I describe what is generally going on. Intermixed amongst my musical review, I also interject my personal feelings and perceptions to what is occurring. I have organized my structure this way in order to provide a methodical structure to my analysis. Louis Armstrong starts playing the trumpet in the first song, “When It’s Sleepy Time Down South,” almost immediately after walking onto the stage.…
Kanye West is a hip-hop recording artist and is notoriously known for his unique style of music. He left college in order to pursue his musical career. When he dropped his first album, “The College Dropout,” he rattled the hip hop industry by deviating from popular gangster and club music found in hip hop. In his own music, he is more concerned with the concept of religion, racism, family, and higher education. One noteworthy song that came out of that album was Jesus Walks.…
America shares ideals of individualism, patriotism, equality, and a high regard to freedom. Freedom is the power or right to speak, act, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. American Independence has endured 236 years, while when one glances upon India independence it has persisted for 67 years from British control. An advocator for India 's independence would be Mohandas K. Gandhi; this is where the reference of the Salt March comes in to play. For the duration of the 1930s in India, people like Gandhi objected to the living environments, high taxes on salt, and embargo against manufacturing salt freely within India.…
Louis Armstrong is an American icon in the jazz industry because of his unique voice. Armstrong was born in 1901 and lived in New Orleans, Louisiana. His most famous song, “What a Wonderful World,” put his career in the record books for the greatest jazz singer of all time. When I was younger, my grandmother would play “What a Wonderful World” every day I visited for lunch. Personally, this song has impacted and taught me to look at the world we live in with a positive attitude.…