Big Yellow Taxi

Joni Mitchell is best known for her gentle voice and poetic lyrics often accompanied by acoustic guitar or piano. She has had hits like “Big Yellow Taxi” (1970), most of her songs taking a political stance. Mitchell started her career as a small town folk singer in Ontario, though her influences expanded to include genres such as jazz and pop in the mid 70’s, early 80’s. Though, most of her lyrics are introspective, what is most interesting about her music is her exploration of alternate tunings. When asked what was the inspiration behind her song “The Magdalene Laundries” Mitchell remarked how a friend said she should write songs during the day (as opposed to writing songs at night as she had normally done). In response, she took her guitar…

musical and cultural study will define the theme of environmental activism in the 1970s in the song, “Big Yellow Taxi”, by Joni Mitchell. Mitchell’s song is representative of the cultural power of pop music to inspire environmental activists to take action to protect the earth’s ecosystem during the early 1970s. “Big Yellow Taxi” is a song with environmentally conscious lyrics that express the concern about humankind’s industrial influence in damaging the environment. Over the generations, “Big…

Introduction The organization, that will be analyzed in this field study, is Uber. This application was created in 2008 by Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp. These two, young men, had consistent problems getting a cab in Paris. They came up with a simple idea to tap a button and get a quick ride. Uber is a location-based app that easily hires a private driver on-demand. For the riders, Uber is supposed to be a cheap, safe, and convenient taxi service for customers. The customers are supposed to…

business in their market sectors, up from only 6.25 percent in 2013 . Airbnb, the pioneer of the sharing economy has been projected to match the rental economy when it comes to projected revenue. But even without these acclaimed sources giving their two cents, you know your platform is shaking up the industry when traditional businesses and lobbyists start taking notice of you and trying to put your business under law and regulation. Case in point is Uber, the on demand online…

Uber is an American international transportation network company. The company operates the service through the Uber mobile app, through which consumers with smartphones submit a trip request that is then forwarded to Uber drivers who use their own cars to take the consumer from point A to point B. Since the launch of Uber many companies have copied the business’s ideology (e.g. Lyft, Sidecar, BlackJet etc.) and that growing trend is called Uberification. The problems stated by NELP in the…

Uber offers three different types of car services; Uber Black, Uber X, or a limousine service. Uber Black is the car service where a professional driver picks up passengers upon request in a black SUV. These drivers are are certified and official. Uber X is regular people picking passengers up in their own cars which are registered through Uber. These drivers are not considered professional, and usually use Uber as a side job. Uber X is the cheapest version of Uber, making it much more…

Hinckley attend Texas Tech University. But after a while he quit college and moved to California to pursue his dream of making music. But his career never really made it off the ground. Soon enough he moved back to Colorado with his parents. He drifted around for a little while going from California and Texas. He had become strangely obsessed with an actor named Jodie Foster. She portrayed a prostitute in the film Taxi Driver. Around this time he started taking antidepressants. ‘My nervous is…

(Schatz, 1993. pp 11) Film therefore had to find new traditions to attract profits and consumers. ‘To differentiate from television there was an increase in historical spectacles, westerns and biblical epics.’ (Schatz, 1993. pp 12) New technologies were developed to further differentiate film from television. (Schatz, 1993. pp 12) “Art cinema” and other foreign film movements also became popular in the late 1950s and this empowered American directors with new film techniques. (Schatz, 1993. pp…

my parents make me go get groceries. It’s probably the only human interaction I get, if you could call it that. Today is one of those days. So I put my book down and get ready. I throw on some clothes and let the fabric run across the scars burnt into my skin. Then I go to the bathroom and fix up whatever needs fixing. Looking in the mirror I see bags under my eyes and a frown. That’s usual for me though, i’ve never really cared for my looks. After I finish up in the bathroom, I make my way to…

was born May 29, 1955. He was 25 years old when he attempted the assassination of President Ronald Reagan. Hinckley had developed an obsession for an actress Jodie Foster. When he viewed the movie Taxi Driver a 1976 movie by Martin Scorsese’s, which was about a woman who tries to convince a taxi driver to assassinate the president in order to win her over. Hinckley had viewed this movie dozens of times and obsessively watched and listen to the movies soundtrack. He read the book the Fan which…