Billy Bob Thornton

“Feeling excluded is not being excluded.” The phrase above is a direct quote from John Gibson’s The War on Christmas. Among the several claims he make, I considered that quote the most contradictory and interesting one of all. Gibson uses it to explain how he, a Christian, does not feel excluded while differing religious observe their own practices, but the idea of Christmas not having the “prowess” as before is threatening. Although the erasure of specific titles to Christmas artifacts (ex.…

1969 where he debuted his guitar version of Star Spangled Banner, this was one of the best demonstrations of his talent as a musician. (Biography.com, n.d.) That same year Hendrix started another band, named Band of Gypsys, with his old army buddy, Billy Cox. However this band did not really take off like Hendrix’s last band, and they only produced one album. (Rollingstone.com, n.d.) On September 18, 1970 Jimi Hendrix died from drug related complications at the age of only 27. (Biography.com,…

Throughout the course of the semester we have learned about so many artists, and the transitions to different music genres. We have seen how music has grown throughout the years, and how artists use their songs to express their feelings, and their concerns over issues. As the years have progressed, we have seen how artists have become more vocal on issues that are have been occurring in the United States. One of the main points in history that we have seen in this course, in my opinion, has…

Missy Raimann Hastings English 1010 21 September 2016 Summary Essay Chapter 1-3 In Jon Ronson’s So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, Ronson explores different cases of public shaming for his journalism and demonstrates how the shaming not only impacts the person being shamed but everyone else around them. The author, Ronson is also part of the plot and he is affected by public shaming first hand via twitter. His personal experience with public shaming sparked his interest so he decides to…

In the novel ‘That Eye, the sky’ Winton’s male and female characters all have strengths and weaknesses, but the strength of women outweighs the strength of men. The text, ‘That Eye, The Sky’, written by Tim Winton, explores strengths and weaknesses of characters when faced with family issues. The novel is written in first person, narrated by main protagonist, Ort. The plot encompasses the life of Ort, his mother – Alice and family helper, Henry. These characters all show strengths, however,…

In Charles Dickens’, A christmas Carol I speculate all three spirits assisted Scrooge from his callous behaviour, and shifted his life around to make him a content man. Scrooge learns the same lesson from all three spirit (That kindness is the key to happiness) however, each spirit tells scrooge happiness in different ways. In the beginning of the novella, Scrooge is portrayed as a cold-hearted miser who abhors anything joyful , but once visited by the spirits scrooge is depicted as a…

The darkness of dawn, the time which was said to be when the final ghost, the ghost of Christmas yet to come, was to appear. The clock struck twelve and the hooded phantom hovered towards Scrooge, ready to show him the shadows of the future. If you’ve read Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, you would know that Scrooge at this point, while engulfed in fear, is willing to follow the final ghost and have him lead on to view the Christmas yet to come. With that said, while the ghost of Christmas yet…

This past Sunday I attended the school play, which was a comedy based along the storylines of The Christmas Carol. I noticed many people from the community brought their children along for the comedy. For someone who doesn’t really care for plays, or Christmas it was somewhat interesting to go into the play having doubts beforehand and coming out of it with a different view. The exposition started off the same as The Christmas Carrol. Scrooge was being his typical self, hating everything about…

7. Bob Marley and The Wailers’ exceptional harmonizing skills came from their voice teacher Joe Higgs (June 3, 1950 to December 18, 1999), who was a popular reggae artist for 40 years (1950s to 1990s) and he trained other reggae artists to sing, also. Joe taught Bob how to play the rhythm guitar that kept the 2/4 timing for the Wailers. Additionally, Chris Blackwell (1960), and the Federal (1961), Coxsone Dodd’s Studio One (1962), Bob Marley’s Tuff Gong (1965), Lee “Scratch” Perry’s Black Ark…

Scrooge, a heartless man who only cares about his money and his wealthy, Scrooge doesn’t let go of his wealthy any second, even on Christmas. The day before Christmas, everywhere was peaceful, and happy, but only in the store which Scrooge owned, there only darkness and coldness. Fred, Scrooge’s nephew came in the store and wished his uncle a Merry Christmas, but all Scrooge said was, “a time finding yourself a year older and not an hour richer.” And made Fred went out. That night, after…