Billy Budd

Music is a powerful thing. It produces feelings and has the ability to bring all people together. Music is also and outlet for people to express themselves and share a mutual idea or beliefs, whether it is through poetic lyrics or throbbing anthems. The artists today are not known for their music, but rather for how extravagant their outfits are and how many times their wealthy relatives can get them out of jail. How much money they have, or the newest relationship they are involved with every…

Daughter is a indie folk band from England and were formed in 2010. The well-known band has released one album, two EP’s and have played headlining tours around Australia, America and Europe. A new single ‘Youth’ was released and has played in many TV shows and advertisements around the world. The song ‘Youth’ is about growing up and the pain it brings along. It’s a scream of pain directed to adults who think young people have nothing to worry about and don't take young teenagers seriously. It…

Miley Cyrus came out with a music video "We Can't Stop". When this video cam out I was shocked at how much Miley had changed, she had cut her long hair to a weird hair style, it was short and had blonde highlights. As well as changing her hair she had started dressing very shockingly. She went from country to a diva, this change happened so suddenly that I believe most people were thrown into confusion. Miley hade turned to a the darker side. That I ever thought would happen. Miley reminds…

Miley Cyrus says "Hannah Montana" messed her up (-- removed HTML --) Miley Cyrus, 24, has grown up in the public eye and has recently come forward about how playing the title character in “Hannah Montana” messed with her head. Miley says the boundaries between her onscreen persona and her actual self became so intensely blurred that her "psyche was damaged." The reality of fame (-- removed HTML --) The singer sat down with CBS Sunday Morning and spoke candidly about how “being Hannah…

The celebrity I chose to write about is Miley Cyrus, and as some may remember her childhood role as Hannah Montana. Miley Cyrus has been getting a lot of attention in the news the last couple years, but not the kind of attention most want. She has been noticed a lot because of her extreme change in looks and actions. Miley was always seen as an innocent girl who had a very close relationship with her father. Over the past couple years she has had an "I don't care what people think of me"…

The Real Story Of The Three Billy Goats Gruff “Sous, Sous” My finger was rubbing my finger against the hard rocky ground because no one would hug me. But off in the distance I could see the three billy goats gruff heading up the grassy and muddy mountain. Their hooves clicking agencies the hard grassy and rocky ground. I hear the pond on the other side of my bridge. I can also smell the fruit that they just ate. I hear the wind brushing against my face. Of…

3. Docherty believes that a cultural event is something that allows people to see the potential of freedom. A cultural event can take many forms. Some examples are: books, poetry and art forms such as painting, music, dance, and sculpture. This idea relates to play of imagination which occurs when people imagine the world different from the way it is now. Many artists have created images that could be considered cultural events. Some examples of these artists are Shepard Fairey and the…

After a thorough analysis of Captain Vere and his judgment of Billy in her essay “The Execution of Billy Budd”, Barbara Johnson concludes, “what this means is that every judge is in the impossible position of having to include the effects of his own act of judging within the cognitive context of his decision” (Johnson, 599). Captain Vere is worried that, should he mitigate Billy’s penalty, despite the crew’s and his own feelings that Billy’s sentence is too harsh, a precedent may be set that…

Catharine Sedgwick was a prominent early 19th century female author. Growing up in Massachusetts as one of the youngest of ten children she was able to express herself through writing and reading. She admired scholarly and imaginative writers, such as, Edgar Allen Poe and James Fenimore Cooper. In 1827, her most successful work was Hope Leslie (Early Times in the Massachusetts). The book explores two volumes worth of drama Specifically, chapter 4 explores the moments before and the consequence…

Contrast / Comparison Essay In the following paragraphs are four different stories regarding four different characters. These characters are Rappaccini, in the story Rappaccini’s Daughter, Aylmer, in the story The Birth- Mark, Vere, in the story Billy Budd, and the Unnamed Narrator in story The Tell-Tale Heart. All these characters are individuals with complex personalities. However, each with their own circumstances and motives, paint a different picture in their stories, however, in the…