Billy Joel

very different message than “99 Red Balloons.” Billy Joel’s lyrics feature a series of historical events and figures covering a variety of contexts including foreign affairs, pop culture, political issues, and sports. Stating over 100 different events, Joel gives a brief history lesson, spanning over the course of four decades. Accompanied by the catchy chorus, “We didn’t start the fire / It was always burning / Since the world’s been turning,” Billy Joel states that the world has and always…

One of my favorite songs is Vienna, by Billy Joel. I like the message of slow down, you have your whole life. After the second verse there is an interesting accordion solo. The piano runs going down keeps it interesting while still building anticipation for the second line of the chorus. The short rests make the rhythm interesting. The vocal flourishes at the end of each verse provide a smooth transition into the chorus or next verse. The instrumentals do a good job of keeping the listener in…

As crazy as serial killers may be, most of them don’t even get what they “had hoped for out of his murders” and they just “merely act out a ritualistic fantasy” (Dolan 55). Although insane, according to psychologist Joel Norris’s conception of the ritual phases of serial murder, the serial killers all go through different ritualistic phases mainly for the purpose of finding a “companion” to accomplish their plans, obviously killing them and keeping their body parts. These ritualistic phases…

In the poem “Goodnight Saigon”, Billy Joel reveals the negative effects that lack of preparation can have on a military by describing the harsh realities of war. Like many others stories of war, soldiers often come in excited and ready to defend their countries but then soon realize the brutalities of the battlefield. However, this poem differs from many other American stories because this time, America did not come out successful. The author and his soldiers excited, would soon…

personas, and Angus Young’s stage performances wearing his schoolboy uniform and doing his famous ‘duck walk’. I could go on and on. Although my mother introduced me to the best of the eighties’ and nineties’, including Air Supply, ABBA, Bee Gees, Billy Joel, and Simon & Garfunkel, I had a wider taste in music.…

on to the glory that their parents were able to achieve there. The singer Billy Joel, in his song “Allentown” describes the struggle of the high unemployment rate, useless diplomas in the competitive job market, and the closing of the town’s main source of income making residents want to leave the town they grew up in. The closing of many factories caused the unemployment rate to skyrocket. In the beginning of the song Joel says, “they’re closing all the factories down / out in Bethlehem they’re…

The film A Time to Kill, directed by Joel Schumacher and released in 1996, represents the overall perspective that most white people in society believe they are superior to African-American people and as a result, African-American people have to fight against racial prejudice for equality and justice. This film follows the journey of an African-American man, Carl Lee Hailey, living in Mississippi in the 1980s, who is on trial for murdering the two white men who raped his daughter. The…

Confidentiality, Conflict of Interest, and Duties to Former Client. (b) Being Billy Joel's lawyer I would have disqualifiy myself because i'm not giving my client competent and diligent representation. I could put a letter in writing to both sides letting them know that I'm repesenting their adverse partner. (c) Yes, it could have been different if CBS Records was a former client and not a current client. But I would still have to tell Billy Joel that CBS Records was a former…

Throughout history there has always been a defining pop-culture moment or moments. Billy Joel’s song and video “We Didn’t Start the Fire” encapsulates the events starting at the end of the 1940’s through the 1980’s. The chorus, “We didn’t start the fire. It was always burning since the world’s been turning. We didn’t start the fire. No, we didn’t light it, but we tried to fight it.” (Joel) sets the premise of the video. The lyrics in the song are rapid fire historical moments while the video…

Alex Brogan Dual English 12 Honaker 3/14/17 Billy Collins’s poem “My Number” and “Death Be Not Proud” by John Donne presents Death in action. Death’s description is suggestive of personification. Throughout the entirety of each poem, each author has his specific way of writing, but they personify Death to be something bigger than it truly is. These poems share a common theme in that it takes an assertive stand against mortality. It makes the paradoxical statement that mortality is itself mortal…