Billy Joel

Isaac Slade, Joe King, Ben Wysocki, and Dave Welsh make up the popular rock/ pop band The Fray. With their first album, How to Save a Life, this band appeared on everyone’s radar. The Fray’s song “You Found Me” appeared on the band’s second album, The Fray. Eight months after the release of The Fray’s second album, the band released a music video for “You Found Me.” This song could have several meanings depending on different points of views. Many interpretations of the lyrics in this song…

employees might make less because of what the companies are doing. Additionally, being a waitress is not that easy because customers ae seasonal and dealing with other people mood is not the easiest thing. When she started she came in the restaurant with Billy acting wild and Gail trying to teach her how the job works. Here she realizes that it is not easy to be incompetent in a job. She has to learn how to sweep, scrub and the touch screen computer for ordering. Even if her job was not the…

Millennials, Gen Xers, Baby Boomers, the Silent Generation, and the Greatest Generation; groups of people divided not only by the time period in which they were born, but the cultural, social, political, and economic standpoints by which they live. The so-called “Greatest Generation” is made up of those born between 1901 and 1924, followed by the Silent Generation, born from 1925 to 1945. The second largest generation is the Baby Boomer Generation, who were born between 1946 and 1964, and became…

Despite only being five minutes long, the video for A Separate Peace by John Knowles created by myself and Matt Rossignol had a lot of thought put into it. Balancing the characters and their conflicts as well as the themes in the novel was no simple task. However, the video was created and utilized color, pictures, quotes, transitions, and music to convey our messages about each character. One of the first decisions that we had made was to keep the characters separated to focus on each one…

I got this idea for the creative response from some pictures I saw on a website called Tumblr. I saw a picture of someone creating art in a book and I thought i’d give it a go. I did plenty of research to ensure the creative task was accurate and relevant to the 1980s. This includes doing extensive research in finding out what the social values were at the time and the opinions of people at the time, especially young people. Also, because my main chosen topic to focus on is music, I did lots of…

Access Hollywood that Paul McCartney had inspired him at a young age. He said, “it got me to understand song structure and melody and harmony and arrangement. So, I never had a teacher – I just had these Beatles records.” Another popular artist, Billy Joel, based his famous song, Theme From an Italian Restaurant from side two of Abbey Road. Gene Simmons, lead singer and bassist for the band KISS was quoted saying that there would be no way he would be doing what he does now if it wasn 't for The…

Innocence The role of innocence in Rappaccini’s Daughter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Bartleby the Scrivener written by Herman Melville is not simply as a characteristic or state of being, rather, it is a factor that influences and concludes the tragic events that occur in both stories. While this factor does not apply to all characters from each novel, it does apply to the narrator of Bartleby the Scrivener and to Giovanni and Rappaccini respectively from Rappaccini’s Daughter. In…

Kieron coleman A Time to Kill, directed by Joel Schumacher. Is all about how a young 10-year old girl is viciously brutalized by two white racist rednecks --James Louis “Pete” Willard and Billy Ray Cobb. Tonya is found sent to the hospital, while the two rednecks brag about what they have done in a local bar. Tonya’s father is understandably devastated and fuming with what happened it took it into is own hands to wait for the two rednecks to be taken through the court room to, storm in and…

Stop Wasting Your Time “If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.” This quote by Billy Joel really makes people think about their lives. If they are not doing something they love, then why are they doing it? The commercial “Adidas-Break Free” conveys a similar message. The commercial depicts a man in a nursing home who feels trapped. He just wants to run but the staff will not let him even go outside. So he has to train so he can break free from them and do what he loves.…

2016 music. Obviously I wasn’t born yet so all this research is from family members, the internet or conversations with people in local music shops. In the 70’s and 80’s you had a lot of good bands and musicians such as Aerosmith, Aero Speed Wagon, Billy Joel and a bunch of others that were great that we could name. The music types most people listened to in the 70’s and 80’s were punk rock, rock and roll, country, hard rock and some disco in the 70’s but it did not last very long. Other…