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Daniel Dolan Mrs. Jankowski, p.7 American History III February 23, 2016 How Did Music in the 1960’s change the public opinion during Vietnam As the War in Vietnam raged on the people in America started to turn against it. Protests and protest music fueled the youth of the generation, with only peace and happiness to offer. The protest movement actually prospered when famous musicians and celebrities joined the movement. However, this movement was not popular with the older generations…

Ms. Hill The cultural context that I choose is a song called “Ms.Hill”, written by rapper and songwriter Talib Kweli. This song was released in 2005 and it speaks about his admiration toward his iconic friend, Lauryn Hill, a rapper, singer, songwriter, and poet. She’s also known from the 1992 comedy film, Sister Act starting Whoopi Goldberg. This song expresses admiration toward Lauryn Hill’s ways of not conforming to the ways of the music industry as well as creating her own style of music,…

powerful, unique, and technically brilliant. Inventing an entirely new way of recording melodies and vocal harmonies they essentially used stereo effects, double tracking and many indifferent instruments. Soon thanks to the Beatles most artist like Bob Dylan and Elvis Presley went…

The ghost of Christmas future was remarkably quiet it was exceedingly good at its job. The way that The ghost of Christmas future made Scrooge think about the way he was so isolated was by showing him what people will think about him in the future. Scrooge then saw that p To begin with, anyone in the world can change, all they need is the will to change. Now in the novel “A Christmas carol” written by Charles Dickens is a little more complicated than that. The main character, Ebenezer Scrooge…

A sudden change can be caused by getting told about a death, crossing railroads, or having a new family member. Many people change for these reasons. Why don’t we look at some book examples and some life experiences. When you are getting told about a death, it can change the way you talk to people. For example Scrooge, in the Christmas Carol, was mean, and always negative after Marley died because they were good work mates. They would work together and do a lot of things together.After Marley…

“I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate, I’m proud.” Pulitzer prize winning investigation and reporting conducted by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward into the Watergate scandal revealed the first of possibly many government conspiracies. it's 1972 and living in America isn't as great as it used to be. The war in Vietnam is still going on the spread of communism is threatening as ever…

A Christmas Carole Scrooge is transforming from a bad to a good person in the novel A Christmas Carole. There are three spirits that take him to the past, present, and the future. The first spirits make him more giving, compassionate, and a thankful person. The second spirit makes him a caring, happy, and regretful man. The last spirit turns him even more of a thankful and caring person. Scrooge will slowly change as the spirits take him to places. Scrooge became more of a giving,…

p. 14 ). But, they also might have picked the second spirit, Spirit of Christmas Present, because it had shown them how Scrooge might have changed more by looking at his present actions and how starting that instant could have changed his future, “ Bob Cratchit : ( raising his glass ) My dear, to Scrooge. I give you Mr. Scrooge, the founder of the feats. Mrs. Cratchit : The founder of the feast indeed ! I wish I had him here ! I’d give him a piece of my mind to feast upon, and hope he’d have a…

A Christmas carol A Christmas carol starts off with the author showing the reader that Scrooge is a bad person. For example, at one point in stave one Scrooge is described as a "cuvits old sinner" and also Dickens writes "no one stopped him in the street to say, my dear Scrooge, how are you?" This shows that he has been so horrible to everyone they have all given up on trying to be friendly to him. Also when his uncle comes to visit him and invites him over for Christmas dinner Scrooge says…

Between 1969 and 1999 there were cultural changes in the country´s diversity and attitude and tastes in music. At Woodstock in 1969, the music performed created an atmosphere of what Woodstock is most remembered for; “three days of peace, love & music” (Ostroff). When listening to the acts performed for the 500,000 Americans in attendance, its no wonder the reputation stuck. Richie Havens’ version of the famed Beatles hit Here Comes the Sun brings the sense of unity and glimmer of hope that…