Bowie

In Michelle Obama’s Bowie State University Commencement Speech, she talks about the school itself and how it came to be the amazing university it is today, also how hard it was for African Americans to receive an education. Before the Emancipation Proclamation it was illegal for African Americans to receive an education. It was extremely rare for a slave to know how to read and write and if they ever were caught, they would have been thrown in jail or beaten senseless. A few years after the…

Ziggy Stardust to the Thine White Duke. Yet connections can be drawn and linked throughout his whole musical career. Themes presented in his early work are referenced and connected into Bowie most contemporary albums. A major theme within Bowie’s work as a whole is loneliness and alienation. From the personas Bowie has created and the albums that go alongside them each connected and build, in some way on these ideas of loneliness. By examining three songs off Bowie’s…

The two walk outside and the song ‘Starman’ by David Bowie starts playing. The view then cuts to a beautiful new gunmetal Audi R8. The son hands over the keys to his father, which the father takes with an excited, happy, and determined expression. While showing the father walk to the car, it cuts from him…

the Extreme in the 1990’s. Their biggest hit was Ice Ice Baby. It also was known for copying the song Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie. Vanilla Ice took samples of the song without having permission and changed up the baseline beat a little thinking he would not have to give credit to the song Under Pressure the original song writers Queen and David Bowie. . . . . . . . . The way Vanilla Ice made his songs were by taking old records of rock music that were his brothers and put a twist of…

days from 23 February 1836 to 6 March 1836. It was one of first battles of the Texas War for Independence. The war transpired from October 1835 to April 1836. During the battle for the Alamo, a small group of Texas defenders led by Colonel James Bowie and Lieutenant Colonel William Travis fought a large contingent of the Mexican Army led by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. Hickman (2015) states that in late autumn of 1835, a small group of Texas rebels surrounded the…

Music 's influence on Fashion Music has been around since the beginning of time. Its influence on people and events are what make it so different and unique. People are heavily influenced by music and listen to it nearly everyday. With music being so popular throughout the decades it’s inevitable that major events and even eras in time are heavily influenced by it. Music 's influence on eras in time is huge, it shows how much we have grown throughout the years and what we came from. It also…

than in the masquerade of pop” (Hawkins, 2009, pg. 93). The sexualities and love lives of celebrities are a common topic of interest and discussion among both the journalists who write about them and the fans that read about them. Artists like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Mick Jagger, and Annie Lennox queered their image, which generated a lot of questions about gender and sexuality as early as the 1970s. In the United Kingdom, these displays of queerness were generally more accepted because of…

A sign hangs next to the cradle of Texas liberty, reminding visitors that concealed firearms are not permitted on the grounds. She stops and examines this as if it were new to her, although the sign has been posted for several years now. "Don 't bring your gun to the Alamo," she intones, to see how it sounds out loud, then laughs, startling a little boy. ("Mama, that lady is talking to herself. Mama--") Don 't bring your gun to the Alamo. A nice phrase, but it doesn 't make the cut. She won…

Over spring break, I visited my sister and her family in Texas. Whilst there, we had some free time so we decided to go down to Fort Worth and do some sightseeing. One of the places we went was the Alamo Mission. Once the sight of a famous Texas battle, it is now a historical landmark, a “Shrine of Texas Liberty,” and a museum with weapons, art, and artifacts from the time of the Texas Revolution. I’d been to the Alamo once before this visit, back when I was eight or nine, and at the time, I…

Alamo reflected the same sentiments as a majority of the revolutionaries. The battle of the Alamo was an 1836 attack on the Alamo mission in San Antonio. Mexican forces during the Texas revolution greatly outnumbered the Texans at this battle. James Bowie was a United States pioneer and hero of the Texas revolt against Mexico; he was in charge of militia; second to enter Alamo. He fell sick on February 24th and at that point William Travis took over command. William Travis was a twenty six year…