Bruce Springsteen

Autumn Cyr Mrs.Gallos English III Honors 4.18.16 HB2: The Bad, The Worse, and The Not As Bad but Still Pretty Horrid March 23, 2016, a bill that was passed in North Carolina that states itself as: “An act to provide for single-sex multiple occupancy bathroom and changing facilities in schools and public agencies and to create statewide consistency in regulations of employment and public accommodations.”(Public Facilities.) This bill was written with good intentions but the good intentions have…

Music is “an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color” (Dictionary.com 2016). Not only does this statement consider, and include the audio aspects of music, it also values the sentimental factors of music which plays a major role in the success of a song or album. Artists from the 1920’s to artists in 2016 all get to experience the rush of emotion when creating and forming new music. “I Feel Fine”…

Bill Graham: Rock Impresario Bill Graham was a legendary rock concert promoter from the 1960’s up until his untimely death in 1991. He was born Wulf Wolodia Grajonca on January 8, 1931 in Berlin, Germany and at the age of eleven immigrated to the United States as part of a Red Cross initiative to help Jewish children fleeing the Holocaust. He was fostered by a family in the Bronx and grew up in New York City, graduated high school, and obtained a business degree from City College. When he turned…

"I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream." -Bruce Springsteen. F. Scott Fitzgerald even brilliantly combines the golden age and bible teachings to portray this message that, the American Dream of getting rich is far from the reality of how people actually get rich, in his novel The Great Gatsby. But Unfortunately as the story goes on, we begin to see that F. Scott Fitzgerald commits blasphemy and compares one of his deceitful characters to Jesus…

4.4 Moving from “Pilgrimage” to Heimat Fans in my sample cultivate the celebrity image as a place of comfort, enjoyment, and solace. This “being at home” with the celebrity image is something Sandvoss refers to as fandom as a homeland or Heimat or what Aden calls a “promised land” (1999). The conjuring of the notion of a promised land, for Aden, stems from the importance of place in fandom, yet Aden still refers to this place as one of spiritual significance, but replaces religious language…

The Baddest Dog in Harlem - Analytical Essay The short story “The Baddest Dog in Harlem” was written by Walter Dean Myers and published in 2001 from the collection of short stories “145th Street”. The story “The Baddest Dog in Harlem” is about how a group of black men is acting while the police surround the area they are in. The black men get a tip about a guy with a semi-automatic rifle is in an apartment nearby. As the story evolves the main character decides to go with the police and a…

Prozac Nation The movie Prozac Nation is about Lizzie, a young woman starting college at Harvard on a full Journalism scholarship. The movie, based on the book of the same name, is a true story written by the person who lived it, Elizabeth Wurztel. The setting is the college’s campus and takes place in the mid-1980s. From the beginning of the movie, we learn that she began cutting, a form of self-mutilation, at age 12. Her parents divorced when she was two, her father mostly uninvolved in her…

“In Defense of ‘Trap Queen’ As Our Generation’s Greatest Love Song” Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib’s article introduces readers to a deeper meaning to “Trap Queen” by Fetty Wap. At the time of the article, the song was a hit you heard in every phone, every, radio, and everywhere. Abdurraqib’s career has been entrenched in poetry, meanings behind music, and cultural appraising. Which is what he did with the “Trap Queen” in his article. One of his main point in the article comes from Abdurraqib’s belief…

Music in the 1900s was very popular/influential and produced many talented artists. The genres of music known at the time was hip hop, rap, jazz, classical, and rock and roll. Music at this time broke boundaries and brought people together who bonded over a single genre of music. Great musicians erupted during this time. Music did not belong to a single race/gender of people, but a multitude of people. A lot of artists pursuing music erupted during this time period and contributed to their genre…

Bob Dylan Bob Dylan, born Robert Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota, is a famous rock and roll singer and song writer. He is well known for having reinvented himself and his music several times though out his life. He started his career as a traditional folk singer and songwriter in the early 60’s. Early on in his career, he incorporated rock into his music, which created a new genre of folk rock. He was known for singing about serious moral related issues, especially political ones though out his…