Ever wondered where your ancestors came from? What were they like? What did they become? Well for Cathy Song, her heritage was the success of her life. As a young girl, Song grew up as Chinese-Korean American and knew that she wanted to write about her family’s history. Song has taken her written career serious and tries to educate her readers with the terrible lives of arranged marriage women, through the art of poetry. Not only does she write about her family’s ancestry, but she loves to…
much meaning behind it. This one line is filled with strength and emotion, just like Miley Cyrus's song. This song sat on Billboard's number 4 song for 28 weeks straight in 2009. This shows us that the audience is anybody, but mostly younger kids. The audience is younger kids ,as with myself, because of the movie “Hannah Montana: The Movie”. Listening and watching the music video, you can simply see the point; strength and future. The meaning and message of this song is to inform mostly young…
Miley Cyrus is a singer/actress who was born in 1992 in Franklin, Tennessee. She is the daughter of the country sing Billy Ray Cyrus and Tish Née Finley. She was the main star on Hannah Montana which was a huge show that started in 2004 and ended 2011. This was the start to her career. Her parents named her Destiny Hope because they thought that she would do great things in life and carry out a lot. They nicknamed her Miley because when she was younger she was always so smiley. When she was…
Achaemenid Empire extended all the way from Egypt to western Asia and from the Northern India to Central Asia. The empires formation began around 550 B.C. and that dominated most of eastern Anatolia and Iran, it was overthrown by a southern ruler, Cyrus II the king of Persia. This began an upset to a balance to the power in the Near East. In western Anatolia there were people called the Lydians that were under the reign of King Croesus used the advantage that the downfall of Media gave them in…
“Millennials” In my generation, Miley Cyrus- also once known as Hannah Montana, represents it well. Miley doesn’t represent it in a positive way, but she sure does put the spotlight on herself a lot. My cultural icon would have to be musical note. Music represents the whole universe, but in today’s era I feel like music is really in the works and almost every day a new song is out and hitting the charts. Music is everywhere we go, and on every turn we take we can hear it. Music speaks to me in…
Persians, so horrified the Greeks that they united together and risked their lives in order to preserve the one thing they all shared in common, their "Greekness". The start of discontent between the Greeks and the Persian began in 550 B.C.E. when Cyrus the Great led a rebellion against the Median…
For example, Meghan Trainor: All About that Bass, Selena Gomez: Who Says, Katy Perry: Roar, Miley Cyrus: The Climb, The Script: Hall of Fame, Lady Gaga: Born This Way, Katy Perry: Part of Me, Katy Perry: Firework, Christina Perri: Human, Pink: Perfect, etc. These songs bring a positive impact on young girls, and teach young girls to love themselves.…
built. Charles, being the braver brother rather than the older brother, he protected Adam from the school boys, “Charles fought any boy who challenged or slurred him” (20). Cal also shadowed Adam from the furry of their father. When they were younger, Charles was beat by Adam in a game of pee wee and that made Charles extremely mad. Charles was conceited about his empowering strength, seeing as how it was the only thing that he had that Adam did not have. Charles never asked to be the…
Today’s celebrities have just as much or even more power and influence than parents and the government have over the youth of America. The stars of Generation Z spread their lifestyles and actions to the public through the use of social media and television. Teenagers are desperate to mirror the image of their favorite celebrities and act in the same manner in which they do. However, the actions of celebrities in this century are proving to be dangerous and negative. Whether it be from the…
“I left yesterday, but it has been the longest day of my life.” “These are infected. We need to get him back to the camp.” Cyrus lifts me over his shoulder. “What are you doing?” I shout, thrashing around in his arms. “We need to make sure you don’t get away. You are the answer to our problems.” Luna responds with this nonchalant tone. Great, I had been mauled by dogs, burnt…