Dramatic Lyrics

students had no room to dream of a better life. She believed that change needed to happen in the classroom before you could see change in the world. She was right. When the students finally see that there could be change in the world, there is a dramatic…

Introduction In our modern age of mass communication, the keys of culture and social values have been handed over to personalities in the media. Historically, the American media industry has significantly been criticised for its underrepresentation of minorities and even recently has this aspect been everso highlighted with the many debates about instances of issues relating to whitewashing in films, portrayal of stereotypes and lack of recognition for minority talent. In certain pockets of the…

Sitting in the crowded dressing room getting ready, putting costumes on, doing each others hair, putting makeup one, layering makeup on makeup, making sure that each and every individual appears over the top and able to be noticed from the very back row. Once everyone is ready to go, they all go backstage to start the pre show rituals. Everyone start to shake out their nerves one limb at a time making sure that everyone is ready for the show to start. Standing in the wings, thinking over the…

Abstract Infantile amnesia is a topic that raises many questions. Early memories are scarce, usually beginning after the age of two. So why do we not remember anything as infants? Some say time is a factor, some say the brains ability to encode memories is not present due to the lack of verbal encoding, and others simply state that the memory system is not fully developed yet. Studies have risen looking for information about infants’ memory system and whether they remember anything at all. Many…

create, and hip-hop in the early 2000’s certainly followed a defined set of rules. The early 2000’s in hip-hop is often referred to as the ‘bling era’; a time when the music of the genre had to have the Timbaland sound of digital keyboard beats, the lyrics reflected expensive tastes and braggadocio, and all the artists had to uphold the tough, gangster persona in order to be taken seriously. This pattern could have been seen by artists such as Young Jeezy, TI, Ludacris, and the biggest rap…

Birth of Culture and Musical Theater The lady smiles while she directs you to your seat. “Third row down, to the two seats at the very left side.” You find your seat as you comfortably start to settle down making sure that you can see the stage since you paid a little more money in order for you to be at the very front closer to the actors. The energy feels excited but still content. You hear the rest of the people talking quietly to the person next to them. The third bell rung however, the…

his father; when he turned 18; married with “Ann Hathaway and had three” kids “named Susanna, Hamnet, and Judith” (“William Shakespeare”). Shakespeare’s passion was related towards English literature, was admired from his theater entertainment with dramatic and “nondramatic poetry” (“William Shakespeare”).…

window. Lady Gaga was dressed in all white sitting at a beautiful white piano with darkness in the background. Her voice was full of the kind of emotion that made you stand still. Her words were loud, dramatic and honest. “You don’t know how it feels till it happens to you.” Those are the lyrics that helped shed light on an increasing problem happening in our universities around the country. Sexual assault on college campuses are at an all-time high and it seems it’s a problem that many…

singers (Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, and Frank Sinatra). The Big Band Era started seeing a decline in its popularity during the Postwar Big Band Era of the 1940s-present. It stilled remained popular but in 1950 the sheer number of big bands saw a dramatic decline. Big Bands still remained relevant though due to its adaptability to change with the times, adding influences of bebop, 20th century art music, cool jazz, and rock and pop styles. Some important musicians of the Postwar Big Band Era…

God and the Beloved: A Journey in Understanding Love In renaissance poetry, one of the major themes is found in the correlation of god and love. The religious tradition states that these two idols are one in the same, but four poets show that the beloved can quickly steal this spotlight. Starting with Emmanuel Petrarch, we can see his painful devotion to his beloved Laura, was one of the spark’s of the renaissance era; only to be somewhat mocked by Sir Philip Sidney’s humorous remarks about…