Going Overboard

He never stopped to wonder if anyone was behind him. My bright and completely theoretical idea was that he probably already knew I was following him, and didn’t care to question that fact. He was striking, in the sense that he stood out amongst those in a crowd of average tastes. He took on a sort of "punk-rock" look, with a badass leather jacket and half-calf lace up boots. His face had enough piercings and retro jewelry on it to smelt into a two liter can of diced pineapple, though actually,…

Music Final Paper Blurred Lines vs Got to Give it Up Marvin Gaye's’ family sued Pharrell and Robin Thicke for copyright infringement claiming “Blurred Lines” sounded too similar to “Got to Give it Up”. The guest rapper T.I and the record label, Universal Records were also included in the suit due to their involvement in the song. While Pharrell, the co writer to “Blurred Lines”, was clearly influenced by Gayes work, which he admits to, he did not break any copyright laws. Pharrell made sure that…

tired. I would start to only give half my effort which obviously would affect my playing in the long run. Our football team had goals to accomplish throughout the entire season. For the most part, we were accomplishing them all and everything was going…

Lizzy Hernandez “Flight 93 boarding soon,” I hear over the speaker. “Great my moms calling again, she 's trying to stop me but it isn 't going to work,” I said to myself. “ Hello. Yes mother. Yeah I know. Okay mom, look I really don 't care what you think. I’m an adult now. Yes yes i’ll be fine, okay whatever mom. Good bye.” I 'm 18 years old she can 't keep telling me what to do if I want to go see my friends I sure can. It 's her fault anyway for making us move. Whatever it doesn 't…

“Prince did you know?”. “No this is my first time knowing” Prince said. “Is it going to be a boy or a girl?” Shania asked. “ A girl” Alexis replied. “When’s the due date?” my dad asked. “May 23” Alexis replied. “Well this is nice we are gathered to see the lord 's doing. In with the new. New house and new baby. New school for…

and we all have these inner demons. We all have this self hates of certain things and that we have to do in our lives. I know the topic was about “Hating Mondays.” But the point is I have to work 6 years and I thought I was living the ideal life. Going to job every day that I hated. I was thankful for it but every time I go there, I was not happy. Mind you, I was job hopping for years because I was miserable. I just keep being faithful in what God wanted me and my life to be. To this day, I…

As a dancer, I was the kid who went down to the mall and took tap and ballet, and I was very serious about it. I wanted to be a dancer. And then when I was in high school, I was in choir. And because of being in dance and being able to sing, I would audition for the big musical every year. So I was always in the big musical every year. I was always singing, dancing, and acting all through high school. And in college, I didn't major in theater, but I always had theater classes. I was always in…

Leaders are made to keep things organized and to prevent things from going crazy. What makes a leader destructive? During a time of war, a plane that carried a large group of well-behaved British boys crashes into an island. The pilot of the plane is killed, but many of the schoolboys survive, where they are alone without any adults to do the work for them. At first, they learn to feed themselves and they get along very well. Towards the end, the two boys separate into two which leads to chaos,…

What is going on? In 2018 our society is ran by a corrupt racist Donald Trump billionaire and the police killing young black men like ,Michael Brown, Tamir rice and Trayvon Martin. These are the same issues Marvin Gaye called out in 1971 in his iconic song What is going on? “Marvin starts the song by saying Mother, mother There's too many of you crying Brother, brother, brother There's far too many of you dying You know we've got to find a way To bring some lovin' here today.” When this song was…

To get the listeners attention, the Blacked Eyed Peas start their song “Where is the Love?” with a question. When you start a song with a question, it makes the listener think that something important is going on. Although this song came out eleven years ago, it continues to have relevance today. The fact that people still listen to the song today means that it has had an impact in their lives. Three rhetorical ideas that are in this song are logos, ethos and pathos. Logos is the basic logic…