Joel McHale

“I am a history nut.”- Billy Joel. With the media as it is today is making it harder to learn truth and querying things like, who was Marilyn Monroe, What is Berlin, and what does birth control contribute to society? Choosing three things from the iconic Billy Joel song was a tough decision, but I lucked out in the end. Always intriguing me with posters and t-shirts, Marilyn Monroe, and moreover with her famous photos and flirtatious dances on the screen. Knowing Berlin was a subtopic within our…

9 22 May 2018 Americas Piano Man: Billy Joel Many musicians in the world are extremely talented, but Billy Joel is one of a kind. Joel has inspired people for forty years. He has managed to live on his legendary music career for just about 47 years. Joel, born on May 9, 1949, in the Bronx. He displayed an early aptitude on the piano and started taking lessons at the age of four. At the age of sixteen, Joel was already a veteran of three bands. In 1967, Joel joined a band known as the Hassles.…

Olivia Ann Tangren, born July 22, 1997, at 12:11 AM at the Mayo Clinic in Owatonna Minnesota. I weighed eight pounds eleven ounces, and was twenty-two inches long. My mom swears I had the largest head in the history of the hospital. At that time gas cost $1.20, and everyone was watching F.R.I.E.N.D.S. In concerns for gross motor development, I progressed along at the rate most children do. I first rolled over front to back at four months old. When I was exactly seven months old I sat up…

Since my last journal, I have been busy reading more of Meg Cabot’s All American Girl. In All American Girl, Sam has been forced into going to drawing lessons. Her first lesson at the studio did not go so well. Sam was humiliated and by the time her next lesson came around she was not going to lose her pride again. Instead of going to her drawing lesson, Sam chose to go to a music store, Static. In the store she sat next to a middle-aged man in an army uniform, listening to Billy Joel’s Uptown…

Cue a black and white scene of present France. The camera leisurely zooms into an opera house abandoned and covered in cobwebs. It pans to an older generation of people with a chandelier lying broken on the wooden floor. As the auctioneer points to the chandelier, powerful music cues as it rises from the ground, unveiling the opera house as its prime. Black and white shifts to a vibrant array of colors. Christine Daae is the rising star and the Phantom is causing a string of terror. The Phantom…

In Ruth Reichl’s, Tender at the Bone, the reader witnesses the impact that food can have on peoples lives along with the relationships we form through food. Food becomes a catalyst in Ruth’s life, finding her true identity and the people she wants to surround herself with for the rest of her life. Ruth Reichl’s love and passion for food opens up a world unimagined in educating her and nurturing her into the women she is today. Ruth is determined to escape the negativity and control her mother…

The lyric in this song relates to many celebrities and also to multiple affairs that happened in specific years. For example, the first verse involves topics related to the year 1949, or very close to 1949. Billy Joel mentions Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, johnnie Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, and Joe DiMaggio in the first two lines of “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” First, Harry Truman became the U.S President in 1945 after President Roosevelt…

With that being said, it does not mean that corporations do no produce any external benefits or does not help the community in any way. Rather, it means that corporations only produce external benefits when it serves its own purpose in the process. Joel Bakan, the author of the famous book “The Corporation the Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, acknowledges the contributions a corporation makes to the community. However, Bakan realizes that these contributions are either an indirect…

audience were called up on stage to join Phil. I thought that gave more life to the concert allowing the audience to get the feeling of being on stage. Phil played an encore for the audience called Piano Man. Phil was paying tribute to rocker Billy Joel. Phil stated that Billy was an inspiration to him, and was one of many artists who inspired him to pursue a career in…

When writing Omnivore’s Dilemma, author Michael Pollan had firsthand experience forming new bonds within the food networks. During his mission, Pollan met with the owner of Polyface farm, Joel Salatin, who is a strong supporter of local farming and relationship marketing. Relationship marketing involves the community members making the effort to buy directly from the farmer (Pollan, 2006, 240). He becomes friends with his customers, which…