Junior Marvin

My life is perfect, I have the perfect family, the perfect friends, and the perfect house. I was thinking to myself. School just started for the day and I was sitting in homeroom. It was a beautiful Thursday morning and I couldn 't wait for the weekend because my family and I always go to the pumpkin patch. The bell rang and the teacher walked in. A couple minutes later the announcements came on the loudspeaker. Blah, blah, blah, I thought to myself. Announcements were so boring, all they…

My friend, Jesse, can be described as having a popular centric music taste. Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, and Ariana Grande are among his favorite artists today, with Pandora Radio being his go-to form of music listening. The upbeat nature of the songs Jesse listens to match his personality perfectly, as he is outgoing, eccentric, and has an overall cheerful demeanor. With some of his favorite songs mostly being top 40s hits, Jesse has a consistent, if not predictable, taste in music. Frank Ocean…

Since my birth, my curiosity of Waylon Pallidum has been insatiable. Waylon is not a part of our family, but he has been practically adopted. The long story short about Waylon, and this will confuse you - he has been alive for centuries, and he will never die. No, that is not a metaphor, this is not a poem. Waylon is not a prized possession that has esteemed a title worth personifying. Waylon is not a creative way I’ve decided to express my mind’s ability. Waylon is a human, a person who has…

In this week’s module, we learned about Motown Records and its founder Barry Gordy. I believe that Gordy’s vision during Motown’s early years was the driving force behind its phenomenal success. The time he spent working at the Ford assembly plant influenced his vision. He watched sheet metal transform into automobiles on the assembly line. He applied this concept to the artists that Motown signed. He gave them the tools that they needed to be world-class artists, accepted by the white…

After dinner, coffee was served in the “Petit Salon”. The Baron de Valfort offered a glass of Charteuse to the ladies. Afterwards, he called Étienne, and speaking in his ear, gave him some mysterious orders. I could not make out what he had whispered to his valet, however, I did not have to wait long to learn what he had been so cagey about. “My friends,” he said, raising his arms, in a high gesture, meant to capture our attention, “you are, in a moment, ‘a vintage moment’, if I may say so,…

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…

The Impact Of Motown Motown is one of the most influential music genre. Motown wasn’t just music that was fun to listen to. It helped with the civil rights movement, and It also had crossover success. Motown was founded in the 50s when there was a lot of racism. The creator of Motown Berry Gordy’s main ambition was to produce the sound of young America no matter what color. Berry Gordy, who is the father of Motown tried many occupations like a boxer, a record store owner, and even an auto…

Studying the human culture with looking into another culture from an up-close and clear perspective can make us understand a better meaning of their culture and their way of living. By looking at another culture without being objective or biased can be a burden for most people. With that said, we must use emic and etic perspectives to study their culture. Emic is a perspective from an insider’s view examining a culture from the inside of the culture itself. Etic perspective is studying the…

Emotional granularity is the ability to describe one’s emotional experiences while being sensitive to both valence and level of arousal. For instance, those high in emotional granularity can effectively distinguish anger and sadness from a general unpleasantry, or excitement versus calmness from feeling “good.” The most common method used to assess emotional granularity is to have participants rate the intensity (e.g., 1 = very slightly, 5 = extremely) to which they experience a variety of…

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…