Killing Me Softly with His Song

the angelic voice of Lori Lieberman as she sings, “Strumming my pain with his fingers.” The breakaway of the piano serenades the listener into a ballad of love. Generation by generation, the stylistics of “Killing Me Softly” has evolved to conform to a variety of genres and audiences. It has made its way through airways with notable artists taking a change of channeling the essence of the song. Although the song originated from a young vocalist known as, Lori Lieberman, many credit those who have covered the song as the originators, such as Roberta Flack, The Fugees and Colbie Caillat. No matter who sang it first, “Killing Me Softly” continues to evolve and connect to many in a new and ingenious…

The dragon he spread his stubby snipped wings in resignation. “Very well. But climb on gently. Hold on loosely and don’t kick me.” Raven, in all her hideous warty wonder, climbed onto Aragon’s back. Mason and I scramble up behind her. The burning sand quivered as the dragon picked his way to the top of the highest Plateau and stopped at the summit, which gave us an unrivaled view of the terrain. A patchwork of Barrel cactus speckled the sand and spread across sand dunes that rose away to meet…

Let me tell you about that “old school” 90’s, throwback, R&B love songs. These are they type of songs that actually make you feel the love. You can really pick up on how the singer passion is toward the thing they are talking about. The late 90’s and early 2000’s was the time of that “feel good” music. Back in this time artists were not afraid to tell a women that they loved them, wanted to spend the rest of their life with them, or shoot even wanted to make love to them. They were real with…

royalties of a famous Christmas song written by his late father, and who after meeting a 12 year old Marcus Brewer discovers the need for companionship and love. Back ground life appears to be very important in the film for instance Fiona a single parent struggling to raise a 12 year boy and fighting mental illness, at the same time. VS wealthy two parent house hold yet, they learn from each other and provide different ideas and support each other. Marcus advises Will to be honest to his…

behind and go solo.” When Lauryn first found out she was pregnant she began writing songs for a solo album. Shortly after the birth of her son, Zion David, she went back to work producing and recording her solo debut, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, this album sold 19 million copies winning her 5 awards. The music from this album was even more varied than that of The Score, showing her love of old-school soul and R&B. Her lyrics helped overcome all the challenges that her young fans were facing…

All the violence is also creatively choreographed to music in both of the movies. Music for Godfather had an operatic feel. The theme song, Speak Love Softly, was written specifically for the movie by an Italian composer named Nino Rota. The result of the operatic soundtrack is an overwhelming feeling of loss and sadness at key points in the plot such as the scene where Michael and his wife are baptizing their infant son. The church organist can be heard playing as scenes are shown from killings…

demolished their meadhall and cruelly killed their men. He killed without regret or remorse, and even took pleasure in terrorizing, killing, and eating them. A cease to this abomination’s terror came to be when a great hero…

charge for the arrests besides simply being socially disrupting and upsetting the Brazilian government. Tropicália wasn’t only a movement set out to question the music status quo in Brazil but the entire Brazilian culture. Os Mutantes, a Brazilian rock band was prominent in the Tropicália movement as well. Formed by Rita Lee, Sérgio Dias, and Arnaldo Baptista, Os Mutantes was considered to be the first modern rock band in Brazil because of their unique mixture of Latin beats and psychedelic rock…

multiple times. After Tom Robinson is shot, many of the characters had mixed feelings. Mr. Underwood compares his death to “the senseless slaughter of songbirds” (Lee 323). This comparison shows the innocence in in Tom Robinson and that he shouldn’t have died for a crime he did…

From behind she could see that he had the stature of a young boy, maybe somewhere around thirteen, with iridescent pearl white hair. He wore plain beige pants with a plain black and sky blue shirt with matching Converse. From where Valerie floated, he looked practically harmless! After all, unlike most of her foes, he wasn't purposely wreaking destruction upon the town, which was a pleasantly nice break from her usual chaotic brawls. However, she had to remind herself that he was still a ghost,…