Lou Reed

The speaker, Lou Gehrig, uses 3 rhetorical devices, irony, hyperbole, and metaphor to convey his message that even though he’s in a bad spot right now, he has had and still will have a good life. Lou starts off his speech with, “Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” Lou stated that he has had a bad break but still considered himself the luckiest man on earth, which is situational irony.…

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, better yet known as A.L.S is a rare, worldwide disease. This neurodegenerative disease can affect any one. Although terminal, it is possible for one to still yet appreciate the rest of their days in life. Dudley Clendinen expresses this in his article "The Good Short Life". Reporter and Editor, Clendinen published this article July of 2011. Like all his other work, it was placed in "The New York Times." Dudley Clendinen lived his last years with A.L.S. The tone of…

Detachment Life lessons come from places you less expect, a book, newspaper, a simple message on a wall or a youtube video, Mitch Albom tells us a story about his “Coach” in the book Tuesdays with Morrie a book full of real life scenarios that shows how to face problems in life. The characters of this book are Morrie schwartz is a Sociology professor, Mitch Albom is the author, Charlotte Schwartz is Morrie’s wife and others are Morrie’s mom ,David and Connell. Morrie’s definition and detachment…

Anyone can look around and see how in society people only care about the latest fashion trend or the newest electronics and so on. The culture today doesn’t focus on what is really important such as the people close to them or how to fulfill their lives with love. The book Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom is a memoir on Morrie, Mitch’s college professor. Morrie has ALS disease, and Mitch is doing his best to be there for him, for he never visited him after college because of his busy life as…

Commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease, Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis is a neurodegenerative disease where the motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord die (Harmon, 2012). Diagnosis generally occurs after age fifty and from that point, the patient generally has three to five years until his/her motor neurons controlling the diaphragm die, resulting in death by asphyxiation (Al-Chalabi et al., 2014; “Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis,” n.d.). An anomaly to this generalization is Stephen…

Jazz History Concert Report The date of the concert was October 5, 2016 and the title of the concert is “Experimental Improvisation with: Kjell Nordeson & Peter Kuhn”. The concert was performed in Mesa College Music building. Peter Kuhn had three instruments with him a bass clarinet, saxophone, and a Bb Clarinet. He used the bass clarinet and the saxophone during his first piece, and the clarinet on the second piece. Kjell Nordeson was on the drum but had a lot of instruments with him.…

In I’m Waiting for the Man, Reed describes how a character is going “up to Lexington, 1-2-5” to buy drugs. The location he refers to is a subway station in East Harlem that lies at the intersection between Lexington Ave. and East 125th street. What makes this significant is that…

continues into the chorus, where she shows that all of the pressure and criticism she receives dissipates when she plays music (along with her boyfriend), allowing her to be truly free: Well, my boyfriend's in a band He plays guitar while I sing Lou Reed I've got feathers in my hair I get down to Beat…

The post-World War II era saw the rise of blues musician and song-writer Jimmy Reed, born Mathis James Reed on a plantation in Dunleith, Mississippi on September 6, 1925. He developed an early understanding of the harmonica and guitar from his close friend Eddie Taylor but never progressed much beyond the fundamentals. They sang together in churches and retained their friendship throughout their careers, as it was Eddie who was responsible for bringing Jimmy’s career to its peak of success. His…

The Hippie era has come to end and the days of self awareness have arrived. Instead of focusing on love to all, many Americans were indulging in their own self pleasure. According to Alfred Kinsey’s research,” Americans sexual behavior deviated from their widely accepted norms” (Escoffier 1). Wilhelm Reich added to Kinsey’s research with the remark that he, “believed sexual repression overwhelmingly distorted psychological development “(Escoffier 1). To further societies receptivity of…