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    Metallica’s “One” is a very inspirational song. The song’s main focus is to let the listeners know what it’s like to come back from the war and have your life turned upside down. This song was based on a novel titled Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. The lyrics are explaining how a gentleman who was in the war got hit by a bomb and he lost his sight, his hearing, his taste, and his sense of smell. He lost both of his arms and legs. This song is loved by many because of the many relatable…

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    Introduction The 1950’s saw the birth of rock and roll. Ever since then, rock has not only survived, but thrived. Artists like Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry paved the way for The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, and many others in the 1960s and 1970s. In turn, they made way for the new metal, punk, and grunge artists of the 1980s and 1990s. 1950s jazz, blues, and R&B have served as the basis for eighties and nineties R&B, hip hop, and rap. Pop has continued to develop with the changing minds…

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    In my opinion, music has changed a lot in the recent years. Music before had more meaningful lyrics and original music. Today, most of the music genres has gone in the wrong direction, of course there still some musicians who are devoted and still producing an outstanding work. For example, many singer of Rap and Hip Hop music are including meaningless words and contents such as cars, wealth, sex, and other related things to their music and forgetting the important issues in life like hunger and…

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    Gothic literature that has become a staple of high school learning and woven itself, quite ironically, into popular culture. Examples of this can be seen in movies (The plot of Easy A is loosely based on the novel) and music. (The lyrics of the Metallica song “Thorn Within” can be taken as a direct reflection of the novel.) But what defines Gothic literature? Gothic literature is typically defined as a work of literature that exhibits the following properties: A Gothic hero that has a sense of…

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    newspaper once ran an article on life coaches, which approximated session rates at $100 per hour. In the entertainment industry, a life coach could have $40,000 for a month, which is what psychotherapist and life coach Phil Towl charged the band Metallica for fixing…

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    How has the music industry handled the merging of music with technology? Prior to the mass utilization of the internet, people would have to purchase their music in the stores. Regardless of the sales, the musicians made substantially more in profit than they do today. Musicians are losing money on a daily basis due to music piracy. Artist have been forced to turn to the courts for retribution. While several other artists have sought solace in confronting the websites that continually provide…

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    This song is very popular because of how age is going by and because since everyone ages it can tell people that people go through life quickly. What this song is many describing is that age and life comes and goes very quickly and very fast. How the band, Five For Fighting describes this is that it describes a person through his/her life cycle and that it starts out with he is 15 years old, then he slowly ages more and more over time. What I have noticed is that, once in awhile, he talks more…

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    Among theologians and reformed Christians alike, the works of prominent authors such as Richard Mouw, John Calvin, Barbara Taylor, Nicholas Wolterstorff, and Eugene Peterson are all alike and contrasting in numerous ways. For example, we know that these authors share both common ground and indifferences on God’s Lordship over all, Christian worldviews, how the Gospel is presented in God’s Kingdom, and how grace is presented to every human and living being through the blood and sacrifice of Jesus…

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    was a mixture of illusion, lies and false confession. Because there was no real evidence, the teenagers were said to be devil worshippers because Jason wore Metallica T-shirts and Damien had a library book on witchcraft. Three anti-social teens were vilified only because they were part of a counterculture, wore black, and listened to Metallica and Black Sabbath while perusing Anne Rice. This grim story is parallel to Salem Witch Trails hundreds of years ago. In fact, Author Mara Leveritt points…

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    able to appreciate this quote until I picked up a guitar for the first time. Growing up, I was surrounded by music, whether it was my brother singing in the room next to me, my mother exposing me to classic country music, or my father blasting Metallica and Led Zeppelin while driving in the car with me, there has not been a day where I have not heard an intoxicating guitar riff or mellifluous ballad. In this regard, I am truly lucky, though my admiration for music grew even stronger when I…

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