Song of Myself

generate a ten-song playlist that typically assists me in achieving physical health while doing exercises, I started to select music from those I usually listened to while I was walking or doing exercises. I was struggling at first when I simply sat down and selected songs in my iPod, because there seemed to be a lot of songs that could be chosen as long as the beats were not too slow and the styles were lively, which made me confused about how to limit the playlist to only ten songs and how to…

would motivate middle school kids to be interested in learning to read and write better? I even went so far in my thinking to wonder if I could even stir a passion within them for at least some of the elements of this class. I began looking within myself and thinking of the things I was passionate about at their age and the one thing that kept coming to mind was music. Even this initial thought moved my heart. I took this idea and began to work with it. No one in any of the schools where I have…

The song I did was ¨Carry On¨ by Fun. ¨Carry On¨ is a song about no matter what happens to keep going. I have times when my life is hard and I feel like thereś a lot on my shoulders, but this song reminds me to move on and look at the bright side of things. There are a couple quotes that could relate to me from this piece and one I chose was, “If youŕe lost and alone, or youŕe sinking like a stone, carry on.” This quote relates to me because I’ve felt alone or left out before, but I got through…

silent person. I keep everything to myself. Which isn’t different from anyone else. Most people should know how it feel to suffer in silence. How it feel to accept what happen and to let it go; like the fact that the moment which felt like a perfect fairytale is gone. Then learning for yourself it was never a fairytale but another lesson to wake up it isn’t real. What helped me out listening to Kesha new song called “Praying” and what I consider my theme song. Kesha was very popular singer…

In “Song of Soloman”, Morrison tells a remarkable story reflecting the absence of a father figure in African American homes. Instead of looking at the absence of the black man in a blackm family, she depicts this men not as traitors or deserters, but as strong, exploratory spirits providing a solid foundation for their children, even if his absence affects them. Morrison introduces the imagery of flight, using this to capture a vast foreshadowing to the family’s changing aspects of “Song of…

OCE #1:”What`s Your Theme Song?” What thoughts do you have when you hear someone saying “It is my song”? For me, the song is a cultivation of emotions that affects others people`s lives. The song can help people in difficult times: support them, give them hope and encourage striving for new achievements. A song is a reflection of a person’s inside. It is possible to understand someone`s thoughts and dreams, hopes, and values by knowing their musical preferences. A song is the most intimate…

and best-selling author. In 2007 she received the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for her performance in “Dreamgirls”. The title song from the album was “I Remember Me” which was co-written with Ryan Tedder who is also a Grammy Award-winning recording artist. Along with co-writing this song with Jennifer Hudson, Ryan Tedder wrote the music and produced the track for this song. Ryan Tedder is a self-taught musician and the lead singer of band OneRepublic in which he is the lead vocalist and plays…

In 2004, the alternative rock music world was shook by the release of the song, “Alive With the Glory of Love” by Say Anything, with a catchy beat and an interesting backstory it quickly gained popularity and resonated with many listeners especially myself. The story of this song tells about the lead singer Max Bemis’s grandparents who were survivors of the holocaust and how through the challenging times they experienced they both found each other and let love be their escape and lasting hope.…

What is it about music that draws us in? Is it the beat, the lyrics, the artist or is it the type of genre the music is in? Could it even just be what we happen to be going through at the time we hear a specific song? For me most of these questions apply to specific times in my life where music helped me out of pain, stress, loss and even despair. There are a few of these times that stand out more than other because they have had a harder impact on me. For instance January of 2007 when my…

Top Ten Christian band Twenty One Pilots declared its musical manifesto three years ago in the song “Car Radio,” “I will try with every rhyme to come across like I am dying to let you know you need to try to think.” Twenty One Pilots’ hit “Stressed Out” is currently played on secular radio stations across the country and in Europe, and the duo is selling out concerts at every venue. Even though they are open about their faith, the band continues to sneak like a hacker through the world’s…