Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Not only has the media had an effect on hook up culture, it is also portraying it inaccurately. First off, songs now more than ever have many lyrics involving hook-ups and uncommitted sex linked to a physical and enjoyable feeling of emotion. Next, books and plots of movies are changing the way we perceive hookup culture today. For example, “The 2009 film "Hooking…

they’ll read that Holden has made it to New York and is going out to meet a friend, Carl Luce, for drinks at a local bar. As he walks to the bar his mind races through old memories and of his older brother. He remembers D.B. telling him about his war experiences and how holden would never make it as a soldier. Which is when he says, “ I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented” and also adds “If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it” (page 141). He…

Uncle Remus: The Controversy of the Famous Slave Tales Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and Song of the South: first thoughts might be Splash Mountain, the Walt Disney World attraction, or the timeless tales published by Joel Chandler Harris. These stories are becoming lost in history, as political correctness has become imperative to culture today. Society and academics have censored Joel Chandler Harris’ works about Uncle Remus due to worries regarding his unintentional undermining of…

Romanticism is a literary, artistic, musical and intellectual movement which took its source from Europe toward the end of the 18th century. Romanticism emphasizes emotions and individualism as well as praising the beauty of nature and past, including the medieval rather than the classical. Romanticism also emphasizes religion, supernatural elements and idealization of women and children. William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley and William Blake are known as the major…

Childhood and adolescence are portrayed as times graced by innocence and a sense of wonder; on other works, they are depicted as times of tribulation and terror. In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros plagues the protagonist’s, Esperanza Cordero, childhood with horrible events that skew her view on society. By showing characters conform to society’s standards like Sally, Rafaela, and Minerva, who submit to their controlling husbands, Mamacita, who moves to America despite loving Mexico,…

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Discoveries are paradoxical, complex and multifaceted. They require a catalyst and extreme or unfamiliar circumstances. In William Shakespeare’s The Tempest the storm is the catalyst, and the island is the anomalous environment providing its inhabitants with an impeccable site for discovery. And address the question. This is also expressed by Kenneth Slessor’s poem Five Visions of Captain Cook where repeat the above…

from ourselves. From our lives. We are eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.” This quote by Erich Maria Remarque, a World War 1 veteran, provides a real image of consequence. It highlights the loss of innocence in youth, sorrow, despair, and the loss of dreams among others. The highly emotional impact of the quote prompted further research into the glaring consequences of war as a whole and also the individual consequences of men and families.…

It was in 2014 that songwriter and singer Sia Furler had been acclaimed for writing the song “Elastic Heart” for the blockbuster movie Hunger Games: Catching Fire. The music video features the young, talented Maddie Ziegler dancing with Shia LaBeouf in a beautiful performance that depicts the internal struggle of the free spirited child and the restrained adult. However, within moments the viewers and the audience began to lose sight of the artwork and began to exclaim in horror of the so called…

Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and Song of the South: first musings might Splash Mountain, the Walt Disney World attraction, or the timeless tales published by Joel Chandler Harris. These stories are becoming lost in history, as political correctness has become imperative to culture today. Society and academics have censored Joel Chandler Harris’ works about Uncle Remus due to worries regarding his unintentional undermining of African American culture, his citation absences, and how his usage of the…

life for chicanx and latinx people that are often overlooked. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a series of vignettes from the perspective of a young girl named Esperanza. The story follows her while she grows up in Chicago and has experiences that change her worldview and how she sees others. It explores concepts like poverty, death, misogyny and violence through her eyes. Sandra Cisneros carefully crafted Esperanza’s voice, her diction and poetic language to shape the meaning of…