Raymond Nahikian December 6, 2017 Rhetoric and Narrative Professor Welling Final Paper What Killed Music? The Slow and Mysterious Death of Music “Real music is dead! Why isn’t there any good music like this nowadays!” I have seen this short, exclamatory sentence frequently in the comments section on YouTube. They can be found on multiple videos involving music approximately from the 1950s to the mid-to-late 2000s. Online comments like these have divided music lovers and casual listeners for over a decade. For some, the people that post this type of rhetoric come across as close minded, and unwilling to let go of the past. To others, they are appreciated for their brutal honesty and musical awareness of how everyone else has been brainwashed into liking “fake” or “bad” music. Despite the intensity of the debates and divisions, these vague, seemingly shallow comments might be true. If the commenters are right, then is real, tasteful, high quality music dead? If it is dead, then will it ever come back to life? And most importantly, if it has been dead or a while, then what killed it, and when was it killed? In 2012, a group of scientists from Spain started an experiment where they literally went through a million songs from the 1950s to the 2010s, analyzed them, and discovered how music has changed for the worst. During the tedious process, they noticed that the songs gradually lost variety, dynamics, and originality. It continued to the 2000s, where they had begun to…
every year. According to this statistic, strict and powerful laws are needed to keep guns out of the public. 270 millions guns are owned by Americans, and thousands of people die from gun each year, which shows that guns don’t keep us safe. Although many people own guns for self-protection, studies and statistic have shown that a gun in the people’s hand increase the risk of firearm-related death or injury, suicide, and an accidental shooting. Gun in the people’s hand increase the…
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, philosophy is mainly expressed in a question of what the meaning of life and death is, due to one of main characters contemplating suicide. Though most of the light shined on those two aspects of philosophy, other philosophical pieces and disciplines such as The German Ideology, War and Peace, and Phenomenology were brought up throughout the novel. Muriel Barberry, the author of the novel, being a philosopher, integrated these topics to create a deeper understanding…
SUICIDE PREVENTION DATE:- NAME :- RANKA YASH PARASMAL REG.NO.:-17BME0321 FACULTY:- COURSE:- ABSTRACT This report discusses about why the youngsters are doing suicides, what are the reasons that they are attempting suicides at very young age. This report discusses about how, to prevent suicides and to how to deal with the person going to attempt suicide, where should they go for counselling, whom should they tell about the problems they are facing and what type of talk a person should do…
The author is at pains to understand the nature of the creature he refers to as “Tyger.” In the first stanza, he begins by calling “Tyger, Tyger” hence bringing out the mysteriousness of this creature that he is trying to understand. The author moves further to talk about its power when he writes that it burns brighter even in the forest of darkness. Blake completes the first stanza seeking an answer to why the creator of Tyger creates it. Further, in the second stanza, Blake suggests to the…
Sometimes everyone gets the feeling of a constant rush of uncertainty, anxiety, and tension because of what they think may or may not happen. In And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie the ten main characters in the story are constantly having this feeling of immense uncertainty. They feel this way because they are slowly dying without even knowing how or why the others were killed. The story begins with all ten people being invited by an anonymous person and are murdered one by one. This…
This paper contains reasons why teens commit suicide, suicide awareness and prevention methods. It also gives a brief overview of the numbers of suicides as documented by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). If everyone knew the basic facts about suicide, the causes behind it, and the impact it has on the world then a helping hand can be given to prevent suicide as a whole. Numerous young people face high levels of pressure, depression, confusion, and problems in the home. Unlike adults, who…
Every 100 minutes a teen commits suicide, suicide is the the second leading cause of death in teens. Twenty percent of teens have gone through depression by the time they reach adulthood. This depression can be caused by bullying or not having friends. In the book Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, the main character is a girl named Melinda who is going through depression because she called the cops on a party, lost all of her friends and is getting bullied for it. The theme in this book is…
essential in the early diagnosis and prevention of suicide. The following diagram outlines the process leading to either suicide or prevention. Figure 2. How does suicide occur? From: “Youth suicide: Epidemiology and prevention strategies” by M.S. Gould, 2012, Texas Suicide Prevention Symposium, p. 7 Prevention approaches for adolescent suicide have traditionally been conducted in three areas: in school, in the community, and within healthcare systems. In schools, prevention programs…
these mass shootings that have taken place involved legal weapons which is a huge red flag for more gun control. The high rate of suicides and homicides that coincide with guns is yet another reason for better gun control. Hello people we are clearly doing something wrong when most of…