The Hum

Decent Essays
Improved Essays
Superior Essays
Great Essays
Brilliant Essays
    Page 7 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Tommi Christoff HUM 1020 Journal #7: Freedom Freedom is a lot of things—we’re given freedom as a right; the freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and freedom to peaceably assemble—it’s all in the first amendment. Freedom is something that has been fought over time and time again in history. Freedom is the choices we make every day. Freedom maybe is something we take too lightly as an American. We read about the hardships other men and women face in other countries all…

    • 282 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The song we shall overcome is a protest song that became a key anthem of the civil right Movement. Which derives from a gospel song, possibly a 1903 song by Rev. Charles Tindley of Philadelphia containing the repeated line "I'll overcome some day", In Charleston, South Carolina in 1946, striking employees the American Tobacco Company, mostly African American women were singing hymns on the picket line. A woman named Lucille Simmons sang a slow "long meter style" version of the song, as "We'll…

    • 267 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Blue Marsh Description

    • 322 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Whenever I head out to this special lake, I know I can prepare myself for complete relaxation. Another reason I enjoy Blue Marsh is it sounds so different than the city which is what adds to the calming effect. When you step from the car you hear the hum of boats, slapping of the waves, and laughter of children. You are without the screeching of tires on pavement and honking of horns as you enter this different…

    • 322 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Smash Mouth History

    • 258 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Smash Mouth was formed in San Jose, Ca, in 1994. Smash Mouth’s band members were Steve Harwell as lead vocalist, Paul De Lisle as bassist, Michael Klooster as keyboardist, Kevin Coleman as drummer, and Greg Camp as guitarist. The band had a rough start, but began their journey to superstardom with the song “Nervous In The Alley.” Interscope Records heard that song and decided to sign the band. With IR, Smash Mouth created their first album, Fush Yu Mang, in 1997. In this album, was their first…

    • 258 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Sirens’ call is sweet and tempting, It promises pleasure but delivers destruction. The Sirens draw in victims with deadly deception. They pose as a relieving beacon for fatigued sailors. Those poor souls, they hear the alluring hum And let pure desire consume them. When they sail towards the call, They discover that the sweet singing originates from hideous monsters, Who end them upon arrival. Major news sources use the same deception. They are fraught with falsehood, Using catchy titles and…

    • 287 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    turning into a woman the Yuichi loosing her mother/father. Although they deal with the grief differently. Mikage deals with her grandmothers death by staying in the kitchen most of the day, she could only sleep next to the refrigerator listening to the hum of it. She would cook her grandmothers favorite dishes she said that her favorite place in any house is the kitchen although she does love run down kitchens more. Yuichi deals with the grief by pushing everyone away even Mikage. He shuts down…

    • 276 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Great Essays

    CHAPTER FOUR Scrumptious Gnome Pie I hadn 't been asleep for very long when something above me starting tapping lightly on my chest with what felt like a finger. I cracked an eye waking from the nightmare to discover that I was face to face with the little gnome that I 'd meet in the Enchanted Forest. I struggled to raise, still shaky from the dream and shouted, "Cotton, you scared me." "Sorry, is that you Aiden?" he said and eyes twinkled as his tiny month cracked open into a huge smile.…

    • 2246 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Describe Me Narrative

    • 284 Words
    • 2 Pages

    grandpas’ attention and love, but then America happened. My entire life did a complete backflip the moment we landed. At age three, I was already accustomed to the laughter of children as they played soccer on the dirt roads in the neighborhood, the hum of the elderly people chattering away while they sat drinking their coffee on the front porch and my babysitter doing her best to feed me a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast. But as we stepped out from the airport in Newark, New Jersey, I remember…

    • 284 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    cars. I tense and just walking. Suddenly I’m at Moe’s. I open the door and am instantly relaxed as I’m greeted with warmth, with the aroma of food cooking, and with the worker’s pleasant chirp ,”Welcome to Moe’s!” The 80’s hits they’re always playing hum in the background as I stop at the colorful menu for a minute, even though I already know what I want to eat, having gotten the same thing to eat every time I’ve come here, each time more delicious than the last. As I order my food, my mouth…

    • 266 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    suicide attempts in order to escape the living hell in Vietnam. Like Max, soldiers just pulled the trigger aguishly in different directions. The people were invisible, but Sanders from "The Things They Carried" described the enemy presence as a "hum", a hum that hunted and manipulated the soldier’s minds (Brien, The Things they Carried pg 209). This relates to the lectures in class because according to Professor Thurmond, the Vietnam war, was a "mistake" and the war could have been "prevented"…

    • 892 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Page 1 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 50