We Didn't Start the Fire

Have you ever heard of the song “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel? “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel is a song released in 1989 that touched upon topics from 1949 to 1989. This song was a very well-known song by Billy Joel. He also wrote this song to express his long lost love for History. Billy Joel wanted to be a high school history teacher before he started his singing career. Six history topics from this song have been picked to inform you about a little bit of history. Those six topics are Richard Nixon, Joseph Stalin, Elvis Presley, Joe DiMaggio, Malcolm X, and homeless veterans. The first person who will be talked about is Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon was a member of the House of Representatives from California who was accused of being a Communist and a spy. This basically started off Nixon's political career. Nixon became Vice-President under President Dwight Eisenhower. Then a few years later, Richard Nixon Became the thirty seventh…

Mockingbirds sing beautiful songs for us and do nothing wrong, so why kill them. The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee there are many people who represent mockingbirds. Throughout the book, we see the world from the point of view of the main character Scout but we can also see the events through others eyes. This makes it so that we can understand why people do things they do. The book tells us that you never understand someone before you stand in their shoes and look through their eyes.…

Every second. Every minute. Every hour. Every day. History is creating, sometimes recreating, itself. In today’s world it is common for most people to learn about history in a classroom, through a textbook and teacher. It seems silly or irrelevant to learn of the past in any other way than what we were prior taught in grade school and high school; However, there are other available sources to learn about history. One way that may not seem very familiar is through songs. Over the years many…

We Didn’t Start The Fire was one of the most powerful songs in 1989, written by no other than Billy Joel. The number one hit mentions some famous events between the years of 1949 and 1989. In 1949 was when the singer was born and in 1989 was when the song was released. We Didn’t Start The Fire was nominated for record of the year at the Grammy Awards and was also number one in the United States at that time. But that’s not all the song was noticed for. The hit was known for it’s strong message…

CLAIM: we still don't know who started the great Chicago fire started Reason 1: the great Chicago fire did not start by Mrs. O’leary’s cow. It all started with chon and Mrs O'leary's son because the kids were supposed to be in bed but they got out in bed and they started playing with craps and if they were in bed the fire would have never even happened. Evidence: Mrs O'leary's cow did not start the fire. I read on this website and it said that chon and Mrs O’leary’s sons were playing with…

Have you ever heard the song “We Didn’t Start The Fire” by Billy Joel? If you haven’t, you should! He mentions world issues and the causes of world issues. He mentions things like crack, AIDs, punk rock, Little Rock, U-2 and many more. In the song he says “we didn’t start the fire, it was always burning since the world’s been turning.” basically saying that everything that’s happening in the world today didn’t start with us. The song goes onto say, “No, we didn’t light it, we tried to fight it.”…

everywhere, ashes everywhere, it the Great Chicago Fire. Some people believe that a Mrs. O'Leary started the Great Chicago Fire. But what really happened is a man named Louis M. Cohn started the Great Chicago Fire. He was known as the gambler. He gambled a lot in the O'Leary barn with the O'Leary boy and he was only 18 years old. He was in the O'Leary barn with some of his friend he alway play the illegal dice game with the few boys. Louis M. Cohn started the Great Chicago fire.He…

Throughout history there has always been a defining pop-culture moment or moments. Billy Joel’s song and video “We Didn’t Start the Fire” encapsulates the events starting at the end of the 1940’s through the 1980’s. The chorus, “We didn’t start the fire. It was always burning since the world’s been turning. We didn’t start the fire. No, we didn’t light it, but we tried to fight it.” (Joel) sets the premise of the video. The lyrics in the song are rapid fire historical moments while the video…

have encountered, knowing how to start a fire and get some kind of heat and light was imperative to my family. My mom was always prepared. On the counter top in the corner of our bathroom always sat a dusty odd looking glass kerosene lamp that was always topped off with smelly kerosene. Though we didn’t need it very often it was always there waiting for those power outages. We also had flashlights and batteries back stocked. Along with that there were the candles that I was infatuated with. I…

pond, they seen the spirit bear soaking in the pond, Cole start walking to the pond, Peter ask Cole what or you doing. I’m going to soak in the pond said Cole I’m not going in the pond with the spirit bear said peter, It’s not going to hurt you but didn’t it attack you said peter, Yes that’s because I attack it Frist. Peter start walking to the water with Cole and the spirit bear turn around and start walking up to Cole and peter. Peter was about to run out the water before Cole had grab him.…