Woody Allen

Suddenly in the Midwest there was a severe Dust bowl. The terrible drought caused all the crops to die, and then the winds started picking up creating devastating black blizzards.“By 1934, 75% of the United States was severely affected by this terrible drought.” (“Dust Bowl Migration”) Soon 100 million acres of land had been completely destroyed and deteriorated. (Dust Bowl memories forever linger for landowner) In the 1930’s many people’s lives were greatly affected by the destructive Dust…

Bob Dylan developed a strong appreciation for traditional folk, country, and rock and roll. He had grown up listening to everyone from Roy Orbison and Chuck Berry to Hank Williams and Woody Guthrie, who would later become a great influence in his life and his mentor. Woody Guthrie was an American singer-songwriter…

Bob dylan, after being announced the winner of nobel literature prize 2016, suddenly attracts the attention of the world. When asking why Bob Dylan has been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Sara Danius, in an interview, answers that “He can be read and should be read, and is a great poet in the English tradition, and he is the wonderful sampler, very original sampler. He inbold the tradition and for 54 years now. He has been active,…

Trends, ideas, and perspectives come and go, but timeless themes are evident throughout time, forever youthful, yet old at the same time. Timeless themes are eternally relevant concepts in classic and contemporary literature that can be connected by everyone, regardless of their age, their lifestyle, or their time period. The theme on the importance of others occurs repeatedly over time in thousands of different kinds of literature. Especially now with the our world brimming with superficial…

also played an important role in Toy Story. This movie is about Woody who is the leader of the toys and is Andy’s best friend. When Andy receives a new toy for his birthday which is Buzz Lightyear he suddenly becomes jealous. He is jealous because everyone is paying attention to the new toy and feels like no one cares about him any more especially Andy. Therefore,…

They suffered from famine, sickness, and extreme poverty. However, they kept a beautiful spirit about them. A spirit which artists like Woody Guthrie picked up on, and wrote songs which truly embodied the sense of hopefulness the “Okies” exuded on their trek to find the American Dream which was taken out from under them. Songs like, Dust Bowl Refugee and Dust Bowl Blues highlight the struggle…

divided by people who do not want to cooperate, less than The Great Depression, but the division is still considerable. If Steinbeck and Guthrie were alive today, that they would work to fight for the fellowship of Americans. John Steinbeck and Woody Guthrie had presented similar beliefs of worker’s union support, aversion of banks and industrialization, and brotherhood of Americans. “This Land Was Made for You and Me and Critics, Too” shows that Guthrie…

Joan Baez is one of the most influential folk singers, but also recorded pop, rock, and gospel music as well. Originally growing up in Staten Island, NY, her father began to work at MIT in Massachusetts, where Baez began performing in clubs with small audiences, and was only paid twenty-five dollars a week. Baez met Bob Gibson who she performed with at the Newport Folk Concert in 1959. The two of them sang a duet of “Virgin Mary Had One Son”. Soon after that performance, Joan signed with…

Robert Allen Zimmerman, mostly know as Bob Dylan, has recently received the Nobel Prize for Literature being the first songwriter to ever win it. In order to achieve this nomination, it all initiates with the Swedish Academy that constitutes of 18 members that will evaluate nominations. Once it that has occurred, the Academy will send out invitations to a specific group of people between 600-700 individuals that have the chance to participate, and they must follow specific deadlines in order to…

masculinity using moves such as toy story, little mermaid, the Incredibles, etc. They talked about how Buzz Lightyear and his companion Sheriff Woody see themselves based “on a masculine model of competition and power” (Gillam and Wooden, 2008). They do this by using their desire to be the “favorite toy” (Gillam and Wooden, 2008). In the movie “toy story” Sheriff Woody is seen as the leader, which Gillam and Wooden describe as “paternalistic (the act of leading/governing others) care” (Gillam…