000 copies the first week alone” (Koltnow 4). All this came from a new old sound called “teen pop” or “dance-pop.” Britney made it both sexy and innocent, and like her predecessors, she made it suggestive and energetic. This is beauty of Spears’ music. It has led her and other young musicians down the path initiated by Madonna, Cher, Tina Turner and others before. Like them, has spread out her talents. Spears and her mother, Lynn, have published two books. Spears starred in her first film, “Crossroads
The Greeks seemed to believe that entertainment was meant to provide a person with an outlet to relieve stress. Such an assumption would lead one to believe that the form and content of entertainment is a matter of personal choice. However, entertainment has the underlying current of influencing what is normal and acceptable in society. Furthermore, culture is affected to the point of unsavory entertainment permeating the lives of those who avoid such forms of entertainment. Entertainment is not
There are many women that have an impact on my life; however, the question is how many of them do I look up to? Of course the most obvious person is my very own mother, but that made me think who else deserves to join this circle of reverence. Some names entered my mind, but do I really admire them? It is clear that women that enter my daily life like Oprah Winfrey have an impression on me, but impact and admiration do not always go hand in hand. Then I realized who I really admire: Britney Spears
1980’s-2000’s Country Music Country music has recently become more radical. In the past country tunes were sluggish and slow, but a group of up and coming artists would revolutionize the music industry forever. These new artist did more for the southern/western genre than anyone in the past. They sold millions of record. Cumulatively they made billions of dollars! Artists had gigantic concerts that attracted hundreds of thousands of spectators. Their songs began to do something no country artist
Adam Levine is a famous American songwriter and singer, leading voice of the well-known band of Maroon 5. Adam was born in Los Angeles on March 18, 1979 being the son Fred Levine and Pasty Levine, his parents. He has two brothers, Michael and Sam. He was born in a well accommodated family and he usually calls it as “very musical”. Adam gives thanks to his mother for his career, he says she helped him "start me out on the path"(“Piers Morgan Tonight Transcript". CNN August 13, 2011.March 1, 2014)
Mise-en-scene in Citizen Kane and Persona Mise-en-scene is the principle by which a piece of film will derive its meaning wholly from what happens in the single shot and not from the relationship between two shots. For example the director might include shots with various composition, angle, depth, movement, and lighting. Citizen Kane has many good examples to show Mise-on-scene usage. The scene that I believe is the most significant and powerful mise-en-scene that I have this seen this semester
In her story “Currents” Hannah Vosckuil uses symbolism, and a reverse narrative structure to show the story of how unnamed sympathetic and antagonistic characters react differently to a traumatic event. Symbolism can be found in this story in the way that Gary does not mind sitting in the dark alone at the end of the day as well as how both of his girls are affected by the symbolism of hands. One holding a boy’s hand for the first time and the other becoming sick after seeing the dead boy’s hand
Yusef Komunyakaa, the poet of war, vividly describes his vacillating emotions about the Vietnam War and his relation to it as an African-American veteran in the poem, “Facing It.” Komunyakaa, the protagonist of his narrative, reflective poem, contemplates his past experiences as he promenades around the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, struggling to conceal his ardent emotions and remain hard and cold as “stone.” He writes one stanza in a dark mood, and by using metaphors and visual imagery, he paints
What makes life full of surprises and excitements is the fact that it is unpredictable. Nothing stays the same forever, and everything is destined to change. Whether the changes are positive or not depends on how much one is willing to unconditionally accept and adjust to them. The protagonists Alice and Barry, from “Mirror Image” written by Lena Coakley and “Saturday Climbing” by W.D. Valgardson respectively, are dealing with different forms of changes in their lives, but are both learning to
While reading these wonderfully written stories by James Joyce and Alice Munro I found myself relating to the characters a lot. They both wrote about two different characters, but the same meaning was behind both, growing up, changing from who they were to who they will be. Even though sometimes change is not always good, I think it is normal for changes to happen throughout people’s lives. Because being able to accept the change, watching the world change as you do, can make you become the person
Sports Gender Segregation Do you think women should play with men professionally in a sport? Although people may believe that women should be treated equally with men when it comes to certain things, but when it comes to sports it is totally different. Sometimes sports are not always played for fun. Sports take a real big part on the competitive side. Some may argue that girls can play a sport better than boys, people think that girls should play with the boys because
Blue Carpenter Mrs. George Film and Literature 25 April, 2017 The Longest Ride Nicholas Sparks, an author everyone knows, created another masterpiece in 2013, with his novel, The Longest Ride. As many of his books are, The Longest Ride developed into a movie, directed by George Tillman Jr. Throughout the movie, viewers can see how individual characters develop and how their inter tangled relationships develop as well. With the help of the movie, viewers can also see the emotions shown easier than
In the story Chickamauga by Ambrose Bierce, a young boy goes through a journey that, while unique to him, leads to a loss of childlike innocence that happens to all of us. All too soon, however, the boy wanders to far from home and becomes lost. In his journey to get back to his familiar home he experiences a gradual loss of his childlike innocence, culminating in a total loss of childhood innocence when he realizes that the dead woman he has found is his mother. At the beginning of his journey
Starvation, thirst, war, and marauding bandits are only some of the things that the boys had to go through in order to reach freedom. In the article “The Lost Boys’’ three brothers travel more than 1,000 miles to reach freedom while going through unmentionable things. In another excerpt from the story “A Long Way Gone” it also talks about a group of boys that went through life changing events as well. These two group of boys have many similarities but they also have many differences between them
In this section, I will argue that La La Land meets and engages with enough of Rick Altman’s criteria for an American film musical to be considered a proper one. Altman outlines two different sets of criteria: the semantics and the syntax. The semantics covers the basics of essentially any musical: format, length, characters, acting, and sound. The syntax, however, is far more specific. It details the specifics the narrative and technical structures of the film must meet in order to be considered
The Battler has been yet another tale of the life of Nick Adams. An odd tale at that. We are introduced to Nick as he is tossed out of a train, falling on his hands and knees. His clothes are torn and his knees are scraped. He goes to the nearest body of water and begins to wash his hands carefully. Nick Adams is traveling alone, possibly from something in his past (47). He is washing his hands to rid of the dirt, but this may symbolize him washing his hands clean of what he had been through or what
The crowd erupts in cheers, and I take a deep breath. Many of my teammates are shaking, filled with nerves, but I feel at home. I wiggle my freshly sprained ankle. It hurts,but I smile through the pain anyway. This is it. It’s Now or never. The music blasts out and the routine takes over. Cheerleading has been a part of my life since I was seven years old, when I begged my mom to join the local cheer team. Starting out, I was pretty bad, as many would expect. I would trip over my own feet, hit
After frying some fresh venison to go with the leftovers from the night before and everyone ate their fill, Charity cleaned up her cooking area and then told the children that she was going to walk into town to see if she could trade some of the fresh meat, for some flour, lard, and beans. She took the back-strap, which was the tenderest part of the deer, and the two hind-leg-quarters, hoping they would be enough to get the supplies that she needed in order to keep her children fed. To help carry
Rejecting Savagery In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Simon and Piggy are among a group of boys who become stranded on a deserted island. Left without any adults, the boys attempt to create an orderly society. However, as the novel progresses, the boys struggle to sustain civility. Slowly, Jack and his hunters begin to lose sight of being rescued and start to act more savagely, especially as fears about a beast on the island spread. As the conflict progresses, Jack and Ralph battle for power
As Macduff trod fourth mournfully from Cawdor Castle, he looked to the sky. The vast clouds and darkening horizon only added to the bereft mood living both in and out of castle walls. Their King was gone; his callous murders, killed in Macbeth’s rage. Suddenly, Macduff did not know which was stronger, his sense of loss, or the distinct sense that something unusual was brewing. No sooner had the thought slipped into his mind, than he noticed a peculiar vitality building in the air around him. Drawn