The Importance Of Music Essay

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There are different kinds. Loud or quiet. Exciting or relaxed. Good and bad. Music helps people. Music has a healing power. It has the ability to distract people from their problems. Music is a cure. Music is a cure for loneliness. A cure for boredom. A cure for sadness. Music has helped me through a lot. Music saved me. It helps other people too. Music plays an important role in everyone’s life. People listen to music when they study. When they play sports. In the shower. Everything about it is beautiful. An amazing thing music is. Music is an art. Expressing ideas and emotions. Expressing emotions through elements of rhythm, melody, and harmony. Music is like life. Rhythm. Rhythm is repetitive in music. Repetitive like days. Get up, …show more content…

They are everywhere, all around me. They taunt me. I hate them. Quiet, hushed voices. It is girls in the bathrooms, in the hallways, even in classrooms. Secret things, ones that are not meant to be said aloud. Ones that are not meant for everyone to hear. It’s not the things I hear personally that hurt me, but the ones I can not hear. I hate how people talk about others behind their backs, and then proceed to act like they are friends to their faces. What hurts the worst is when you know someone has said something hurtful about you, yet they try and talk to you like you are best friends. People do these things, without realizing that it affects other people. Our school is full of these people. They are everywhere. The people who say things they do not want others to find out. Why say something about someone if they cannot hear it? As much as I hate it, in a way it is an honor they talk about me. I am glad they take time out of their lives to talk about me. Especially when they go out of there way to make up lies. That must take time, so I am glad I am worth their …show more content…

Her intent was that she wanted people who do not even enjoy reading to read her collection of vignettes. This is one of her effective techniques that I also chose to use in my writing. Similar to Cisneros’ I snapped sentence fragments together, to emphasize points. I also did not link any of my vignettes together. You could just pick this up and read anyone of them, you do not need any prior knowledge before reading any of these eight vignettes I have written. You may read one and have a good understanding as to what is going on. The second technique I used, also one of Cisneros’, is that I do not directly state things. In my second vignette titled Away readers do know exactly where or what this place is, just that it has a lot of nature. The third vignette Slip and Slide is about when I got into a car accident in Ohio. We were hit by an ambulance and our vehicle was totalled. Readers did not know what hit us, however they could of had an idea because, like Esperanza, I hinted towards things but did not directly state

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