Woody Guthrie once said “Take it easy, but take it.” Don’t rush take some risk but not to hard. Woody has written hundreds of songs to inspire people that even though their pour you still mean something to this world. He was most known for his song “This Land Is Your Land.” However Woody also said this amazing quote that he said it has some similarities and some differences.
“I hate a song that makes you think that you're not any good. I hate a song that makes you think you are just born to lose. Bound to lose, No good to nobody, No good for nothing. Because you're too old or too young or too fat or too slim,Too ugly or too this or that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you that on account of your bad luck or hard traveling. I’m out to fight those songs to my very last breathe of air and my very last drop of blood.” This quote is a lot similar to “This Land Is Your Land” the both of these inspirational words say that they will never give up they will never stop trying to make the world a better place, never stop helping people, no one will ever stop
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him for trying to make people happy.People have flaws but that doesn’t mean that they are not worth living treat people the way you want to be treated……. However, all songs are not all the same.
“This Land Is Your Land” and the famous Woody Guthrie quote there's many obvious differences like “ones a song the other is a quote” but lets look a little deeper. The amazing quote tells us we shouldn't be judge if were poor, skinny, fat, to tall or too young or even too old. The song says that land is made for u and me in all of the song expect at the end where people are starving and don’t have homes and start to doubt is this the land we want to live in this world when people are hungry and homeless why is this happening, so the quote is talking about being judged about anything that is wrong with us. The song is talking about world hunger and people that don’t have homes but releases that no matter what this land was made for you and me. Also if you think about it the song is more planned out than the quote the quote is just words that just comes off of your
head. These two pieces of inspirational words have more similarities and differences than we ever thought of. But these similarities and differences matter because people say all their the same nothing different but it's actually more different than you think.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts”
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Cry, the Beloved Country is such a controversial novel that people tend to forget the true meaning and message being presented. Paton’s aim in writing the novel was to present and create awareness of the ongoing conflict within South Africa through his unbiased and objective view. The importance of the story lies within the title, which sheds light on South Africa’s slowly crumbling society and land, for it is the citizens and the land itself which are “crying” for their beloved country as it collapses under the pressures of racism, broken tribes and native exploitation.
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Langston Hughes poem is speaking of an African American trying to fight for his freedom. In contrast, Toby Keith’s song “American Soldier” speaks of a man who already has his freedom but he more explains that freedom is worth fighting for.
We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do. ’”(qtd. Pete Seeger www.geocities.com/Nashville/ 3448/guthrie.html) Woody was very passionate about his causes. He felt very strongly about the mistreatment of the migrant workers, probably because he was himself an “Okie”. His works served as inspiration for musicians like Bob Dylan and Pete Reeves 2 Seeger and not to mention “countless, less-famous others” (www.geocities.com/Nashville3448 guthrie.html) ...
As an advocate for the natives, the death of Arthur Jarvis is a blow to the South African community. Although dead, Arthur Jarvis has a significant influence in the book Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton.
Woody Guthrie’s music provided a type of comfort to struggling people that couldn’t be provided by anybody else. His own suffering made him able to understand the feelings of people. It was through his good and bad experiences in which he gained the ability to connect with others. He used this ability to help soothe the emotional pain of the everyday people of the dust bowl. Although he stole the lyrics for most of his songs; he put his own
Thornton Wilder’s play, Our Town, in three short acts encompasses the human experience of living. Each act represents a different stage of life as it follows the developing lives of Emily Webb and George Gibbs and ultimately describes an idyllic version of America in which it exemplifies a longed for simpler and more peaceful time. With this in mind, the setting itself, a congenial and peaceful Grover’s Corners, the characters, such as Emily and George lacking any flaws, and the overall fanciful ideas of life and death prominent in the third act, work together in Our Town to romanticize the average life in America. This notion of romanticizing life and making it appear grander or better than it is in reality contrasts with the realism needed in a tragedy. Realism allows the audience to form a deeper connection with the characters where the characters’ struggles become their own allowing the catharsis to ensue which is needed in order to make it a tragedy. Therefore, the people, the town itself, and the ideas in Our Town lack the realism of actual life by focusing on the nostalgic and romantic version of everything; by doing so it hinders itself from being considered a tragedy. Wilder’s play Our Town ultimately conveys a sentimental romanticism through its portrayal of life rather than focusing on its tragic nature through realism.
A situation can be interpreted into several different meanings when observed through the world of poetry. A poet can make a person think of several different meanings to a poem when he or she is reading it. Langston Hughes wrote a poem titled "I, Too." In this poem he reveals the Negro heritage and the pride that he has in his heritage and in who he is. Also, Hughes uses very simple terms that allow juvenile interpretations and reading.
There are many similarities between “This Land is Your Land” and his inspirational quotes. To begin, both of the two subjects will guarantee to boost your self confidence. For example, a lyric in the song reads, “Nobody living can ever make me turn back.” On the other hand, a few lines from his quotes reads, “I hate a song that makes you think you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose.” “I’m out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood.” He will never give up. He never wanted anyone to give up on themselves just because society is telling them to. I’m sure that if Woody was still alive today, he would, to this day be fighting against society for
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American society today is all about living life to the fullest and unlocking your full potential in life. Society tell us teenagers that if we do good in school we can get into a good college and get a good degree, and there are so many options so that you can do anything and be anything. This quote is saying exactly that, live your life to the fullest and be the owner of your life, you don’t have to conform to what others are doing. Living life to the fullest to me means that you can’t always do what people tell you to do, sometimes you have to be a nonconformist and do what you want. Living life to the fullest is finding your niche in life and doing everything you possibly can to satisfy it. For example I really want to go to Stanford, society tells me that I can do anything if I put my mind to it, even though Stanford’s acceptance rate is the lowest in the country. I’m not going to give up I’m going to live my life to the fullest and try my best to get in. Another example would be to just go out and do things you would never do, like a bucket list but you’re not dying