Zack de la Rocha Essays

  • Stereotypes In George Orwell's Rage Against The Machine

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    inequality, stealing from the poor to line the pockets of the wealthy among countless other offences, those with a microphone and an audience are provided with a once in a lifetime opportunity to invigorate change in society. Some of these stars like Zack de la Rocha and Tom Morello of the band Rage Against the Machine choose to fight for what they believe in, polarizing a generation and inciting riots coast to coast, while others like the lead singer of the band Radiohead, Thom Yorke, think the issues of

  • Rage Against the Machine

    1513 Words  | 4 Pages

    Rage Against the Machine Zack de la Rocha, Tom Morello, Brad Wilk, and Timmy Commerford took to a Philadelphia stage in 1993 clad in black electrical tape that covered their mouths and the initials PMRC written in black marker across their chests. They stood in this fashion for fourteen minutes while feedback from their guitars rumbled through the amps. This seemingly simple prank was actually protest against the censorship of music and the Parents Music Resource Center, founded by Tipper

  • John Rambo and Jack Ryan: Men America Can Count On?

    1107 Words  | 3 Pages

    John Rambo and Jack Ryan are two amazing men. They are honest, trustworthy, heroic, never crack under pressure, and stand for truth, justice, and the American way. Sylvester Stallone and Harrison Ford do their best attempting to make the audience believe that men such as Rambo and Ryan actually exist. Try as they might, not even Stallone or Ford can convince me that men of this caliber actually live. Rambo is able to not only foil his corrupt, superior American officer trying to sabotage his mission

  • Alternative Grunge Music Analysis

    1261 Words  | 3 Pages

    When the band Rage Against the Machine spit, Zack de la Rocha wanted to go solo, while other members and even guitarist Tom Morello and frontman of Soundgarden, Chris Cornell, formed another big group called Audioslave (“ Without Rage, Just Music” 1). After Cobain’s death in Nirvana, they released some

  • Bullet In Head Analysis Oral

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    Bullet in the Head This time the bullet cold rocked ya A yellow ribbon instead of a swastika Nothin' proper about ya propaganda Fools follow rules when the set commands ya Said it was blue When ya blood was red That's how ya got a bullet blasted through ya head Blasted through ya head Blasted through ya head I give a shout out to the living dead Who stood and watched as the feds cold centralized So serene on the screen, You was mesmerized Cellular phones soundin' a death tone Corporations