“Ma’am, did you see who hit you?” The officer asks. I hold onto my phone tightly, bringing my hands into my chest. I would love nothing more than to put an end to this charade, but if I talk, everyone I love will die. Going against all my beliefs, in a shaky voice, I reply, “no, sir. It all happened so fast, I didn’t see.” “Okay, ma’am, this EMT will bring you to the ambulance to check you out,” the officer stated. I nervously nod my head as I follow the EMT to the back of the ambulance. The EMT
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really didn’t care about it or pay much attention to it, but as I got older I grew fonder of it and listened to it occasionally and visited some of these places at the beach as an adult. Since I began this class in the fall learning about the History of Rock music it got me thinking about some of the music and events I grew up around and that got me wanting to learn more about some of these Beach Music bands. So as the semester went on I realized that this would be the perfect topic to write my research
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The body of Ally Steinfeld former known as Joseph Matthews Steinfeld was found last week near a mobile home in southern Missouri. Joseph Steinfeld was a transgender man to female in which he was killed for by “Andrew Vrba by stabbing him multiple times in the genitalia area, and burning his corpse.”(Rehwald 1) The jury and multiple people on the case are discussing if the case is a hate crime along with it being a first-degree murder case. The type of hate crime is that of a transgender being stabbed
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Latrell James’s Break The Rules personifies youth and its inherent rebellious traits. In an attempt to define his own song James points out that this song is “rebelling and refusing to conform to any label of judgment one may try to pin on me.” Latrell makes it painfully clear that this song what it sounds like. Break The Rules at first with its strong 808s, booming bass and rhythmic flow that pulls you into the trance of the turn up, seems to be the typical party song that draws Hennessy infused
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the band’s flexibility and musical proficiency. Desgraciadas is a group with a unique style of music. To describe their style with one genre would not do justice. The songs they featured in the concert felt like a boiling soup mix of punk and indie rock, with a dash of metal sprinkled on top. Songs were a direct line to the members’ raw emotions. Gladys, while on guitar, swung his head around violently, gripping the guitar tight as he waved it up and down. Hope bounced back and forth with her hips
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The Starman Who Became David Bowie David’s life began in South London, where he was born on January 8th, 1947. In Brixton, he soon developed a strong interest in music as a teen, who then began studying the arts through music and design before pursuing a professional career later on in 1963. While his dreams of musician began blossoming from his not so prime life as a child. He was inspired by his parents and step brother, but not in a recreational way that you ought to think firsthand. Bowie
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Have you ever thought about being a rock star? What about a drummer for a touring band? Well go no more, because I know a guy who is both and his name is Joshua Fassbender. Josh has been a friend of mine since 8th grade and I met him through marching band. He later on in life developed a true passion for drumming and is now a drummer for a pop punk/grunge band called Radioactive Red. I recently interview Josh to see how it is being on tour. Here we are right before a gig on night to make the scene
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Controversy and argumentative opinions in the form of song lyrics is no new phenomenon. What is distinct when listening to current popular songs are themes and visuals that tell a persuasive story. Not only are they startlingly set apart from the norm, but these kinds of songs also have the potential to change mass thoughts and viewpoints. The most interesting aspect of rhetoric through song is how complex and creative of a medium it is. John Mayer’s song “ Waiting on the World to Change” is an ideal
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Welcome to my nightmare, discussing the forensics on your own family's murder case. Everything becomes a blur, I couldn’t even hear what the detective was saying, I just stared, fixed to the carpet beneath my feet. Dead. My family, my girls, my beautiful girls gone. A feeling of sickness arose as well as many unanswered questions, to which sickened me. The detective sat awaiting my response. He'd already told me what had happened but I couldn't bring myself to speak about the tragedy that took
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considered (and why) and those I discarded There were quite a few topics I wanted to do but chose otherwise for a few reasons. Upon receiving the notification my initial instinct was to go ahead and do popular culture in the 1960's, especially surrounding rock and roll at the time. I have been an avid researcher of that topic and therefore discarded it because I also wanted to learn many new things. From then on were other topics relating pop culture such as film, fashion, and day to day living but yet could
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