Essays about Music Page 52

Rarely does a single person stand out as much when solving a problem as Alexander Hamilton did after being appointed Secretary of Treasury on the late 1700s. Our country had a great deal of problems with national debt after the Revolutionary War, Hamilton created one of the best financial foundations ideas for our economy, that…

            Are the blues really blue? Were the whites the original singers of blues during the rock and roll era? Was country music originally a different and separate genre from blues? Are they performing the same type of music? The answer to all of these questions is NO. Today, blues and country music are considered as significantly…

OtherIn her song “If I Were a Boy,” Beyonce argues that many women are trapped in bad relationships and never take the time to question how they truly desire to be treated. To confirm this, Beyonce is attempting to look at her unhealthy relationship as if she were in her significant others shoes. She makes…

Introduction ”Rat Song” is a poem written by Margaret Atwood and is part of Selected Poems from 1976. What is interesting about the poem is that it is written from the point of view of a rat. And by looking through the eyes of a rat (which many people see as a primitive and inferior…

Though both Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson served as members of President Washingtons cabinet, the two held very different views on the newly founded U.S. government and the role of the masses in that government. During the 1790s the views of Hamilton and Jefferson would develop into two competing political views and eventually form the…

Tupac Amaru Shakur, also know as 2pac, has appeared in various movies and has written many poems, but his legacy will forever remain in his music. Tupac passed away a little over two years ago leaving behind many examples of his lyrical diversity. I intend to show the contrast in Tupac’s lyrics from one album…

Classical Composers are untouchable; the music they have composed has the ability to “speak” to music lovers of different cultures and time periods. The techniques they used only help mold the best music of our time. Throughout the years, artists of different genres have done variations of classical pieces. Sometimes the variations are just in…

Sonny older brother is a school teacher and did not want to believe that the news was true, “l didn’t want to believe that I’d ever see my brother going down, coming to nothing, all that light in his face gone out, in the condition I’d already seen so any others” (Baldwin 293). Sonny used…

The nature of the relationships throughout the poem seems to change from a seemingly equal sense of love from both goldfish, to a more one-sided relationship in the last stanza of the poem. In the first stanza the male character is said to be a “drifter”, this foreshadows the later stages of the poem as…

There is no one in the world who does not like songs and music. Songs are of many types. They make us feel relax and give us a break from our stressful lives. They also give strength and help us feel stronger and motivated. Sometimes, they let us sense the feeling of love and some…