We Didn T Start The Fire Analysis

Have you ever heard, “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” by Billy Joel? He wrote the song to document historical events and people from 1949 to 1989. Each snippet of the song brings up a person, event, or item of importance from those years. In English class, each person is researching the importance of a snippet of the song. My section, “Woodstock,” was a significant event during those years. Woodstock, a musical festival billed as “Three Days of Peace of Music”(Cammorata), took place in mid-August of 1969. The festival creators expected an attendance of 200,000, but when the gates opened the first day, more than 400,000 young people crushed the expectation and the gates. The massive attendance at the festival caused shortages of food, water,