Persuasive Writing Prompts 1. Many people believe that television violence has a negative effect on society because it promotes violence. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to support your response. 11. Research shows that the average American watches as much as six hours of television each day. Do you think this is too much? Write an essay convincing readers to spend less time in front of the TV. 12. Many junior high and high schools around the country now
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The type of audience poets write for is an audience that he or she can give hope to or inspire them to do something great. For example: in the poem“Do not go gentle into that good night” Dylan Thomas says that “ Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight‚And learn‚ too late‚ they grieved it on its way‚ Do not go gentle into that good night. This shows that people can try and do the impossible and the sky was the limit but learned that too late and now they live a life of regret and misery
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Music is the most powerful form of human expression. It has been a way for man to express himself since the dawn of ages through the embodiment of love‚ disapproval‚ happiness and experience through melodies and words. During the twentieth century music has been a major factor in the American society that helped change the course of history by stimulating the masses to “get up and stand up for their rights” as the reggae legend Bob Marley once said. Thus music has helped the American culture to achieve
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Politics and music have always had a close relationship. Events like the Vietnam War and and other political movements influence the creation of protest music. This type of music is a significant part of the culture that led to many of the political events in the 1960’s. Both Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer proposed the culture industry and mass marketing concept in their The Dialectic of Enlightenment essay.They argue that one could never escape from the influences of the media.The protest music
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I.Invasion of American Popular Music After World War I‚ American popular music -- blues‚ jazz‚ and Tin Pan Alley songs -- swept Britain‚ much as British music invaded the United States in the 1960s. American songs such as "Chicago" and "Manhattan" were consistently among the most popular tunes in Britain in the 1920s. As a result of the invasion of American popular music‚ Britain was influenced by such culture. The Beatles and other British rock groups helped create in the 1960s a milieu that
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The Vietnamese War brought hardships for everybody‚ and those hardships drove some songwriters to write about the troubles. These people include Simon and Garfunkel‚ Arlo Guthrie‚ and Bob Dylan. They created more mellow sounds in their music which really expressed the depression and sadness of conflict. Drugs were making their way everywhere‚ and music was no exception. Artists would write about the feelings of being high on drugs‚ and they
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bands and believed everything they said‚ did‚ or felt. Most bands that attended Woodstock were against war and made songs with antiwar messages‚ some even degraded the president. Some bands that performed at Woodstock were The Who‚ Jimi Hendrix‚ Bob Dylan‚ and Country Joe Macdonald. In 1969‚ alongside with many other bands‚ they were the best in the business("Woodstock Festival" 1-4). Many Americans idolized and followed their antiwar beliefs and actions. Some of the songs containing antiwar messages
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"Historically speaking‚?time is lost; poetically speaking‚?time is regained in the act of visionary creation" (Crewe 400). Poetry allows for the capture of a moment in time otherwise lost in the blink of an eye. British poet Dylan Thomas and American poet E.E. Cummings have both been noted for the recurring themes of passage of time in their poetry. In Thomas? "Fern Hill" and Cummings? "anyone lived in a pretty how town‚" both modern poets utilize a juxtaposition of paradoxes to express
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Language and Power in Culture: Revolutionary Words Further Oral Activity Groups: 3-4 students in each group Revolutionary ideas‚ and revolutions‚ first begin with words. These words may be presented in grand speeches that move the masses or they may be the lyrics of the songs of the time. In this project‚ you are going to teach the class about a particular historical and cultural context‚ an important figure (or group) from that context‚ and engage in a close analysis of a speech or song
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During its peak in the 1970s and 1980s‚ famous artists Jimi Hendrix‚ Bob Dylan‚ and Andy Warhol all took pit stops in this grand hotel. Hotel Chelsea was the perfect melting pot of artists‚ musicians‚ and poets that allowed Patti and Robert to catapult their creative insights. If only one person could be chosen that single-handedly
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