In 2005‚ the Ying Yang Twins released “one of the greatest rap songs about sex”‚ titled “Wait (The Whisper Song)”. This song hit “No. 3 on Billboard’s R&B/hip-hop singles chart‚ is up for best rap performance by a duo or a group” (Ollison 2006); however‚ was unabashedly misogynistic. This song received incredible praise for its brilliant use of “sexy whispering”. This song apparently needs special recognition for being “simultaneously ratchet and romantic. The words might be foul‚ but the Twins’
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Post-Classical World: Medieval China’s Tang and Song Dynasties The Tang Dynasty‚ 618-907 AD After the fall of the Han Dynasty‚ China saw much chaos similar to what happened in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. Unlike Europe though‚ China was eventually reunited. The Tang Dynasty was the next Chinese Dynasty to unite China for an extended amount of time. Tang Culture The Tang dynasty is known as the "golden age" of Chinese culture. The capital of the Tang Dynasty‚ Chang-an
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In William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience‚ the gentle lamb and the dire tiger define childhood by setting a contrast between the innocence of youth and the experience of age. The Lamb is written with childish repetitions and a selection of words which could satisfy any audience under the age of five. Blake applies the lamb in representation of youthful immaculateness. The Tyger is hard-featured in comparison to The Lamb‚ in respect to word choice and representation. The Tyger
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throughout the song. It is spiritual because Mother Nature is the stream and the wind and the field of grass. There is an almost surreal and dreamlike atmosphere and a certain sweetness in tone. The word choice and diction throughout "Mother Nature’s son" are directly related to the tone of the song. Words such as young‚ singing‚ all day long‚ boy‚ and son contribute to the youthfulness of the poem. Beside a mountain stream‚ pretty sound of music‚ and swaying daisies sing a lazy song are peaceful
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The two artifacts that we will be discussing are the original song “Can’t You See‚” by the Marshall Tucker Band‚ and the song that I parodied from its lyrics. The original song is classified in the genre of country rock. On the other hand the parody that I created would most likely fall under the genre of a comedic parody. I will mainly focus on how in the original artifact the hero just gives up all hope and accepts his fate right from the beginning‚ while the protagonists in the second one makes
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The first song chosen is Rascal Flatts’s “Life is a Highway”. With this song‚ there is the theme of family sticking together. The Walls family runs into many conflicts regarding money‚ law enforcement‚ and even each other. Because of these conflicts the family is “one day here and the next day gone”. Although their family troubles were stressful and often hard to believe‚ they stuck together. This song manly focuses on the characterization of Rex Walls‚ pin pointing his heavy-drinking‚ wannabe superhero
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A Song on the End of the World is a poem written by Czeslaw Milosz. This poem was written in 1944 very shortly after World War II. The title fits the poem very well as the poem is about how the world is coming to an end‚ but only one of God’s prophets know when the world will actually end‚ everyone else continues to live their normal life because the end of the world will happen like it is any other day. There will be no signals or warnings. It will happen when it happens. In A Song on the End
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teens that drugs are-so called-"cool". Rappers should be guiding kids into standing up for what they believe in. 90’s and 2000’s meaningful rap songs have better moral values compared to current hip-hop which is present in the songs ’’Mockingbird’’‚ by Eminem‚ "Juicy"‚ by The Notorious B.I.G‚ and Gucci Gang‚ by Lil Pump. Mockingbird‚ by Eminem‚ an emotional song from 2004‚ illustrates
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‘Wasted Words’ was written and sung by Gregg Allman. Dickey Betts‚ the lead guitarist on this song played the bottleneck slide guitar. This song merges the sound of a happy piano and a country feel. On a normal day to day basis Dickey wouldn’t play the bottleneck style of slide guitar because former band member Duane was famous for it. ‘Ramblin’ Man’ is the second song on the album‚ Dickey Betts sang lead vocals and also wrote ‘Ramblin’ Man’. The Allman
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perform at least one song in a language besides English every year - in my four years in this choir‚ we were given songs in Latin‚ French‚ Hebrew‚ and Basque. While all of these songs contained specific challenges for native‚ monolingual American English speakers - in the Hebrew piece‚ for example‚ many people had trouble producing what (in hindsight) appeared to be a pharyngeal approximant‚ a phone which is much more evident in Semitic languages than in English - the song in Basque was perhaps
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