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Op ED

November 25, 2008

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“The Music Theory”

When we talk about music we would either talk about a new band or some good music, but when parents are talking about music, they are usually complaining about the volume of the music, for some reason we all love to listen to loud music, some may even consider it the root of all evil, this opinion usually depends on the age or maybe even traditions, for example Elvis Presley, who was known as “The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.” He basically started his career in 1954; he mixed country, and rhythm and blues, with a really strong back beat. This made him highly popular by the teen and controversial by the parent as the blues was usually referred to black music as it had originated from Africa, and also because he was referred to as a sex symbol. So different people have different opinions and comments on different genres of music, but mostly everyone criticizes about punk rock and rap and hip hop, for its revolting nature, and usage of drug, violence and sex, so does listening to these genres lead us to physical and mental damage, like taking drugs, becoming violent to others and/or to oneself, in both physically and mentally?

Music has been know since the beginning of time, every continent and every tribe has had some form of music, which is the use of a single or any simultaneous combinations of music performed in a rhythm. Now a days since the usage of internet has become fairly common and has made everything quite easy, especially music, which is available at a touch of a button. The easy access of such data has made parents quite worried about the music there children listen to, there has been on such article on parentcenter.com, which tells us more about a research done on a group of teenagers, where they divided the children into three groups, the first group would listen to heavy punk rock music with very violent lyrics, the other would also listen to heavy punk rock but with Christian based lyrics and the last group would listen to mellow and easy listening music. At the end of their results they found out the lyrics in the song didn’t help at all, so the first two groups, regardless of the lyrical content developed the same negative attitude towards everyone and also were very easily angered compared to the easy listening children. So this experiment concluded that the music was a heavier factor that affected the children then the lyrics. But one may also argue that

CAN GAS PRICES REALLY HELP OUR ECONOMY?

November 19, 2008

I found this really interesting article, on how the gas prices have helped the automotive industry, and how it can help us with the bailout money. The author mainly uses logos to prove his point, telling us that how high gas prices will help tax payers, but might hurt consumers. So one might say that this is a really bad idea while one might find it really good so you should definitely check it out here.

Academic vs Popular audience

November 19, 2008

A writer comes usually comes across two kinds of audiences, an academic and a popular audience. An academic audience well generally look at the technical aspects of your writing, like may be grammar, structure, the length of the article, which is genrally long and focusing on a certain topic, expecting to gain some valuable information, which is generally supported by some sort of evidence. While the Popular audiences are just browsing, and looking for something that interests them, it could be a story focusing on a current and a general topic, which usually are broad.

My Analytical Project

November 11, 2008

MY ANALYTICAL PROJECT TALKS ABOUT THE EFFECTS OF MUSIC ON HUMAN LIVES AND HOW IT AFFECTS OUR LIVES, IT TALKS ABOUT THE DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW PEOPLE HAVE TOWARDS IT, MAKING CERTAIN GENRES INTO A STEREOTYPE.  IT TALKS ABOUT HOW SOMETHING SO SIMPLE AS MUSIC CAN CHANGE OUR LIVES AND HAVE A POSITIVE EFFECT ON OUR PHYSICAL AS WELL AS MENTAL WELL BEING, AND HOW IT HAS HELPED BREAK DOWN THE LANGUAGE BARRIERS.

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November 3, 2008

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