6/8/10

Song interpretations

Well this song is about a boy who likes a girl but is going crazy because he doesn’t know if she likes him back. That’s the whole theme of the song from my point of view. It takes place in the city and late at night. The girl says the she’s not lonely, like she already had a man or her eyes on someone else. He keeps talking about how she is “irresistible” and how obsessed he is with her. Also he tells us that his heart is broke already and he is trying to fix it through her, he wants to love her and he wants her to love him back. He calls her a “stupid girl” because she doesn’t know what she has in front of her. In front of her is him and if she doesn’t take him then she’ll regret it because he would have treated her right. This relates to William Shakespeare’s play “A Midsummer Night’s Theme” because it’s all about love. Someone loves someone else and they don’t know if that someone else loves them. It’s like a love square because there’s so many people involved.


The Spill Canvas- Staple gunned
This song is about a boy who has just met a girl. He is already regretting what he hasn't done yet and what he should have done. He then makes up all these similes and metaphors to describe how much he loves her already. I can tell this is not love though, but lust just as in "A Midsummer Night's Dream". This relates to the story because all the boys love another girl because of lust and not because of love. When the one man wanted to sleep next to the woman in the Forrest, which showed that he wanted her for all the wrong reasons.



Dashboard Confessional- Hands down
This song is about a boy who is with a girl and they are pretty much having the best time with each other, just the two of them. It’s the feeling that they have because it’s just him and her and no one can say anything about what they do or how they should act. Like cuddling for instance, some people may see it weird; your mom probably thinks it’s weird when they see you cuddling with a girl. They don’t have to worry about this now, because it’s only them two. Since he’s having such a good time he is willing to die, just so he dies happily.

This song describes how extreme the characters are about explaining their lying love for one another. “This air is blessed, you share with me", reminded me of how they are also so religous.



Say Anything- Alive With the Glory of Love
The song was said to explain Max Bemis's grandparents when they were in the holocaust. It using words like "Boot stomped meadows" and "Treblinka". The song explains how his grandparents were separated but still never lost their love for each other. The video for this song shows his grandparents as children sneaking out of the work camps in Germany to see each other just to get a kiss before they are found and taken back to their separate camps. This relates to the book "A midsummer Night's Dream" because the characters Hermia and Demetrius are not suppose to see each other by order of Hermia's father. But they do anyway; they sneak out into the woods to live together forever.



Pink Floyd- Wish you were here
Now there are many, and I mean many interpretations for this song and I do not wish to research all of these because I would get nowhere so I decided to give you my own interpretation of the song. Well mine is that there were a couple, woman and male of course and they broke up or were separated somehow. The man is singing and describing how she lost all hope for everything. That she or he does not have a good understanding of the world, that her understanding of the world is all messed up, like she was brain washed or a tragic event happened. He also explains how she can't tell things from other things and that she is trading thing for things that she shouldn't. He says that they are both two lost souls that keep going over the same tracks and same paths. He just wishes that she was there with him.


6/7/10

Spanish essay in the beginging of the school year.

John



Spanish 2



As a person I am John Fitz. I am a skateboarder, biker, athlete, and interested in computers. Others see me as a typical white kid. Someone who skateboards, is crazy, will do anything, listens to death metal, and is just unnatural. Others see me as normal because they do not stereotype me are into the same things I am into. In ten years I see myself as in my prime. Not to old to settle down and too young to be told what to do. I can see myself with a steady job that I have already started working myself up the chain. When I’m twenty-six I want to still be skateboarding and want to be still athletic. I want to be one of the people that are well rounded in every field possible. I want to be good at everything know to man. Girls have always been my weakness; I would do anything for girls, well not really everything but a lot to make them happy. My knees are week from the sports that I do so now I have problems in my knees. I am very strong in endurance. I have that attitude that if people are expecting me to do something a win I will do it. Or if I am competing against other people I will make sure I come in first or pretty close to it. Most people give up too easily, not me. I just keep my mind think about something that will pass the time and keep doing what I am doing. My family is very funny. Like the first time you come over they will fart and burp and blame it on you just joking around. They are a big spending time together family, I’m still getting used to that. Most of my friends are athletic or are just cool to be with or were once athletic. They are only my close friends. I deal with problems by being alone. If I am alone I can just get over the problem and forget about it. That’s all problems are, things to get over and forget about.



I am a very good student. As long as I do the best way I learn and the teacher stays on me. I learn best by being alone. This creates fewer distractions for me while I’m working. From what I know about the ISP program so far, it’s going to be hard managing my own time. Normally teachers have deadlines for certain parts of a project. I’m the type of student that wastes time because I’m sitting there with someone and they keep talking and I can’t pay attention. I have learned that friends in high school done stick with you forever. Most of the people I meet I will never talk to again when I grow up. I learned that because I do not talk to a lot of people I went to middle school with, because most of them went to Pennsauken high. I mean every now and then I get and IM or a comment on myspace from some but that is about it. Some qualities of a teacher that I do not like is when teachers make the students do work over and over again. Also when they write the question down and answer it in a complete sentence. Especially when you get the really long questions where you have to explain. The only thing that stops me from learning is people talking or the teacher telling the students to do one thing then telling us to do another. Like teachers not being able to make up their mind. I am a serious student because I am hungry for knowledge. They only reason why I didn’t go to Pennsauken high school is because I wanted a good education in high school and I wanted to learn a trade and get a head start on my future job. For teacher to help me to learn, they must go over every single detail when I ask a question for it. If I do not know a certain part of something then it’s like you talking to be never even helped at all.



In a friend I look for someone who is relaxed and not all hyper. Someone who is athletic and into the same things I am into. I am a good friend because I do not create drama. I do not follow the theory of “hated by association”. And I will just tell you straight up how I feel about how you look, act, or talk to me. Even if you were catering to my every need I would tell you. The most difficult thing I have to deal with is people getting annoying. Some people are really cool at first. They make jokes, play around, relaxed, and don’t yell. Then some of them people start talking louder and more, and always playing around and always making jokes that are not funny. Then they start getting mad about how everyone is just sitting there looking at them. And at that time everyone is loosing respect for that person. Well enough about other people now. Some activities I would like to get involved with this year is weight lifting. But the way my knee is right now, I don’t thing I am going to be able to get into it. Also I’m not really excited about staying after school until five o’clock just to work out. By that time I’m not going to be getting home until six thirty, then once I get home I will have to do the tons of homework I have. Then I probably eat and sleep then wake up for school tired. All that right there just tells me its just going to be a hassle if I do it. And my social life is pretty good. I am happy with whom I hang out with and whom I talk to. I can tell from last year that my years in high school are going to be above average in fun then normal students.



First of all, what does diversity mean? Being diversie is being different. Everyone is diverse because everyone is different. I feel as if I am a very diverse person. I like to think of myself as modest. I am not like others neither. I have my own opinions. When I was growing up, I had a wide variety of friends I hung out with. Some were African American, Porto Rican, white, Christian, Muslim, catholic, atheist, and even bilingual people. Unfortunately I do not speak any other languages. I also find myself an open-minded person when it comes to information, if it is just rumors then I do not believe then and I become stubborn. The word diversity means to me that it’s a matter of differentials between you and the world. Tolerance is something I put up with a lot. I tolerate my uncle, family, girlfriend, friends, and some people I just do not like. Acceptance is almost the same meaning I guess but you don’t think of it any way. You just don’t think much of it, like it doesn’t even bother you. Well I think that my outlook on the world is different from my families and friends. I am a realist; I like to see everything how it is and the truth of it all. I do not need and pretty blanket or story to cover up what people may think I’m too young to know about. The people in my town don’t really think. They just try to get by and create drama because they have nothing to lose. And I don’t believe in god anymore, so religion does not affect me. This is little about me just in case you forgot who I am over the summer. Thank you for your time.

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This blog entry I'm going to import images of song lyrics so you can have a better imagery of the song and the view that I get when I listen to the song. This is " And the cradle will rock" By " Van Halen"














Ow
Oh yeah, get up
Ow! (Yeah)
Ow! Ow!
Well, they say it's kinda frightnin'


How this younger generation swings


You know it's more than just some new sensation

Well, the kid is into losin' sleep

And he don't come home for half the week


You know it's more than just an aggravation

And the cradle will rock
Yes the cradle, cradle will rock
And I say rock on. Uh! Rock on


And when some local kid gets down
They try an' drum him outta town


They say, "Ya coulda least faked it, boy"
Fake it, boy (Ooh, stranger, boy)
At an early age he hits the street
Winds up tied with who he meets
An' he's unemployed (Unemployed?) Ow!



And the cradle will rock. Ow!
And the cradle, the cradle will rock
An' I say rock on. Oh, say, rock on

(Guitar Solo)



Have you seen Junior's grades?
Ooh

Ow!

And when some local kid gets down
They try an' drum him outta town



They say, "Ya could've least faked it, boy. Faked it, boy"
And so an early age he hits the street
'N winds up tied with who he meets
An' he's unemployed. His folks are overjoyed

And the cradle will rock
Yes the cradle, cradle will rock
I say rock on. Hey! Rock on

Rock on. Rock on. Rock on
This ain't never been new, babe, child. Ow!
Rock on, wow! I said...
Rock on. Rock on. Oh, oh, oh
Rock on. Oh, ow, ah, ah, ah
Rock on. Rock on. Rock on