Since this is our last blog I first would like to say that I have enjoyed doing these blogs and each blog that we did was very interesting. I am always up for the challenge and my writing also got better by doing theses blogs. This was a good exercise for me with my writing and I learned a lot about music and culture. The book "Music and Culture" had a lot of information regarding music and the music industry, which I found very interesting. One of my favorite readings was, "It's Easy, but Wrong, to Blame the Music" by Hilary Rosen. It was a very powerful article and this article touched home to me. We as parents need to keep an eye on our children more closely regarding the music they listen to. Music with violence, sex and bad language needs to be controlled. That kind of music need to be censored if played on the radio and I believe very strongly that the music industry needs to help out these parents, as this type of music isn't any good for out children. As we could see I can't stop talking about this topic, as that's how interesting this course was to me and it touched me and my beliefs in a very big way. If I had the choice to do another class with Jennifer I would, because she is a good instructor. She makes her class work interesting and very challenging. She was always there when I needed to talk about an assignment. I also learned how music is a very important part of our lives. In the world we live in today, there is music everywhere. Music effects people lives in many different ways. Each artist brings their own style of music to their fans. There is good music and there is bad music that we don;t want our youths to listen to. This course taught me a lot about music that I didn't even know about. For example, I didn't know about piracy which I feel strongly against, piracy needs to be stopped. If it's possible it could be stopped and the music industry needs to continue to censor, which is the right road to go. We all need to help and reach out to our youths. I also liked the artist these articles talked about, as with David Bowie, Queen Latifah, and Garth Brooks. It made the reading more interesting for me. I also liked reading others people's blogs and replying to them. All the blogs I read I found very interesting and some of them were easy to reply. This class was a challenge for me, especially on my writing. After all these writing assignments, I have to say my writing has gotten a lot better and my spelling had gotten better as well too. This course wasn't all joyful, as I also hit frustration mood. Especially when it came to the research paper, as that was the hardest assignment for me. I had trouble with writing my words, as I hit writers block a lot and I thought that my writers block would never go away. Thanks goes out to my instructor Jennifer for the challenges that she put me through, throughout this whole semester. I knew that I was going to be able to handle the challenge, but I also knew it was not going to be easy.

I found this class to be very helpful with my writing, as it was also great practice for me. I want to consider myself a writer one day, as I love to write. Actually my favorite thing to write is poetry, as poetry seems to help me express myself in many different ways. I use a lot of my imagination in my writing and in this class I have found myself doing a lot of writing which I enjoyed, but at the same time I found it to be a challenge. As class continued during the semester the writing became more of a challenge, but I found the subjects we had to write about very interesting. The readings were interesting also, as with the book called "Music and Culture" it really caught my attention. The writing I found the hardest to do was answering a question with ten sentences. I found that assignment very hard for me to do. I don't know why I had so much trouble with that assignment, but that one was so very challenging and it was difficult at times. It even got to the point where it frustrated me. Not only did I found very hard to write ten sentences, but some of the questions were very hard to answer. The sentences seem hard because I couldn't figure out how I was going to answer the question with ten sentences. Did I have enough information in my brain to do that? That was the frustrating part, but I know the one thing that helped my writing skills a lot was the blogs the 500 words. I really enjoyed writing the blogs and the blogs expanded my mind. I found the blogs easy to write and they advanced my writing horizons to another level. I love music as much as I like to write, so I found this course to be very interesting. With the writing of the blogs they helped me with writing the essays and it prepared me towards writing the essays, which the blogs were good practice for me. It helped me with making my thesis stronger and it also helped me make my conclusion of my essays better. I feel my writing even got better on catching the reader's attention. Writing an essay isn't easy and it is always a challenge for me. However, by writing the blogs it help me to prepare towards writing the essays and it also helped me prepare for the challenge of the essay. It also helps me write more powerful statements and sentences. All the writing I did in this course helped me with spelling different words, as I learned new words that I didn't know the meaning of. I feel me writing has actually improved and I have become a better writer. After I finish writing each blog and each essay I was very happy with what I wrote and I was very satisfied with my work. Let me tell you something I never wrote so much in my life in one week. I actually was really surprised within myself and getting all that work done. I actually have to say I met the challenge this course gave me. Thanks for guiding me along the way.

Economic hardship is not a valid reason to stop censorship; we really need to keep censorship. Especially as parents we need to support censorship and we need to stop our children from listening to songs with so much violence, sex, drugs and bad language. I also don't think censorship hurts the song, but I actually think it makes it better when the artist has to take its song and change it for the better. We also as parents need to take time and listen to what our kids are listening to and believe me there is a lot of music that isn't good for our children to listen to. Who is to say exactly what this type of music is doing to our children's minds and only our children will show us in time. If these songs don't continue to get censored our children will be affected. We as parents are willing to take the chance and as parents I strongly believe we aren't ready to take that chance. We all need to support censorship and we need to fight together against violent, drugs, sex and bad language music, so we see we need to hold onto censorship. Have we all actually heard how bad some of these songs are? I can't even stand hearing the bad language. I can't believe the music industry approves such music. The music industry itself has to want to help censor these types of music. "George Bernard Shaw views censorship as an inherently conservative action, which is performed by those who desire to preserve tradition. He pointed out that morality is a phenomenon dependent on the majority". (219,4) Till this day controversial lyrics haven't been blamed or actually proven that it causes our society's ills and there have been a lot of attempts towards blaming the actual music and such efforts haven't been successful. People feel that it's okay for our children to listen to such terrible and troublesome music and that it won't harm our children in anyway. Let's ask ourselves do we believe that to be so? I myself believe strongly that this type of music does affect our children one way or another. I'm not saying all children, but I believe there are some. That our influence by this style of bad music and I feel for our children sake. We need to censorship this type of music and who are we to say that this type of music does not influence our children? Are we willing to take that chance with our children's life? To me I'm not willing to take that chance with my child, as I rather be safe than sorry when it comes to my children's lives. The artist who writes this type of music do we really think they care. In my opinion I don't think so. If they did they would do something about it. Censorship doesn't hurt the artist and they still get paid. All er are asking is to help our children by keeping our minors from getting a hold of bad music. i don't think we are asking for too much for our children's future.

My research paper is about a song called Puff the Magic Dragon by Peter Paul and Mary, which was banned. I chose this assignment, because I was wondering how does a children's folk song gets banned. I felt that by doing this some research on it I would get my question answered. I'm finding out while I'm working on my research paper, that there is not a lot of information on this song and what all happened with the song. The only thing I might see this research paper is if I'm going to have enough information to cover six pages. This is the biggest concern that I really have. I just have to use my information wisely and make it stretch. Besides worrying about the six pages I feel my research paper is going to be okay. I'm starting to find out some answers to my research very interesting. In so many words my research is coming together slowly. I'm starting to find out a research paper is a lot of work has it's not as easy as I though it was going to be. Now for me to overcome the obstacle that I have regarding, if I'm going to have enough information or not to cover a six page essay. I would have to find songs that have been banned and compare it to the songs different or the same. See if they were banned for the same reason or for a different reason. If I do this it would give I more to write about and my research paper would be more interesting to read for the reader. Right now I have information for my research paper, but I need to put in more sources and more about my opinion on what I think about the banning of "Puff the Magic Dragon". I also need to put information about the artist and creators of the song. What they are all about and what inspired them to write the song. Then what their reactions were when they found out that their song was going to be banned, because they said the song had something to do with drugs. The strangest thing about this is nowhere in the song does it talk about drugs, but to this person the song was talking about drugs and then had other people believing it. I feel what this person was so wrong and I still can't believe how some people actually believed this person. Didn't they pay attention to Perter, Paul and Mary's lyrics? The song was so innocent, plus it was a folk song for children. This folk song was about a dragon that lived by the sea and the song also became a very popular song. I feel that the person that talked wrong about the song was just jealous that tit was so popular. I'm finding out that this research paper is turning out to be very interesting.

Internet piracy is illegally when they sale stuff on the Internet. I believe the music industry will be able to stop piracy with the help of the Recording Industry Association of America, as on their side they have a real chance of stopping piracy on the Internet. Member companies of the Recording Industry Association of America have filed thousands of civil law suits on people who illegally distributed copy righted music on peer-to-peer networks. With these law suits issued by Recording Industry Associated of America, they wanted to send a strong message that the illegal distribution of copy righted has consequences. President of Recording Industry Association of America said "Nobody likes playing the heavy and having to resort to litigation." said RIAA president Carry Sherman. "But when your product is being regularly stolen, there comes a time when you have to take appropriate action. We simply cannot allow online piracy to continue destroying the livelihoods of artist, musicians, song writers, retailers, and everyone in the music industry" (Tomasino, 188). Recording Industry Association of America has been advising the public that file sharing copy righted music is illegal, and when you are doing it you're not anonymous and by doing it you can have real consequences. Cary Sherman says "And the message id beginning to be heard. More and more PsP users are realizing that there are dozens of legal ways to get music online, and they are beginning to migrate to legitimate services. We hope to encourage even the worst offenders to change their behavior, and acquire the music they want through legal means" (Tomasino, 189). Recording Industry Associated of America and the other University community have came together to combat piracy. Colleges all over the country are issuing severe warnings to try to stop the swapping of pirated music over the campus internet. Some individuals decided to over look the warning and continue doing what they were doing. The Recording Industry Association of America wants these kinds of people to know that we are serious about protecting our rights. In so many words they are going to pay a high price for breaking the law, as they have been warned over and over about the law. They need to take these warnings serious, because Recording Industry Association of America is serious when they say they will take over action and did them ever. The Recording Industry Association of America member companies files copy right infringement claims against 261 individual file sharers. Then the Recording Industry Association of America would also be gathering evidence, so they could bring law suits against computer users who illegally distribute copy righted music through such peer to peer file distribution networks. The lawsuits that the Recording Industry Association of America planned to have a number of illegal shares highly concerned about what they did and now want to know what they could do so they won't be sued. So the Recording Industry Association of America has decided not to pursue users who step forward before being targeted for the past illegal sharing of copy righted works. We can see that we truly need to believe the music industry will stop privacy.

The show I chose to write about in this blog is "Dancing with the Stars". I chose this show, because I enjoy watching it. I find it interesting and exciting, as I like watching the stars trying their best on the dance floor, struggling or being successful. I also like listening to the judge's opinions and comments, which I sometimes find so entertaining. It is so surprising to see a football player doing the cha-cha or the mongo. These entertainers actually actually give it it their all out on the dance floor I have seen some entertainers hurting themselves during their rehearsal time, because they push themselves so hard. The trained dancers that are teamed up with their star have a lot of hard work ahead of them. They need to choose the right routines to catch the judge's interest, as the judges are really hard core and they want to see perfection. The judges want to see the dancers and entertainer connect to life on the dance floor. With connecting in every aspect of their dance and making a strong connection and also their technique has to be right on the money. As the weeks go by and some of the dancers get eliminated and the competition gets harder, the judges also get harder and they look for the littlest mistakes. The one thing I hate about the judging is that they let the television viewers vote. I feel that isn't fair, because I feel the viewer's vote as with whom they like as a star not the way they dance and that sometimes hurts the real good dancers and we end up seeing the good dancers get cut. Where I feel it should be judged by how well they danced not by how popular they are. I think that is only fair, as I've seen a lot of couples get eliminated that were real good dancers. I feel it's not a fair competition when they let the fans vote, as it should only be left up to the judges. Another part of "Dancing with the Stars" is when they do their free style dancers. i have seen some real good free-styles. They come out with some kind of dancers and they get the audience going, as they go all out. The free style could either help them or break them. The dancers get to choose the right dance that is going to make them look good in front of those judges and believe me that's hard to do in front of these judges. Theses judges are very hard core, they look for any little mistake that the dancers make, but also when they dance real well, the judges gives them the points they really deserve. When I started watching this show I really got into it and after two routine of dances, I would pick me winner the couple I thought would win it all. Sense the show has aired I've had picked two winners. I believe "Dancing with the Stars" is going to be with us for quite some time, as a lot of people seem to find it entertaining.

Teenagers gave Eminem credit for keeping it real, because they see him both as a rebel raising up against a brutal parent and as the devoted father they never had. It is important to me that lyrics are reality based when an artist sings about the truth it gives the songs more meaning. The music touches the person in a big way that listens to this type of music. These types of music touches their heart and soul and it can make them cry or make them very happy. Sometimes this type of music relates what they might be going through at the time or something they went through in the past. Music throughout my life made a big difference in my life, as sometimes when I needed an answer for the mood I would go through the oldies to help me through it. When I was in love or was broken hearted, Karen Carpenter helped me get through it; music had the answer for me. When I found no one to understand me, I found music to understand me. i have music to thank a lot for getting me through a lot in my life. The oldies, blues, country, and pop made a big difference in my life, as music helped me through rough times and great times. For example, when I was a teenager and I wanted to tell somebody something important and I couldn't find the right words to say, I would turn to the lyrics of a song to help me out and it always helped me. I turned to the lyrics of music because the artist lyrics were realistic and it relates with what I was going through at the time and when I hear those same songs now it takes me back in time. Who says we need pictures to remember our past, music does wonders for us. There are realistic songs that bring back our greatest memories, happy or sad. Realistic songs have touched my life in many ways. I'm so grateful for realistic music and I tend to believe that country music has more realistic music than any other kind of music. Country music artists express their lives and feelings so well. When we listen to their music we could tell it comes way deep down in soul. When we hear their songs, we can't help to put feelings into what they were going through. The country greats I'm referring to are, Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lyn, Kenny Rogers, Barbra Mandrel, and Johnny Cash, all of these country greats sing realistic songs, as their very powerful songs. The greatest realistic songs are the love songs or the songs that tell a story. Telling a true story through music makes us think of other people and what they've gone through their lives. It sometimes make us feel that our problems aren't that serious compared to theirs and that is their hope for us. Country music is very powerful realistic music, as it actually makes us fell what they went through by just listening to their lyrics. Realistic music in so many ways touches our heart and soul in so many different ways.

I do agree with Werner's opinion about what drives so many jazz men and women do drugs. We find this to be so true, when the jazz artist himself/herself lost. The audience is unable or unwilling to follow the jazz artist's new explorations within his/her music. The way Werner states: Sometimes jazz finds itself lost, wandering trackless paths where the calls fade into echoes of themselves. When the artist fined themselves struggling the turn to drugs to try to pick themselves up from what they might be going through. Thinking that the drugs they choose to take will get them through the troubles they are going through, or just all together forget the struggles and pain they are going through at the time. Also hoping that the drugs they use will help them come up with a hit single. Chances are that they'll play something the world's never heard and chances are it won't hear it this time either, which is why so many jazz artist turn to drugs. The jazz artist turns t the needles, the pip's, the bottles and for the most part of it only deadens the pain. It just seems so unbearable to these jazz artist. For example, the kind of pain killed Jimi Hendrix in 1970; Hendrix expressed his desire for a deeper audience response. The main thing that used to bug me was that the people wanted too many visual things from me. I never wanted it to be so much of a visual thing. When I didn't do it, people thought I was being moody, but I can only freak when I really feel like doing so. Now I just want the music to get across, so that people can just sit back and close their eyes and know exactly what is going on without caring a darn about what we are doing while we are on stage. Hendrix wanted his fans to love his old and new style of music, but he found it hard to except the way his fans accepted the style of music he played. They didn't like the change of music Jimi Hendrix played, as he lived and died the blues. When jazz artist go through what Hendrix went through they say the jazz greats of the pass seems to haunt us., like Samuel Beckett, Billie Holiday. I have to say these artist that play and sing the blues, come to one point where they themselves are actually feeling the blues. We know what they say about jazz artist that play and sing the blues, that some of that artist actually lived the blues in their past and some at the present, where felling the blues and that made it easier for them to play the blues, but it ended up making them feel even bluer. The depression they ended up getting into made them turn to drugs, but for the most it had to do with the time and the style of music.

It's true that words are instruments of separation and social power. We could see it a lot among are youth in the high schools. During their lunch hour we could see the different culture groups hanging out with each of their own. When there's a fight it is usually over somebody else that doesn't belong in their group. Then they start putting each other down and start talking about each other's culture, which starts a big fight among the two groups. To prove which culture is more powerful and who rules. However, it's not only in the school yards it happens in our communities. For examples, when I was a teenager I lived in the San Fernando Valley in a community called "Arlets" where the people were all different cultures/races. For another example, on the block I lived on my neighbor next to me was Chinese and the other side of me lived a Hawaiian family, then further down lived White family and Mexican families and all the kids of all these families all get along together. Race didn't matter; the color of our skin didn't stop us from being friends and getting along. But I remember y dad warning us about other communities, he would tell my older siblings to stay out of those places. One place was the Barrio where the Chicano's lived and a place across the tracks where the blacks lived. One thing we didn't do was go into these places and have a conversation with them especially if we weren't the right race. As we can see words are instruments of separation and social power and yes rhythm and dance are fusional Media that have no concern with social power. The interactive nature rhythm and dance become successful non-verbal communication. Rhythm and dance seem to have an empathic effect that brings about a sentiment of unity, as it enables people to function on an intuitive level. Rhythm opens the way, however brutally to interior experience and this explains the erasure of external social, cultural and gender boundaries taking place on the dance floor, as it has t do with the crowd effect. The dance floor is a spaced packed with people, where people come together on the dance floor as they are transformed. The conscious personality of each individual disappears and the dancers suddenly become one body. When the music starts and the people gather on the dance floor and start dancing and touch one another and that's when there are no more races, culture or things forbidden. All we want to do when the music starts is get on the dance floor and dance, as our mind is only set on the music. We want to join these groups of people and have lots of fun. Nobody in this group is thinking about anybodies race or color of skin, as their just one big happy group dancing to the music. The music seems to take their minds elsewhere. Maybe after the dance they might go back to their old ways of thinking, but at least for a while they got along on the dance floor.

I believe the king of pop Michael Jackson was portrayed by the press. Michael Jackson was one of the greatest entertainers ever, as he was so talented in so many ways. Anything he did that had to do with music turned into gold and his fans loved him both young and old. He was loved all over the world and he wasn't only loved for his music. He was loved for the person he was and the kind heart he had. The way he opened his heart to all the children of the world, as he showed that by his generosity. Michael opened his heart to the children, as you could hear it in some of his music and how much he cared about children. He himself was a child at heart and it's so sad that this negatively portrayed by the press. It started in the 80's when he came out with his hit album "Off the Wall". The press started to write about his facial features and how he changed his look. They started to print that he bleached his face because he didn't like his dark skin. The press made it to be a big thing and they went as far as to say he was a freak. Michael set the record straight when he let Oprah Winfrey interview one on one at his house. He told Oprah that he had a skin problem and that he wasn't beaching his skin. He had the interview with Oprah so he could let all the rumors the press was talking about to rest, but that didn't stop the press, anything they found strange about Michael they printed. The press found Michael weird and his relationship with Elizabeth Taylor, to his pet chimpanzee. They wouldn't leave Michael alone and Michael got so fed up that he wrote a song. All Leave Me Alone. Where in the music video it showed everything the press had been writing about him and how Michael was frustrated with it and he was telling the press just to leave him alone. After awhile the press layed off for a while but it was too late the damage was already done. People started to see him different as a freak and to me that made me mad and sad. The press didn't care what they were doing to the king of pop. All they could think about was selling newspapers. So what if Michael was different, different is good. He still was a man with a kind heart who wanted to make a difference in this world. He was a person who had a lot of love in his heart and it was so wrong what the press did to him. Just because he was different an like exotic things gave them no right to call him a freak, as he was just different. Then when he was brought up in child molestation charges the press had a field day. All eyes were on the king of pop, even after he was found innocent of all charges. He couldn't handle all the negativity the press was saying, so he did the next best thing he left and disappeared for a while. In Michael Jackson case I think that the press went way over board and cruel, just because he was different. Who made them judge and jury in this case they were way off base.

Negative music influences the behavior of our youth to an extent nobody really knows. The reason for this is that each one of our youth is different. Our youth reacts to negative music different than another, as some of our youth don't even have a negative reaction. What I have observed being around youth, I'm surrounded by negative music and the bad language lyrics. It is our youth thinking its okay using negative language and that it's okay to disrespect anybody with that type of language and that it's the in thing to do. Our youth seem not to care and along with the bad language comes a bad attitude with it. For example, when we tell the youth to lower their music, as not everybody else wants to hear all that bad language. The youth just reply with a, I don't care and a real bad attitude to go with it. The music I'm referring to is rap music, as rap music is so bad. All you hear about when we listen to rap is about violence, sex, drugs, and shootings. Some of the songs are also about abuse, rape and how cool it is to belong to a gang. The kind of music has gotten a hold of a lot of our youth. I truly believe the youth that have trouble fitting among their peers are the ones that take music to heart and think whatever the rapper is saying to do is a way to fit in some where in this crazy would of ours. For example, what goes on in our high schools and on our school campuses during lunch? We can see groups separated by race where-ever we look. The same way gangs are and where do these young adults hear about racism and gangs through rap music? I know for fact music is a big part of a gang's life, as they take the lyrics of music to heart. For example, I have a friend who belonged to a gang back in the 60's. He said " music back them helped him mole into a cholo". He heard music that talked about the riders and what they were all about. How they carried themselves, how they dressed and what they drove and what kind of music they were into. Even down to the way they talked and how they acted. The music he said " was a big part of him joining a gang". He says " if he had a chance to go back in time. He wouldn't let music influence him along with his peers". Listening to what my friend said, I could see the way music could be like a drug, we could get addicted to it. A lot of our youth want to be like the person that the rapper is talking about, as it's a way of trying to fit it. Looking at our troubled youth today stealing and drive by shootings. The kind of things our youth could listen about in some of the music they listen to.

After reading Blooms statement about young people's passion for music and how that music is the only thing that excites them and they don't have an interest for anything else not related with music. I have to agree and disagree regarding his statement. At one point I have to agree with his statement, because our young people live their everyday life surrounded by music. For example, my brother Phillip loves music and he surrounds himself with music, as he listens to music all day. When he's in his room he listens to his stereo and when he's on th ecomputer he's either downloading music on his I-pod or just listening to music. When phillip plays his play station he has video games that have music on the games while he's playing. Phillip also has music on his phone that he down loaded, which he always listens to when he is not listening to his I-pod. He also goes to sleep at night listening to music and he wakes up turning on music to start the day. You could definitely say my brother is one of those youths that Bloom was talking about being passionate about music. I also see that my brother has no interest in anything else, as he does in music. I believe if I was to take music away from him, he would be lost. I also believe there are a lot of other youths out in the world like my brother. There are two famous singers that I believe their only interest is music and those two singers are Michael Jackson and a country singer Barbra Mandrel. They both were surrounded and introduced to music at a very young age. It was in their blood, like they say ans that's why their only interest was music. heir passion for music helped them create beautiful music. I also agree with the fact that we can have a passion for music and also am interested in something else. For example, I have a passion for music, but I also have a passion for poetry and art. I counld be listening to my music and working on my art or writing my poetry at the same time. Just like music, poetry and art have become a part of my life. Music has become a story book of my life, poetry helps me express my ineer feelings just like art makes me feel real good inside. My friend Thomas also has a passion for music and also has other interests and music doesn't get in his way of his other interest. One of Thomas's other interests are sports and just like his music he is so much into it. I couldn't even tell you which one he is into more. I can also tell you of the two singers that they have a passion for music, but also they have another passion. There's Marie Osmond, who loves music and also has the passion for making dolls. The late singer Selena, she had a great passion for music and being a singer, but she also had the passion for fashion.

How else beside music do people find a way to converse without using words? I have found this question to be very interesting and very challening. This is why I choose this question to answer. I started to put my brain to work an dthis is what I came up with. Another way people communicate without using words is using body language. Some people use their hand gestures to talk to one another, for example the deaf people use sign language and other body languages wothout facial expressions. Another example is when we're happy we smile and our face lights att up. When we're happy and excited about something we may jump up and down and use all our body to express our excitement. When we're sad we express i with a sad look or hanging our head down or just be the tears that flow down our face, but tears may also be able to represent a sign of relief or tears of joy. Then we have to think about how these babies communicate with others, as their cries and tears are differnet then of an adult. Baby's tears if cry can mean their hungry or wet. Could be that they don't feel good or maybe just because they want attention. Then there's anger, people ahow their anger by giving the other person the slience treatment and then rolling their eyes. Other people do it by ballilng up their fist at us and stomping their feet and some people throw things. Then there's love, there's a lot of ways to show love withor using words. We could show love with lots of hugs and kisses. Holding someone's hand and comforting them or sharing a special dinner with that someone we may love dearly. Body language and gifts are a big way I communicate with my family an dfriends and especially doing things for them. Other ways that people communicate without words is through dancing. One culture I know that communicates a lot through dancing are the Indians, as they dance for joy and they dance for love. The Indians dance to their gods for wisdom and guidance and for rain so their crops woud grow to feed their people. They would dance before they send their hunters to hunt, so as we could see dancing is a big way of communicate for some cultures. Other ways people communicate is through art, as a lot of famous artist communicate through their art. Have we ever heard the saying, " a picture says a thousand words" and it's true if we take our time and look at some pictures then they tell a story. For example, in Egyptain time we could go in the Pharos Tombs and in the walls we would see pictures that tell the story of the Pharos life. As we could see there is a lot of ways to communicate without words. Giving special attention or giving a gift like a rose, because they may mean the world to us or opening the door for that someone special. Communicate without words is baking someone a cake for their birthday. Making love to your partner and makeing them feel loved. By caressing and holding them close, is a big way of communicating to soeone that you care for. As we can see there are many different ways we can converse with one another without using words.

My Musical Library

The music I have in my Musicla Library is R&B, Country, Oldies and a lot of love songs. I have to say taking my time and going over my music collection, the music I like has to do with a lot of emotions. How a person feels about themselves and someone else that is in their life. How it feels to be in love and how much it hurts to fall out of ove. Some of my music is about the good and bad relationship we may go through in our lives.
The music talks about hoe much this special someone had captured my heart or how crazy in love I may have been with someone and who his eyes had st on someone else. Now some of the music I have tells a story about life in general, about family, growing up, and relationships. I have to say this type of music mostly comes from my country music collection. Like Patsy Cline, Barbra Mandrel, Kenny Rogers and my love songs come from all my collections. All this music touches me in so many different ways.
There are also certain songs in my collection that take me back in time, which reminds me of what I was going through and feeling at the time I heard that song. Some of the songs make me feel good inside and put a smile on my face and some make me cry. It's like as if the artist wrote those songs just for me. I have to say the way I choose my music through the years had to do with the way the lyrics of the songs touched me, as the music had to have a meaning in my life. The song either explained my feelings at the time or it lifted me up or it just brought joy and made me dance as if I had happy feet.
We could say when I was in a relationship I listen to a lot of love songs and when my heart was broken I listen to broken hearted love songs. These kinds of songs were mostly the oldies like songs that came stright from the heart.
Some of my music collections also had to do with the artist, as with how they sang the songs and their musical backgrouud. Also how they made it as a singer and how some of their songs had to do with their lives, as by knowing this about htem I could relate to the artist's music a lot more. I could tell that the lyrics of their songs came from deep down inside their soul, so when the artist sang the song they sang it with so much emotion to where I could tell what the artist was trying to say. The songs touched me in a big way, and knowing about the artist help me to relate to their music better.
The music that I have listened to throughout the years hasn't changed; just new artist and their songs have been added to my long collection of music. My style of music had stayed the same, as it is still R&B, Country, Oldies and love songs. This is the type of music that has made a difference throughtout my life and will continue to. Music will always be a big part in my life.

How Music Has Influenced My Life

How Music Has Influenced My Life

Music has always played an important part throughout my life. Music has help me to express my feelings though out my life, as certain songs has help me to go through different things in my life. As far back as I could remember music has brought a lot of both joy and sandness into my heart.
I've taken music classes as far back as the 3rd grade and I didn't only like to listen to it I liked to sing it as well too. Music would inspire me, when I sang a song, as I felt the music go on through my body. My emotions went with the lyrics of the music and when I sang I felt I was someone important. When I sang, I would sing with no emotion, as I wanted my song to touch my audience and touch their emotions. I wanted mu audience to feel what I was feeling inside. I wanted their soul to take the lyrics of the song and change it to an emotional feeling.
There's a lot of ways that music has help me throughout my life. When I fell in love the lyrics of some songs expressed the way I was feeling at the time. It helped me to espress the love I had in mu heart, so strongly. It help me to express my feelings in words, where I would write them down and then I would share then with the special someone. When I was gong through hard times and I felt so alone, music help me to understand the hurt and frustrations I was feeling. It helped me through it, by helping me to let my out my feelings. I had felt so many times throughout my life that some of the songs I listen to told my life story just by saying what I was feeling and going through. Music sometimes helped me to fine solutions to my struggles I would be going through. When i didn't feel loved, I would feel so alone. I would sing " What the World Needs Now Is Love Sweet Love". That was the perfect song for the way I was feeling at the time and the song made me understand the emotions I was going through. I was letting out my feelings with this song. To this day, I could hear a certain song and it takes me back in time to somewhere in my past. When that song became a big part of my life, and by listening to this song I could tell you what I was going through and feeling at the time, as it's like writing a diary through music.
There are a lot songs that have a big part of my life; I could honestly say they could tell my whole life story. Music has changed my life and music has helped me to stay on the right road and help me to make the right choices in my life. Music also has help me to see how I fitted into this crummy world we live in and how we could make a difference in this world we live in. As long as music continues to reach out to me the way it has my understanding and appreciation for music will grow, becuase it will continue to touch my soul.