Breaking down "Rolling in the Deep" by Adele

There's a fire starting in my heart, (hurt is entering my heart)
Reaching a fever pitch and it's bringing me out the dark. (Reaching intense agitation, and its revealing something to me)
Finally I can see you crystal clear (I see the real person that you are)
Go ahead and sell me out and I'll lay your ship bare.  (Go ahead and do me wrong, and I’ll take away all that you have and leave you without any love, leave you with what you started with)
See how I'll leave, with every piece of you (see how ill break your heart and have you missing me)
don’t underestimate the things that I will do. (Don’t doubt that I will have an effect on you)

There's a fire starting in my heart, (hurt is entering my heart)
Reaching a fever pitch and it's bringing me out the dark. (Getting to a point of intense agitation, and its revealing something to me)
The scars of your love, remind me of us. (The hurt you’ve had in your life, was present in our relationship)
They keep me thinking that we almost had it all (we preserved through your issues so that we could be together and it worked for some time) (chorus)

The scars of your love, they leave me breathless (the hurt inside your heart, makes me second guess about trusting you, I’m always on guard and always hold back from you) I can't help feeling 

We could of had it all (I always thought I could fix you and make “us” work)
Rolling in the deep (diving deep into love)
You had my heart inside your hand (you had all of my love and the control over my heart)
And you played it to the beat (and u did like you always do, you stayed harsh and your heart stayed callused, not letting me in)

                 The main idea of the song “Rolling in the Deep” by Adele is that a woman and man are or were in a relationship and how the woman is wishing and hoping that their relationship could have lasted through their hardships. But Adele addresses the man’s mindset of love many times by identifying it with “scars of love”.  This phrase refers to the hardships that the man has had in his past relationships with other people. And she says at different parts of the song that they (the scars of love) remind her of them and that they leave her breathless. The scars of love remind her of them, possibly because the same internal problems that he has, came up in their relationship. And when she said “the scars of your love, leave me breathless” it made me think that either his past hurt  that made the guy so callused with his feelings, made the woman not want to put her all in the relationship and always kept her holding back from him.  “Breathless” makes me think of a person not being able to relax and there is so much tension inside of them.  

                In the beginning of the song, the mood of the poem is a lot stand-off ish and threatening. She seems a lot less vulnerable at the start of this song.  The woman actually threatens the man when she says “See how I'll leave, with every piece of you, don’t underestimate the things that I will do.”She saying right there that even if you break up with me, ill take all of you with me so do not doubt your feelings for me either.

Propaganda and Politics

These two subjects go hand and hand anytime there is an election and people are trying to promote themselves. I have witnessed it numerous times before and it's a tactic that has become apart of a politicians nature. They can't survive without it. But what I hate about political figures using propoganda is that they use it as a 'crutch' so to speak. When they don't have many good things to say about themselves and they can't use their experience alone to advertise themselves to the public, they pull other things out of their competitors' past to ruin them and their platform. It's actually really pathetic. If a person running for a political position has things in their past that need to be exposed,they will come to the light. It's nottheir competitors' job to expose it for them. And if a person's opponents work overtime to try and ruin them, that only shows that the opponents are afraid that the other person might win. This tactic, if used totear someoneelse down, only reeks of fear and jealousy. Politicians should worry about their own campaigns and use propaganda to benefit themselves and not to harm others

Beat Street

Beat Street is nothing like a movie I've seen before. I've watched some movies about hip hop, but never like this one. One aspect I like about it is that it includes a driven plot of a real story while educating me about the ins and outs of hip hop. For example before watching this move I never knew that the idea of hip-hop not only included sick beats and slick rhymes, but also the artistic styles of graffiti and the back-breaking moves of break dancing. Its all intertwined together and neither can survive without the other. And I really cant decide which aspect of Hip-Hop I like better in this movie. First of all, the graffiti just mesmerizes me because I cant just draw to save my life and the way that Ramo effortlessly drew these murals and how he just dreamed them up in his head. He was a free-lance artist that used the world around him as his canvas and he made it beautiful with every spray. Then the dancing is on a whole other level. My body could never move like that. And even though those dances look outdated, I just cant deny that they were some good dancers. And I cant forget the way that some of the characters experimented with the music and proved  how anything could fit together, in some type of arrangement, to make a good sound.

And the one thing that ties all of these characters together is their passion. Whatever it was that they did, it wasn't just a hobby, but it was a definite part of their life that they couldn't survive without. The pride that they had in their artwork, dancing, or music was undeniable. A prime example of this is how Ramo got so excited when he saw a all-white train. He was astounded and determined to be the one to tag it. So yeah. Its been a good movie so far. And I cant wait to finish the movie.
   

Is Richard all alone with his hunger?

Richard, is without a doubt not alone in his hunger for attention. Lots of people have resorted to the tactics of Richard in our present day world to get attention. This craving for attention can reside inside a child in a big family, a child in a family like Richard's, or in a child with no family at all. All kids want someone to be proud of them, teach them right from wrong, and most importantly to nurture and care about them.
And this hunger is not only present in children but in people of all ages. Anyone is susceptible to feeling lonely and unwanted. Even though children are more prone to this type of feeling than adults, it can happen to anyone. And  I think age really doesn't make a difference. Some children act like Richard and some just become very reserved and cold-hearted not wanting to trust anyone. And adults are the same way. They will either act out by tainting their lives with drugs and other dangerous activity or just develop a very callused personality and spirit that will make it hard for anyone to love them again.

My own research on what it means to "be an American"

I read to entries posted on the Internet about different peoples' point of views and opinions on what they think it means to be an American. The first one I read was from the perspective of a first-time deployment soldier, Sgt. Brian White, of the Task Force Marne. This essay was selected from the Constitution Day essay contest held by the Task Force Marne.

Does the king still reign???

Is Dr. Martin Luther King still relevant today? Are the battles that he fought during his time, still being fought for today? Are all of the issues gone? I say of course not! In terms of racism there is either a lot less or people are just a lot more secretive about it. Either way people are a lot more cautious and less bold with their segregating ideas and racist lifestyles due to vital figures like Dr. King that worked tirelessly for the rights of all minorities

My response to "Children of the Sea" and "This Sacred Soil"

Sooooooooooooo... We've started reading our short stories in class and truthfully I'm kind of excited because short stories always have a lot of underlying meaning and are intended to capture it's readers' attention quickly because it's a short story. The story that has best exhibited this quaility is "the chidren of the Sea" by Edwidge Dannicat. This story was good from start to finish and always kept my attention. These journals between a boy and a girl from Haiti were both riveting and sad. Both of their lives were in turmoil the entire time and hese journals seemed to be their escape and their way to calm down. The difference between the two peoples' backgrounds are very apparent. The guy and girl love each other but show their emotions differently like the boy is very affectionate and always shows it but the girl unknowlingly doesn't show her feelings until almost the last journal between them. And both of them a going through horrible times and lots of their problems symbolize their fear of something they knew nothing about: slavery. Whether they were slaves of their own country or on a boat leading to God knows where, thy were not free.
On the other hand, "This Sacred Soil" was a speech that Chief Seattle said to Govenor Stevens in the 1800's. He talked about how it the Indian people were being wiped out and the "white men" were continuously populating America. And even though it seems like this is supposed to be a sad speech, the courage and overcoming attitude that it gives off iss incredible. It's like Chief Seattle was saying "yes, you may be taking over now but this will always be our land, we will always be here in one form or another, and this land means more to us than it ever will to you."