The viewer also listens to the words from the letters, which are the lyrics of the song that Eminem is singing. ... The second letter is very disturbing. ... Being drunk and careless, Stan forgets that there is no way to send the cassette to Slim Shady as he drives off of a bridge to his death having never mailed the cassette he had just recorded. ... Critics of Eminem believe that he is a disturbed and perverted rapper and his lyrics are unsuitable for society. ... His lyrics are at times beyond profane, offending many listeners yet at the same time entertaining them. ...

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Those lyrics wouldn't necessarily affect you. ... In one song they say, "that if f--- with Dre you f--- with death row... Death Row Records has recently had its own wake-up call. ... He negotiated a $10 million deal to start up Death Row Records (Cheevers A1). Now Death Row Records is known as the only label that can do whatever they want. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Obviously, it's always been a major challenge for anyone to find a direct link between the lyrics of any song and virtually anyone's behavior, whether good or bad. ... Another point raised is that references to the song "12- by the group Insane Clown Posse were also made in a letter attributed to Eric Harris. The music of Marilyn Manson is believed partly responsible for the December 12, 1996 suicide death of Richard Kuntz a Burlington, North Dakota teenager who was listening to Manson's "The Reflecting God- at the time of his death, a song his friends say he was always playi...

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Many of the critics blame it on the so-called "GANGSTA RAP", because of the explicit lyrics in the music. ... Each letter gets progressively worse, as Eminem never answers Stan's letters. ... Eminem, being busy finally answers the letter, only to find out that a lunatic he read about was indeed Stan. ... All reports from concert deaths have never once reported that moshing was the cause of the death. Some of you may be saying to yourself, 'Wait a minute, what about that death at a Smashing Pumpkins concert a couple years ago in Ireland?' ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Here are the lyrics to a song by a Heavy/Nu-Metal band called Psycoma: "Why did he die for me?" ... "Nina received this letter from this teenager who was in this hard-core music shop. ... The song just made him stop and then he started reading the lyrics. ... When he wrote them the letter, he was apologizing for shoplifting the tape and also thanked them for what they were doing." ... I started to read the lyrics of my secular music and compared it to the Christian bands. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

From his mother, he gained the revolutionary aspect in his lyrics and his concern for political issues. ... The struggles of the ghetto life and his friends would influence his lyrics to come. ... All of this he accomplished before his death at the young age of 25. ... He was motivated by the death of a close friend. ... Come to Marin City and already I've seen death." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A part of the lyrics to this song that stood out to me was, "Segregation, determination, demonstration, integration, Aggravation, humiliation, obligation to our nation. ... " The lyrics deliver a strong political message, saying that the world is being ripped apart because we are segregating people based on the color of their skin, causing the nation to become a big ball of confusion. ... His death caused Moody to open her eyes to what it was like to be a black person during this point of time. ... Moody ignores her mama's threatening letter and goes to the convention in Jackson...

• Word Count: 1133
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• Grade Level: High School

A part of the lyrics to this song that stood out to me was, "Segregation, determination, demonstration, integration, Aggravation, humiliation, obligation to our nation. ... " The lyrics deliver a strong political message, saying that the world is being ripped apart because we are segregating people based on the color of their skin, causing the nation to become a big ball of confusion. ... His death caused Moody to open her eyes to what it was like to be a black person during this point of time. ... Moody ignores her mama's threatening letter and goes to the convention in Jackson...

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Numerous parents are scared to death that their child will be influenced by music enough to act violently or suicidal. One parent, in a letter to Senator Joseph Lieberman wrote, "Our children are quietly being destroyed (dying), by this man's[Marilyn Manson] music, by ones and twos in scattered isolation throughout our nation today." It is true that some of Manson's lyrics promote suicide, but how impressionable are youths, really? ... Additionally, the majority of well-to-do children do not listen to Marilyn Manson or other lyrics promoting similar ideas. ... What they neglect t...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the author's words, "He [Hughes] won an athletic letter in track and held offices in student council, and the American Civil Association" (Byers 18). ... As stated by Rummel, " He joined the Writers War Board, penning articles for newspapers, composing lyrics with W.C. ... The impact of Langston Hughes lives on past his death. ...

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Fitzgerald wrote for the Nassau Literary Magazine and the Princeton Tiger and wrote scripts and lyrics for Princeton Triangle Club musicals while going to Princeton(Bruccoli). ... Fitzgerald's father was unable to keep a job, so they lived off his grandfathers estate left behind after his death. ... He said in a letter to a friend, "Zelda's been sick in bed for five weeks, poor child, and only now is looking up...I am quite drunk..."...

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We experience through Bernis, love, adventure, and death. ... He was mentioned only at the time of their sons death, and it shows the emotions that he suffers, and the grieving process that everyone takes. ... His character may seem insignificant but he offers wise advise to Bernis, before his death at the end of the novel. ... She tells of how she needed to escape the feeling of imprisonment brought about by her sons death. ... His experiences during the flights, are described in all of his novels: Night Flight (Vol de Nuit, 1931), Southern Mail (Courrier Sud, 1929), Flight to Arras (Pilote d...

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• Grade Level: High School

Her scream was loud, she felt like she was going to die, and the skulls in that scene represent her near death experience. ... The lyrics connect to Frida; a broken heart will take time to heal, and only time will do the healing. ... Diego gives her a smile and replies, "That's practically a letter of recommendation Frida I miss us." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

" Both poems engage in ambiguous word usage, pastoral images and sense of realism, which draw attention to his vivid lyrics and elusive quality of style. ... Gurney continued to write from his asylum up until his death in 1937 (140). ... For Gurney, things like nobility and pride, once emphasized in his poems, were now changed to symbols of futility and death. ... The letter is sent to a dead soldier's girlfriend and describes the horrific remains of the soldier, depicting resentment towards participating in the war. ... In describing the death of the soldier, Gurney attempts to vi...

• Word Count: 2929
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Tired of being scapegoats for the capitalistic drug dealing", he raps in his song "Letter to the President". ... The album was bursting with militant lyrics, illustrating violence between the police and young black males. Most stories in which violence encounters, often leads to death and imprisonment. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

John Lennon had a profound affect on American society, young to old; 1964 to present day; and his death now 20 years gone and solve still have controversies that neither his wife nor the FBI will admit. ... In February 1962, the New York rock and roll radio station, WINS, played sixty-six straight hours of Frank Sinatra, as a death notice to rock and roll. ... The Beatles additionally used repetition in their music, in not only the lyrics but also the music. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

After the death he was given to Lucretia Auld the wife of Thomas Auld. ... Douglass was the first slave to stand publicly and declare his fugitive status, became a prolific lecturer, and published many newspapers during his lifetime which he devoted to causes in the name of  "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"  for  all, as set forth in the United States Declaration of Independence Preface: Some narratives began with a preface and for this book, there is a preface and it begins by William Lloyd Garrison and a letter to Douglass from Wendell Phillips, he starts out his preface b...

• Word Count: 2694
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• Grade Level: High School

Many modern day musicians share their hardships as lyrics in songs. ... In a letter to Wegeler he wrote, " I must confess that I am living a miserable life. ... The "Heiligenstadt Testament", which was written October 8 & 10, said, " for it was drawn in the village of Heiligenstadt where he resided at the time the document, not discovered until after Beethoven's death voiced his despair at the realization that the most important sense of his being, the sense of hearing was inexorably failing." ...

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The warriors surrounding him then raised their clubs, as though ready to beat him to death if ordered. ... Pocahontas the Kings dearest daughter, when no intreaty could prevaile, got his head in her armes, and laid her owne vpon his to saue him from death-. ... First and foremost, Smith wrote several accounts of his capture by Powhatan and he only added Pocahontas to the story in a letter to the Queen in 1616. ...

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In 1817, shortly before Cuffe's death, the American Colonization Society was founded to accomplish his plan with greater efficiency. ... Members were reminded that their last names were names that had been imposed on them by the "White Devils" and that they should drop their Christian last name and substitute it with the letter X until their true names were revealed to them. ...

• Word Count: 4261
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The beginning chapter sets up the problems of the entire novel with great efficiency. It tells us what is going on at present with Obi's trial and backtracks to the past in order to reveal what kind of man Obi is: an educated man, a young man who is Nigerian but who has studied in England. Most significantly, this first chapter juxtaposes the two extreme cultures that are at work in the novel as a result of colonialism. The scene between Mr. Green and the British Councilman, and the scene among the Umuofia Progressive Union are juxtaposed against each other to illustrate their differen...

• Word Count: 7844
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School