Category: Blog 3

Suffering Silently

I’d want to focus on how men experience, express, and cope with grief. The loss of a loved one is painful for anyone, but how do societal expectations of men affect their own experience of that loss? Both grief and masculinity are topics that can’t be directly or accurately measured in terms of intensity, but …

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What is the behavior that comes with depression?

Title: What is the behavior of a human with depression In my last assignment I was discussing what comes with depression. What I mean by “What comes with it” is what are the side effects people suffer with when they are depressed, and what the timeline of them can be. I also think that depression …

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Blog 3

Potential Title: The Making of a Celebrity My topic is essentially about fame and celebrities. At first, I was unsure what I wanted to write about for the essay (lowkey still a little bit unsure). The song I chose “The Show Goes On” is an uplifting song that talks about struggling and continuing to persevere. …

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Does Violent Music equal Violent Life ?

Potential Title: Does Violent Music equal Violent Life ? Basically, my topic comes from the concerns many have about listening to hip hop or rap music and the influence it has on teens and their emotions or actions. I noticed when watching and analyzing the video I chose for my last assignment, there was a …

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Shooting down gun control laws

Title: Shooting down gun control laws Description of topic:  In the song “This is America”, Childish Gambino addresses the issue of gun violence in America whether it be in his lyrics or in the visuals. One of the purposes of the video is to show how easily firearms are accessible and the damage it does …

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Serving a Plate of Mass Incarceration and Racial Injustice

(get it? Serving? Prisons? Jokes become less funny after you explain it :’) ) The topic I chose for this paper is the prevalence of mass incarceration amongst poor communities of color and the role and history of the criminal justice system in subjugating blacks in America. In Michael Jackson’s prison version music video of …

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The Other Cowboys

Potential title for essay: The Other Cowboys Listening to the Highwayman song, it’s an old country song sung by four old white men with the music video showing nothing about people of color. All of the people shown in the video are white, but surely there had to have been some people of color in …

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Systematic Racism in America

Racism means what makes one see another with suspicion or even attribute the negative characteristics to a whole group of people. It manifests itself in individual thought and the workings of the society. Unaddressed systemic racism happens in America and has been so before the founding of the nation. Slavery was the original sin of …

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Impact of climate change

The music video I analyzed for the last assignment is Earth Song by Michael Jackson. From the title, most people will have an idea of what this song and the music videos are about. I gather serval potential topics among environmental issues mentioned in the video; deforestation, climate change, pollution, and war. Among these topics, …

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The effects of drug cartels on local and international communities

The effects of drug cartels on local and international communities.  The song that I chose is called Blinding Lights by The Weeknd, and basically the song spoke out about drug abuse and the effects it can have on a person’s personal relationship. After having written my paper, I watched a Vice documentary about drug cartels …

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Clock In, Clock Out. Workplace Discrimination in America

Clock In, Clock Out. Workplace Discrimination in America For my topic, I decided to take the major theme of the music video that I did and explored all the topics involved in it. As soon as I saw that the research paper had to be based on the music video, I thought of the significant …

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A Digital Office, a real Family

My topic was able to stem both from the music video “Without Me” by Eminem, but it also pertains to the situation we have at hand now. As technology progresses more and more of our careers can be handled to some extent remotely. Basically, a majority of jobs in the tech industry can be remote, …

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Understanding Stress

I originally wrote about the song Stressed Out by Twenty One Pilots. The song spoke about the urge to turn back time due to the challenges of adulthood. Many different scenarios and reasonings were mentioned in the song but all of them involved one similar variable: being stressed out about it. By the end of …

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Blog 3

The effects of plastic surgery on Beauty standards. My previous assignment was analyzing a video involving a woman discovering the negative side effects that come with receiving plastic surgery. We follow her on a short journey as she uncovers the sad truth hidden behind the beauty of plastic surgery. Now, I want to explore where …

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Blog 3

Title: Decades of change My topic is on police violence and how they are seen by the public eye. The reason I am doing this topic is because of the Black Lives Matter movement that surged within the past month. It has been surged up by the killing of George Floyd. The murderer is a …

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