Hozier Interview – LGBT Community Interview with Andrew Hozier-Byrne, professionally known by the mononym, Hozier, is a singer song-writer from Dublin, Ireland. What inspired you to make a song like “Take me to Church”? “4 years ago, I was in my house fumbling around with some lyrics, chords and trying to find a right chorus for this song. I was frustrated with organizations, (especially religion like the Catholic Church) that has a history of mistreating gays or determining what is natural to humans. I feel like sexuality, and sexual orientation- regardless of the orientation – is just natural. So I made a song about it.” How did you get the idea of making the music video for “Take me to Church” “The music video itself,is a stark black-and-white clip about a homosexual man who gets brutally beaten by a gang of thugs while his lover looks on helplessly. The video refrences what is going on in Russia. They passed anti-gay laws, that restricted...
Martin Luther King Jr – “I have a Dream” In Martin Luther King Jr.’s (MLK) speech, “I have a dream”, delivered on 28 th of August 1963, uses rhetoric language and literary devices like Logos and Pathos predominately, but also metaphors, anaphoras, amplification and others to create the mood of hope and believe for African Americans. MLK wrote this speech in a tone of importance to establish the idea of injustice for African Americans. Martin Luther King delivered “I had a dream” on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the Capital, Washington D.C, in front of two-hundred thousand people, both black and white. He delivered “I have a dream” in front of the symbolic and historic monument because Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, that abolished slavery for African Americans. This is significant because MLK uses the metaphor, “…But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still ...
Blog Post Power and privilege 1. Which social groups are marginalized, excluded or silenced within the text? In the article, “For women under 30, Most births occur outside of Marriage”, women are being marginalized for having children outside of marriage. The author uses bias with diction and tone, bias through selection and omission, and bias by source control give a negative connotations to women that have children outside of wedlock. The author marginalizes women into the traditional societal views of women should not have “illegitimate” children. The author constantly uses negative connotations to change the opinion of the reader and try to administer a more conservative perspective on women and children, and traditional martial roles. Reader, Culture, and Text 1. How could a text be read and interpreted differently by two different readers? The article “For women under 30, Most births occur outside of Mar...
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