The motley crew, made up of sailors and slaves led fights, revolts, and rebellions that stirred a change in America and led to the American Revolution. The sailors and slaves repeatedly received the short end of the stick in the British Colonial Empire. In response, they were unafraid to start conflicts and instigate hostilities between themselves and the upper class of merchants and plantation owners. They led rebellions against the injustices they saw, from press-gangs to worker’s wage riots and the re-enslavement of free-men. The motley crew led to politicians believing that all men are equal with unalienable rights, not just British land-owning men. The concept of equality for “all” became a founding principal of America. The acts of the lower class in the motley crew led to an inspirational revolution in America and many other countries to follow.
The Wordy Shipmates is Sarah Vowells humorous version of the Puritan’s journey to America, and the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Puritans people became John Winthrop’s “city upon a hill”. Vowell defines what it really means and what it should mean to be a “puritan nation”; America still views itself as a Puritan nation. She mentions founders of the Massachusetts bay colony to be, John Winthrop, Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams, John Cotton and others. Vowell explains how these people’s ideas contributed to the settlement of America.
The Beastie Boys. Need I say more? When most think of the rambunctious rap group from that came straight out of the 1980’s, they think about girls, partying, crude humor and maybe some music in between. Although The Beastie Boys as a group did a few things that had never been done before in music history. Thats pretty incredible considering nobody expected something so revolutionary to come from three middle class white jewish kids from New York.
From 2001 to today, Fall Out Boy has become one of the iconic teenage boy-bands. If you were to start playing it in a room full of females, there’s a 80% chance someone would start screaming. The legacy began in Illinois as a hard-core rock band, where Patrick Stump, Pete Wentz, and Joe Trohman (they went through a series of drummers before deciding on Andy Hurley) stood in Joe’s garage fishing for old, battered instruments. There they created their first album, Take This to Your Grave. Next, they produced From Under the Cork Tree, Infinity on High, and the flop of Folie a Deux, before they went on hiatus just to come back three years later and create Save Rock and Roll.
My Chemical Romance’s album Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge was an important album for the emo genre of music. Three Cheers was significant because it created an era that was important for the band, and the album itself was significant. What My Chemical Romance did with the Three Cheers album was important because it received commercial success which helped influence their successors. Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge is a major album because it created an important era for the band and influenced the emo genre.
The American Revolution is arguably the turning point of American history as it resulted in somewhat of a significant, positive change in politics, economics, and society as a whole. However, from 1775 to 1800, the effects of the revolution on the American society were subtle as most principles glorified by revolutionists contradicted the examples set forth by colonial reality. Perhaps most alike to revolutionary beliefs was the American economy and how it participated in free trade or encouraged the independence of hard labor. Politically, the states did apply Enlightenment and republican ideas as promised, but more often than not, the benefits of such ideas were limited to rich, land-owning, protestant, white men. This glorification of
The chapters of our textbook, America: A Narrative History, written by George Brown Tindall and David Emory Shi, takes us on a historical yet comparative journey of the road to war and what caused the American Revolution, an insight into the war itself, and a perception to what life was like in America after the war was over. The essays of the book, America Compared: American History in International Perspective, collected by Carl J. Guarneri gives us a global context and a comparison between the North and South Americas in the dividing issues of labor, slavery, taxes, politics, economy, liberty, and equality. Part One These chapters in our textbook Tindall describes; the road to the American Revolution, the road to the surrendering of the British, and the road to the American colonists receiving their independence and developing the government which the people of the United States will be governed by. The road to the American Revolution consisted of several events, which escalated to the war that began April 19, 1775, as the tensions between the American colonies and the British Government advanced towards breaking point.
On the guided tour of the Freedom Trail, specifically the Allegiance to Revolution tour, the retelling of the American Revolution concentrating on the white, upper class male allows for a dramatization and limited perspective of American history. The tour, which traveled from Faneuil Hall, to Paul Revere’s home, and finally the Old North Church, focused on the events between 1774 and 1775 that led the New Englanders to switch from trying to remain loyal to Great Britain and wanting a revolution for freedom. Instead of providing a complete portrayal of the New England people and their involvement in the events leading up to the American Revolution, the tour guide mentioned only men, specifically highlighting those in high social classes and
Metallica Introduction Bew to doo daa! Is how Metallica played the guitar they played their music fast to get new fans. Metallica had many members, join and leave, but the main people were James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich. Metallica learned to play the guitar fast so they could get new fans but also they lost some fans. Metallica had many big hits.
The House of Blues in Boston offers guests a wide variety of muscial performances to enjoy year-round as well as local art and Southern cuisine. The heart of the venue, however, is grounded in its deep feelings of tradition and community. The first House of Blues was opened in 1992 in Harvard by celebrities Dan Aykroyd, Aerosmith, Paul Shaffer, James Belushi and River Phoenix. Though the original House of Blues has since closed, nine venues are currently running across the United States, including the Boston venue that opened in 2009.
One of my fondest memories has always been waking up every day of summer to the slight hint of sound of the Beach Boys’ “Surfin’ USA” playing in the backround of my whole entire house. That melody, in my house, meant my Dad was going surfing. Technically, he was blasting that song in the garage while waxing his surfboards, but it was so loud that it would echo into the house. If I wasn’t lazy, I would jump out of bed, eat the bacon he made me knowing I would wake up ready to surf with the “Beach Boys” cue, and then hop into the car to go surfing with him. My dad grew up, and still is, obsessed with the Beach Boys, therfore, I grew up always listening to them.
“The revolution awakened black consciousness and black pride throughout the Atlantic world, but it caused great fear among whites and led many to tighten the grips they help on their slaves.” The increase in violence towards the slaves came from the threat Americans saw of their slaves hearing of the Haitian revolt. Although the Haitian revolt scared American slave masters and increased inflicted violence, the revolution would inspire the great accomplishment of further slave revolts freeing slaves from all over the
Rock Out! Towards the end of eighth grade, that was the time that I learned what type of music I was interested in, and it was rock music. Thinking nothing of how ‘strange’ it may be, I was happy. All until I hit the middle of ninth grade where some kid heard me talking about some of my favorite bands. “Isn’t rock music for white people?
Higher Music Technology: Indie Music Homework. Indie music was the sound of late 1970s and 1980s Britain’s youth. It adopted the persona of many of the disaffected youth of the day who did not want to listen to the heavily-edited, heavily-affected popular music being churned out by the major record labels of the time; instead they wanted a drier, trashier sound which aligned with their culture at the time.
The American Revolution (1700-1790) was a historical event in time, where the Thirteen Colonies that became the United States of America, gained independence from the British Empire. Many historians would agree that the Revolution was caused by events and the growing differences between the colonists and England. The cause of the American Revolution could be summarized in the saying ‘liberty vs. tyranny’. The American Revolution was a struggle by liberty-loving Americans to free themselves from a dictatorial British rule. In this period, the Colonies protested against the British Empire and entered into the American Revolutionary War, also known as the American War of Independence.
In elementary school we are taught that the colonists revolted for the benefit of all people. We were lied too. The phrase “all men are created equal” completely overlooked most of the population. Americans still saw indians as second class citizens, blacks as being only property, and women were nothing without a husband by their side. The word “men” referred to only white, wealthy, landowners.