A wise man once said, “Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out” –John Wooden. Many people can surely agree with this statement and can relate to it in different ways. The saying about the glass half full or half empty comes to mind: if you stay positive and never get too down on yourself, then everything will work out. Based on a true story, Margarita Engle uses symbolism and imagery, to create vivid images and demonstrates how one girl’s courage changed music, in the poem “Drum Dream Girl”.
Dreams are a part of each person’s life that allows them to set goals for their future. One dream may be simple, but others allow them to achieve the impossible. There is that one goal that anyone and everyone wants to
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Dreams can be powerful and are bursting with potential for future endeavors. Millo’s determination to become a drummer soon opened up opportunities, not only for her, but for many other female drummers in Cuba. Only at the age fifteen, Millo played bongo drums at a birthday celebration for U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, where she was cheered on by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. She became a world-famous musician, playing with the greats of the American jazz era. Thanks to Millo, there are now many female drummers in Cuba. Millo’s courage to become a drummer is no longer an impossible dream for girls on the island. Gender differences were enormous in Cuba before the Cuban revolution. Additionally, the courage of the “Drum Dream Girl”, makes a thought come to mind about Dreamers right here in the United States. Young people who stepped forward to identify themselves with the hope of a pathway to citizenship. Brought to the United States as children, they are American in every way, except on paper. These young people went to American schools, grew up in American communities, pay taxes, and contribute to society, “but are waiting for their dream of legal citizenship.” (Kirkus Review). Millo’s story is about tenacity, equality, and following your dreams no matter what. Despite being told that only boys can play drums, and her father’s disapproval, she keeps practicing, dreaming, and drumming. She was continually reminded that girls are not allowed to play the drums, but as the poem says, “the brave drum dream girl dared to play” anyway. Imagine a ten-year-old girl of Cuban, Chinese and African descent, changing such a long-held taboo. “I believe this feminist book is very important for both girls and boys to read, as it encourages everyone to follow their dreams and show girls that they don’t need to be afraid to do anything just because they are a girl.”
Rachel M. Harper’s The Myth of Music intentionally weaves together 1960s era jazz music and a poor African American family via metaphor and allusion to show a deep familiar bond between father and daughter.
Dreams are there to make the illusion of the impossible, you must always strive to do the impossible. Two people have shown that it is possible to achieve the impossible, and those two people are Althea Gibson and Barbara Jordan, and those two people had done their absolute best to make sure that they make it, and to make sure they make they succeed in life. In the article Althea Gibson and Barbara C. Jordan, both written by Frank Lafe They were both faced with obstacles that didn't want them to succeed, they had dreams that had seemed impossible for them to be able to achieve at that time. Both of them had different environments that affected their future, the environments around people affect the person too. All of those describe the lives
People have goals everyday, believe it or not some people think that dreams aren't worth it. I believe that it is worth it to dream because it gives a person a goal, it makes them feel good, and it makes them stronger. I know this from The Pearl, A Cubs video, the Susan Boyle video, and We Beat the streets.
“Summer’s Choice” gives us insight on a student who is “at-risk” when in reality she is extremely talented. The author showed us why we view these students as non-beneficial members to society but then we understand how we are entirely wrong. Through the use of pathos in sights and sounds we get a first-hand look at these students who are viewed in the wrong way because all these students need is an opportunity to be successful in
Harvey Mackay once said, “A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadl...
In the face of early US colonization, Puerto Rican culture came under the same conflicts as it did under Spanish rule, and reacted much in the same way. While US intervention may have masked the appearance of "true" Puerto Rican music and culture, the lives and the works of the Puerto Ricans themselves showed that it is possible to both accept new cultural themes and to struggle to preserve one’s native culture at the same time. Works Cited Glasser, Ruth. A. A. My Music is my Flag: Puerto Rican Musicians and Their New York.
A 'Dream' can be defined in as an ideal. The American dream is to be
In the poem “Interlude,” Annette Hope Billings describes the art of music in a heartfelt way. She uses a unique approach where she talks about how music is in a sense conveyed to her and the rest of the world. A reader can recognize at the end of this poem that Billings has a passion and appreciation for music. In the same sense, a reader can also take with them that music and human beings sort of intertwine and connect, they go hand in hand, like where an “art and artist convene” (Billings 16). Also, the intent of this poem may be to open other reader’s eyes and show them that music is a warm, essential gift to life and it should not be taken for granted, but glorified for what kind of works it does through people’s lives.
Carol Bailey argues that the poem’s primary refrain, "this is how," demonstrates a clear emphasis on particular ways one believed or taught to act, and it calls attention to a type of performance that allows the young female to reinforce where she belongs in the community of respectable women (Carol Bailey 106). The social norms and gender conduct in the Caribbean is a setting where females are constantly aware of how their body is shaped and how their behaviors are shown in order to reinforce dominant gender ideologies. She is responsible for training her daughter to gain the abilities to discover her roles through knowledge, and also responsible for providing her daughter with inner and social safety. In addition, in the society, it is necessary for a mother to be fully aware of the significance of her daughter’s adolescent stage; she has to direct her daughter’s potentials through useful activities while she maintains a healthy, relationship with her daughter.
Amy Beach was a very famous and influential composer and pianist from New Hampshire, United States. She fought long and hard to get to where she got in her lifetime. Back in the late 1800’s, it was hard for women to get noticed because they believe that their role in society was to stay at home and take care of the family. Amy Beach defeated all the odds of a female gender role in her lifetime. She became a role model for young girls wanting to become a composer or becoming anything they wanted to be, as long as they fought for it. She has made an enormous impact on music in America. The following paper will discuss Beach’s life, her struggles, her musical training, how her music was shaped by the society she lived in and famous compositions
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” This quote from Walt Disney addressing the concept of achieving dreams is very accurate, and can be seen throughout literature today and in the past. Dreams can give people power or take away hope, and influence how people live their lives based upon whether they have the determination to attack their dreams or not; as seen through characters like the speaker in Harlem by Langston Hughes and Lena and Walter Younger in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in The Sun.
... need to do is truly believe in the dream themselves so others can be passionate about it too.
All dreams are different for everyone! Even if two people have the same ‘’dream’’ they mean it in a different way! Dreams are things that make people! Not all dreams come true but some live from
For many of us, one of the most accurate and effective ways to express the feelings that really matter to us is through music. We don’t only grow to attached to songs that are catchy, but also those with lyrics that we can relate to. It is not uncommon to feel like sometimes, artists can convey the way we feel better than we could ourselves. The storybook-like lines you read at the start of this page are a collection of lyrics
Oprah Winfrey once said, “The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.” But, what actually is a dream and what do dreams really have to do with one’s everyday life? In essence, a dream is a series of mental images and emotions occurring during a slumber. Dreams can also deal with one’s personal aspirations, goals, ambitions, and even one’s emotions, such as love and hardship. However, dreams can also give rise to uneasy and terrible emotions; these dreams are essentially known as nightmares.