The theme of the song “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” by The Band is surviving defeat. The speaker of the song, Virgil Caine has determination, he swears that he will stand his ground and not be defeated; “I swear by the mud below my feet, you can’t raise a Caine back up when he’s in defeat”. Virgil Caine is a soldier in the Civil War who returned home after the defeat of the South. He feels grief because he lost his older brother in the war, “And like my brother above me”, “a Yankee laid him in his grave”. Despite his loss he continues to be a hardworking man who is proud to continue in the footsteps of his father and work the land as shown in the lines “Now I don't mind choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good” and
The general point of the song “Alabama” by Neil Young is a very powerful song and has multiple meanings.The idea of racism is spoke out. The song had a negative reaction from the southerners. “Swing low Alabama” let them be equal. Get the money to do what you need to do to end segregation. Neil is hoping that the message from his song will opens people's eyes and after all of this is over Alabama will finally have peace and everyone will be equal.
John Shelton Reed, in Dixie Bohemia, illustrates life in the New Orleans French Quarter during the 1920s by following the writers, artists, and other socialites of the era. Reed begins the book by describing the setting; he explained the population of people living in New Orleans, why the location in the South was important to the development of this renaissance, and why all of it occurred in the first place. The second part of the book is an annotated version of William Faulkner and William Spratling’s book describing their circle of friends who contributed to the renaissance movement that occurred in the French Quarter. Reed then summarizes the lives of the people involved after the movement ended. It is important to note that while Reed
Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut: A Diary from Dixie, by Mary Boykin Chesnut, Wife of James Chesnut, Jr., United States Senator from South Carolina, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1905. I to 352 pp. Reviewed by Mayra Catalan 02/27/2016
The Alamo portrays the historical battle between Santa Anna controlling the Mexican Army and the Texan Defenders who are defending The Alamo, a mission located in San Antonio, Texas. The film is heavily concentrated on the year 1836, specifically the months February and March, and the year 1835. The film stars Dennis Quaid as Sam Houston, Billy Bob Thornton as David Crockett, Jason Patric as Jim Bowie, and Patrick Wilson as William Travis. The Alamo is a historically accurate movie that involves history, war, and immense amounts of drama.
A peace of mind is one of the best things a person can have. The fact that you’ll never have to worry about you getting hurt is a great thing. Rights to the Streets of Memphis, Addams family values, and Almost fell of a cliff proves it's better to be protected because you’ll never get hurt.
People all over the world define “Southern Hospitality” as sweet, warm and welcoming. They view southern people enveloping visitors with love and kindness. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the author Harper E Lee portrays Maycomb, Alabama as a friendly, open town. She presents different example of southern hospitality through different characters in everyday circumstances. Embracing this trait, she adds southern hospitality to each of her main character in different ways. In Maycomb, Alabama, southern hospitality shines through, Atticus feeding and housing Jem and Scout’s friends, the black community thanking Atticus, and Miss Maudie generosity towards Jem, Scout and Dill.
This song reminisces about the loss of Private Rodger Young and reminds soldiers to push forward through the loss. Since death was something typically seen on the battle field Losser took this sad moment and turned it in to a rally together moment to get the job done. Loesser reflects the idea that America is tired of the war and are ready to keep progressing in life. While this song may not have been the most popular of the time period, Life magazine at the time felt like it was vital to print the music in the worlds for all to
The cadence in America can be traced as far back as the American Revolution with Yankee Doodle. Historically it finds its roots in ancient armies marching to battles across foreign lands. The most significant song in this genra was created in May, 1944, by Pvt. Willie Duckworth, an African American soldier. This chant that we know today as the "Duckworth Chant" or "Sound Off”, 1-2 sound off 3-4 is the most recognizable to the average person from its usages in movies and P.E. classes. The cadence has historical links to the field holler and work songs. Slaves sang about their oppressive environment while working tirelessly in the cotton fields. Similarly, the majority of cadences are reflective to the environment and training, which soldiers endure. These cadences share the themes of phys...
One of the Don West poems that I really enjoyed was “Voice of the Cracker”. This poem started off heavy with labor of removing the mountains and coal mine marked by his father. The poem does not stop there though, as the songs do, the poem continued to explain how the government frame his as a lyncher and a member of the KKK but the cracker goes on to explain he is not the created image. The cracker is a man gaining an education and looking forward to the future of unity.The end of the poem is filled with hope. “Oh. I’m the Cracker, And I’m learning-- Of unity, Not hate, To look And talk straight” (145). The message found in this song is contrasted with the song “They’ll Never Keep Us Down”. In this song the woman is looking for a fight and she is looking to get revenge for the blood poured into the dirt to rip the coal out of the ground.
Because of Winn-Dixie is a delightful book about a lonely young girl who finds friendship in a dog. The main character, India Opal Buloni, finds a homeless dog and she and the dog go on to have a marvelous summer. Friendship between a young girl and her dog would seem to be the central theme in the book. However, when looked at through a psychoanalytic lens the book then has deeper underlining issues. When looked at psychoanalytically the novel takes on a whole new theme. The theme changes from friendship to abandonment and loss.
The lyrics of country music reflect people’s lives as times changed. According to "Poetry For The People: Country Music And American Social Change", published by Southern Quarterly in Ebsco Host, country music depicted “the white, Protestant and working-class Southerner”, “addressed their pain, their dreams struggles, beliefs and moral dilemma”.
The concept of displacement from rape in “Woman Thou Art Loosed” and “Mississippi Damned” is represented by mental distortion, trauma, and self-degradation.
This document acknowledges the different set of rules about what the master expect from his slaves to do and not to do. The plantation rules described in this document is accounted from the diary of Bennet Barrow’s, the owner of 200 slaves on his plantation in Louisiana on May 1, 1838. No one will be allowed to leave the plantation without Barrow’s permission is the first of many plantation rules. To add, no one is allowed to marry out of the plantation and allowed to sell anything without their master’s consent. Rules implemented by Barrow is strictly dedicated to the safety and security of his plantation of from encroachment of outsiders. He is more concerned about his
For this assignment, I decided to do my film review on To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan, R., & Pakula, A. (Directors). (1962). To Kill a Mockingbird[Motion picture on VHS]. United States of America.) I have a personal connection to this film because it is one of my most beloved novels by Harper Lee. I have never watched the film so it was a nice experience to see the characters I have loved for years come to life just before my eyes. The film particularly focuses on a white family living in the South of the United States in the 1930s. The two siblings, Jem and Scout Finch, undergo major changes while experiencing evil and injustice in their small town of Maycomb. Jem and Scout’s father is named Atticus and he is a well-respected man in the town as well as being a lawyer.
‘Our interest in the parallels between the adaptation inter-texts is further enhanced by consideration of their marked differences in textual form,’