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CDs used to be common thing that everyone used to play their music. Records came before that and so on. CDs were a very recent thing and now instead of listening to music through CDs people are listening to music through Ipods using Itunes to get their music or even worse illegally downloading their music. Ipods are very common these days and there are so many kinds of Ipods. You have the smallest one called the Shuffle, the Nano, and the Ipod touch. It seems like every few months Apple makes a new Ipod or a new device that everyone must have. With your Ipod comes Itunes. Itunes is a huge music library where you can buy singles or CDs on your computer and have it sync strait to your Ipod. It is very convienient although some people choose to also illegally download their music as well. 

People these days do not want to spend their money on music and when they do they buy single songs on Itunes instead of buying the whole CD. This is a problem not just for our society but also for the music industry as well. A single song on Itunes costs $1.29 cents. This is not a lot of money. Apple has to pay copyright fees to the industry and give some of their profits to them. $1.29 cents is not going to help the music industry very much because all people do is buy singles instead of CDs. A CD goes for around $12 now. you get all the songs on a CD and you end up paying less money than if you were to buy a bunch of singles. the problem with people today is that when they hear a single on the radio they only want to have that one song and they do not thin about whether they would like the other songs on the album. An example of a great album is Speak Now by Taylor Swift. She has some singles on the radio and people buy them and not the whole CD when the whole CD has other great songs. For me I tend to look at all of the songs that are on the CD rather than just buying  bunch of singles.

My father in in the music industry and everyday he tells me about how the industry is going down because people are not buying CDs anymore and are either buying singles or are illegally downloading their music for free. When this happens the industry does not make any money and it is hard for the record companies to make money.  it almost seems like people do not care about the music industry and why they are paying for their music. It is a cycle that keeps going and if people continue to get their music this way the music industry could ultimately fail. What people also do not realize is that if they buy CDs they can upload them to Itunes and put them on their Ipods. I do this all the time. My dad has a huge cabinet filled with CDs that I always rummage through and find great music. When you buy singles, you are missing our on all the other great music that is in the CDs. Some of those other songs end up becoming my favorite songs. I think that people should go back to buying CDs and find out what they are missing. Itunes and using Ipods are great but there is so much more to music than the everlasting new electronics.

People assume that they are not doing anything wrong when they are downloading their music and just buying what is popular. Popularity and conforming to what everyone likes is part of our socirty today. What I am saying is that people shoudl step outside of the box. Buy CDs again and fall in love with the other tracks on them. They could become your new favorites and want to buy more from that artist. Itunes is a great thing but it isnt the only way to listen to music and to get the music that you want. 

Liberty Walk

‎"Here's to all the ones
Tryin to hold ya back
Tryin to make ya feel like your less than that
Givin nothin mo' better than to make ya crack
But really just tryin to put your dreams off-track
And you know in the end it'll be okay
Cause all that really matters are the steps ya take
And everything else falls into place
There's no price to pay
I say

Sayin goodbye to the people who tied you up
It's a liberty walk, walk
Feelin your heart again
Breathin new oxygen
It's a liberty walk, walk!
Free yourself
Slam the door!
Not a prisoner anymore!

Don't be afraid to make a move
It won't hurt you
Just do what you were born to do
And everything works out right
Don't listen to all the people who hate
Cause all they do is help
Make your mistakes for ya
But they don't own ya
I just told ya" - Miley Cyrus ( yah i know its a song of hers but it is powerful)

Poor Hero

Poor Hero. She was accused of cheating on Claudio when it was all a set up by Don John to ruin her marriage.  Claudio irrationally screamed and accused her of cheating during the ceremony. I guess no one at that time ever talked about something instead of going full on crazy. If they had talked about the cituation first Claudio would have known that it was all a trick and that it was not true. He wouldnt let her speak and he only believed what he saw. It makes sense though because he believes things with his eyes and learns with his eyes. He is a visual person. He fell in love with Hero with his eyes and also out of love with his eyes. I am happy that it worked out in the end though because if it hadnt then well the play just wouldnt have been very good. Claudio should think about what he sees instead of being irrational.  All the guys in the play should think more. Do they not have any brains? I guess Shakespeare didnt give them any. Guys could be so irrational.

Much ado about nothing

Much Ado ABout Nothing - Consider the tittle

The tittle implies that the people in the book will make a big deal about nothing. They will over exaggerate and make something very small into a big ordeal. The fact that noting is how you pronounce nothing in old english it is as if someone is always waking note of something and making it into a problem.

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What is she saying? What does she mean when Beatrice says.... "I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swears he loves me." l.i.121

Beatrice is saying that she would rather hear something very irritating than hear a man say that he loves her.  She does not think that love is important and she does not trust men. She thinks that love is untrue and that there is no point to being in love.

Shakspeare - Post #5

Q: "My Mistress Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun" Sonnet 130. Compare Collins "Littany" with the rhetorical argumentative moves of Shakespeare's sonnet 130

A: They both compare their beloved ones to various things and both say how they really feel. Even though they are supposed to say their loved ones look radiant and shine like the sun , they tell the truth and take back their compliments and say that they rely do not look like that. In Collins piece he does not take back oe compliment but in Shakespeare's sonnet he takes back everything.

Billy Collins - post #4

Q: In "Litany" Billy Collins plays with diction ( word choice) how does his reading and performance of this language impact him?

A: When he first talks his voice and the way he talks is boring but when he begins to read the poem he starts to read it with conviction and brings it to life. He changes the language of the poem and updates it and makes it better. He changes the poem to make it funny. He compares a woman to something beautiful and then takes it back. I find that very funny.