Music

Music has greatly evolved since classical music. Up to today's music, we've seen different types of music, and even in different languages. I recently came across a couple of songs that I felt more emotions than others. The fact that their bilingual made me love them more. There's something about lyrics in two languages that get to me.

One of the songs is titled "Looking For Paradise" by Alejandro Sanz featuring Alicia Keys. The song is in both English and Spanish. When I hear Spanish, I feel that it's beautiful accompanied with English.

Another song, "Tired Of Being Sorry" by Enrique Iglesias and Nadiya also get to me. Enrique sings in English while Nadiya sings in French.

This next song amazes me in particular. It's sung in Italian and French where Andre Bocelli sings in Italian and Helene Segara sings in French. In Italian it's titled "Vivo Per Lei" and in French it is titled "Je Vis Pour Elle" which means "I live for her." In my opinion it's a beautiful song because it is sung in two of the "love languages." The combination of Italian and French shows how languages can be beautiful.

Music has come so far, but we don't really admire other music that's not in English. If there's interracial relationships, then why not interracial music? I'm really into these types of songs. I guess it's because I can understand them a little bit for the most part. But sometimes you don't have to understand them in order to think their beautiful.

White Supremacy in the US?

As I was researching for my paper I came across this news article. On Saturday, April 17, a "white supremacy group" rallied against immigration reforms while using anti-Semitic words. They were waving around American flags with swastikas. But several people counter-protested against this rally, and eventually turned to a violent point.

What baffles me is the fact that there are people who actually still follow what Hitler believed in. It would lessen my worry if it were in Europe, but in the United States? A land where people were against Nazis. To say that the "white supremacists" were all German would be a stereotype. I didn't really think of Germans when I saw this. But when I told my father about it, all he thought of at first was Germans. I guess since Nazism is closely related to Germany back in World War II my dad would assume that they're German. But I know that many Germans were against the Nazis as well.

What kind of relaxed me was that there weren't many "white supremacists." When the counter-protesters began throwing things at them, they left. What I think is that these "white supremacists" are afraid that the American race will not be "pure." This country has a great history with immigrants. I will say that when I looked at the city this riot was in took me by surprise. It was in Los Angeles, which probably has one of the most heavily populated immigrants. It kind of made me laugh since Los Angeles is in Spanish, and they were protesting against immigrants. But we've come to relate immigrant with Mexicans and Central Americans, because that's what we mainly see. I'm pretty sure that in a couple of decades a new group of people will be targeted with immigration laws.

News Article Here

Black Hawk Down

Black hawk down is the military term for a helicopter that crashed. Black Hawk Down is about an attempt by Americans to take control the the city where one of the opposing leaders is. While attempting to capture the city, two American helicopters go down. You're probably thinking "Wow, two helicopters down? That's it?" That's what I thought while I watched it in the beginning. We often take into little consideration that two helicopters going down can have a great affect on the war.

The little things such as two helicopters going down in a war could be devastating. After the two "hawks" went down, the U.S. military wanted to rescue the pilots and soldiers in those helicopters. They crash deep in the city which is overrun by many violent Somalian soldiers. All these things were happening at once. Left and right, there was always some sort of loud noise. Eventually the group that was supposed to rescue the pilots made it, but some of them were dead because in a war you can't automatically guarantee someone's going to live. I think that's what I learned from this movie. Throughout the movie I kept hoping that my favourite character would live and not die.

Black Hawk Down also had a tone of brotherhood. Throughout the movie they kept saying "No man left behind." There was a specific scene where one of the pilots in the helicopters still in the air wanted to set up a perimeter around the crashed helicopter. It shows that war indeed does change a man.