Daniel Palma

Interview - Paul Mccartney a very well renowned singer/songwriter, his involvement with the Beatles gain an increasing amount of fame as an individual artist when referring to his songwriting prowess. Known for many of his songs like “Hey Jude” and “Ebony and Ivory” the guitarist strumming melodic tones, which we know today as Paul Mccartney. Today an interview with Paul Mccartney referring to the influence for his songs in today's society. Which one of your songs would you say has the best impact on society or a song which critics the social norms of our current community? Well. Ebony and Ivory has quite an influential impact given it's a reference towards the discrimination amongst caucasian and African communities and was based on Martin Luther King’s ideology, not to mention it was a collaboration with Stevie wonder which the guy himself is a major influence not only in musical terms but in our society. The album Tug of war was essentially where the majority of my ...

Tupac's track “Changes” display a lot of vulgar voices to transcribe the social norms/discrimination towards African Americans. Tupac uses African American vernacular English to essentially transcribe political issues towards police brutality, racism, poverty and substance abuse to name a few. It's highly evident that Tupac’s tone is initially dejected in the first verse. This created a mood which displays a deficient towards changes In American society while presenting the African American community using dialect specific to African Americans, “ kill a nigga, he's a hero” “‘I made a G today,’ but you made it in a sleazy way” words such as “nigga”, “g” and “sleazy” are commonly used in African American dialect, this represents the African American community as a whole. Tupac uses this tone as a means to become aggressive as well, for example, “Cops give a damn about a negro Pull the trigger, kill a nigga, he's a hero” a direct line referring to the police using irony ...

The mind of a 5yr old living in the Philippines is the most joyous and momentous imagery, seeing the rich luscious green and running on the Springfield's, then I turned 6 and moved to UAE then ‘BAM’ my linguistic struggles began. The little fragile 6 yr old child began to move around his newly confined international school where bright wide eyes of different ethnic children look directly at you, while you mumble and jumble the words “Herro, My narm is Darniel” around the school. These small judgmental, reprobate little bums have the nerve to tell me “what are you saying?” as they ran back to their little cubies where they pretend they own an aristocratic accommodation with gender-specific roles such as ‘wife’ and a ‘husband’ while one kid, whose smaller than the others, “ambiguously” pretends to be a child, hell why not add a dog while they're at it. Back to oriented virtual discussion. As time would progress classes were mostly awkward for me, discussing in groups was the...