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Pop Music That Made American History - The Top Twenty Songs of the First Half Century of Rock N Roll
The world changed dramatically during the second half of the Twentieth Century, as the United States became the most powerful nation both politically and culturally. One American phenomenon that has left its mark in all corners of the world is pop music. Here is my list of the most important pop songs of the Twentieth Century, in chronological order. Perhaps they were not the first, the best or the most original, but they were the right thing at the right time, and they changed history.
1. "Rock Around the Clock," (1954). Bill Haley and the Comets. In the early years of Rock music, the inclusion of this song would be a no brainer. It was the first great Rock and Roll hit, selling 25 million copies. Nowadays, we may have a desire to right the record, and say that black performers like Big Joe Turner, Bo Diddley and Ike Turner were the real originators of the style, but the fact is that in the segregated atmosphere of that time, it was necessary for a talented white group to champion the music to a larger audience. The Comets were able to rise to the occasion.
2. "Only You," (1955). The Platters. They became the personification of the emerging doo-wop style which was a blend of rock and roll combos and vocal styling that can be traced back to the Ink Spots and other performers of the Big Band era. Doo-wop was first successfully introduced by the Penguins a year earlier, with "Earth Angel," but it was The Platters, a classy act from the West Coast that really established the genre. Their many hits, such as "The Great Pretender" and "My Prayer," served as a standard of quality for other groups to strive for. With its popularity in the multi-ethnic society of the Northeast, doo-wop was the first racially integrated style, and it still has a devoted following to this day, thanks to the many brilliant vocal performances.
3. "Hound Dog," (1956). Elvis Presley. In that year Elvis exploded on the scene with this hit, plus "Blue Suede Shoes", "Heartbreak Hotel" and others. He was revolutionary in the McCarthy era age of conformity. The influence of Elvis Presley cannot be underestimated: he introduced national audiences to rockabilly music, white audiences to black rock and roll and his on-stage persona made venues accessible for the even more flamboyant acts like Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis. He created the Rock and roll version of the teen idol, updating the image from Frank Sinatra's time.
4. "La Bamba," (1958). Ritchie Valens. This song is important on two counts: it brought the Spanish language and Mexican tradition into the mainstream of Rock music. The opening phrase, "Para bailar la Bamba," sounds like an historic cry, "un grito." It is also important because it launched the fad of dance songs that conceived of dance as an expression of the inner self, rather than a dating ritual. "In order to dance the Bamba, you have to have a touch of grace," and listeners began to see dancing in a new light, as communication with their own bodies.
5. "Shop Around," (1960). Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. A perfectly crafted blend of doo-wop vocals and driving rock and roll beats, this is the recording that launched Motown. The Shirelles, a New York "girl group" had scored a hit a few months earlier with "Dedicated to the One I Love," (1959), thus establishing the genre. The Shirelles were trailblazers, building on the success of the earlier doo-wop oriented Chantels and leading to many other girl groups, but it was Motown that became the spiritual home of this new musical style that eventually came to be called "soul music," and so the Motown recording is the one that made history. Motown was one of the richest veins of pop music of this entire period, culminating in the landmark recording, "Papa was a Rollin' Stone," (1972) by the Temptations. By that point the cultural revolution that was the 1960s had transformed the Motown sound into something completely different.
6. "At Last," (1961). Etta James. Mixed the styles of raucous R and B, Rock and roll and the female slow groove. She did not have the jazz cachet of her contemporary Dinah Washington, instead she represented a new, rebellious era of earthy hedonism. She opened the way for the acceptance of other iconoclastic female performers like Aretha Franklin and Janis Joplin (with her distinctive version of "Summertime"). It proved to be fertile ground for male singers, as well, notably, Percy Sledge with "When a Man Loves a Woman," (1969).
7. "She Loves You," (1963). The Beatles. Though not an American group, they had an enormous influence on the history of American music and the pop culture of the 1960s. "I Wanna Hold your Hand" was their first U.S. hit in January, 1964, and was followed almost immediately by this song. The two songs taken together illustrate the innovative quality of the Beatles in terms of melody, song structure and vocal harmonic style. "She Loves You," however, was the more iconic of the two, with its "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" refrain that came to symbolize this genre. The British Invasion that followed changed music history.
8. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," (1965). The Rolling Stones. The Beatles were soon followed across the Atlantic by their bizarro-world evil twins, the Rolling Stones. If the Beatles had little halos, the Stones had horns. Their spirit of rebelliousness would find fertile ground in the atmosphere of the 1960s. They stayed true to their heavy guitar based genre, even as the Beatles became more cerebral and psychedelic. The Rolling Stones can be seen as the fathers of Heavy Metal, and through their influence on groups like the Velvet Underground, the spiritual fathers of Alternative Rock.
9. "Subterranean Homesick Blues," (1965). Bob Dylan. As a singer of protest songs, Bob Dylan had been one of the leading performers of the early 1960s folk movement. His move to "folk rock" in 1965 was shocking to his fan base, and when he appeared on stage at the Newport Folk Festival with an electric guitar, he was vigorously booed, in one of the most famous incidents of the period. This song was revolutionary not only for its innovative blend of musical styles, but also for its new use of language. The intensity of imagery was something that had never been heard before in pop music and would not be equaled again until Grand Master Flash and "The Message" of 1982. (See below).
10. "White Rabbit" (1967). Jefferson Airplane. This was their second hit song to come out of the album "Surrealistic Pillow," after "Don't You Want Somebody to Love." "White Rabbit" really exemplified the West Coast psychedelic style of the 1967 Summer of Love, with its surrealistic lyrics and mindblowing crescendo. Grace Slick single handedly invented the concept of the powerhouse rocker female. Other important West Coast groups at this time were the Doors with "Light My Fire," and the Byrds, with their cover of Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man." Anybody going to San Francisco?
11. "Hey, Joe," (1967). Jimi Hendrix. Working mainly in New York and London, he represents the Atlantic variant of the psychedelic rock scene. His guitar work and his performance style made him a trailblazer of that period, along with the Who and Cream. He is a giant of pop music history because he bridged black and white musical styles so successfully, and with his creativity helped to launch both the Heavy Metal style and the Funk style of the 1970s.
12. "Respect" (1968). Aretha Franklin. With the overwhelming impact of the British Invasion and the psychedelic styles, soul music had lost its luster as a vanguard form of pop music. Aretha changed that with her infusion of gospel and driving rhythms to the old formulas of Motown music, bringing the music back to its African-American roots. Respect is a perfectly appropriate title for this achievement, because suddenly the centrality of black music to the creative spirit of American pop music became indisputable.
13. "Living for the City," (1973). Stevie Wonder. Profoundly significant both from a musical and a social perspective. The use of synthesizers and the spoken interlude in the song gave it an innovative structure. The social commentary and spoken dialog led the way for the development of rap music later in the decade.
14. "I Will Survive," (1978). Gloria Gaynor. It is the anthem of the disco mania of the 1970s. Previous disco hits had been "The Hustle," (1975) by Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony, and "Tangerine," (1976) by Salsoul Orchestra. These instrumentals allowed dancers to focus on the rhythms and steps as they learned the new dance crazes of the period, be they partner dances, like the Latin Hustle, or line dances like the Bus Stop. The 1977 film, "Saturday Night Fever" included songs with vocal parts by the BeeGees (Stayin' Alive) and the Trammps, "Disco Inferno." However, the lyrics to these songs were always secondary and usually barely intelligible. With the soaring vocal performance of Gloria Gaynor on this song, and the message in the lyrics, the hustle finally found its voice and came alive.
15. "Rapper's Delight," (1979). Sugar Hill Gang. This song marked the beginning of rap music. It is a moment of pop music history every bit as significant as anything done by Elvis or the Beatles. The rap style was soon perfected and packaged by other groups, notably Run-DMC, and went on to permeate Western pop music in the following decades.
16. "The Message" (1982). Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five. By infusing their verses with such powerful social commentary, they demonstrated the immense power of the rap style. The syncopated line of monosyllables, "Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge, I'm try-in' not to lose my head," was unprecedented, and the little laugh that followed it was truly haunting. With their virtuoso command of language, they did for rap music what Bob Dylan did for folk rock. The form was brought to complete commercial fruition 13 years later with Coolio's "Gangster's Paradise," (1995).
17. "Thriller," (1982). Michael Jackson. A huge event. Musically, it was a synthesis of many styles that came before: funk, rock, r n b, disco, novelty song, but it was so much more than its parts, as it seamlessly fused these styles together. It was also the prototypical music video, a visual accomplishment that has never been duplicated. The album is the best selling album of all time.
18. "Like a Virgin," (1984). Madonna. Both she and Cyndi Lauper crashed onto the music scene at the same time in 1983, as the first female performers to create every aspect of their onstage personas and to present themselves as performance artists rather than simply artists who perform. However, Lauper's style remained idiosyncratic and inimitable, but Madonna's style became a genre. She created the sexy, leggy female pop idol, in the tradition of male performers like Michael Jackson and Prince, and she was followed by an endless string of other women, some imitators, some artists in their own right.
19. "Conga," (1985). Miami Sound Machine. It introduced English speaking music lovers to the Caribbean Hispanic style that had been percolating on the East coast for the previous two decades. Gloria Estefan's clipped phrasing even gave the English lyrics a Spanish feeling. She matched or even surpassed this achievement with "Oye Mi Canto" in 1989. World Music and Latin fusion are concepts that began to take their present form here.
20. "Smells Like Teen Spirit," (1991). Nirvana. The grunge style of the 1990s got its most iconic performance in this. Kurt Cobain's stage persona and aesthetics have influenced all the alternative rock singers that have come after him, giving them an alternative to the fake cockney whines that had dominated before. The members of Nirvana were particularly articulate through their music and artistic statements, thus codifying the characteristics of this new style.
This is a list of twenty very different and unique songs, but there are certain characteristics. One striking thing is the low number of women on this list (six, including Grace Slick and Gloria Estefan). It seems that women have had a hard time being seen as innovators and being given the opportunity to take a lead role. An example of this double standard can be seen in the way that Mick Jagger, with his middle class British background from the opposite end of the English speaking world, never faced serious questioning about his embracing of black performance and musical styles, but Janis Joplin, born and raised in the Deep South, was criticized as being derivative or worse, and her reputation suffered for many years because of this. A clear division of styles along racial lines is, in fact, one of the most persistent traits of pop music even to this day. However, if such divides are normally seen as polarizing and undesirable elsewhere, that is not necessarily the case in pop music.
Here, they have created the terrain for multi-faceted and rich traditions that thrive on cross-pollination, and when we allow performers to bridge these gaps with their creativity, we get some of the greatest performers, such as Elvis Presley and Jimi Hendrix. As American pop music has grown in complexity, the opportunities have emerged for more productive mixtures, but the innovative spirit seems to have hit a dry patch. It remains to be seen where the next great song will come from; it's been a long time coming.
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My Black News African American innovation blog
It 'was the rapid growth in recent years, focused on publications on African-American community and My Black News [MyBlackNews] performance and innovation through the blog for African-American. My Black News searched the news on the Internet African American who can not find the player, or you may find it difficult to carry. Browse News My Black refers the reader to news about African Americans in government, community service, entertainment and even worldwide. In addition toAfrican American News, Black News My offers some of the most interesting stories of the Internet Socio-economic and entertainment.
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Readers looking for a reliable source of Black News American should look beyond. Black American news has come from various sources, in recent years and My Black News [MyBlackNews] was like a reliable publication in the collection of these different messages and distribute them. My Black News Black American scours the web for news that can not easily accessible to the reader. Visitors to the site also talks about My Black News Black American are in the NewsAreas of government and politics, community service, entertainment and events worldwide. In addition to Black American News, Black News My internet offers some of the most interesting off beat stories, technology news and entertainment.
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The 30th August 2010 is the online edition of My Black News an excellent example of the important role of this publication in the spread of the Black American News. made in a newspaper article from News 24, President Barack Obama said Sunday that a public opinion poll shows Americans are increasingly convinced, wrongly, that he is Muslim does not worry him. The article also cited theControversy over a proposal for the Islamic cultural center and mosque in the vicinity of 11 September 2001 attacks in New York. An article in the Guardian of England discussed the life of the inhabitants of New Orleans as the city is back on its feet, five years after the devastating Hurricane Katrina and the many controversial issues that have brought in their wake. Of course, the spark debate, as the article was picked up by Black Enterprise Magazine naming Burger King Corporation is one of the"40 Best Companies for Diversity Report published in the sixth annual meeting diversity. This is the third consecutive year, BKC to demonstrate the diversity among suppliers and employees, the company has been recognized.
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Details of 2010, the American Resort Development Association annual convention
The American Resort Development Association (ARDA) is a group of resort developers in America. A special convention is to meet during each calendar year for members of this union with each other and discuss the latest industry trends, however. This meeting will help members of the association to understand more about the issues in the development of resorts around the world.
It 'the only event of its kind where professionals ResortsDevelopment of the sector to over 20 countries around the world gather with their peers. There is a clear advantage to attend this meeting, as there is the possibility that industry experts and offers the network to meet with them. Each organization has its problems, and is the same with the resort development industry. The high-profile speakers to help members to participate in this convention in order to overcome these problems.
In addition to this, that theMeeting was also a unique opportunity to learn firsthand about new products and services from suppliers. During the annual meeting, participants have the opportunity to meet and discuss with other industry leaders, all under one roof. These data show that in the direction of the village development area focuses enables suppliers leads to important win and to win recognition.
At the same time, property managers and developers will have the opportunity to learnMore on the latest products and services. At the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino, 2010 American Resort Development Annual Convention was a great success thanks to the strong participation, action packed program. One of the highlights of the event was the opening speech that was delivered by Andy Sernovitz. ARDA Convention is famous for parties and receptions at that and was known in 2010 is no different.
The American Resort Development 2010Annual Convention was held in 2010 from 14 to 18 March. When members of RCI / AIF Open were thrilled that we had on Sunday night and Monday were from the Ice Breaker party, which was held at LAVO happy. The conference was a special event to honor the foremost experts in the field. The entertainment for the closing session of the Convention was made available by the rhythm.
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Conservative or liberal - It's All Entertainment
Media tend to favor either a liberal or conservative perspective. Fair and balanced news and media is the ultimate goal, but it is what brings public attention to the stations and talk shows are the people in line, the others are either dogmatic or extreme. The margins of the political spectrum to bring the issue more and more attention, and therefore are most popular.
Conservative radio and television talk show hosts are a mainstay in AmericanMedia. Have the greatest life characters and larger views on life events, people, politics, and whatever tickles their fancy. Where are the comments of the people and hear their voices get louder the more they are happening as opposed to what they see or hear. The people of America to listen. Some listen and agree with what they say and listen to others and what they say angry. Although these symbols were not conservatives to live up to their cautionary statementsare still popular and well paid.
hosts are liberal and generally reflects the exact opposite of conservative talk show hosts. People enjoy their cynicism and sarcastic statement of events which aim at the conservative public whim. Some reviews are darker than their conservative counterparts, but some are larger than life. Have you heard the following larger than the entire nation and the people who tune in his brief comments on current events or people. A liberal talk showThink Host challenges of a person alone, but often deride those who have different opinions.
Whether you feel one or the other, or if you want to listen to the radio and television talk shows will be there for people on the banks of ideologies. They are here to entertain and comments that some are afraid to express his voice. Sun in tune, turn, and the courage to accept or discuss!
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Television - The American Past Time
When it comes to leisure time, Americans spend a good amount of it and relaxed on the sofa and television. Both sports, news, cooking channels, or soap operas, Americans love their televisions.
On an average day in America, the average worker goes 7.9 hours a day at work, 83% of women and men spend 64% of the time Some do every day chores such as cooking, lawn care or housework. Almost everyone older than 15 years, spent some timeunit in a leisure activity such as socialization, sports, visiting with friends or watching TV. Not surprisingly, watching television was the preferred activity, which showed 50% of the time.
The average time spent watching TV 2:00 to 3:00 hours for the workers and leads to dramatic unemployed, up to five hours of the day.
With all of this is watching television, it would be good to do a little 'research on packages to reach the TV screenPower for your dollar. A bit 'of time searching online parcels Comcast Dish TV may be useful in many others. The options are varied and depend sorted for your viewing habits.
Leisure in America consist of many things, golf, reading, quilting, cooking, but when it comes to relaxation, I guess the television wins the contest. Nothing more is required, but soft soap of a sofa and enjoy some 'quiet time, sports, news, or God forbid, aOper.
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American tabloid press
many people a source of information on issues and news. The need to digest for the Media and the continuous monitoring of key events is always the consumer demand through the media. But the current trend showed how tabloidization or sensationalism in American Press make headways among the media traditionalists, whether in print or online.
The term is often synonymous with scandal and sensational tabloid stories or columns on crimes, celebrities and stars. Attention to> Entertainment is a growing sector multi-billion U.S. dollar in particular the United States. Although less "sanitized" than the European tabloids, the mainstream American press continues to offer little popular credibility.
Average American press, like the New York Post, Daily News and the Metro are some of the tabloids nationally recognized, and most American supermarket tabloid published by American media distributed, Inc., as National Examiner, National Enquirer ,The Globe, Star and Weekly World News.
The supermarket tabloids are notoriously full of sensationalism and distorted the facts and unverified. The supermarket tabloids are different from your regular tabloid newspapers that are distributed through channels magazine in supermarket tabloids as they are aggressive questions on the lines of the fund sold in supermarkets.
If supermarket tabloid that was normal or tabloid tabloid newspapers have more influence mainstreamNewspapers? Now the influence of media magazine tabloidization can say that there are more mainstream media to be used following tabloid coverage converged and his tactics. Respected media, as Charlotte Observer and Tampa Tribune are moving shrill screaming headlines, big pictures and photos for using police documents.
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Huckleberry Finn- An American Boy
The novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was written over 100 years ago, and yet I still felt like I had been dramatically affected by it in many ways. I felt like I was living through a time period that holds its place in history. I found that it was incredibly humorous, while teaching very important moral lessons in a most interesting way. Throughout my essay I would like to discuss these lessons by addressing the question of why "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was banned in many libraries, homes, and schools, when in fact Huck Finn seems to be but none other than just another American boy.
"Directly I could just barely here a 'me-yow! me-yow!' down there. That was good! Says I, 'me-yow! me-yow!' as soft as I could, and then I put out the light and scrambled out of the window onto the shed. Then I slipped down to the ground and crawled in amongst the trees, and sure enough there was Tom Sawyer waiting for me. We went tip-toeing along a path amongst the trees..." " (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, p.4)
As illustrated above Huck Finn is nothing more than your typical teenager sneaking out to meet his friends in the middle of the night. I believe that this is a point that parents try to make when attempting to show that this novel is a bad influence on the youth. They fear that their children will imitate Huck's actions in the book. This was reason for children long ago not being permitted to read this novel, and for children today not being permitted to read this novel. At this point I am going to show you how the condemnation in the 19th century over the character Huck Finn is like the 20th century's condemnation of rock/rap music as being harmful to the youth. Society today is not accepting of music, just like society in the 19th century was not very accepting of certain material that books contained. One major argument that children and parents have relentlessly is over the music that they are permitted to listen to. One known artist that parents unquestionable put on the "No" list is rapper Eminem. In one of his songs he addresses this issue by making the comment...
" They say music can alter moods and talk to you,
well can it load a gun up for you , and cock it too?
Well if it can, then the next time you assault a dude,
just tell the judge it was my fault and I'll get sued"
How funny this example is, Eminem in relation to the novel Huckleberry Finn. I simply wanted to illustrate that society always needs something or someone to blame for delinquency. Back then they choose books, today they choose music and movies. I personally believe that if you guide your child to be open-minded and teach them to make good decisions that they can read whatever book they wish, and listen to whatever music they want to, because it is the child that makes the decision not the book or lyrics. Your child needs to be exposed to different things to become well rounded. If they are not then when a situation arises that addresses issues that they do not understand or have never been exposed to, how will they know how to react?
Another debated issue when discussing the novel is the issue of racism. One of the most prominent issues is the use of the word nigger. Yes, throughout this novel it is used quite repetitively, but I feel that it is not used to glorify the word. I believe that it is much like swearing in today's society. If you know someone that swears often, when they do cuss, you think nothing of it. However, when someone that does not swear very often does, it's use is much more dramatic. This is because when someone swears often, the swear words become like ordinary language for them and essentially lose their meaning. I feel that the use of the word "nigger" and its overuse in this novel causes the reader to actually think less of the word, and rather accept it as just being part of the language of the book.
Now I do understand that it is difficult to deal with some issues in the educational atmosphere, but I want to point out that these issues are dealt with regardless of if the students or faculty are uncomfortable. Issues of sexuality, race, politics, and religion are all examples of topics that make students feel uneasy, however they are quite abundant in the literature that the school permits to be read. These issues can be found in many sources such as Shakespeare, Twain, or the King James Bible. Regardless of if they cause uncomfortable situations we cannot shy away from them only on the reason that it may hurt a student. Ignoring a problem because it hurts does not make it go away. If a person were to ignore a chest pain, it may go away for a small time period, but in the end the problem will magnify into a heart attack. Exactly the reason that racism cannot be ignored. If you do not teach a child while they are young, then once they are older and have children of their own and consequently their ignorance of racism will be passed along to future generations. Instead this issue has to be confronted and dealt with in a responsible informed manner. The novel Huckleberry Finn simply provides some background and a story line to teach the children this very valuable lesson. It is easy to tell a child that racism is bad, but it is hard to get them to listen. However, if you put them in the situation that they see racism and sympathize with the person that is experiencing the problem, then they learn to believe themselves that racism is not acceptable. The novel "Huckleberry Finn" gives them a great story line that allows them to sympathize with Jim, while informing the transition from ignorance and mature along with Huck. This novel provides both historical and literary background that allows a fantastic source to a solution to racism.
There are also other very important issues in this book that children of any age would be an advantage to be addressed.One important moral lesson is that of friendship, this is shown between Huck and Jim. . During the second night of the their attempt to reach Cairo, a dense fog sets in and Jim and Huck become separated. Huck paddles away in the canoe and Jim tries to find him by calling out his name in the murky darkness. When Huck finally returns to the raft, Jim is asleep. When Jim wakes up, Huck lies about the events that transpired during the night and tries to blame them on Jim's hallucinations. Huck assumes that he has fooled Jim, when in reality Jim knows very well that Huck is lying to him.
Huck learns a moral lesson from Jim on many levels. First he learns what a friend is. Jim is very true to Huck and treats him very well. Through this Huck get's the experience of actually having a true friend. Through Jim he is taught how to treat a friend. He learns that it is wrong to lie to a friend and from Jim he also learns a lesson on people, and that is that black people have the same emotions and feelings as whites. Huck "humbles himself to a nigger" and says that he "warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither." (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn p.81) Huck goes on to talk about how sorry he is. The manner in which Huck is lead to believe that people of both races have the same feelings and emotions. This book is filled with messages like this. This novel suggests that a black man could conceivably be a suitable or even desirable moral mentor for a white boy and also a good friend.
Another thing that I found to be significant to the teaching of children in this novel is that one should be independent. Children often admire other children to the point that they will do anything to fit in with them or be exactly like them. This was shown in Huck's admiration for Tom Sawyer. Throughout his adventure down the river he is constantly comparing himself to Tom Sawyer, the captain of their gang.
However I think that throughout the book Huck becomes more independent, and eventually looks at Tom Sawyer's ideas as being ridiculous. He begins to make remarks such as "Confound it, it's foolish, Tom" , which seem to go against Tom Sawyer and show the true Huck Finn. However, he always ends up going along with Tom's ideas, because indeed he is helping him rescue a runaway slave. I believe that the chapters that address Tom's ridiculous ideas and schemes to rescuing a prisoner and Huck's challenging ways towards Tom, teaches the reader to be more independent. It shows the end result of Tom getting shot, to show the reader that if it were just done the simpler way, that Huck had originally thought of, that there would have been no trouble. But because he was more dependent on Tom and his adventurous ideas instead of disagreeing with him and doing it his way, that it ended up coming back to haunt them and cause them much trouble. Therefore it is illustrated to a child to be more independent, to challenge other's ideas, and to be confident in yourself and in your own ideas. I believe that this is very important issue that is constructed quite perfectly into this novel.
In conclusion, I find that the novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is quite a beneficial asset to the educational world. It tackles many important moral lessons, historical lessons, and life lessons. It illustrates the Zeitgeist of the time so that you are able to almost feel like you are there and understand what was accepted and what was not. It shows many depictions of slavery. It helps a reader to understand the important issues of this historical time period. It was shown that rivers and slaves were a large part of the culture. I think that this book helps teach these historical lessons by letting you become Jim and see through his eyes. In this novel, Jim is perceived as an individual, and not just as a slave. Through this you are able to see his reaction to the white man's inhumanity, enabling the reader to sympathize with him, recognize slavery, and learn not only the historical value of a slave, but also to denounce slavery in today's society. It helps a person to recognize the effects of racism and helps them to confront their ignorance. This novel also teaches the value of friendship, and what it means to be a friend.
In the end I believe that this is an excellent source for teaching many valuable lessons to children. So before you sign your name to the "ban it" list reconsider what I have tried to address to you, and that is, if you teach your children to make the right decisions in life, then you will not be forced to look for ulterior reasons to blame delinquency on, and then your child can listen to Eminem, watch Elvis swing his hips, and read the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Works Cited
Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Eds. Gerald Graff and James Phelan. A
Case Study in Critical Controversy. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1995.
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