Seth Montoya
Mrs. Boresen
Expos,4
Rewrite
2/2/09
In the song it mentions “there’s some things worth fighting for”. This is used in the song to represent why we are fighting. The reason why we are fighting in Iraq and why we need to help those people, to make sure our country is safe and theirs. It also tells us to keep on fighting to preserve what we hold dear to us. It is one of the sayings that give Darryl Worley’s song meaning.
“To see your home land under fire” is used in Darryl Worley’s song to describe how we as Americans felt to see what happened on 9/11. Saying that we have felt anger, sadness, and regret at being unable to do anything about it except help as many as we could. Also that we felt helpless at letting something like this happen on our own soil. The one question that all Americans ask is who would do this and that was answered shortly: Terrorists. This is the meaning behind this saying and that’s what gives Darryl’s song strength.
Another phrase in Darryl Worley’s song is “some went down like heroes in that Pennsylvania field”. This phrase symbolizes the brave actions of those passengers aboard flight 93 and how they refused to be flown into the white house. This act shows America that we as Americans are willing to give up our lives for others. The act also shows the courage that every American has inside to do the impossible. An act that not just showed American courage but also showed a glimmering light of hope to all Americans in a day of darken horror. Using this phrase in his song, Darryl Worley has encouraged hope and American courage in American people.
As Darryl Worley puts it “And we vowed to get the ones behind Bin Laden”. This is his way of saying that we had promised to get the ones responsible for 9/11 and see that they are punished. It also states that we are not going to stop at nothing to get the terrorist for what they had done to us. Also to capture them before they do anymore to us or anybody else. As Darryl put it we will get them sooner or later.
Seeing shat happened on 9/11 changed Americans. At first our hearts were heavy with sorrow, but we knew we could not cower in fear so instead we honored the brave and tried to live normally again. The government also suffered from this event as well, damaged cost a lot of money to repair and felt anger that this happened while they should have seen this coming. In the long run the government sent troops to Iraq and American people were changed. These were the changes that came after 9/11 and they have affected us drastically.
Darryl wrote this song to remind us of what happened. It reminds us why we are in Iraq in the first place. How the U.S. has changed from the day of the 9/11 attack. It also reminds us of how we felt that day and about everything else. In doing so the meaning in this song that Darryl was trying to get at was that we should not forget about all of things since 9/11 and to inspire courage and hope.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Winter Narrative
Christmas Day
On Christmas morning I was awoken by my little brother (Connor), who was so excited that he looked as if he could run the mile and could still have the energy to annoy me. Of course we had to wait for our parents, because well lets face it it’s not fun when you don’t get to see your parents smiling faces as you open your Christmas presents that they got you. Normally it would be Connor to go first to open his first present and it turned out to be Transformers changing action figures. Then it would be me and I opened up a digital camera and the process went like that until all of the presents were unwrapped at least until Connor said that he was hungry. After breakfast my brother went to play with his toys and I was left to test my new ihome (a radio that I can play my ipod music). That morning was a very good one for me and my family, because we were able to spend time together.
During that afternoon I was testing out my new camera, it actually worked pretty well since it was brand new. Right around two or three o’clock our brother Ryan (second eldest brother in our family) shows up at our house because, he wasn’t doing anything during Christmas. Things were pretty quite when both of my brothers where playing Wii (a game system) and then all of a sudden our eldest brother Benjamin turns up with a friend of his. A lot happened that afternoon but I guess you could say that it was a good one because, for one I had a part of my family visit and to top it all of it was my brothers since I don’t see them much.
One of the presents that I did get this Christmas was actually for me and my little brother and that present is a telescope. Some part of that night we took it out and look out at the stars, but the only thing we could see is the moon like we were seeing it from a space shuttle in outer space. Everybody has different point of view of what they would have for Christmas dinner, for me it’s a nice hot bowl of my stepfathers red chili that will warm you up fast. That night I did what I did best and that’s playing my video games for a very long time even until midnight. That just about as much as what happened on that day and that’s what I wanted to write about what one thing I liked over the Christmas.
On Christmas morning I was awoken by my little brother (Connor), who was so excited that he looked as if he could run the mile and could still have the energy to annoy me. Of course we had to wait for our parents, because well lets face it it’s not fun when you don’t get to see your parents smiling faces as you open your Christmas presents that they got you. Normally it would be Connor to go first to open his first present and it turned out to be Transformers changing action figures. Then it would be me and I opened up a digital camera and the process went like that until all of the presents were unwrapped at least until Connor said that he was hungry. After breakfast my brother went to play with his toys and I was left to test my new ihome (a radio that I can play my ipod music). That morning was a very good one for me and my family, because we were able to spend time together.
During that afternoon I was testing out my new camera, it actually worked pretty well since it was brand new. Right around two or three o’clock our brother Ryan (second eldest brother in our family) shows up at our house because, he wasn’t doing anything during Christmas. Things were pretty quite when both of my brothers where playing Wii (a game system) and then all of a sudden our eldest brother Benjamin turns up with a friend of his. A lot happened that afternoon but I guess you could say that it was a good one because, for one I had a part of my family visit and to top it all of it was my brothers since I don’t see them much.
One of the presents that I did get this Christmas was actually for me and my little brother and that present is a telescope. Some part of that night we took it out and look out at the stars, but the only thing we could see is the moon like we were seeing it from a space shuttle in outer space. Everybody has different point of view of what they would have for Christmas dinner, for me it’s a nice hot bowl of my stepfathers red chili that will warm you up fast. That night I did what I did best and that’s playing my video games for a very long time even until midnight. That just about as much as what happened on that day and that’s what I wanted to write about what one thing I liked over the Christmas.
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