"Soma"

People run away from their problems because they are too scared to face the realities of them. Whenever something bad is happening, they simply take their soma and they feel better, running away from their problems. THey do not want to fix their problems they simply want to mask them so to "feel better" with themselves. This doesn't fix any problems and probably just causes more.
Sentence analysis:

1. Topic sentence and theme
2. Support #1 and connects theme to song
3. Example for support #1
4. Explanation of quote and connects to topic sentence
5. Support #2, extends topic sentence
6. Example of support #2 and quote explanation, leads to support #3
7. Support #3, back to topic sentence
8. Example of support #3
9. Sums up support #3 and connects to topic sentence

2+2=5

Subject: something is wrong in the world.
Theme: everyone will eventually give into conformity with society
Tone: angry/ negative

Loss of Innocence

Innoncence to me is the unknowing. Its being naive and unaware of the harmful, or unharmful, things in life. innoncence can be lost after an experience that brings one closer to the realities of real life.

1. The girl is naked, which is considered losing one's innocence. THe other woman is trying to cover her up, but she can't.
2. The foreground is very dark, showing that the girl is entering the dark part of the world by losing her innocnence.
3. The shell she is standing on is white which usually symbolizes purity.

Don't you want me?

This man at a bar is very interested in a waitress. THe girl, however, is not interested in the man. They break up after a 5 year relationship. There are two different interpretations of the situation. THe man thinks that the girl wants him and the girl just wants to be left alone by the man. THey did break up after all. Since they had different pasts and opinions, they see the situation differently.
An example with my life is a fight with my mom. She always thinks that shes right and i think that I am right. Instead of compramise she always wins, since she's the mom.

Blackbird

Blackbird-african americans
Broken wings- their struggles
light at the end of the dark night- hope

This song symbolizes desegregation that was going on at the time. THe blackbird is a literal symbol for african americans and isn't hard to get. The broken wings show the struggles and hardships that these people had to go through to get what they wanted; equality. The light shows hope for the equality in the future.

"Shame"

The guy in this song wants another chance with his girl because he knows that he is wrong and he admits it here. The tone here would be regretful. That means that someone feels bad about what they've done in the past. using "guilt" and "blame" it gives the connotation of bad or sad and even pulls at the idea of regretful. Regretful can be also with feeling remorse for what they've done. "boatloads of shame" shows that they are ashamed of what they've wrongly done and are regretful, just like the tone suggests.

Sign Language

THe affect was to take advantage of opportunities that arise before you.
The director used
1. Soft music
2. THe only one to take a flyer from the girl was the guy, she smiled.
3. the guy could always see the girl because they were directly across the street.

Love Language

THe purpose of this video was to show awareness for deaf children and to prove that they are like everyone else. Since they are just like us they deserve the love that we find and they are able to find it. It was affective by including sounds like the songs that they were listening to. It left me feeling content because everyone was happy in the end.