Unit Reflection#4

Unit Reflection #4

This unit was about music, where we learned more about the 40-top music around the world such as Someone You Loved from Lewis Capaldi and Truth Hurts from Lizzo. We did genre presentations, where I explained a genre called 60s British Invasion and I learned other new genres such as 60s Urban folk and Glam Rock. The professor gave us four texts the first one is called same old song, where I learned how the music is changing with the generation and that the new music is designed to bother older people. The second text is called Pop music the same, where I learned that people who listen to Pop radio know that the sound is really similar, they found that music is really popular and universal around the world and I also learned that music sells more when people feel identified with it. The third one is called IHOB: blues text, where I learned about a cruel journey (1500-1800) ,slavery in America (1600s-1865),freedom and the Post-Civil war period(1865-1900), the blues take form country blues+classic blues (1900-1930), the great migration (1910-1960), urban Blues and Rhythm and Blues (1940s-1960), soul, funk and rap (1960s-1970) and continuing the Blues Journey. The last one is called History of Rap, where I learned that rap’s a delivery style that have rhyme, rhythm and spoken language and Rap consists of content, flow and delivery. During this unit we also did a pinboard, which was really interesting because I learned new genres from different cultures. The professor also gave us a list of terms music, where I did my own terms and it was really good because I fell as if I learned more by doing my own list.

My Aha moment was when the Professor gave us the pinboard and she said “we needed to add some songs related to the questions” it was really fun because I had used Pinterest before and when she said that, I was really happy. It was an interesting activity.

I did not know that all pop music sounds exactly the same, and I listened some pop songs, and it is totally true. Moreover, it was really interesting to learn that pop music has a lot of money earning across all music genres because I did not know that pop music was that much important around the world.

A song moved me

This Song is called Sober from Demi Lovato.

This song left such a strong impression on me because I like this singer a lot and she has been on drugs since she started her career as a singer. However, she has been a lot of rehabilitation centers but when she putted this song out, I was really disappointed because she had been sober for more than three years after. I was really sad because I did not expect that from her again. However, I totally understand that being a singer is not something easy, but I expected from her.

This song touched me a lot because she is saying that she is really sorry for coming back on drugs and she apologized to her family and her fans, which I think it is something really nice. I. also love the fact that she accepted that she is on drugs because it is hard for a singer to accept, when they are on drugs.

Moreover, I believe it is not an excuse as she said in her lyrics because she is the only hurting herself.

Movie Genre

This movie genre is called Epics.

This is an example of this movie genre:star wars the rise of skywalker trailer 

Music Genre

This is a new genre, which is called 60s British Invasion 

This is an example of this genre:

Pinboard Music

This is a pinboard music, where you are going to learn more about music and some new genres.

https://pin.it/6ag3isnbp2a26t

Movie Review.

Movie Review

I went to The International Film Festival and I saw By the Grace Of God on October 23, 2019 at 8:30pm. This movie is a French-Belgian drama film. The language of this movie is French. It was produced by Nicolas Altmayer. This movie is about a guy who is called Alexander, he is married with children, but he was raped by a predatory Father Bernard Preynat. He did not forget anything happened when he was a child. When he realized that the pastor still working with children, he decided to talk to the pastor and made him accept that he raped him when he was a child. He decided to tell his story and by the time he said everything happened, he discovered that he was not the only child. When the other children saw the new about the pastor that also raped them, they decided to tell the truth and there were many children as alexander.

I personally did not like the end because I expected more about the end. And I did not like the fact that the Church knew what happened with all those children and they did not do anything for all those children. I believed that there is not excused to rape anyone and especially children. Moreover, I expected that the church sends The Father Bernard Preynat to jail.

During this movie, we see how journalists faced with a coverup by the Catholic archdiocese of Boston, because they did not want to show what is really happening in the Church.

On the whole, I wanted the Father Bernard to go to jail and pays for everything he did to those children. However, at the end of the movie, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, the archbishop of Lyon, received a six-month suspended prison sentence because he reported the abuses.