Pink Floyd

for The New Yorker. His work includes graphics from Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Hercules. He is married to Jane Asher and they three children together. After a short period at the Royal College of Arts, he established himself as a satirical cartoonist and still does satirical cartoons today. Even though he his most known for his animations for Hercules, his work for Pink Floyd and Roger Waters is incredible. Roger Waters (bassist for Pink Floyd) saw Gerald Scarfes’ work and was really intrigued…

Macbeth is a nobleman of Scotland, early off he was known as Thane of Glamis. However, he later becomes Thane of Cawdor after the original Thane of Cawdor is killed for treason. Macbeth is extremely ambitious and power hungry man, and is always looking for a newer better title. Macbeth kills Duncan to become king, kills Banquo because his family was destined to become rulers over Scotland, and kills all of Macduff’s family. The following paragraphs include five songs that I think best represent…

“tune”. It is either about the struggles of school, and how the environment is shutting them down, or about how to make your life easier by just memorizing information that will help you. In one of the songs called, Another Brick in the Wall, by Pink Floyd is about how students are being discourage and oppressed by the higher authority, the teacher. The song gives you a rock and roll theme and the music video show It does not matter what you are going through or who you are as a person, it’s…

The Beatles were an extremely popular band in the 60’s whose legacy encompasses more than the 12 studio albums, 13 extended plays, and 22 singles that were conceived from their genius. Innovative in their approaches to style, technique, and experimentation, The Beatles were always ready to push the envelope further than most bands of the time. Even in the band’s earlier stages, they enhanced their artistic experiences by means of musical experimentation. Throughout their journey with said…

normal first started by the Romantics. We see Romanticism at work in poetry such as William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems, in art such as Caspar David Friedrich 's Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, and in modern day equivalents such as Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here. Romanticism is quite noticeable in many writings during the late…

Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in the United States and United Kingdom. It often used new recording techniques and effects that drew on non-Western sources such the ragas and drones of Indian music. Psychedelic rock bridged the transition from early blues and folk-based rock…

learn who you really are as a person. In the beginning of “School of Rock” the students only focused on school and their grades instead of enjoying school and finding out who they were as individuals. In “Another Brick in the Wall- Part Two”, by Pink Floyd, it is about telling the teachers to “leave the kids alone because they do not need an education.” School should not be a prison where students are told how to act and what they need to learn without being able to be free and discover their…

Musical Stories Giving Comfort During Hardships Musical artists throughout the centuries sing about their hardships in music. The context of the song can be the theme of either life or death. Each song becomes literary by speaking to the depressed listener through emotions given by the lyrics or tone. Even if the song 's topic hasn 't been experienced by them directly. According to Levitin in the chapter explaining comfort songs, "The connection - even to a stranger - helps the process of…

is delivered to the students definitely defines the effectiveness of the education system itself. As demonstrated by the famous rock band Pink Floyd in their music video “Another Brick In The Wall,” a teacher-dominated educational system that practices passive learning destroys the students interest and creates a negative perspective towards education (Pink Floyd). I had the same impact and negative feelings toward education when school was all about listening to the teacher’s outdated ideas and…

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves” said Western philosophe Henry David Thoreau. From this quote and Thoreau’s lecture turned essay entitled “Resistance to Civil Government” or also known as “Civil Disobedience.” Thoreau uses his own encounters to relate an inequitable government by disobeying by staying the night in jail and not paying his taxes in protest of slavery and the Mexican-American War. He influenced others like Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther…