Where Have You Gone Charming Billy

The author tries to make us sympathize with Private First Class Paul Berlin.The setting in the beginning is very dark and quiet. It seems like this is a new environment to all the soldiers marching in a line. PFC Paul Berlin is obviously scared and would much rather be somewhere else. He talks about pretending that he's not in war, which makes us feel bad for him.

Old Country Corn Flakes

Old Country Corn Flakes
Appeal- Ethos, because it shows the General Mills cereal logo which you should trust
Fallacy- Appeal to tradition, you should buy General Mills cereal because they've been around for a long time.

Alka Seltzer
Appeal- Ethos- It's the best therefore you should trust it.
Fallacy- Appeal to Omniscience- It's the best so it should be the first choice.

Chain Gang

The song is talking about the differences in civil rights among races. The chain gang is talking about the people who are working all day and night on getting equality. This can be seen in the way the song always talks about them moaning and saying they work so hard. It shows how they were starting to speak out against the inequalities.

Communism Utopia

Communist Indication
  The only color besides the eyes is red.

Artists View
  The artist views communism negatively, which can be seen in the way he paints everything very bleak.

Meaning of the Title
  He thinks that if communists were in control and had their way they would want to ruin society and destroy individuality.

Soma

      The theme of the song is that drugs shouldn't be relied on for happiness, more specifically here, soma.   Soma is the drug in Brave New World that people take when they are unhappy or upset. The songwriter uses negative words in regards to drugs.   The singer said things like "...tried to hide it" and "losing against their dreams." Normally, losing isn't good in any situation and hiding things indicates being ashamed of what they were doing.  He also gives off a feeling of negativity towards soma in his examples.  He uses examples such as "Soma is what they would take when hard times opened their eyes." He says the people are trying to make themselves not feel real emotions, because the soma creates almost a false reality.  Clearly the songwriter thinks poorly of people taking drugs to be happy.

1: Topic sentence
2: Explains what "soma" is
3: Support for topic
4: Example of word choice that creates a negative feeling
5: Explains the example
6: Second support for topic
7: Example of bad effects of taking soma
8: Explanation for quote
9: Ties up the paragraph by restating the topic

Don't You Want Me

What's going on:
Two people are fighting about a breakup.

Two perspectives:
Guy- He still wants her and feels she owes him
Girl- She wants to live her own life

I argued with my friend about whether blondes or brunettes are more attractive.

Young Life

Claim 1:
The man shot the deer.
-He is holding a gun.

Claim 2:
The boy doesn't feel at home
-He's wearing different looking clothing.

Claim 3:
The author is talking about the "redneck" way of life
-The two main people both look like your stereotypical redneck (shotgun, dead deer, pickup truck, orange hat)