If I could live anywhere, I would live in....

If I could live anywhere in the world, I wouldn't live anywhere super extravagant, or too far away.  I

would live about two and a half hours away from here in my small hometown in Michigan.

 I remember I lived in the cutest pale pink house.  Not too loud, but not too subtle either.  In the

summer time I would ride my little cotton candy pink and  sky blue bike around the block all the

time.  Sometimes just for fun and sometimes to go to my favorite ice cream parlor called the Whistle

Stop.  Not only did they have Superman, my favorite ice cream flavor.  They also had my favorite

dessert, Bumpy Cake.  For those of you who don't know what bumpy cake is, it is a chocolate

cake topped with bumps of sweet vanilla cream and topped with milk chocolate ganache.  The

people who worked there were awsome people.  They gave me free samples of only their best

desserts all the time.   The malls in Michigan weren't on every corner, like they are here in Florida. 

It took a good thirty minutes.  So every time I found out we were going I got so excited, because we

only went every once in a while.  In the sommerset mall they had my favorite resturaunt  california

pizza kitchen and my favorite stores at the time.  Those stores being Club Libby |Lu and Henri

Bendel.  At the Royal Oak mall they had a Neiman Marcus store and that isn't what I liked about it, I

liked the Neiman Marcus Cafe right above it.  The popovers were my favorite and so was their iced

tea, to die for.  But all of there food was amazing.  If you were a kid, they'd give you a cookie card,

everytime you came after your meal they would give you a free cookie and punch your card for some

thing even better.  My brother and I would always fight over who had the most puches.  If either one

of forgot our cards, we'd boast to the person the whole day that we had they card and they

didn't. Another thing I loved about Michigan is that there were actually neighborhoods, not

subdivisons.  But all the houses were built on the road.  It feels more like home to me when

I pull into the house from a road, not a gate.  I loved that everyone knew everyone in the

neighborhood.  Around halloween, we'd even put goodies on eachothers door.  Not only did we

know out direct neighbors, but we also knew the next neighbors over and the people behind us,

even people a block over.  If my mom ever was unable to pick me up from the bus stop there

were three people's house I could walk to and wait for my mom to pick me up.  I felt so

secure in my enviorment.   The bus would sometimes drop me off right at my door, she was so nice,

she even brought me goodies for the holidays.  Not only do I love the cherry bushes ans snow

that Michigan has to offer the people and the enviorment were also a huge contributor.

50 Ways To Say Goodbye

    The song Fifty Ways to Die by Train has many different meanings.  It talks about a boy, the lead

singer, whose latest girlfriend has just dumped him like many in his past.  The lead singer basically

feels like he's always the one left saying goodbye.  At this point in his life he feels like he knows

how to say goodbye 50 different ways.  This past girlfriend for him was the last straw, he was out of

excuses now,to say why that particular girlfriend left him.  Throughout the song many different

literary devices are used to describe his strong feelings of hurt and dismay.


       The lead singer of Train says "It's not you it's me" ,It's meant to be", and "Your leaving now for

my own good". He says these particular things to express he's heard all these same things before,

and basically already knows what the girl is trying to say before she even says it. He also says "I'm

all out of time and ways to say goodbye".  This particular quote expresses that not only am I out of

ways to say goodbye, as I have gone through this numerous times.  "I take the high road like I

should".  This expresses the lead singers desire not to get mad about this situation he is in yet again,

but to move on.  "I returned everything I ever bought her", expresses his anguish towards this

particular girl and counteracts what he said in the last quote about taking the high road.


   Now that I have told you the song in a nut shell and analyzed some of the lyrics for you I am going

to show you literay devices that are shown in the lyrics throughout this song. To begin with, when

the lead singer states Help me, help me I'm no good in the night.  The literary device of repetition is

shown, because "help me" repeats itself in the same line.  I believe he used this Particulat literary

device to emphasize his dismay. When he says "My heart is paralyzed" , he is using the literary

device of a metaphor. I believe he uses this device to start out the song strong, it being the first lyric

 in the song, and again to express his hurt.  When he says "You were my everything", he is using the

literary device metonymy.  I believed this device is used to show how she was like his everything, but

really wasn't.  She was really important to him.

      This song is very different in the beginning, compared to it's initial chorus.  For example it starts

of with the tune of a violin, almost mariachi band like.  It calms down when the first verse starts,

and the lead singer starts singing.  When the  main chorus come in, the song gets super upbeat,

changing the entire feel of the song.   When it goes to second verse, it begins slow

 down like the violin in the beginning.  It is basically identical to the first verses

tempo.  The chorus stays the same.  While the bridge makes a right turn and stays at the

same tempo as a chorus.  Throughout this song a sense of parallelism is shown, that being

with the choruses and bridge.  As well as with the first and second verse.

       All in all this song goes up and down much like the lead singer is feelings with all of

the mishaps in his relationships.  I think he did an amazing job of relating the lyrics, 

the lyrics meaning, and the actual music. This song has a lot of deeper meanings you

really have to analyze to understand, but when you do the song is composed extremely well.

        

French Revolution Diary Entry

      Dear diary, it has been so long since I have felt safe outside the comfort of my own home.  When

will this end.  When will everything be resolved.  I don't know if I should continue to play it cool, or

be a revolutionary like everyone else.  What if I do become a revolutionary. What if I say something

wrong? Will they send me to the guillotine?  Who knows. Heck, what if I don't say something wrong

and they still send me to the guillotine.  I mean it could happen. Innocent lives are being taken

everyday for the most ridiculous reasons.  Honestly, I feel like people are making up reasons. Just

this  morning I was looking out of the tiniest crack in my window, in fear of being spotted, I saw a

man headed to the guillotine for something so ludacris.  This poor man did nothing worth death,

especailly by a contrasption that slices you head off.  I know just watching, I shouldn't be scared.  I

mean literally the whole town comes out to watch these events.  They don't just watch,  they cheer

and boo the so called convicts.  For the strangest reason I can't shake this fear that keeps creeping

up into my body.  Time for school, the only time I go out of the house. Even though as often as  I can

I make up excuses and beg my mom not to go.  Until i'm home at 2:00 exactly from school, curled up

in my bed, writing in my  diary away from the dangers of the outside world.  Only then may

my fear begin to start to seep away.