What Music does for Me

The effect of music

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” ― Plato

Music the key to a full life. Music is a way for me to make certain things more enjoyable and get ready for things that are coming. When getting ready for games, or doing math homework: there are two things both of those activities have in common; that is music. Music can be used for different purposes depending on what you’re doing. It can be used to focus, it can be used to calm yourself, it can be used at events, it can be used to break tension in a room, and it can be used for entertainment. Every night after I have math class, I always have some sort of math assignment. Usually it’s just simplifying stuff, or breaking a problem down, which isn’t too hard for me, to the point where I really have to focus; so I just sit in my basement, put my headphones on, and listen to music as I do my math homework. On an average afternoon after school, I have loads of homework. All I feel are useless and are unnecessary, but math I don’t have a problem with—unless I have to do any work problems—because I can do it while listening to “T-Shirt” by Migos and “Dreams and Nightmares” by Meek Mill. I just sit down, and enjoy calmness of doing something I feel is productive, while listening to some stellar tunes, and doesn’t strain my brain too hard. I bang out my ten or so problems, and move on to doing some other homework assignment. While doing my math homework, I don’t really think about what I’m doing too much. I normally just feel like I’m on a wave, gliding back into shore without a care in the world. That is what this is like, if there is a problem I don’t understand, I’m just thinking: “Ok whatever, just do it the way you did the other stuff, if you get it wrong nobody gives a ...” Anyway, music can make some of the most boring things fun, and can brighten your day little by little. Personally, music surrounds my life and is important to most, if not all, things I do.

Joshua Sawyer
~John Fitzsimmons

I doubt I’d ever have taken this road
had I known how fallen it really was
to disrepair: driving comically,
skirting ruts and high boulders, grimacing
at every bang on the oil pan.
I tell you it’s the old road to Wendell --
that they don’t make them like this anymore.

WW Fenn Recitation

Literary Reflection

There’s a lot of memorization going on in school-Neil deGrass Tyson

The Tale of an Adventure

A literary reflection

Life will never come easy to you when you can’t push through something tough. Treasure Island had a slow start and wasn’t interesting to the eye; however, I knew why I chose it, and it forced me to power through the, seemingly, endless pages of the old classic. This novel hadn’t started or played out the way I expected to; this caused me to lose interest in the book early, whether I was too lazy to start another book or that I really wanted to find the good in the book, I kept going. It really pushed me to the limit where, at points, I felt as if I were falling asleep. Halfway through the first page of the book, I knew this book would be a bit different from the others I have read in the past. This one took its time trying to explain what is happening in the book, and it began to lose me; yet, going through the process of trying to find another book seemed like much bigger of a cow to eat than the one just sitting in front of me on my iPad. I slugged my way through the first part of the book and found myself enjoying the tale that I first found boring. This novel is a pirate adventure that has a couple of hidden themes throughout the book. One of these, is fatherhood. In the beginning of the book, Jim’s father dies: Jim then, unknowingly, looks at people who are around him and seems to bond a father-son relationship whoever he is near. At moments, this book felt as if I were trudging through quicksand, and at others I felt as if I were floating through the pages of this classic.