I Wanna Dance with Somebody

I Wanna Dance with Somebody was the first single from Whitney Houston's second album called Whitney. This song was a huge hit in America and over-seas, topping the charts in thirteen countries. This song was a big dance-pop song because as soon as you here it you instantly want to dance.

"Oh! Wanna dance with somebody

I wanna feel the heat with somebody

Yeah! Wanna dance with somebody

With somebody who loves me."

- Whitney Houston, I Wanna Dance with Somebody

I absolutely love this song because it brings a happy feeling to me and makes me just want to get up and dance no matter if I have somebody to dance with or if I'm just by myself. I also like the message it sends, its somebody who wants to dance with somebody who they love and a mutual feeling back, when can you ever go wrong with love and dancing? 

I Wanna Dance with Somebody - Whitney Houston (listen here)

I Have a Dream pt. 2

On August 28th 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King delivered one of the most powerful speeches in the history of mankind. Dr. King spoke about racial equality and the end of discrimination. Dr. King possessed the power to capture, educate and inspire every person who had been standing on those steps listening to the speech on the Lincoln Memorial. Even through such a controversial time, he informed everyone on the problems going on no matter what side of the fence they were standing on, everybody stopped to listen. 

“No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

- Dr. Martin Luther King, I Have a Dream

King uses a simile here when he describes his desire for justice and righteousness. He says he and the American people will not be satisfied until justice and righteousness flow through the nation like water would flow through a mighty stream. He compares justice to water, which I think he means just as water flows from a stream it shows something pure and clean and that would be the same reaction if there was justice a feeling of purity and cleanness since that's what African-Americans deserved. 

I Have a Dream

On August 28th 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King delivered one of the most powerful speeches in the history of mankind. Dr. King spoke about racial equality and the end of discrimination. Dr. King possessed the power to capture, educate and inspire every person who had been standing on those steps listening to the speech on the Lincoln Memorial. Even through such a controversial time, he informed everyone on the problems going on no matter what side of the fence they were standing on, everybody stopped to listen. 

"Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children."

- Dr. Martin Luther King, I Have a Dream

King uses a metaphor in his speech by comparing the way America needs to get rid of racial injustice to raising a stone from quicksand to solid rock. Racial injustice is the quicksand that will bury the stone that represents our nation. By bringing the stone onto the solid rock representing brotherhood, it no longer is in danger of sinking in the quicksand.

Brave New World pt. 4

Brave New World is a novel by Aldous Huxley written in 1931.In Huxley’s society that he created everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that provokes the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young woman has the potential to be much more than what there allowed to think. The future society shows how reproductive technology and anti-depressants shape a society.

"Orgy-porgy, Ford and fun,

Kiss the girls and make them one

Boys at one with girls at peace; 

Orgy-porgy gives release." 

Huxley uses informal language when describing the chant that kids sing, with words such as: "orgy, porgy, kiss and gives release." Huxley is talking about sex, drugs and cloning. His use of commas and semicolons make it easier for the reader to read the chant and understand it. 

Brave New World pt. 3

Brave New World is a novel by Aldous Huxley written in 1931.In Huxley’s society that he created everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that provokes the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young woman has the potential to be much more than what there allowed to think. The future society shows how reproductive technology and anti-depressants shape a society.

"Hug me till you drug me, honey

Kiss me till I'm in a coma:

Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny; 

Love's as good as soma." 

Huxley becomes informal with his particular word choice such as: "drug, hug, kiss, honey, snuggly and bunny." His use of informal language makes it easier for the reader to see that this is comedic tone that Huxley has set up by his word choice because he obviously couldn't be serious saying "Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny". His sentence structure is actually longer with the use of more commas when comparing the drug Soma to love. 

Brave New World pt. 2

Brave New World is a novel by Aldous Huxley written in 1931.In Huxley’s society that he created everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that provokes the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young woman has the potential to be much more than what there allowed to think. The future society shows how reproductive technology and anti-depressants shape a society.

"The zippers on Lenina's square pair of viscose velveteen shorts were at first a puzzle, then solved, a delight. Zip, and then zip; zip, and then zip; he was enchanted." 

When Huxley writes about clothing in the World State there always happens to be zippers. Huxley's repetition of "zip" sounds like a way of saying easy access relating to sex. He also has a lot of commas in these two sentences to slow the reader down and to show the importance of that "zipping" sound. He begans by saying how the zippers had him confused calling it a "puzzle", but ends it saying he was enchanted. The comma's and longer sentence structure show how he wants to clearly explain whats going on; setting up a rhythm with the word zip constantly saying it. 

Brave New World

Brave New World is a novel by Aldous Huxley written in 1931.In Huxley’s society that he created everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that provokes the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young woman has the potential to be much more than what there allowed to think. The future society shows how reproductive technology and anti-depressants shape a society.

"The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber." 


Huxley uses figurative language to create a feeling of lifelessness in the Hatchery, which is a place that is supposed to be giving life. The word “corpse” adds to the dead feeling. Comparing the workers gloves to a pale color rubber makes the reader think that although they are creating lives, they feel dead themselves. I also think it's interesting that the workers were dressed in all white with pale colored rubber because I think that color white represents how the life is sucked out of everything that is created in that room.