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Nicholas Borzacchiello Media Art  March 7, 2011 Ms. Fash

 My Personal Connection Song

 My personal connection song name is Ventura Highway by America and the genre of this song is country music. This song was written by Dewey Bunnell, a member of the band America. This song was not covered because they sang it first. The songwriter’s point of view of this song is about the sign in California that says Ventura and a highway that says Highway 101. There wasn’t no actual Ventura Highway. It was connected and they came up with the idea to write a song about it. The mesage I got for this song was about driving a long highway in the sunshine. My memory to this song is is when I go to my uncle’s house in Pennsylvania with my parents. On Songfacts.com, I saw a lot of positive comments about this song. See for your yourself. They like the beginning when the acoustic guitar kicks in, love the guitar licks and the loved the ending to the song.

 My personal connection song is called Forever Young. The artist singing this song is Jay-z. This song is R&B/electronica. The person who wrote this song was Mr Hudson. He wrote this for Jay-z to sing. Digital spy asked Mr. Hudson what it was like working on this song. Mr Hudson replied: "That was a quick thing. It's funny because sometimes big tracks come really easily. I'm not exaggerating, but we did it in an hour. Kanye spent about half an hour on the beats, I spent half an hour on the vocal and then we were like, 'Cool, let's send it to Jigga'. And he loved it, so it was almost too easy. If only that could happen every day!"  Every time I hear this song it makes me cry so much. This song is very touching to me. This song gives me a message and that is to be young forever and to never grow old and that’s what i wanna do never grow old and die just live forever in life, never looking all wrinkly and saggy and to not suffer pain when your old. This song was in my year book video when i was in middle school. This song reminds me of my middle school M.s 202 and i miss that middle school. It reminds me all the great time i had there and how my life was much better back then. This song sound so sad and when i hear it the first thing that pops up in my head is my middle school, my childhood and my memories.  Rosaria Ingrasciotta!

 Ashley Mangual

 [|__Car Wash__]

 [|__Personal Connection-Songfacts.com__]

 __Facts__

 Comments
 * Norman Whitifield wrote many songs and he wrote the song Car Wash.
 * Born in May 12, 1940 in Harlem, New York City
 * Made it as a movie.
 * He got his idea from when he was in KFC, which wasn’t called that back then, and he wrote his lyrics in the back of a bag of chickens he was eating.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Album went gold and the song won the 1976 Grammy Award for Best Album of Original Score Written Motion Picture.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In 2004, a cover version by Christina Aquilera and Missy Elliott, were released as the single of Sharks Tales soundtrack and reached top 5 in the UK, but only # 63 in States.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Died at the age of 68 in Los Angeles, on September 16, 2006


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">People say that it is one of the best bass lines ever
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A remix version also returned the song to the UK Top 30 in 1988.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rose Royce’s other classic hits <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from 1976 to 1979
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Include "Wishing On A Star" (twice reissued in the UK in 1989 and 1997)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" (later covered by both Jimmy Nail (1985) and, more recently, Madonna in 1996)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And "Is It Love You're After?" (later sampled by S-Express on their 1988 dance hit "Theme From S-Express")

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This song is a personal connection to my life. This song is a personal connection to my life because it reminds me of my hamster running his wheel whenever I put that song on, or whenever he randomly hears it somewhere in the house. He just starts to run to almost the whole song and he would just sometimes switch sides of where he want to run in the wheel. He often gets tired after hes done running in it, but surprisingly he keeps on running and he takes like only a a few seconds to catch his breath. When he takes a few second breaks to breath, he stares at me or my sister, Amanda, or my older brother, Luis when he turns his head towards us. It looks so cute! After the few seconds he just goes back to running in the wheel, even when there’s no music he’ll just run for fun. He also sometimes runs in the wheel when he has food inside of his mouth. It looks tiring while running with food in your mouth but for some reason he is used to it and keeps going. He’ll even run with food in his mouth while listening to the Car Wash song and keeps running when he takes like a 1 second break.

Personal Connection Song Paragraphs

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__Song~__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My song name is “The Sunleth Waterscape from Final Fantasy 13. The Song Artist is Frances Maya and the genre nature. The person who wrote this song is Masashi Hamauzu. The song was made in Japan and it was translated to English. This song is original and not covered. This song has lot of views so. Over 20,000 views listen to this song.n_n

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The song point of view of this song is to have fun and listen to the music. The song is conveying that you should have fun while playing the game. Look at the sunshine and look in the light blue sky to see the nature of your Adventure. My message I get from this song is that I should be happy to play music. It pushing me to get all the bad things in my mind like I lost in a game or that I had a bad day in school. My memory with this song is that “good times as but all time end”. This mean that there is good time you have but sometimes good thing end to bad things. These is a good song to listen when you are feeling bad. By: Shawn Petithomme

Video Projects; media type="custom" key="8137062"

(on-location) || yes - Sony || (train) || yes - Canon ||
 * Name of Student || Date of videotaping || Location || borrowing camera ||
 * Randy Zheng || November || Boxing gym
 * Naquan Hardy || December 1st. || on-location
 * Eric || december 17 || on-location (Chinese Restaurant) || yes-Sony ||
 * Ashley || December 10 || Home || Yes-Sony ||
 * Nicky || December 13 || on-location (school) || Yes-Sony ||
 * Shawn || December 17 || on-location (outside) || Yes-Sony ||
 * Rosaria || December 17 || on-location (library) || Yes-Sony ||

=** AUDIO SCRIPTS - POST BELOW **=

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hi my name is Randy. I like boxing because is fun and I enjoy it. Going to the boxing gym makes me a better person because it keeps me out of trouble and off the streets. After I joined the boxing gym I have become a better person. I like going to the gym is because I go with my best friend and I train with them and it keep me in shape. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Audio Script

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I have a dog for a pet. My dog is a Beagle mixed with a Pekingese. She is just 3 months old and I love my dog. Its good to have a dog because you can play with it, you can run around with it, you can teach it to do tricks, you can teach it to use the bathroom on the wee wee pads that is when it is a puppy, you can give it treats if they does a good job that helps you train it. i can’t walk my dog yet because its still a puppy and the doctor said she can’t go outside and walk until she is 4 or 5 months old. I can hardy wait.

- Tiffany Flock 905

Shawn Petithomme 905

===<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Global warming is affecting our universe. Do you want to know what global warming is? Well the experts say it is the increase in the air surrounding the earth. That air is known as the atmospheric air. It affects the oceans as well. There's ways we can help but companies and factories need to reduce the carbon dioxide going into the air. Meanwhile, People need to stop putting trash on the floor and down the sewer drains. People should recycle your trash that you make. If your doing that you are helping the earth. Every year the earth gets hotter Global warming makes the weather rougher and stronger. So you will see strong wind storms, strong rain storms, strong snow storms, and strong lighting storms. This weather affect the animals that live in forest and this weather all so affect use too. We don’t not like a storm coming in to your area right?_? And try not to be outside when there is a storm in the air because you can get hurt if you go outside at that time.= / Hard storms are bad because it can destroy things like, a wind storm can destroy a house, a tree, and a fence. This is why we don’t like storms that happen in the world. Lots of money is lost because of the destruction caused by these storms. Make sure you are safe from in any storm!_!** ===

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Voice Over: What will you do if a bully makes you feel really uncomfortable? Were you ever the victim of bullying? Where would you go for help?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Hi, I’m Nicholas Borzacchiello and I want to take a stand against bullying. I’ve been bullied so much I felt like a dog in an animal shelter and you shouldn’t end up being bruised and injured like me when I was bullied. If you were a victim of bullying, please TELL somebody. For example, Prinicipal, Assisant principal, Mom, Dad, Teacher etc. These people are here to talk to you and help you get over your fear of bullying. Over a million people have been bullied ever since the time when college freshman Tyler Clementi jumped to his death on the George Washington Bridge. Why? because he was recorded by his two classmates in his school having a sexual relationship with another man. He respected the people around him. He should not be allowed to be picked on because of his same sex relationship even if it’s wrong or not. His college classmates didn’t respect him because it wasn’t right to them. If you can stop bullying with me, we can make this world a special place for victims of bullying and then we’ll move on and conquer domestic violence because hey the bullies learned it from somewhere.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">__**Audio Script**__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My name is Ashley Mangual and what I am most passion about are hamsters. There are five different types of hamsters. The five different types are Syrian, Dwarf Campbell Russian, Dwarf Winter White Russian, Roborovski, and the Chinese hamsters. My hamster is called a Teddy Bear hamster, which is also called a Syrian. Syrian hamsters are from Syria, which is located in the middle east south of Turkey. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hamsters can grow only up to five inches long and they can live two to three years. Hamsters mostly love to eat vegetables, fruits, grains and seeds. My hamster is a cousin of the Syrian hamsters. Fluffy likes to walk around in his cage ball, loves to chew on his rainbow colored hamster treats, and what he really loves to do is run in his wheel to his favorite song by a band called “Rose Royce”.

Debating Music Downloads

My class has been learning and Debating Music Downloads because we learned that downloading music can be legal or illegal. I've heard that adults are downloading illegal music and children are doing it too! People across the United States and maybe the world are downloading music that doesn't have the ownership or license from other music websites but are still using it to get free music instead of paying for it. I think downloading music is legal because I have a software called LimeWire where i can get free songs and it goes to my iTunes library and Apple, the company that made iTunes doesn't send me a notice that i've been downloading illegal songs from different programs. When you pay for songs you like from iTunes, it charges you because it knows you brought a song or content that you don't have at an expensive price.

====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rosaria Ingrasciotta Class 905 ====

====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> My Audio Script! ====

===<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt 0px; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Hi my name is Rosaria Ingrasciotta and my passion in life is to be successful. I wanna be able to go to college and become a lawyer. I wanna help in a law suit and help people that need a lawyer, to protect them in court. In order to do that i have to work hard at it. I have to put my mind to it and concentrate. I am going to the library and will pick out the books about law and study all about it. Since I’m a 9th grader I should be looking up colleges where I can study law. I just can’t wait to become a lawyer I wanna be able in the future to make money to get a big house and have enough money to support my family. ===