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The song titled, "Breathe Me" by Sia speaks strongly of social issues. The story it tells of a person who is going through a hard time of Depression and is using coping methods to make the pain go away. It's about feeling empty inside, and hopeless, unworthy. The theme addressed in the song is of Depression, Anxiety, and the thought of Self-harm. The song is a cry for help. The song speaks to me today because it has reminded me of a time that I was in depression and thinking about self harming myself. It was a few years back around high school, thought I was all alone with no "friends". I didn't realize till now that I never had any real friends, but now I have the most, wonderful two best friends I could of asked for. Here's a fun fact: Did you know this tale of the song was very real to Sia? In 2018 of an interview, she reveals that she attempted suicide and after that plotted her own death. This song is very powerful in short words. It is one of the f...

The poem I chose was "The Lost Pilot" by James Tate. The conflict being addressed in the poem is a man struggling with his loss of direction and control as I have researched among my resources such as the internet. The topic is about a man discussing in a poem about the grief of his father or a male figure authority. The overall tone of the poem is sadness. It made me feel as if the writer of the poem wants you to express the emotion of grief with tears. The specific words that made me feel this way are misfortune, rot, dead, and residue. My own honest assessment of the poem is difficult because I am, one of the people that can not understand poetry or like it. I admit I had to ask my sister and research online what the poem was talking about honestly, because I thought it was about the writer dying and writing about his death. However, that is not the case as in the poem it is about the writer of the poem grieving about his father. I had to search up a couple of words such ...

The film I chose for German Expressionism is Last Laugh (1924) directed by F.W. Murnau. The director has created numerous German films. The background of the film is about a proud, happy hotel doorman who finds himself suddenly demoted to a washroom attendant. The man feels humiliated and because of that he struggles to carry on with his life.  The Last Laugh refers back to the style of German Expressionism because the film involves the bold and exaggerated visual elements as the doorman drifts from dreams and nightmares, and different mental states throughout the story. The German Expressionistic scale of the hotel and the city is almost exaggerated and emphasized, to project how important it is to the doorman's identity. The themes that are inquired in the film by several synopsis were  psychological, fantasy, madness, betrayal and murder as its creators used extreme distortions in expression to show an inner emotional reality rather than realism or ...