Zombie by The Cranberries
How do musicians' decision making environments affect their music? Who are they trying to reach, and what are they trying to get them to feel? Here's another classic activist song.…
Privilege versus Adaptation (text)
ACT I Scene 1 If you’re in high school now, and you plan to go to college, you’re about to see one of the biggest tests of the Web of…
Our Lives Matter S1E32: Privilege versus Adaptation
People always use their abilities and ideas in their environments to pursue what they value in life, and they think of more ideas in the process. The idea of privilege…
Ode to Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry
This song is about the dark side of country life. Bobbie calls it unintentional cruelty. The movie based on the song tells that story in a lot more detail. A…
Worldviews and the Principles of Learning (text)
ACT I Scene 1 We’ve been talking about conflicts between worldviews. People live their lives by using their abilities and their ideas in their environments and that makes them think…
Our Lives Matter S1E31: Worldviews and the Principles of Learning
People live their lives using their abilities and ideas in their environments, and they think of new ideas in the process. The ideas they think of and learn over the…
Wait in the Truck by Hardy
This is a country song about morals and domestic violence. I've seen a lot of reaction videos by people trying to understand it. It's a very well written song and…
The Pros and Cons of Rigid Morality (text)
ACT I Scene 1 We’ve been talking about how people use their abilities and ideas in their environments to live their lives. We think of new ideas in the process. …
Our Lives Matter S1E30: The Pros and Cons of Rigid Morality
People always use their abilities and ideas in their environments to decide what to do in life. They think of more ideas in the process. Those ideas build up to…
A Country Boy Can Survive by Hank Williams Jr.
This song is essentially the national anthem of country music. It's about rural working class White people. The people you see in this video are rural middle class people. They're…