Journal+8

Your journal must analyze or comment on specific lyrics (text) and how they may relate to answering one or all of these questions.
 * Journal #8 Song Journal (Creative Writing)**
 * Due in the inbox at the end of Wednesday's class 1-11-2012. Your work should be turned in electronically in the inbox. Do not print a copy, I will read it electronically!!! **
 * Part A:** Write a 450-500 word journal about the song that you chose that may or may not include some of the following information:
 * Where were you when you first heard this song? When you last heard it?
 * Who knows what this song means to you?
 * What does this song remind you of? A person? place? experience? a time of happiness? exuberance? hope? inspiration?
 * What genre of music is this?
 * How is this particular song like or unlike any other songs by this artist?

The first kick I took was when I hit the ground You end up like a dog that's been beat too much 'Til you spend half your life just covering up [chorus:] Born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A. I got in a little hometown jam And so they put a rifle in my hands Sent me off to Vietnam To go and kill the yellow man [chorus] Come back home to the refinery Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me" I go down to see the V.A. man He said "Son don't you understand" [chorus] I had a buddy at Khe Sahn Fighting off the Viet Cong They're still there, he's all gone He had a little girl in Saigon I got a picture of him in her arms Down in the shadow of the penitentiary Out by the gas fires of the refinery I'm ten years down the road Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A. I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A. || No hope or inspiration anywhere As nature reveal man's smile That has a crooked malicious grin You walk through life looking down and away [chorus:] False dreams and promises Imagined dreams and hopes The envy of so many others That has so much injustice ||
 * Part B:** Re-Write this song as a dialogue journal using the template to create your own version of it.
 * Born in the U.S.A. || ||
 * Born down in a dead man's town