Folk Songs About Revolution

The song I chose is called "God Save the Thirteen States". This song is sang in the tune of the song "God Save the Queen". Although God Save the Queen is a British song, God Save the Thirteen States was sang like it because the write wanted to show the British that the Americans had their own identity, by not talking about the same things and also that they could become a country as powerful as the British were. The lyrics of both songs are formatted similarly. For almost all lines of the song, they have the same amount of syllables in each. This song is basically about how the Americans were praying to win the war and end the tyrannic government. They wanted to have a free state, not being ruled by the Europeans, especially how the European government ruled them ruthlessly. This poem/ song isn't quite long and is basically talking about the same things over and over again which is how they want to have liberty and be freed from the Europeans.

Duty or Friendship?

Duties are important while friends are too. Does betraying your duties or betraying your friends sound worse to you? To me, it would be a really hard choice to make, since duties are things that should be done, or to be more exact, duties have to be done. But, friends mean everything to me. Of course, only the real friends are the ones that I would feel really guilty at if I betray them. Neither betraying people that have your back whenever you need them and wish the best for you nor betraying your duties will be a good decision. If I really had to choose, I would choose to betray my duties. Betraying duties normally would just harm myself, but betraying friends would hurt more than just one person. Although sometimes when you betray your duty, you might hurt someone else too, but they wouldn't be your friends. Hurting your friends could be one of the most serious crimes on the planet, and you will regret it if it really happens. Things I would normally consider about before I make those decisions will be ones like "how many people will be hurt, how painful would it be...etc". I wouldn't want to have to make decisions like this, but like I've said, if I really have to choose, I would choose to betray my duties.

Under pressure

When people face heart-pounding fear or stress, normally, their bodies produce a lot of adrenaline, which would make people have a lot of energy for a while, but of course, after the time of being energetic, they would feel tired and hungry afterwards. Also, when people face stress, there could be different reactions. Some people may deal with the pressure well and may even use the pressure as a bumper and get a higher result that has higher quality. Some other people though, won't be able to deal with the pressure and hurt themselves. If it's more serious, some might even commit suicide. Normally when I face stress, I would feel depressed and frustrated for quite a while, and start to do what I should be doing. For example, when there is a large amount of homework, I would freak out and panic first before I start working on them. And when people take actions when the stakes are high, I believe that they feel that there would be no loss even if they make those decisions. The condition they were in should've been really bad so that they wouldn't care about whether they would face bad consequences since the situation may not get worse.

Revenge

Normally, people would seek revenge when something that other people has done to them hurt them to an extend that they couldn't stand it. For example, money, love and reputations. These would be the most common reasons for people to seek revenge on other people. Some minor reasons could be from insults, pranks, or jokes. Some people may take pranks and jokes really seriously and get angry to decide to revenge. And in movies, there are often parts where someone really close to a character, his/her mother, lover...etc. gets killed or hurt, the character changes into a different person and decides to seek revenge. If people get obsessed to vengeances, it'll lead to a tragedy because to seek revenge means to do something bad to the person that hurt you. Doing anything that hurts other people isn't a good choice in the first place and if you get obsessed in doing it, which means that you'll be doing bad things over and over again. Doing bad things all the time could be considered as a tragedy.

The Grass Is Always Greener On The Other Side

People often think that other people have better things, and almost never appreciate what they, themselves have. No matter how great your life is, you always think that someone else's life is better. For example, a married man had a lot of single male friends and felt jealous at how they could party and were free all the time, but he didn't see how lucky he was, having a beautiful wife that takes care of almost everything. He decided to leave his wife because he kept believing that being single like his friends is a better life, until one day, all his friends got married and he started to see how his friends were actually really happy and sweet with their wives. When he wanted to go back to his ex-wife, of course she wouldn't want to get back together with him. So, envying what other people have doesn't mean that if you really get that life, you'll like it. This man would be regretting what he did for a long time, because he realized how stupid he was to make the decision to divorce with his ex-wife.