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__I HAVE A DREAM__ __Common__  “Finding Forever “



media type="youtube" key="r_2cwhJndKY" width="635" height="525"   [Chorus - Will.i.am and Martin Luther King]  (I am happy...I Have a Dream) I got a Dream   (That One Day ) Were gonna work it out out out   (That One Day ) Were gonna work it out out out   (That One Day ) Were gonna work it out   (I Have a Dream) I got a Dream   (That One Day ) Were gonna work it out out out   (That One Day ) Were gonna work it out out out   (That One Day ) Were gonna work it out   (I Have a Dream) I got a Dream   (That One Day) That one day  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> (That One Day) I'ma look deep within myself  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> (I Have a Dream) I gotta find a way... <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> My Dream Is To Be Free <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> My Dream Is To Be  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #3a598f; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> My Dream Is To Be  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #3a598f; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> My Dream Is To Be Free <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> [Verse 1] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #3a598f; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> In search of brighter days, I ride through the maze of the madness,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #3a598f; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> Struggle is my address, where pain and crack lives,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> Gunshots comin' from sounds of Blackness,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> Given this game with no time to practice,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> Born on the Black list, told I'm below average,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> A life with no cabbage,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> That's no money if you from where I'm from,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> Funny, I just want some of your sun  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> Dark clouds seem to follow me,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> Alcohol that my pops swallowed bottled me,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> No apology, I walk with a boulder on my shoulder,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 0.75em; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> It's a Cold War - I'm a colder soldier, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> Hold the same fight that made Martin Luther the King,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> I ain't usin' it for the right thing,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> In between Lean and the fiens, hustle and the schemes,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> I put together pieces of a Dream  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> I still have one <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> [Chorus] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> [Verse 2] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> The world's seen me lookin' in the mirror,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> Images of me, gettin' much clearer,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> Dear Self, I wrote a letter just to better my soul,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> If I don't express it then forever I'll hold, inside  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> I'm from a side where we out of control,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> Rap music in the 'hood played a fatherly role,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> My story's like yours, yo it gotta be told,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> Tryna make it from a gangsta to a godlier role,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> Read scrolls and stow slaves,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> And Jewish people in cold cage,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> Hate has no color or age, flip the page,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> Now my rage became freedom,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> Writin' dreams in the dark, they far but I can see 'em,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> I believe in Heaven more than Hell,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> Blessings more than jail,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> In the ghetto let love prevail,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> With a story to tell, my eyes see the glory and well,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> The world waitin' for me to yell "I Have a Dream" <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> [Chorus]

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">What am I talking about?

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Introduction
 * Story
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Lyrics
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Conclusion
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Activity

__Introduction:__
The song I have chosen is “I have a dream” by Common and Will.I.Am chorus. Even though Common is not a commercial rapper his album “Finding Forever “was nominated to 3 Grammy Awards. This song appears in the <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">film “ //<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Freedom Writers” //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">, a <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">movie about the trials and tribulations of the inner city in an effort to reach the disadvantaged youth of America, which has a lot of equivalence with Commons life.

__Story:__
What I am firstly going to talk about the true story about the lyrics, why it was created. The creation of the song has a clear purpose, the reflection of this difficult childhood. Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr, best known as Common, grew up in a single parent family. His mother made miracles to give him the opportunity to assist school, the Luther High School, which will have a great importance in the song.

__Lyrics:__
Basically the song speaks about racism and the social injustice. Featuring own opinion lyrics sung in a unique blend of hip hop and soul. The social conscious rap as a genre is electrifying here, easily moving within the beat while delivering complex lines loaded with commentary and snappy rhyme schemes. Starting with the opening lines of "In search of brighter days/I write through the maze of the madness/struggle is my address/where pain and crack lives," Common quickly establishes an environment and then pushes through to discuss how his own dreams persist.

I would like to point out, how Common indirectly by the song express us how poor he is and some negative things of been black skinned. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> Born on the Black list, told I'm below average, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> A life with no cabbage,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> That's no money if you from where I'm from,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> In this extract, Common communicates us the consequence of being black. In more detail we could fix in the metaphor "Born on the Black list, told I´m below avarage", which represents the fact of borning black, it classifies you on the poor, marginal and dark society, which is inferior of the rest of it.

We can observe how Common uses the figure of Martin Luther King. Summarizing, Luther King was a liberalist, which fight again racial segregation and racial discrimination in nonviolent means. So in the song we can observe how Common has Martin´s same purpose: fighting against social injustices.

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I earlier mentioned the appearance of Will.I.Am the lead singer of the group The Black Eyed Peas. Will.I.Am provides to the song a really nice chorus, were repeats constantly a very important phrase which appears in a speech of Martin Luther King, “I have a dream”. This phrase has such a powerful meaning that creates a positive atmosphere on the listener. This dream as I said before is the inexistence of racist ideologies.

Throughout the lyrics, the singer has reflected all his ideologies in a nonviolent way, just like Martin Luther King did, in such a strong way, motivating people to never surrender when they fight for themselves and the whole society.

__ Conclusion: __
In my opinion the melody which scratches Luther King´s most important phrase and the chorus produced by Will.I.Am is marvelous, plus Common´s clean, fresh and fluid rapping style the song becomes explosively good. To conclude I would say that it is a song that completely took me since I first heard it. The theme and the different perspective that this song gives is pretty reluctant. It really inspires me but also gives me the strength and motivation to battle against important things in life.

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= =  **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> I HAVE A DREAM! **

__Activity:__
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Hate has no color or age, flip the___, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Now my rage became freedom, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Writin' dreams in the dark, they far but I can see 'em, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">I believe in Heaven more than ___,__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Blessings more than__<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">_, __ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">In the ghetto let love prevail, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">With a story to tell, my eyes see the glory and , <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #3a598f; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">The world waitin' for me to yell "____"__.__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Solution: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> Hate has no color or age, flip the page__,__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> Now my rage became freedom, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> Writin' dreams in the dark, they far but I can see 'em,  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> I believe in Heaven more than Hell__,__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> Blessings more than jail__,__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> In the ghetto let love prevail, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> With a story to tell, my eyes see the glory and well__,__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #3a598f; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> The world waitin' for me to yell " I Have a Dream"