as the world turns

Around the world, music is the one commonplace among different ethnicities and races. Whether you live half way across the world or not, music is still a way of expressing emotions through melodic lyrics and rhythmic beats. Music is essentially the universal language. Yesterday, as I was doing homework, I was listening to an old song: Down by Jay Sean. This song has been my go to song from a very young age, but only yesterday did I discover that he is of Indian origin (although his appearance does not make this seem believable). His full name is Kamaljit Singh Jhooti, which is a common north Indian name. Upon realizing this, I came across the notion that music truly has no barriers. The fact that this music, written by someone who doesn’t even live in America, is being enjoyed and felt by the people of America, is truly awakening. Similarly, the father’s relation to Jimi Hendrix in Because my father always said he was the only Indian who saw Jimi Hendrix play ‘The Star-Spangled Bann...

          As the world turns, as it slowly revolves around its axis, as it tries to catch up with the sun, 24 hours pass. In this mere 24 hours, you are given another chance to live on this beautiful earth. Each and every day, the world holds new adventures waiting to be uncovered, but when it decides to throw poverty, famine, terrorism, economic downfall, racism, and even natural disaster at us, it affects hundreds and thousands of people all across the globe. In times like these, we must come together and unite as shown in The Partly Cloudy Patriot when the author states, "the other day in the subway at 5:30, I was crammed into my sweaty, crabby fellow citizens, and I kept whispering under my breath 'we the people, we the people,’ over and over again, reminding myself we're all in this together and they had as much right – exactly as much right – as I to be in the muggy underground on their way to wherever they were on their way to” (Vowell 106...