Delroy Demontegnac
Motown Music, Money, Sex and Power by Gerald Posner
Chapter 7-9
5) Comments I have:
1) Gordy artistes who works for him becomes more successful which attract more singers to try get into his business.
2) Gordy had kids about like 4 and he have a wife.
3) Gordy business sometimes has problems with money and different things like his family in his life.
4) Motown records starts releasing albums national around the country.
5) Soon after when he became more successful wanna be singers from all around wanted to get a record deal from Motown.
4) Insightful questions I have:
1) How old are his kids?
2) Did he get divorced before?
3) What happened to his parents after when he becomes more successful?
4) Were his concerns and problems finding money to invest in his singers?
3) Vocabulary:
1) Deluged (60)- a great flood of water
2) Implored (60)- to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy
3) Exasperation (60) - an act or instance of exasperating; provocation.
2) Examples of literary terms:
1) “My heart drops “(58)-This is example of personification because it’s describing object characteristics of a heart dropping.
2) “We don’t go for Dilly- dilly-gum-gum’ type lyrics.”(56)- This is an example of a metaphor which is trying compare no so go with saying it in a different way.
1) Summary:
2) His Motown records became more a hit which increased amount of singers becoming more on top and him becoming richer.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Roar book
Delroy Demontegnac
Motown Music, Money, Sex and Power by Gerald Posner
Chapter 4-6
5) Comments I have:
1. Gordy and Davis put together a small stable of local singers to help make Motown become successful.
2. At the beginning of Motown Gordy was paid about thirty dollars weekly which was still low for him.
3. Gordy moved his cooperation to Gwen’s’ Large apartment, because he wanted to be independent and get more money which it led to more of a success.
4. Gordy then start to need money to press albums for artistes
5. Gordy help pays his family loans and lives with them but after the business becoming more successful it creates less stress with paying money and working for money.
4) Insightful questions I have:
1) Is he going to get married?
2) Does he have a girlfriend?
3) Is the Motown still a big hit?
4) Does a person go through struggles like this to become on top?
3) Vocabulary:
1. Reluctantly (33) - unwilling.
2. Frantically (30) - Highly excited with strong emotion or frustration.
3. Bobbed (35) - a short, jerky motion.
2) Examples of literary terms:
1. “We got out by the skin of our teeth.”(30) This is a form of a personification because it’s trying to share characteristics of teeth having skin.
2. “A local lawyer warned him that even so, his new business would be undercapitalized and doomed to failure.”(32) This is an example of man vs. man conflict because many people think that he can’t make it and having negative dough’s about him.
1) Summary:
This is when he tried putting his time in working at his Motown Cooperation working with Davis then went on his own and moved.
Motown Music, Money, Sex and Power by Gerald Posner
Chapter 4-6
5) Comments I have:
1. Gordy and Davis put together a small stable of local singers to help make Motown become successful.
2. At the beginning of Motown Gordy was paid about thirty dollars weekly which was still low for him.
3. Gordy moved his cooperation to Gwen’s’ Large apartment, because he wanted to be independent and get more money which it led to more of a success.
4. Gordy then start to need money to press albums for artistes
5. Gordy help pays his family loans and lives with them but after the business becoming more successful it creates less stress with paying money and working for money.
4) Insightful questions I have:
1) Is he going to get married?
2) Does he have a girlfriend?
3) Is the Motown still a big hit?
4) Does a person go through struggles like this to become on top?
3) Vocabulary:
1. Reluctantly (33) - unwilling.
2. Frantically (30) - Highly excited with strong emotion or frustration.
3. Bobbed (35) - a short, jerky motion.
2) Examples of literary terms:
1. “We got out by the skin of our teeth.”(30) This is a form of a personification because it’s trying to share characteristics of teeth having skin.
2. “A local lawyer warned him that even so, his new business would be undercapitalized and doomed to failure.”(32) This is an example of man vs. man conflict because many people think that he can’t make it and having negative dough’s about him.
1) Summary:
This is when he tried putting his time in working at his Motown Cooperation working with Davis then went on his own and moved.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
ROAR Hisorty book
Delroy Demontegnac
Motown Music, Money, Sex and Power by Gerald Posner
Chapter 1-3
5) Comments I have:
1. Berry Gordy was a great grandson of a slave who had moved from the Ford assembly line to founding Motown Records.
2. Motown Records was the most successful music label of the 1960’s.
3. Michael Jackson was also from Motown records.
4. Berry Gordy was the owner of Motown records and he was born Nov, 28 1929.
5. In order for Berry Gordy to own a place called Motown records, he was intelligent, he worked and worked until he got enough money to buy his own place then he created his own place.
4) Insightful questions I have:
1. How did he get from being a position from being a poor black person into a owner of Motown records?
2. Is his kid are the owners and manager of Motown records now?
3. What’s going to happened to him into the next chapters?
4. Is someone in his family going to die like his mother to motivate him in anyway to try to pursue his Dream of becoming rich?
3) Vocabulary:
1. Strife (Posner 6) - a quarrel, struggle, or clash.
2. Frenzied (9) - wildly excited or enthusiastic.
3. Tenement (8) - any species of permanent property, as lands, houses, rents, an office, or a franchise, that may be held of another.
2) Examples of literary terms:
1. “Both Parents were strict disciplinarians, praising their children generously for good accomplishments but also meting out corporal punishment for transgressions”(Posner 7)- this an example of situational irony because the reader whose reading knows why his parents are beating him to do good and he has success and I know that he would become successful.
2. “Instead, he reserved his enthusiasm for boxing at neighborhood gym. It was a sport to appealed to many local blacks…” (Posner 9)-This is situational Irony because this shows that he’s trying to do anything that he can make lots of money from so he tries to do anything like boxing to make it big but we know that he might be able to make it from that but from something else.
1) Summary: Through chapter1-3 this story’s about Berry Gordy and about is family struggles and his struggles to fine a job to be successful at it. He went looking around and around searching for a job that can bring you to success like boxing but it wasn’t quite successful for him though.
Motown Music, Money, Sex and Power by Gerald Posner
Chapter 1-3
5) Comments I have:
1. Berry Gordy was a great grandson of a slave who had moved from the Ford assembly line to founding Motown Records.
2. Motown Records was the most successful music label of the 1960’s.
3. Michael Jackson was also from Motown records.
4. Berry Gordy was the owner of Motown records and he was born Nov, 28 1929.
5. In order for Berry Gordy to own a place called Motown records, he was intelligent, he worked and worked until he got enough money to buy his own place then he created his own place.
4) Insightful questions I have:
1. How did he get from being a position from being a poor black person into a owner of Motown records?
2. Is his kid are the owners and manager of Motown records now?
3. What’s going to happened to him into the next chapters?
4. Is someone in his family going to die like his mother to motivate him in anyway to try to pursue his Dream of becoming rich?
3) Vocabulary:
1. Strife (Posner 6) - a quarrel, struggle, or clash.
2. Frenzied (9) - wildly excited or enthusiastic.
3. Tenement (8) - any species of permanent property, as lands, houses, rents, an office, or a franchise, that may be held of another.
2) Examples of literary terms:
1. “Both Parents were strict disciplinarians, praising their children generously for good accomplishments but also meting out corporal punishment for transgressions”(Posner 7)- this an example of situational irony because the reader whose reading knows why his parents are beating him to do good and he has success and I know that he would become successful.
2. “Instead, he reserved his enthusiasm for boxing at neighborhood gym. It was a sport to appealed to many local blacks…” (Posner 9)-This is situational Irony because this shows that he’s trying to do anything that he can make lots of money from so he tries to do anything like boxing to make it big but we know that he might be able to make it from that but from something else.
1) Summary: Through chapter1-3 this story’s about Berry Gordy and about is family struggles and his struggles to fine a job to be successful at it. He went looking around and around searching for a job that can bring you to success like boxing but it wasn’t quite successful for him though.
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