"Jeremy" by Pearl Jam

The song "Jeremy" by Pearl Jam is rightfully controversial. The song overviews how a tormented boy, Jeremy, decides to kill his fellow students to solve his problems. Other people may say that Jeremy murders the students and himself or just himself, depending on how a perosn interprets the lyrics. The speaker is a boy who tormetned Jeremy throughout the song showing feelings of regret and guilt.

The speaker opens the song with the description of a painting of Jeremy. In the picture Jeremy stands on a sun over dead bodies with his arms in a "V". This paints a description of Jeremy's thoughts to overcome torment form his peers by death, possibly meaning victory. "Daddy didn't give attention. Oh, to the fact that mommy didnt care." also mentions Jeremy's lack of parental support.

The speaker then sinks into discussion about his attitude towards Jeremy, proving more the situation as an antecedent. "Clearly I remember pickin' on the boy. Seemed a harmless...", describes the blame the speaker accuses himself of. The speaker also witnesses suprise by Jeremy, "Ooh but we unleashed a lion.....and he hit me with a suprise left." Jeremy left a lasting emotional scar on the speaker as well, "My jaw left hurtin'.....try to forget this...try to erase this." He obviously will never be able to forget what Jeremy's done.

The last piece of evidence leading us to believe Jeremy committed some form a murder comes from the line "Jeremy spoke in class today." The line simply does not mean he talked in class, it refers to him making a significant action in class, in this case murder. The speaker blames Jeremy's parents, peers, and himself for the gradual build up toward Jeremy's final actions. In my opinion Jeremy murded his classmates to feel victorious and the message, the most important, is not to tease anyone because you never know whats happening in their home life.

Improve Writing

To improve my writing on my last rhetorical analysis I could have done many things. I need to wach for the way write my sentences and make sure they make sense. I should let somebody proofread my papers from now on. I should watch my word choice and reread my papers aloud. I should take more time to write them also. I should watch my past tense and pre tense when writing and watch my comma usage.

Intelligence

How do you know if someone is intelligent? I think it varies from person to person, especially if your one of those people who think you are intelligent, but are in fact not. I belive to be intelligent you definately have to have knowledge about life, which is wisdom. What's the point of being intelligent in school and not life. Great intelligence I think is when you come up with great unique ideas about life and they're better than anyone could have ever thought of. Uniqueness is in other words a great form of intelligence. Most greatly intelligent people are also the ones that don't even know they are. Basically, you know if someone is intelligent if they have great wisdom and make great choices.

Knowledge,Truth, & Beliefs

To believe something is to know something. To believe someting is to believe something true. You can't know anything if you don't believe it. If you believe someting true, you know it. Those three words tie in together in various ways and none can work without the other. Put together they contribute to a greater knowledge, more beliefs, and a changed truth.