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Essay on a Billy Joel Song featuring the year 1955

When I first heard that we would be doing a paper on a song by Billy Joel I thought that this was going to be not exactly an easy, but a fun project. I was impressed on how it was broken down into the years and I really liked the fact that we could choose our own year. Little did I know that that was going to be my downfall. When it came time to choose I had already singled out my year of 1955 because I recognized all of those names, but as my fate would have it 1955 was one of the first years chosen so I had to find another appealing year and fast. I decided to choose one close to that year and scrolling down the paper I saw the name,”Joesph Stalin”. This name stood out to me because I was aware of most of the things that he did in his lifetime. What I did not pay attention to was the fact that I did not know any of the other people in my year and by the looks of it they were all foreign. Name like Campanella and Malenkov really threw me and as soon as they said Communist b...

Posted by: Carlos Hernandez

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