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Music : Luke Bryan

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        A country artist named Luke Bryan is one of many country artists that I like. I've liked Luke since he came out with his first song "All my friends say", in August of 2007. The reason why I have liked his music is that sometimes its groovy and fun to dance too, then other times it's loving and sad but all of his lyrics are really unique, for instance, one of his songs called   "My kind of Night" on the album Crash My Party , Luke sings,                                                                              "Get yourself  a little catfish dinner" The metaphor here renames both "catfish" and "dinner", it means you should go out for the night, doesn't really mean have a catfish dinner. As in another good song,   "Play it Again" ...

NFL

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I chose to write about the clash between the NFL and President Trump regarding kneeling protest during the National Anthem. Paul Schwartz, Zach Braziller and, Bruce Golding in their article, "More than 200 protest racism in the loud NFL statement" , published in the New York Post. This article was brought to my attention, due to the fact that it has to do with my country. More than 200 NFL players took a knee during the national anthem, while other players locked arms with their coaches. Trump had made a speech on Friday, October 6 in Alabama, when he stated that the NFL team owners should fire any player that knees during the anthem, which that was not at all the right thing to say. Trump continued this through Sunday when he put a post on social media about boycotting the NFL. In my personal opinion, it makes me furious to see this on the news, and on social media. We are all the selfsame, we bleed the same color blood. And this country is my home, and I feel like the ...