JOHN MELLENCAMP : A GREAT ROCK STAR

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A Term Paper Submitted to

Mrs. Nimfa G. Empedrad of the English Department
Dr. Juan G. Nolasco High School

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In Partial Fulfillment
Of the Requirement for English 10

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by:

Matthew C. Arroyo, 10-1

February 19,2016
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

Acknowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Definition of Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3

Outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16

Conclusion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Recommendation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Final Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-21

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

My Heartfelt gratitude is given to the following person who in

one way or another helped me in making and writing my research paper to
make it successful.
To my beloved parents who always allowed me to make
research paper on our house and allow me to make until midnight.
To my friends who always on our house to make research
paper and helped me sometimes to do it.
To my classmate who teaches me if I don’t know how to do the
pattern on how to make research paper.
To my teacher who encourage me to do my research and
teaches the easy way to do it and make it on time.
To all of you thank you for helping me to make my research
paper successful without you I can’t do it.

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 DEFINITION OF TERMS

1.Aforementioned- mentioned before ,spoken about or named earlier.

2.Ardent- having or showing very strong feeling.

3.Dirge- a slow song that expresses sadness or sorrow.

4.Dissilushionment- the condition of being disenchanted.

5.Divulge- to make information known, to give information to someone.

6.Enthusiatic- feeling or showing strong excitement about something.

7.Eulogy- a speech that praises someone who has died.

8.Foggy- not clear ,vague or confused.

9.Machination- the act of scheming or plotting.

10.Minimalist- one who advocates a moderate or positive approach in

political.

11.Nomad- a member of a group of people who from place to place instead

of living in one place.

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12.Perish- to disappear or be destroyed.

13.Pigeonhole- a small open space in a desk ,cabinet for keeping letters.

14.Rapport- a friendly relationship.

15.Rootsy- (of music) uncommercialized and full blooded tradition.

16.Scorching- burning very hot.

17.Skeptical- having or expressing doubt about something.

18.Tweaking- to make small adjustment.

19.Velveteen- a fabric usually a cotton that resembles velvet.

20.Vestige- the last small part that remains of something that existed
before.

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 OUTLINE

JOHN MELLENCAMP : A GREAT ROCK STAR

Thesis Statement: Getting to know more about John Mellencamp.

I. Introduction

II. Biography
A. Personal Information
1. John Mellencamp ,October 7 , 1951
2. Seymour Indiana ,United States
B. Education
1. Indiana University Bloomington
2. Vincennes University

III. Achievements
A. Nominated
1. He has received 13 Grammy Award Nomination
2. Got nomination for American Music Awards in 1990
3. Got Nomination for Juno Awards for International Album of the
year in 1986
4. Got Nomination for MTV Video Music Awards for Best Male
Video in 1992
B. Awards
1. He won the Grammy Award for best male rock performance in
1982
2. He was presented with Nordoff Robins Silver Clef special music
industry Humanitarian award
3. He receive the John Steinbeck Award in 2012

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 4. He won Billboard century award for Favorite pop/Rock male artist
in 2001

IV. Career
A.Music Career
1. He got his first big hit in 1979 with the song ‘I need a Lover’
2. The year 1982 was a great one for him , his album ‘American
Fool’ became his breakthrough
3. His album ‘Scarecrow’ reached No.2 spot in US charts in 1985

V. Conclusion

VI. Recommendation

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 INTRODUCTION

This paper is shows a person who is successful even he is disabled

that should rise on challenge and trials on life at the end he will overcome
all of this even he is disabled .Disability can use to strengthen the person
with this problem instead making the people with disability life miserable
and making useless thing instead it makes them strong.
John Mellencamp is one of the famous rock star that is born with
spina bifida ,he formed his band at age of 14 .Instead of giving attention to
his disability he continue his dream to be a rock star and now he is the
famous rock star and have many awards and one of his award is the
Grammy’s and he have many top albums released.

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II. Biography
A. Personal Information
John Mellencamp ,October 7 ,1951- He was born on
October 7,1951 Mellencamp is of German Ancestry. He form his first
band ,Crepe Soul ,at the stage of 14 and later played in the local bands
trash ,snake pit banana barn and the Mason brothers. He eloped with his
pregnant girlfriend Priscilla Esterline at the age of 18 and became a father
in December 1970, six months after he graduated from high school. His
daughter Michelle became a mother at age 19, making Mellencamp a
grandfather at 37.Mellencamp attended Vincennes University, a two-year
college in Vincennes, Indiana, starting in 1972. During this time he used
drugs and alcohol, stating in a 1986 Rolling Stone interview, "When I was
high on pot, it affected me so drastically that when I was in college there
were times when I wouldn't get off the couch. I would lie there, listening
to Roxy Music, right next to the record player so I wouldn't have to get up to
flip the record over. I'd listen to this record, that record. There would be four
or five days like that when I would be completely gone."
Upon graduating from Vincennes University in 1974, Mellencamp played in
several local bands including the aforementioned glitter-band Trash, which
was named after a New York Dolls song, and he later got a job in Seymour
installing telephones. At this time, Mellencamp, who had given up drugs
and alcohol for good before graduating from Vincennes University, decided
to pursue a career in music and traveled to New York City in an attempt to
land a record contract. Mellencamp took courses at a community college
and worked a few jobs before returning to his music. He recorded several
demos of his songs and eventually moved to New York City to launch his
career. In 1976, he landed a manager, Tony DeFries, who worked with the
likes of David Bowie. DeFries decided to change Mellencamp’s last name
to Cougar, believing that it make him more appealing to the record-buying
public. Mellencamp was not pleased with this decision and would later
return to his birth name.The first Johnny Cougar album, Chestnut Street
Incident, was released by MCA in 1976, but failed to sell many copies.
Derived by critics, Mellencamp was seen by some as a lesser version of
Bruce Springsteen or Bob Seger. MCA never released his second album
and dropped him from the label. Around this time, Mellencamp also lost his
manager.

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 Seymour Indiana, United States- John Mellencamp is
known in Seymour Indiana, United States which his parents were living and
this is the place where he is Born he grow in this country but now he moved
to New York City because his job is on it and he lived with his family.

B. Education
Indiana University Bloomington- This is the first School
when John Mellencamp first entered and he not continue to study to this
school he continue his schooling at Vincennes University

Vincennes University- Mellencamp attended the

Vincennes University, a two year college in Vincennes Indiana starting in
1972.Upon graduating from Vincennes University in 1974, Mellencamp
played in several local bands including the aforementioned glitter-
band Trash, which was named after a New York Dolls song, and he later
got a job in Seymour installing telephones. At this time, Mellencamp, who
had given up drugs and alcohol for good before graduating from Vincennes
University, decided to pursue a career in music and traveled to New York
City in an attempt to land a record contract. Mellencamp took courses at a
community college and worked a few jobs before returning to his music. He
recorded several demos of his songs and eventually moved to New York
City to launch his career. In 1976, he landed a manager, Tony DeFries,
who worked with the likes of David Bowie. DeFries decided to change
Mellencamp’s last name to Cougar, believing that it make him more
appealing to the record-buying public. Mellencamp was not pleased with
this decision and would later return to his birth name.The first Johnny
Cougar album, Chestnut Street Incident, was released by MCA in 1976,
but failed to sell many copies. Derived by critics, Mellencamp was seen by
some as a lesser version of Bruce Springsteen or Bob Seger. MCA never
released his second album and dropped him from the label. Around this
time, Mellencamp also lost his manager. While his career was starting to
thrive, Mellencamp was going through some changes in his personal life.
His first marriage ended in divorce, and he wed Vicky Granucci in 1981.
The couple had two daughters, Teddi Jo and Justice, before divorcing in
1989. He recorded for Hear Music Universal Republic,Columbia, Mercury,
Riva and the latest contract is on republic recordsand its called a lifetime
deal.
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III. Achievements
A. Nominated
He has received 13 Grammy award nomination-
previously, he awarde a Grammy and has nominated a total of 13 times. In
2007 the Asean foundation honored John Melllencamp with it champion
award in the recognition of his outstanding award use of music in service to
Humanity. other recipients of this prestigious award have included Tony
Bennet ,Billy Foel ,and Arlo Guthrie. He was honored by the American
music association with its Lifetime achievement award for song writer three
years later with presented award by Nashville. And he was awarded with
Steinbeck award and many people recipients and it was recognized by San
Jose State University’s Steinbeck Center. he always been inspired by
wheelchair racer Chris Hallon, and watching him on the telly in London
Marathon when she was a teenager was the moment she received that
wheelchair racing was what she wanted to do. She won at the junior
nationals on a stake Mandeville at age of fifth teen. He was honored by the
American music association with its Lifetime achievement award for song
writer three years later with presented award by Nashville. And he was
awarded with Steinbeck award and many people recipients and it was
recognized by San Jose State University’s Steinbeck Center. Inspite of
having a disability she never mind it instead he pursue his dream and she
continue her want to be an wheelchair racer someday. She do everything
to make his dreams come true. Some people think that she cant do it
because he has an disability. But she don’t mind those people , he just
keep or focusing on his dreams of being an rock star , Now, look he is the
one of the most gamous and successful person in the whole world with
disability.

Got Nomination for American Music Awards in

1990- America’s Perpetually pissed of poet th southern Indiana region
collognallly called Kentuckiana has also won Grammy awards, American
music awards and American songwriter awards sold millions of records and
been inducted to rock and roll Hall of Fame but all John Mellencamp
achievement were his Milestone on the trek towards the discovery of His
Humanity. While he ascended and fell to new heights and depths he sound
continual inspiration in the tumult of his love life, the death of Family and
Friends and his turbulent flight through the firefight known as American and

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citizenship. John Mellencamp’s Method of artistry from Ernest hemming
way to Frida Kahlo. He is simply sharing secrets. The secrets in his head
and heart that he work overtime to decipher the mellencamp. The Man who
wrote one of Americas signature anthems Pink houses which he
considered his compositional classroom the moment he learned good song
spent a career exploring as few songwriter have. Mellencamp continued to
mature as an artist with his next recording, The Lonesome Jubilee (1987),
which featured some experimentation with a more folk rock sound. Three
tracks from the album—“Paper in Fire,” “Cherry Bomb,” and “Check It
Out”—reached the top 20 of the pop charts. During the coming years, his
albums remained strong sellers, but he had fewer singles that made it onto
the charts. Big Daddy (1989) had the self-satirizing hit “Pop Singer”
while Whenever We Wanted (1991) contained “Get a Leg Up.” For
Mellencamp, making the video for “Get a Leg Up” turn out to be a life-
changing event. During the filming, he met model Elaine Irwin whom he
started dating. The couple married in 1992. The beauty and brutality of
America Mellencamp from Small Towns to Peaceful world courted and held
hand with America. The Steinbeck center at San Jose University when he
get award.

Got nomination for Juno award for International Album

of the Year in 1986- John Mellencamp, Bryan Adams, Luba Platinum
Blonde and Glass Tiger led the way among the nominees for the 16th
annual Juno Awards, Scheduled for Telecast Nationally on CBC-TV from
the Hilton harbor castle convention centre November 10. Adams a big
winner in the last two years is nominated in three categories even though
he hasn’t release an album in 1985 on 1986 his single Diana is go for
single of the year, and he also learn nominated as composer and male
vocalist award of the year. Luba, last year ‘s female vocalist winners, is a
repeat nominee in that category she ties with Adams for the composer
awards and the albums graphic for her “between the Earth and the Sky”
and the video for the How many Rivers to Cross single are up for Juno’s.
Platinum Blonde which has been shut out from the Juno’s so for despite
huge sales is in the running for group of the year. Its alien shores album is
an album of the year nominee. As in case with every Juno Awards there
are some controversial nominees and commissions. For example, the
University of Slamais has great set up for wheelchair racing and has been
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produced a lot of bigname athletes over the years. London 2012 was
amazing, but it is very hard to expect four weeks if elite sport to change the
world. No doubt, it will have inspired many, but they will be shortly people.
They need to find new ways to encourage participation for everyone and
not just those who naturally interested in sports. Most obvious is Corey Hart,
who is nominated in the single category but for everything in my heart and
the composer category but nothing the male category vocalist of the year
group. Adams is not only Domestic artist to sell more albums in Canada
last year than the hart Scarecrow by John Mellencamp nominated on Best
selling International Albums.

Got Nomination for MTV Video Music Awards for Best

Male Video in 1992- Mellencamp has placed 20 albums on the Billboard
200 since 1979, back when he was known as John Cougar. Ten of those
sets have reached the top 10, with 1982's "American Fool" marking his sole
No. 1, where it reigned for nine weeks. On the Billboard Hot 100 songs
chart, Mellencamp also boasts 10 top 10s, including one No. 1: "Jack &
Diane," from "American Fool," spent four weeks on top. Republic Records
has signed rock veteran John Mellencamp to what they're calling a
"lifetime" recording contract. The label announced the deal on Thursday,
adding that Mellencamp will release his 22nd full-length album, titled "Plain
Spoken," this fall."Not only has he served as an ambassador of social
consciousness in America, but he has also provided the soundtrack of a
generation," Republic co-founder and chief executive Monte Lipman said.
"We’re thrilled to be working with John Mellencamp as part of this historic
deal."The exact terms of the deal were not disclosed. Republic is a division
of Universal Music Group."Plain Spoken" will be the 62-year-old
Mellencamp's first new album since 2010's "No Better Than This," released
by Rounder Records. He has also recorded for Hear Music, Universal
Republic, Columbia, Mercury and Riva. Other hits include "Hurts So Good,"
"Crumbling Down," "Pink Houses," "Small Town," "Paper in Fire" and "Wild
Night."Mellencamp's last three albums have reached the Billboard 200's top
10: "Freedom's Road", "Life Death Love and Freedom" and "No Better
Than This". Until that run, he hadn't tallied three straight top 10s since
1985-89.He has sold 27.5 million albums, according to the Recording
Industry Association of America. Since Sound Scan started tracking sales
in 1991, Mellencamp has moved 13 million albums.

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 B. Awards
He Won the Grammy Award For Best Male rock performer
for Heart so good in 1982- John paid tribute to Bob Dylan at Friday Night's
MusiCares event. Here is a description of John's performance by USA
Today: "The musical high point in a night of many highlights was probably
John Mellencamp’s interpretation of “Highway 61 Revisited”; with a vocal
tone and timbre that channeled Tom Waits’, he made this usually scorching
rocker into a blues dirge. Never has Mellencamp sounded so artful..."
MusiCares provides a safety net of critical assistance for music people in
times of need, services and resources cover a wide range of financial,
medical and personal emergencies. After the star studded lineup paid
tribute to Dylan, Bob himself accepted the honor with one of the longest
Bob closed his speech with his support and appreciation for MusiCares
which included a very touching mention of John, as transcribed by the LA
Times: "And then one day he got sick. And like my friend John Mellencamp
would sing -- because John sang some truth today -- one day you get sick
and you don't get better. That's from a song of his called "Life is Short Even
on Its Longest Days." It's one of the better songs of the last few years,
actually. Mellencamp is also one of the founding members of Farm Aid, an
organization that began in 1985 with a concert in Champaign, Illinois.His
biggest musical influences are Bob Dylan, Wood Guthrie, James
longtime Rolling Stone contributor Anthony DeCurtis. Mellencamp has
created an important body of work.

He was Presented with Nordoff Robins Silver Clef

Special Music Industry Humanitarian Awards in 1991- Over time, he
reclaimed his own name on his albums, evolving from Johnny Cougar to
John Cougar Mellencamp, and finally, back to John Mellencamp.
Mellencamp, with Willie Nelson and Neil Young, was one of he original.
The singer was born with a form of spina bifida, a tumor in his neck which
doctors removed shortly after his birth. Many children born with spina bifida
are confined to wheelchairs for life, and Mellencamp has said his own
situation has made him feel lucky and more aware of the needs of the
disabled. In 1987, he contributed I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus to the
Special Olympics charity album, A Very Special Christmas. In 1991 he was
the recipient of the Nordhoff- Robbins Silver Clef Award for his involvement
with music therapy for handicapped and autistic children.
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In 1994, a summer tour was cut short when a routine physical revealed that
Mellencamp had suffered a mild heart attack. He spent about a year living
quietly In addition to his 36 gold, platinum, and multi-platinum awards,
Mellencamp has been nominated for 11 Grammys. The National Academy
of Recording Arts and Sciences also has awarded him its President's Merit
Award for his awards. Music is not his only milieu. Mellencamp directed
and starred in the movie Falling From Grace (1992), for which he also
provided the soundtrack. He continues to pursue his avocation as a
painter. Mellencamp: Painting And Reflections, a book showcasing 75 of
his works, was published in November.

He Receive the John Steinbeck in Award in the Souls

of people in 2012- John Mellencamp will receive the prestigious John
Steinbeck Award, "in the souls of the people" on Monday, July 30th, at the
historic California Theatre in San Jose. Thomas Steinbeck will present the
John Steinbeck Award to John at an event titled "A Conversation and
Special Performance" the evening will include a talk with Mellencamp,
moderated by Robert Santelli, executive director of the Grammy Museum,
and musical performance. The John Steinbeck Award has been called "a
beacon for the left" and its list of recipients "a who's who of disturbers."
Previous recipients of the John Steinbeck Award are: Bruce Springsteen,
Arthur Miller, Studs Terkel, Dolores Huerta, John Sayles, Jackson Browne,
Garrison Keillor, Joan Baez, Michael Moore, Sean Penn, and Rachel
Maddow. Of John Mellencamp, Thomas Steinbeck, noted author and the
surviving son of John Steinbeck, said: "My father always carried a deep
and profound respect for songwriters and musicians. He felt they were the
voice of the people and had the unique opportunity to reach the very souls
of the people. Like Woody Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen, and a handful of
others, John Mellencamp has done just that. He has spent his life serving
as a voice for the people. John's 40-year career makes one marvel. As an
artist, John Mellencamp has been a superb singer-songwriter-storyteller; as
an exemplary activist, and as a creator and longtime champion of Farm Aid,
he has maintained the true spirit of John Steinbeck's compassion for the
worker. Without question, John Mellencamp has earned the John
Steinbeck Award, and it will be my great pleasure to present it to him. John
Steinbeck's remarkable ability to give voice to the common man and to
people on society's margins, to describe their plight and aspirations.

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 He Won Billboard Century Award for Favorite
pop/rock male artist in 2001- mellencamp who has presented this year
century award Billboard’s highest honor for distinguished creative
achievements said he couldn’t believe it when he heard he was receive the
award.It's one of the better songs of the last few years, actually. I ain't lying.
Mellencamp is also one of the founding members of Farm Aid, an
organization that began in 1985 with a concert in Champaign, Illinois, to
raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to raise funds to keep
farm families on their land. Farm Aid concerts have remained an annual
event over the past 31 years, and as of 2016 the organization has raised
over $48 million to promote a strong and resilient family farm system of
agriculture.Mellencamp was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame on March 10, 2008. His biggest musical influences are Bob Dylan,
Wood Guthrie, James Brown and the Rolling Stones. Said longtime Rolling
Stone contributor Anthony DeCurtis. Mellencamp has created an important
body of work that has earned him both critical regard. Whose recipients
have included the late George Harrison, Buddy Guy, When Tim White
called him to tell he just thought he tell he shouldn’t be getting these and
there somebody who better than him. But he is very proud to be here and
to receive the award. Mellencamp says he and Stephen king are continuing
to work on stage. Stage musical collaborating an lot year but that it didn’t
happen.

IV. Career
A. Music Career
He got his First Big Hit in 1979 with the song I need a
lover- It is a rock song written and performed by John Mellencamp and first
release under the stage name Johnny Cougar. It appeared on his 1978
album A Biography, which was not released in the United States. After
becoming a hit in Australia, the song was later included in his 1979 follow-
up album John Cougar and was released as a single, becoming his first
Top 40 hit in the U.S. when it reached #28 on the Billboard Hot 100 in late
1979.All Music reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine described "I Need a
Lover" as Mellencamp's "first good song. Mellencamp has stated that "I
Need a Lover" was inspired by The Rolling Stones 1972 song "Happy."
Hamilton Leithauser (of indie rock band The Walkmen) performed a version
of the song in August 2014 for The A.V. Club's A.V. Undercover series.The

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song was covered and released as the debut single in 1979 by
American rock singer Pat Benatar for her debut studio album, In the Heat of
the Night (1979). The song became an album-oriented rock radio hit for the
singer.

The Year 1982 was a great one from him, his album
‘American Fool’ became his breakthrough- American Fool is the fifth album
released by John Mellencamp, released under the stage name John
Cougar in 1982. The album was his commercial breakthrough, reaching
number one on the Billboard 200 chart in 1982 and becoming the best-
selling album of that year. According to a 1983 article in the Toledo
Blade, the song "Danger List" originated when Mellencamp heard his
guitarist Larry Crane playing some chords in a basement rehearsal room. "I
turned on the tape recorder and sang 30 verses," Mellencamp explained. "I
just made them up. Then I went and weeded out the ones I didn't like."The
remastered version was released March 29, 2005 on Mercury/Island/UMe
and includes one bonus track. John Cougar’s first albums were so
bereaved of strong material that the lean swagger of American Fool came
as a shock. The difference is evident from the opening song, "Hurts So
Good," a hard, Stonesy rocker with an irresistibly sleazy
hook. Cougar never wrote anything as catchy as this before, nor had his
romantic vision of small-town America resonated like it did on "Jack &
Diane," a minor and remarkably affecting sketch of dead-end romance.
These two songs are the only true keepers onAmerican Fool, but the rest of
the record works better than his previous material because his band is
tighter than ever before, making his weaker moments convincing. Besides,
songs like "Hand to Hold On To" and "China Girl," for all their faults, do
indicate that his sense of craft is improving considerably.

His Album Scarecrow reached no.2 spot on US charts

in 1985- Scarecrow is the eighth album by John Mellencamp. Released in
September 1985, it peaked at #2 on the U.S. chart behind Heart's
comeback album, Heart. The remastered version was released May 24,
2005 on Mercury/Island/UMe and includes one bonus track.In 1989, Rolling
Stone magazine ranked Scarecrow #95 on its list of the 100 greatest
albums of the 1980s, saying: "Scarecrow consolidated the band's rugged,
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roots-rock thrash and the ongoing maturation of Mellencamp's lyrics.Rolling
Stone also reported that band spent a month in rehearsals, playing a
hundred rock and roll songs from the Sixties before going into the studio.
According to the record's producer, Don Gehman, the idea was to "learn all
these devices from the past and use them in a new way with John's
arrangements. The overall theme of the album is the fading of the
American dream in the face of corporate greed. Rolling Stone wrote that
songs such as "Face of the Nation," "Minutes to Memories" and "Small
Town" have a "bittersweet, reflective tone. This album contained three Top
10 hits, a record for a Mellencamp album: "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.," which
peaked at #2 in the U.S.; "Lonely Ol' Night," which peaked at #6; and
"Small Town," which also peaked at #6. "Lonely Ol' Night" also peaked at
#1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, his second chart-topping single
on this chart.

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 CONCLUSION

How he successfully get to the top when he is disabled? Lets

say you are disabled are you take it positively or negatively? What are you
going to do? At this point a person equipped with a positive attitude knows
how to face challenge no matter how difficult they may seen like John
Mellencamp, He makes his life very useful and very positive to many
challenges happen. Trials in life and many problems that come to his daily
life he always find an answer to this problem.
I Therefore conclude that even we have challenges and
problems in life even we are down with a disability or not we should make a
way to escape all this problem to achieve our goals and many things in life
we want to achieve we should face it all and make it Positive.

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 RECOMMENDATION

How can we overcome all the challenge if we are disabled

person? In what ways can we overcome these challenge?

Believe in yourself even you are disabled because you can

make it when you think you can do it.

Always think positive to overcome all the challenges that come

on every day.

Accept all the challenges that come in life to make you strong.

Have a strong determination to face the challenges who blocks

the way to achieve the goals.

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 RECOMMENDATION

How can we overcome all the challenge if we are disabled

person? In what ways can we overcome these challenge?

Believe in yourself even you are disabled because you can

make it when you think you can do it.

Always think positive to overcome all the challenges that come

on every day.

Accept all the challenges that come in life to make you strong.

Have a strong determination to face the challenges who blocks

the way to achieve the goals.

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THOMAS EDISON : THE GREATEST SCIENTIST

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A Term Paper Submitted to

Mrs. Nimfa G. Empedrad of the English Department
Dr. Juan G. Nolasco High School

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In Partial Fulfillment
Of the Requirement for English 10

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by:

Cee Jae D. Aquino, 10-1

February 19,2016