"School Day of Non-violence and Peace"

"GIVE PEACE A CHANCE", by John Lennon

This was recorded May 31, 1969 at a "Bed-In" Lennon staged in room 1472 of Queen Elizabeth's Hotel in Montreal.
John and Yoko stayed in bed for eight days in an effort to promote world peace.
 
They got a great deal of media attention, which is exactly what they wanted to promote their cause.

Some of the people in the hotel room who sang on this were Tommy Smothers, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, and Petula Clark.

This was Lennon's first hit away from The Beatles.




Visitors to John and Yoko's bed-in, including reporters, staff, and celebrities, banged on everything from doors to tabletops for rhythm.

This song quickly became the anthem of the Vietnam antiwar movement.

LYRICS:

Two, one two three four
Ev'rybody's talking about
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m.

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

C'mon
Ev'rybody's talking about Ministers,
Sinisters, Banisters and canisters
Bishops and Fishops and Rabbis and Pop eyes,
And bye bye, bye byes.

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

Let me tell you now
Ev'rybody's talking about
Revolution, evolution, masturbation,
Flagellation, regulation, integrations,
Meditations, United Nations,
Congratulations.

Ev'rybody's talking about
John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary,
Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan, Tommy Cooper,
Derek Taylor, Norman Mailer,
Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna,
Hare, Hare Krishna

BAGISM: Bagism involved literally wearing a bag over one's entire body.

According to John and Yoko, by living in a bag, a person could not be judged by others on the basis of skin colour, gender, hair length, attire, age, or any other such attributes.

Timothy Francis Leary (1920–1996) was an American psychologist and writer known for advocating the exploration of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs under controlled conditions.

(Rosemary Woodruff Leary)

Thomas Bolyn Smothers III (1937-...) is an American comedian, composer and musician, best known as half of the musical comedy duo the Smothers Brothers, alongside his younger brother Dick.

Robert Dylan (known professionally as Bob Dylan and born Robert Allen Zimmerman,1941-...) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and visual artist who is regarded as a widely influential figure in popular culture.

Thomas Frederick Cooper (1921–1984) was a Welsh comedian and magician. He was a member of The Magic Circle, and was respected by traditional magicians. He habitually wore a red fez.

Derek Taylor (1932–1997) was an English journalist, writer, publicist and record producer. He is best known for his role as press officer to The Beatles.

Norman Kingsley Mailer (1923–2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist.

Irwin Allen Ginsberg  (1926–1997) was an American poet, philosopher and writer. He is considered one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that son followed.

Intermission #1

Is it just me... or is this dialogue showing a possible interaction between teacher & student during any given class??? 🙈🙈🙈


Change "Let's play a game" to "Let's do exercise three".

"MLK Day" (Martin Luther King Jr. Day)

Martin Luther King Jr. Day (MLK Day) is an American Federal Holiday marking the day of his birthday. 

It is observed on the third Monday of January each year, which is around King's birthday, January 15. 

Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his assassination in 1968. 

Born in Atlanta, King advanced civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience tactics, his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi inspired him.

Among many other things, King led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and he also helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech.

In 1964 King won the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance.

In his final years, he expanded his opposition towards poverty and the Vietnam War.

He was investigated by the FBI, some high governmental authorities considered MLK dangerous and subversive.

In 1968 King was planning a national occupation of Washington D.C., to be called the "Poor People's Campaign", when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee.

His death was followed by riots in many U.S. cities.

The campaign for a federal holiday in King's honor began soon after his assassination in 1968. 

President Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law in 1983, and it was first observed three years later. 

At first, some states resisted observing the holiday, giving it alternative names or combining it with other holidays. 

It was officially observed in all 50 states for the first time in 2000. 

BONUS TRACK: 

"Pride (In the Name of Love)" is a song by Irish rock band U2. The second track on the band's 1984 album, "The Unforgettable Fire", it was written about Martin Luther King Jr.

The song contains the erroneous reference to King's shooting as "Early morning, April 4," when it actually occurred after 6 p.m. 

Bono acknowledges the error and in live performances and he occasionally changes the lyric to "Early evening…"

"Pride (In The Name Of Love)", Music by U2, lyrics by Bono.

One man come in the name of love
One man come and go
One man come, he to justify
One man to overthrow

In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love

One man caught on a barbed wire fence
One man he resist
One man washed on an empty beach.
One man betrayed with a kiss

In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love

(nobody like you...)

Early morning, April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride

In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love...

BLUE MONDAY.... (How does it feel)

Blue Monday is a name given to a day in January (typically the third Monday of the month) reported to be the most depressing day of the year.

The concept was first published as part of a 2005 media campaign from holiday company Sky Travel which announced to have calculated the date using an equation.

The idea is considered pseudoscience.

Date:

The date generally falls on the third Monday in January, but also on the second or fourth Monday, or the Monday of the last full week of January.

Calculation:

The date was created to help a travel company to "analyze when people book holidays and holiday trends" and used many factors, including:

-weather conditions

-debt level (the difference between debt accumulated and our ability to pay)

-time since Christmas

-time since failing our new year’s resolutions

-low motivational levels...

-...and feeling of a need to take action. 

One equation used in 2006 was: 

where
Tt = travel time; D = delays; C = time spent on cultural activities; R = time spent relaxing; ZZ = time spent sleeping; St = time spent in a state of stress; P = time spent packing; Pr = time spent in preparation. 

Units of measurement are not defined.

Some experts have observed that the equations "fail even to make mathematical sense", pointing out that under the original equation, packing for ten hours and preparing for 40 will always guarantee a good holiday, and that "you can have an infinitely good weekend by staying at home and cutting your travel time to zero".

Dean Burnett, a neuroscientist who has worked in the psychology department of Cardiff University, has described the work as "farcical", with "nonsensical measurements".

 

The Happiest day:

Also, in a press release by Wall's ice cream, it has been calculated the happiest day of the year—in 2005, 24 June, in 2006, 23 June, in 2008, 20 June, in 2009, 19 June, and in 2010, 18 June. 

So far, this date has fallen close to MIDSUMMER in the Northern Hemisphere (June 21 to 24).

 

  BONUS TRACK:







"Blue Monday" by NEW ORDER (1983)

How does it feel
To treat me like you do
When you've laid your hands upon me
And told me who you are
I thought I was mistaken
I thought I heard your words
Tell me how do I feel
Tell me now how do I feel
Those who came before me
Lived through their vocations
From the past until completion
They will turn away no more
And I still find it so hard
To say what I need to say
But I'm quite sure that you'll tell me
Just how I should feel today
I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortunes
I'd be a heavenly person today
And I thought I was mistaken
And I thought I heard you speak
Tell me how do I feel
Tell me now how should I feel
Now I stand here waiting
I thought I told you to leave me
While I walked down to the beach
Tell me how does it feel
When your heart grows cold
(Grows cold, grows cold, grows cold) 



Songwriter(s): Gillian Gilbert / Peter Hook / Stephen Morris / Bernard Sumner