Table of contents

Thematic statement  .............................................................................................. Post 1
Image ................................................................................................................... Post 2
Biography ............................................................................................................. Post 3
Sample's of writers poem ...................................................................................... Post 4
Literary essay ........................................................................................................Post 5
P.I.E .....................................................................................................................Post 6
Personal refection...................................................................................................Post 7

Thematic statement

Happiness can lead you to a great life

Image

Bob Malrey biography

Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers (1963–1981). Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited with helping spread both Jamaican music and the Rastafari movement to a worldwide audience.^[1]
Marley's music was heavily influenced by the social issues of his homeland, and he is considered to have given voice to the specific political and cultural nexus of Jamaica.^[2] His best-known hits include "I Shot the Sheriff", "No Woman, No Cry", "Could You Be Loved", "Stir It Up", "Get Up Stand Up", "Jamming", "Redemption Song", "One Love" and, "Three Little Birds",^[3] as well as the posthumous releases "Buffalo Soldier" and "Iron Lion Zion". The compilation album Legend (1984), released three years after his death, is reggae's best-selling album, going ten times Platinum which is also known as one Diamond in the U.S.,^[4] and selling 25 million copies worldwide.^[5][6]

Writers lyrics

Bob Marley- Positive Vibratons

Live if you want to live
(Rastaman vibration, yeah! Positive!)
That's what we got to give!
(I'n'I vibration yeah! Positive)
Got to have a good vibe!
(Iyaman Iration, yeah! Irie ites!)
Wo-wo-ooh!
(Positive vibration, yeah! Positive!)

If you get down and you quarrel everyday,
You're saying prayers to the devils, I say. Wo-oh-ooh!
Why not help one another on the way?
Make it much easier. (Just a little bit easier)

Say you just can't live that negative way,
If you know what I mean;
Make way for the positive day,
'Cause it's news (new day) - news and days -
New time (new time), and if it's a new feelin' (new feelin'), yeah! -
Said it's a new sign (new sign):
Oh, what a new day!
Pickin' up?
Are you pickin' up now?
Jah love - Jah love (protect us);
Jah love - Jah love (protect us);
Jah love - Jah love (protect us).

Rastaman vibration, yeah! (Positive!)
I'n'I vibration, yeah! (Positive!) Uh-huh-huh, a yeah!
Iyaman Iration, yeah! (Irie ites!) Wo-oo-oh!
*Positive vibration, yeah! (Positive!)

Pickin' up?
Are you pickin' up now?
Pickin' up?
Are you pickin' up now?
Pickin' up? (Jah love, Jah love -)
Are you pickin' (protect us!) up now?
Pickin' up? (Jah love, Jah love -)
Are you pickin' (protect us!) up now?
Pickin' up? (Jah love, Jah love -)
Are you pickin' (protect us!) up now?
Pickin' up?
Are you pickin' up now?

[* Notes give this line as "Vibes, got to have a good vibe".]

Author's poem

Jovahn Davis

Im happy because all of my biils are paid
Im happy because i woke up and saw a brand new day
Im happy because i have food on my table
Im happy because my free
Im happy because im me
Im happy because i have my family
Im happy because im living
Im happy just for air and oxygen
Im happy just to be happy

Thematic Analysis

                                                            Happiness

Is it better to live with a positive or negative attitude? Many people prefer positive attitude because it’s a better way to live. In the song “Positive Vibration” Bob Marley writes about having a positive attitude is a suitable way to live. Bob Marley conveys the theme that happiness can lead you to a great life. This theme is evident when the speaker wants to have good vibe, helping others can make their life easier and if people don’t want to live negative be positive.

            The theme of happiness is shown when the speaker indicates that he wants to be positive and happy. For example, Marley writes, “Got to have a good vibe” (stanza 5, line 5). This shows that he wants to have a positive attitude. This demonstrates the theme of happiness because the speaker doesn’t want to have a negative vibe.  The speaker wants to have a positive day.

The theme of happiness is shown when you help someone its better. For example, “Why not help one another way? Make it much easier” (stanza 11, 12, line 11). This shows that helping someone can make yours and there life easier. This demonstrates the theme of happiness because helping people can make them happy. The speaker indicates make people happy by doing good things.

The theme of happiness is shown when the speaker indicates don’t live to be sad, live to be happy. For example, “Say you just can’t live that way, if you know what I mean; make way for the positive day (stanza 13, 14, 15, line 13). This shows that if you don’t want to live being negative you can be positive. This demonstrates the theme of happiness because he wants to live his life happy by being positive every day. Positive attitude makes people joyful.

            The speaker indicates that he wants to have a good day by being positive. The speaker conveys the theme by looking on the bright side can be a happier way. Happiness makes people life easier. People have good experiences with happiness because it makes people live their life to the fullest. When people live their life with a positive attitude people can be able to succeed with their life.

P.I.E.

Bob Marley – food vibrations

Live if you want food

That’s what we want to eat

Got to have a good meal

Wo-wo-ooh

If you get down and you munch everyday

You’re eating to much calories. I say wo-oh-ooh

Why not exercise a better way

Make it much easier (just a little bit easier)

Say you can’t live without food

If you know what I mean

Make way for more goodies

Cause its food (good food) food and good

New time (new time ) and new food (new food) yeah

Said it’s new meal (new meal)

Oh what a good food

Eating it?

Are you eating the food

The food – the food (good food)

The food – the food (good food)

Food vibration , yeah (food)

Food vibration, yeah (yumm)

Uh-huh-huh, a yeah

Are you eating

Are you eating the food

1st poem

 "Happiness is carried" - janet Rodriguez

If you want to make progress,
Only think of your heart's happiness
And how you can keep
Your entire being happy.
Wherever you go,
Carry happiness with you.

2nd poem

 Happiness star - Janet

Are you happy

How can you tell

Does life just flow

Is everything swell?

No head full of worries

No heart full of pain

No anguish or sorrow

No frustrated brain

No feathers to ruffle

No temper to flare

But a feeling of lightness

Like gliding on air

   And a pride in your being

The you that you are

Embrace it and cherish it

You 're a happiness star.