Reflective Letter: For You By Keith Urban And Monty Powell

Submitted By azlawhorn
Words: 1785
Pages: 8
Open Document
Reflective Letter In my critique I wanted to inform my readers that the song “For You” by Keith Urban and Monty Powell is a meaningful song that makes you think about your life. I chose this song because it is a patriotic song that many people can enjoy. This song includes things like Christianity, and family, along with military references that anyone can appreciate. When reading the title of this song you can assume that “For You” means that I will do something for you because I love you and that would be true. Although it goes a little deeper in its meaning making the listener, military or not think about whether they would give their life for someone even if they barely even knew them. My audience for this critique is anyone that listens to country music. They are my audience because they can enjoy a good country song better than a person who only likes rap or hip-hop etc. This group of listeners would be interested in reading my critique because I have some insight from the military perspective and I am able to shed some light into experiences I have had and how they ring true to this song. My writing process has its ups and downs but after writing the first essay and learning how to do a freewrite it has gotten a lot easier. I do a freewrite with every paper I turn in because it helps me remember ideas. For instance as I am writing my paper I am able to go back and look at my freewrite and put things in order. I have also been learning to keep my ideas together and on point and not to make my paper seem like I am rambling on and on. I am still learning the APA structure as it is a bit confusing because I have been told that somewhere along the line somebody made a huge, huge mistake and that it is still in the process of being corrected. Although that has made it more difficult I will overcome that and my goal by the end of this class is to have an A+ on at least one paper.
The song “For You” written by Keith Urban and Monty Powell which was produced by Keith Urban and Dann Huff is such a powerful song. When you take a moment to really listen to what the words are saying, they really make you think about what you would do in that situation. The song was written for the movie, Act of Valor which is a movie about soldiers and the sacrifices they continually make day after day when they are in the war zone.
In my experience the sacrifices the men and women of the armed forces make are truly some of the hardest because they have to be away from family and friends for so long and worry about what will happen to them that day or if that day will be their last. The song “For You” by Keith Urban and Monty Powell, is about a group of soldiers that are on deployment when one gets wounded along the line. The wounded soldier goes on to question if he made a mistake about joining the military. He has a wife at home and an unborn child, did he make a mistake, by joining the military, would he be leaving his child without a dad and his wife without a husband? In the next line, “the answer rang out clear from somewhere up above, No greater gift has man than to lay down his life for love” (Urban 2012) Urban references Christ dying for our sins even though He didn’t have to. He didn’t even know us, yet He loved us enough to go through so much pain, He laid His life down for love. The song goes on saying, “maybe you don’t understand, I don’t understand it all myself, but there’s a brother on my left and another on my right” (Urban 2012) referencing the bond that military men and women share. It is so hard to explain but that is your family, you are only as strong as your weakest link. If your brother/sister, standing next to you can’t carry his/her own pack, you step up and carry it for him/her. A non-military person may never understand the true bond that veterans share from basic training until the day they die. That is a bond that can never be broken. The last part of the song which is the most powerful, the most inspiring,
Show More

Related Documents: Reflective Letter: For You By Keith Urban And Monty Powell

Essay 3

Undersatnding the making of our life and the creation helps us as individiuls to help keep the enivorment a Godly place to live. One thing that Christians should agree on is that, Christ is a creator. This is according to the Good News Bible (John 1: 1-3) Having the agreement that God is the creator helps us be grounded in our faith and allows us to have a stronger will in taking pride in the environment around us.. This book affirms that Jesus is the Lord of creation. To add on Bredin at el (2010) acknowledges…

Words 1126 - Pages 5

Essay 3

Ryan Burford Integrative essay #3 When Obama released his birth certificate on April 28, Survey USA showed that 28% of respondents said they “still have doubts where the president was born”1, or that the document was forged. People think just cause he's black that he must have his birth certificate at that exact moment. They didn't believe that he was an American born citizen so they wanted pure proof saying he was. But they didn't get it fast enough so people started doubting that he is…

Words 899 - Pages 4

Essay 3

Ashraf Shaikh English 711 Essay Assignment #3 Elizabeth Spencer 22nd April 2015 Bilingual Education or Not? The debate on whether United States should adopt the bilingual academic program whereby children speaking other languages are taught in two languages, in English and in a second, native language (Hayakawa, 1991). There have been studies and researches indicating the benefits of the bilingual academic program, particularly to the students – such as high academic scores, mental flexibility,…

Words 1471 - Pages 6

Essay 3

The Journey of Life The short story, "Newborn Thrown in the Trash and Dies", by John Edgar Wideman’s a story discussed how John Edgar used a very distinctive point of view for dramatic effect and irony. It looked at how the story used the viewpoint of an unwanted baby, thrown into a trash shoot and how the baby’s last moments make up the story, from the baby’s own internal point of view. The story is narrated by the unnamed infant who is the subject of the story. She is the…

Words 434 - Pages 2

Essay 3

What we Consume Today In this world today food that Americas consume is not the same farm grown fruits and vegetables we know from long time ago. This food has been modified some much that people can not tell the difference from if there are eating generically modified food or non-chemical food. Why is that? Why are this company’s getting away with this that could be a crime? Scientist have created a project to some how to help hunger issue by multiplying our food supply using information! Yes…

Words 320 - Pages 2

Essay 3

After the adaption of the constitution John Adams and George Washington both had actions to stabilize the government, such as Adams, XYZ Affair, Alien and Sedition act, and judicial review, Washington created cabinets, neutrality and he supported the national bank. Adams and Washington were two very important men who contributed to help stabilize the government with different actions. Adams way of stabilizing the government with the XYZ Affair made the Americans mad, but it was a good way of stabilizing…

Words 473 - Pages 2

Essay 3

Emily Eisenman Turlington ENGL 1102 Topic 3 10 April 2014 The Journey of “Little Red Riding Hood” Throughout history, the most classical monster movies, fairytales, and comic book heroes and villains have transformed to suit society today. The creators of entertainment in America do not want these legends to be eliminated from peoples’ childhood memories; therefore, they put forth the effort to keep the stories alive. One of the most well-known short stories that has been revised and modified…

Words 1612 - Pages 7

Essay 3

Heather Keenan English 1301 Cassano Causal Analysis Essay 10/21/14 We Are All Going To Crash and Burn Profiling is the analysis and classification of somebody based on personal information such as ethnicity, shopping habits, or behavioral patterns and is a fact of human nature that is perpetuated and exhibited through the characters throughout the movie (Merriam-Webster). The movie Crash focuses on racial profiling and touches on the harsh realities that most people reflect prejudice and resentment…

Words 1268 - Pages 6

Essay 3

Anna Gatchenko Period 2 U.S History #3 At the coming end of the Second World War, there was a lot of mistrust between the United States and the Soviet Union. Throughout most of WWII, the U.S. and the Soviet Union had made an alliance. The foundation of this alliance was based on a common goal of each country. However, once the war was over and the German nation was contained, many new conflicts between the two main countries of the war came between them. The one common thing…

Words 335 - Pages 2

Project 3 Essay

Eng. 111 March 23, 2015 Project Three Summary Since the early development of electronic technology people have debated whether technology has made us more or less intelligent. In Clive Thompson’s essay, “The dumbest generation? No, twitter is making kids smarter” and Nicholas Carr’s essay, “Is Google making us stupid?”, they expound on the debates of what the internet is doing to our brains. Thompson writes about how kids are now growing up with new technology that is changing the way we learn and although most people think…

Words 1036 - Pages 5