Critical Journal Format D

Name: Narayan Neupane

Time of day your class meets: April 14, 2015

Date: April 28, 2015

1. Author or artist or musician of the original work:

Joan Baez
2. Full Title of the piece:
With god on our side
3. What might be the meaning of this title and why do you think so?
Sense several class period we have been studying about the war and the prayers, with god on our
would be the song of war, that was fought in the prayer presents of god.
4. What do you think the works main argument, point, or conclusion might be?
The main point or argument or the conclusion of the song would be about the description of war,
which gives clear vision of what war were like.
5. Give three ways the artist/author uses materials, composition, or supporting statements to support her
conclusion:
a

the description was she could not explain her feeling, because the tongue could not let.
Uses of rhythmic guitar during the performance.

artist rimes every single end of the song, at end artist finish up with the strong word god.

artist was supporting her song with the evidence, the thing happened during the war, how
solders were used and the suffering of solder form war. Not only war the solder suffers
through much war; which is even hard to think about.

6. Provide one assumption that the author/artist bases his work upon:
The artist work was focused on wars that American fought, but the war turned out to be in
different direction as it goes on. The description of wars between America and Germany, the civil
war, Spanish American war was told by the artist.

7. Historical Period during which the work was produced and location where it was produced:
The particular song writing work was done on, July 26, 1964 at that time where all the war were
ended and this song was sung at the Newport Folk Festival which was on festival auditorium.
8. How might the historical period and location (i.e. context) have affected how the artist/author chose to
make his/her point?
Mainly the song was written not far from the world war two, people were struggling with the
affect of wars, and this song was sung at the festival where massive number of people gathers.

9. During the time period when the work was created (pick one or more of the following):
What social/economic class was being addressed? Why do you think so?
The Social/ economic, which were addressed during that time period, were all the soldiers who
experienced the war and servicers with its result. This song was for the folks to remains what
happened during the war. The reasons we fought the war, and the reasons that our soldiers had to
experienced that war.
(Remember there should be evidence for this in the material explicitly or implied by the context)

10. How did the artist/author want this particular audience to react to his/her work?
She want audience to remember the previous war our older generation experienced and the war
we fought with several different countries, and we might have to fight again. Again with the
same country but any time the god is with us or with them. The people who were on the top
politician who could stop the war were aborted of the peace.
11. Your reaction to and understanding of the work is often determined by your political persuasion, Pick
one of these and tell me how it impacts your reception of this work and how you might view the work if
you were someone else who did not have your experience.
The song was heart touching, the way she describes, the way she felt and tried to interpret her
feeling through song was vary strong. Personally I dont have any experienced like she does, but

the way she pass or spared the song with the pride that soldier did and the emotion what political
powered people had to do was vary strong and heart touching.

12. Give one quotation from the text that you particularly liked or think is important (be prepared to tell
why):
Thought they murdered six million in the ovens they fried the Germans now to have god on their side.
Because every time when we talks about war like Spanish American war, Vietnam war, world war 1
world war ii, it always bother what happen in Germany even though I wasnt there it was a told historic
story.

Reflection paper:
I chose Critical thinking journal for my reflection paper which was on, the song with
god on our side by Joan Baez. The reason I chose is there were many important things included.
It tells the history of America and how American soldiers including the Americans bear the pain
during the war. The particular song was thrilled. The song was sung in the festival where people
were gathering and I come to know that that was the long song ever. It was slightly more then
13-minute song. The wording of the song was very painful and the legend singer was using
guitar as an instrument to support the feeling of song. Personally I love songs especially when its
come to the hart braking, emotional songs. Also, song tells about the humanities dying, which
indicate in middle of song where it says, 1million people were murdered by Germany.