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Growing up, my parents hosted many holiday parties at our house. While my mother cooked food for the party, my brother and I were always responsible for cleaning the house. One of my most treasured memories of the holidays is my mother’s cleaning playlist. A playlist she would play any time she was preparing the house for guests. She would never add or delete songs from the playlist, so I became very familiar with each song over the years and grew to love many of them. A nostalgic feeling comes over me, as if a blanket, whenever I listen to them. Big Yellow Taxi is in my top 10 favorite songs thanks to my mother’s influence. Before reading R. Serge Denisoff’s article Songs of Persuasion, I never connected the link between Big Yellow Taxi and the First Amendment. As I sat in my room reading, I came across a single sentence that altered my perspective on the song. The sentence read, “The second type of propaganda composition is the rhetorical song, which may be defined as one writt...