Short Presentation

Short Presentation – System of a down
Introduction
Greetings: Hello my friends, how are you?
Self I.D.: Well, my name is Fábio Vitorino, I’m from Santa Rita, Paraiba, Brazil, I am 24 years old and I’m single, I’m Just kidding. This piece of information is false.
Topic: I’m going to talk about an American band called System of a down.
Purpose: I’d like to talk about this band because their songs related with war, politicians, criticism to American government and all these issues are related to international relations.
The main focus of this presentation is to show how music can help social causes.
Body: Firstly I’m going to talk a little about the System of a down band also known as it is SOAD. is an American Rock band formed in 1992, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It consists of Daron Malakian (guitar, vocals), Serj Tankian (vocals, keyboards), Shavo Odadjian (bass) and John Dolmayan (drums). The group is known for their political and social views that are expressed in the lyrics of their songs.
Secondly I’m going to talk about its members. Everyone has Armenian origin they started writing letters to social causes because of the genocides that happened during the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the century XX, when people of Armenian origin were killed and deported with the purpose of ending their economical life, their race and culture. So, that sense of justice is part of their songs. It is through the rock that they take this message to the world. They are as if they were a U2 more aggressive.
However they do not consider themselves "activists". In 2006, in an interview for SIC TV of Portugal, a presenter Serj asked if he would like to talk about the lyrics, Serj said no and John completed saying:
"We do not like much to explain the lyrics of our songs, each art form should be interpreted by the person who observes, hear or see, and if we explain our definition of art, which is not even the same for each of us then this could