Toby Keith believes in the American Dream of achieving success through hard work regardless of background. Many of his songs celebrate patriotic themes and support the armed forces. Country music also reflects themes of community support, such as Americans coming together after disasters like Hurricane Katrina and 9/11. The document includes a slideshow about Toby Keith with pictures demonstrating farming as part of the American Dream, supporting the troops, and neighbors helping one another.

1. Toby Keith: The Patriot
• The ability to become successful through hard work regardless of a social status or circumstances of birth. Toby Keith is a
country artist who truly believes in the American Dream and strives for everyone to try to achieve it. Many of my pictures
involve farming. These pictures are used to help describe that “The Dream” could be accomplished through farming along
with the use of the country. Farmers can be very successful if their crop comes in nice and that shows how the dream
could be accomplished. Not only does he want people and himself to live this amazing dream, he also supports the armed
forces. Songs like “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue,” “American Soldier,” “American Ride,” and “Made in America” are
all patriotic. In all these songs Toby describes various attributes of being an American. While the other three songs support
the armed forces, “American Ride” is used for comic relief in our everyday lives and with the government. In my slideshow
I display various pictures of Toby Keith supporting the American soldiers. I also show how he feels towards the soldiers
with the “Let No Hero Be Forgotten” picture. On my sixth slide, I tried to use the rule of thirds concept. The barn sits in the
left third with a background of the country in the back. In the eighth picture, I showed a upper, far distance shot.
• Country music also supports a theme of people helping one another out. When there is a disaster on home grounds,
people come from all around to help one another out or support one another. An example would be hurricane Katrina.
When it destroyed most of the New Orleans area, Americans came from all sorts of places to help pick up the debris or
find money to help rebuild. Another example would be the 9/11 tragedy. When this happened all the American people
came together as one to support and grieve. In my slideshow I show people helping each other out, or being kind to one
another. I displayed this with my own pictures and the pictures consist of someone holding the door open for another
person and also helping someone pick something up that they dropped. I was trying to accomplish the moment-to-
moment technique and the action-to-action technique with these two sets of pictures.

2. The Young Toby Keith

3. The Genre

4. The American Dream

5. Farming a big part to the economy and production of food in
America
Combining

6. Farming: Part of the
American Dream

7. My own picture. Shows a different crop being
produced in America
Sunflowers in Bloom

8. Finished product of the Crop

9. My own picture, shows the beauty
of the country
Sunset out in the Country

10. Growing Up

11. His Success

12. The American Guitar

13. The Support

14. Supporting The Troops

15. The Message

16. My own picture, some of the dorms
have American flags hanging on them.
The Support

17. This series of pictures shows
kindness of people in America
Let Me Get That

18. A young gentlemen holding the door
open for a lady
Appreciation

19. Success

20. Sequence shows how people help each other
out
Just Taking a Stroll

21. Oh no!
The Drop

22. Too bad I dropped my stuff
The Recognition

23. I can help you out!!
The Pickup

24. Thank you young man
Gratitude