Example Of Tupac Informative Speech

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Before yesterday’s class, I never saw hip-hop as a movement. I never really saw music as movement until his explanation. Music is a vehicle which society uses to make change. Just as people protest or hold events to raise awareness, music can do the same. I’m not very musically aware so most of the music and artist he spoke of I did not have knowledge of. For example, Tupac, I am very unaware of his affect on the Hip-Hop world, but I can see how he could have been viewed as an idol for speaking out. I personally would not go as far as to compare him to Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther king went about change in a very different way, but they both had goals of change.
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