Steve introduced himself to Kim while they were at a gala. Two got into a conversation, which infuriated Kanye. Shortly after this incident, Kanye told Steve that his services would no longer be needed. Steve stated that he had no intention on hitting on Kim.…
Before writing possible causes of the riots in Ferguson, I will tell you some facts about how black and white American view Ferguson and how it all started with the riots. It all started with Michael Browns death. (An 18-year-old African-American male, who was shot to death during an altercation with Darren Wilson, a 28-year-old white male Ferguson police officer.) Now you ask why did he get shot? Some minutes before the shooting, Michael Brown was a suspect of a robbery .…
Big Hits, Broken Dreams is a documentary that reveals the tragic story behind JH Rose high school’s star running back, Jaquan Waller, along with the chilling results of how football can impact its players. As a spectator, the rival team are the foes out on the playing field but the main adversary that can end any football player's career is the multiple gritting hard collisions. Sometimes, concussions are usually overlooked since the symptoms may be subtle or they may not seem life threatening, however, if this is continuous without any precautions, the loss of a player is inevitable. Grief is unbearable for those who have lost a close friend, father, brother or guardian who loved to play with their life always on the line. Coach Todd lipe…
Change is necessary but we all know change is sometimes hard and that everyone feels different about change. Breakaway by Kelly Clarkson is about changing her life. As she is changing her life she goes through different emotions said in the lyrics of the song. In breakaway she is happy and sad at the same time.…
He got so upset while talking, his face turned bright red. My friend and I covered our mouths to keep from laughing out…
The second incident occurred on Saturday, August 9, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri, where eighteen-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed. While on duty, twenty-eight-year-old, Officer Darren Wilson, was notified by radio of a robbery at a convenience store on Canfield Drive. Wilson immediately recognized two young African American men walking down the street that fit the description of the suspects involved in the robbery. Wilson immediately approached them and asked them to move to the sidewalk (McCoy 2014). From there, Brown, the bigger one, became furious and angry and turned to him.…
During the writers’ strike of 2009, Joss Whedon and his team created a forty-five-minute long video entitled Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. Decades earlier, writer Francis Scott Fitzgerald released his classic, The Great Gatsby. While it may not seem like they have anything in common at first glance, relationships in Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog by Joss Whedon were heavily influenced by the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, creating a classic “quest story” that draws the readers into the text by engaging them and inciting their sense of curiosity and adventure. Daisy Buchanan of The Great Gatsby and Penny of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog are both portrayed as the male character’s main goal throughout the novel and video, respectively…
Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, and Sandra Bland, what does all these people have in common? They have all lost their lives due to racial injustices and inequality. Although slavery ended 150 years ago, and segregation ended around 51 years ago, the relationship between African Americans and whites have steadily been filled with injustice and oppression. In Brownies by ZZ Packer, is a story about a younger group of girl scouts (one African American group and one Caucasian group) campers who has a slight experience with racism. At the end of the story, the narrator, Laurel (also known as Snot) says, “There is something mean in this world and I can not stop it.…
Sociopolitical criticism analyzes the effects of those in power and how they seek to maintain it. Those who have money have power and those who have power control everything. Sociopolitical criticisms are basically generalized social movements. In the case of the criticism of the Run The Jewels video for, "Close Your Eyes," this would be a great example of sociopolitical criticism ideas and examinations. Throughout the video, its speaks of structural relationships (1:42) between the two characters there is an obvious power struggled for dominance.…
Kendrick Lamar is a modern day Harlem Renaissance author. He talks about personal experiences with struggles he has gone through and seen and that all other blacks have gone through. He mentions the typical black stereotypes of physical features that are used to put a label on black people. His newest album has mostly this dark, depressing story like format about the battles and struggles that himself and other blacks have gone through. Though included on the album is what he claims to be the most positive song he has written, called “i”.…
On April 14th, 2017, proclaimed artist, Kendrick Lamar, released his fourth studio album, titled Damn. This fourteen track album was possibly Lamar’s most personal and most in-depth project yet. However, no song on this album, perhaps, reaches the personal level of the fifth track titled “FEEL.” In this song Lamar gives a super in-depth look at what he believes his biggest issues are and allows the listener to realize your own by confessing his. The purpose of this essay is to conduct a rhetorical analysis of Kendrick Lamar’s “FEEL.”…
Throughout the years, Hip Hop music has been looked at as a genre with no meaning other than talking about drugs and money. However, there are a few rappers who truly do talk about a bigger picture and what really matters in the world. Chicago artist, Lupe Fiasco, is indeed one of those artists. In many of his songs he digs deeper into the problems that everyday people struggle with and offers hope to the world. In “The Show Goes On,” Lupe Fiasco uses upbeat music and powerful words to portray his belief that no one should ever give up on their dreams in life and that no one should ever let anyone else get in the way of their dreams and success.…
In the fifth line, Brooks declares that she “[wants] to go in the back yard now,” representing how she has now grown up enough and is ready to go out on her own. In the sixth line, she says that she may want to go “down the alley,” illustrating how she has become more rebellious than before and wants to experience even more than she did before. In the first stanza, Brooks only wanted to “peek at the back,” but now she wants to go in the back and go down the alley. The “alley” is used to represent the extremities Brooks will go to in order to change her life. The “alley” is so far away from what she is used to in the front yard, so she wants to go there in order to experience all that she can.…
The toxic relationships that Jon and Chris endured while…
“Only in America” by Brooks and Dunn was recorded in June 18, 2001 on a album called “steers and stripes”. This song talks about how the more opportunities that we have in our nation like going to school to get better education, freedom, and dreams. In other countries it’s not provided if you don’t have the money for it or being a woman you won’t get the opportunity to do stuff around.…