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BIG PUN: THE MOST INFLUENTIAL LATINO RAPPER Based on his achievements, I believe that Christopher Lee Rios, a.k.a. Big Pun, was the most influential Latino Rapper of all time. Rios deserves this title because he was the first Latin-American Rapper to: (1) Become a hip hop star, (2) Achieve platinum status, and (3) Be nominated for a Grammy Award. Due to his contributions he implemented in the hip hop industry, he was able to make Latino rap mainstream. This is significant because it has been…

The children’s book The King’s 6th Finger by Jolby and Rachel Roellke addresses the issues that can arise in an authoritarian power structure. The story, although not explicitly stated, is an authoritarian text. The ruler is King Mortimer, who commands the kingdom to follow his unorthodox rules. Marxist views can be used to examine the distribution of power and inequalities of social classes in this story. In its barest elements, this story describes how a total ruler is able to oppress the…

novel 1984 by George Orwell, the main character Winston Smith is just a regular citizen of Oceania who lives with basically nothing and is controlled by Big Brother every single day. Winston ends up being brainwashed and a perfect citizen of Oceania. In the book 1984, it shows the life style of being controlled by the government. Kim Jong Un and Big Brother are extremely alike. They are both terrible leaders who do terrible things to their citizens. “After the Korean War, Kim II Sung used his…

Postman strengthens his argument by focusing on shared assumptions. While his audience shares his pessimistic view of the present, his argument rests on the assumption that people can change if they so desire. Because the fair has been given the theme, “Orwell in the year 2000” (448), Postman assumes that his audience might entertain a doubtful view of society’s future. For those who believe in the collapse of civilization that is to come, he presents an image of a nation pulled into…

To most people around the world today may just seem like another day in the 13th century, however here in Italy today marks a significant discovery and the first time that the cosmological has been made famous within society. Although we have been told that the concept has been around since Plato and Aristotle, it is not until now that it has been made famous around the world and in Western philosophy. Today marks the day St Thomas Aquinas declared their theory for Gods existence, which has…

Introduction Around 90% of the universe is currently undetectable.[1] Allowing oneself to then believe that all the experiments and missions carried out for space exploration and countless images portraying the beauties of the world beyond the sky has only shown around 10% of the contents of the universe is unfathomable. So what mysteries lurk in the void of our universe? Any Physicist, or fellow inquisitive mind reading this, will immediately have two distinct phrases come to mind: Dark matter…

Miracles and Naturalists “Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters to large for some of us to see” C.S Lewis. Miracles are highly controversial topics because they are something quite out of the normal, something that is not natural but super natural. This paper will talk about the supernatural form of miracles in contrast with the thoughts of the Naturalists. But holding either view, that there are such things as…

that praise Big Brother much like in North Korea. Orwell states, “The songs, the processions, the banners, the hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the yelling of slogans, the worship of Big Brother” (Orwell 48). Children in 1984 were forced and taught to do all these things in school. It was not only the children that participated, but the parents and older citizens too. An event called Two Minutes Of Hate was a time where citizens were forced to watch propaganda videos and worship Big…

could walk with dinosaurs and tanks to breathe underwater. For those who have seen the movie Big Fish can see the exaggeration between reality and imagination. Main character, Edward Bloom, tells many incredible life lesson stories that his son, William, cannot seem to believe. He eventually realizes that using a little imagination in stories doesn’t hurt when teaching lifelong lessons. In the movie Big Fish, William learns the actual truth behind his father’s stories and how the…

In 1964 a physicist by the name of Peter Higgs took some ideas that were floating around at the time, added an insight or two of his own, and proposed that there was an energy field that permeated the entire universe. This energy field is now called the Higgs filed. The reason he proposed this field was that nobody understood why some subatomic particles had a great deal of mass, while others had little and some had none at all. The energy filed that Higgs proposed would interact with the…