Changes in rap music over the years

was July 30th and the heat was eating everyone alive. Falling in Reverse was up next, the true and living legends in the flesh. When my mom was a teenager she was obsessed with them. We have extremely similar taste in music. Some of the stuff my dad listens to is just mainstream rap and quite frankly, very annoying, so I stick with my mom’s…

the way to respond to oppression should be a violent or nonviolent approach. Even more intriguing is why Mookies actions were more of a controversy then the death of his friend Radio Raheem, bringing light to the ideology of the value of property over that of a black mans life. But now it is necessary to ask “how?” How did Spike Lee manage to tackle such controversial issues and invoke such intriguing conversations while remaining strong within his vision, a vision he wanted to be as realistic…

Commodification by definition is the transformation of goods, services and ideas that are not normally considered goods, into commodities for purchase. Across the globe women have fallen victim to this process. Visual mediums of mass media constantly subject women to exploitation, and they do so for financial gain. Stakeholders in television, film, print and online have developed ways to entice consumers through sex, fantasy and bodily appeal. Consequently, women are usually the ones being…

Video games are nothing but a quick pass time for people to enjoy and let of some steam but depending on the ethnicity of the character it can change how you view their race as a whole. When games give you the option to choose if your characters ethnicity is black or white some people associate African Americans as being more violent then whites. In the article “Study: Video Games May Reinforce…

believes that grit can be taught. One surprisingly simple factor, she says, is optimism—the belief among both teachers and students that they have the ability to change and thus to improve. In a 2009 study of newly minted teachers, she rated each for optimism (as measured by a questionnaire) before the school year began. At the end of the year, the students whose teachers were optimists had made greater academic gains. 7. Praise makes you…

Church of God in Chicago. Obama brings up the fact that in the African American culture there are way too many fathers missing from their families’ lives and how they are not taking over their responsibilities. Obama is asking for everyone to realize that the problem is real and is asking for people as a society to change the same story from continuously happening again. Although Alexander starts off with Obamas speech her intake on the problem is not the same. Shortly after presenting Obamas…

Job #1: In the beginning of the novel, Ishmael was a skinny, twelve year old African American boy that wore baggy jeans, long-sleeved shirts, and three pairs of socks that he pulled down and folded, which puffed up his sneakers (7). As the novel progressed, Ishmael became very scrawny with dirty, shabby clothes. Ishmael became extremely thin because he was not able to eat regularly. In the novel, Ishmael’s hunger ends up taking over in chapter 5, Ishmael and his friends chased after a little boy…

from that race acts that way; White people are proper and stuck up, black people are cheap and ghetto and Mexicans work hard for little pay. This is how we have been programmed to think through the years; this is why we as people definitely stereotype based on race and that’s probably never going to change. When I identify myself, I say I’m African American. But why do I say that? I say that because that’s what I was taught and that’s how society sees me. I was taught that the color of my skin…

Panic! At the Disco is an American alternative rock band who, over the last fifteen years released five records that follow the lead singer, Brendon Urie’s life. Throughout the maturing of the records Urie, introduces us to a woman that he has fallen in love with. As his love for the woman grows, he uses techniques, such as blazon, to explain the woman’s beauty. Blazon is a literary device used by Elizabethan poets who were writing about females. Objects of high value, such as gardens and…

“among the common themes noted are the portrayal of bisexuals as mentally ill, victims, unable to maintain relationship fidelity, people who sleep with anything that moves, sex workers and killers” (583-584). Film examples that give bisexuals a bad rap are Blue is the Warmest Color (Kechiche 2013) and The Kids Are All Right (Cholodenko 2010) . The character Adéle in Blue is the Warmest Color is bisexual and cheats on her long-term girlfriend for a man which results in the end of their…