Changes in rap music over the years

tries to portray that image for himself in many of his songs and videos. When looking at J Cole he portrays himself a lot differently than what his words speaks in some of his videos but in the video “Crooked Smile” he does show how much he wants to change today’s youth and society. This video is what I chose to analyze for this paper because it has so many different meanings between the video and lyrics. It has been interpreted into many meanings, but the main message J Cole is trying to…

Street Gangs: The Great Migration Gangs have increasingly become a serious problem over the past few decades. A report from the FBI’s 2011 National Gang threat assessment states that there are 1.4 million active gang members comprising of more than 33,000 gangs in the United States (MacBradaign, 2013). Many believe that the first street gangs started with the formation of the Crips and the Bloods between 1971-1972, but the first active street gangs in western civilization were reported by Pike…

merit to the conversation of masculinity and education. I then turn to explore how masculinity may be in opposition to schooling. Next, I discuss the achievement gap in regards to race, socioeconomic status, and gender. Lastly, I turn to structural changes that may impact schooling for…

For many years, there have always been either police officers or constables. With this job of enforcing laws, some people may think certain laws may or may not be unjust and they might choose to follow or not follow the law and arrest people on certain charges. Officer discretion is a big tool in law enforcement. Discretion gives officers a choice in what to do in situations and how to act. It is beneficial to not only the officers but it is also beneficial to the public in certain circumstances…

and then the directors say relax. We then gather around all the directors for them to give us an overall thought of the show. They always have something good to say even if it was not our greatest show. Then after they are done, we normally get to change back into our normal clothes. After changing, we walk back into the stadium to sit in the stand until awards. Sometimes we sit in the stands for awhile, other times we only sit through a few bands. When our classes’ awards are being announced,…

Davis he was reluctant to sit down and talk to me about his story. I know his story though hearsay but not from him. Even though I know Mr. Davis for almost 18 years he still was reluctant to sit down with me. After assuring that his name and information will be change and moved around he decided to let me interview him. Mr. Davis is a 26-year-old Africa American man with 1 children with his ex and two more with his current girlfriend. We saw down in the downstairs lobby at my job and the first…

orchestrated, designed, and executed, throughout the years, yet the simplest sentence on the page makes me most proud. “I am a chicago public school graduate” and that simple statement defines who I am more than any other statement. Of course my parents instilled the basics of social, economic, and political morality in me growing up, but once I went to school I had the choice to maintain my morality, lose it or build upon it. Luckily, during my 13 years in Chicago Public Schools I was able to…

Along with the ownership of a television come changes in the way that time is divided within the family unit. A Canadian study that documented the changes in how families spent their time before and after television was introduced into a small town reported that time spent sleeping, at social gatherings outside the home, in conversation, in leisure activities such as reading, knitting, and writing, doing household tasks, and involved in community activities and sports was reduced after…

someone being only 12 years old and having to deal with very real issues. As she spoke her voice started to fade away and all the noise in the background disappeared. Furthermore, I started to prepare to defend my friend and our friendship. However, there ended up being nothing to defend and over time my friend drifted most likely out of fear of the unknown I suppose that in a situation like that…

claims that humor is such an important tool in survival. Humor enlightens the tensions in times of hardship. Short Term 12 is based on Cretton’s short film in 2009 of the same name. The protagonist of the film, Grace played by Brie Larson is a huge change from the short. The protagonist in the short was played by Brad William Henke. Cretton stated that he finds it more interesting by looking into a perspective of a female protagonist. The male and female’s perspective are almost the same but…