KRS-One

live.” Words spoke by one of Hip-Hop culture’s philosophers and celebrated artists, KRS-One nearing the end of what is considered the genre’s golden age of its creativity and influence in the mid-1990s. For some, the statement is self-explanatory and almost reverent in it pronouncement. For others on the outer periphery of rap music and its associated culture, the delineation between the two may be murky. Nonetheless, the statement has much to do with identity, authenticity and how one associates themselves within the scope of the urban music genre and that of the broader social and ethnic context. Adam Krims’ Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity seeks to break new ground by focusing on…

anything but a word. It is a living thing that grows, changes, and expresses itself as it goes through this. No matter how it may change though, it has always had one single meaning for its existence: peace; and with this meaning for existence, there must always be nine elements that are presence in order for Hip Hop to fulfill its purpose. The first element of Hip Hop, is dancing. Usually those who dance in Hip Hop are considered either the B-boy or the B-girl, and they dance for a variety of…

The Leap is definitely no exception, with small use of literary devices author Louise Erdrich has made the story very intriguing. To clarify, some of the literary devices used in The Leap are simile, flashback, and analogy. In the story, the literacy device simile is used to compare one element to another. An example of simile used in The Leap is when the story reads “they loved to drop gracefully from nowhere, like two sparkling birds” (2). Without doubt the author has used simile in a…

In the beginning, the brothers were inseparable from each other and the car, they went places together in that car throughout that one whole summer. But after at least three years, Henry comes back from the army, everything about their relationship, their brotherly bond changes dramatically. Lyman tries to recover their brotherly bond by beating up their car and “[making] it look just as beat up as [he] could” (246) and making Henry repair it. “It was spring. The sun was shining very bright”…

Unfair Balance of Power One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of stories from India, Persia, and Arabia and have been translated by various authors over hundreds of years. Even though it is a collection of different stories, they are all centered on the frame story of King Shahryar and his wife, Scheherazade, who narrates different stories for a thousand and one night in hopes that the King would stop killing innocent young women as punishment for his first wife’s adulterous act. The…

creation of Tyger. He adds that after the creation had been accomplished and the heart of Tyger begun to beat, how dreadful were the hands and its legs as it went about accomplishing its evil designs. Blake talks of the hammer, the anvil, the chain. Certainly, these tools are found in a goldsmith’s place. They were used to create Tyger and the hand that held Tyger in the process. The author seems to suggest that the tools contributed to how Tyger came out. Further, the questioning streak of…

Whether one enjoys it, life can be altered from one point to another. Even though Carver does not directly tell the audience that his wife (the girl) has left him, a reader can infer that something negative has occurred to the family. By spilling his breakfast on his lap, the boy made a mess of things, in both a literal way, and figuratively. The name of the story “Everything Stuck to Him” implies that things resonated within himself. This is especially true regarding, when in the outside story,…

the effects that the war had on the soldiers. First of all, by expressing how O’Brien and his group of soldiers changed through the war he used many literary devices, such as anaphora. One example of O’Brien using anaphora in his novel is “Forty three years ago, and the war occurred a half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will sometimes lead to a story, which makes it forever… Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those…

Santiago has changed throughout the entire book “The Alchemist” written by Paulo Coelho. Over many years he has gone through his personal legend shaping and forming him into the person he was destined to become. One of his most positive character traits that he has developed over his travels is that he is open to learning. Several times in the story Santiago mentions that his sheep have taught him many things and other characters as well. An example of this is, “...the sheep had taught him…

The alchemist can have many themes, themes that might be right or wrong,but the real theme of the story is no amount of treasure is worth the good life you already have. The point of this story is, don’t waste your precious time looking for something that may not be real, use that time to live happily with a family. The conflicts of the story are significant to the main character and the story in many ways, one of the small conflicts that affected the boy was losing some of his sheeps from his…