verse made it clear that he knows people that are college and are still undecided on their majors. The next major song on the album was Jesus Walks. In this song he talks about god. He clearly states that radio doesn’t want to play his because he raps about god. The Lyrics were so here go my single dog radio needs this, they said you can rap about anything except for Jesus. That means guns, sex, lies, video tape, but if I talk about God my record won 't get played. Huh?” This is a good example on how he will rap about what he wants. One of the biggest songs that he release in The College Dropout was Through the Wire. He was able to record this song with his jaw swollen and stitch up. The Following year he releases Late Registration. He kept going with the college theme. Late…
When you look at fans of professional wrestling, it can become pretty obvious who their favorite wrestler is, by the clothing, or merchandise, they wear. For fans of Kanye West, there’s a different similarity between pro wrestling fans and themselves. Kanye West fans do not have a definitive name, or way of defining themselves. There is no form for the group for some reason. However, they are still able to celebrate their icon and promote their icon in a positive way amid negative press he is…
as Donald Trump from Kanye west is simply shocking. It seems like another Kanye episode, the crazy narcissistic genius back at it again. Between systematically racialized police violence and the recent election results the ugly racial underbelly of America is larger than ever. Following the lead of Van Jones, who is on a quest to talk to and understand Trump supporters, I will attempt to accomplish the same goal. Since Kanye has not yet returned my phone call, I will use cluster analysis to try…
A telltale sign of a good story is when one can identify and relate with the characters. Shakespeare is known as one of the absolute best at creating flawed characters that are still worth caring for. It’s difficult to connect with real people and fictional characters alike when they present themselves as flawless, because human beings aren’t perfect and they relate and bond over these imperfections. One of Shakespeare’s greatest yet most troubled characters is Othello; a courageous man, blind…
question students seemed to always struggle with is if an interview is actually an interview or is it really a conversation. Asking this question throws students off usually on what they consider an interview. The students in the interviewing class consistently fought with this idea because their assumption of an interview is that it has to be “formal”. By doing this they actually segregate many other interviews that have been done because they don’t fit there perceptions of what an interview…
until later on, working directly with voter registration, that I began to change many of my previous notions. Like in Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”, escaping the cave of ignorance took…
What is the Texas’ Picture ID Law? The Texas’ Picture ID Law is to propose a legal measure to prevent illegal voting. There are several different forms of identification. According to Vote Texas, Texans can used their “driver license, election identification certificate, personal identification card, license to carry a handgun, military identification card containing the person’s photo, citizenship certificate with photo, and United States passport”. If someone does not have a photo…
The project caused me to gain knowledge on one of the most important rights a citizen has, and should uphold. The right to vote. It also put me in a position where I had to use my leadership skills in order to get students (many of which I did not know) to fill out a registration forms. I had to use decision making skills in order to figure out which students to approach first, what class to approach them in, and how to go about convincing them to fill out the form. I used time management to…
According to the article The Architect Matthew Dowd states, that republican that had money started to immigrate to Texas. In-migration changing drastically in the state of Texas and they started to lose democrat and this why we have more republicans now. The vote in Texas is divided into democratic and republican voter but republicans outnumber democrat each year. It affects the patterns because the lower part of Texas is voting for democrat and the upper part of Texas votes for republican win…
Stafford’s “Traveling through the Dark” and Snodgrass 's "Driving Late at Night" are the same poem written by two different people but have a whole different felt to one another. Stafford’s poem gives a dark, eerie feeling while Snodgrass’s has the same effect but it doesn’t feel as dark and eerie due to the lack of detail throughout. To summarize Stafford’s whole poem would be a man is driving alongside a mountain on night when he comes across a dead dear. Therefore he decides to push the deer…