Nas

Last week, Nas joined Charlie Rose for PBS' tribute to Maya Angelou where the Queens native also took the time to discuss his influences and impact on the game, hip hop culture, and more. During the interview, Nas discussed the current state of Hip Hop in comparison to when his career first began over two decades ago. "Today it's a lot easier to get into the rap game but, back then in '94, it was a lot harder," Nas says when describing his journey to success which began with his first feature on…

The main issue in the film, Ded na si Lolo is the impact of culture, specifically of irrational beliefs. In the movie, it depicted our traditions and superstitions about family ties and wake. Ded na si Lolo featured how a family cope up with the death of a loved one. It perfectly shows the attitudes and practices of Filipinos that surrounds death, the funeral and the wake. Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies,…

Paul's Illustration of Self Denial In verse 26 Paul continues, "Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air. Paul uses the KJV Bible word "uncertainly" (Greek G84 ἀδήλως, adēlōs) to describe how he runs. The NASB translates the word "without aim." This is the only time the word is used in the NT. The word is used mostly by the classical writers of the day to usually mean obscurely. Paul reinforces his argument with the illustration of the boxing…

The columns that divided culture and religion From the Caryatids of the porch of the Erechtheion in Athens, Greece to the Togu na House post built by the Dogon in Mali, nearly 2500 years have passed between the two styles of sculptures. The Caryatid statues of Athens, Greece, built between ca. 421-405 BCE, have vast detail in the image of the female, unlike the Dogon Togu na House Post which shows an abstract view of a woman’s body. Although they have similarities in choice of design and…

In the book Wait for Me by An Na, the main character Mina lives a life of lies, for she has been lying to her mom for years about school. Her mother is also very strict and has raised her trying to make her think that she needs to be the best at everything, especially school. This shows that a person's background can affect who they are as a person, but the person is the one who has to decide how their life is going to be. In Wait for Me two major issues stand out and that is how strict…

The elegy’s status as a lament of loss does, indeed, mean that elegies are often responses to death, as evidenced in the example of Vasilii Zhukovskii’s “Na smert’ Andreia Turgeneva”. The poem’s subject could not be any more evident; the speaker begins with an incantatory “O” in which he addresses his deceased friend, and immediately describes his coffin. Yet the speaker remains alone, in his own words he is “оставленный,” abandoned; he laments the loss of companionship and friendship. This…

〖Na〗^+and K^+channel relationship Figure one shows the temporal relationship between 〖Na〗^+ conductance (g_Na) and K^+ conductance (g_(K )), and the relative changes in the V_m during an action potential. 〖 g〗_Na increased as the V_m moved towards 0 mV causing depolarization of the membrane and started to decrease immediately after the peak of the action potential. Whereas, g_(K ) increased immediately following the action potential peak during the repolarization of the plasma membrane where…

of sorts. Long ago Hawaiian bones were stolen from their sacred grave sites and distributed across Europe, America, and other locations. In America, the bones were required to be returned to their origins, but not in Europe. Within in the play, Ola Na Iwi by Victoria Kneubuhl, a character named Kawehi who’s from Hawaii is visiting Berlin, Germany; she steals the bones out of a museum. A suspicious co-worker, Pua, attempts to pilfer the bones back to the Berlin museum while representing Hawaii.…

“Now let’s get it all in perspective”. This lyric from “Made You Look” by Nas, one of the greatest rappers of all-time, perfectly defines what I have learned about hip-hop this semester. This course has provided me with a new meaning as to what hip-hop really was like, how the whole movement got started, and what the lifestyle really consisted of. Through listening to song recordings, going through in-depth lyrical analyses, thoroughly reading book chapters, and attending and listening to Dr.…

In the book A Step From Heaven by An Na the chapter daughter beginning on page 111 is about young ju getting a reward and her father ignoring her and the reward. Na´s use of tone emphasizes how young ju´s emotions frequently change during the chapter. On page 113 Na uses tone in the quote ¨I think about apa and how he was arrested. For some crazy reason, I begin to worry that maybe they´ll recognize me.¨ This quote presents the fear and worryness that young ju got when the doyle family was…