Planet Rock

the music genre and culture of Hip Hop. The song I am going to go in depth about and analyze is Afrika Bambaataa’s & the Soulsonic Force’s hit song "Planet Rock". The main reason why I chose this piece of music is because the impact it had in the Hip Hop community was like non other and because till this day it is one of the more popular songs people like to breakdance to. The structure of this song is complex yet at the same time very simple. The producers of this piece Arthur Baker and John Robie composed it so there is a lot…

The video “Planet Rock: The Story of Hip Hop and the Crack Generation” is a documentary that discusses how hip-hop music and crack cocaine fused to create a unique culture of young African American individuals. This video includes interviews with former addicts, kingpins, and dealers, which provides a first-hand account of what experiencing said culture was like. An interesting idea that is discussed in the video is how the movie Scarface influenced the culture of young African Americans…

A recent study on Mars’s geology causes a paradigm shift to researchers’ perspective of the red planet. Felsic rocks that thought to not exist on Mars are now identified. Overall, these findings alter the understanding of the geologic complexity and magmatic activity of Mars. Prior knowledge of Mars’s geology was rather simple; consisting of one type of rock formation in contrast to Earth’s diverse and complex geology. Felsic rocks such as granite, are common in subduction zones on Earth (Wray…

1. The Earth rotates from the…………………………… a) west towards east b) east towards west c) north towards south d) south towards north 2. The Earth orbits the Sun at a speed of………………….. a) 100,800 km/h b) 108,000 km/h c) 152,097,701 km/h d) 147,098,074 km/h 3. Tsunami can be cause of ……………… a) Volcano b) Avalanche c) Tornado d) Earthquake 4. Seasons happen because a) The earth’s axis is inclined by 66½° b) The earth’s revolution around the sun c) The rotation of earth d) United effect of (a) and…

water ice on its surface, and water vapour in its atmosphere. The existence of water is pivotal in the exploration of Mars, as it may hold vital information regarding the history of the planet. Scientists have implemented the ideology to ‘follow the water’, as the existence of water allows for life to grow, and more importantly, exist. This is reiterated in Rothschild and Mancinelli’s “observation that all terrestrial life requires liquid water during some phase of its life cycle (cited in…

Over time we’ve changed our minds about how the Earth came to be. Through the study of our planet and solar system we’ve widened our understanding of where we began. We went from thinking the Earth was the center of the universe to knowing for a fact that we are just a small spec in a huge ocean of planets and stars. After watching the documentary presented in class, the major theme I noticed was how over time and after years of research our ideas around how things worked and how they…

focused on Mars and whether or not life can, or ever has, existed on the Red Planet. Jim Bell, a professor that specializes in the study…

The four planets that make up the terrestrial planets are commonly known to us as Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars (Kay, 2013, p. 216). The reason that terrestrial planets are grouped separately from the rest of the solar system is because they are all structured very similarly and all have surfaces most like that of the planet Earth. Another aspect that separates these four planets from all others is the fact that they are all located the closest to the Sun. Terrestrial planets can be easily…

In our solar system, gas giants are much bigger than terrestrial planets, and they have thick atmospheres full of hydrogen and helium. They both orbit the sun. Terrestrial planets are similar to Earth made up of mostly rock and have few moons. Gas giants are made up of gas and have a lot more moons. Some of the surface of mercury featured is craters, ridges, and terrains ranging from heavily cratered to nearly crater free. These features help us to understand the evolution of the planet.…

Uranus: Uranus was discovered in 1781 by a British Astronomer named William Herschel, using a 6 inch telescope. At first he thought that it might be a nebulous star or even a comet, but after continued observation, he realized that it appeared to be a disk in the sky that moved relative to the stars. The movement was far too slow to be a comet and soon enough he realized that he had discovered the 7th planet at the time. At first, he wanted to name it Georgium Sidus which translates to…