Straight

The introductory unit to College Prep IV is titled “Life Almost Straight”. This title is appropriate for new seniors because they are getting everything ready for college and are trying to get their lives straight. The documents in the unit show how life can be crazy and hard to understand. Just like many seniors, they are trying to understand life and how it is “Almost Straight”. One piece of text in this unit is a painting named “Sorrow Teeming With Light” by Gabriel Shaffer. This piece…

The success of the film Scared Straight led to a series based off of the same concept of the film, Beyond Scared Straight, on January 13, 2011 to September 3, 2015. Similar to the film, the series featured a group of juvenile delinquents and their encounter with criminals in a maximum-security prison. The episode (“Corcoran”)…

changes the key from Bb to F. Monk also has a quartet in his recording while Davis has a sestet but in each recording each player gets their own time to improv and no one is left out. Overall Miles Davis created a terrific interpretation of Monk’s Straight, No Chaser. Joe Henderson Trio - Ask Me…

fear do? I've always wondered, can someone be scared straight? Honestly, I think someone can be scared straight. People use fear to teach someone a lesson, for example parents use fear to get their kids to act right or do the right things. Fear is a great motivational force to get someone to act differently or do something else. One reason fear is a good motivational force that it changes people's behavior. In the story "can kids be scared straight" the author says "visibly shaken, all of the…

The FMS test is comprised of seven scored tests, including a deep squat, hurdle step, in-line lunge, shoulder mobility, active straight leg raise, trunk stability push-up, and rotary stability. Also, three pass or fail tests, including, shoulder impingement clearing test, spinal extension clearing test and spinal flexion clearing test. Testing took place in the Health and Human Performance…

W.A get started but its roots trace back to two members, one who had the idea, and one who had the money for it. These two would be Eric Wright and Andre Young and this article says that “Eric has money--street money, dope money--and wants to go straight. Dre, meanwhile, bugs Yano, who knows every low-level somebody in the record business in all of Los Angeles, to start a record label. Dre wants a place to put out his own music” (McDermott, 2002, p 13). Eazy-E wanted to get out of the dope…

shedding a poetic side for justice and peace among the black community that suffers from police brutality like Smiths Twilight interviews, whereas fellow N.W.A member “Ice Cube” states in one of his songs “Fuck The Police”, “Fuck the police coming straight from the underground a young nigga got it bad cause I 'm brown”(Line 1-2).…

One of the most notorious and unapologetic groups in n rap of the 1980s, N.W.A. (Niggaz Wit Attitude), helped to redefine rap as something that could be intelligent, transformative, and socially aware. You can hear the influences of satire, funk, and realism in their lyrics as well as the impact of artists like Public Enemy, Prince, and RUN DMC. One of their most iconic songs, ‘Fuck Tha’ Police’ was listed on Rolling Stone 's: Greatest Songs of All Time, but it goes much deeper than that. I…

Throughout history we’ve always had catalyst that changed the course of time. Whether it was good or bad, on purpose or on accident they created a movement. The top three most influential agents were Ice Cube, the birth control pill, and women’s suffrage. What ties these 3 are the stereotypes that were created for them and how they changed them. Hip hop emerged in the late 1970’s and was developed by the lower income districts, mainly within the African American and Hispanic communities (History…

In my high school there was a gay straight alliance group. It started out my senior year and didn’t last long from what I hear. I like the purpose of the groups. I love how they are to make LGBT kids feel safer at their school. The schools should provide the facilities and forum for these kinds of groups. These kinds of groups make the kids feel safer and the other kids more open to accepting them. In my high school more than half the kids were religious. We also didn’t have many open…