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Jr. and Malcolm X added hope and moral strength to movements as they spoke out for racial equality. This decade remains a significant turning point for the country, as it acted as a catalyst for future prosperity. In Jill Nelson’s autobiography, Straight, No Chaser, Nelson urges women to reexamine their daily existence and begin to establish a positive identity through the hardships manifested in the black community. She courageously reflects on her experience growing up as a black female…

problem with the music business is that it is unpredictable. If a genre of music came along with the same amount of support as Hip-hop and promoted violence, the effects can be lethal. For example, NWA’s protest song “F*** tha Police” from the album Straight Outta Compton expressed violence and hate toward the police officers and indicated that they were rapist. There still has been resistance to violence to the society of hip-hop. Master P, who is the president of No Limit records had…

In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, a group called N.W.A. (N**gaz Wit Attitude) was on the rise in the rap industry. Men like N.W.A. generally wore baggy jeans and long white or black oversized t-shirts, some times with ball caps. You can usually tell what gang someone is associated with by the color of shirt and pants they are wearing. Drug trafficking was spreading out of the streets of Los Angeles which was making gangs become richer, better organized and more strapped. Money was everything…

Out From Under The Blanket Writing comes in many shapes, forms, and fashions. Most people have a common idea as to what writing is or what writing should be in a school setting. When asked most would automatically recall past papers done in middle school, high school, and college that were purely academia prompted by a specific topic. Since there are various ways to express knowledge through writing, why are musical forms, such as rap or hip hop, seen as unintelligale or even purely…

A movie that has really stood out to me for this week’s film review is a rather new movie called, Straight Outta Compton. They go into so much depth with the racial corruption that partook in the mid 1980’s. It revolves around a hip-hop music group known as N.W.A. The members include Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, DJ Yella and MC Ren. It takes place in the streets of Compton, California, as well as many other cities that they traveled during their initial N.W.A. Tour. All of these men share similar…

means that women is becoming the larger number within poverty. According to Alexandra Cawthorne, an Analyst from Center for American Progress’s Poverty and Prosperity & Women’s Health and Rights Programs’s Research Associate, in her article “The Straight Facts on Women in Poverty”, Cawthorne (2008) states: the poverty rates are higher for women (13.8 %) than men (11.1%) in 2007. Not only that, “the feminization of poverty has particular significance in the growing and shifting homeless…

are the best motivational force. Fear is the best motivation force because it scares people so much that it makes them want to change, to be able lives a much better life. Kathy Feinstein, the author of the nonfiction article "Can Kids be Scared Straight?” stated "Visibly shaken, all of the teens in the film vowed that they would rehabilitate their lives, they didn't want to end up behind bars." (28). The teens were scared of jail and the way they would get treated in jail, so they decided to…

The title of the autobiography is Jack: Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch. The genre of the book is focused on the business and entrepreneurial standpoints in his own life. He relates to how he began with little to no ambitions to become a businessman and how his own life experiences shaped him to become one of the most successful businessmen in the United States. This stands out to me because of my interest in business and entrepreneurship. Jack and I also share many similarities such as both…

9th grade at the end of the year I got tired of the kids that sat around me, I stared to go the high school. I had some friends there. The first day during 2nd period I had to do a speech over a poem of my choosing. I did a slam poem called Dear Straight People it is my favorite. I tried to look really nice because of this speech. Autumn Looper was the first person I saw so I walked up to her. Her first words to were something like you look really hot. I kind of had a crush on her last year. So…

“Rap is something you do; Hip-Hop is something you 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…