Tell Me

many admirable traits that paired with his rapping skills as he was good hearted and extremely inspiring. Tupac Shakur, in a way created many of today’s rappers. He influenced many of today’s rappers to have a voice in their community. “Pac showed me what it…

The death of Tupac Shakur. Many people have questions and their own theories and some are true and some are completely false. In this research paper I’m trying to break down everything I can as simply as I can for anyone to understand. Using information I’ve gathered from trusted online sources, I will give the whole story from start to finish. I will try my best to get the best and truest information so I can break down this mystery. So, leading to all this craziness, it all started in Las…

Trevor Farrell English 11 Period 6/7 23 March 2018 Does your role model infect people with strength and courage with just their words? Tupac does this with almost anyone that can listen and hinder the message he presents. He does openly with a clear explanation inspire others while also speaking subliminal messages that go right over your head. He also was an activist who fought for the equality of blacks, poverty in the black community and the urgency of black fathers being involved in…

attack. This event was the primary impetus behind Tupac writing “Hit ‘Em Up” as a “diss track” against Biggie Smalls and Sean Combs evidenced by the following lyrics calling them out “We bust on Bad Boy niggaz fucked for life. Plus Puff tryin’ta see me weak hearts I rip. Biggie Smalls and Junior M.A.F.I.A. Some mark-ass bitches” (Shakur, 1996). Hailed as the greatest “diss track” ever made by many, “Hit ‘Em Up” managed to escalate the tension that had been brewing between Los Angeles and New…

hunger, making it easier for people to become impatient to wait for effective financial help. The author wants to give the people listening to his music an idea of people seeing each other as close instead of distant. The author states "Learn to see me as a brother 'stead of two distant strangers. And that’s how it’s supposed to be"(l.13-14). The author makes this message to help the black community understand they need to get along and love one another instead of killing each other. The author…

David Yacoub English 4AP, Per.3 1/15/2015 RRS Bless Me, Ultima Title: Bless Me, Ultima Publication Date: 1972 Author: Rudolfo Anaya Nationality: American Author’s Birth/Death dates: October 30, 1937- Present Distinguishing traits of the author: He was born in Pastura, New Mexico but actually raised in Santa Rosa, New Mexico. Similar to Antonio in Bless Me, Ultima his father was a vaquero while his mother came from a family of farmers. Later in his life he received not only a B.A. in English and…

In the novel Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya, the main character Antonio who is an young hispanic catholic struggling to find himself goes through many hardships, losses, confusion, and overall just the difficulties of growing up which are common and universal. All of these certain demeanors affect his maturity and growth. Although coming of age while going through hardships and difficulties can be common in most adolescents’ , certain aspects of Antonio's development can be universal.…

abilities to craft amazing stories, which includes the thrilling story The Tell-Tale Heart. throughout the story, he uses his writing abilities to describe the narrator’s feelings, the setting, and the motive. Here is how he used his writing abilities to describe the character’s feelings, the setting, and the motive. The author Edgar Allan Poe did an amazing job of painting a mental image of the setting during the story The Tell-Tale Heart. He creates an amazing mental image by using…

genres with works such as “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Raven”, and “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”. However, Poe’s obscure and unfinished work “The Lighthouse” is perhaps one of his most mysterious, and certainly one of his most unknown, stories. While differing stylistically, “The Lighthouse” shares similar themes with previous works by Poe that could help determine how the story would have been further developed. “The Lighthouse” is centered on an unnamed narrator who tells his story through…

Poe created The Tell-Tale Heart that described a narrator sharing how he murdered his victim while trying to convince the reader of his rationality. Similarly, Roald Dahl also created the short story Lamb to the Slaughter regarding a house wife murdering her husband by virtue of him wanting to leave her. In the two short stories its evident the characters committed the same crime of murdering, however, it's conspicuous the murders had different motives and outcomes. In the Tell-Tale…