The Godfather

In Nathan McCall’s article “My Rap Against Rap” published by Reader's Digest he expresses how rap music is influencing young black people in today's society. Comparing his experiences to the film The Godfather and the effects they had upon him. Noting its violent gangsters and gunfights have created a fascination among young black Americans, it was the ruthless code of principles that govern the gangster’s lives that he ties to the rap lyrics. McCall took things into his own hands and shot the…

Medici: Heroes or Villains? The Renaissance was a revolutionary cultural era of expansion and growth that spanned from the 13th to the 17th century. It was the result of growing wealth in Italy after the Middle Ages, and caused art, architecture and engineering, science, and mathematics to flourish. Many different events led to the cultural shift in Europe after the middle ages, one of them being the rise of wealth in Italy. The Italian banking family Medici is often considered one of the main…

My purpose of writing this essay is to tell you my "story." The good, the bad, and the ugly. Long-term goals are goals that are achieved in a long period. My long-term goals are to graduate high school with my diploma, finish my 12 years of medical school, receive my certificate to start working, buy a house, possibly get married and have children. Habits of mind are distinguishing how to behave intelligently when you don’t know the answer. It also means having a disposition toward behaving…

Baz Luhrmann uses his films to recreate classic texts and places to transform them into theatrical masterpieces. Throughout his career he has evolved and progressed in his cinematic language and techniques to achieve this, this is very evident in three of his films; Strictly Ballroom (1992), Romeo and Juliet(1996) and The Great Gatsby(2013). All three of these films re-reveal either a place (Australia in Strictly Ballroom) or a classic text (such as in Romeo and Juliet and Great Gatsby). He…

Throughout the history of the United States, there has been no shortage of conspiracy theories. Different events or people can cause these theories such as 9/11, Area 51, Elvis Presley, and Kurt Cobain are just a few. One conspiracy that has withstood the test time and that is the assassination of the 35th President of the United States of America, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK). President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963 while traveling in a…

The Battle of Palo Alto SGT Appel, SGT Hill, SGT Young, Class 005-16 ALC NCOA An analysis of how the flying Artillery of Palo Alto has changed the modern battlefield: The creation of light and mobile field artillery had given the United States Army a potent weapon. By employing the use of light and mobile artillery, it has changed today’s battlefield by how we use Artillery to fully decimate or counter fire an enemy. Horse drawn cannons have paved the way for the modern day M109A6,…

what you could say “the man of the house” since his dad had been deported a couple years ago. He had one older sibling and three younger siblings. I had dreams of growing old with him, of raising our children close like we were, of him being a godfather to one of my children, of him being one of the groomsman at my wedding, or celebrating every holiday together. It has never been the same and it never will be. I have a hole in my heart that will never be able to be full again. He was not here…

produced his name as a fourth contestant, even though he was underage and might not be able to complete the task, this shows a lot of determination, because through the whole thing, he never gave up. . Adding to that, Harry felt a need to save his godfather when he had a good reason to believe that Lord Voldemort was holding him captive, and would stop at nothing to do it, even if that means getting expelled from Hogwarts. Also, Draco is determined as well, although he wanted to do a bit…

Shane Dell Section 4120 Dr. Burke October 11, 2016 The Many Perspectives of Video Games The attitude towards video games is that they are too gruesome, violent and can kill brain cells. Video games are pieces of art created from the very creative minds of computer programmers. There’s a lot more to video games then just shooting and killing people online there is a crazy amount of coding that goes into every single game. Yes, some video games can be violent and bloody but that’s why they get a…

Gil Scott-Heron and Home Gil Scott-Heron is considered by many to be the “The Godfather of Rap”, and one of the greatest poets of all time. Many artist have sold more records than Heron, but few artist are able to match the influence Heron’s words have had on many in The Black Community. Growing up, Heron idolized black leaders such as Malcolm X, and black artist such as Langston Hughes. He was following Hughes footsteps when he decided to go to Historically Black College, Lincoln University…