Maria Anwar M. Phil Literature – 2nd Presentataion on “Persepolis as a postmodern fiction” What makes Persepolis a Postmodern Fiction? A mix of High art and popular culture: Marjane Satrapi’s ’’Persepolis’’ is the latest and one of the most palatable examples of a postmodern genre‚ an autobiographical novel in form of a comic-book which tells the history of Iran from Marjane’s point of view. Persepolis is a postmodern graphic novel that blurs the boundaries between popular culture and high art
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all about rap and I’ll explain to why it’s all a bunch of crap. Word! (ment to be rapped). Rap is not music for the soul. In fact it shreds your soul. Rap does more harm to society than good. Rap in recent and past years made some controversial songs and introduced many controversial topics to songs such as many of the lyrics‚ music and sound as well as the references in the song makes rap so controversial. Rap was introduced around 1970 and became a big sensation in the 1990s. Rap hasn’t really
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Kate Everett It’s a Bad Rap Every so often‚ a new style of music emerges in America. In the 1970s and 80s‚ it was rap. For many years‚ rap brought the population of African American’s together in a changing society. They all knew how it felt to be discriminated and terrorized. Rap was what people could relate to‚ because they knew they were not the only ones in trouble. Now‚ rap has changed for the worst. Modern mainstream rap is an embarrassment compared to the art form it used to be. Beginning
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People that do not listen to rap music should realize that rap music carries out positive meanings for society to recognize. People can take rap as too loud or annoying‚ or people think‚ “Why do these rap artists have to cuss so much?” Yes‚ rap music will talk about sex‚ drugs‚ and degrading women. I believe that true rap music serves its purpose by sharing life stories and confronting harsh realities. There is a rap song called “Mockingbird” by Eminem‚ and it is about Eminem telling his daughter
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The next term Sacks satisfied is Pathos. He gave the readers the other view about the young people besides the postmodern scene at American in 1990s. It evoked the feeling surprised and depressed of readers before the consequences that postmodern had brought to. Sacks made people confused before the reasons why this reality had happened; while people were supposed to be diligent harder in the outstanding development of technology and entertainment‚ people especially is young generation was so lazy
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Since the late 1980’s rap music has been called the Anti Christ in our culture‚ because of it’s so-called influence in people’s life. People swear up and down that the music is why people‚ specially the youth resort to violent crimes. I think by saying this they are trying to cover up the real truth by giving simple answers. Rap is defined as a style of popular music consisting of improvised rhymes performed to a rhythmic accompaniment. The first rap song was made in the late 70’s‚ the songs were
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session we had with BL we were introduced to the works of David Tripp‚ Stephen Brookfield and Donald Schon which focused on critical thinking and self-reflection in teaching and learning environment. We as a group were given Stephen Brookfield’s “four lenses” document to review. In summary Stephen Brookfield states that for a teacher to become critically reflective there are three inter-related phases that are involved: 1. Discovering the assumptions that guide our decisions‚ actions and choices 2
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The topic that I chose to examine and write about for my final paper is the difference between rap and hip hop on a more technical basis. The reason that I chose this topic in particular‚ is because as I matured from a boy and was allowed my own opinion and preference on what music that I listened to‚ rap and hip hop were the more predominant types of music that I invited. I listened to a fairly wide variety of music other than that‚ of course‚ but what stood out from the rest was the music with
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heavy so u best hop back in ur broke down chevy before i leave u in the levy im not like meny i keep my head in my hood like kenny u think i dont rap well i have plenty more bars im the dopest native uv seen thus far man u aint even old enough to sit front seet in yo momas car so get off my status ur rap was gnar man dont hate couse i can attack with the rap made ur words wack ur verse flows like crap couse tim is back pulling another verse frm his hat then i whipped out my gat and busted the cap couse
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another world through the music of various artists‚ particularly those of rap or R&B. Whether I was taking my daily train ride to school in Oakland or resting on my bed in the late evening‚ my pocket cradled my portal to the melodies‚ the rhythms‚ and most importantly the voices of many artists. Wherever I was‚ my earphones could instantly take me the worlds of those artists. My phone
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