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    GANG IS EVEVIDENT AS ONE OF THE BAD INFLUENCED ON TEENAGERS LIVES. Growing up and knowing who I am‚ my values‚ my culture and where I fit in‚ in this world and the societies that I interact with were all the things that made me who I am today. As a teenage of course its all about fun and living wild but the big question is why do young people join gangs ? As a result from gang is evident as one of the bad influenced on young peoples lives the statistics that I found online From most of the

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    Are Television‚ Movies‚ and Music responsible for teen violence? Most people would like to know why violence among teens is rising. Most people blame parents for the way the child acts. Others blame the kids they’re around. In my opinion‚ I don’t think neither parents nor peers are to blame. The media is responsible for teen violence in our society. The media teaches teens that violence is acceptable. Children will try to imitate the things they see on television. For example in Toronto

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    brutal military-oligarchy alliance‚ created the gang in the 1980s as a form of self-protection. U.S. deportations of members helped to internationalize the gang‚ which now has a strong presence in many Central American countries‚ and in southern Mexico. Given the focus of the film‚ it is perhaps far too much to expect Sin Nombre to address such matters. But it begs the question of what the filmmaker is trying to accomplish by focusing on gang violence and its intersection with the Central American

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    The following six questions are addressed in a critique of an article entitled: Controversial Rap Themes‚ Gender Portrayals and Skin Tone Distortion: A Content Analysis of Rap Music Videos. This article was published in the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media and written by Kate Conrad‚ Travis Dixon‚ and Yuanyuan Zhang. Kate and Yuanyuan are PhD students in the Department of Speech Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Travis is Assistant Professor of Speech Communication

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    themselves‚ because of potential political and governmental ramification; a vital role in this whole realm of discussion‚ plays also the erudite manipulation of words‚ metaphors‚ and the specific meaning that are attached to them‚ within their RAP lyrics‚ in order to express their revolt against the national and international political and social climate‚ but at the same time deflect any type of trend that would exceed the existing limits‚ set by their state. Accordingly‚ such indirect metaphorically

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    Gangsta Rap Subcultures

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    got punished for it. As a result‚ people used to held event on the streets for prevention against these injustices. Gradually they became more violent‚ and it made police to play an aggressive role to block them. The subculture I selected‚ gangsta rap‚ tried to resist these inequalities between majority and minority group of people by raising their strong voice against authority. The

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    one central idea. J cole has changed the way I think about world . When I was young kid‚ about four or five years old I was exposed to rap music. My family would listen to old rap music and the current rap music at that time‚ which would be 50 cent and Nelly. Ever since I have been listening to rap music. Since I was young‚ I didn’t notice the messages that rap music sent and I didn’t know any of the words. We didn’t listen to any poetic rappers like Nas or Common at that time. A few years later‚

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    For hundreds of years music has played a role in society to either entertain‚ inspire and even for relaxation purposes‚ but in today’s time music is completely different we live in an era that for entertainment we can hop on our phones and watch a live television broadcast‚ to relax we can drive any where we want and have the pleasure to watch a beautiful sunset or watch the stars in the sky. Music plays a huge role in society today and I believe rap music plays a huge roll in today’s youth by inspiring

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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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    The 1980s was an era which witnessed the emergence of early Rap music with specific groups such as N.W.A coming from poverty stricken backgrounds and thus having a far lower socioeconomic status compared to many of the other big stars they were surrounded by. Furthermore‚ they used this to spread the details of true experiences of those closest to them who had encountered police brutality as a direct result of racist views. Racism was still a huge issue during the 1980s and caused many black singers

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