Xavier Miranda Professor John Mammen English 1301 23 June 2012 The Effects of Rap Music on Children “There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things.” This quote fits perfectly with this topic. Too many people look at the negativities in music‚ Rap music to be specific. Rap music can have negative effects on those who listen to it‚ but just as easily and equally have a positive and beneficial outcome. Yes‚ many rappers use vulgar derogative terms to describe
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Benjamin Franklin is best known as one of the Founding Fathers of our country‚ who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Franklin was born in January of 1706 in Boston‚ where he was the fifteenth of seventeen children. He stopped going to school at age ten to help his father’s business but got bored of making candles. At age twelve Franklin went to apprentice at his older brother’s print shop‚ before eventually opening his own print shop in Philadelphia
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Stability In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World the motto of the new state is "COMMUNITY‚ IDENTITY‚ STABILITY"(3). Creativity‚ expression and imagination are sacrificed to attain this. Each citizen is conditioned to do what they like and like what they do. In our society people often do jobs because they think that they will make a lot of money‚ or because they are pressured by others. We are encouraged to put ourselves into thousands of dollars of debt to be successful instead of doing what we
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Absurdity in 21st Century Rap Music! ! What has the world come to? How has the music industry‚ specifically the rap/ hip-hop industry‚ in the 21st century world been allowed to use themes that include‚ but are not limited to‚ murder‚ drugs‚ sex‚ rape‚ misogyny‚ suicide‚ and more? What are the effects of such content found in contemporary‚ 21st century‚ rap and how does this affect listeners and future generations to come? Rap in the 21st century is no longer constructed the same way as
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Many people wonder what the difference between hip-hop and rap is. Hip-hop and rap varies in many different ways that most people cannot recognize. Hip-hop‚ and even rap‚ have been around for a while. They both have changed in many ways over the years. Although people think they are the same thing‚ they are not. Hip-Hop and rap is often confused for one another‚ but there are many differences between the two. In the early 1970s a musical genre was born in the neighborhoods of the South Bronx. Gifted
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Hop and its Rap Culture counterpart comparison It was 1977‚ and the Summer of Sam was in full swing in New York. But in the neighborhoods and housing projects of the “boogie down” Bronx New York‚ a new art form was developing called Hip Hop. This new art form would change America and transcend a generation forever with its influences on fashion‚ music‚ and lifestyle. Hip Hop is an urban lifestyle that consists of different subgenres of music such as rap‚ “old school” rap and “gangsta” rap. In my paragraph
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Many people believe that rap is not a music genre and is merely a sub-genre of hip-hop. There is also the belief rapper KRS-ONE said‚ “rapping is something you do and hip-hop is something you live” (KRS-ONE). The differences between rap and hip-hop are distinguishable enough that the two have separated. Leading people to believe that rap has evolved into its own category. Unless rap or hip-hop music is one of your favorite genres of music‚ you probably just lump the two together. Although in many
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This article is about the controversial themes in rap music. Eminem rap cypher fits in this category of controversial rap music. Gaining an understanding of how rap has historically been involved in controversial issues is important to be able to rhetorically analyze Eminem’s cypher. - The article focuses on the rhetorical technique of using songs in way that “establish a method for progressive action lived reality.” A previous song by Eminem called “Mosh” is the example that is used by the article
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they have over the youth and make the change themselves. For example‚ some rappers in sub-Saharan Africa promote abstinence in their rap songs and the youth are positively affected by this message. So if singer changed their messages and talked more about safe sex or abstinence‚ committed relationships‚ respecting women‚ not drinking‚ smoking‚ using drugs‚ or violence as a way to solve problems then teenagers would not be as reckless and they would make more responsible decisions. But many music companies
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Media Violence vs. Societal Violence By age 18 an American child will have seen 16‚000 simulated murders and 200‚000 acts of violence (United States 2). Over the last thirty years more than a thousand studies‚ by major medical and public health groups‚ have concluded that media violence does have an impact on children (Steyer 72). An increase in today ’s media violence comes from movies and television‚ music‚ and video games. Violence in the media can result in school shootings‚ having an aggressive
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