culture. Some of the major influences to this new cultural phenomenon were Tupac Shakur‚ Notorious BIG‚ and The Fab 5 basketball team. "As was made most tragically evident by the 1996 and 1997 slayings of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious BIG‚ two of gangsta rap ’s brightest lights"(20). Also‚ " The baggy shorts‚ the black socks‚ the swagger‚ the way they played the game -- a young‚ soon-to-be prodigy soaked it
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family discusses splitting up‚ Ma Joad “stepped to the touring car and reached in on the floor of the backseat. She brought out a jack handle and balanced it in her hand easily” (168). Ma threatens Pa with the jack handle and tells him: “I ain’t a-goin; jus’ the minute you take sleep in your eyes‚ I’ll slap ya with a stick of stove wood” (169). John Steinbeck uses this scene to symbolize the lower class stepping up and making a stand. Before this scene‚ Ma Joad does not have as much power as the
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THE IMAGE OF THEMOTHER IN LANGSTON HUGHES’S POEM‚ “MOTHER TO SON” As a child of the early twentieth century‚ Langston Hughes endured trying times. Hughes and his mother lived most of their lives in poverty. As a young teen‚ Hughes began writing poems about the world he saw through his eyes - a world of racial segregation and prejudice. This was the basis of many of his poems‚ and it was these poems that allowed him to influence the Harlem Renaissance. To him the image of the African American family
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Drugs had been around Wes Moore for his entire Life. It has affected him any many negative ways. They ruined his life every time he let them back in it. In The Other Wes Moore‚ there are many instances where you can see the effects of drugs and alcohol‚ especially in the life of Other Wes. For example‚ his father‚ Westley‚ fell a major victim to drugs and alcohol- resulting in Mary abandoning him. This event left Wes without a father figure at such a young age. He didn’t have a male figure in his
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Marriage has gone through profound changes over the last five decades‚ but we continue to speak about it as though it’s the same old familiar pattern. To see how much has changed; I am going to look at the shift from the forties‚ to the sixties‚ to today. In 1968‚ less than a year after the famous Summer of Love‚ as they used to say out in the country‚ "The times they were a-changing." The sexual revolution‚ Viet Nam‚ drugs--the youth of the day were convinced the world would never be the same again
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The Hitchhiker by Roald Dahl I had a new car. It was an exciting toy‚ a big BMW 3.3 Li‚ which means 3.3 litre‚ long wheelbase‚ fuel injection. It had a top speed of 129 mph and terrific acceleration. The body was pale blue. The seats inside were darker blue and they were made of leather‚ genuine soft leather of the finest quality. The windows were electrically operated and so was the sunroof. The radio aerial popped up when I switched on the radio‚ and disappeared when I switched it off. The
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The Unclouded Day by E. Annie Proulx A) Vocabulary Words/Terms: 1) Grouse: a medium to large game bird with a plump body and feathered legs‚ the male being larger and more conspicuously colored than the female. 2) Briar: a Mediterranean shrub or small tree. 3) Cleave: to adhere closely; stick. 4) Welt: a red‚ swollen mark left on flesh by a blow or pressure. 5) Imminent: likely to occur at any moment; impending. 6) Putrefy: (of a body or other organic matter) decay or rot and produce a fetid
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Controversy Surrounding Rap Music and its Effects on Society There are a lot of questions about rap music- Where are Biggie and Pac? Who’s the GOAT? Should whites be allowed to rap? Does rap music affect teenagers? In my opinion‚ what we see can affect us as much as what we hear. A large percentage of what we watch on music channels includes videos that show things that society shuns: violence‚ misogyny‚ drugs and sexuality. Here’s another question: Why are ‘vulgar words’‚ violent and sexist
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Tupac Shakur "Live by the gun‚ die by the gun." Tupac Shakur was born Tupac Amaru Shakur (Tupac means "shining serpent" in Inca) in New York City in 1971. He went on to have very successful careers as an actor & rapper. Look around the web for his career information‚ you know that’s not our gig. That said…. On September 7‚ 1996‚ Tupac was in Las Vegas to attend a boxing match between Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldon. He was staying at the Luxor Hotel-Casino. The fight was being held at
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MODULE 2: LANGUAGE AND COMMUNITY The West Indies coincides with the following territories of the Commonwealth Caribbean: Jamaica‚ Trinidad‚ Tobago‚ Guyana‚ Barbados‚ Grenada‚ St. Lucia‚ St. Vincent‚ Dominica‚ Antigua‚ St. Kitts‚ Nevis‚ Anguilla and Montserrat. (a) Differentiation between ‘language’ (generic) and ‘a language’ (individual). Language is an ability which every normal human being has and it allows him not only to communicate with other human beings but also with himself
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