Black American Music History First of all‚ there is many different types of African American music but im going to talk about three in particular which are slave spirituals‚ blues‚ and the more common rap/hip-hop. First slave spirituals is a type of religious song originating among black slaves in the American south. It was famous for the reason that the lyrics of negro spirituals were tightly linked with the lives of their authors.... slaves! While work songs only dealt with their daily
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Eddie Cavelli Professor Cooper English 304 30 April 2013 The artifact I chose is the 2009 film‚ “Sin Nombre‚” directed by Cary Fukunaga. In Spanish‚ the title translates to nameless‚ or without a name. The film revolves around the struggle of Honduran immigrants attempting to escape the hardships of everyday life to start fresh in ‘El Norte‚’ the United States. The film revolves around two main characters‚ MS 13 gang member‚ Willy (aka El Casper)‚ and Sayra‚ a Honduran girl who is traveling
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Evelyn Harry Saru COM 795 August 15‚ 2007 Artifact Speech I. Introduction A.Attention Getter: How many of you like to travel? How many of you wish that you had all the time and money to travel around the world? I considered myself privilege to have the opportunity to visit different countries of the world. Some of the countries that I have visited include Japan‚ Singapore‚ Canada and the United States. B.Thesis Statement: This globe represents different countries I have visited
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Stephen Annoni COM 101 Tues 6:20-9:20 Artifact Speech Outline I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: Dribble the basketball around B. Reason to Listen: For the most part all of us have played a sport. There are many different sports but I would like to talk to you about the sport of basketball. I am going to explain how the sport of basketball has a toll on my life so that you can have a better understanding of whom I am. C. Thesis Statement:
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Minstrel Shows and Hip-Hop the Degradation of the African American Culture For the y2k generation‚ Hip-Hop Music has been the center of popularity and interest. In the late 1800’s Minstrel shows served the same purpose. Throughout the various generations music and theatre have had a large impact throughout the community. However this impact is not always positive. What was originated as positive became negative very quickly. The minstrel show‚ which was originally intended to be harmless
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represented by its artifacts shared by people in their society. Culture‚ according to John Bodley in‚ “An Anthropological Perspective From Cultural Anthropology: Tribes‚ States‚ and the Global System‚” is composed of at least “three components: what people think‚ what they do‚ and the material products they produce(paragraph 5).”Artifacts are material products produced by people can either be an abandoned object or one still in use. Artifacts that are still in use are called living artifacts. I believe
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frames what has become widespread among a group of people. Within a culture you can find the symbols‚ codes‚ characters‚ and artifacts that together have designed a bigger picture- a way of life. An artifact in a cultural context is anything created by a human that reflects his or her personal culture. In order to exemplify this essay’s point I will focus on a living cultural artifact that I think depicts present day American Culture most fully: the discount superstore. The American superstore Walmart
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Miller 1 Is Hip Hop and Gangsta Rap Negatively Affecting Today’s Youth? Rap music has been around since the 1970’s. People have questioned why it has only recently gotten such bad publicity. Denise Herd did a study on rap and hip hop music to determine if the lyrics in rap music have increasingly gotten worse in promoting sexism and violence. In her study she “examined 130 platinum (rap) albums with 430 songs released from 1992 to 2002 using Anderson’s conceptualization of ‘the street code’ and
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understanding of the Argentine culture‚ and the environmental and social connection of my Columbus home may sound quixotic. And it is‚ for just an individual. But community means shared. Thus‚ to build true community requires a shared effort‚ a cohesive cultural shift. The burden of my generation is to build a society not based solely on self-interest‚ but with the desire to prioritize the whole. As we do this‚ we mend these divisions— we fulfill the common
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The Phur-pa My artifact‚ brass or bronze‚ is a little over a foot long. There is heavy oxidation that darkens the low details in the design. There are several different forms in this artifact‚ each creating unique individual elements in the overall design. At the very top there is a horse surrounded by three crowned elephant heads facing outward. Just below this there is a vertically symmetrical‚ five pronged hourglass shape with a sphere at the axis. This form gives way to an animal-like-figure
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