A lot of us are still chanting “Biggie‚ Biggie‚ Biggie can’t you see‚ some times your words just hypnotize me. I just love your flashy ways...guess that’s why they broke and you’re so paid.” Yes‚ indeed. He was after all‚ “The Notorious B. I. G.”‚ an “American hip-hop star.” Born Christopher George Latore Wallace on this very day‚ May 21 back in 1972. He’s from the Bedford-Stuyvesant ’hood which is located in Brooklyn‚ NY. Being from the “hood‚” and especially in NY‚ he wasn’t born with a silver
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In today’s hip hop music‚ many rappers compare the struggle of growing up in an urban environment to soldiers at war. For example‚ in the rapper Jay Z’s 2002 song “A Ballad for a Fallen Soldier” he points out‚ “On one side we got a hustler getting ready for the block (human beings) Other side you got the soldier getting ready for boot camp (soldiers) They’re both at war (this is life)” (Genius‚ 2015). Jay Z grew up in Brooklyn’s Marcy Projects where he was exposed to drugs‚ poverty and violence which
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“First Poem for You” is a poem by written by Kim Addonizio‚ an American poet. This poem “First Poem for You” is a closed-form poem but written as an English sonnet. The poem a person who loves the tattoos in his or her lover’s skin. At the same time the tattoos scares him or her by their permanence. The thoughtfulness and the depth of details expressed in this poem makes us conclude that the persona or speaker in this poem is a female. The speaker is certain about the permanence of the tattoos on
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society. During the 1700’s‚ a leader named Tupac Amaru II‚ rose above conformity and attempted to accomplish what he believed was correct. Tupac Amaru II was a leader of rebellion starting in 1730. He led “The Great Andean Rebellion”‚ a time when thousands of indigenous people had revolted against the colonial officials in Peru
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studies over Edgar’s work are well appreciated‚ but no one will ever truly understand him. Such different emotions‚ such pain‚ such suffering which somehow‚ mixed together created the perfect recipe for marvelous tragedies. Just as Poe wrote in his poem "The Raven" : "Deep into that darkness peering‚ long I stood there‚ wondering‚ fearing ‚ doubting‚ dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." He dreamed things that his contemporaries could not‚ in their wildest dreams‚ imagine. Imagination
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Edgar Allan Poe‚ a famous writer and poet who wrote hundreds of poems and books‚ was found dead in a ditch dead on October 7th‚ 1849. Though his death is mysterious‚ evidence shows that he most likely died from rabies. Two clues that stand out is that in the 1800’s Rabie shots weren’t invented yet and he also had symptoms of rabies. Many people argue about Poe’s death‚ but no one is absolutely sure how he died. There was never an autopsy‚ an examination to discover the cause of death or the extent
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Here is an anti bullying poem written by Jon Evans: Identity–The Bully They all try to look the same all try to give themselves a name pick on the boy who is all alone just because his identity is his own what has this world come to? all this wrong that people do just for the image they want to show down the evil path they seem to go The next person you go to hurt or try to make feel like dirt instead of trying to look cool feel for the guy you make look a fool A cool identity isn’t a need let
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“Those Winter Sundays” & “Paper Matches” “Those Winter Sundays” and “Paper Matches” are poems that came together to form the same qualities. However the two individual poems expresses it‚ in its own contrasting ways. Both “Those Winter Sundays” and “Paper Matches” intertwine metaphors into its work and the aspect of the under-appreciation of one party toward another. The poem “Those Winter Sundays” is of a grown adult looking back into his childhood. He remembers an event that led him to realize
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THE PABLO POETRY PROJECT CONTENTS: PART A: MELANCHOLY INSIDE FAMILIES PART B: PABLO NERUDA-BIOGRAPHY PART C: POETRY (poem) PART D: IL POSTINO (film) A tribute to Don Pablo…. By Jishnu Menon PART A 1. Write a poetic response to the poem. “Melancholy inside families” by Pablo Neruda is poem that is strong in visual appetite and conveys emotions such as gloominess and fear through those visuals. I believe the images that have been brought to the reader’s mind
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from because of academic behaviors; we can conclude this was when the darkness grew within him. Poe then dedicated his time in writing short poems that didn’t really succeed at first. Edgar then decided to turn from poetry to literary
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