The Notorious B.I.G: Unsolved Mystery The longest 3 minutes of everyone who loves hip-hop can recall that dreary day on March 9‚ 1997 when Christopher Wallace also known as The Notorious B.I.G. was reported dead in California. The killing of the hip-hop mogul impacted the face and standard of music and hip-hop‚ as we know it. Peterson Automotive Museum‚ Wilshire Boulevard‚ Los Angeles- “Yo! How many bottles you got? Bring me all the bottles you got!” I shouted over the bass of the booming music
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Media Portrayal of Blacks in an Ever-Changing Society One hindrance that has plagued mankind since the dawn of time is the way we as human beings deal with differences among our cultures‚ societies‚ and color. Although the American society has taken great steps in combating this chauvinistic concept‚ prejudicial views of black culture are still prevalent among even the most open-minded individuals. They are engrained in our minds in some form or another‚ and many times are subconscious. Tolerance
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A BRIEF SUMMARY OF FREEDOM WRITERS Freedom Writers is set in the 1990s and tells the story of a novice teacher’s interactions with a group of students in a Long Beach high school two years following the Los Angeles Riots. The film is based on the book The Freedom Writers Diaries: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them‚ a collection of essays compiled from the real experiences of Erin Gruwell (1999) and her students‚ known as the Freedom
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Pop cultural music in Sierra Leone‚ is creating social change and a new political identity for its youth From the over capacitated concert halls in the energetic urban centers of Sierra Leone to the front lawns of its parliament buildings in Freetown‚ forward looking Sierra Leonean youth are making use of their newly founded freedoms of expression‚ which came to being in the aftermath of the nation’s brutal civil war to create social change. In these vibrant communities you can hear musicians
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get famous over anything you can get famous for yodeling in walmart or but just screaming on a beat and that can make you millions by just that. In the 90’s you really had to have talent to make it .The 90’s had icons like Michael Jackson‚ N.W.A‚ Tupac now it’s people like Lil Wayne‚ The Migos‚ Drake‚and Beyonce they are what’s popular in the world. The technology also changed the culture like phones is everything to people in the world like every teen wants a Iphone because they are popular in this
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While I understand that some may agree with Tupac‚ based on the positive and impacting efforts of the younger generation in the Black Lives Matter movement‚ it is important to also understand that it takes more than physical efforts to change a society rooted in the systematic slavery of African American
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Captain Francisco Pizarro formed a partnership in Panama with Diego de Almagro and the priest Hernando de Luque in order to explore the Pacific coast‚ looking for a Biru tribe that became the name Peru. His first expedition began in November 1524 with eighty men and four horses; but they suffered starvation‚ and Almagro lost an eye fighting natives. In 1526 they took two ships and captured a balsa raft with rich ornaments of silver and gold. Pizarro kept three captured natives to learn Spanish and
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years‚ and to a teenager. These crimes‚ more specifically the brutal ones‚ are what got him his nickname "Monster Kody". None of this really affected him though‚ until when in jail‚ he was converted to a Muslim‚ when he changed his name to Sanyika Shakur. However‚ it took him a while to realize that what he was doing was wrong and it
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Module Log: Completion of interactive activities and reflection on personal learning and capacity Reading through the following pages you are able to see my weekly entries of the text I read. My interpretations and questions that occurred towards reading‚ my initial reactions or developments after reading and some conclusions about text and literacy. As a person I never really enjoy literature. I am not the kind of person who enjoy reading big books or long articles because is difficult for
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songs show true emotion and definitely shouldn’t be censored. Artists like Eminem‚ Jake Miller‚ and Tupac use music to express their feelings and emotions. In some instances‚ that is their only way to get away from the real world‚ music is a way for people to reach their emotions and taking that ability away isn’t fair. Songs like Guts over Fear by Eminem‚ Steven by Jake Miller‚ or Dear Mama by Tupac all have an inner message or a deeper meaning than what is shown‚ not many people notice that though
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