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- 2041: Rap Music; It’s Impact On Society Since It’s Birth.
- ... L. Cool J, Fat Boys, and west coast rappers Ice-T and N.W.A becoming popular. Today, in the late 1990’s rap music continues to be a prominent and important aspect of African- American culture. Rap music was a way for youths in black inner city neighborhoods to express what they were feeling, seeing, and living and it became a form of entertainment. Hanging out with friends and rapping ... of the horrors of cocaine. On Grandmaster Flash's hit "White Lines," he details how the drug can ruin a life, and shouts, "Don't do it!" The most popular and influential form of African-American pops music of the 1980's and 1990's, rap is also one of the most controversial styles of the rock era. And not just among the guardians of cultural taste and purity that have ... day rappers on innumerable occasions. Two much more overlooked influences originated from outside of the R&B and rock mainstream. The Last Poets, Gil Scott-Heron, and Jayne Cortez set highly politicized tales of African American and urban life against percussive jazz tracks in the early '70s. In reggae, the use of DJs or "toasters," to rap over basic instrumental backing tracks when they took their mobile sounds systems to ...
- 2042: Treating People Fairly Is A Right That Has Been Changed By Affirmative Action
- Treating People Fairly Is A Right That Has Been Changed By Affirmative Action. Each American who has the right to have a job or do work should be treated fairly and equally as if they were the same. The ability to discriminate against people who are qualified should not be ... 1619, they had already started to be sold as slaves. By the 17th century, it was clear that all blacks would become slaves and remain slaves for life. By 1850, 92 per cent of all American blacks were concentrated in the South, and of this group approximately 95 per cent of them were slaves. As slaves became angered by being treated unfairly, a number of uprisings appeared as black slaves reached ... eyes, two hands and one heart, the same as everyone else. If a black man is skilled in a profession, it is because he has worked hard, gotten the education the same way a white American has and has paid the price. He should not be turned away because of his skin color. Between 1880 and World War I, about 22 million men and women and children entered the United ...
- 2043: John Dos Passos
- ... Soldiers, was published in 1920. In 1915, Harper published Manhattan Transfer, a city novel in which Dos Passos first began to use the experimental techniques he would develop more fully in his major contributions to American fiction. The themes of this novel are typical of Dos Passos's work: alienation, loneliness, frustration, and loss of individuality but Manhattan Transfer " was his first success at creating a 'collective novel' where a unifying ... saw in his society." (WBv5,313) Using these innovative techniques, Dos Passos was able to present a compare and contrast perspective that presents the reader with a multidimensional view of the first thirty years of American life in the twentieth century. More than any of his contemporaries, Dos Passos embraced the novel as a means to persuade - and to persuade in a political direction. When Dos Passos died in 1970, the world not only lost a great writer, but one ranked among the most important American writers of the century. " Dos Passos believed that his novels served as a catalyst that forced people to study their lives; man has the ability to recast his present in terms of the past ...
- 2044: Benjamin Franklin 3
- The phrase true American does not have a definition, although the word American does. The definition of American is belonging to or characteristic of America. It is hard to relate Benjamin Franklin to this definition of an American, but it does apply to many of his characteristics. Franklin s loyalty to America ...
- 2045: Educating Children About Sexuality
- ... The Sexuality Information Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) 1. Pro-sex education program in New York City 2. Emphasize HIV/AIDS prevention D. The purpose of all of these programs is to educate American children on issues of sexuality. V. Everyone in America needs to be taught about the serious risks of having sex. A. Can be preventive if explained properly B. Even educated children take risks 1. Pregnancy ... giving false feedback. This could prove to be very dangerous if the child should become sexually active. A population uneducated about sex can be avoided by teaching sexuality education classes in schools. According to the American School Board Journal, “forty-seven states mandate or recommend that some form of sex education be taught in schools”(Natale 20). Teaching sex education classes in schools can help reduce teenage pregnancies, prevent the spread ... school students. Soon after, several other cities started formulating similar plans. Basic sex education classes were offered and redefined to add more emphasis on AIDS prevention(Seligmann 23). Sex ed should be taught in all American schools for several reasons. Many parents fear that teaching sex ed will cause more children to become sexually active, thus increasing the rate of teenage pregnancy. However, by not offering these classes, the rate ...
- 2046: Our Hearts Fell To The Ground
- ... the Indians numbers dwindled in the 1800s. It was not until the middle of the twentieth century that the reality of their suffering showed up in history books. Any writings prior only portrayed the Native American as savages and rebellious people, almost to a romance climax. Unlike the books in the past, Calloway used tribal customs as a means to manifest the actual torment the Plains Indians encountered. The Native Americans ... people without history", when in fact the Indians recorded their history by songs, dances, stories, legends, and visual records on buffalo robes known as winter counts. Calloway reveals to the reader the Ways the Native American used the winter counts as a mnemonic device passed from one generation to another marked with pictographs that recorded noteworthy events in tribal life that took place each year. It was these customs that enabled 2 OUR HEARTS FELL TO THE GROUND elders to chronologically pass on their heritage to ensure the survival of their tribe. Calloway disclosed through speeches of the Native American that they were generally peaceful and friendly people who wanted peace and not war with the white man. Most speeches contained disagreement but acceptance of the white man ways, from the breaking of treaties ...
- 2047: Leading by Example: Drugs and the Presidency
- Leading by Example: Drugs and the Presidency At some point the American public must take a stand and decide what they feel are appropriate aspects of the person that will represent them for four years as the President of the United States. But when will this be ... be. This is our right as the public and, in a sense, the media is fighting for it. Negative foreign publicity is not the only reason for not allowing controversial candidates such as Bush. The American public must also consider the question: what kind of a message is sent to the youth in America by this issue? The government invests time and taxpayer’s money in programs to keep kids from ... Americans do not want to elect a president who’s ability to do an outstanding job while in office is questionable. A person becomes the president because he is willing to sacrifice and serve the American public to his maximum capacity. But the “maximum capacity” of Bush is questionable. Bush has dodged the question about his use of damaging narcotics such as cocaine. This is a highly addictive and damaging ...
- 2048: The Success Of Rap
- The Success of Rap: Possible Only With African American and Caucasian Involvement. Despite the fact that the vast majority of rap and hip-hop is created by African Americans, the success of this extremely popular type of music is directly linked to the involvement ... material. This estimation of pass-along rates supposedly holds true with sharing rap albums. If this theory of high pass-along rates for music has validity, then for as many as fifteen to twenty African-American listeners, only one album has actually been purchased. The low number of albums bought within this demographic group is most likely due to the availability and decreasing prices for recording machines to make bootleg copies ... blacks do. By purchasing more of their own official albums (not bootlegs), whites are relied upon for the profitability of a rap group. This group of consumers has proven to be necessary to the African-American music makers. Besides the consumer-end of the market, whites have given rappers national exposure in places they otherwise would not have been seen (or heard). Early on, successful rappers were under independent, smaller ...
- 2049: Click Vs Brick: An Exploration Of Mp3 File Sharing And Onlin
- ... are of near CD quality, from each other’s hard drives. This infringed copyright laws and provided a very real threat to both musicians and record companies alike. In response Napster was sued by the American heavy metal band Metallica, and then taken to court by The Recording Industry Association of America; where they were subsequently ordered to cease operating. Despite this verdict, many similar companies such as Grokster and Kazaa ... laws and regulations. The bulk of the legal disputes, however, have taken place in the United States, where Napster and the RIAA were based. The following is an extract from the U.S. constitution regarding American copyright laws: “The Congress shall have power… to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.” The ... industry is essentially an oligopoly, as five global entertainment conglomerates dominate sales and distribution all over the world. These companies have a notoriously unethical reputation and a turbulent relationship with the artists they promote. The American rock star Courtney Love is currently in the midst of a legal battle with her record label (Universal) claiming she has been cheated out of substantial royalties. She claims that the music industry is ...
- 2050: Thomas Jefferson
- ... of the United States and best remembered as a great president and as the author of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson's interests and talents covered an amazing range. He became one of the leading American architects of his time and designed the Virginia Capital, the University of Virginia, and his own home, Monticello. He greatly appreciated art and music and tried to encourage their advancement in the United States. He ... he developed a distrust of organized religion. His views resembled the views of the Unitarians. After finishing college in 1762, Jefferson studied law with George Wythe. "He watched with concern as tension grew between the American Colonies and Great Britain (Nardo 136)". In 1765, Jefferson heard Patrick Henry give his famous speech against the Stamp Act, he saw it stir up the people. In 1767, Jefferson was admitted to the bar ... and tone any writer would applaud (Johnson)". On July 4, 1776 the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress. Later years At one time Jefferson held each of the important positions in the American political system. From 1779-1781 he was the governor of Virginia. In 1785 he was the United States minister to France. Jefferson was the secretary of state to George Washington, vice-president to John ...
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