...word choice, and tone in the poem "The armful", Robert Frost successfully composes a wonderful poem which readers can connect to their own lives. We all have problems and sometimes is can feel overwhelming. Sometimes a person feels like giving up and running away from their troubles. Using Frost's poem as a guide that everyone has all sorts of problems and we can all get through it with help from friends, figuring out an alternative, and sheer force of will. “Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes A dream is a goal in life, not just dreams experienced during sleep. Most people use their dreams as a way of setting future goals for themselves. Dreams can help to assist people in getting further in life because it becomes a personal accomplishment. Langston Hughes's poem "Dream Deferred" is speaks about what happens to dreams when they are put on hold. The poem leaves it up to the reader to decide what dream is being questioned. In the opening of the poem the speaker uses a visual image that is also a simile to compare a dream deferred to a raisin. "Does it dry up/ like a raisin in the sun?" The simile in the question is comparing a dream deferred to raisin in the sun. Like a raisin, a dream deferred shrivels up and turns dark because the sun has baked it. The emphasis on the sun is important because it stresses time-we measure time by the sun's movement. Like the raisin, the dream has been on hold for a long-time consequently, it has transformed into something very...
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...come from all around the world with zero experience of working together on any projects. Although each member tries to inform other members how they are doing by sending emails, it is a sad truth that not everyone will read the emails and be interested in how their colleagues are doing. Everyone just work on their own, making the team a collection of individuals rather than a real group. Without a channel to communicate with each other, it is hard to develop a sense of unity. The frequently organized business trips and the multiple projects at once also show that there is a miscommunication between the secretary and other members. Moreover, there is no standard of excellence to regulate and guide the performance of the employees. Team accomplishment is not being recognized as well. Members thus cannot find the value of performing to the utmost and are frustrated with the heavy workload. Given the above situation, the leader seems doing nothing to handle the stressful circumstances. Base on the analysis of team effectiveness, Jim should intervene at this time at internal level, focusing on relational actions. Building team relationship for a virtual team is even more important than collocated team. As they are working across time and space together with a need of dependence, the most critical aspect to enhance team efficiency is to focus on the collaboration between members. With a sense of unity as well as the belief that individual’s performance can affect the progress of the...
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...Ricardo Moss Eng. 113-A Ms. Jennings Tupac Shakur, the Rose That Was “The Rose That Grew from Concrete,” a poem by the late Tupac Shakur, is a poem that parallels Tupac’s life from early childhood until his death and beyond. The concrete representing the struggles and hardships that were a part of Tupac’s earlier days. The rose represents Tupac and his determination to make something of himself against all odds. Tupac Shakur, born Lesane Parrish Crooks on June 16, 1971, spent the majority of his youth in New York City where he was born. In Tupac’s poem the concrete symbolizes his early childhood and the struggles that were a part of growing up. Tupac’s father was absent for most of his life, according to the (urbandictionary.com). Tupac did not meet his biological father, Billy (William) Garland, until after he was shot five times on November 30, 1994, in New York City. Tupac would eventually incorporate the “thug life” persona in his life which would lead Tupac on a downward spiral of misfortunes. Mikal Gilmore, in Rolling Stones article characterizes Tupac as “perhaps the most despised man in America.” Gilmore goes on to describe the late rapper’s music as being merciless and condemned by some of Americas most powerful people (Glimore102-104). Tupac would eventually end up in jail for sexual assault which would not be his last brush with the law. Between Tupac’s vision of what the concrete symbolizes and what was instilled in him from a mother and step father that...
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...Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), also known by his stage names 2Pac and briefly as Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor.[1] Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide as of 2010,[2] making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world. MTV ranked him at number two on their list of The Greatest MCs of All Time and Rolling Stone named him the 86th Greatest Artist of All Time.[3] His double disc album All Eyez on Me is one of the best selling hip hop albums of all time. Shakur began his career as a roadie, backup dancer, and MC for the alternative hip hop group Digital Underground, eventually branching off as a solo artist.[4][5][6] The themes of most of Shakur's songs revolved around the violence and hardship in inner cities, racism and other social problems. Both of his parents and several other of his family were members of the Black Panther Party, whose ideals were reflected in his songs. During the latter part of his career, Shakur was a vocal participant in the so-called East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry, becoming involved in conflicts with other rappers, producers and record-label staff members, most notably The Notorious B.I.G. and his label Bad Boy Records.[7] On September 7, 1996, Shakur was shot multiple times in a drive-by shooting at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Koval Lane in Las Vegas, Nevada.[8] He was taken to the Southern Nevada University Medical Center, where he died six days...
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...York. African Americans mainly started this movement, but now it is diversified. It has various components, such as “DJing”, rapping, graffiti art, and break dancing. Hip Hop gained a lot of popularity for its fashions. Its authorial power and influence highly impacts the fashion world. Many rap artists have successful cloth lines, which are quickly adopted by the followers. Language, in Hip Hop, plays a vital role. Slang terms gained its popularity after it was being used in raps. Some say that rap is the modern day poetry. Rapping also known as “MCing”, is basically a mixture of rhymes and beats to produce a meaning or even a message. Many rappers incorporate historic events or figures in their raps to compare things. Rap Artist Tupac Shakur used to read and write poetry at an early age, and it developed to show through his rap songs. During his last days, he was studying the philosopher, Machiavelli, and released a controversial album called “The Don Killuminati : The 7 Day Theory.” It described and correlated Machiavelli’s famous work, The Prince, to modern world. Others use lyricism to...
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...form of music that society would not necessarily approve of. Tupac Shakur was one of the most popular and astounding figures of the rap industry, even today. Although he was a notorious artist for his gang and drug affiliations, he also had an inner beauty that any aspiring rapper would wish to one day achieve. Through personal experience he developed a kind of intelligence that could not be taught by any book. Tupac would demonstrate this wisdom in countless songs based on controversial issues of the time period which gave his music an interesting twist to the already reputable beat. If it was not for the blatant gangster lifestyle Tupac lived, he would be more appreciated for his admirable personality. Tupac was the kind of person to showed respect to everyone and had solid morals that he would try to teach to others, mostly through songs and poems. Tupac Amaur Shakur is a legendary figure because of his amazing talent, his greatly admired personality, and the unbelievable wisdom that he would preach to everybody. One of the reasons rap is abhorrent by many people is because of the vulgarity that it brings. However rapping is actually a complicated and artistic process that is truly undermined by society. And the reason Tupac’s music demonstrates superiority compared to other rap songs is because deep within his lyrics lies a message that everyone can learn from. Tupac was able to turn a mere rap song into a poem with a beat. It was truly remarkable...
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...Born June 16 1971, Tupac Amaru Shakur, better known by his stage name 2Pac, was an American hip-hop artist. Selling over 75 million records, receiving six Grammy nominations, winning the American music award and two Soul Train awards just to name a few. These musical recognitions makes Tupac a hip-hop legend and a creditable actor. Beyond his personal accolades, he was a social activist and used his voice to discuss a wide range of issues including growing up in the ghetto, black on black violence and police brutality. Tupac’s music continues to have an enormous influence on today’s artist and their content, as we are still encountering the issues today that he spoke on in 1993. His humble beginnings and rise to stardom has led 2pac to become the voice of the disenfranchised....
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...The nature of Tupac’s assertion of the role of youth in impacting maximum change in this country depicts a correlation amongst maximum impact of change and age. Tupac’s assertion articulates the sociopolitical change ignited by lyrics in relation to the passion associated with youth in Hip Hop. The risk associated with the ignition of sociopolitical change is one that black youth in Hip Hop should take. Tupac’s assertion of the role of youth in impacting maximum change in this country is invalid. The ignition of sociopolitical change is independent of age. The correlation depicted by Tupac’s assertion is invalidated when determining the age of Hip Hop artists associated with sociopolitical change. At the age of 29, Kendrick Lamar exhibits the strength required to initiate change. In “The Blacker The Berry” from his album titled To Pimp A Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar states, “You hate my people, your plan is to terminate my culture” and “This plot is bigger than me, it’s generational hatred”. In “Freedom” from the album Lemonade by Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar states, “Stole from me, lied to me, nation hypocrisy”. At the age of 35, Beyonce exhibits the strength required to initiate change. At the 2016 Super Bowl Halftime Show, Beyonce referenced the Black Panthers (Elgot, “Beyoncé Williams 2 Unleashes Black Panthers Homage at Super Bowl 50”), “. Her reference to the Black Panthers established a political statement demonstrating change in America. At the age of 46, Jay Z has established...
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...It was September 7 of 1996 and the famous rapper Tupac Shakur attended to his friends match Mike Tyson in Las Vegas Nevada. After the match, one of Tupac partners spotted a Crip member of California that 1994 shot and robbed Tupac. After the indecent Tupac went to his box and friend Knight to a club name 662 and when they finish they went to their cars and about 11-15 pm, while they stopped at a red light at the intersection of Flamingo road and Koval in front of the Maxim Hotel and a white, four-door, late model Cadillac with an unknown number of occupants pulled up to the sedans and rolled down a window and rapidly fire gunshots at Shakur. He was hit in the chest, pelvis, right hand and thigh and one of the rounds went into Shakur’s right lung and left testicle. While in the critical care unit, on the afternoon of Friday, September 13, 1996, Shakur died of internal bleeding; doctors attempted to revive him but could not stop the hemorrhaging in addition his mother, made the decision to tell the doctors to stop. He was pronounced dead at 4:03 pm. The...
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...The bronze Tupac Shakur statue is a life size statue. It stands on a big granite rock in the middle of a water fountain shaped like a cross. It was unveiled the year 2005, on the 9th anniversary of the deadly shooting. It used to be the centerpiece of the Peace Garden at the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts, which used to ran by Tupac’s mother. In the statue he is shown wearing a suit with a cross while carrying the bible. On the pedestal it quotes Tupac “I guarantee that i will spark the brain that will change the world.” Some People say him wearing the cross and carrying the bible is a bit to much. There are many theories to who killed Tupac Shakur, some even believe that he is still alive like Elvis Presley, and that he is waiting for the perfect moment to enter the spotlight again. If this is true they say that the Tupac Statue would e a good place to find him, since he would most likely stop by and check on it once in awhile....
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...the brave. Our American ancestors have fought for freedom and gained it allowing fellow Americans endless opportunities that can lead to great success. These opportunities do not just end with Americans; they are extended to all nationalities that come to America with hopes of living the so called American Dream. Although the American Dream may just be a myth, it definitely gives people hope. Most times, that hope is enough to lead to the drive and determination necessary to reach some level of the American Dream. There are several artifacts that help display the myth of the American Dream. Two artifacts that I have chosen are relevant to views of the American Dream. The first is a quote from a book by the worldwide known rapper, Tupac Shakur. Shakur wrote: “Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even...
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...Son” by Langston Hughes writes prolifically about his mothers struggle. Tupac in his music video Dear Mama presents another strong argument on the struggles of a single mother. Both of these works deal with the struggles their mothers went through. However they present a different argument when it comes to the source of the struggle. Hughes poem doesn’t identify what exactly caused the struggle but it is reasonable to assume it was external circumstance. Tupac on the other hand repeatedly identifies himself as the cause of the struggle. Thus the arguments diverge. One argument deals with the struggle caused by external circumstances while another deals with the struggle of single motherhood caused by the children. I feel that the argument Tupac presents in his video is a more realistic and persuasive argument for singe motherhood. In the video “Dear Mama” Tupac uses his lyrics to tell the story behind the video. He uses realism in the lyrics as well as in the video. When the video opens up Tupac’s mother speaks about being seventeen, pregnant, and in jail. After she speaks, Tupac opens up the song by saying that his mother had nowhere to stay at seventeen once she was released from jail. The combination of the words of Tupac’s mother and Tupac himself creates a strong emotional appeal to the audience. This combination of rhetoric advances his argument on the struggle of a single mother. In the lyrics Tupac says, “I reminisce on the stress I caused, it was hell huggin on my mama...
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...Can you imagine? Sirens jingle Alarm clock screams & you come to see that it was nothing but a fantasy Can you imagine me? ... Charlie B Nikki Giovanni Nikki Giovanni is a Poet, Writer, Activist, and Professor who Crowned by critics as the “Princess of Black Poetry” during the early 70s. She started her writing career in the in the 1960s when began her studies at Fisk University in Nashville Tennessee, The civil rights and black power movements inspired her early poetry that was collected in Black Feeling, Black Talk (1967), Black Judgment (1968), and Re: Creation (1970). Giovanni's writing has been heavily inspired by both African American activists and artists. “All eyez on U” Is a poem dedicated to the late great Tupac Amaru Shakur that illustrates the generational repetition of eliminating a race that is trying to empower and educate a nation. Giovanni believed that the 'superior race' created ways to eliminate education and reassured ignorance remained in the black community to increase chaos, self-destruction, and to silence those capable of great intellect. The speaker states "they took away band so the boys started scratching they took away gym so the boys started break dancing the boys started rapping cause they gave them the guns and the drugs but not the schools and libraries'(Lines 53-56). The government did not want to empower the black community by increasing their intellectual growth As a poet during the black arts movement Nikki Giovanni...
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...Hip-Hop is a cultural movement that was formed during the 1970’s among African American youths residing in the South Bronx in New York City. Hip-hop is characterized by four distinct elements, all of which represent the different manifestation of the culture; oral, aural, physical and visual. The term is often used in a restrictive fashion as synonymous only with the oral practice of rap music. The origin of the hip-hop cultures stems from the block parties of the Ghetto brothers, when they plugged the amps for their instruments and speakers into the lampposts on 163rd street and Prospect Avenue; and used music to break down racial barriers. Since 1970’s hip hop has spread to both urban and suburban communities throughout the world. Hip-hop music first emerged when contemporary disc jockeys and imitators creating rhythmic beats by emphasizing a percussive pattern. It was later accompanied by a rhythmic style of chanting or poetry often presented in 16-bar measures or time frames, and beat boxing, a vocal technique mainly used to provide percussive elements of music and various technical effects of hip hop DJs. In the early days of Hip hop young partygoers initially recited popular phrases and used the slang of the day. It was fashionably for DJ to acknowledge people who were in attendance at a party. Early raps featured someone shouting over instrumental break, which would usually evoke a response from the crowd. Rap caught on because it offered young urban New Yorkers...
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... NWA Ni**az With Attitudes (NWA) was known as the world's most dangerous group. Five guys made up this well known rap group: Ice Cube, Mc Ren, Eazy E, Yella, and Dr. Dre. In the 1980’s, NWA was the biggest impact on popularizing gangta rap. They impacted and inspired many rappers of today's generation, and built up a type of music that people enjoy today. Activities that happened throughout NWA’s career, like Eazy E’s death, affected the people in America. Eazy E started out NWA with money he made off of drugs. Jerry Keller was the producer who picked Eazy as his favorite. Dr. Dre wasn’t okay with Eazy being paid more than everyone and being treated better. Suge Knight and “his guys” beat up Eazy to get Dre released from the Ruthless Records they originally started together (Rolling Stone). Without NWA, Dr. Dre wouldn’t be where he is today. NWA is how Dre made it out into the “rapping world.” After Dre left Ruthless Records, he went out on his own- into Death Row Records. After Dre left Death Row, he signed Eminem. Some think with out Dr. Dre, there would be no Eminem. Dre is known to be the “richest rap star,” after producing Beats Electronics in 2006 with Jimmy Iovine and selling that line to Apple. Dre also, recently released a new album called “Compton,” which was inspired by the movie based on NWA, “Straight Outta Compton” (Stewart). Kendrick Lamar, a rapper of today's time, looks up to NWA’s rappers and grew up during the time they were going on tour. Kendrick interviewed...
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