... ; were born out of economic necessity. Jamaicans had a passion for music, however, resulting from the poor economic conditions which existed, few among the poorer classes could afford any stereo system. Sound systems provided music for eager Jamaicans who were unable to afford personal music and access it at their desire. Temporary migration from Jamaica to southern U.S. in the late 1940s ... stemmed the demand for sound systems as returning migrants introduced R&B to Jamaica. Clement "Coxsone" Dod, often said to have invented the sound system concept saw the demand and bought his equipm...

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... drastically. I could not recover, and ended up failing the class and my GPA suffered accordingly. More importantly, my focus on academics significantly declined. In retrospect, I let a bad experience with "the system" become justification for a declining effort on my part. I enter my senior year, challenged by my two older brothers, mother & father to review my priorities and truly understand the implications of ... not continuing my education, sobered by average test results and an unremarkable GPA. When interested in something- some historical event of note, music, how something works...

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... the whole cycle over again. This year's soundtrack should be pumped out from the cab of a large flat-camo pickup truck sitting on 35" swampers, with red-flannel interior, a LOUD stereo system, a gun-rack in the rear window, and the bleached skull of a longhorn bull securely mounted on the hood over the decorative plate that reads "AMERICAN PRIDE"" with a picture of an ... ...

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... to be accepted as normal. This brings me to the taboo, abnormal point of view towards homosexuality. In society today homosexuality is still not whole-heartedly accepted because of the stereo-typical views that are still in place. As a society in America that is still mostly Christian; homosexuality is viewed as immoral because of what is written in a book known as ... of what they are supposed to be. Today, the government, even though "we" are supposed to be an open-minded society, is still very narrow-minded because of the political system being full of so called Christian believers w...

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