Perhaps the biggest African influence is music; including jazz, blues, early forms of rock and roll, and especially rap. Elements of rap can be seen in early African songs such as James Weldon Johnson's Lift Every Voice and Sing. ... In the poem A Motherless Child an anonymous slave describes how it feels to be a slave. ... Slaves had none of this, they were often split from there families, there was no learning except for learning how to do work for their masters, and they were a long way from what they considered home which was Africa. ... For example, in How Buck Won His Freed...

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We have been discussing how the Male Gaze affects so many women in the world when they come to portray themselves in the Medias eyes. ... T., & Media Education Foundation. (2014)) One other issue with women stuck in the middle of it how the makers of these videos look into the eyes of everyone in the world. ... As seen in multiple music videos, mostly rap or RNB music videos, the typical African American male is often portrayed as a thug, or as a violent, aggressive, racist/sexist person towards the multiple women in their videos. This is a horrible stereotype because as seen in the image ...

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In hip-hop there is a unique style of how one speaks dresses, carries themselves, and many more that go along with the expression in the culture. ... Then I would go to school or go outside to hang out with my friends to debate who was a better rapper and why. ... This is due to most rappers of today that forgot about the positive message that is supposed to be delivered in the songs that started hip-hop culture in the first place. ...

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We will take each of the four steps and tell how the show uses these steps. ... His colorful jacket represents the hip hop era of this time because at this time, rappers and people involved in with rap music wore colorful clothes to stand out from the rest of the crowd. ... Circulation describes how people perceive things in their own minds. Circulation can be applied to The Fresh Prince of Bel Air because the stereotypes and messages are present in the script, in the actors, and the way the actors carry themselves, but it is up to the viewer how they receive the message and how their mind pr...

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The effects of the enslavement of black women has probably played a huge role in how they are viewed today by society and their own communities. ... For example, many young women choose female rap artists like Lil" Kim and Foxy Brown as there role models. ...

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I was shocked when I saw how many this one list had. ... Similarly, if a white person plays basketball or listens to rap music, we might think of him or her as being too "black". ... Have you ever noticed how all of the Chinese characters have slanted eyes, buckteeth, and were accompanied by a ringing gong in the background? ...

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McGruder can also laugh at the stereotypes White people label for Blacks: gangster rappers, thieves, and basketball players. ... I was surprised, though, at how McGruder perceived White and well-off Black people. ...

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Donnell starts the essay with an immediate fishhook, "I"m cool like this:" (367) in order to firstly grab the reader's attention and secondly to make the initial point about just how cool he is. ... He starts out his fourth paragraph using, "Once upon a time ." only to describe the story of how "niggas" came to be, and how they differ from black people. ... Donnell does an excellent job of not only showing the readers what cool really means to people of African background, but also in giving some examples of why and how that came to be in a very clear way. ... It's a bit hard to i...

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Indicators of student effort include how often students are absent from school, how interested they are in their schoolwork, whether they try to do their best, whether they complete their assignments, and how much time they spend on homework and other activities such as work or watching television. ... How could society consider each other as neighbors when they walk to totally different neighborhoods? ... Many rappers, entertainers and even athletes eventually establish their own business but people are so employed to the norm that sometimes their market goes overlooked. ...

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Mama, Dee, and Maggie each have their own views on how they perceive and appreciate their heritage. ... "Everyday Use," speaks from Mama's perspective which helps reveal how she feels about herself, as well as her two daughters Dee and Maggie. ... Contrary to her looks, Maggie is homely and has a heart of gold: "Maggie is the arisen goddess of Walker's story, she is the sacred figure who bears the scarifications of experience and knows how to convert patches into robustly patterned and beautifully quilted," (Baker 457). ... Maggie, much like Mama, with little educ...

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This film displays the discrimination between the races and how this can lead to violence. ... One of Mookie's friends is Radio Raheem, an intimidating man who rarely speaks but blasts his favorite song "Fight the Power" a rap by Public Enemy, on his boom box everywhere he goes. ... " and earlier in the movie, Radio Raheem tells Mookie about the struggle of love and hate, and how love always wins the battle, but with Mookie, hate seems to win over love. ... In my opinion, he places them side by side to compare the two quotes with how similar, but also very different they ar...

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