Essays on Hip

Art and culture for a long time over the years has been expressed through forms such as music, lifestyles, beliefs, dressing among many other things that determine our day to day lives. Art and entertainment since time in memorial has formed part of our culture that has cut across many generations of different people from different places in the place world. With the increased globalization and innovations in the contemporary world, it has resulted to new forms of art and entertainment that have had a great influence and impact on a bigger number of the people, both old and ...

Detailed Anatomy of the Hip Joint

A joint is described as a place where two bones meet. The body has many joints. However, this paper will focus on the hip joint. The hip joint supports the whole body. It is regarded as a ball and socket joint. The hip joint is formed when the femur meets with the bones of the pelvis. These bones are ilium, ischium and pubis. The ilium, ischium and pubis are located at the rear, lower front and above respectively. The thighbone is the one that forms the ball. The hip joint comprises of several structures that assist it to function ...

Abstract

Sociology is one of the most interesting fields for because it focuses on the crucial aspects that affect the welfare of the society and the world at large. Sociology tends to create a link between the emergence of different cultures and the reason behind their existence. Cultural diversity is a fact that affects the entire world and this is as a result of the emergence of new norms and values in the societal setting. Cultural diversity in the United States of America is one of the current issues which is being focused on. The emergence of new cultural values ...

In the global world of the 21st century, music is among the few elements that have the capacity to cross both the political, cultural and the physical borders. The songs reflect and shape social life. In Kenya and Tanzania for instance, hip hop is an influential tool for political participation. Thus the reason various bodies such as the Independent Study Project have focused on the role played by hip hop music particularly in the youth culture. It is through hip hop that artists express their views in an open system that allows individuals, especially the young, some room for ...

Hip hop is a genre of music and art that has come, over the years, to define a significant portion of the African-American community, and many communities outside of those circles. Stemming from the South Bronx in the 1970s, it has sprung forth into a full-blown cultural phenomenon, defining popular culture to a great extent since its inception. Hip hop has a rich history, and is not shy from controversy or danger. In this paper, we will discuss the history and cultural impact that hip hop has had on American culture and beyond.

Hip hop music stems greatly from ...

Culture has Influenced the World

How African American Culture has Influence the World
Introduction
It started as a cultural shock wave during the 1970s after its emergence in the African-American communities in the Bronx, a poverty stricken area in New York during that time. While hip hop culture is now an international phenomenon, it was once a small subculture of the African Americans that manifested a clearer picture of the life conditions, feelings and aspirations of the Black Americans. Most people attributed hip hop to rapping, a genre of music that was once unique to the black American youths, however, rap is only a ...

For many years, critics of gangsta hip hop have argued that this genre of music has created a negative cultural movement. Among the areas where hip-hop has influenced negative culture is on sexuality. Sexuality especially among the African American youth has been negatively influenced by hip-hop music. It is unfortunate that African American, who are dominant in this genre, are the worst affected by this culture. It is important to note that most African American people in America are living under poor economic conditions. In addition, most of them face numerous challenges in their daily life. Some of the ...

Introduction

Women have been exploited through the Hip-hop culture by men artists who ascribe them as sexual objects. According to Joan Morgan, and Ayanna's writings about women exploitation, it is evident that a large percent of women have engaged in Hip-hop music for fame and fortune. Hip-hop culture and ideas emerged from African-American and Latino-American young people who exhibited misogynistic traits against women. The misogyny aspect of Hip-hop culture is ascribed to discrimination practices against women, self-worth, and peer relations. The Hip-hop culture has embraced these misogynistic and exploitative practices against women. On the contrary, some women rappers have come ...

Hip-hop is a youth subculture, consisting of several interconnected components: fashion, graffiti, art, DJs, rap, and breakdance. Other elements include beatboxing, hip hop fashion and slang. Hip-hop originally appeared in the South Bronx in the 1970s (12 November 1974, to be exact), and has become a part of youth culture in many countries around the world. Since the late 1990s the underground street culture with sharp social orientation, gradually became a part of the music industry, and by the middle of the first decade of this century, a subculture of hip-hop has become «fashionable» and «mainstream». However, despite this, ...

Introduction

While they claim that a picture is worth a thousand words, it may portray different meanings depending on culture. Music is extraordinary; it is a universal language that is poses minimal cases of discrimination. Music is a language that conveys emotion across all cultures. Regardless of the previous exposure or culture, individuals can watch or listen to a song and detect whether a song contains happiness, fear and sadness. The lyrics, the dance, melody and tone bring people to unity. For this, we can refer to the Shakira’s Waka Waka song in 2010. The song was a hit ...

Book Review - Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip Hop and Black Politic

Lester K. Spence's 2011 book Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip Hop and Black Politics takes a long, hard look at the current state of African-Americans in the predominant political discourse. In essence, Spence explores through this book and its scholarship the idea that rap and hip-hop culture may actually be bad for black politics; "this work represents an attempt to examine the core questions of black politics as well as the politics of the present using rap and hip-hop as the vehicle" (Spence 157). Despite galvanizing many African-Americans and creating a unique subculture, it is claimed ...

Introduction

While they claim that a picture is worth a thousand words, it may portray different meanings depending on culture. Music is extraordinary; it is a universal language that is discrimination free. Music is a language that conveys emotion across all cultures. Regardless of the previous exposure or culture, individuals can watch or listen to a song and detect whether a song contains happiness, fear and sadness. Music is thus a language that considers each person’s interest, taste and preference with no bias. On understanding that music is a language, the second point to consider is that music as ...

The hip hop culture is believed to have come into existence in the 1970s. The culture is expressly marked by four cardinal elements or art forms that serve to distinguish it from other cultures in the world. Hysell in the American Reference books manual points out that the four arts of the hip hop culture are rapping, break dancing, Disk Jockeying and graffiti (488). Notably, these four elements can be easily be recognized by anybody. It can also be noted from the four arts that music is by all means the most blatant aspect of the hip hop culture ...

Instruction Name –

Hip-hop music is a genre of music that comprises of schematic rhythmic music and generally involves rapping, and is characterized by four fundamental stylistic elements; breakdancing, DJing, MCing, and graffiti. Besides these four primary elements, other elements such as sampling and beatboxing are also used in hip-hop music. Hip-Hop music evolved as a component of the hip-hop culture during the 1970s. The history of the evolution and reinvention of hip-hop music is interesting.
Hip-hop music traces its roots to African-American music, and finally to African music. The griots belonging to West Africa are a faction people that specialize as ...

Introduction

Hip hop music is a wide appealing music that has widened its distribution to a large audience in the music industry. Since its emergence in the 1970s, hip hop has been changing together with its audience, becoming a multi-billion-dollar international phenomenon (Bennett, 2000). Initially, hip hop was used as human right fighting tool that blacks used to address their concerns. Hip hop by then had a specific audience and theme as it directed its concerns to the perpetrators of racism. However, hip hop has experienced change and currently it is a general audience music exhibiting a culture that incorporates ...

The influence that hip-hop has made on modern world, society and culture is extremely strong. Nowadays hip-hop is already considered to be not just a genre of music - it is a culture itself; for plenty of hip-hop fans it becomes the style of life, a complex of ideas and concepts, a way of self-expression and communication between people. It has reflected in many spheres of today’s life and such impact is explained by the origin of the hip-hop – it is the style of streets, hence – the phenomenon of independent thinking. The influence of hip-hop on today’s ...

America is a land of opportunities that is surrounded with various factors that have major opportunities which are globally recognized. As the superpower, the country enjoys the diversity in cultural practices that differ primarily from the hip hop, rap, poetry and other aspects of cultural diversity, which the country enjoys. Specifically, we can discuss on the hip hop as a genre of music which has affected a large number of people and has its base in the United States. Hip hop cultural movement is regarded to have introduced a couple of newer things, altered doctrines and brought understanding of ...

In 1995, popular hip hop artist Tupac Shakur released a song entitled “California Love” that topped the Billboard Music Charts. In 2011, Time magazine named the single on their list of All Time 100 Songs (Adams). The song’s video also became an instant success. The video begins with an image of a woman undressing for the visual pleasure of man who nods his head at the camera with a smile as if to affirm his desirability. Most of the video features scenes of a party where scantily clad women dance around the artists and includes several close-up shots ...

Abstract

Popular culture is advanced through various forms; one such form is through music where cultures are transmitted from individuals to societies. Popular music genre such as hip hop and grange have varied influences on their listeners. Such influences may present negative effects on culture such as propagating violence, sex and the use of drugs. Hip hop and Grange both influence cultures negatively through sex, violence and drug use. The analysis of the similarities and differences between the two genre’s negative influences on cultures through violence, drugs and sex presents an understanding of each genre’s contribution to this ...

When hip hop first broke onto the music scene in the early 1970s, it was dominated by a collection of predominately African American men based in New York City. Hip hop music combined rhythmic music with a consistent beat and rapid chanting, now referred to as rapping. It was almost fifteen years before women began to take an active part in the production of hip hop music. All considered to be among hip hop’s pioneering women artists, three women—Yolanda Whitaker, Lana Michele Moorer, and Dana Elaine Owens—have each had successful careers as hip hop artists, actresses, ...

Ogbar and Jeffery (pp 1) describe “Hip Hop” as one of the styles used by artist to sing. The style can also be defined as a culture due to the influence it has. Ogbar and Jeffery (pp 2) continue to argue that hip hop began in the 1970s in New York at a place called South Bronx. Dj Kool Herc is believed to be the founder of the new style of music. He used to rap while mixing during his parties. The hip hop culture continued growing and by the 1980s it had its own uniqueness. The common cultures ...

Angola’s Musical Background

The history in the development of different music genre in Algeria can be categorized into two periods namely; the colonial period and the post-colonial period. During the colonial period, the music in the country flourished within its borders with little success in gaining international acclaim especially when compared to music from its neighboring countries such as South Africa. The local language Kimbundu formed the focus of the musical tunes although other artists sang songs in the colonizer’s language-Portuguese (Bram 28).
However, favor soon fell on the country with development of local tastes in music grew and bands begun ...

Introduction

Hip hop culture began in the early 1970s. This occurred when a Jamaican artist, Clive Campbell also known as DJ Kool Herc moved from Kingston to the West Bronx, New York. In West Bronx, Campbell tried to incorporate his Jamaican style of Djaying into the music systems of the Americans. His style involved reciting improvised rhymes over the dub versions of his reggae records. During his initial performances in the city, he tried to adapt his style over the chanting over the percussion sections in the pop songs during that time. With the help of other Clarke Kent and ...

Literature Review:

The Efficacy of Bisphosphonates in the Treatment of Osteoporosis in Post-Menopausal Women

Abstract

This paper discusses some of the literature that explores the efficacy of bisphosphonates in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis among post-menopausal women. This is to determine the ways by which the quality of life of osteoporosis patients can be improved, as advocated by the Healthy People 2020 program. While studies have shown that bisphosphonates are effective in preventing and treating osteoporosis, caution should still be taken with regards to its prolonged use. With this, advanced practice nurses can contribute significantly to the proper administration of ...

In her work entitled “Race/Gender/Media Considering Diversity across Audiences, Content, and Producers” Rebecca Lind guides a discussion regarding how influential media communications can be, fostering both positive images and powerfully damaging ones as well. While it is true that music videos may represent a harmless form of entertainment for people, an analysis examining the ways in which gender and sexuality issues impact upon perceptions is forthcoming in this paper. How are gender and sexuality representations depicted in various types of television programming, particularly in music videos? The research herein places the exploration to range from expressing how body images ...

Introduction – a play which deserves great credit

This play is one of the best plays currently being shown at the West End and combines several stylistic differences such as allusions to Billy Wilder’s Twelfth Night and other influences such as Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’.
The Zoo Dance Nation Company which was founded in 2002 by Katie Prince is a forward looking company which has already premiered a number of great shows at the West End. The play is full of spatial effects and includes a vast number of moves and hip hop characteristics rather similar to the Hegelian characteristic.
However there is also an element ...

Just like this decade, Hip Hop music has been very instrumental in expressing cultural aspects, political views, social perspectives and attitude towards a particular group in the 80’s. Criminal minded was widely considered to be the foundation of the hardcore rap, that announced its overall intentions with just a cover photo of its artists- Kris-One and Scott La Rock. These artists posed with weapons which was unheard musical gesture since the year 1987. Boogle Down production was a rap tailored to explain about the inner city violence and drugs. There existed no explicit mention of the real gangs ...

Abstract

Background: Gluteal muscle contracture (GMC) is a clinical syndrome characterized by limited hip movements.

Methods: In this prospective study, 23 patients received traditional incision surgery and 22 patients received small incision surgery for the treatment of GMC. The two groups were compared for duration of surgery, length of incisions, requirement of postsurgical analgesia, postsurgical complications, off-bed activity times, duration of hospitalisation, clinical outcomes and one year recurrence rates. Statistical analysis was performed with SPSS software; enumeration data were analysed by χ2 tests; and measurement data were analysed by t tests.
Results: The small incision surgery group was significantly superior ...

The African American musical tradition spans hundreds of years, and represents substantial changes and shifts that have affected not just African American culture, but American musical tradition as a whole. From the traditional African songs brought over in slavery, to Negro spirituals, to the eventual creation and evolution of jazz and hip hop, this tradition has gone through many changes to accommodate the needs and incorporation of many different elements of the African-American experience. In this essay, the evolution of African American musical tradition is outlined, detailing many of the turning points in said tradition and their influence, including ...

Posture analysis can be referred to as an evaluation of person's posture in search of signs of injuries, and poor habits of posture that can result in trauma in the future. In a set up of a clinic, such evaluations of a patient can be important for determination of the sources of postural strain as well as development of a suitable program of treatment. This technique may as well be applied for things such as assisting a person grow a more ergonomic workspace, right athletic shoes, and so on (Toronto Chiropracter, 2013).
There has been carried out an extensive ...

Art can be expressed in numerous ways. It is anything that appeals to the eye and speaks for itself. It is often said that a single object of art can speak a thousand words. Art can be present in many ways including dance, music, poetry, graphics and even acting. It typically takes talent and spirit in order to achieve these forms of art and also to present them. Some human beings are highly gifted with bodies that can perform unimaginable twists and turns. Withstanding fatigue and exhaustion that generally characterizes dancing especially to hip hop; a dancer can perform ...

A remix refers to a derivative work made by combining or modifying existing media. Adam Smith in his article Emergent Remix Culture in an Anonymous Collaborative Art System describes remix as a product of process of taking elements from existing artifacts and changing or recombining these elements to create something new. In the modern society, the remixing concept is prevalent touching on the art and technology fields. Additionally, there are various examples of remixing namely folklore, sampling, graffiti, Wikipedia and film remixing. The internet has been highly effective platform for the “remixing process”-remixes of photos, songs and videos ...

The Byron Hurt documentary Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes explores themes of masculinity and social messages in hip-hop and rap music, interviewing many prominent rappers in the industry and breaking down the messages and cultural standards that rap culture brings to men (black men in particular). Hurt's messages involve recognizing the sexism, homophobia and stereotypical aggression inherent to today's rap culture, and the barriers that prevent more socially conscious messages from coming through. Examining these types of issues is important, due to media's astounding influence on our behavior; recognizing the bad things men do in the name of masculinity ...

Americans and Japanese mingled very well in the second war leading to merging of culture in both sides. These affected the two types of food they ate and how the food was prepared. Japanese eating styles changed by the introduction of MacDonald. The company introduced a lot of food stuffs that was in Japan previously (Watson, 167). This led to the change in menus in restaurants and other social laces. The introduction of fast foods the Asia was a new thing that changed the style of preparing food from their traditional way of cooking. This led to hamburger becoming ...

Whitewashing is a term that means to have black culture, such as rap or hip-hop, invaded and taken over by the white population. Today, many black artists are angry that white rappers are becoming famous, acting like they are black while singing and representing a false black cultural heritage. This can diminish the social importance of the messages of popular black artists by making them look like a joke. Whitewashing can have a positive side. White rappers can draw audiences to the genre of rap and black artists, introducing white people to an entire new experience with black culture. ...

Bi-racial to tri-racial system

The United States bi-racial system, developed in the seventeenth century throughout until the middle of the twentieth century. It was established because of the large black population and historical reasons mainly slavery that formed two major racial systems of the whites and the non-white population. The non-whites include the African Americans, the Latin Americans, Asian Americas, and the Native American that experienced similar predicaments of racism, oppression, discrimination, colonisation where most of their rights were restricted as compared to the whites who considered themselves superior. Over the years this system especially after the establishment of the civil rights, has ...

Abstract

This paper is on the topic of Basketball Free Throw and to demonstrate the relationship between structural and functional anatomy and movement performance. The first section of this paper will discuss the muscles and actions that are important for the movement and how these muscles relate specifically to the movement outcome. The second section of this paper will cover the limiting/facilitating joints and associated structures. The third section of this paper will discuss the combination of muscle and joint motions important for movement success. The fourth section of this paper will discuss how strategies or training techniques may improve ...

Communication

Abstract
Music has evolved with the times, and has a new meaning and role in the development of society. Before the 16th century, music was confined to religious sermons and other church practices. However, in the 16th century, there was a distinct change in the role of music. The emergence of Protestants saw music change from the practices of the Roman Catholics. The Renaissance witnessed the emergence of a new style of music; the birth of music that was a more vocal accompanied by a mixture of secular music. The Roman Catholics used music for their Mass and the ...

Hip-hop genre and dance are thought to have originated from African Americans especially in the sense that it was their media of communication with the outside world (Rennie Harris Puremovement par 1). Rennie Harris rose to stardom through hip hop dance as he found a way of integrating hip hop routines with other forms of art. He is one of the oldest dancer and choreographer in the industry (Dr. Rennie Harris par 1). He accomplished the titles of a hip hop professor and artistic director with time. Rennie presents a good example of how one can use their talent ...

In the current years, there are controversies that surround the American media regarding the hip-hop music that the artist produces. Starting from the East coast there are rivalries that shadows the murders of most rap artist such as Tupac, and B.I.G. most of the politicians have to blame the rappers for making most youths to be violent. Nevertheless, most people criticize that the rappers are not the cause of violence influence to the youths, but rather the hip-hop stars like Herc. Hip-hop music has raised more concern after people came keenly to listen to it. It is considered to ...

Introduction

Music disparity is the literal difference in music based on various grounds such as social and geographical background of the music, its producer and listeners, the genre of the music, age factor and the social class associated with the music industry. Music serves many purposes in the society today, and it is because of these disparities that people tend to classify music according to the suit to its fans and lovers. Equally, different genres of music have risen today in the music industry that tends to identify and create its own group of followers. Everyone likes music but one ...

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Introduction

This literature review is intended to determine the effect of infection to the disability, mobility and psychological state of patients undergoing orthopedic surgery, comparing each in accordance to compliance or not of the surgical procedure to the Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP). Upon review however of the five available orthopedic surgical studies, there was no indication of any compliance or not to the SCIP protocol of the surgical procedures performed. The nearest mention of elements found in the protocol, such as anesthesia (SCIP-3) and postoperative blood glucose (SCIP-4) measurement, was found in Lin, Lin, Huang, Hsu, & Lin (2011). ...

Scenario

A patient visited the clinic and presented signs of hyperinternal rotation of the femur followed by an acute onset of pain. The patient, who is an athlete, presented with pain deep in the posterior aspect of the hip that radiated into the buttock and down the posterior aspect of the thigh. Piriformis Syndrome is suspected. While Piriformis Syndrome is not commonly-diagnosed due to better diagnostic tests for lumbar nerve root impingement and intervertebral disk disease. However, if the patient is a woman -- especially an athletic one -- this is a possible pathology worth investigating. Piriformis Syndrome, however, still ...

Introduction

There are various ways of expressing oneself. One of the ways includes dancing, which is considered a nonverbal form of communication in our daily lives. Dancing involves movement of various body parts, in most cases towards music. It is used as a method of expressing ideas or narrating a story in both social and spiritual setups. Moreover, many people use dance as a way of educating others about their cultural practises. Many people across the world consider dance as a principal form of entertainment. Dance has overtime been classed depending on the country of origin or ethnicity. As such, ...

1. Identify the primary abductors of the hip (three muscles).
a) Gluteus Medius
b) Gluteus Minimus
c) Tensor Fascia Latae
2. What function do the hamstrings have in common with the gluteus maximus?
Both the gluteus maximus and the hamstrings muscles play the extension role. The hamstrings, which are situated at the rear of the thigh, play the role of hip extension and hyper-extension as well as knee flexion. This helps in transferring the power between knee joints and the hips. In addition, it helps in the forward propulsion. Just like the hamstrings, Gluteus maximus play a role in ...

Identify and Organize an Opinion

Hip Hop provides entertainment for millions of people throughout the world, but there is divided opinion about the benefit or detriment of the music on America. The controversial lyrics often discuss poverty, racism and sexuality; they are often seen as derogatory and exclusionary by many. This paper will argue that Hip Hop is of benefit to America because its controversial content provides African American and minority youth with a space. A community of like minded people can safely discuss social and political issues that affect them in this space. Like Blues, Jazz and Folk Rock before it, it is ...

Question 1

Music is famous of its exclusive influence to the society. Various forms of music are helpful in identifying with different groups of people in the world. The world would be extremely boring without the sweetness of music. People connect with different forms of music that make their social life extremely bearable and enjoyable. However, music as a major element in the social world is bringing exclusive influence in the world where all people are wishing for a certain class of music. As a result, different forms of music are creating subcultures within themselves to let different people identify with ...

Who doesn’t like music? It would take even a insane person a lot of courage to say that he/she doesn’t like music. Such is the power of music that a lot has happened in the world of music over the ages. The Beatles made people swoon and dance to their tunes in the 60s and 70s, and it was during this time that a man by the name of Elvis Presley turned Pied Piper and had women the world over follow his music like the children of Hamelin. These personalities were so popular that they could make ...

Bikinis, full lips, thin waists, gyrations – the black woman in a rap video is usually one of many, surrounding the male rapper in question with a stable of women he implicitly has sexual command over. This is the image that is often found in most rap videos, at least as far as women are concerned. Due to the exclusive and alienating nature of a substantial portion of these images, representation has turned into misrepresentation, as many people use these portrayals to characterize the entirety of African-American femaleness in an incorrect and unflattering way. Joan Morgan, in her essay “from ...

Identity is defined as the individuality or personality of an individual, it is who and what a person perceives themselves to be. Its construction occurs throughout life but mainly in the formative years of childhood and adolescence and it is influenced mainly by environmental factors. Identities are not static; they are dynamic which means that they change over time. Today many young people consider musicians to be their role models and thus build their identity around them. A case in point is the effect of hip-hop music on black youth.
Hip-hop music emerged in the 1970’s among black ...

Who was James Brown? He was known my several monikers that paid tribute to his talent and contributions to the world of American music. Many have heard the term “God Father of Soul” or “the hardest working man in show business.” Of course, no one is sure as to whether “hardest working” is a description for amount of times spent in practice and musical development or how passionately he danced. James Brown was an American singer.
James was the originator and chief pioneer of the style of music known as funk. Thus, he deserves credit for its complicated grooves ...

The Psychological Effects of Rap Music: The Negative Outweighing the Positive

Violence among modern day youth, males in particular, is often attributed to the influence of hip hop or rap music. Studies have shown that rap music, lyrics and videos promote violence, sex, and materialism. However, there is also some research that shows that rap music, especially gangsta rap, drive a positive reaction such as facing oppression, community unity and attaining respect, an idea found to be promoted as much as violence . Hence, it can be said that, the nature and content of rap music has changed in step with the evolution of the African American society. As such, there ...

Black Music

What’s happening? Black Music.
1. (a) Reggae artist, Duane Stephenson

Duane Stephenson is a non-dancehall reggae artist. The reggae sound and beat are not the up-front of the sound; they are the foundation on which his singing voice and his message comfortably perch. His voice is serious even when he sings; he sounds like an old man, probably because he is mature and thoughtful. His fans describe his voice as wise.1

Stephenson’s albums may be too mellow and well, boring to some. His lyrics are strong so he doesn’t let the music overwhelm his message. He ...

Movement in Sport: The Dead Lift

I choose to use professionals to perform the deadlift since it requires a serious monarch in the physique building kingdom. The movement hits someone’s glutes, upper lats, quads, erector, and abs. Most people do not like performing this movement since it is one of the extreme physiques. Additionally people are yet to observe a professional perform this movement in the presence of a novice lifter. This paper will provide beginner trainers that look to advance their physique development with adequate information and descriptions so that they can perform the movement with ease.
In the study, I have observed ...

Over the course of American history, one particular group has had, arguably, the most unique and challenging struggle since the end of the Civil War – African-Americans. Having come to this country in the holds of slave ships, been asked for hundreds of years to work as property for white men, and only receiving emancipation from slavery as the result of a bloody civil war, African-Americans already had a long road ahead in terms of asserting their place in American society. All manner of significant events and developments have occurred since then to mark their unique struggles – the fallout of ...

Many are the times when people find themselves shifting of the languages they use and also the way they express themselves. The practice of moving forth and back between two languages at times results to partial or complete crossing over. In such situations, the end result might be language crossing. This is the code alternation done by people who are not members of the second language. This form of crossing tends to happen across ethnic boundaries as well as social groupings. People acquire distinctive patterns of communication through their ethnicity or the environment in which they are born and ...

A music video or the song video refers to a short film assimilating a song and imagery. In most cases, these kinds of songs are produced for promotional or artistic songs. Current song videos are primarily developed as marketing tools aimed at promoting the sale of music recordings. This form of music technology came into eminence in 1980s, when MTV embraced the technology around their medium. Music videos involve styles like animation, documentaries, non- narrative approaches, as well as live action filming. Some song videos interpret scenes and images from the song’s lyrics as others take an approach ...

It has to be taken into consideration that with time ad age, the spinal vertebrae and cartilage between these vertebrae can begin to become weak. This would result in discomfort and back pain among the senior citizens. However, sedentary lifestyle is not the only solution to these impediments. Rather, it is best to engage in gentle exercises so as to maintain the strength and flexibility of the spinal cord. If a senior citizen abides by a proper exercise regimen, the person can be described to be armored against any sort of back injury as such.
One has to take ...

About the Book

Ishmael Beah writes his life experience as an unwilling child soldier in Sierra Leone’s civil war in the account called A Long Way Gone. At the age of 12 years the village Beah called home is attacked but he escapes the violence because he is with a group of his friends elsewhere performing rap music. In the village where they visited for their rap fun they heard about the attack on their village “According to the teachers, the rebels had attacked the mining areas in the afternoon. The sudden outburst of gunfire had caused people to run for ...

Ever since the emergence of human civilization, music has been an excellent form of entertainment for people worldwide. But aside from serving as a medium for people’s leisure, music has also served as the platform for various campaigns and advocacies by many people who desire for a significant change in the society. One of such people is the famous 90s rapper, Tupac Shakur. Tupac Shakur is amongst the thousands, maybe even millions, of bright minds who used their talents in music and exploited the music arena to send a clear message to a vast audience in hope for ...