Essays on Penchant

The popular perception that rap music is an expression of the African Americans’ struggle for social equality seems to have some basis. This is especially true when considering that rap music originates, or at least become popularized, by Black artists who have expressed their racial sentiments through songs that have become expressions of their racial opinions, such as those concerning bigotry. Such is the case in the popularity of Tupac Shakur and the rap group, Public Enemy, specifically on how the Black Americans are able to relate to their songs’ themes on racial bias suffered by Blacks under a ...

Rock and roll began to emerge shortly after the Second World War somewhere in the mashup of cultures and peoples that comprise the American South. It is a hybrid form whose mixed heritage is marked by poor blacks singing Delta blues, hillbilly descendants of Scots-Irish immigrants, working-class factory heroes, Christian country folk, and urban teens crooning a cappella on street corners. Its journey of 70 or so years has taken it from the margins of society to the center of today’s multi-billion dollar global music industry. Its course can be charted by examining a select handful of the ...

The recent developments in technological advancements and scientific breakthroughs have presented modern ways of doing things. One such development relates to the introduction of technology-based medical procedures, which have made it possible to achieve feats yesteryear medical scientists could only dream about. This introduction has however resulted in debates concerning whether controversial medical procedures should be allowed to play their role in society without external interference. In Lisa Belkin’s article, The Made-To-Order Savior”, the author describes how modern medical technology makes it possible to genetically modify a human being at conception so as to increase the chances of ...

At the beginning of the Paradise Lost we are introduced to Satan, who has found himself on the surface of a boiling hot lava after falling from Heaven. He has fallen from Heaven because he no longer wanted to be subservient to God. As an alternative he wishes for there to be more equality between God and the Angels. Throughout Paradise Lost Satan, continues to be obsessed with equality. This is something that is inferred throughout much of Paradise Lost. This paper will examine Satan’s need for equality. Satan’s desire for equality is seen from the very ...

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams has always been known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in American poetry. Yet in comparison to artists of his own time who sought a new environment for creativity as expatriates in Europe, Williams lived a remarkably conventional life. A doctor for more than forty years serving the New Jersey town of Rutherford, he relied on his patients, the America around him, and his own ebullient imagination to create a distinctively American verse. Often domestic in focus and "remarkable for its empathy, sympathy, its muscular and emotional identification with its subjects," Williams's poetry is also characteristically honest: "There ...