INTRO: Sitcom has lacked the wow factor that shows from the 90’s had. What a sitcom is is a situational comedy that is usually revolved around a main character (actor) and goes through small parts of their lives in a comical way. Sitcom has been overshadowed in the past by reality TV and other TV series’ but Brett Mills explains why “sitcom is anything but small-time” (Mills, 2009). It’s ever evolving and is interpreted differently through production. “ It does so by drawing on a variety of approaches
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Hip-hop artists do resemble the stereotypes. A stereotype is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. People often criticize artists within this genre because they think that these artists follow the hip-hop stereotypes, which in cases it is true. Such stereotypes are money, drugs, misogyny and violence. Artists are well known for showing off money, “flexing” being the slang. These can reach a huge amount of money earned but people know
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The book that I have finished reading is a novel called Gangsta Rap, a story by Benjamin Zephaiah Benjamin’s main theme of this in Gangsta Rap is that maturity and responsibility is in the traits of being a man and stick to your family though tough times. Gangsta Rap is on a problem teenager name Ray that can’t seem to stay out of trouble. It seems as if music is the only thing that matters to him, like he would take a bullet for music (Hip-Hop) specifically. Ray is the oldest out of him an his
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Joseph Simmons (Reverend Run), Darryl McDaniels (Easy D, DMC) and Jason William Mizell (Jam Master Jay) are the members that make up Run-DMC. With Simmons and McDaniels rapping and Mizel dj-ing they popularised the addition of a live dj at shows and concerts. The three of them grew up in Hollis, Queens in New York City. Friends Simmons and McDaniels started rapping and writing in private as McDaniels was too shy to perform in public. After some practice and a growth in confidence, the two began
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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
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The film Straight Outta Compton views the life of a “gangsta,” rap group called N.W.A, which stands for “Niggas With Attitude,” who struggle in their society due to the stereotyping that all black folks, are drug dealers or gang affiliated. In this movie the rappers must show the world what life really is with their ingenuous music about the “war on drugs”. Some viewers may say that the music or rapping that this group N.W.A performs is nothing but violence and gang affiliation, but what the public
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Caleb BrownN.W.A./(Niggaz Wit' Attitude)Every genre of music has a ground breaking band or group to lay the foundation forgroups later to come. For the genre of gangsta rap N.W.A., also known as Niggaz Wit' Attitudewas this wayward group. N.W.A. was considered the first real rap group to make it big. Selling750,000 copies of their double platinum hit , "Straight Outta Compton" N.W.A. was like nothing1any one had ever seen before. Comprised of founding members, O'Shea "Ice Cube" Jackson,Andre "Dr
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Reasons why Snoop Dogg is considered an artist Snoop Dogg is a music artist that does it very different in his way but many say what he does should not be considered a work of art. Well now what he does he is good at and others actually many like what he does so it should be considered a piece of art that's the only thing that find hard to understand. He may do his art in a negative way sometimes but in the end he makes people realize that the point he is trying to address could actually try to
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Milton in Paradise Lost Immediately after the prologue, Milton raises the question of how Adam and Eve’s disobedience occurred and explains that their actions were partly due to a serpent’s deception. This serpent is Satan, and the poem joins him and his followers in Hell, where they have just been cast after being defeated by God in Heaven. Satan lies stunned beside his second-in-command, Beelzebub, in a lake of fire that gives off darkness instead of light. Breaking the awful silence, Satan bemoans
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What is the purpose of life? To earn inexhaustible money and a high social status in a business cocktail gathering or to have an unrestrained life which one can do anything according to one’s will? BOBOS’ in Paradise is written by David Brooks, who is a political and cultural commentator and working for New York Times. He is also the editor and commentator of different news and magazines. The key term of the title of this book – BOBO is Brook’s famous coinage, which uses to describe the new class
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