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Diversity In Hatred

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The world is like one huge jigsaw puzzle, composed of a plethora pieces of different sizes, shapes, and colors. These pieces can either interconnect with one another to create a beautiful art piece or stay broken apart and remain in a chaotic state. Similarly, people of different cultural, religious, and ethnic backgrounds in the world can choose to either embrace the diversity of the one true human race and unify together in peace or they can choose to despise the arbitrary differences between people, which develops into bitter conflicts. Despite tremendous progress in modern society concerning social issues, it is often the differences between people that are the driving forces behind several prominent issues in the world today. Hence in …show more content…

All of these conflicts over race, religion, and other differences are often extremely subjective and are baseless in the realm of fact and logic. Generally, it is my philosophy that people should have the freedom to have their own beliefs and opinions, but when these beliefs and opinions start breeding hatred and unjustly transgressing on the wellbeing of others it is absolutely unacceptable and utterly ridiculous. If more people just accepted opinions as just opinions, the world would be a much more unprejudiced and peaceful …show more content…

Throughout this project, Lamar utilized a diverse array of cadences and flows to greatly intensified the impact of the narratives he delivered. For example, on his track “Blacker the Berry” he utilized an aggressive flow and angry voice inflection in order to express his frustrations with the racial hypocrisy’s in society, while on his track “You Ain’t Gotta Lie” he employed a friendly and smooth flow with a high-pitch delivery to match the very endearing and positive message of the track. Similarly, in my collage I tell dual narratives of a dark and serious nature and of a more positive and uniting nature, through the words I have written and the images I’ve selected. The facets of my collage that deal with the harsh truths of the world in narrative form like Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly are the images of the Syrian refugees getting tripped by a reporter, Eric Garner getting taken down by police officers, the Palestinian man throwing a rock, Israel bombing Gaza and a Israeli woman and a Palestinian man crying. To contrast this dark narrative, I placed images of musicians with unifying messages, like Kendrick Lamar and Kamasi Washington, a massive globe, the pictures from Forest Hills, and a symbolic split face in the center of the collage. Also, I placed the peace sign in the center of the circle, as sort of a focal point to demonstrate the beauty

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