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    values and became more and more materialistic such as wanting latest technologies, televisions and kitchen appliances. The interesting thing is that to break the idea of this conformity, the beat generation rose and, then there were the beatniks. Beatnik had become the word to define the stereotype of the beat generation. People thought it to be the form of laziness in music, worn and tired form of the music generation. People have viewed them as slang-using, anti-materialistic, shallow, goateed,

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    Hip Hop originated in the USA in the early 1920s. The beats and dancing styles used define this genre of music. However, there is more to this type of music than the beat and dancing; other features include the message passed in the music and lifestyles of hip hop artists. Hip Hop music has since spread to other parts of the world and moreover, with its culture. We can see this culture in the film Saigon Electric, which is a Vietnamese hip-hop film. However, there is also a difference between the

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    Violence In Hip Hop Music

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    Break-dancing along with the art of ‘graffiti’ meant that these neighborhoods had a different means of competition rather than getting into fights, gun battles and other forms of violence to decide which neighborhood was better. As the rhythmic beats

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    Gangsta-Funk History

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    and the notorious, Gangsta-Funk. Gangsta-Funk or G-Funk for short, is a subgenre of Hip Hop invented in the early 90s on the mean streets of Los Angeles, California. The central pioneers of G-Funk can be argued, but to keep it short, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg deserve more than half of the credit for helping to develop this fable style of music. A product of the streets of Long Beach, California, Snoop Dogg was taken under Dr.Dre's wing and with his guidance dropped

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    I chose the Michel Saloff-Coste abstract art for my piece. The artwork made me think of a busy market type street thronging with people of all different backgrounds. My piece is meant to convey a person getting up in the morning and walking down a bright street like this where there is lots of music from different places, all mixing together. I imagine it sort of like an open-air market in a big city, with everyone playing their own music. I opened with two different brass track solos. I felt that

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    Dudes , Altered contemporary spiritual and physical spatial experiences in social movements under the influence of network 2.0 "...We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off." —Tyler Durdena, a character from the 1999 David

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    becoming more violent now because they are using more than just their body parts to beat up people. These gangs are killing and raping people. It used to be about colors and different language but now it is about something different. It used to be about just being in the wrong neighborhood and getting jumped in. For some time now, one has to kill someone or rape someone to get in and stay in a gang. Along time ago, each street had a known gang but all a person had to worry

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    Goodreads “Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure”. This relates to a chapter “Right to the streets of Memphis” in the novel Black Boy by Richard Wright. The first step is to know what his fear. in order to overcome the fear, you have to face it. Richard fear of getting beat up the gang distracting him from getting his food for his family. Fear is what we feel when we are scared or afraid of something or someone. In this story “Right to the streets of Memphis” by Richard Wright. Richard

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    San Francisco beats like a heart with too much blood. The city on the bay provides homes and shelter to the free-thinkers of America. If you are looking to expand your consciousness you should travel there and consider making it your home. The city is full of life and death with its inhabitants high and low. Look around and see faces born in wombs from around the world and see the same light in each one of their eyes. The mighty bridge that connects land with land and people to people stands tough

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    brutality is so important to our because Police is brutality is so big right now and we cant people have innocent people in the streets getting shot for doing what they're supposed to be doing. Why we are talking about this is because we have to make a change and stop what is going on. Police have been targeting black lives and there a holding them at gunpoint and shooting them before they even get a trail or can go to court. We as in all of us shouldn't be scared to walk outside or they shouldn't be scared

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