Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Journal Entry # 6 Hip Hop Matters

5 Comments:
  • Many rappers from long ago represented the West Coast.
  • There were more people in the U.S. who were being put in jail in 1994.
  • They tried to project people from criminals.
  • They didn't care about how the people felt they treated them like trash.
  • They thought it was better for people to get taught than to be punished.

4 Questions:

  • How can they protect the entire puclic from prisoners?
  • Why did so many of those rappers die or get killed?
  • Why was it that those who were not white were the ones who always seemed to be the bad ones?
  • What did it take to form the CYA?

3 Words:

  • Ethos (pg. 163): the fundamental character or spirit of a culture
  • Incarceration (pg. 174): to imprison
  • Pinnacle (pg. 177): a lofty peak

2 Literary Terms:

  • Metaphor (pg. 163) "In the mountainous terrain, vast highways, and electic bed of urban and suburban communities that make up California's Bay"
  • Personification (pg. 180) "Hip Hop informs the language we use"

1 Sentence Summary:

  • The youth have a strong control on whether or not something will make a difference and succeed.

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