Journal Entry # 7 Hip Hop Matters

5 Comments:

• Since the Mayor of detriot fancied Hip Hop, he was able to keep his title as mayor.
• He believed that he was involved in politics cause he was born to be political.
• Even though he was all for Hip Hop he removed the earing to respect the elderly.
• Detroit becoming a black city may have caused trouble.
• Kilpatrick may have been elected for the wrong reasons.

4 Questions:

• Was it a problem that Detroit was becoming a black city?
• Did the people elect Kilpatrick only because he was into Hip Hop?
• Why did they have to imply that he was near the top of his class?
• Why didn't the older people very much vote for Kilpatrick?

3 Words:

• Remediation (pg. 189): The act or process of correcting a fault
• Moniker (pg. 196): a person's name, esp. a nickname or alias
• Revitalize (pg. 202): to give new life to

2 Literary Terms:

• Simile (pg. 202) "Like virtually every other major urban metro area in the U.S."
• Personification (pg. 204) "The aftershocks of September 11 produced a political and econmical climate that left America's big cities all but abandoned"

1 Sentence Summary:

• There is a day in the future that Hip Hop will make a difference in our lives, as it did in Kilpatrick's.