My quilt piece which is in memory of famous musician, political activist, and poet, Gil Scott-Heron, uses music and Pan African themes to show the impact AIDS has left on the black community that fights for equality using activism in Read More
HIV/AIDS in the U.S. Military Review
The intro does a good job of instantly using pathos to appeal to the readers emotions, causing the reader, me in this case, to be more interested and more sympathetic towards the topic. The reader does this by addressing that Read More
HIV in the Hip Hop Community
Perhaps one of the biggest cases of HIV the hip hop community has ever had to deal with, is Eazy E’s HIV case. Eazy E was a rapper and producer out of Compton in California, and one of the members Read More
When did AIDS become a serious epidemic, and how was Hip Hop Affected?
Aids became a serious epidemic in the 1980’s, due to the CDC discovering rare symptoms in patients whos illnesses couldn’t be described. In 1985, Ronald Reagan finally addresses the AIDS epidemic for the first time publically. In 1991 the red Read More
The History of Hip Hop
In order to understand the evolution of rap and hip hop culture, we need to first look at New York, and particularly the Bronx and Brooklyn. This is where hip hop culture was born. Another significant aspect of hip hop Read More
Hip Hop Culture, Black Power, and AIDS
Hip hop and rap culture over time has evolved and become more reckless and vulgar. Most modern and popular rap music evidently shares thoughts and instances of reckless sex, drugs, alcohol, violence, and in general, recklessness. While claiming that black Read More
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Finding a Secondary Source
What is the relationship between music derived from black culture, black activism, and HIV? How has HIV affected the people involved in these two subgroups, and how is it reflected in the lives of the people within these subgroups, such Read More
Conventions, Multimodality, Posts and Pages
Multimodality Understanding multimodality means understanding the difference between different types of writings and rhetorical contents. For the difference between different types of literature, especially research centered, this can mean understanding the difference between posts and pages. A post is what Read More
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