Albert Dennie
10/5/08
Eng 201A 1-2:50
Barack Obama Reflection
I think that Barack Obama’ s main point was to ensure the people of America that we’ll prevail through this time of change and that it takes spending a little bit of money to make some money. As President-Elect Barack Obama made his speech I felt as if this man, this human being is listening to what the middle and lower-class people are saying and he is trying to make a difference. I believe he will make changes because he speaks of keeping dreams and hopes alive and one day make a change for the people that he represents, Democrats. He took the main people in his life and campaign and gave wonderful love and a shot out to some of them. He attacks his issues with emphasis for a change. I believe that he will attempt to do everything he says he is going to do but, you have to realize that this nation is in a great deficit and will we be able to bounce back? Barrack can’t be superman but I know this, he has the heart of most Americans and he proved that he belongs in office. Every time he was attacked by Sen. McCain’s campaign he did not respond with a put down as Palin showed she can do. He simply approached the problem head first and spoke up for the people who cannot be heard. He spoke of giving money to everybody whether there middle, low, or even upper class. He wants everything to be equal and affordable. It is not fair to us citizens who do not sufficient funds to suffer while the wealthier get wealthier. We have preached this for years, decades and now there is a change! Barack Obama is the way! The structure of his speech was compelling. After he gave his shot out to the people that helped him the most he got into what he was going to do. He speaks of reaching our nation’s dreams and goals as one. “One nation one people”.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Eng201A
Professor Sabir
MW 1-2:50
Group Assignment
Give me a Pen and Paper
Cast:
Vinson Lieu as “Big Tray Dee”
Josh James as “Mos Def”
Lisa Ryan as “Toni Morrison “
Albert Dennie as “Tupac, Dyson, Narrarator”
Poem: If I Fail
Setting: A talk show that Michael Eric Dyson hosts.
Summary: In chapter 4 of Dyson’s Holler if You Hear Me, numerous artists try to define the term “Thug Life”. There are so many justifications of the word and its true value it has on society. Also, Tupac has his ups and his downs, his constructed criticism and his bad criticism, but most of all this chapter shows how he overcomes everyone’s opinion and molds it into what he is today an Icon! Even though people opposed to Tupac’s music there were others who embraced him.
Dyson: Good afternoon welcome to the Dyson show, today we will discuss ch.4 from my book Holler If You Hear Me. I am going to have a guest show host: Mos Def and we are going to have a few special guests. The guest show host will have a live interview with Tupac from jail via satellite link.
Commercial
Dyson: Welcome back. I’d like to welcome hip hop luminary, Mos Def.
Mos Def: Thanks for having me on the show Dyson!
Dyson: I’d also like to welcome special guests from The Eastsidaz, Big Tray Dee.
Big Tray Dee: Good afternoon Dyson, Mos Def.
Dyson: I want to know Mos Def, your views of Tupac? “Tupac’s art as a hip hop emcee was acquired taste among the genre’s cognoscente, even as the masses embraced him through huge record sales and he gained international noriety as a symbol of rap’s fortune and follies.”(Dyson 106)
Mos Def: “Tupac did not for instance posses the effortless rhythmic patterns of Snoop Dogg, the formidable timing and breathe control of the incomparable K.R.S. One, the poetic intensity of Rakim, the delt political rage of Chuck D, the forceful enunciation of M.C. Lyte, or the novelistic descriptions and sly cadences of Notorious B.I.G.- the mathematician of flow”(Dyson 106)
Big Tray Dee: “I’m real critical and skeptical about lyrics or what people say and how they put it from an artistic standpoint.” (Dyson 105)
Dyson: Tray Dee, what do you have to say about Tupac’s method of creation, highlighting in the process what made him such a big force in hip hop?
Big Tray Dee: “It would be maybe like thirty percent of his songs that I really wouldn’t feel all the time I would be like “That’s all right”. But, [his songs] wound up in my head because they grew on me, and I would see where he was coming from. I had to get that feeling or be in that mood to really relate to what he was saying at that particular time, on that particular song. He showed me how he made music through his heart and through his spirit, showing me that you have to have a certain vibe and continuity. You r not going to appeal to everybody”
Mos Def: “I wasn’t a big Pac fan when he was out, but I’ll tell you why people loved him. Because they knew him! Despite him being viewed as a “gangster rapper”, Pac ranged freely over the landscape of hip-hop, pursuing themes that bled through a number of rap’s subgenres, among the conscious rap, political hip hop, party music, hedonism rap, thug rap, and ghetto centric rap.”
Dyson: Let’s go to commercial and when we come back special guests Toni Morrison will be here.
Commercial
Dyson: Welcome back I’d like to introduce guest speaker Toni Morrison.
Toni Morrison: Hello everybody.
Dyson: “Rap is viewed as a barometer of what ails black youth. It is apparent that a great deal of bitterness and anger clutter the disputes between rap’s advocates and its critics. It is equally obvious that black youth have been under attack for many quarters of our culture. In hip hop, as with most music, that is nothing new.”
Toni Morrison: “All art created by young people are despised by adults. If it’s young, it always has to fight…, and what shakes out of that of course is the best.”
Dyson: Your view of hip hop is admirably international giving [you] an appreciation of the genres inspiring, and subversive, global reach. (Dyson 116)
Toni Morrison: “Just seeing what happened to it in Europe is astonishing. When I was in Frankfurt- the center of rap music in Germany- I got some unbelievable rap disc from a Turkish girl who was singing in German. What unifies hip hop throughout? Nobody admits it. The fact that it is ails the music you can’t sit down to [be] what really gets you up, it’s what made it so fetching.”(Dyson 117)
Dyson: Morrison, “You are completely ware of the controversial subject matters broached in hip hop.” (Dyson 117)
Toni Morrison: “It is always up for grabs and sexuality and violence. (Dyson 117)
Dyson: ok we will go to commercial and when we come back guest show host Mos Def who will interview Tupac via satellite.
Question:
Mos def: What are you trying to tell the people through your music?
Answer:
Tupac: “Most of my music tells the truth. I’m just trying to speak about things that affect me and about things that affect our community… Sometimes I’m the watcher, and sometimes I’m the participant, and sometimes it’s just allegories or fables that have an underlying theme.”
Question:
Mos Def: Has hip-hop caused or reflected the violence we should detest.
Tupac: “It’s the violence in America,” What did the USA just do, flying to Bosnia? We ain’t got no business over there.” America is the biggest gang in the world. Look at how they didn’t agree with Cuba, so… they cut them off.”
Professor Sabir
MW 1-2:50
Group Assignment
Give me a Pen and Paper
Cast:
Vinson Lieu as “Big Tray Dee”
Josh James as “Mos Def”
Lisa Ryan as “Toni Morrison “
Albert Dennie as “Tupac, Dyson, Narrarator”
Poem: If I Fail
Setting: A talk show that Michael Eric Dyson hosts.
Summary: In chapter 4 of Dyson’s Holler if You Hear Me, numerous artists try to define the term “Thug Life”. There are so many justifications of the word and its true value it has on society. Also, Tupac has his ups and his downs, his constructed criticism and his bad criticism, but most of all this chapter shows how he overcomes everyone’s opinion and molds it into what he is today an Icon! Even though people opposed to Tupac’s music there were others who embraced him.
Dyson: Good afternoon welcome to the Dyson show, today we will discuss ch.4 from my book Holler If You Hear Me. I am going to have a guest show host: Mos Def and we are going to have a few special guests. The guest show host will have a live interview with Tupac from jail via satellite link.
Commercial
Dyson: Welcome back. I’d like to welcome hip hop luminary, Mos Def.
Mos Def: Thanks for having me on the show Dyson!
Dyson: I’d also like to welcome special guests from The Eastsidaz, Big Tray Dee.
Big Tray Dee: Good afternoon Dyson, Mos Def.
Dyson: I want to know Mos Def, your views of Tupac? “Tupac’s art as a hip hop emcee was acquired taste among the genre’s cognoscente, even as the masses embraced him through huge record sales and he gained international noriety as a symbol of rap’s fortune and follies.”(Dyson 106)
Mos Def: “Tupac did not for instance posses the effortless rhythmic patterns of Snoop Dogg, the formidable timing and breathe control of the incomparable K.R.S. One, the poetic intensity of Rakim, the delt political rage of Chuck D, the forceful enunciation of M.C. Lyte, or the novelistic descriptions and sly cadences of Notorious B.I.G.- the mathematician of flow”(Dyson 106)
Big Tray Dee: “I’m real critical and skeptical about lyrics or what people say and how they put it from an artistic standpoint.” (Dyson 105)
Dyson: Tray Dee, what do you have to say about Tupac’s method of creation, highlighting in the process what made him such a big force in hip hop?
Big Tray Dee: “It would be maybe like thirty percent of his songs that I really wouldn’t feel all the time I would be like “That’s all right”. But, [his songs] wound up in my head because they grew on me, and I would see where he was coming from. I had to get that feeling or be in that mood to really relate to what he was saying at that particular time, on that particular song. He showed me how he made music through his heart and through his spirit, showing me that you have to have a certain vibe and continuity. You r not going to appeal to everybody”
Mos Def: “I wasn’t a big Pac fan when he was out, but I’ll tell you why people loved him. Because they knew him! Despite him being viewed as a “gangster rapper”, Pac ranged freely over the landscape of hip-hop, pursuing themes that bled through a number of rap’s subgenres, among the conscious rap, political hip hop, party music, hedonism rap, thug rap, and ghetto centric rap.”
Dyson: Let’s go to commercial and when we come back special guests Toni Morrison will be here.
Commercial
Dyson: Welcome back I’d like to introduce guest speaker Toni Morrison.
Toni Morrison: Hello everybody.
Dyson: “Rap is viewed as a barometer of what ails black youth. It is apparent that a great deal of bitterness and anger clutter the disputes between rap’s advocates and its critics. It is equally obvious that black youth have been under attack for many quarters of our culture. In hip hop, as with most music, that is nothing new.”
Toni Morrison: “All art created by young people are despised by adults. If it’s young, it always has to fight…, and what shakes out of that of course is the best.”
Dyson: Your view of hip hop is admirably international giving [you] an appreciation of the genres inspiring, and subversive, global reach. (Dyson 116)
Toni Morrison: “Just seeing what happened to it in Europe is astonishing. When I was in Frankfurt- the center of rap music in Germany- I got some unbelievable rap disc from a Turkish girl who was singing in German. What unifies hip hop throughout? Nobody admits it. The fact that it is ails the music you can’t sit down to [be] what really gets you up, it’s what made it so fetching.”(Dyson 117)
Dyson: Morrison, “You are completely ware of the controversial subject matters broached in hip hop.” (Dyson 117)
Toni Morrison: “It is always up for grabs and sexuality and violence. (Dyson 117)
Dyson: ok we will go to commercial and when we come back guest show host Mos Def who will interview Tupac via satellite.
Question:
Mos def: What are you trying to tell the people through your music?
Answer:
Tupac: “Most of my music tells the truth. I’m just trying to speak about things that affect me and about things that affect our community… Sometimes I’m the watcher, and sometimes I’m the participant, and sometimes it’s just allegories or fables that have an underlying theme.”
Question:
Mos Def: Has hip-hop caused or reflected the violence we should detest.
Tupac: “It’s the violence in America,” What did the USA just do, flying to Bosnia? We ain’t got no business over there.” America is the biggest gang in the world. Look at how they didn’t agree with Cuba, so… they cut them off.”
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