This week we are working on MLA documentation (exercises from Hacker); revision of essays, completing Dyson (paraphrasing and identifying key arguments in each section/chapter).
We will meet this week to discussion how each of you is doing. We will start Wednesday and continue Thursday and Monday-Tuesday of next week.
We are finished with Dyson. Start thinking about topics and arguments you might want to explore. What are some of Dyson's arguments? Do you agree or disagree?
Students should be bringing in books for my approval this week.
Bring your first essay: On Respect to class. If an essay is emailed to me, then I have it. You do not have to bring that essay in.
We will meet this week to discussion how each of you is doing. We will start Wednesday and continue Thursday and Monday-Tuesday of next week.
We are finished with Dyson. Start thinking about topics and arguments you might want to explore. What are some of Dyson's arguments? Do you agree or disagree?
Students should be bringing in books for my approval this week.
Bring your first essay: On Respect to class. If an essay is emailed to me, then I have it. You do not have to bring that essay in.
posted by Professor Wanda's Posse at 9:36 AM
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Byron: “Hey Tupac, nice to meet you. I’m Byron.
Tupac: “whusup”
Byron: “Well Tupac, as one of the most influential artist of your time, how do you feel about the Hip Hop influencing people to degrade women.?”
Tupac: “I love women. Women are beautiful.If you listen to my song “Keep Ya Head Up,” listen to my verse “since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? And that’s basically how I feel about women.
Byron: “ Would you want your daughter to be called bitch or hoe and to be degraded?”
Tupac: “ HELL NO ! I beat a nigga ass if he called my daughter or even touched my daughter !” “Fuck all that”
Byron: “How would you influence people to treat women better?
Tupac: “Through my music of course. I would talk about my mom and Jada. They are the women I love most. They are the true definition of a strong black women.”
10/16/2012
Geno Parizal
Professor Wanda Sabir
Hey Tupac do you think that the objectification of women in hip/hop and rap music is a distorted view of how woman should be represented. Of course it is because, not just hip/hop and rap culture views it that way, but American and western culture as well. It goes back to the idea of owning property and the right of the property owner to do what he want with his property. Whether this property was animals or Chattle , it doesn’t make a difference because it’s all the same.
If you were to look western history and art , there are similar themes. The man of the house or the owner of the estates is lord of his land. Everything on that property is his. until recently about the last one hundred years or so this have started to change of course.But that power of control over the resources of that land is still ingrained in our thinking. So being the man we must take, submit, control the land and all of the resources of that land.
This is what we perpetuate in our cultural values, not just rap and hip hop or even American, but western European thinking, suddue, control , divide. This is what we pass on to the younger generation. It end up going around a vicious circle, eventually our kids learn this too and keep the cycle going .To change the perspective, you have to change American Norms and values.
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