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First Annotation for My Final Paper (a Small News Article from Research)

Craven P. (2005, Sep 6). Boy scouts have many admirable qualities. Brazosport Facts. The (Clute, TX). Retrieved from http://infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/doc/nb/news/10C7848696A65ED0?p=AWNB

This little news article is something so simple, but says a lot about the youth in Boy Scouts of America. It starts off by stating that it is a study on youth in Boy Scouts of America verses those who are not in scouting. Then, it states facts about youth in America, such as boys are more likely to be involved in violent behavior more than girls, some youth are not well stimulated enough to take on leadership roles, how poorly some youth do in school, etc. After their study was complete, the results were incredible. Those youth who are in Boy Scouts of America proved to “better off” and “more motivated” to do good and succeed verses those who were not in scouting. Those who were in scouting showed more motivation to do good in school, graduate from high school and college (along with honors), take on leadership positions (whether it be school, work, etc.), volunteer more, have a selfless attitude, show servant leadership qualities, and more. This has shown many people that scouting instills values and morals into the youth within Boy Scouts of America.

I can use this small news article for my final paper because this shows people that scouting isn’t just about camping and earning patches or awards. The Boy Scout movement is all about preparing today’s youth for their future. It is all about instilling those values, ethics, and morals into these youth so that way they can be better prepared. These youth are more likely to volunteer and help out wherever they are. I’ve seen it with my own eyes. It could be as simple as picking up a pencil for someone at school, or, helping someone load their groceries in their car. These are also aspects of servant leadership, which a major key within scouting, along with taking on leadership positions. These things better prepare the youth for, not only the future, but everyday situations, as well. Those values, ethics, and morals help my argument, and that is why I can use this small news article for my final paper.

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This is excellent information about boy scouts of America. In my opinion I feel as if you should had more information on exactly how to join the boy scouts and the positive and negative aspects on being apart of the boy scouts. Overall great topic!

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I haven’t added any annotations yet to my paper, but I feel like this proves a point about letting off on CGI a bit, Lucas. This just looks all kinds of bad.

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This is a perfect example of the CGI term that you were discussing in class. I honestly didn’t know that they had more than one person playing this character in the movie for visual effects. I feel as if you should elaborate more on why this is effective in a positive or negative way.

Annotation #5

For my last annotation I would like to discuss Tupac Shakur’s political views on not only Hip-Hop but also his society, his lifestyle, and his California culture. As I was researching to conclude a voice for the West-Coast people, I ran across an article titled “Keepin’ It Real in Hip-Hop politics”. I felt as if this article would give me a clear insight on what exactly Tupac was rapping about? Besides talking about all the money he had, all the women, cars, clothes and jewlry. Tupac was discussing racism in his community, poverty, and the overall term for War on Drugs. Here is a brief summary from the article “ Outside of his most incendiary critics, Tupac Shakur is generally perceived as a socially conscious artist whose political credibility is located in his lyrical critiques of racism and his mother's membership in the Black Panther Party. Popular and academic writers have failed to examineTupac's distinct political ideas and identifiable activism. This article serves as a prolegomenon to the necessary dialogue on the politics ofTupac Shakur. Drawing from interviews, public statements, and lyrical analyses, the author expands the discourse on Shakur's contribution to the African American fight against racism and injustice. Tupac shared the experiences of many young Black men during Ronald Reagan’s presidency and the administrations of President George Bush, Sr., and Bill Clinton, elected, respectively, in 1988 and 1992. Through lyrics, he spoke directly to the office of the presidency (Shakur, 1999a): Uhh . . . dear Mr. President Whas happening? . . . Ain’t nothin changed All the promises you made, before you got elected . . . . . . they ain’t came true . . . Everybody’s doped up, ni*ga what you smoking on? Figure if we high they can’t rain us Downloaded from jbs.sagepub.com at OLD DOMINION UNIV LIBRARY on April 23, 2016 12 Journal of Black Studies 42(1) But then America f**ked up and blamed up I guess it’s cause we black that we targets . . . I know you feel me cause you too near me not to hear me So why don’t you help a ni*ga out? Saying you cutting welfare That got us ni*gaz on the street, thinkin who in the hell care? Tupac incorporated Revolutionary Nationalism in his lyrics and writings. In “Words of Wisdom” from the 2Pacalypse Now album, Tupac (Shakur, 1991) raps, This is for the masses the lower classes The ones you left out, jobs were givin’, better livin’ But we were kept out Made to feel inferior, but we’re the superior Break the Chains in our brains that made us fear yah Pledge allegiance to a flag that neglects us Honor a man that who refuses to respect us Emancipation, Proclamation, Please! Ni*ga just said that to save the nation These are lies and we all accepted . . . The war on drugs is a war on you and me And yet they say this is the Home of the Free But if you ask me its all about hypocrisy The constitution, yo, it don’t apply to me Lady Liberty still the bi**h lied to me”

APA Citation: Stanford, K. L. (2011). Keepin' It Real in Hip Hop Politics: A Political Perspective of Tupac Shakur. Journal of Black Studies, (1). 3.

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Annotation #4

How could I talk about East Coast and West Coast Hip-Hop without mentioning one of the greatest that ever changed the sound of Hip-Hop? In case you were wondering who exactly I’m talking about, maybe the name Notorious BIG should ring a bell. As I was doing my research it was so hard trying to find a peer reviewed article on the two celebrities, until I found a perfect biography on both of the artists, which of course was on the Old Dominion University database. This biography had a brief summary that discussed some of the goals that Notorious BIG had accomplished. These goals were, “ By the early 1990s, rap had migrated from its native East Coast to the West. The hyperbolically violent street narratives of N.W.A.’s “Gangsta” rap, along with its slightly more subtle offspring (at least in terms of tone), Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg’s “G-Funk,” had wrested the rap world’s national focus from its roots in New York and placed it firmly in California. Not to be outdone, though, New York fired back with the 1993 album, Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers, by the rap ensemble the Wu-Tang Clan. It was not until the 1994 album, Ready to Die, by the Notorious B.I.G., however, that the East Coast could again legitimately claim itself as the epicenter of the rap world. Also known as Biggie Smalls (a moniker taken from the film Let’s Do it Again), Christopher Wallace matched the stylized violence of popular rap with gritty realism, and countered anger-infused end rhyme with highly structured and layered lyrics delivered with his trademark laid-back and often lisped grumble. Despite recording 668 Book Reviews only two albums over his short career (notably titled Ready to Die and Life after Death), Wallace, almost single-handedly, brought rap music back East and to its New York home. This feat did not come without fallout however. Wallace’s popularity led to a grand-scale coastal rivalry in rap music that divided its culture and fans and eventually claimed his life, along with that of his friend-turned-bitter-rival Tupac Shakur” ( Kishbaugh,)

APA Citation: Kishbaugh, J. R. (2009). The Notorious B.I.G.: A Biography. Popular Music & Society, 32(5), 668-670. doi:10.1080/03007760902786157

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Annotation #3

Since I’m discussing the Authenticity between the East Coast and West Coast sounds of Hip-Hop, I decided to find an article that gave the West Coast a reason to create the term “gangsta rap” . Police brutality was one of the main reason’s that aggravated many of the blacks in the community. The police in the urban areas of Los Angles would repeatedly beat and assault the blacks only because, of the color of their skin, and the clothes that they wear. Most police officers would also beat them because, they feel as if all the blacks are constantly involved with negative activity such as, gang violence, selling drugs, or being on the wrong side of town. After awhile it gets aggravating, from dealing with the same situations over and over again. As I was stating before, I could really find an article based on this information but I did find an example due to this physical and mental abuse that the blacks faced from the cops. From the Old Dominion University library database, I found an article titled “1992 Los Angles Riot”. This article was a perfect example for me to use. The article discussed that, “In Los Angeles, California, four Los Angeles police officers that had been caught beating an unarmed African-American motorist in an amateur video are acquitted of any wrongdoing in the arrest. Hours after the verdicts were announced, outrage and protest turned to violence, as rioters in south-central Los Angeles blocked freeway traffic and beat motorists, wrecked and looted numerous downtown stores and buildings, and set more than 100 fires.On March 3, 1991, paroled felon Rodney King led police on a high-speed chase through the streets of Los Angeles County before eventually surrendering. Intoxicated and uncooperative, King resisted arrest and was brutally beaten by police officers Laurence Powell, Theodore Briseno, and Timothy Wind. Unbeknownst to the police, a citizen with a personal video camera was filming the arrest, and the 89-second video caught the police beating King with their batons and kicking him long after he was capable of resistance. The video, released to the press, caused outrage around the country and triggered a national debate on police brutality.Rodney King was released without charges, and on March 15 Sergeant Stacey Koon and officers Powell, Wind, and Briseno were indicted by a Los Angeles grand jury in connection with the beating. All four were charged with assault with a deadly weapon and excessive use of force. Though Koon did not actively participate in the beating, as the commanding officer present at the scene he was charged with aiding and abetting. Powell and Koon were also charged with filing false reports.Because of the uproar in Los Angeles surrounding the incident, the judge, Stanley Weisberg, was persuaded to move the trial outside Los Angeles County to Simi Valley in Ventura County. On April 29, 1992, the 12-person jury, which included 10 whites and no African-Americans, issued its verdicts: not guilty on all counts, except for one assault charge against Powell that ended in a hung jury. The acquittals touched off rioting and looting in Los Angeles that grew into the most destructive U.S. civil disturbance of the 20th century.Violence first erupted at the intersection of Florence Boulevard and Normandie Avenue in south-central Los Angeles. Traffic was blocked, and rioters beat dozens of motorists, including Reginald Denny, a white truck driver who was dragged out of his truck and nearly beaten to death by three African-American men. A news helicopter, hovering over the street, recorded the gruesome event. Los Angeles police were slow to respond, and the violence radiated to areas throughout the city. California Governor Pete Wilson deployed the National Guard at the request of Mayor Tom Bradley, and a curfew was declared. By the morning, hundreds of fires were burning across the city, more than a dozen people had been killed, and hundreds were injured.” (Nopper) As you can tell this article gives you a more broader detail of why the people couldn’t take the police brutality anymore.

APA Citation: Nopper, T. K. (2006). The 1992 Los Angeles Riots and the Asian American Abandonment Narrative as Political Fiction. CR: The New Centennial Review, (2), 73.

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Annotation #2

Another annotation that I decided to use is one that is very similar to my previous article “Hip-Hop in the United States”. Except this particular article focuses mainly on the culture aspect of Hip-Hop. The name of this article is titled “Hip-Hop Culture” I decided to use bits and pieces from this article for my final paper. As I was reading, I noticed that after it discussed the New York rap culture, the author took a turn and began discussing culture towards different countries. Don’t get me wrong the article had a lot of useful information but I’m focusing on mainly culture within the United States. This article gives me a more broader approach to the overall term Hip-Hop and the culture involved behind it. Here is a quick summary from the article, “In the 1990S, numerous American scholars started to write seriously about hiphop.1 It is a complex culture, even though it is depicted in a one-dimensional way through the mass media. It is widely accepted that hip-hop culture first manifested itself in the early 1970s throughout the five boroughs of New York City, but first in the urban wasteland known as the South Bronx. It emerged from the African-American, Latino and Caribbean-American communities. According to Tricia Rose, “It is to be perceived as the reaction of marginalised youths in postindustrial urban America. Hip-hop music and culture rely on a variety of Afro-Caribbean and Afro-American musical, oral, visual and dance forms and practices.”2 Hip-hop includes four main branches of expression: “deejaying” (the art of combining sounds and songs using two or three turntables); “b-boying” (dancing); aerosol art or graffiti writing; and the emerging part of the iceberg, “emceeing” (rapping). Hip-hop is a way of life that conditions the way its participants are looking at the world, or at society, and the way they interact with other individuals. It also participates in the making of their social identity. According to pioneer Kris Lawrence Parker, also known as KRS-One, “Hip-hop is something you live and rap is something you do.’h The music industry and the media have helped to make the words hip-hop and rap synonymous, leaving out the other elements of the culture.” (Gadet)

APA Citation: GADET, S. (2015). Hip-hop Culture. Caribbean Quarterly, 61(1), 75-97.

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Annotation #1

One of my annotations that I would like to share is a source titled Hip-Hop in the United States. This is a peer reviewed article from the Old Dominion University database. As I was looking for primary source articles, I ran across this particular article. The title of this article had really captured my attention because this is overall everything that my final paper discusses. The contents of this article include History and Culture behind Hip-Hop, Biographies, online resources, and television and films that were inspired by Hip-Hop. I would like to share a brief summary that the article “Hip-Hop in the United States” discusses the history behind Hip-Hop. “ Hip hop's origin in the early 1970s in the South Bronx of New York City is most often attributed to DJ Kool Herc and his desire to entertain at a party. In the 1980s, hip hop continued to gain popularity and speak about social issues faced by young African Americans. This started to change in the 1990s with the mainstream success of gangsta rap, where drugs, violence, and misogyny became more prominent, although artists who focused on social issues continued to create. The 2000s saw rap and hip hop cross genre boundaries, and innovative and alternative hip hop grew in popularity.Today, hip hop culture is fully integrated into American culture. Our music, fashion, film, art, politics, and society as a whole are all influenced by the genre. Hip Hop Studies is a respected academic field of study, with more colleges and universities adding courses, concentrations, and minors in the field. The following resources would be suitable for both academic and public libraries, serving adult and young adult populations, for both scholarly and personal research.” (Boyer Holly) After reading this short summary I felt that I needed to save this article for further information about the history and culture behind Hip-Hop.

APA Citation: Boyer, H., & Graham, A. (2016). Hip Hop in the United States. Reference & User Services Quarterly, 55(3), 215-218

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In this picture I can use the details and describe the way the Hip-Hop artist dressed in the 90s for my paper.

Majority of them either wore big gold chains, dark sun glasses, Raider gear to support where their from or anything that resembles Los Angles. Also you were really West Coast if you wore plaid button up shirts. This was the movement started by the Latinos which later influenced African american hip-hop artist

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In this interview 2pac discusses how Rap music was the only way that he could send a message out to the people about what’s going on in the place he calls home.

I’ll most likely use some snippets from this interview to include in my paper. Simply because he discusses how he feels about the civil rights movement and how he still remains positive about all the situations that are going on in the streets of LA

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