Ain T No Makin It Analysis

Many are rich many are poor many have money many don’t. Have you ever had a moment where you did something selfish for desperation of money and karma hit you right back with a right hook?. And felt regret towards yourself. In the short story “Why, You Reckon” the author uses irony and dialogue, to show the audience that money can't buy happiness.

In Randol Contreras’s The Stickup Kids, Contreras explores the South Bronx through the lens of a sociologist. He describes the lives of the stickup kids such as Gus, Pablo, and other teenagers living in the South Bronx. Contreras uses the research method of ethnography to provide a sociological analysis of the drug trade and business in the South Bronx. His research shows how social factors impact the lives of these stickup kids to become active in the drug trade. Through his field notes and interviews with the stickup kids, Contreras examines in depth of how social factors such as, socialization, social class, the thrill of crime, deviance, and culture affect the individual.

The Brothers are a group of mostly black boys (with the exception of one) who so not smoke, drink regularly, and value education as they all attend high school. Though they are merely a peer group and not their own subculture as they value academics and athletics and are not as bothered by the stigma of living in the projects. Describing the differences in the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers, the MacLeod points out that the Hallway Hangers rarely have parental supervision, many have lived in public housing for several years, many have absent fathers, and the educational attainment of their families is very low. The Brothers on the other hand have more parents and siblings who graduated high school and attended at least some college, more have father figures living in the house, and their average time living in Clarendon Heights is less than the Hallway Hangers.

Those who remain on the less privileged, less educated side of the black community resent their peers who have degrees and white collar jobs. They feel that these successful black men and women no longer have a connection to where they came from. This “class” rift is not only limited to black adults, but occurs in school age children and teenagers. Many small black children who dress well and have high grades in school are made fun of and picked on by their less fortunate peers. Black high school students who drive nice cars and live in upper-class neighborhoods are sometimes labeled as “bourgeois” by their peers who come from working or lower class families.

When listening to the song “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked” by Cage the Elephant, the theories that best describe this song are the Techniques of Neutralization by Sykes and Matza, and the Rational Choice Theory by Cornish and Clark. Sykes and Matza outlined five techniques based on offenders coming up with excuses when committing crimes to defend themselves. On the other hand, Cornish and Clark discuss four decisions to commit crime that offenders are concerned about when deciding whether to involve themselves in crime, so they outweigh the risks vs. the rewards. In Sykes and Matza Techniques of Neutralization, the five techniques include; denial of responsibility, denial of injury, denial of the victim,

financial issues, segregation, subtractive schooling, and the overall school climate may negatively impact their overall performance. Jay MacLeod brings to light these issues in his book, Ain’t No Makin’ It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood. The book, which reports the author’s findings on fifteen boys living in public housing and their overall educational and life success over several years. The book centered around the achievement ideology, which is the belief that success can only be obtained through hard work and education (MacLeod, 2009). Under this belief, factors such as race and socioeconomic status do not impact one’s success

The African American males dream is to grow up and be just like the biggest drug dealer in their part of town. They start at an early age, fighting or even joining gangs to get to that hierarchy. In the urban ghetto you are either somebody or nobody. There are some that can fill in that somebody spot by being great in basketball and football, but most of them want all the money, cars, and jewelry, the lifestyle of a drug dealer. Many get caught up in the wrong crowd; peer pressured into doing things, like stealing cars or smoking marijuana. Some African American males get into the “game”, drug dealing, simply to get money for their families that are in extreme poverty and get a lot of government assistance. The “game” can get them caught with drugs and guns, or even killing or attempting to kill someone about money. Some young African American males sale drugs at school, they do not go for the education they go for the money. School is one of

The central idea of this article is that you think that you never eaten a bug but you already did. The author supports this central idea by in paragraph 5 of the article “I Hate to Break it to You, but You Already Eat Bugs” says, “Staples like broccoli and canned

Did you ever done something that you regret it, I am sure that almost all of us done something that we regret almost every day. In this novel, a poor man tried to hold someone for ransom, but it did not turn out well. Man Ain’t you hungry the man asked the man gave them food if they light up the fire during the night of their furnace. The narrator says why You Reckon. The narrator goes place to place often, but no place is his permeant.

The protagonist in The Apartment is a guy referred to as Bud. Bud grew up in Baltimore Maryland not too far from a police station where his father worked. Bud came from a good family and attended private schools growing up. Bud had an older brother that his father favored over him. As kids, Bud’s older brother Ryan excelled at many aspects of life while Bud’s childhood was filled with misfortune. Ryan excelled in high school as a star athlete who graduated top of his class with a full ride to Yale. Bud, on the other hand, was not as academically, or athletically gifted as his older brother. Bud is tired of living in his brothers shadow. Bud is willing to do whatever it takes to take his brothers glory.

Feminism is an interesting topic. It is about empowering women so that they can be seen as equals to men. It is a movement that many ignore because they do not believe in what the movement entails. Yet, is it that they do not believe in this movement or rather that they do not understand what the movement is.

Girl Ain’t Woman... Yet!!!! They are follower’s with back talk. Trying to be everything and everyone.

Introduction This paper seeks to investigate the flaws within the state of capitalism. For this purpose, I have chosen to analyse the song “Ain’t no rest for the wicked” by Cage the Elephant, a society critical rock band from the USA. The focus when analysing the linguistic dimension will be to focus on looking at which linguistic tools, have been used for the message to come across. When analysing the content of the song I will be using the Marxist method, to cast light on the essence with in the song.

This album review will be on Nirvana’s “Nevermind” album that was released in 1991. This was Nirvana's second album released and it sold over 30 million copies. I was interested in Nirvana once I saw it was an option in the book and also because almost everyday you can see someone in the streets wearing a Nirvana t-shirt even people my age and I was curious to listen to their music. As I said before people my age are still wearing Nirvana shirts which truly demonstrates how impactful their music was to society.

When and why did Ravel compose “Ma mère l’Oye" (Mother Goose Suites)? How does each movement of the piece convey the story line of the fairytales? Compare and contrast the piano version vs. the orchestrated version of the piece.