Analysis Of Juicy By Christopher Wallace

As he navigated his young, uncertain life, Biggie started making music. He got with a crew called the "Old Gold Brothers," and began making music on music on his own. That’s when his life changed.

Imagine coming home to a house that has no warmth or food. Constantly feeling like you are in a place you can’t get out of. This is how poverty may feel to others. The expeirences from the author Jo Goodwin Parker in the story “What Is Poverty” and the McBride family from the novel “The Color Of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute To His White Mother” show that there are various effects of living in poverty that include emotional problems, adolescent rebellion, and

In the micro fiction story “Worry”, by Ron Wallace, a family frets about almost any issue imaginable. The theme of the story is worrying. The characters in the story, found themselves worrying about people and things, that ultimately will be frivolous and wasteful. “She worried about people, and he worried about things. And between them, that pretty much covered it” Throughout the two characters’ lives, they worried. Through the best of times and through the worst of times, they worried “ … the daughter was born a healthy seven pounds eleven ounces, (she’s not eating enough)”. The dark, looming cloud of worrying shrouded every passing moment. It is a sad way to live. The two characters never stopped fretting. Worrying was an important part

With all of the media 's hatred of poor people, it must affect their self-confidence and how they view the American Dream. Through her experience, Jennifer Mayer has noticed that very problem. While working in the soup kitchen, she noticed that most of the people who came in lived in "survival mode" and only lived "day-to-day" with no real goals. They had no dreams of success because they believed it to be impossible (Mayer). One reason for this self-esteem issue is their lack of education. Since poor people rarely have a college education, they feel like they have no future. This can often cause them to give up on their dreams and resort to crime (Reef 225-226). Also, because poor people are below America 's social and economic system, they will often give up on their dreams.

In Seeing and Making Culture: Representing the Poor, author Gloria Watkins under the pen-name Bell Hooks discusses the problem with the way poverty is depicted in the media in America. From her own personal experiences growing up poor, she has observed what the stigma surrounding poverty does to the underclass. Hooks points out how the media generates the idea that being poor means that one can’t live a meaningful life, and that one should feel ashamed for not having lots of money or things. To further her argument, Hooks uses examples from encounters she has had where people are conditioned to believe the poor are lazy, dishonest, and unworthy. Bell Hooks

In Johnson’s “White Trash Primer,” Johnson tells the story of living on a farm, growing up in a poor family and going through hard times. Johnson tells how she overcomes the obstacles that she had to deal with in her life. This leaves the reader with the message that, no matter how hard life is, as long as you push through you will be able to do anything you set your mind to. The line “You hide that you are poor” (Johnson

In Tressie McMillan’s “The Logic of Stupid Poor People”, it changed people’s views on the threat of keeping up with society, and the status symbol people think they must maintain. Society classifies it as Middle class, suburbs, or simply rich and poor. People feel threatened when someone looks better than them, or has something that they do not have. This story killed all reasons to even feel this way. McMillan also linked this story back to her own personal childhood. Their family was a classic black American migration family, with rural Southern roots. During this time most African Americans were considered as poor. Her family

When someone thinks of the poor they instantly imagine a homeless man sleeping in a cardboard box or the nearest garbage can, but the working poor especially in the inner-city is commonly overlooked by society. However the working poor, in this case the working poor in the inner-city, are people advancing to try and make their lives better. They are taking minimum wage jobs so that they can barely afford a roof over their heads. Within Katherine Newman?s novel No Shame In My Game, she studies the working poor in the inner-city to draw conclusions about how to help them and dispute common stereotypes and the images people commonly view. Newman?s conclusions along with the

In a study conducted by Oscar Lewis, he claims “the low-income population of San Juan and New York and found a widespread way of thinking that he called fatalism” (Macionis 2013:88). He determined people who are raised in poverty are more likely to have, “low self-esteem, limited aspirations, and a sense of powerlessness” (Macionis 2013:88). Some ethnicities, mainly the minority, are described as “oppositional culture” when they succeed or portray stereotyped white characteristics of prosperity in order to discourage advancement. People raised in poverty can find it hard to believe in a better life with education and success if they are only exposed to below average condition of living, education, income, and health care. Poverty is not only an issue of income, it also has negative effects that are detrimental to a person over time.

Rebel or Murder! Have you ever wondered who was the first person to fight for the freedom of France.

The lack of dignity that these individuals feel is a direct effect of society’s disrespect for the lower class. The stereotypes of the homeless conceived by upper social classes, cause the lower class to lose any respectable role they may have in society. A homeless man in Oberlin, Ohio says, “Many of us historically invisible people, in our quest for visibility, have chosen to take the routes of organization and alliance building. Often we tend to find that our muted voices have more resonance, bass, and credibility within these snugly, institutionally sanctioned cubby holes” (Laymon). After failing to get sufficient help through

At this moment, Kendrick’s monologue addresses the battle encountered by African Americans today and the frustration that comes with wanting and deserving more than they have. The backing vocals in this section of the song imply that American society wants African Americans to submit to it and praise it, even though many of them have suffered from it. This introduction signifies how dazed society is to the black people and how there is a constant battle between

Throughout the United States, homelessness and poverty have become an overwhelming issue. From people losing their jobs to others having to give up their homes, nearly 14.5 percent of Americans experience some type of poverty. This could look like a small percentage to some but in reality, it's more than 45 million people. While this number may be decreasing, the stereotype of those who are in poverty still remains. It is often thought that those in poverty are non-educated addicts and are generally criminal people. This, however, fails to be proven true. In my personal experiences, it was believed that the homeless and impoverished were of a lower social level and it was easy to assume the poor were in their walk of life for more reasons than simply not having money. Drugs, crime, and poverty all seemed to have the same definition.

First in Jewel’s song “Who will save your soul “she demonstrates how money and politics have great control over our life. In the lyrics “…Another war, another tower went up where the homeless had their home”, Jewel paints a clear picture of how quick we as a nation are to turn our back on those who need us the most such as our homeless, for our own ventures in war and capitalism. Our nation is more concerned about making money and gaining power by war that we forget about the less fortunate. If we don’t assist them how are they to ever get put on the right track. Imagine the amount of homeless in our own nation, how many people we turn a blind eye to because it’s uncomfortable to think about. The National Coalition for the homeless states “Though official estimates of homelessness are difficult to gauge it is approximated that around 1.6 million people each year use transitional housing or emergency shelters. The number of people who actually experience homelessness in a given year is

In 1969, Elvis Presley released a song titled “In the Ghetto” which tells the story of a poor baby boy born to a single mother in a Chicago ghetto. The song describes how the mother is saddened by the birth of her child and cries because “she don’t need.. another hungry mouth to feed”. This is implying that she is having trouble trying to support a family of multiple kids on what seems to be her own and this new addition to the family only worsens the problem. The subsequent verse Elvis sings a warning that the child will grow up to be “an angry young man some day” if no one can help him out and give him the guidance and support he needs. The ensuing line asks if we will “turn our heads and look the other way” which refers to how poverty, as an issue, is largely ignored in society. Now as the following verse