Good Kid Analysis

One of the most notable points he shares is about the “City of Gods,” aka the Bronx's. McBride talks about how visitors ooh and aah over this city while 40% of it’s people are jobless. This is why McBride decided to embrace hip-hop and, “Confess a love for music that, at least in part embraces violence…

McBride uses emotional, logical, and ethical appeals to drive his point. His use of emotional appeals are used to get attention and provoke thought from people who may have similar backgrounds to his, or those who may have a strong opinion towards hip hop culture. An example of this would be “hip hop remains an enigma, a clarion call, a cry of ‘I am’ from the youth of the world” (McBride 1). A clarion call is a strongly expressed demand or request for action- a plea, essentially. This pairs with the word “cry” to create a sense of despair in the youth of the world. By grabbing the reader’s heart as well as their attention, this moves the reader to consider the music as more than just defiance.

I give this book a solid B+, because I think he did a very nice

The reviews I found were from those who have read the book. Here are just a few of what I found:

Okay, so this is how this is going to work… The deep book review will be split into different sections, one where I will dump a bunch of information about the storyline on the reader, another where I will rant about what makes this book deep but not good, and, finally, another about the author. The footnotes will be my way of interjecting Laszlo-esque commentary on what would normally be a more formal piece of writing without drastically altering the formality of the review.

I would give this rate because I really enjoyed this book. I thought the language in this book was very complex. I didn’t find the vocabulary very hard, but every sentence had a deeper meaning than on the surface. I thought that made this book was very insightful. I really related to Jacqueline because she was the youngest child in her family for a long time, and I am the youngest. I thought that Jacqueline struggled being the youngest and finding a place in her family, as do I sometimes. Overall I really enjoyed this book because I really could relate to most of Jacqueline's feelings. I really enjoyed this complex novel with all its imagery and vivid

2) Tell me about one aspect of the book you found most troubling (i.e. an issue the author addressed, a recommendation she may have made, a particular philosophy or idea she promoted)

No I do not think there is an opinion stated in this novel. At least if there is one that I did not happen to catch

5. RATING: Rate this book on a scale of 1 to 10. What qualities of a good book does this novel demonstrate or not demonstrate? Why did you give this rating? What was your favorite part and why? Who would enjoy this

In the concept album, good kid m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar creates an autobiographical narrative that describes the societal pressures of growing up as a black teenager in Compton, and how his self-awareness and musical passion allowed him to escape from the city’s cycle of violence. Through the album’s storyline Kendrick makes the case that, despite coming from a hedonistic, gang infested city, he is able to transform into a puritan. Kendrick narrates this story through several different perspectives, including actual people from his life as well as his own psyche. Kendrick Lamar mainly invokes the persona of K.Dot, who is based on Kendrick’s actual seventeen year old self. This story begins from the first person perspective of naive K.Dot, who is characterized by a raspy, inflicted voice. The lyrics of this character show the ignorance and lack of direction in his life, as well his self-doubts and impressionability. It is eventually revealed that K.Dot has a passion for music. While K.Dot is a good kid at heart who is not gang affiliated, his innocence is tainted by the desires of the Compton lifestyle. After a violent encounter, a transformation begins to occurs from within K.Dot. He realizes that the negative influences of gang culture have corrupted him,

The issue on every project that Mac Miller does is the lyricism isn't always up to par. He does tend to have some corny lines throughout this album. And even though there isn't any horrible lines on this album, there isn't any standout lyrics either. That is where he seems to have issues as to separating the Blue Side Park side of him to now. But just about every-other category of Mac Miller has matured

"Where your grandma stay, huh, my nigga?" This m.A.A.d city I run, my nigga [Verse 1:] Brace yourself, I'll take you on a trip down memory lane This is not a rap on how I'm slinging crack or move cocaine This is cul-de-sac and plenty Cognac and major pain Not the drill sergeant, but the stress that weighing on your brain It was me, O-Boogy, Yaya, YG Lucky ride down Rosecrans

On ideas and content I would say he is a 3 out of 4. Which say that his paper has some detail, which is true with his story he gave details about the horse on how it was beautiful, and a female deer. He had some detail with saying the story. On the second one organization I gave him a 2 out of 4, which says, omits beginning, middle or end. The only reason I would give him this was because he didn’t have the time to finish his story so he never got to the end. He started to have the introduction, some of the body information but that was all. Which is one of weakness when doing any writing. On the word choices I would give him a 2 out of 4,which states, occasionally misuses words or misunderstands meaning of words: uses of learned high- frequently words. I gave him this score because he is still writing what he is heard being writing before. Which is why he uses once upon a time towards the beginning. Which was one of the things that they knew what meant and he didn’t know how else to start it. In the sentence fluency I gave him a 2 out of 4, which said writes

I have some comments about the grading of the annotated bibliography. As the saying goes, words mean things. No truer is this phrase than some of the words that I used in my bibliography which caused confusion.

I felt pretty good about what I heard. For the most part, I thoroughly enjoyed the concert. I have always been a fan of Johnny Cash's music and have grown up listening to his song, most of which were familiar in this concert. I was very pleased with the musical content of this concert. There was not a song that I did not like listening to. The only negative criticism that I reached with this concert was the recording itself. Although it is what is to be expected of a concert recording, the video quality was poor and the camera was frequently moving and even at one point was not even focused on the stage. Overall I enjoyed watching this concert and I enjoyed listening to the musical