James Weldon Silence Is The Enemy

It all started when 2 Pac , Biggie , Eazy E, all were killed... The few real rappers that gave us the people real rap music . Talking about what they have gone through their struggles and how they became famous and at the top.. These rappers have also impacted the lives of many other people. Changing the views of their lives giving the people who lived in the ghetto hope that there will be a “ Brighter day after the darkest nights “. Those rappers were heros to many people but they ended up being killed … the rap “game “ was then introduced by another rapper in which who many people now look up to .His name is eminem or “ slim shady “... by rapping his emotions and what pain he has been through was a way he battled his depression .. this man became the hero of many till he just stopped making music but carried on with his touring.. But now its 2017 rap took a plunge ….The new upcoming rappers like Xxxtencion and others … make their

Driving through Charlestown will take you just three minutes. The kids on street corners will stare at your car, while adults will yell out your name and wave. The friendly atmosphere can make you feel welcome if you are a part of the neighborhood. But it vanishes if you are an outsider or a local victim of a crime.

Millions of people in the world listen to music for all different reasons. Most people all over the world listen to different genres of music in order to relax, but not too many people pay attention to the actual lyrics of a song. If you listen to the lyrics of a song you will realize that many songs have important messages or themes to them. An example of this is the lyrics of the song “Changes” by Tupac Shakur. If you listen to this song, you will realize that Tupac raps about not only the problems that African Americans face from society, but also the struggles that poor people in society have to endure and overcome. Many

No one can truly understand sympathy until they have suffered. In his The Chosen, a postmodern novel, Chaim Potok surveys the meaning of compassion learned through suffering. Danny Saunders, a brilliant Hasidic Jew, lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn along with his friend, Reuven Malter, in the 1940s. With his photographic memory, Danny aspires to become a psychologist, but he knows that he will have to inherit his father’s position as the rabbi of their community. In addition to this, his father, Reb Saunders, will not speak to him about anything other than the holy book of Talmund. Danny is forced to keep his ideas and experiences to himself, leading to him suffering because of this silence. Chaim Potok’s The Chosen uses Danny’s gradual shift

In 2012, thirteen U.S. police officers fired a total of 137 bullets into a Chevy Malibu; the motorists inside were unarmed. Police brutality is a heavily debated topic, in the United States, its existence is the issue. There has been countless accusations of excessive force, also known as police brutality, throughout the years. Excessive force is the unjustified use of force to detain, control, and assault of any individual. Due to the Blue wall of Silence, insufficient training, unequal application of law, police culture, and the decrease of gun ownership, police brutality is on the rise.

Before God and the creation the world, there was silence. A silence that was quite similar to the silence of the Holocaust. Survivors of the Holocaust have told their stories, revealing the destructive effects of the silence of the Holocaust. In the novel, Night, Elie Wiesel illustrates the destructive effects that silence brought to the lives of the people who crossed its path, and unveils the damage that silence generates on the Jew’s relationship with God.

The origins of hip hop started in the late 70’s as a pastime that brought all the impoverished people of the projects together to have fun through. But decades later in the 90’s, people began to rap about many subjects ranging from the crack epidemic, hard life in the ghetto, or just having fun, but the underlying motive of rappers in this era was to reflect on their rough lifestyle through clever lyrics. The motive wasn’t for money, but recognition for their unique wordplay among the rap community. However, that all changed when record companies saw a financial opportunity in rappers, and rappers saw a financial opportunity through music. Due to the commercialization of hip hop, authenticity is rare to find in the mainstream

Mr. Wiesel interpreted pathos into every one of his writings. Everything he has written, makes you feel some type of emotion. In Wiesel’s “The Perils of Indifference Speech,” he shared, “They felt nothing. They were dead and did not know it.” Some people fear death and some people do not like death. Death can make everyone feel some type of way. Talking about death is not an easy subject. When Wiesel brings up death in his writings, it makes most people go silent. It shows just how much emotion death can cause. In “Nobel Peace Prize speech,” he groaned, “The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.” The words Wiesel uses spark up an emotion to how they were able to sit back and do nothing. To make the world feel guilt and sorrow for causing someone to go through that. In chapter three of Night, Mr. Wiesel wrote, “The clubs and whips were cracking around me.” When someone hears about brutality or abuse it often makes people go silent. It makes you feel sadness to hear about someone being beat and not taken care of. Mr. Wiesel told that throughout his story causing lots of emotion to be felt by the reader. Making them wonder why this went on and how come no one stopped it. Emotion is something everyone feels and knowing that, Wiesel made that an important part of his

Hip-hop’s fascination with authenticity is unique to the genre and its function of its roots as the cultural expression of socially and economically marginalized African-Americans. A narrow subculture, hip-hop’s rise to prominence as evidence by the rise of international hip-hop stars, a high percentage of hip-hop CD sales, and the cooption of all things “hip-hop” by large companies to target new consumer demographics, has jeopardized the genre’s “realness.” Listen to Kanye West’s “Ni**gas in Paris” produced in 2011 and then listen to Maceo’s “Nextel Chirp” produced in 2005, both tracks sound very similar, so what is authentic and what is not?

The rap genre originated from some of the most underprivileged areas of New York in the 1970’s. What was once DJ’s talking over a beat they were playing to encourage more activity on the dance floor, turned in to a new genre of music called rap. The majority of earlier rap songs were fun inducing tracks, but in the 1980’s, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five introduced social consciousness to the genre. They sparked a long lasting impact on rap as it started to evolve rapidly as time went on. The 90’s was home to “gangsta rap,” followed by a softer side of song writing pioneered by the likes of Outkast and Kanye West in the 2000’s. Today, rap music is very diverse and more accepting of different styles than it was before. However, throughout the entire history of rap music, the one thing that has stayed

The influence that the spotlight is on in this essay is not somebody that I have met before, but someone I’ve watched, listened to, heard of for years, and watched grow as I grow, Jacques Webster Jr, also known as Travis Scott. Travis is a person who has a mind just as wild as mine. He shows his emotions through music producing and mood of instrumentals he creates and shares with the world. People don’t even think of Travis as an artist they think of him as beyond that and on another level compared to the rest of the music community. I found Travis when I was a freshmen in High School ,after finding and learning to enjoy life and what truly makes me happy from Keith Cozart. When I found Travis he was just a quiet guy who just needed a push to be extroverted ,like he is to this day, but before the push Travis

In “A Silence that Kills” Lyndon Haviland expresses the idea that the public must confront the social inequities of tobacco use. Haviland believes the communities must communitcate a sence of urgency and engage all Americans in the battle against tobacco use. The author expresses her ideas thoroughly by concentrating on certain fact of tobacco use or second hand smoke affect, the epidemic in out current communities, the silence of the government, and the concern for public health. With the constant repetition of unity and a well-organized, concentrated article, the author easily captures the attention of the reader and the intended American audience. However, the author lacks information on

Some argue that corrupt police officers are simply the product of a corrupt culture of the agency they work for. These officers are socially introduced to a number of informal rules when they begin employment. This process and these rules serve two main purposes. First, this process is designed to minimize the chances of external or internal controls being mobilized to address the behaviors and, secondly, to keep corrupt activities at a level that is acceptable and likely undetectable. The rule most often referred to in this connection, is the “Code of Silence.” Officers are socialized into not cooperating with investigations regarding fellow officers. Whether or not the officer participates in corrupt activities for financial gain, an officer’s adherence to the “Code of Silence” places them squarely amongst the corrupt of the profession (Price, 1972).

I’m not sure. The careless man who took my sister, or my ex best friend who took my boyfriend. The death of a sister cranking on my heart, as when my dog attacked a rabbit and the life ended in my hands. My support system crashed like a sports car smashing into an “Oversized Load” on the highway. The glow of the clock tells me it’s far past my bedtime, while the radio broadcaster mumbles something about black friday sales. The driver of the vehicle blurring into the car, my tears blurring everything in sight. When I needed a friend the most, they all seemed to fade away. Nothing but dead still silence surrounds and engulfs me. I should have screamed. Someone should have done something, said something.

Throughout my life, I have read so many books with hundreds of storylines and plot twists that have either stayed with me or faded away as time passed. However, some books leave a lasting impression, their images playing on repeat, their wisdom influencing my own life. One of these was, Silence, by Natasha Preston. It is the first in a two book series that I will always remember. The main character’s experiences and the way in which she handled them lingered in my mind and impacted my own experiences as well. As the longest-serving Harvard University president and American academic, Charles William Eliot, said, “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” Eliot’s quote is the perfect description of what Silence is to me: a friend, a counselor, a teacher.