We Ain T Going Nowhere Summary

The next verse in the song addresses privileged class in American culture, the wealthiest of Americans. The song states that, “Some folks are born silver spoon in hand, Lord, don’t they help themselves, oh” criticising the rich who live easier life where things are often given to them and the song also calls them greedy by saying that “they help themselves”. Fogerty further criticizes the rich by saying how they do not help the poorer citizens with the lyrics, “But when the tax men come to the door, Lord, the house look a like a rummage sale, yes” showing how the high class “tax men” are coming to take away the belongings and the livelihoods of the common man. Fogerty’s distrust of the rich in this verse stems from the law which stated that active members in a university, be it undergraduate, graduate, of law school,

The decade of hip-hop is what some may call it. Tupac, Naz, Biggie Smalls, as well as other artists, were major contributions. Not only for the people who are trying to find their footing, but Buck as well. Throughout the book various lyrics were embedded in order to create a better understanding for its readers. In addition, this book is based upon a 90s lifestyle within Philadelphia, which included drugs, gang activity, crime, hip-hop, and havoc. Malo was directly in the center of everything, the girls, the fights, the guns. His experiences shed light towards what it’s like to as an African American individual living in or near the hood. Not everyone realizes what people go through while living there, but now it gives some readers an image of what goes on. Though times have changed, not all previous feelings

Should nuclear energy be used? Throughout the article “Nowhere to go”, the author objectively reviews the use of nuclear energy, using the text and graphics to provide details that demonstrate the advantages and disadvantages of its use. Nevertheless, the consequences of using nuclear energy outweigh the benefits. One of these consequences is that working with nuclear energy can cause many health problems. The text states, “Dangers include radiation sickness, cancers, and other health problems. High level radioactive waste can present hazards ‘for a million years or more,’ Kamps says.” This means that using nuclear energy can cause health problems for future generations.

Co-author of “They Say/I Say” handbook, Gerald Graff, analyzes in his essay “Hidden Intellectualism” that “street smarts” can be used for more efficient learning and can be a valuable tool to train students to “get hooked on reading and writing” (Graff 204). Graff’s purpose is to portray to his audience that knowing more about cars, TV, fashion, and etc. than “academic work” is not the detriment to the learning process that colleges and schools can see it to be (198). This knowledge can be an important teaching assistant and can facilitate the grasping of new concepts and help to prepare students to expand their interests and write with better quality in the future. Graff clarifies his reasoning by indicating, “Give me the student anytime

Before beginning the second stanza, there is the single word, "move." This is undoubtedly the sentiment of the neighbors who would rather not be confronted with such frank diversity on their own doorsteps. It is also, as indicated by their name, the goal of the Afro-centric group, which gives the word an ironic twist, as the hostility of the neighbors is directed toward the same goal as the group called "Move."

“Finding Our Way” is a belief that education is important for everyone, which can be used as a guide to help us through the world. Mike Rose explains that we learn things outside of books as well, through curiosity with or without education. Using that education we pass down to ensure the young will be ready for the real world. These experiences are archive by attending classes and learning, teachers can have a big part by teaching us things we did not or never known before. Which can come down to the topic you're interested in, they could help keep you engaged in what you want to know. The main point is that knowledge truly is power and that it can help us make educated decisions

In the introduction of the video to “Alright” by Kendrick Lamar, he uses footage of “the hood” or a rough neighborhood in California to expose the harsh conditions of income based housing in rough black

Every morning April Grant, Berkeley College student in New York City feels angry and irritated. She is very nice and happy person, but when she faces her biggest pet peeve, everything changes dramatically. In extremely bad days she can be late for her class because of it and gets picked on for that. Being picked on is making her miserable and furious. All of this wouldn’t happen if there were no slow people in NYC. “People just need to move out the way” (Grand).

The angry and aggressive tone displays the attitudes and aggression towards the tenant for being African American. The tenant begs for repairs and his denied by his cruel landlord. The hostility of the poem can be seen in “You ain’t gonna be able to say a word / If I land my fist on you” as the tenant threatens the landlord for not repairing the home(19-20). The landlord is aggressive as well; for instance when he calls the police he says “He’s [the tenant] trying to ruin the government / And overturn the land,” which shows the landlord’s distaste for the tenant (23-14). The excerpt displays the landlord’s thinking that African Americans are ruining the United States and shouldn’t even be part of the

The flowing nature of the poem is indicative of the uninterrupted routine of life for immigrants. They went to work six days a week for around ten hours a day, only having time to rest on Sundays. The use of only one punctuation mark, the ellipses, shows how desperate and hanging on and hopeless the immigrants were. The imagery, “lose the race to rats,” alludes to “the rat race” of working endlessly for no gain, just spinning around in the proverbial wheel, and they can’t even make enough money in that fruitless endeavor. Factory workers only made an average of a dollar a day, barely enough to maintain a decent standard of living. They often lived with the street vermin, literally losing their food and shelter to rats. The juxtaposition of dreams with traps, and relax with restless, mirrors the juxtaposition of coming to America, the dream of riches and prosperity contrasting with the reality of long hours in dingy dirty factories. It wasn’t until the Progressive era of reforms and unions that factory work became even mildly bearable. All the sentences are long and languishing, which shows how, for immigrants, making it in America was one long struggle. Working class Americans during the late 1800's did not have the easy life, or even tolerable life, that many immigrants thought they would

This makes me think that the poem is going to talk about a rap sound making its way to the top of billboard top 100 rap songs. Continuing on throughout the whole poem it gets you more clues that the narrator is talking about rap songs. We see here

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s book Why We Can't Wait was published in 1963 when Dr. King was a civil rights leader in Birmingham, Alabama. As a minister from Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. King went to Birmingham where he successfully organized and led a 382-day boycott of that city's segregated public busing. Along with other African-Americans, Dr. King was jailed for his political actions. His book is both an analysis of the events in which he was involved in Birmingham, as well as his thinking on the overall problem of racial inequality and injustice in the United States. Why We Can’t Wait recounts the Birmingham campaign in vivid detail, while underscoring why 1963 was such a crucial year for the civil rights movement. Disappointed by the slow pace

In the same vein as lifelessness, Hayden’s poem part V of Elegies he asks where all of the people went. The point of this poem is to allow those who were affected by gentrification in Detroit and treated as less than human, to be portrayed as humans. Humans that are not stereotypes and have complex existences, and humans that can no longer be thought of a “those poor people over there” like they are not humans but an abstract concept for White people to have an academic discussion about. There are 19 people talked about in V of Elegies. 19 people are recognized with their characteristics and methods of survival, even though the poem is not long. He acknowledges and honours how these people have chosen to survive whether it was dancing, laughter,

1. Sub Point: Baylor University does a nice job of summing up student motives of such drastic behavior in its 2005 article “Study Drugs Still Popular despite Health Risks”.

“Rap is poetry” (xii). To any avid fan of the genre, it is a statement that seems obvious. The words could easily be the musings of a listener first introduced to the art form, not the focal point of an entire work of contemporary criticism. Yet in Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop, Adam Bradley’s primary focus is this very point, the recognition of traditional poetic elements within rap music. With the global cultural and economic phenomenon that hip hop has become, it is easy to forget that the style of music is barely thirty years old, that scholarly criticism of it has existed for only half of that time. When viewed within this relatively new arena of scholarship, the importance of Bradley’s text is