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    Lockegee Rock near Morehead Kentucky holds a stunning view of the Daniel Boone National Forest! ¥ An absolute fantastic view. Captured from the top of the Daniel Boone National Forest, located in northeastern Kentucky near the city of Morehead, this featured image originates in one of the most beautiful and well kept secrets on earth. Although this location is breathtaking, efforts to capture images from the summit will certainly involve a bit hiking and climbing, but it’s definitely worth the

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    Style and originality were important in writing. Graffiti writing wasn't just an act of fun. It was taken very seriously. By the late 1970's graffiti writing could be found on subway cars, trains, buildings and any other large objects that would allow it to be widely visible. Jamaican music and hip hop can be referred to as cousins. One style of

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    What movement changed the world and created many traditions, movements, and even lifestyles? Hip-Hop. This is a name for four elements, created in the late seventies, which includes turntablism, emceeing, graffiti, and break dancing. Hip Hop attained widespread popularity in the 1980s and ’90s. Today, many view this as just “Rap,” but Hip Hop is not just music, it is a cultural movement that influenced America in positive ways. These influences can be seen in the traditions, fashion, art, music,

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    Imagine a mural, of ancient Cree markings, known as syllabics, etched on a wall in a public art gallery. You notice that for certain blocked inscriptions of the text, red and gray paint in the style of graffiti buffing has obscured them from view. That translated mural, presented by Open Space galleries, tells the story of the flood for the Cree Nation. Created in 2013 by a young indigenous artist named Jesse Campbell. As a student, you don 't have many opportunities to create a large-scale piece

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    What goes through the mind of the creator of Star Wars?George Lucas has given people a new culture and has led the film industry into a whole new era.What goes through the mind of a creator is a muse, something that will catch his eye as well as yours. The man who created the most influential and created a new culture. George Lucas is a notable American because he has given a new culture, and something to fall in love with. He has given Americans joy and suspense with the films he has brought

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    Gangs thrive on intimidation and publicity, also violence is very common in gangs and is used to maintain its status. Most gangs depend on both individual and group participation. An individual will be pressured by others in the gang to maintain their status. A street gang’s leadership generally depends on who is the toughest, natural leader or who has success to weapons or money. Also, it may be based on who has the best skills for what the gang wants to do at that time. A good fighter may lead

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    Holden is at Phoebe’s school about to tell her that he is going to run away when he sees this graffiti on the wall. This Symbol of graffiti represents how people lose some of their innocence when they are exposed to this type of profanity. What holden doesn’t realize is that, growing up is unavoidable and it happens to everyone, no matter what. So, every kid is going

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    situated in at the time. The biographer of Goetz, Lillian Rubin, asserts, “For Bernie, there seems to be something seductive about the setting” (Gladwell 241). On the day of the shooting, the subway was in a filthy, grimy condition; vandalization and graffiti were prominent throughout the area, and the atmosphere itself breathed of disarray. Goetz’s action was triggered by the time, place, and manner he was positioned in, proving that one’s psychological status and even personal life history may not

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    Willis 1 Jasmine Willis MUS 2101 23 November 2014 Final Research Paper Hip Hop Culture “Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn 't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.” -Jay-Z. I truly believe that the culture of hip hop really does have the power to bring people together. Hip hop is capable of bringing unity and even a sense of community amongst different people and different culture. The world is very diverse place filled with a mixture of various backgrounds

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    there is evil, there is good. Colum McCann‘s Let the Great World Spin is the manifestation of good vs. evil. The chapter Tag reveals the most. It tells the story of a teenager who takes pictures of graffiti. It’s the reason he enjoys taking the subway to work in his stepfather’s barbershop. Hi favorite graffiti is “the ones you find in the darkness” (168) Because the best art pieces are in the darkness he describes how he barely has any time to take pictures of it. “Lit up by the moving lights of the

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