Art is simply one’s emotions, ideas, or beliefs expressed through a particular talent or skill. It is a way to practice our right to ‘pursuit happiness’. If an artist’s work is a genuine expression of their passions, then it is in fact, high art. An example of an art form that, at first glance, may not be considered ‘high art’ is graffiti/street art. To the common eye, graffiti can be seen as a nuisance; dirty; obnoxious.
Thierry is a very strange French man who moved to California to start his family. His tendency to film anything and everything lead him to an interesting beginning into the world of street art while visiting family at a reunion. It was there that Thierry learned his cousin was a street artist who refers to himself as “Invader”, as he uses small tiles to create images from the game Space Invader. Thierry was immediately interested and followed his cousin through the nights of adhering these tile works to walls and buildings around the city. He followed his cousin for quite a while, leading to his meeting of a friend of Invader’s named Shepard Fairey.
When getting the news that the group was performing in Boston, it was my chance to relive a journey that affected me when reading “On The Bus” and “Narrator Past Journalism” by Vivian Gornick. While reading essay, I could remind myself of the traveling mentioned from school on the greyhound bus. (87) My best friend Mark had to go on a vacation with his girlfriend during the week I bought the Coldplay tickets. Not knowing what to do with the ticket there was someone my friend had in mind to invite. The guy lived in Pittsburg and was thrilled to meet us in New York City for the bus towards Boston.
According to King, it is impractical because it slows the process of ending the oppression for all, and it is immoral because it seeks humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding. So, violence destroys community and brotherhood by planting hatred rather than love. The third way based on King is nonviolent resistance. He believes in this way no individual or group need give in to any wrong, nor need anyone resort to violence in order to right a wrong. According to king, this is the method that oppressed people must follow to win against the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.
“Violence of some kind was recognized as necessary for breaking the conspiracy of silence and complacency about economic oppression, police violence, and other social ills of the black inner city.” (pg. 59). Tupac is one of many rappers who, though looked at as just a thug or a gangster, he rapped about a great number of issues that plagued and continue to plague the urban African American communities. Since rap is a form of art, and art has a deep connection to life used as a tool for structuring and shaping one’s ethics and lifestyle, it like other forms of art is simply a means of political engagement to raise consciousness and promote greater freedom (pg. 57).
Doug Barnett English 99 Essay 1 17 May 2014 A Different Look at Graffiti When you hear the word graffiti, the first thing that usually comes to mind is gang affiliation. Even though gangs use graffiti to show power and claim possession, it is also used as a form of expression. In the writings of “Creepin’ While You’re Sleepin” by Stephen Lemons, graffiti comes across as a problematic situation; however that is not his intention. He follows a young girl, Tribe, who believes graffiti is an expressive art form. Even though Tribe is considered a bomber-tagger she shows there is more to spray painted walls than meets-the-eye.
To justify this action the officer may say to themselves that they are making society safer, and never accept the true reality that they have committed a crime to achieve a desire that was never attainable in the first place because there will always be some criminals that get away. This may be because of some connections they have within the legal system, or even because of a mishap on the officer’s behalf that violated a right that they have under the Constitution. Regardless it is impossible to get every “bad guy” off of the street, and the officer themselves has become one of the “bad guys” in hopes that they will achieve a desire by using illegal means. Another instance of noble cause corruption may fall into the area of intelligence- led policing and come in the form of fourth amendment violations in an effort to contain society’s terrorists, and criminals. In this instance an officer may search someone’s home based on SARs which is a suspicious activity report which does not establish probable cause to take the action of searching a person home, and he or she may do so without
Hip hop is consciousness. People rap to be heard, because they want a better life, to get out of poverty and to end injustice. “If you hate hip hop then you obviously don’t understand hip hop, so spit truth in the face of injustice” (Chavis). That is why he believes hip-hop should not be censored and that we should caution away from those who want to take away the first amendment (freedom of speech), or people who do not except reality, people who do not accept “consciousness.” People protest against the bad language, rather than recognizing what the rap represents, which is typically the horrible social situations that these individuals are or were enduring, such as self-destruction, drugs, violence and hopelessness. “I would rather have young people in the studio making rhymes, then on the streets slinging drugs”
Either way, it is against the law. What is the difference between racial profiling and hate crimes? Hate crimes are a crime against a person, whereas racial profiling is practiced in some law enforcements, and is not considered illegal. I personally believe that racial profiling is a violation of our human rights and freedoms, which everyone is entitled to. What racial profiling does is not protect us, but I believe it endangers us more.
However, there is still a part of society that believes in many tattoo stereotypes. There are many negative stereotypes in Western culture that comes up when someone discusses about tattoos. Therefore this book will be about persuading my audiences to break the views of stereotypes on tattoos. Usually when we see a male who is heavily tattooed, the perception is that they are of a lower class background or lifestyle, that they have probably made poor life choices in the past, and that they are a rebel or a thug. It is the same for females who are heavily tattooed.