July 2001 was a busy time for Aaliyah. After the sucess of her song "Try Again" for which she was nominated for a Grammy Award and won several MTV Video Awards, Aaliyah finally released her "Aaliyah" album. Debuting at number two on the Billboard charts, "Aaliyah" was a sales success despite many lack-lustre reviews it received. In August 2001, Aaliyah took time off from her busy album promotional tour to fly to the Bahamas to film a video for the song "Rock the Boat". The video, filmed on Abaco Island, was directed by Hype Williams, a major music video director known for his style and wit.
White men were also afraid of the different ideas these peoples were bringing. Most of these ideas were revolutionary, many of these people had came from oppressing countries and wanted freedom, but we saw those ideas as a danger for our government. Attitudes held toward Native Americans, Cubans, and Filipinos were different because for the Indians the U.S tried to “Americanize” and “civilize” them by separating them and out-lawing their tribes, and for the Cubans and Filipinos the U.S just simply denied their entrance to the country and did all they could to get them out of the country. All these attitudes were based on one thing only, the idea of white superiority. These ideas and attitudes held towards these people influenced actions taken during this period tremendously.
Fashion: Bell Bottoms You might look at them now and wonder how on earth they got popular, but bell-bottoms were initially designed for naval personnel. They were designed to flare out at the bottom so that it was easy for sailors to take off their boots in emergency situations. The pants then started to get popular as more and more celebrities like James Brown started wearing them during their performances. Hippies also took a great interest in bell-bottoms because they were so unlike what their parents and regular society wore. In many parts of the USA bell-bottoms were unattainable because they came across as too much of a fashion statement, so many of the country’s youth would split their jeans at the bottom and sewing in a triangular
He also brings up about how civil right leaders have the right to bash these black celebrities that are putting down their own race. They fought so hard to be free and have the same rights as a white person so he is confused on why they would bash their own race. He should have added more statistics and maybe where he got his facts. He says the homicide is on the rise for black woman and rape is often found with black girls primarily. Where did he get those statistics?
They claim that it is form decimation against white males for past discrimination against women and people of color. One example of (reverse decimation) Ricci v. DeStefano: A Case of Reverse Discrimination. In this case white firefighters from new haven claimed that they were discrimination by the city because they threw out tests that they past by 50 percent greater than blacks. The tests stats were for a promotion so they said that they were preventing the white firefighter from advancing. The supporters of affirmative action admitted that it does discrimination in the technical term but it for social justice for the past minorities that have been deprived of social opportunity.
White people believed they were superior to the blacks and barely viewed them as human beings. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee writes accurate descriptions of how racism was ingrained in the daily lives of Americans such as Aunt Alexandra whose response to Scout as to why she cannot play with a black boy is "Because- he – is – trash, that’s why you can’t play with him". Alexandra is not giving Scout a real reason why because she has no reason other than she grew up with society telling her black and white children could not play together and was brainwashed into believing it. Another situation that shows the shocking segregation is when Cecil Jacobs asked a question about why the Jewish were persecuted in class "But that ain’t no cause to persecute ‘em. They’re white aren’t they?"
He spoke from his heart even if it didn’t really come out the right way; he still managed to put in to terms. He changed the perception of rap by rapping and speaking the truth about the government, the ghetto, giving back to the community, his childhood and life. He also taught people teaching us through rap that "for every dark night there's a brighter day" which means that though you may be going through a hard time in life it will get better pretty soon and not only that he inspired people through his music and gave them hope and that is why Tupac Amaru Shakur will always be the person to change the rap game forever. Bibliography * Anson, Sam. "Reasonable Doubt."
He was showing he how to live in the moment. Lonnie had a long grey beard because wanted it, not because he was poor and couldn’t afford to get it cut. He informed me that most of the people who live on the island he did didn’t like to shave because there were better things to do on the beautiful island than shave a beard. It was all starting the make sense to me. We had already worried to much that day at the beach.
This led to millions of albums beings sold because people began to feed into the hype and joined in on the war. Their carelessness led to multiple people being killed including 2pac and Biggie. They clearly did not care about the message they were sending to the world and to the youth but rather how much money they could make, even at the expense of others. Secular rappers produce the vulgar and sexually explicit lyrics that they do because they know that today's youth are curious and that they are trying to quench their sinful desires. According to Ohha.com , not only in a song made by makaveli, but also in a song made by 50 cent, they both claim that they have "sold their souls to the devil in order to gain riches."
These were not laws but were important to peace. Probably the most radical part was the clause which set up an elected group of 25 barons to check that the king did as was promised. Only three clauses in the Magna Carter are still valid today. One says that London and all other towns and ports shall enjoy their ancient liberties and customs. Many people think that King John was a bad King, this is largely due to stories surrounding Robin Hood and the fact he charged high taxes and imprisoned people without good reason.