Rhetorical Analysis 15 October 2013 Understanding 2 Live Crew “2 Live Crew‚ Decoded” written by Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.‚ who also testified on their behalf in court‚ is a short essay in the McGraw Hill Reader that was originally published in the New York Times in 1990. This text explains the controversial and very obscene rap group‚ 2 Live Crew who were well known in the 80s and 90s. Many people enjoyed their music‚ but others thought it was too coarse to be played on the radio or sold in
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What Happened To “All Men Are Created Equal”? Both Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and the essay “In the Kitchen” by Henry Louis Gates help give readers an image of life in America as outsiders‚ as minorities‚ as black. In the letter that Martin Luther King writes to the clergymen from the Birmingham Jail‚ he begins by calling them “men of genuine good will‚” and claims that he knows their “criticisms are sincerely set forth.” Dr. King tries to remain polite but an undertone
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was born into an African American family‚ same as Henry Louis Gates Jr.‚ and Maya Angelou. Lawrence was born twelve years later than Gates‚ and Maya Angelou was born thirty-four years before Lawrence. Despite the age differences‚ they each share similar aspects. Both Graham and Gates attended Harvard University and served their share in making an impact in the civil rights movement. As we can see‚ through all these short stories‚ Graham‚ Gates‚ and Ms. Angelou all face racial segregation and discrimination
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Musician Tom Lehrer said “I have always found it interesting… that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.” (n.d.). Although flattery was probably not on the mind of 2 Live Crew when they released “Pretty Woman”‚ the group’s intent for the song was to be a parody of Roy Orbison and William Dees’s version of “Oh‚ Pretty Woman” (Deutsch‚ 1995). The facts and legal reasoning behind this case will be discussed to show how the court reached its decision. In addition‚
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Money is a Responsibility In his essay‚ “What’s in a Name?” Henry Louis Gates Jr. travels back to an event in time where his father encountered prejudice and at that time‚ Henry Louis Gates Jr. made an extraordinary realization at a young age. We have all had small realizations‚ but like Gates Jr.‚ I had one that changed my life. Zero responsibility and no value of money can seem like a great way of thinking‚ but as I look back on it‚ I wouldn’t want to go back to that mindset. Before moving to
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Importance of Heritage Throughout this semester in African American Literature we have read and analyzed many different literary works from The Norton Anthology of African American Literature by Henry Louis Gates Jr. We have discussed several of them in class either as a whole or in groups. I thoroughly enjoyed gaining useful knowledge about my own culture and heritage. This course also furthered my knowledge of the African American Experience. A few literary works stood out to me in particular;
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“Cocaine wasn’t new and neither was selling it. There had always been older dudes who grew their pinkie fingernails out to sniff coke. There were always down-low dealers who partied with their customers as they supplied them…. but for the most part doing coke was something that happened at private parties‚ something you might’ve of heard about but had never really seen.” (Jay-Z 18) Cocaine was a drug popular in the 80’s but was known to be very expensive. In the mid-1980 there became a smokable form
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Henry Louis Vivian Derozio Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (18 April 1809 – 26 December 1831) was a fiery Indian teacher and poet. As a lecturer at the Hindu College of Calcutta‚ he invigorated a large group of students to think independently; this Young Bengal group played a key role in the Bengal renaissance. Derozio was generally considered an Anglo-Indian‚ being of mixed Portuguese descent‚ but he was fired by a patriotic spirit for his native Bengal‚ and considered himself Indian. In his poem To
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Bill Gates Bill (William) Henry Gates is the founder and CEO of the multibillion corporation: Microsoft. Microsoft is considered to be the world leader in software development ranging from their famous operating system Windows to Microsoft Office‚ a series of applications dealing with data management and processing. Microsoft also produces the X-Box line of entertainment councils. Gates was born October 28‚ 1955 in Seattle. His father was an attorney and his mother was a schoolteacher
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Denisovan Genome Decoded In 2010‚ Svante Pääbo and his colleagues presented a draft version of the genome from a small fragment of a human finger bone discovered in Denisova Cave in southern Siberia. The DNA sequences showed that this individual came from a previously unknown group of extinct humans that have become known as Denisovans. Together with their sister group the Neandertals‚ Denisovans are the closest extinct relatives of currently living humans. Until recently‚ most scientists thought
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