D’monta Brown Period 5 November 4‚ 2012 Mr. Melchor Tupac Amaru Shakur‚ born Lesane Parish Crooks; June 16‚ 1971‚ known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli‚ was an American famous rapper and actor. On the night of September 7‚ 1996‚ Shakur attended the Mike Tyson–Bruce Sheldon boxing match at the MGM GRAND in Las Vegas. After leaving the match‚ one of Knight’s associates spotted 21-year-old Orlando Anderson‚ an alleged member of the Southside Crips‚ in the MGM
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on the dash roll a roller do a line.It has long been rumored that the late rap icon‚ Tupac Shakur‚ faked his death and was living in hiding. There have been many Tupac sightings over the years and stories of his survival‚ and now after 17 years we have photographic proof the late Death Row artist is indeed still alive and well in New Orleans. In this photo‚ snapped last weekend on Frenchmen Street‚ an aging Tupac can be seen passed out in a chair outside local nightclub Cafe Negril. Several tourists
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at my sanity‚ content when I am dropped. Tomorrow I see change‚ a chance to build a new. Built on spirit intent of Heart‚ and ideals based on truth‚ tomorrow I wake with second wind‚ and strong because of pride…” Those are the spoken words of Tupac Shakur. This poem speaks out to me because it has a lot to with the life I had went a little now. August 29th I had come home from school. Stayed outside to hang out with my friends‚ around 5 o’clock I go inside and everything is packed. “Why is everything
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Year 11 Assessment: Changing Perspectives RELATED TEXTS ASSESSMENT – ADVANCED ENGLISH 1) Prescribed Text – The Book Thief a. Compose a summary/synopsis of the text (plot/themes/characters/key concerns). (100 words only) ‘The Book Thief’ by Mark Zusak The Book Thief is a story of a young german girl named Liesel Meminger in Nazi Germany during world war 2. At age nine her brother drops dead in front of her and when Death himself comes to collect his newest soul‚ he becomes fascinated with
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Do Not Judge a Book by Its Cover "What you see is what you get" is a saying that rings in a person’s head when they see someone that looks strange‚ or just different‚ from them. In those cases‚ society is quick to "judge a book by its cover". We see tattoos and piercings on people and automatically assume they are somehow a bad influence or just an evil person. We perceive people with tattoos and piercings negatively because we have been conditioned by society to accept this stereotype‚ which
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legend is 2PAC (Tupac Amaru Shakur 1971-1996). Tupac had two fathers a Black Panther father Billy Garland (his real father) and a stepfather Mutulu Shakur. Billy took care of tupac for 5 years until he was married that was when Billy and his wife left the panther’s party and he lost contact with his son till Tupac first time shoot by 5 bullets. After billy left his wife(Afeni)‚ Afeni got married to Mutulu Shakur. Tupac mother’s name is Alice Faye Williams (later called Afeni Shakur)‚ she was one
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that captured audiences across America‚ and began to shape a new culture entwined with rap and hip hop culture. Some of the major influences to this new cultural phenomenon were Tupac Shakur‚ Notorious BIG‚ and The Fab 5 basketball team. "As was made most tragically evident by the 1996 and 1997 slayings of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious BIG‚ two of gangsta rap ’s brightest lights"(20). Also‚ " The baggy shorts‚ the black socks‚ the swagger‚ the way they played the game -- a young‚ soon-to-be prodigy
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Patrick Wyszynski Doctor Todd Bruce ENG 111-68 5 October 2014 Hidden Intellectualism: A Summary During my lifetime‚ I’ve been referred to as “book smart” once or twice. For many years I thought this was preferable to the less flattering “street smart” label. However‚ Gerald Graff‚ a professor of English and education at The University of Illinois at Chicago‚ argues in his writing Hidden Intellectualism from his 2003 Book Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind that
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Marie Widmeier 9/23/3013 Professor Paige Constantino Life Is What You Make It The sound of music often serves as the backdrop of almost everything in life‚ where certain songs resonate bittersweet memories. As I express my feelings through music‚ it is evident that some songs hold much more meaning. We can all believe in a song to express our feelings‚ and that’s how I experienced and processed many of life’s changes. Some were sad and others were happy; in the end‚ I found that all I have
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shooting on former friend Tupac Shakur. His hip-hop career was focused by the struggle between Bad Boy Records and Death Row Records‚ which occupied most of his life. Tupac was shot multiple times in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas on September 7‚ 1996. Rumors of Biggie’s involvement in Tupac’s murder were showing up almost immediately. Biggie Smalls‚ age 24‚ was pronounced dead at 1:15 A.M. On Sunday‚ March 1997. He was cut down in a fashion eerily similar to that of Tupac Shakur: on a crowded street
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