Language and Literature SL

  Tupac Shakur was one of the most successful hip-hop music artist of all time. He came from a very diverse background; Tupac lived in the most violent and disadvantaged communities in America. His harsh childhood experiences are what determined his ethnicity and interests, and why he got into hip-hop. Shakur uses his own dialect to express the way he feels through hip-hop, where he wrote songs about all the violence and the harsh life of his community. Tupac even talked wrote about racism against his own race, how the upper communities looked down on his race and how they judge a black person from his external looks especially the way he talks. Shakur wanted to stop all this through his music and to represent and honor his race, to stop the racism. Tupac clearly shows in the video that he is from the black community, and he takes pride to stand for them and speak about the violence in his city. When he was talking about when he got shot, he never expected that to happen and ...

  The movie series 13 reasons why has been criticized by suicide experts that it has evoked the suicide rates and suicide searches on Google. Netflix, who created the series rejected all the arguments and evidence that the show arouses suicide rates. Sophie Gilbert said, “Netflix and the producers have repeatedly claimed that the show is raising awareness around the subject of suicide” both sides argue. Should there be ethical considerations? Well younger people tend to get influenced easier than older people. Statistics show for a fact that 13 reasons why has increased suicide rates. This shows that the show has influenced people, and has the power to affect emotions, which made them commit suicide. Many different forms of arts have power to influence people, possibly even control over them in an indirect way. A good example is “Blue Whale” where children were led to suicide from playing the game. Art definitely has the power to alter people’s emotions. I think that arts sends a...

First Order: 1 -  He and his team created 176 characters, 12 pixels square 2 -  the US Library of Congress accepted a 'translation' into emoji of Herman Melville's Moby Dick 3 -  In October 2010, a hand-picked selection of 722 emoji characters were finally cemented into Unicode across sets such as 'Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs', 'Emoticons' and 'Transport and Map Symbols'.     Second Order:  1 -  a huge industry exists to embellish and enhance your messages with whatever pictures you like 2 -  MessageMe and Cubie have moved into the realm of 'stickers': set...

First order: 1 -  Kevin Brinkley’s murder conviction as a juvenile nearly 40 years ago was based largely on the testimony of two eyewitnesses. 2 -  More than 70 percent of the convictions that have been overturned 3 - Ronald Brinkley confessed to the murder several times over the years 4 - Eyewitness  misidentification is the single biggest contributor to the wrongful convictions 5 -  Brinkley was 15 when he was sent to prison for life for allegedly shooting egg deliveryman Charles Haag in December 1977.  Ronald Brinkley was 14. Second Order: 1 -  Scores of scientific studies over the decades have shown that eyewitnesses are often inaccurate. This can be trusted as it was studied. 2 -  More than 70 percent of the convictions that have been overturned through DNA testing  nationwide involved  eyewitnesses who got it wrong , according to the Innocence Project. This  is reliable because every person has his own...