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...

What are emotions? Emotions are feelings that are taken from the persons’ condition or mood. Depending on what happened emotions could change. What makes you happy? Getting sevens in all your subjects in DP? Are you sure that makes you happy or are you misinterpreting the feeling of happiness, but in reality you are not happy but exited for the reward you will get from your parents by achieving such outstanding grades.   In the text “A new way to look at emotions” states that people very often misunderstand how they feel. In the text’s example of Lisa Feldman, a mere infection made her think she was in love with the man. How did feeling sick, make you think that you are interested in someone? Is it because of past experiences, where she had interests in someone while feeling sick, which made her think that when she’s not feeling well and her stomach is churning means that she likes the person. This is only a possibility. The way you interpret the infection is depending on wha...

The cannon-bard theory was created by Walter Cannon and Philip Bard in the 1920s . Who disagreed with the James-Lange theory which states that after experiencing a certain situation the brain first reacts to the situation and then emotional feelings occur, however the Cannon-Bard theory states that both (arousal and emotion) occur the same time after the event. For example, you just went to sleep and while laying in the bed you feel something crawling on your arms. so you decide to open your eyes and find out it was a spider (tarantula). this is when you run away as far as you can from the spider while feeling fear the second you saw the spider. But, in the James-Lange theory states that you will run away and then feel fear.

Standardized tests   Standardized testing has been used for a long time in almost all schools to measure the intelligence and abilities of a student. Standardized testing is not only used in schools but in almost everywhere, from job applications to university applications. One of the most used standardized testing is the SAT, which most universities require a certain score for the application. Many people say that standardized testing are unfair, people come from different cultures and speak many other languages other than English which will be a disadvantage for them in oppose to people with a first language of English. But, there are varieties of intelligence tests made especially for non-English speakers, like the IELTS and the TOEFL tests.   Although many people judge standardized tests as unfair, and claim that it is a bad way to recognize a student’s abilities, in my point of view, standardized tests are very good for teachers to u...