Breakin' Essays

  • Breakin’, directed by Joel Silburg

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    Breakin’(1995) is a film about the story of a jazz dancer named Kelly who meets two break dancers named Ozone and Turbo. The movie depicts their struggle from the street competitions to the stage of a professional jazz show. This movie also reveals that the way members of society view hip hop influences the effort one has to make in order to succeed in the industry. Throughout the movie, one sees how certain individuals perceive breakdancing to be similar to a comedy act. This is equivalent to

  • breakin the rules

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    Breaking the Rules They are many different forms of poems that writers make. Poems are meant to read in order to go beyond traditional form of thinking. The poem “Read This Poem from the Bottom up” by Ruth Porritt is a reverso poem in which you can read the poem from bottom up to top down. This would be consider a free verse poem and yet saying it’s a free verse could be consider an oxymoron to free verses because it must have the same words to read from the top down to bottom up. This poem has all

  • Hip Hop and Today's Culture

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    by the hip hop culture in everyday speaking. Hip hop culture has a major contribution to the trends in the 21st century. An element is usually create when the hip hop "sight is applied to a subject or object. Presently hip hop's element are Breakin', Graffiti art, Deejayin', Beatboxin', street lanuage and street fashion. Hip hop is leading teenagers into the "real" life of urban civilizations by the use of music, language, clothes and even teenage form of dancing. Today's popular teenage culture

  • Breakdancing

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    Breakdancing The history of choreography is also very important Any choreography that seems new, fresh and different is usually a variation of something that has been done before. As long as men and women have lived upon this earth, they have danced. The art of movement is among the oldest of the arts. So for eight months I’ve been learning the skills of hip hop and breakdancing by going to at a hip hop club at every week where I learned the basic skills of breaking like how to top-rock and

  • What Is The Theme Of This Is Where It Ends By Marieke Nijkamp

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    This is Where It Ends by: Marieke Nijkamp is a great book to read. This book comes from four students' point of views as they are victims of a school shooting. We will follow each character point of views during the shooting. While this book has not been made into a movie, it could very easily be put to music. A successful soundtrack for this book would include some suspenseful songs, since it is about a school shooting and the different backgrounds of the characters in this book According to commonsense

  • Watergate Scandal

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    hired the five to perform the breakin. Anonymous writers at the Washington Post began publishing interviews and investigative stories which eventually was able to connect the crime all the way up to those closest to the president, who of course had tried to cover their tracks. Following the release of the Washington Post findings a series of hearings before Congress took place which found that the NIxon administration was responsible for many more wire tappings and breakins than originally known, as

  • The Freshest Kids Essay

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    and origin that the word b-boy started because b-boys would dance when there was a break in the record meaning the “b” stands for breaking. While another person, who was not named, thought the origin came from the street terminology “why are you breakin’ on me,” and Grand Mixer DXT believed the “b” stood for the Bronx due to the fact they were discovered in the Bronx. Later in the film, DJ Herc goes on to tell that the original meaning did not come from breaking records, it came from a mans breaking

  • Personal Essay: The Genre Of 80s-90s R & B

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    like Michael Jackson, Mary j. Blige, Monica, Brandy, New Edition and many others. I would say my favorite artist would be Mint condition. I like the group mint condition because of their sound. My favorite songs by them are ‘Pretty Brown Eyes’ and ‘Breakin My Heart’. They have a certain vibe, and the way they harmonize is so well put together it sounds natural. I also like their confidence, the way they dress and their album covers are very different. They are a very big inspiration and I aspire to

  • Ponyboy And Dally Research Paper

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    Simon Factor Ms. Medina 7th Grade English 29 February 2024 Comparisons Between Dally and Ponyboy Authors write stories with characters to perform actions and speak dialogue, allowing the story to follow a plot. Ponyboy and Dally are major characters in the novel The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton. The Outsiders is about a gang of teenage boys who try to survive in a tough environment with extreme class division. Ponyboy, the narrator of the book, and his gang, the Greasers, who live on the east side,

  • People Call Me Uff: Poem Analysis

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    MC Mic People Call Me Uff When I rock the party Bust a nut Feadz is breakin' out the beat Shit be hotter... Then Me Me and He are criuse on a mission Better watch out my clan gets vicious Bad ass bitch I'm rated X I'm gifted Ain't gotta sell sex Cross the beach onto the street Gotta work hard No room to cheat Crunk and grind that's my bloodline Feadz is mixin Uffie's shoutin Uffie's bangin Feadz is bangin Time to get low Do the toostie roll That's how we do Do it hot And if you understood would you

  • Maslow's Hierarchy In Death Of A Salesman

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    with himself, and feels as if he is a failure. In the beginning of the play he did have esteem, though, and it is exemplified especially by the lines, “I’m takin’ one play for Pop. You watch me, Pop, and when I take off my helmet, that means I’m breakin’ out. Then you watch me crash through that line!”. As it can be seen, Biff felt as if he is a vital asset and is therefore important. After high school he had lost his motivation, Willy, and financial and relationship instability are a few of the

  • Lifestyles In The Outsiders

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    Have you ever tried explaining to someone how you feel about something and they could not grasp what you were trying to say? This is because every person is different; everyone thinks in unique ways. Many other things can change how a person thinks, for example, their social and economic statuses. But no matter how different people are, they are still human and they still have feelings. The Outsiders is about two groups of very diverse people who have very different ideas about the world. Social

  • Meredith's Case: The Murder Of Meredith Kercher

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    could try to save her. Acrossed the hall in there other roommates room there was an alleged breakin, which Detective Mingnini said there had been a smashed window which was the reason the police were called. Detective Mignini remembered and told the documentary: “ Nothing had been stolen and there was no evidnece that someone climbed the wall (to get to the window)”(Mignini). Mingnini had also said that the breakin looked staged and that he knew it was without investigating. The glass from the window

  • Compare Hip Hop And Ballet

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    Olivia Oles Ms. Hadley Choreography/Performance 3/4 05 November 2017 Hip Hop vs. Ballet When viewing a work of art, either from an old theater, the streets of New York City, or the screen on your iPhone, it is hard not to notice the overall style and vibe of a dance, in other words, how the dance is to the eye. From the music, the way the dancers move, and the individual skills or steps in a dance, Hip Hop and Ballet are two of the most polar opposite dance styles in the history of the art, but

  • Alienation In The Grapes Of Wrath

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    fact that they don't even plan on letting them eat, and that money is the only thing they're really worrying about. When explaining to his family that Jim Casy had gone on strike because of the poor wages, Tom says, "Yeah. What we was a-doin' was breakin' strike. They give them fellas two an' a half cents." Pa responds, "You can't eat on that." When their outlook gets so desperate, the first priority is to feed their families and hope for better times. By showing these small, seemingly insignificant

  • Marshall Mathers III: Fastest Selling Rap Music

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    Dre, the Beastie Boys, 2pac, Run DMC, LL Cool J. (etc). Marshall Mathers was heavily influenced by his uncle Ronnie, who had introduced him to “rap music”. Eminem tells in Eminem Talking, “When I was nine years old, my Uncle Ronnie put me on to the Breakin’ soundtrack. The first rap song I ever heard was Ice-T, ‘Reckless.’ From LL [Cool J] to the Fat Boys, and all that [stuff] I was fascinated. When LL first came out with ‘I’m Bad’ I wanted to do it, to rhyme. Standing in front of the mirror, I wanted

  • Overarching Theme In Miller's Play 'Death Of A Salesman'

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    Willy feels that it is important to find evidence to prove that he is successful to others. One example is when Biff tells his Dad, “I’m takin’ one play for Pop. You watch me, Pop, and when I take off my helmet, that means I’m breakin’ out. Then you watch me crash through the line!” Then Willy tells Biff, “Oh, wait’ll tell this in Boston!” (Miller, 2120). Like he has to prove to the people in Boston how much of a successful father he is. Willy wants his sons to also be successful

  • The Relationship Between Electro And Rap

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    Electro is a genre of electronic music and early hip hop directly influenced by the use of the Roland TR-808 drum machines, and funk. Records in the genre typically feature drum machines and heavy electronic sounds, usually without vocals, although if vocals are present they are delivered in a deadpan manner, often through electronic distortion such as vocoding and talkboxing. This is the main distinction between electro and previously prominent genres such as disco, in which the electronic sound

  • Al Jarreau is an Incredible Singer at Any Age

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    Expect world-renowned jazz singer Al Jarreau to perform his funky fresh tunes with no less vocal skill than in his younger years. Despite his age, Al has retained his credibility as a singer and performer. He incorporates several genres into his jazz including R&B, scat, funk and soul. He’s just as an impressive scat singer as ever, improvising with his nonsense syllables with eloquence- each syllable enhancing whatever the orchestra or sextet are playing in the background. Some of his scats, like

  • Marshall Mathers

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    Missouri to a single mother. He spent the majority of his youth living in various states before eventually settling down in the harsh streets of Detroit at the age of 12. At age nine, Em was first introduced to rap by his Uncle Ronni who played the Breakin’ soundtrack for him and immediately Em loved it. He began obsessively studying and lip-synching LL Cool J‘s and Ice T’s skilled and complex rhyme schemes and styles. At a young age Em found his niche now all he had to do was discover his voice.