weekly writing

Another good week of hard work and dedication are group project is coming alone well. tomorrow we should be finished completely then i will be done with the class. i hoping to come out with a B in the class and to go on to the next English class in the fall. ive been learning school takes up a lot of time but is very valuable to your life that's why i go to every class with my effort and attitude.

Final project DRAFT PART 7

Xtranormal is a site that brings movie making to the people. It allows people to make a movie using their own script and animated characters on the site. Xtranomal has numerous amounts of settings, actors, and music you can choose when making your movie. The subject of are movie is prostitution, in are movie there is a prostitute trying to convince the police officer to pay for sex.  The police officer turns her down and tries to take her to jail after he explained to her that prostitution is illegal. Then the prostitute explains to him why she thinks it should be illegal and the officer agrees.  In are video we use an exotic female in bra and panties and undercover office dressed in street clothes. The setting we choose was a bed room setting. The default characters and settings both contribute to creating an authentic environment and situation as possible just as it happens in real life. Xtranormal is a good site to use when making a movie but it does has some downfalls. Xtranormal might not be one of the best sites to use because it’s an animated site. All the characters and settings are animated. This creates a cartoonish kiddy look in your movie.  This is not a good thing because if you’re making a movie for an older audience the animated look and loose them quickly. Also if you’re trying to give a message in your movie your audience has to listen and take it seriously. An example is in are movie the message is about legalizing prostitution. Prostitution is a very serious topic and the animation in the movie takes away from it. Are audience might not hear are message because they do not take the movie seriously. Things that we wish we could have done in are movie that were not available on the extra normal site were have more characters and settings to choose from or create our own characters and settings. Also have more scenes during the movie. Creating are own characters from head to toe, dressing them, picking body hair and facial features would be fun. Having more scenes and camera angles during the movie would make it like an actual movie. A software program we could use instead of Xtranormal is Sony Vegas. This program lets you mix and edit movies using your own video character setting and script. It has a number of different tools to edit and create a movie.  

Home Work final project research

http://www.prostitutionresearch.com/men_who_buy_sex/000312.html
http://www.fff.org/freedom/0998d.asp
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/26/138720662/on-u-s-debt-an-early-warning-indicator-flashes-red

Weekly Writing

another week of work and school class was good this week. the final project seems to be a little overwhelming with the time limit we have but anythings possible. Im happy i got a B on my last paper I thought it was going to be a C. The class is coming to A end and i have enjoyed the last couple weeks spent in are class discussions.

Final Draft DEFENTION ESSAY

Jerrod Scarber

Mr. Paszek

English 1020-001

20 July 2011

The summer was over and it is the beginning of Jason eleventh grade semester.  Starting the eleventh grade with a GPA standing at a 1.8 Jason next two years of school were very important to his life. The ACT’S were coming up in the fall and college applications were piling up in the hard drive of Jason’s computer.  Not really thinking about grades and college before the eleventh grade Jason has finally sat down and thought about these things and his life after high school. Jason has come to conclude that he needs to go to college and earn a degree but he realizes this is not as easy as it sounds. With a low GPA and bad test taking skills Jason is faced with one of many important experiences and decisions in his teenage life. Jason signs up for his classes and gets to work. His last two years high school was his best year’s academic wise. Jason ended his last year of high school with a 2.6 GPA and a 14 on his ACT score, after taking it twice. Jason applied to many college universities and were accepted to a couple. He decide to go to a major university close to home after getting accepted threw a program for students who didn’t meet the general education requirements to be regularly admitted. These students are basically given a second chance to be admitted to the university even though they have low ACT scores and GPAs which Jason did. After starting the eleventh grade and realizing it was time to do something with himself, Jason was hit with many important life decisions in his teenage life. Just like him many teenagers are face with the same important decisions. Questions like what college are you going to? what is your ACT score? What are your plans after high school? Are just some of many questions teenagers are face to deal with. These can be very stressful on a teenager but are very important to their life. These situations are experience by everybody in their teenage life. People are faced with a decision to finally step out on their own and become an adult. During the teenage years there are many experiences that test the teenager responsibility and decision making skills as their growing up. Most people call the teenager years the adolescence of life meaning the transition stage of mental and human development but I believe that teenage life is a training session for adult hood.  

In the 1900s most people did not acknowledge there was a thing as adolescent until an American physiologist and educator Stanley Hall created the theory.  Adolescent development is between the ages of 14 and 24. In Jeffery Jesnese article “G. STANLEY HALL’S ADOLESCENCE: Brilliance and Nonsense” he quotes Stanley Hall stating that  “storm and stress is a universal and inevitable part of adolescent development”. Also stated by Jeffery Jensen in his article he says the Stanley insures that adolescents is when all young people go through some degree of emotional and behavioral upheaval before establishing a more stable equilibrium in adulthood. I agree with Jeffery article on Stanley research believing that teenage life is adolescences development. During this time of teenager years the teenager is seeing and experience new things in life and their brain is still fresh as stated by an 18 year old high school student Nthabiseng in her article “Teen life”  the brain is like a sponge and soaks up everything that comes to it. Adolescence can also be physical development according to Novella Ruffin, Extension Specialist, and Virginia State University in his article “Adolescent Growth and Development teenage boys and girls can grow physically 3 to 4 inches at a time. Also sex characteristics tend to rise such as hormonal levels also boy’s facial and pubic hairs tend to grow, and their voices get deeper. Girls reach their first menstrual cycle their breasts get bigger and they tend to form a nice body shape.  

Being a teenage can be a very stressful time in life. Most teenagers are put to the test with making decisions as they go through situations. There is countless number of things teen’s experiences in their life. Some are drugs, alcohol, pregnancy, peer pressure and relationships. Trying to balance all these things at once can take a toll on a teenager’s life. First drugs and alcohol is a big influence in teenagers’ life. Some teenagers use drugs and alcohol because they think it is cool and it gives them a good feeling. This can put a teenager at risk of multiple things. Underage drinking and doing drugs can be harmful to the teen’s life. Some teenagers get addicted at an early age and become immune to the alcohol and drugs this sets up a bad effect in the adulthood years by starting off early. Second relationships can be just as life threatening as drugs and alcohol. As a teenager your hormones are raging and you are attracted to the opposite sex. Teenagers tend to get into relationships with other people. These reactions can cause stress and emotional withdraw. Teenagers might feel they need to be with someone in order to be happy. As a result of being with someone this can bring on teen pregnancy and  marriage. Both of these are becoming real common in teenage life. Also relationships with family and friends can be demanding as well. Some teenagers go through divorces with their parents and this can be stressful on the teen. This can affect their grades and personal life. The relationships teenager have with their friends can be overwhelming friends can put the friends under peer pressure to do things. These things can be drugs, alcohol, stealing, etc. Some teenagers think they might have  to do these things to fit in or look cool, to attracted attention.  I know hands on how it feels to deal with each of these things personally. I’ve been under lots of peer pressure negative and positive. Both can be very stress full. Also going through high school balancing my grades and sports was not easy, and last but not least drugs and alcohol was always around. The people I hang out with everyday were everyday users and always wanted me to join them. All these things tested my ability to make my own decisions good or bad, and experience things that would change my life. As I sit back and look at some of the things I went through and currently are still experiencing it make me come to conclude that teenage life is a  training session for adult hood.  All these situations and life experiences teens go through effect, prepare and contribute to the teen’s adulthood. The experiences are very vital and can prepare a teenager for adulthood.  If teenager does bad in high school and doesn’t go to college their chance of getting a high paying career are very slim. Also another example is if you commit a crime and go to jail with a felony placed on your record this can affect your ability of getting a job in your adulthood. Some things can prepare a teen for adulthood. An example is a family four one brother and three sisters. One of the sisters is the oldest. She takes on the responsibility of watching her younger siblings. This gives her a chance to experience how to take care of another person. It’s a learning experience as a teenager when she reaches adulthood and have children of her own, she will have some experience taking care of a child.

Training sessions prepares some one for the next level just like teenage life (training session for adulthood) drivers training are both similar. As a teenager at 16 if you want your licenses you have to undergo a training session to receive your level 1, level 2, level three, and operator’s licenses. Once you study driving, practice going out on the road, and take various test you receive your license. This relates to teenage life because during this time you are put through numerous situations experiences and test ant a young age that prepares you for adulthood. Also even know you went through these test and experiences you still don’t know exactly what adulthood or driving with a license is until you actually go out and experience them, but you have been prepared well.

 Jason didn’t realize what he was getting himself into his early year of high school until the eleventh grade of high school after working his tale off  his last two years he was able to go on to college. During this time he experience such things as peer pressure and very important decisions making in his teenage life or adolescences period according to Stanley Hall. This situation and experience prepared him for adult hood. As a teenage you don’t know what life is going to present its self with you half to take it and strive rolling with the punches, but there is numerous amount of situations and experiences you undergo. This situations are very vital to your adult hood can make or break it. Therefore this brings me to conclude that teenage life is a training session for adulthood.

Workcited

Arnett Jeffrey Jense.,(2006). “G. STANLEY HALL’S ADOLESCENCE: Brilliance and

Nonsense”    

Retrived July. 20.2011 from http://library.thinkquest.org/C0127122/#

http://www.nsboro.k12.ma.us/algonquin/faculty/socialstudiesteachers/smith/documents/historyandlifespandevelopment.pdf http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/350/350-850/350-850.html

Ruffin, Novella. "Adolescent Growth and Development - Home - Virginia Cooperative Extension." Publications and Educational Resources - Home - Virginia Cooperative Extension. 1 May 2009. 20 July 2011 <http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/350/350-850/350-850.html>.

Nthabiseng. "Teen life and its Hardknocks." 20 July 2011 <http://library.thinkquest.org/C0127122/>.

Draft

The summer was over and it’s the beginning of Jason eleventh grade semester.  Starting the eleventh grade with a GPA standing at a 1.8 Jason next two years of school were very important to his life. The ACT’S were coming up in the fall and college applications were piling up in the hard drive of Jason’s computer.  Not really thinking about grades and college before the eleventh grade Jason has finally sat down and thought about these things and his life after high school. Jason has come to conclude that he needs to go to college and earn a degree but he realizes this is not as easy as it sounds. With a low GPA and bad test taking skills Jason is faced with one of many important experiences and decisions in his teenage life. Jason signs up for his classes and gets to work his last two years high school were his best year’s academic wise. Jason ended his twetth grade year with a 2.6 GPA and a 14 on his ACT score after taking it twice. Jason applied to many college universitities and were accepted to a couple. He decide to go to a major university close to home after getting accepted threw a program for students who didn’t meet the general education requirements to be regularly admitted. These students are basically given a second chance to be admitted to the university even though they have low ACT Scores and GPAs which Jason did. After starting the elenth grade and realizing it was time to do something with him self Jason was hit with many important life decions in his teenage life. Just like him many teenagers are face with the same important decions. Questions like what college are you going to what is your act score are you graduating are just some of many teenagers are face to deal with. These can be very stressful on a teenager but are very important to their life. This situation is experience by every body in there teenage life. People are faced with a decision to finally step out on their own and become an adult. During the teenage years there are many experiences that test the teenager responsibility and decision making skills as their growing up. Most people call the teenager years the adolescence of life meaning the transstion stage of meantal and human development. I believe that teenage life is a  premature pretest of adult hood.  

In the 1900s most people did not acknoloedge there was a such thing as adoclcence until the an American physcoligis and educator stanely hall created the theory.  Adolcens development are between the ages of 14 and 24. in Jeffery jesnese artlce he quotes stanely hall stating that He stated that  “storm and stress  a universal and inevitable part of adolescent development. Also stated by Jeffery Jensen in his article G. STANLEY HALL’S ADOLESCENCE: Brilliance and Nonsense he says the stanely insures that when all young people go through some degree of emotional and behavioral upheaval before establishing a more stable equilibrium in adulthood. I believe that teenage life is adolocences delvopment. During this time a teenager years the teenager is seeing and experience new things in life and their brain is still fresh as stated by an Nthabiseng18 year-old female high school in he artcle teeen life  is like a sponge and soaks up everything that comes to it.

Being a teenage can be a very stressful time in life. Most teenager I put to the test with making decions as they go through stiutaons. There are countels number of topics teens ecpenersce in there life. Some are drugs, alochole, pregnancy,  peer preusser  and relationships. Trying to balnce all these things at once can take a tole on a teanger life. First drugs and achol is a big influene in a teenagers life. Some teenagers use drugs and alcohol becaue they think its cool and it gives them a good feeling. This can put a teenager at risk of multiple things. Under age drinking and doing drugs can be harmfull to the teenagers life. Some teenagers get addicted at and early age and become immued to the alchol and drugs this sets up a bad effect in the adulthood years by starting off early. Second relationships can be just as life threnting as drugs and alchole. As a teenager your hormones are ragaing and you are arttected the the other gender teengers tend to get into relationships with other people. These reationgs can cause sreess and emontanl withdraw. Teenagers might feel they need to be with some one else in order to be happy. As a result of being with some one this can bring on teean preagnacy and  marrrige. Both of these ar becoming real commom in teenage life. Also realionship with faimil and friends can be demanind as well some teenager go through diovres with there parents and this can be stressfull on the teen. This can effect ther grades and personal life. The relationships teenager have with there friends can be overwhelming friends can put the friends under peer presrure to thedothings. These things acan be drugs achole stealing or andy litltle old things. Some teenagers think they might half to do these things to fit in or look cool atratting attention.   I know hands on how it feels to deal with each of these things personally. Ive been under lots of peer preurrse negative and positive both can be ver strees full. Also going through high school balancing my grades and sports were not easy, and last but not least drugs and achole was always around. The people I hang out with everyday were everyday users and always wanted me to join them. All these things tested my aillity to make my own decisions and experience things that would change my life. As I sit back and look at some of the things a went through and currently still experiencing I believe that teenage life is a premature prest of adult hood.  

http://library.thinkquest.org/C0127122/#

http://www.nsboro.k12.ma.us/algonquin/faculty/socialstudiesteachers/smith/documents/historyandlifespandevelopment.pdf

http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/350/350-850/350-850.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/books/review/book-review-the-raising-and-space-in-chains-by-laura-kasischke.html?n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/C/Colleges%20and%20Universities?ref=collegesanduniversities

weekly writing

This week has been another productive week i pick up some good hours at work and i got to think about my paper and i know exactly what to write about. the end of the class is coming and im a little worry about my grade i missed a couple summary s and week;y writings. i notice that it took me along time to adjust to summer school because i never to them before.

HW July 11

1.) What is your thesis/definition you want to work with?
Teenage life 
2.) Who is your audience?
Informed people 
3) What is the EXIGENCE of your argument?
Also, do some research using the available resources — find at least one article and/or site that will help you think through your topic.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/books/review/book-review-the-raising-and-space-in-chains-by-laura-kasischke.html?src=twr

Weekly Writing

This week has been a long but productive week. It started Sunday with four days of work I had to do straight 8 hour shifts. Also balancing the time my cultural analysis was due Wednesday. I couldn't make it to class the day it was due because my car went out on me that Saturday. Then I got it back on Tuesday and it went back out again so I had to take it back to the shop. I was car less until Thursday. I turned in my paper a little late but I am hoping Mr.P doesn't take that much off on it. On the other note my personal life was great I had a good time dis weekend wit my family at are family reunion if you didn't know I am real big on family that is who I spend most of my spare time with. Also I been sticking to my weekly work outs and I am starting to see some results also feel them to because of how sore i been lol.

Cultural Analysis FiNAL DRAFT

Jerrod Scarber

Mr. Paszek

English 1020-001

6 July 2011

According to the web page “A Brief History Of Rap and Hip Hop” Hip Hop is a culture of art and musical abilities and expressions, born in the African American and Latino communities of New York City during the 1970’s, It consists of four major elements djing, graffiti, breaking ,and mcing. Mcing is also known as rapping, which is spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics. Djing is when a Dj uses two albums creating tricks and scratches on a turntable. Breaking, also known as break dancing is a style of dance. Graffiti is an expression painted by artist using pictures. The Mcing element rapping is the biggest element out of the four. It has had the most impact and has created its own sub culture called rap culture Turntables, mixing boards, and computers are just some of the technology used in hip hop culture today. Without these Djs, artist, producers, and engineers would not be able to work the way they do playing, mixing, and producing music. Also they would not be able to connect to their audience. Technology has changed the way independent and mainstream rap artists promote and produce their music in the Hip Hop culture.

Since its birth, Hip Hop has emerged from the small community of the South Bronx, New York to become a worldwide culture. All over America the hip hop culture is being embraced by all races and communities. This culture is one of the main cultures in the entertainment industry today. Also it is one of the most controversial cultures in the entertainment industry today. The Hip Hop culture is also connected to the fashion and movie industry. It has created many entertainment moguls and entrepreneurs.

Back in the 1970’s when Hip Hop started, the technology were being used in its culture was slow paced. Disk records, turntables, and atrax were what artists and Djs used to put out their music and promote themselves. Most of the people in the Hip Hop culture communicated by using the radios listening to their favorite artists. The advancement in technology has changed the Hip Hop culture in a huge way. Now in the hip hop culture today technology has changed in a huge way. There are some many different forms of technology being used to communicate. Computer, Internet blogs, social networking sites are all being used. This technology has made it faster for fans and artists to communicate, also it has elevated the growth of Hip Hop culture and the audience it has.   

Furthermore, Music production in the Hip Hop culture has been changed by technology. Desktops and laptop computers, and recording programs all play a big role in the change of music production. Desktop and laptop computers are being built bigger and faster. According to Dainel Roy a MIT college student, this gives rap artist in the Hip Hop culture better quality of sound when making their music. These computers have larger memory bases and faster hard drives, which make it faster for artists to record songs. Mainly desktops computers are being used in large recording studios. Mac computers are usually the choice of brand used by rap artists in the Hip Hop culture. The laptops computers are usually used by independent rap artists who do not have the money to record in big studios. Also, these laptops are being used at home to record music. Laptops give a independent artists the ability to create the same type of music mainstream rap artists do, without spending as much money. Recording programs are being used on the lap tops and desktops to produce the rap artist music. These programs do editing and mixing of the rap artists vocals and instrumentals. There are many recording programs to choose from. Some popular brands are Fruity Loops, Pro Tools, Acid Pro, and Logic. Studio equipment has changed rap culture with better microphones, mixing boards, and headphones, to record with. It gives artist a better sound and a more efficient way to edit their music. According to college student Daniel Roy, some popular brand name studio equipment is Akai, Tascan, and Korg.

Another major aspect of Hip Hop culture is promotion. Once artists have produced their music they need to promote it. There are many ways to accomplish this . The original way artists promoted their music was the radio and word of mouth at concerts. These worked well and have been the usual ways to promote since the 1970s, and today with the growth in technology, promotion has been taken to another level. The Internet has elevated the growth of promotion worldwide. Social networking, streaming, and file sharing sites play a big and important role in this growth. With these social networking and streaming sites, rap artists are able to promote their music worldwide from a computer. Streaming sites called Youtube and Ustream both let artists promote themselves with music videos, commercials, home videos, live chats, music, and pictures. Also with popular music catalog sites, for example Itunes and livemixtapes they can sell their CDs and publish their Mixtapes for free. File sharing site also give artists the ability to put out one song at a time on the Internet. Their fans are able to download it for free. These sites enable the artists to connect to their fans and audience. Also these help independent artists who are up and coming and financially not stable enough to promote like a main stream artist. They can promote from their own home without spending much money.

 As a result of the changes in rap culture due to technology it has made a positive image on itself. Technology has brought a lot of good to the culture but also a lot of bad. Some negatives point’s technology has brought to rap culture are, music production the studio programs being used are making rap artists sound better than what they really are. The product called Autotune is an audio processor. It process vocals of artists and allows them to sing perfectly in tuned songs, without needing to exactly sing in tune. Autotune was originally created for singers but now is being used by rap artist. People criticize rap artist and the culture because the use of Autotune. People question the culture asking is Hip Hop dead?

Promotion has always been a main aspect in rap culture internet blogs, social networking, and streaming sites all have contributed to the change and growth of Hip Hop culture, But with the good technology has brought, it has also brought some bad. The bad effects technology has brought are criticize on and the culture from blogs. Popular blogs sites WorldsStarHipHop and Hot New Hip Hop criticize artists publicizing the negative events artists do. The blogs show a negative imagine of artist to their fans. This can hurt their careers also the artists can loose fans, their audience, record contracts, and credibility in the rap culture.

 Briefly Hip Hop And technology have both come along way from the early 1970s when Hip Hop was born and the original aspects of technology was being used. From radio to word of mouth and concerts back the 1970s to today, the internet streaming, social networking sites, recording programs and desktop and laptop computers all play a big important role in the change in way main stream and independent artist promote themselves and produce their music. The change has had a positive effect on the culture and negative effect on the culture. With that being said Hip Hop culture will continue to be one of the biggest cultures of the world expanding everyday in technology. Technology will always be an important aspect of Hip Hop culture. 

Works Cited

Adaso,H.(2010).A brief history of hip-hop and rap web page.
     Retrived Febuary 17,2011, from http://rap.about.com/od/rootsofhip/p/RootsOfRap.htm

Scaruffi,P.(2005).The history of rock music web page.
     Retrived Febuary 17,2011, from www.scaruffi.com/history/hiphop.html

Roy, Daniel. "Hip Hop Music Technology and Blowing up."

     Http://web.mit.edu/21m.775/www/Papers/droyhiphop.pdf. 03 Feb. 2003. Web.