The American Heritage College Dictionary defines the word "ghetto" in 3 different ways. 1) A section of a city occupied by a minority group who live there esp. because of social, economic, or legal pressure. 2) An often walled quarter in a European city to which Jews were restricted beginning in the Middle Ages. 3) Something resembling the restriction or isolation of a ghetto. ... I'm ghetto." That's a line from Jermaine Dupri's song "Ghetto". ... People will often say something is "ghetto" or even "ghetto fabulous". ... "She boughetto, that mean she bourgeois and ghetto. ...

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According to the American Heritage Dictionary (2000), Hip-Hop is a popular urban youth culture, closely associated with rap music and with the style and fashions of African-American inner-city youths. ... It was the community that decided if an artist had what it took to be a ghetto superstar (popular in the neighborhood). ... It was the music that took hip-hop beyond its origins in the black and Latino ghettos of New York to white Middle America. ... Hip-Hop In American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Retrieved 09/09/02 from http://education.ya...

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However "acting white" has been known to be portrayed as an African American individual that has chosen to speak properly and become serious about his or her life and future, and act in a manner that is not of the "ghetto" or "gangster" culture. ... Because of the numerous varieties of personalities between both black and white people, a conclusion can be reached that there can be no distinct definition that can be printed in the dictionary for personality types between black and white peoples. ...

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Another example of this discrimination is when a fire would start in a Burakumin ghetto; neighbors would discuss how the fire had a tremendous stench. ... Kiryu is home to the largest Burakumin ghettos; it has about ninety of them. ... They also hope the government will do something about the Burakumin ghettos. ... Dictionaries do not even have the definition for Burakumin and the media never talks about them, even when the Burakumin Liberation League (BLL) is holding a rally. ...

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Herc quickly became the essence of what hip-hop was all about and kids from the Bronx loved his ghetto style. ... However hip-hop was used as an escape from the ghetto at times and helped a lot of peoples lives that without it could be in jail or maybe even dead. ... It was recently announced that the word "bling-bling" will be added to the dictionary as an official word. ...

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John Wayne is a hero, and in every movie he was in, he had a gun on his hip and shot people (Clark, 5).Rap music does occasionally tell what is really happening in the black ghetto cities, and it informs its listeners about things to watch out for in the streets. ... Their definition differs from that of the American Heritage Dictionary, which defines a bitch as being a female dog, or offensively, a spiteful or overbearing woman. ... If they hear something such as, "Her body's beautiful so I"m thinking rape/ Shouldn't have had her curtains open so that's her fate/ Slit...

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Hebdige writes, " maps of meaning in society are charged with a potentially explosive significance because they are traced and retraced along the lines laid down by the dominant discourses about reality, the dominant ideologies thus they tend to represent, in however obscure and contra dictionary fashion, the interests of the dominat groups in society" (Hebdige 1979: 6) No longer wanting to abide by the rules society instructs us to live by these groups decide to form their own rules to live by to show their dissatisfaction. ... Each song starts with a word, like a...

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Grassroots is defined as "the ordinary people in an organization, rather than the leaders" by the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, 2001 edition. ... The Illinois Black Panther Party worked toward dealing with issues that negatively affected Chicago's West Side ghetto, "The Illinois Black Panther Party was an expression of the spirit of grassroots empowerment that had rid the South of de facto segregation." ... During the late 1960s and early 1970s influential organizations were formed in the dangerous Northern ghettos, "These groups formed, in the aggregate, part of a growing g...

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Hannah Arendt thinks that Eichmann's trial was an excruciating lesson in the "banality of evil. " Banal is defined as lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring (Webster's Dictionary). ... He claims that he had "invented " the ghetto system when in reality it was the idea of Heydrich. ... However, with Eichmann boasting does make him evil because he was bragging about the deaths and ghetto's that he "caused " or "created ". ...

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Things to Avoid - Resources - Wikipedia, dictionaries, and encyclopedias are not academic sources and should not be used to define terms... For example, if you choose Germany, you could select among a host of issues such as the ghettoization of "guest workers" from Turkey or the prohibition of Nazi symbols like swastikas. ...

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German was the language the upper class spoke and by sending Franz to German schools his father tried to disassociate from the lower class Jewish who lived in the ghetto. ... He has impacted twentieth century literature greatly as evidenced by a word in the dictionary coined after him: "Kafkaesque (adj): Characteristic of the novels of Franz Kafka; especially, bizarre or absurd, and often marked by the ineffectuality of the individual" (Funk )....

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Minorities are no longer restricted economically and socially to the dirty slums or ghettos but now are open to the suburbs and wealthy neighborhoods. ... The term minority is so vast and deep that the dictionary's definition is simply inadequate. ...

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The definition of dialect as found in the online Merriam-Webster dictionary is; "A regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other regional varieties and constituting together with them a single language- (M-W). ... "Many middle-class blacks like to sometimes "go ghetto- and use street slang, but these professionals can speak Standard English, in many cases better than me. ... In Webster's online dictionary the word black is defined as: "1a: of the color black; 1b: very dark in color; 1c: of or relating to a group or race...

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She only told Malcolm two things when he arrived: not to hang out in the ghetto and to lock the door when he left. ... Of course Malcolm didn"t listen; he was often in the ghetto. There was a pool hall in the ghetto that Malcolm frequented. ... Malcolm began to copy the dictionary. ...

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Holocaust, before World War II may have been used to define, as the dictionary states, "a destruction or slaughter of a mass scale.... They set up ghettos for the ethnic Germans, which had been placed in Poland, but soon there were too many and not enough space. ...

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Red had his hands into everything, he was the product of a poor black ghetto. ... Malcolm furthered his education by reading anything he could get his hands on and wrote out every word and what it meant from the dictionary. ...

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The Steel Beneath the Gold "Gild"ed: To Make seem more attractive or valuable than it is" -Webster's New World Dictionary Between the Civil War and the early 20th century, an era of growth, wealth, and power was born. ... Between the extreme growth of the national population, and the severe lack of job opportunities provided America with a boom in industrialization as well as a frightening unemployment rate, accompanied by growing ghettos and slums. ...

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(Oxford Dictionary definition) My understanding of culture is closer to the second definition as I see the first as a more select group. ... When Hip Hop and Rap music came to the fore in the early 80s the artists were rapping about guns, drugs and ghetto life while most of their listeners were middle class white adolescents looking for a sense of identity and individuality. ...

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Children, especially the underprivileged ones, have always believed that success can be gained from thriving in sports, which will eventually lead to money and a ticket out of the "ghetto." As stated in the Dictionary of Sports Quotations, by one of Sports Illustrated's writers in 1968, "Sports has increased the opportunity of the Negro, and other minorities, to go to college" (9). ...

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In Boston, Malcolm was more attracted to the street life in the Ghetto surroundings rather than his sister's upper class society in Roxbury, a city in Boston. ... He begins to read all the books he can find in the prison library and copied the dictionary word for word. ...

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This competition has led the minorities living in such bad neighborhoods, such as the streets of Spanish Harlem, to search for respect and dignity while the American Society is doing the opposite, segregating and separating them from the rest of the society causing ghettoization to take place. ... One humiliation that Primo had to go trough at work was when his boss called him illiterate in front of her friends during a lunch break, he was unaware of what that meant until he looked it up in a huge dictionary, which made him even more embarrassed. ...

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Thomas notes that before the sixteenth century the definition of black in English culture in The Oxford English Dictionary read: "Deeply stained with dirt; soiled, dirty, foul Having dark or deadly purposes, malignant; pertaining to or involving death, deadly; baneful, disastrous, sinister .Foul, iniquitous, atrocious, horrible, wicked .Indicating disgrace, censure, liability to punishment, etc."" (24). ... Blacks were being forced to live in the worst areas of the cities, which soon turned into black ghettoes, infested with crime and violence. ...

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The races of this nation have been stratified into an unequal caste system; According to Webster dictionary the proper definition of a caste system is a division of society based upon differences of wealth, rank or occupation. ...

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