Abstract Hip-Hop has long been demonized for its militant language and outlawed narrative as a part of American society. ... The Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA contends that Hip-Hop is not just a genre of music but also a complex system of ideas values and concepts that reflect newly emerging and ever-changing creative correlative expressive mechanisms including but not limited to song, poetry, film and fashion (quote). ... Since the 1980s the American nation state has increasingly defined what it means to be American through ideas of whiteness, Christianity, wealth, masculinity a...

• Word Count: 1971
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Their new history touches many Americans and invites each to make a personal interpretation of history. ... These two ideas fought for control of American minds from the moment the Revolution ended. ... Many historians were insisting that consensus rather than conflict marked American political history and that the absence of European-style class conflict had indelibly shaped American institutions and ideas. ...

• Word Count: 2043
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the "Handbook of Children, Media, and Development", authors Dina Borezekowski and Victor Strasburger note that "numerous ecological and personal factors impact an adolescent's decision to experiment with and use these different substances, including the media. ... In an article in the New York Times, author Alessandra Stanley states, "Parents matter on Gossip Girl, and their negligence veins the narrative as if to explain their children's excesses" (2). ... They rely on it to expose them to new ideas and help them interpret the world around them. ... A soc...

• Word Count: 2568
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Baumohl declares in his book Homelessness in America "The lives of all people, disabled or not, are embedded in circumstances shaped as much by structural factors as personal and biographical ones" ( 26). ... On the one hand, the large numbers of troubled and troublesome people among the homeless poor suggested to some observers that homelessness was best explained by the personal limitations of those who became homeless. ...

• Word Count: 4318
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate