Tuesday, September 01, 2009

 

Monday-Tuesday

This week we are finishing up the section on paraphrase and starting the first chapter in Stewart Pidd Hates English: Confused Words. In both classes in class we did the exercises on pp. 14-15. Students have been advised to begin doing the exercises beginning on p. 2. Keep working. The plan is to get to Essay 1 next week.

In the morning class we began reading the introduction to Holler If You Hear Me. Students were given seven sentences to choose 5 to free paraphrase and bring to class. You do not have to type them yet. I'd like you to post the paraphrases here.

I passed out a package of lyrics for Tupac songs we'll listen to this semester. We listened to "Words of Wisdom," then analyzed the lyrical content. Looked for a thesis and its support.

Thursday, Sept. 3, students have a cyber-assignment due by the close of the day. For homework, keep reading SPHE and working through the exercises. We will correct them on Sept. 8. Monday, Sept. 7 is Labor Day. The campus will be closed.

Look for a separate post for the Cyber-Assignment. It will be from Dyson.

Comments:
Mai Bee Lor
English 201A
8-8:50am
4 out of 7 sentences

Original: He regularly appears on lists of the top money earners among dead artists, alongside Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and Bob Marley.

Literal paraphrase: The list of most successful and popular deceased artists often had Tupac's name in it.

Original: His language was inflamed with love for the desperately poor; Tupac was a ghetto Dickens who explained the plight of the downtrodden in rebellious rhyme.

Free paraphrase: Through rapping and poems, he made it easy for the lower classes income to understand and relate to.

Original: He fearlessly, and poetically, explored dimensions of the male psyche neglected by his rap peers.

Literal paraphrase: Tupac courageously and literately investigated every soul and mind that other musicians failed to.

Original: While he often decried racism and spoke about blacks and whites, Tupac rarely thought in black and white terms.

Free paraphrase: Closed minded and racism isn't Tupac, although he accused prejudice and racism in his music.
 
Elizabeth Garcia
English 201 A- 8-8:50am
Tupac: Paraphrase 4 out of 7 sentences



1.
Original Sentence: In Tupac: Resurrection, Tupac nearly topped Moses’s feat in the Bible of discussing his death in a work of art created after his demise.

Free Paraphrase: In a piece of Music produced after Tupac’s decease, he almost surpassed Moses’s act in the Holy Book in Tupac: Resurrection.


2.
Original Sentence: He regularly appears on lists of the top money earners among dead artists, alongside, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and Bob Marley.

Literal Paraphrase: Tupac often comes up in records of the best wealthy deceased famous people, together with Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Bob Marley.


3.
Original Sentence: His language was inflamed with love for the desperately poor; Tupac was a ghetto Dickens who explained the plight of the downtrodden in rebellious rhyme.

Literal Paraphrase: Tupac’s expression was aroused with affection intended for the very deprived; he was the ghetto version of the famous novelist Dickens who described the troubles of the oppressed in a defiant tune.


4.
Original Sentence: While he often decried racism and spoke about blacks and whites, Tupac rarely thought in black and white terms.

Literal Paraphrase: As he frequently criticized racial discrimination and discussed on black and whites, Tupac hardly ever considerated black and white expressions.
 
By: Arely Razo
To: Professor Sabir 8-9
Date: 1 Sept. 2009
Re: Paraphrase for Tupac Intro.4 0ut of 7 sentences
Original “He regularly appears on lists of the top money earners among dead artist, alongside Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and Bob Marley.”
#2
Tupac was put on a chart of the most wealthy artist that have past away.
Original “He fearlessly and poetically, explored dimensions of the male psyche neglected by his peers.”
#4
What other rappers did not rap about, Tupac wasn’t afraid to express himself.
Original “His language was inflamed w love for the desperately poor; Tupac was a ghetto Dickens who explained the plight of the downtrodden in rebellious rhyme.”
#5
He was like the author Dickens who would focus on the less fortunate, except Tupac did it through his lyrics.
Original “The vibrant imagination that fueled Tupac’s gift was often dismissed, perhaps because it was too dark, too dangerous.”
#6
Many people do not like Tupac’s music because they felt it was too vulgar and too risky.
 
Matthew Young
201A
September 6, 2009

Analysis/Reflection-Summary
4 Years later after Katrina


My name is Matthew Young, and I think 4 years later after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast region, people in that region and especially New Orleans have been treated unfair and unfortunately it’s currently affecting their lives. I’m not saying it just because it shows on TV and you hear of this on radio stations and Google it on computers, but by experience also. While I was living in Tyler, TX, right by the state of Louisiana, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast Region on August 29th, 2005. I was in the eight grades going to the ninth grade at the time. We didn’t get to much of the effect where I was living at because we wasn’t by a lot of water like New Orleans, but we had a lot of accidents because there was a lot of trees nearby. After the hurricane my family from New Orleans was forced to move and stay with my Aunts and Uncles and other family members in Tyler, TX, and few of them didn’t like what was going on in terms of moving from their homes into another place where they would have to be forced to call home. They would begin to adjust to it. My cousins would to school with me and make the best of it. I had 4 cousins at my school from New Orleans. We went to John Tyler High School. They were there for some time and when my mother and I decided to move back to California after 4 ½ years living in Texas, they would also return back home to New Orleans. If I was to guess to why they returned home, I would think that they probably missed New Orleans, and is doing all they can do in order to maintain and rebuild their homes, as well as their lives. As well as everybody else in that city and region that effected by Hurricane Katrina.


The hurricane killed nearly more than 1,800, and left thousands of people homeless and without shelter for days. Many residents from New Orleans cant really return back home because there isn’t any room, meaning there aren’t many homes for them. They can just only hope and wait that one day they see their city of New Orleans rebuilt with new homes so that they could return back home and enjoy what they once had before the tragedy.


Currently the Union Movement is spending up to $1 billion dollars, working to rebuild the communities in the community and throughout the region. New jobs, schools, medical care, and homes are slowly but surely developing till this day. Workers are more than ready to fill in new jobs so that they can provide for them and their families. Over 400 workers are ready for the new jobs there. More homes are being rebuilt from old-wooden homes, into stronger and newer-bricked homes.



President Obama promised in his campaign to address this problem, but has failed to do so. I think it would take more effort from the president and our country in order to rebuild the city of New Orleans and the rest of the region. And I think the president should live up to what he has promised to the people in the region so it can benefit them as well as him because it would show that he truly cares for the nation. Right now Iraq is rebuilding quicker than the city of New Orleans. That shows that they truly care about their country and that they want to see the people in their country do well and try to succeed. The victims from New Orleans as well as the rest of the region shouldn’t have to struggle with schools, jobs, medical-care, and homes because its not their fault that that the hurricane took place and caused a lot of damage in their communities. The president and governments should want to help rebuild and fix the current problems with the region, just like Iraq did with their country. Maybe we can, and hopefully 4 years later in 2013, it could improve for not only the people of New Orleans or the rest of the region, but for the nation as a whole.
 
Matthew Young
7 paraphrases
201A

Tupac Shakur
Literal Paraphrases

1. Tupac nearly topped Moses’s feat in the Bible of discussing his death in a work of art created after his demise.
After the death of Tupac Shakur, he was often compared to Moses in the Bible after all his success behind his music.
2. He regularly appears on lists of the top money earners among dead artists, alongside “Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Bob Marley, and Michael Jackson”.

He’s compared to other legend-artists on the top charts that are dead, such as “Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, Marilyn Monroe, and Elvis Presley”.

3. Tupac's words would prove more prophetic than anyone could have guessed; starting with a class at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1998, a slew of college courses dedicated to studying Tupac’s body of work cropped up after his death.

Proving more than anyone ever could have imagined, his words were visionary. Colleges like the University of California took notice into Tupac’s art and success, and in 1998 they began studying his work after his decease.

4. When it came to the themes of his music, Tupac thought big, and often in stark binaries: life and death (“Life Goes On”); love and hate (Hail Mary”); judgment and forgiveness ( I aint mad at Cha”); joy and pain (“To Live and die in L.A”); and heaven and hell (“I wonder if Heavens got a Ghetto”).
Songs like, “Life Goes on”, “I aint mad at Cha”, “I wonder if Heavens got a Ghetto”, “To live and die in L.A,” and “Hail Mary”, he thought for high expectations.
5. Tupac was a ghetto Dickens who explained the plight of the downtrodden in rebellious rhyme.
Compared to Charles Dickens, but more-so hardcore and outspoken, he voiced his opinion about life, and ignored all the derogatory thoughts about him and his lyrics.
6. The vibrant imagination that fueled Tupac’s gift was often dismissed, perhaps because it was too dark, too dangerous.
Tupac visioned great expectations for him, and was often ignored because of the controversy regarding him and the fear that he put in people.
7. While he often decried racism and spoke about blacks and whites, Tupac rarely thought in black and white terms.
Racism was an issue that Tupac usually discussed about black and white America, but not exactly in the fashion that they would’ve wanted him to.
 
David Le
English 201A


1.
Original: He regularly appears on lists of the top money earners among dead artists, alongside Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and Bob Marley.

Literal Paraphrase: The list of the top cash makers with deceased composers commonly had Tupac’s name on it.

2.
Original: His language was inflamed with love for the desperately poor; Tupac was a ghetto Dickens who explained the plight of the downtrodden in rebellious rhyme.

Literal Paraphrase: Tupac’s articulation was awakening with devotion intended for the very deprived; Tupac was the ghetto version of Dicken who described the troubles of the distressed in an insurgent harmony.

3.
Original: He fearlessly, and poetically, explored dimensions of the male psyche neglected by his rap peers.

Literal paraphrase: Tupac audaciously and literately inspected every soul and mind that other musicians failed to.

4.
Original: While he often decried racism and spoke about blacks and whites, Tupac rarely thought in black and white terms.

Literal Paraphrase: As Tupac commonly criticized racial discrimination and discussed on black and whites, Tupac hardly ever considerate black and white expressions.
 
Kelley Yuen
English 201B
MW1-250pm

Free Writes: “Words of Wisdom”

This lyrics talk about himself surviving as a African man in America. My impression about this is never let anyone or anything stop you from moving forward in life. Here in America is like a battle field, you have to fight in order to survive.
Thesis: “Conquer the enemy on with education.”
 
Mike Saepharn
Kelley Yuen
Jimmy Sengthavilay

English 201A/B
MW 1-250pm

1) “Tupac is widely regarded as the most influential rapper ever-“I put Tupac beyond Shakespeare” says legendary rapper Nas-and one of the most important figures in music history.”

Literal Paraphrase: Tupac is widely considered as one of the most expressive rappers ever-“I put Tupac beyond Shakespeare” says legendary rapper Nas-and one of the most vital icons in music history.

Free Paraphrase: “I put Tupac beyond Shakespeare” says legendary rapper Nas. Therefore Tupac is one of the most vital icons in music history; he is one of the most influential rappers ever.

2) “One of the reasons Tupac still resonates in the culture is his outsized literary ambition.”

Literal Paraphrase: A reason why Tupac is still heard in the culture is his expansive lyrical usage.

Free Paraphrase: Tupac expansive lyrical usage is the reason why he is still heard in the culture.

3) “He fearlessly, and poetically, explored dimensions of the male psyche neglected by his rap peers.”

Literal Paraphrase: He courageously, and poetically, opened up to different elements of the male mind ignored by his rap peers.

Free Paraphrase: His rap peers had courageously and poetically opened up to different elements of the male mind.

4) “His language was inflamed with love for the desperately poor; Tupac was a ghetto Dickens who explained the plight of the downtrodden in rebellious rhyme.”

Literal Paraphrase: His language was ignited with love his hopelessly poor; Tupac was a ghetto Dickens who justified the difficulties of the exploited in his disobedient rhyme.

Free Paraphrase: Tupac was a ghetto Dickens who justifies the difficulties of the exploited in his disobedient rhyme.

5) “His eager embrace of ethical ambivalence came off to critics as mere hypocrisy.”

Literal Paraphrase: His enthusiastic welcome of ethical doubt came off to critics as simple hypocrisy.

Free Paraphrase: The simple insincerity have come off of his passionate that was greeting of the moral doubt.
 
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