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Mai Bee Lor
English 201A 8-8:50 am
10 Pronoun and Antecedent
1.The scene irresistibly evokes Tupac’s revolutionary roots: When he was a few days old, Tupac was taken to his first political speech, given by Minister Louis Farrakhan at the 168th Street Armory in New York. Pg. 47. Antecedent: Tupac. Personal pronoun: he; Possessive pronoun: his.
2.Tupac initially embraced the former view, though he quickly wearied of the aesthetic and economic imperatives it imposed. Pg. 48. Antecedent: Tupac. Personal pronoun: he.
3.The question to ask now is: Could Tupac’s dogged strength alone have kept him from being torn asunder? Pg. 49. Antecedent: Tupac. Personal pronoun: him.
4.But a period of intense movement activity, Tupac and his mother bonded. Pg. 50. Antecedent: Tupac. Possessive pronoun: his.
5.Ever the realist, Tupac presciently sizes up his family’s situation, especially the cost of critical thinking spurred by revolutionary beliefs. Pg.51. Antecedent: Tupac. Possessive pronoun: his.
6.Even here Tupac sees the advantage of his mother’s political experience. Pg. 52. Antecedent: Tupac. Possessive pronoun: his.
7.Tupac admits that his mother, by having gone “through the sixties,” is coolheaded and more inclined to say, “Let me think about this first and then do it, because I know how that happens.” Pg. 53. Antecedent: Tupac. Possessive pronoun: his; Personal pronoun: me, and I.
8.By starting the Black Panthers again, Tupac and his comrades would not only teach black pride but instill the value of education as a means of self-defense and as a safeguard against bigotry. Pg. 54. Antecedent: Tupac. Possessive pronoun: his.
9.Tupac was especially wounded because he felt the party unjustly abandoned his mother at her most needy moments. Pg. 55. Antecedent: Tupac. Personal pronoun: he. Possessive pronoun: his.
10.In fact, Tupac was contantly approached at school by FBI agents seeking the whereabouts of his stepfather, Mutulu Shakur. Pg. 56. Antecedent: Tupac. Possessive pronoun: his.
10 Verb Phrases
1.“I think I am learning how to live in a capitalist society, which I did not know how to do,” she says. Pg. 58. Main verb: learning. Helping verb: am.
2.Now you know, people have said that throughout history to black people. Pg. 59. Verb: said. Helping verb: have.
3.His inability to distinguish between issues worthy of a scuffle and those deserving a pass would often land him in trouble, sometimes with his colleagues, more often with the law. Pg. 60. Verb: distinguish.
4.It gave her a different picture of Afeni as a revolutionary matriarch whom her son had sponken of in less than glowing terms around her drug addiction. Pg. 61. Verb: gave.
5.The Reverend Al Sharpton, who twice visited Tupac in prison when he was incarcerated for sexual abuse, noted his struggle between his Panther past and his career. Pg. 62. Verb: visited.
6.“And one of my sons said, ‘That’s Tupac Shakur,’ and I dropped the glass. It shattered on the floor.” Pg. 63. Verbs: dropped, and shattered.
7.On the one hand, the thug embraced the same secular teleology that ran through revolutionary rhetoric: Flipping the economic order was the reason for social rebellion. Pg. 64. Verbs: embraces, ran, and flipping.
8.Cultural critic Stanley Crouch argues that two influences on black youth have led to the dangerous moment summed up in Tupac’s confused revolutionary gangsterism: the Pantehrs and the book and film The Godfather. Pg. 65. Verbs: argues, and led.
9.One result of masculinizing the black freedom struggle was to define the interests of the black community as the interests of black men. Pg. 66. Verb: struggle.
10.Mos Def says that the social repression experienced by the Panthers and their children had devastating consequences. Pg. 67. Verbs: says, and devastating.
 

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Earnest Davis
Professor Sabir
English 201A
10-Pronouns/Antecedents/Verbs

1.For all of his revealing in Panther racial theories, Tupac was far less enthusiastic about their contradictory practices. (pg.55)Verb: enthusiastic
2.And they knew who wasn’t there and who left us and who never bothered to help. (pg.57) Verb:Left-bothered-help
3.In fact, Tupac was constantly approached at school by FBI agents seeking the whereabouts of his stepfather, Mutulu Shakur. (pg.57)Verb: Approached
4.Tupac therefore taught Afeni to make peace with money. (pg.58)Verb:Taught
5.Tupac absolute truths were apparent to his first manager, Atron Gregory. (pg.59) Verb: Truths
6.Finally Tupac took the chain off and boarded the plane. (pg.59)Verb: Off and Boarded
7.The Reverend Al Sharpton, who twice visited Tupac in prison when he was incarcerated for several abuse, noted his struggle between his Panther past and his career. (pg.62)Verb: Visited- Abuse
8.But a powerful baritone changed her mind.(pg.63) Verb: Baritone-Changed
9.Mos Def eloquently argues that it was not the immediate impact of government harassment on the Panthers that was most hurtful. (pg.67) Verb: Argues- Harassment
10.He powerfully and succinctly captures the torn legacy that Tupac embodied.(pg.67) Verb:Captures/Legacy
Pronouns
1.In explaining his ministerial vocation, Martin Luther King Jr. remarked that his father, grandfather, and great grand fathers were preachers. (pg.49)-Pronoun: His Antecedent: Martin Luther King Jr.
2.In the hunting footage of Tupac at school at age seventeen, he confirms Pratts impression. (pg55)-Pronoun: He Antecedent: Tupac
3.But after a period of intense movement activity, Tupac and his mother bonded.
-Pronoun:His Antecedent:Tupac
4.Afeni remembers that children inherited her sacrificial spirit. (pg.55)
Pronoun:Her Antecedent:Afeni
5.It was evident from the start of his fledgling career that Tupac wasn’t simply play-acting the part of revolutionary, even if his excesses sometimes made him appear extreme, even self- destructive. (pg.58)
Pronoun:His -Antecedent: Tupac
6.He powerfully and succinctly captures the torn legacy that Tupac embodied.(pg.67)
Pronoun: He -Antecedent: Tupac
7.There are many who believe that as an outspoken celebraty and the seed of a radical mother, Tupac and other chosen children were singled out for special brutality.(pg.60)
-Pronoun:many -Antecedent:Tupac and chosen children
8.Butcher recalls that his probing questions made her search herself. (pg.61)
Pronoun:His Antecedent: Butcher
9.It cannot be said that Tupac bore the burden of his heritage with grace. (pg.64)
Pronoun:His -Antecedent: Tupac
10.As a publicist Karen Lee said, Tupac was split in his allegiance to the Panthers.(pg65)
Pronoun:His Antecedent:Tupac/Panthers
 

Arely Razo
Professor Sabir
English 201B
17 September 2009
10 Antecedents and Pronouns

1. “When he (antecedent) was a few days old, Tupac (pronoun) was take to his (antecedent) first political speech, given by Minister Louis Farrakhan at the 168th Street Armory in New York.” P47

2. “That was the first time I (antecedent) saw him (antecedent),” says Karen Lee(pronoun), then a black militant who, in another twist of fate, served as Tupacs (pronoun) publicist nearly twenty years later. P47

3. Tupac (pronoun) imbibed his (antecedent) disdain for racial oppression from his (antecedent) mother’s revolutionary womb.” P47

4. Tupac (pronoun) initially embraced the former view, though he (antecedent) quickly wearied of the aesthetic and economic imperatives it imposed.” P48

5. The question to ask now is: could Topics (pronoun) dogged strength alone have kept him (antecedent) from being torn asunder? P49

6. Our best chance of understanding Tupacs (pronoun) dilemmas, and his (antecedents) failures and triumphs, too, rest in probing the ideals with which he (antecedent) was reared and that shaped his (antecedent) life for better and for worse. P49

7. In explaining his (antecedent) ministerial vocation, Martin Luther King Jr. (pronoun) remarked that his (antecedent) father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were preachers. P49

8. In the haunting footage of Tupacs (pronoun) at school at age seventeen, he (antecedent) confirms Pratt’s impression. P50

9. Ever the realist, Tupac (pronoun) presciently size up his (antecedent) family’s situation, especially the cost of critical thinking spurred by revolutionary beliefs.

10. Tupac (pronoun) knows that thinking critical inventory of one’s surrounding does not make for job security, though he (antecedent) admit’s the he’s (antecedent) bitter about being poor for his principles, since he (antecedent) missed “out on a lot of things” and because I (antecedent) can’t always have what I (antecedent) want or even the things I (antecedent) think I (antecedent) need.

10 Verb Phrases

1. She could have [chosen] to go to college and get a degree in something and right now [could have] been well-off. P51

2. As he won fame and money, he brooked no ideological limits on whet he could say and how he could live. P48

3. How much wisdom could one expect from an artist who barely lived beyond his twenty-fifth birthday, even though he was hugely talented and precocious to a fault? P49

4. “At first I rebelled against her because she was in a movement and we never spent time together because she was always speaking and going to colleges and everything,” Tupac says. P50

5. And she couldn’t keep her job because of her choices, because it was too much…They figured out who she was and she couldn’t keep a job. P53

6. Contrary to the caustic criticism he later received, Tupac was not drawn to the Panthers because of their stylized violence, their hypermasculinized images, or their alluring social mystique. P54

7. His pedagogy of race was equal parts Paulo Freire and John Dewey, based in the belief that morally literate citizens can help transform society. P55

8. In historian Robin D. G. Kelley’s view, “both the movement that he was projecting” are “reflective of the era.” P66

9. But in the 1980’s black nationalism “ was certainly more about institution building, participating in mainstream politics, and taking care of your own, more than trying to rob banks or blow up buildings.” P66

10. “Whether he was cooking tacos, whether he was doing music, whether he was doing a movie, whether he was in front of a judge arguing his point, or talking about the same thing with a police officer,” Tupac was a full bore. P59
 

Cynthia Phan
Professor Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50 am

10 Verb phrase and 10 pronoun with antecedent.

1) The scene irresistibly evokes Tupac’s revolutionary roots: When he a few days old, Tupac was taken to his first political speech, given by Minister Louis farrakhan at the 186th Street Armony in New York. Pg 47 personal pronoun: he; possessive pronoun: his; antecedent Tupac,

2) Tupac imbibed his disdain for racial oppression from his mother’s revolutionary womb. P47 possessive pronoun: his; antecedent Tupac.

3)The question to ask now is: Could Tupac’s dogged strength alone have kept him from being torn asunder? Pg. 49. personal pronoun: him; antecedent Tupac.

4) How much wisdom could one expect from an artist who barely lived beyond his twety-fifth birthday, even though he was hugely talented and precocious to a fault? Possessive pronoun: his; antecedent: artist.

5) In explaining his ministerial vocation, Martin Luther King Jr. remarked that his father, grandfather, and great grand fathers were preachers. Pg 49 possessive pronoun: his; antecedent: Martin Luther King Jr.

6) Afeni and her lovers Lumumba and Billy Garland were Black Panthers. Pg 50 possessive pronoun: her; antecedent: Afeni.

7) In the haunting footage of Tupac at school at age seventeen, he confirms Pratt’s impression. Pg 50 personal pronoun: he; antecedent: Tupac

8) Ever the realist, Tupac presciently sizes up his family’s situation, especially the cost of critical thinking spurred by revolutionary beliefs. Pg.51. Possessive pronoun: his; antecedent: Tupac.

9) In a gem of story, Tupac recounts how he got himself free to participate in the interview: I just quit my job today, actually, because I wanted to come and do this [interview] and they wouldn’t let me. Pg.52 personal pronoun: he, I, me possessive pronoun: my; antecedent: Tupac.

10) Discussing a fight between skinheads and black youth at a party in Marin City, seventeen- year-old Tupac says he and his friends tried to “figure out what to do”. Pg 53 personal pronoun: he; possessive pronoun: his; antecedent: Tupac.

10 verb phrase
1) By starting the Black Panthers again, Tupac and his comrades would not only teach black pride but instill the value of education as a means of self-defense and as a safeguard against bigotry. Pg. 54 main verb: teach; helping verb: would.

2) Tupac says he will learn from our mistakes. Pg. 54 main verb: learn; helping verb: will.

3) My mother was an ex-Panther, and [we’ll be] talking to Geronimo Pratt, and a lot of ex-ministers of defense. Pg. 54 main verb: talking; helping verb: was.

4) His pedagogy of race was equal parts Publo Freire and John Dewey, based in the belief that morally literate citizens can help transform society. Pg. 55 main verb: help; helping verb: can.

5) She says that receiving her “ training from the movement” made her believe that ‘“capitalism’ was a dirty word.” Pg. 55 main verb: receiving and believe; helping verb: was

6) That is basically the way we lived our lives, so they knew exactly what was going on in our lives as it was happening. Pg. 57 main verb: lived and lives; helping verb: was.

7) Many male Panthers chose, or were forced, to leave behind children and women. Pg. 57 main verb: leave; helping verb: were

8) In fact, Tupac was constantly approached at school by FBI agents seeking the whereabouts of his stepfather, Mutulu Shakur. Pg. 57 main verb: approached; helping verb: was.

9) Afeni says that from the perspective of a child such events were surely painful. Pg.57 main verb: says; helping verb: were.

10) “ I never gave myself permission to do that. …He released me from so much. …Tupac would challenge the [things] that I held sacred. He would make me think about them.” Pg. 58 main verb: make; helping verb: would.