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After looking more into this its true that its almost as if women's voices aren't even heard around and don't get as much attention of credit they deserve. There aren't many women in the music industry and men typically dominate this and you see it in sports as well, when women are easily doing the same jobs men are and get paid a lot less. In sports women get treated not nearly as well as the men do and not to mention the pay they get is far less than men. It is hard to get credit in something that has typically been dominated by men and you see women more now than ever standing their ground in society trying to be heard.

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Tupac wrote a song that was called "Brenda's Got a Baby, and this song primarily talks about sexual abuse. This song is really deep because it is about a female prostitute and how she was sexually abused. This is very rare because you don't really see to often male rappers bringing up female problems. It's usually female speakers that are addressing the conflicts. He addresses a few good points about how the community does a bad job at addressing things that go on to women and how their voices should be heard more. You see a lot in todays day like this girl went through that families aren't really as understanding as they should be and are willing to disown their own family because they aren't happy with a decision they made.

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Women all around play a big part in our community and to me don't get the recognition they deserve or have earned. The strong women that are known and make a name for themselves in the rap game, that is typically dominated by males as this society makes it because these women aren't getting enough credit. Women talk about their rough childhoods or what they have been through and i think it is an eye opener for everyone because males aren't the only ones going through a bad childhood or having events in their lives that impacted them. With watching a lot of sports I see discrimination in not just rap but also in sports. For instance you can watch multiple games and can see a bunch of millionaire men in the NBA on tv, but its hard to fine a WNBA game with women that make maybe at most a couple hundred thousand a year or maybe over a couple years. There is a huge pay gap between male and female when it comes to professional sports.

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In Kendrick Lamar's album we see a tremendous amount of emotions as well as seeing some of his life. A lot of rappers and music artists express a lot of emotions when rapping and typically it's about how they live their life and what they have been through. It's crazy how much you can learn and pick up from just listening to lyrics or really put some thought into what someone is singing or just saying. Kendrick Lamar talks about his childhood and how it was tough growing up. He also mentioned his mistakes growing up joining a gang and how his childhood really wasn't that tough his poor decisions were. A theme I pulled from this album is someone's only as good as the people they surround themselves with. People tend to follow other people they hang out with whether they be a good influence or bad.

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As we continue to read and based off of our past reading we have seen each character go through some sort of adversity and it develops a sort of theme. We seen Omar struggle with his family as well as drinking and with girls, and we have seen Felipe struggle with gang violence and poor decisions. After seeing all of the struggles from each character I would say the theme is "the past doesn't define you". Each character has the capability of changing themselves around because like Felipe and Omar, you can't judge them on their poor decisions because they are capable of changing. Omar and Felipe also struggled at a young age with their families which does not help with how you live your life in the future especially back then. With that said the theme of this story so far to me is there's a lot of hope and a lot of time to turn yourself around. I also believe that there are many themes in this story so far.

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This weeks post is about setting and conflict, and i will be talking about Felipe for he is the main character in this section of the novel. Felipe bounces back and fourth from living in California and New York. In New York living with his mom in what he calls the "Broken House", felipe is looking for trouble, he starts trouble and is not in a good mental state there in New York. In New York he is in gangs and fighting, this made him aggressive and in the novel he starts doing very bad stuff. He then moves to California where he soon realizes there is another life here away from gangs and violence. When we think things are getting better he goes back to his life in New York with gang banging. As you can see the setting is constantly changing as well as the conflicts.

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I have chosen to analyze the character Omar. He is a good one to analyze because of the way he describes everything in the third person. Everything he describes and says is very clear, and gives you a good idea what's going on throughout the novel. We have seen Omar transform from a kid to an adult. One thing that stands out is Omar describes his life with Dora and describes her lips and everything with so much detail you could picture it. Omar is the kind of character that is full of energy and always on the move. After going through everything as a child and realized as he grew up that someone the stuff his grandma would say to him was not okay. Omar develops so much in the book from being young and not knowing a whole lot to becoming grown and realizing certain things, as well as learning.

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Hello everyone, my name is Justin Hines, I am a third year here at Stanislaus State and i am an Agriculture major.
I am from right here in Turlock, some of my favorite hobbies would be sports, hunting, and fishing.
Throughout this course we will be analyzing the last poets and working on pointing out elements of stories. Also we will be learning about literature and culture and how they tie in with each other.
Throughout this semester I would like to improve my reading skills. Improving my reading skills could help me not only understand the readings better but also put readings in different perspectives to understand.