blogger entry #5 springbreak

Part 1

Link to the article:http://lib-ezproxy.lbcc.edu:2230/ehost/detail/detail?vid=11&sid=5b6c02b5-cccb-456e-a71c-4bf8691a7f93%40sessionmgr120&hid=110&bdata=JmxvZ2luLmFzcCZzaXRlPWVob3N0LWxpdmU%3d#AN=9507055273&db=aph

The title of my article is Bring Dads Back into the Family. By: Wilson, Pete, Christian Science Monitor, 08827729, 6/20/95, Vol. 87, Issue 143. In the beginning of the article, it states that the nation is facing a crisis of more and more children growing up fatherless. It goes on to gives some stats about how teens are more likely to be in poverty, teen parents, and go to jail. It then goes on to say that we need to do more than just have an organization that says it’s trying to help, but we need more role models for youth.  The author of the article then gives 3 ways to fix this issue. One being a father summit, on June 13 in Burbank California the first father summit took place. At the summit, they attacked issues like teen pregnancy and welfare laws, how they should be changed so they don’t encourage teen pregnancy. Most teens aren’t ready to be good parents the key word being “good”. The second thing discussed at the summit was marriage and how it should be enforced more.

            Another thing that the author spoke about that was important was a “wedfare” initiative that will allow woman on welfare to have the ability to keep it when they get married. This will promote unity within the household because financial hardship can play a big role in a family crumbling. He also says that parents should be in their children’s educational life at home as well as at school because this will show children important values of family unity.

Part 2

Organization

GRIP

GRIP works on reaching out to the community and creating role models for students who are fatherless. They also have a lot of programs that are positive outlets for students and keeps them from getting in trouble.

Blogger #7

In the article Transgender Youth and Life -Threatening Behavior written by Arnold  H. Grossman and Anthony R. D' Augelli they state "In addition to the exogenous factors of rejection, maltreatment, and victimization, youth who self-identify as transgender also experience personal distress and isolation." Here they focus on talking about the struggles transgender youth face, and apart from those factors they also face distress and isolation that are known to be caused from rejection and being treated poorly. They want people to recognize the internal struggles trans youth face. There are programs that are out there to help transgender youth through any depression or struggles they may go through. Melissa MacNish and Marissa Gold-Peifer say in Critical topics in family therapy "Many of the youth described feeling safe, understood, and proud of who they are for the first time in their lives" Melissa MacNish and Marissa Gold-Peifer  say this about Camp Aranu'tiq. Camp A is a great opportunity for transgender youth to experience.


citations:

1. Grossman, Arnold H., and Anthony R. D'Augelli. "Transgender youth and life‐threatening behaviors." Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 37.5 (2007): 527-537.

2. MacNish, Melissa, and Marissa Gold-Peifer. "Families in transition: Supporting families of transgender youth." Critical Topics in Family Therapy. Springer International Publishing, 2014. 119-129.

Blogger #4

Biondi 1

Annette Biondi

Professor Amanda Reyes

English 105

June 5, 2016 

Rap as literacy: A genre analysis of hip hop ciphers

Newman, Michael. "Rap as literacy: A genre analysis of hip-hop ciphers."Text 25.3 (2005): 399-436.

Rap is the best known and most widely practiced of the four elements— forms of artistic expression—of Hip-Hop, the others being graffiti art (a.k.a. writing), break dancing (a.k.a. b-boying), and DJing (a.k.a. turntablism). This cultural movement emerged in the wake of the fractures provoked by the civil rights struggle in the moral and legal foundations of the centuries-old U.S. racial caste system.

Blogger #4

Elli Spain                                                                                                                                        Spain1

Professor Amanda Reyes

English105

5 June 2016

The Soul Music Sanctuary R&B

 

              "SOUL MUSIC'S HISTORY." SOUL MUSIC'S HISTORY. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 June 2016.           

 

During the early 20th century in the South, the Blues' expressive forms became the most important influences on the development of popular American music by the 1960s. The Blues is essentially about emotional expression through many instruments. When it comes to the singer, there are many vocal techniques that they use, to create the desired effect. There are many instruments that accompany the central vocal performance: the bending of guitar strings, the classic bottleneck of so many of the great blues guitarists, the harmonica imitating the human voice etc., all of which clearly characterize the essential  Blues performance. 



Blogger #3

Album: Fire and Ice by Kaskade

1. Context:

Who?: Kaskade aka Ryan Raddon

Where?: Los Angeles, CA

When?: 2011

2. Purpose:

Theme: "best of both worlds"

-It was made to give electric music listeners, an album of songs with 2 versions to each song. A high tempo, going out song and a down tempo song, for relaxing times

3. Audience:

intended: house music fans

unintended: people who do not like house music

4. Genre:

-Kaskade is associated with EDM but more specifically House Music

-Article: "Feel the beat come down: house music as rhetoric" by Stan Hawkins

-House Music came from the night clubs of Chicago in the late 70's

blogger #4

Andrea Brown

Professor Reyes

English 105

March 23, 2016

Feel the beat come down: house music as a rhetoric

Hawkins, Stan. "Feel the Beat Come Down: House Music as Rhetoric." Analyzing Popular Music: 80-102. Web. 

The purpose of this article is to give ways to understand and listen to house music based on it's structure and musical organization. Hawkins reason for "Feel the beat come down: House music as a rhetoric" is to understand some of the internal mechanics of house music work. As technology advanced throughout the years since house music started, in the 80's, making the tracks became less about every step needed to make the sounds and more about the "mechanization of the beat." In the end, Hawkins found that listening and dancing to house music is about the person establishing their style through dance and everyone identifies in song differently. 

Blogger #5

Ricardo Marquez
English 105

Animal Cruelty
www.rspca.org.uk/

Animal Cruelty is a nationwide problem that is rapidly growing in today’s society. Animals are being beaten and starved everyday and millions of helpless animals die each year because of irresponsible owners. There are many forms of animal cruelty. The most common forms of animal cruelty are scientific research, abandonment, and mistreatment. The shocking number of cruelty cases reported daily on television, on the internet and in newspapers is only a small part of something larger. In media-reported animal cruelty cases, dogs are the most common victims of animal cruelty. Pit bulls are the most commonly abused animal. According to “The Humane Society of The United States” in the year 2007 only 1,880 cases of animal cruelty were reported. 64.5 percent were dogs 25 percent of dogs were some sort of pitbull breed. 18 percent were cats and 25 percent involved other animals. According to the “Daily Mail” in the year 2014 RSPCA investigated 160,00 cases after receiving complaints in which one in eight involved violence.As the years go by the numbers of animal cruelty keep increasing.

Part  2

Organization 

ASPCA

ASPCA works to rescue animals from labs, streets or households were they are abused. The  organization fights to pass laws. 2 years ago they successfully passed a couple of laws that fight for animals rights.