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Reflection of My Sources :)

I appreciate those who took the time to research this way before this project was thought of. I don't think I would have made it without them. These sources guided me through a tumultuous month and a half, and they opened my eyes to new things about hip hop. I'm really thankful for http://www.citationmachine.net/index2.php?regstyleid=1&newstyle=1 for helping me with my citations. The paraphrasing site http://www.coedu.usf.edu/~dorn/testdiff.html without it, I probably would have done a horrible job at paraphrasing my quotations. Thanks to everyone who helped me come up with a clear topic, special props to Ms. McKoy for making life so much easier for me :)

Reflection on "The Process" -_-

When Ms. McKoy told us that we had a research paper to do, I was down for it... Come to find out, it had to be a BLOG!!! It wasn't easy coming up with a topic because there was so much to talk about, but I'd eventually came up with the idea to do my project on what I love the most... music. Doing the research was so difficult because there were too many blogs and not enough sources, so I had to broaden my topic and turn it into a two-sided question. All in all I found a wide variety of opinions and facts from artists themselves and information from musical geniuses. I'm really proud of myself and the outcome of this blog, and hopefully, it won't look too shabby ;)

Wordle #2 :)

Reflection On Findings Paragraphs

When I first started this project, I never realize what I was getting myself into. Of course, I kind of had an idea of what I had coming for me, I just figured it wouldn't be that serious, and just something to get done. Doing this research changed my whole outlook on hip hop and the negative and positive effects it had on children. I would have never thought that it would have such a powerful impact on young black children; however, I was strongly disappointed because I wanted to make this topic as diverse as I could, but I couldn't find any statistics about other nationalities besides African-Americans. I just hope that people from all over find my topic interesting and fun, just like I did.

The Women of Hip Hop (Findings Paragraph #3)

The men in this rap industry aren't the only ones affecting the minds of the youth, women happen to be doing the same thing. Today's women rappers don't rap about changing the world or changing yourself, they promote how to be "sexy". This is not good because it's letting the young women think that it's okay to go out and dress inappropriate. For instance, the female rapper, Trina, uses the b-word a lot. Females think that if a male was to call them one of those, they'd feel disrespected, but by seeing and hearing this female rap and call herself that, isn't it basically giving men the opportunity to call a female that? No parent wants their child minimizing themselves, just to be like an idol.

The Minds of the Young People... Destroyed! (Findings Paragraph #2)

The minds of the youth are deteriorating, the young women of our time has minimized their articles of clothing, just by watching two music rap videos (www.webmd.com) This has gotten so bad the where the youth that listen to rap music are three times more likely to hit a teacher, and twenty-five times more likely to get arrested. The controversy of this topic has become too extreme and many believe that changing this has become too late. With the young women listening to music that degrades them, they are twice as likely to have multiple partners, and 1.5 times more likely to use drugs or drink alcohol (Under The Influence of Music). Another thing that people observed is that teenage girls become insecure, and become pregnant. Some may say, "At least they're bringing in new life," this may not always be good because they are babies having babies.