Blog Post 3 Challenge Check-In

Choosing the movie Friday helped me enhance my understanding of hip hop culture because the movie was based off of drugs, violence, fouled language, and hood related scenes. Some difficulties I had during the writing process consisted of thinking of different topics for my essays and also some reasoning behind what was being wrote during my essays. My advantages of the writing process consisted of being able to be explanatory and having great work cited that I would use if I found great information on the internet.

Blog Post 5

After being in ENC 1101 this semester, I feel like a cross symbolizes my writing as a sum up of this semester. A cross symbolizes that God is always with you through anything and everything. I honestly felt that God has been with me throughout all of my writing this semester because there were many times where I didn’t want to do writings for this class but God told me that this class will only help me in the long run. I also relate the cross to my writings because my I feel my writings are a symbolization of peace. With peace there is always a way to be to have equality and your own way of doing things.

Blog Post 4

Khairi Clark

11-24-14

BLOG POST 4

 

My role model that I want to use is my past fifth grade teacher named Elizabeth Riol. I chose Mrs. Riol because she always kept me in check in the English class she taught. I wasn’t much a great reader in the fifth grade so by helping me out, Mrs. Riol would let me have after class sessions with her one on one. I would gain a lot of her attention because I was eager to be in her class. I was one of the students to always participate by asking questions and asking to read different sections of chapters. Mrs. Riol has helped me a lot throughout my elementary career and till this day I thank her and keep in touch with her because of that. A strategy she taught me back in elementary school would be to use my index finger while I’m reading so I don’t lose track of where I’m reading. Another strategy that Mrs. Riol taught me was to highlight key words or facts while reading long articles because they could pop up in questions from the articles. Since I’ve been taught these methods by my old fifth grade teacher, I’m always ready to excel in any class that involves English or reading.

Proposal Justification

JUSTIFICATION

According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, some effects of marijuana consist of distorted perceptions and moods, impaired coordination, difficulty with thinking and problem solving, and disrupted learning and memory. Marijuana affects brain development, and when it is used heavily by young people, its effects on thinking and memory may last a long time or even be permanent (NIH, January 2014).

Weed is starting to become legal in different states for medical use. A total of 23 states, the District of Columbia and Guam now allow for comprehensive public medical marijuana and cannabis programs, (National Conference of State Legislatures, November 2014). Majority of the states that have legalized marijuana for medical uses consist of Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. The fact that weed is legal in so many states for medical purposes, this is a main factor of why it is important for the youth to be educated about the negative consequences of marijuana misuse.

The youth are the ones who need to be educated about weed because they are endangered of a bad habitat that is going on throughout the U.S. The youth could benefit from this education because they are getting the great advice at an early age compared to the adults who have fallen into the risky partaking in marijuana. Guest speakers in school could be a huge impact on the youth’s minds because guest speakers are trained to persuade people to feed in on what they are trying to bring to the table. Guest speakers could bring out a certain tone to the youth that will get them tuned into the information. School is the best place to give this type of information because there are some parents who don’t want corrupt their child’s minds and there are some parents who actually use drugs and feel that drugs are not a problem.

Challenge Check #2

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To:                   ENC1102       

From:               Khairi Clark

Date:               November 17, 2014

Re:                   MOVIE: "FRIDAY"

 

The movie Friday is a great example of a movie that displays hip hop culture at its finest. This movie is about a man name Craig who lives with his parents. He lost his job because he was accused of stealing boxes. He has a friend named Smokey who he is always hanging out with. Smokey is more of the negative influence because he is into the drug game. Craig and Smokey end up facing a big problem when Smokey didn’t have his boss money for selling his weed. Smokey’s boss said that he will end up killing Craig and Smokey if they don’t come up with his money by 10pm. Craig had no part in the money that Smokey owed his boss. Craig’s name was brought along by Smokey because Smokey didn’t want to be left alone in the situation he was facing.

           

The language that was involved in this movie represents hip hop culture because hip hop expresses a lot of anger and feelings. Craig uses a lot of fouled language throughout the movie meaning that there is different emotions involved in how he feels. In this movie, fouled language is being used by a lot of African American descents which is a key factor in hip hop culture because there is a lot of African Americans that partake in rap which uses alot of bad language.

 

Throughout this movie there was a lot of violence shown in different scenes. One fight that happened involved Craig and Debo. This fight happened because Debo hit Dana in the face in front of a crowd of people. Craig supposedly had a big crush on the Dana so as a result of that, Craig stepped up as a man and defended her honor. Craig ended up winning the fight. Another act of violence that occurred was when Craig and Smokey started to get shot at. Craig and Smokey were ordered to be shot at because they didn’t come up with Big Worm’s money which was 200 dollars. These acts of violence could relate to hip hop culture because fights and drugs are usually involved with rap lifestyles.

10 solutions to the problem

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Problem Statement

The problem in my essay will involve the misuse of marijuana by society. In society, marijuana is grown in backyards and sold to the community to get high on a regular basis. The people who are using marijuana for the wrong reasons are the people who break the law and get addicted to marijuana. The misuse of marijuana is expanded globally. Different areas where marijuana is being used globally include Mexico, Canada, Africa, Jamaica, Colombia, and Thailand. The misuse of marijuana could cause the users to end up in a penitentiary. Marijuana is on the verge of becoming legalized for medical purposes but on the other hand, people will use marijuana to have fun, relieve stress, and just to be cool. As a result of marijuana, the education of young people could be booted out the door. The families of marijuana users will see them different when they find out they are a person using marijuana for the wrong reasons. Drug users could end up losing their current or future job with the misuse of marijuana because jobs requires drug testing from time to time. The misuse of marijuana needs to be solved to save our future generation. We don’t need our future generation growing up with the bad influence of marijuana because they’ll end up following the same path. This problem needs to be solved during this current time of life because the misuse marijuana rate in the world is pretty high. Sadly in society, there is a huge address going on about trying to get the legalization of marijuana for medical purposes. I say this is sad because majority of people won’t even think of marijuana as a medical purpose if it becomes legal in society. People will use marijuana to get high and have fun with their surrounds just like they do on a regular basis. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, marijuana is the most common illicit drug used in the United States. The use of it has been increasing among young people since 2007 (National Institute on Drug Abuse). (NIDA) Two states have legalized marijuana for adult recreational use, and 21 states have passed laws allowing its use as a treatment for certain medical conditions.