B-boy Essays

  • The Beginning of Hip Hop Culture and B-Boy Battling

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    holding a b-boy stance in the South Bronx. A young boy holds his ground as his peers dance to the music, but as the break segment of the song awakens, the young boy rushes to the middle of the dance floor. As few people know, this is established the start of a worldwide phenomenon and lifestyle. Hip hop is a misunderstood culture that has been driven out from its roots by media and the new generation. Society knows little behind the birth of hip hop, but as for the dance portion of hip hop, b-boying

  • Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs In Lost Boy By Ruth B.

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    “Lost Boy” by Ruth B could be analyzed using Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs because it elaborated about loneliness and being an outcast. For instance, the term “lost boy” itself referred to being an outcast that did not fit in, which correlated with Maslow’s theory involving alienation. To also demonstrate, the notion of belonging was prominent throughout the song, corresponding to Maslow’s theory of human needs motivating human behaviour. On the contrary, the song spoke of “Peter Pan” and “Neverland”

  • Lucky Wander Boy by D. B. Weiss

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    are a hardcore gamer. They bring reality by essentially creating a virtual world that feels as if you are living in the real world. Lucky Wander Boy by D.B. Weiss is transmitting a certain message to a certain audience. The novel is intended to enthrall an audience consisted of video game enthusiasts around their late twenties and thirties. Lucky Wander Boy is sending a message to the audience, the message is experiencing living the real life through a video game; just like they may have experienced

  • Breakdancing

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    week where I learned the basic skills of breaking like how to top-rock and six-step. B-boying is a form of hip hop dancing which is popularly known as breaking. It consists of top or up rock, footwork, spinning moves (power moves), and freeze. B-boying came from Bronx, NY. The term "B-boy" or "B-boying" was created by Kool Herc who was a DJ spinning at block parties in Bronx back in the days. B-Boys means break boys and they were called so because they dance to the break part of music. Later, by repeating

  • Break Dancing

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    major parts of the hip hop scene joining up with MC (master of ceremony), DJ (disk jockey), and the graffiti artists. The name Hip Hop was first used in the early 80s by Afrika Bamatta; firstly it was used by MC’s as random phrase. Originally named b-boying it first started off in the Bronx located in the New York, where local gangs would ‘battle’ each other as part as meditation and to set locations for rumbles. It was mainly jumping around with stabbing and kicking motions that were aimed at

  • Break Dancing: A Brief History Of The Fascinating B-Girl Subculture

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    Before diving into the history of the fascinating B-girl subculture, it is imperative to understand the roots of the break dancing culture. As talked about in lecture, break dancing is one of the four elements of hip-hop, the other three being DJing, ,MCing, and Graffiti. Break dancing began in the streets of New York mainly in the low-income areas such as Brooklyn, and the Bronx. It originated within the African American and Latino community and eventually spread throughout all communities. James

  • Distinguishing if a Relationship Exists or Can be Established between the Height and Weight of Students Ages 12-16

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    mixed in a boys and girls school. To execute this investigation I have to acquire information from Mayfield School survey, this will provide me with the relevant data which will be interrogated and analysed to investigate the hypothesis. Prediction ========== The hypothesis for this investigation, in relation to the aim, is that the taller the person the heavier their body weight for both boys and girls. But that this proportion is different between girls and boys. The ratio of

  • Social Media and Heroes, an Outline

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    glorifies “slacking off” or being “slackers” as common and acceptable when boys cannot win or dominate all the time (Packaging Boyhood, 2009). A. Evidence (grounds): According to National Center of Educational Statistics, boys are more likely to fall behind girls in educational achievement (2009). They are more likely to be suspended, expelled, and in need of special education (Sage Journals, 2010). 1. Reasoning: The media expects boys to succeed in everything except in school by knowing how to win the

  • Equity in the Classroom

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    positive attention to boys in their classrooms. This is especially noticed in the areas of math and science. “Girls are equal to or ahead of boys in achievement” (Sadker, 1993, p. 67) in the early stages of schooling. So why do boys seem to do so much better in math and science in the later school years? Perhaps it is not that boys are just smarter than girls are. Studies have shown that teachers give boys more attention in the early and crucial years because they fear that the boys will fall behind

  • Gender Roles In The Walmart Supercenter At The Walmart Store

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    which aisle is for boys. The “girls” aisle has barbie dolls and princess dresses and the packaging on these items are bright pink. The “boys” aisle is filled with star wars action figures and toy guns all dressed in black packaging. There are obvious stereotypes and gender roles being subconsciously produced in these aisles. When at Walmart,

  • Representation of Gender in Television Sitcoms

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    these exceptions. The sitcoms do have their similarities but when looked into more detail things like their achievements and aims seem to differ buy at the same time they arte looking for a better standard of living. In Only fools and horses Dell Boy (the main character) is looking to be rich and wealthy whereas Gary is striving for a better relationship and sex life with women. Along the way they encounter many different problems like the pub closing down in the Men behaving badly episode “Good

  • Gender Socialization

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    and the doctor looks at the proud parents and says three simple words: Its a boy, or Its a girl! Before a newborn child even takes his or her first breath of life outside the mothers womb, he or she is distinguished and characterized by gender. The baby is brought home and dressed in clothes that help others identify the sex of the child. Baby boys are dressed in blue and baby girls are dressed in pink. The baby boy may be dressed in a blue shirt with a football or a baseball glove on it. The

  • Gender Equity

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    The boys in the class wanted to and believed that they could be Scientist while the girls in the class did not. They perceived being a Scientist as a mans job. As children get older and move up in their grades things don’t seem to be getting any better, only worse. A three year study was done in fourth, sixth, and eighth grade classrooms in four states and they discovered that teachers actually call on and give more feedback to boys. The teachers answer to this study was that boys were

  • Volleyball Observation

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    that can be converted into one huge bed. The walls on both sides of me were covered of sports photography. One frame had a picture with all the softball girls crowded together for a silly group picture, the other frame consisted with the volleyball boy in a huddle before a game. In total there are about fifteen frames with pictures of individual athletes, teams, and or the scenery in which the teams are playing in. To my left looking toward the stair cases, on the other side of the escalator there

  • A Criminal Justice Case: The Trayvon Martin Case

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    consisted about 53,000 people. This case involves Trayvon Benjamin Martin an seventeen year old African American boy who was born on February 5 1995. He lived in Miami Gardens, Florida with his mother sybrina Fulton and attended Dr. Michael M. Krop High School (CNN) . Trayvon went to visit with his father Tracey Martin who lived in Sanford, Florida in February of 2012. The reason this young boy was sent to be with his father is because he received a ten day suspension from school. Trayvon got suspended

  • Brad Pitt Research Paper

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    the Sun,” about a boy taken by his family to Yugoslavia to find a cure for a rare disease. Unfortunately Civil war broke out during the filming of it and most of the footage from the film was lost, but it was soon found in 1996 and released in 1998. Pitt's next few roles secured his place as a Hollywood staple. In 1999, after a brief hiatus from the Hollywood hot list, Pitt re-teamed with Se7en director David Fincher to make Fight Club. Pitt had wanted to move on from the pretty boy roles and Fight

  • Active Aggression in Boys and Passive Aggression in Girls

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    in particular, the two directions seem to lead further and further apart as most research shows that boys act more physically aggressive than girls. In fact, most books available on youth violence, and even studies done in the past, focus on the male population because that is where it seems to be most prevalent. "…Teenage girls are arrested far less frequently for serious violent crime than boys (a ratio of one to eight)" (Siegal & Senna, 1991, 56). Why does this drastic form of aggression occur

  • Old Man And The Sea Summary

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    twentieth century Principal Characters Santiago, an old, weathered fisherman Manolin , a boy, Santiago's young fishing companion The Marlin, a gigantic fish Story Overveiw Eighty-four days had passed since Santiago, the old fisherman, had caught a fish, and he was forced to suffer not only the ridicule of younger fishermen, but near-starvation as well. Moreover, Santiago had lost his young companion, a boy named Manolin, whose father had ordered him to leave Santiago in order to work with more

  • Studies Pursued and Boys and Girls

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    Studies Pursued and Boys and Girls “What is considered inherently interesting is knowledge about men. Because men control the records, and the value system, it is generally believed that it is men who have done all the exciting things: it is men who have made history, made discoveries, made inventions and performed feats of skill and courage – according to men. These are the important activities and only men become the curriculum.” (Dale Spender 1982) The above quite reflects the findings

  • The Mother in A Good Man is Hard to Find

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    Misfit. I. Critics have agreed mostly when they have tried to analyze the grandmother and the Misfit. A. Stephen C. Bandy and Kathleen G. Ochshorn try in separate occasions to analyze the final scene between the grandmother and the Misfit. B. Michell Owens shows how the grandmother has dealt with her changing social order. C. Gary Sloan analyzes the Misfit behavior. D. C. R. Kropf tries to analyze the grandmother and the Misfit. II. Critics disagree in very few cases, except where