Ray Combs Essays

  • Majoring In Success by Patrick Combs

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    Patrick Combs’ book, Major in Success is a very useful guide for college students and young adults that are interested in furthering their careers and futures. Comb stresses the importance of extraordinary drive and how it can lead to greatness. I found this book very useful because Comb focuses his book around four ways that students can follow to become successful after college that we also focused on in class as well. Comb argues the idea that one must find their passions in order to become successful

  • Horse Grooming Horse Types

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    There are many types of brushes and ways to clean your horse. In this chapter you will learn how to brush a horse, what types of brushes there are, what they're used for, what order they go in when brushing, and also it will teach you how to give a horse a bath. The first brush to use on a horse is a curry, the curry is used to loosen the dirt in a horse’s fur and get hair that their sheding off. The different types of curries are the Rubber Curry, Rubber Grooming Glove, massage curry, and metal

  • An Analysis Of Sadie And Maud, By Gwendolyn Brooks

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    person, but this didn’t change her in any way. She still lived the life that she desired. (I wouldn’t assume she was not smart, maybe “Sadie did not go to college, but that did not prevent her from living the life she desired”) Brooks writes, “Her comb found every strand/Sadie was one of the most livingest chits/ in all the land” (Brooks 5-8). Sadie did not let her imperfections or others’ opinions affect the way she lived. She lived the life she, not anybody else, wanted to live. Sadie chose to

  • Barbie Doll Figurative Language Essay

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    dead and the poem leaves the reader with a very obscure line “To every woman a happy ending”. Brooks uses figurative throughout “Sadie and Maud” in a more complicated way. She weaves a story around a comb that first appears in line three as a metaphor “Sadie scraped life with a fine-toothed comb”. The comb is mentioned several times throughout the poem with no real explanation as to what it symbolizes which could make the reader question the reliability of the story. Brooks also states in line twelve

  • The Power of Hip-hop in the Business World

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    tracksuits and low-cut Adidas sneakers, worn without lace... ... middle of paper ... ... hip hop community elevated from being a riot provoking culture to a multi-million dollar community with entrepreneurs like Shawn " Jay-Z" Carter, Sean" P. Diddy" Combs, "Russell Simmons", Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and Marshall "Eminem" Mathers. The emergence of these entrepreneurs is serving as motivation for others admiring their work. The young people automatically think that if their favorite artists became rich

  • Biography Of Marjorie Stewart Joyner

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    Marjorie Stewart Joyner was born on October 24, 1896 in Monterey, Virginia, which was the Blue Ridge Mountain area of the state. She was the granddaughter of both a slave and a slave owner. She was a very strong businesswoman and humanitarian with strong ambition and desires. When she was a teenager, she and her family joined the Great Migration, moving to Chicago, Illinois where so many African-Americans were moving for jobs and a better life. Once she arrived to Chicago, she began to study and

  • Similarities Between Tupac Shakur And The Notorious B. I. G.

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    Hook--Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace) were different in many ways, but there were also some major similarities between them. While they were both extremely influential rappers in their day, there was a lot of fighting between them considering the fact that Tupac was a West Coast rapper, and Biggie --The Notorious B.I.G.-- was an East Coast rapper. Tupac tended to be a lot more poetic and respectful to women he had better lyrics than Biggie, but Tupac had little flow.

  • Christopher Wallace Legacy

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    Before he blow up a local dj named 50 Grand made Biggie a mix tape, that ended up in magazines unsigned column, Sean Combs(Puff Daddy) heard it and signed him to bad boy records. By 1993, combs had a Biggie song Called “Party and Bulls--t” in the movie who's the man?. During Biggies era the hype was on the west coast, the g-funk sound of death row records was what was big. There was little to no hype on

  • The Shooting of Tupac Shakur

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    The Shooting of Tupac Shakur Bang! The sound of a bullet being fired from a gun. To some, a sound of protection and safety, to others sheer agony and pain, and to some unlucky few the last sound they will ever hear. One of these unlucky few happened to be Tupac Shakur on the fateful night of September 7, 1996 at approximately 1:30 a.m. Unfortunately for Tupac he had to listen to a flurry of 15 bullets, some of which buried themselves deep into his chest, while the others ended up in the

  • Why Do Entreprenuers Need Public Relations?

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    Entrepreneurs are innovators and have a purpose in what they do with their occupation to have an effect on lives. Their bright ideas help bring income to make a living off of the product. Public relations are a big asset to an entrepreneur because they create opportunities for them and others. Such as charities to help children and the elderly, also they get introduced to businesses and as well be the face of them for the companies. Overall, the entrepreneurs just want to be successful and have their

  • The Mystery of Tupac Shakur

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    Who really killed Tupac Shakur is one of the most intriguing questions of our generation. The conspiracy theories are endless as well as outlandishly speculative. Many factors contribute to answering this seemingly unanswerable question. Rivalries, money, and fame all play key factors in determining what happened to one of the most famous rappers of all time. Rivalry and tension among his many enemies were the driving causes of Shakur’s death. Even those whom he once called friends may have turned

  • Hip Hop Music Essay

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    This study will incorporate a mixed research design for data collection and analysis. Data for this dissertation was gathered from a wide range of sources including information from reliable hip-hop websites and radio stations as well as other online sources with relevant information. This study recognizes the problem created by the role of corporate America in hip-hop music. Corporate America’s involvement in hip-hop has contributed a lot to furtherance of stereotypes against black Americans, undermining

  • The Puffy Chronicles

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    The Puffy Chronicles Puff Daddy, born Sean Combs on November 4, 1969 in Harlem to Melvin and Janice Combs, began his life of violence at a young age. When Sean was two years old, his father was tragically murdered. This forced Janice to move to a safer environment in Mt.Vernon, NY where she had to work three jobs in order to provide for her family. One can see that Sean’s broken home and the violence that constantly surrounded him influenced his lyrics and style of music throughout his life[I1]

  • Faith Evans

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    she sang backup and wrote songs for artists like Hi-Five, Mary J. Blige, Pebbles, Al B. Sure, Usher, Tony Thompson, and Christopher Williams. Thanks to her work on Blige's 1994 sophomore effort, My Life, Evans met producer/impresario Sean "Puffy" Combs, who signed her to his Bad Boy label. In 1995, Evans released her debut album, Faith, which went platinum on the strength of the hit RB singles "You Used to Love Me" and "Soon as I Get Home." The same year, she met fellow Bad Boy artist the Notorious

  • Christopher Wallace: Notorious B. I. K.

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    According to the FBI Case Files at the time of the murder Biggie Smalls was traveling with entourage in two GMC Suburban along with associates Damion Butler a.k.a "D-Roc" junior M.A.F.I.A member Lil Cease, and driver Gregory Yong a.k.a G-money. Sean Combs a.k.a “P-Diddy “and Puff Daddy, the CEO of Bad Boys Records Which Biggie Smalls was signed to, was travelling in the front GMC Suburban along with three bodyguards. The Chevy Blazer with Bad Boys Record label director of security was in the rear behind

  • Rap war

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    music proclaiming that East Coast rap was fake and couldn't top West Coast. Then, East Coast rappers fired back obscenities at West Coast rappers and it kept up like that until someone decided that the other coast had gone too far. In 1993, Sean Combs started Bad Boy Entertainment in New York and for the first time ever, East Coast sales surpassed West Coast rap sales. Suddenly, as if out of nowhere came the peak of the West/East feud. Smaller gangs in cities took the example of the "big playaz"

  • Question Of The Day Analysis

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    Every day Mr. McBride writes a “Question of the Day” on the board for his Anatomy and Physiology class. On Mondays the question is always about a person, usually a scientist or some person of historical significance, and the rest of the week it can range from a variety of subjects, but always has some sort of academic relation. This activity poses his students with random “did you know” facts to stimulate curiosity. Often his questions have real world applications or tend to be facts or issues he

  • Analysis Of Hip Hop Culture

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    Hip Hop culture has been the same throughout the years, such as expressing themselves, in their songs there are always themes and hinted quotes they tell their audiences on how they feel or what they did. Also in Hip Hop one of the biggest stereotypes is selling drugs. The film Notorious displays, what Hip Hop Culture is, such as rapping to express themselves and portrayal of drugs. The film Notorious starts with scene in La, California, this is where most African American artist start their career

  • The Detroit Pistons: Badass Team

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    During the 1980s and early 1990s, the Detroit Pistons dominated their opponents, using physical defense, rebounding, and a relentless effort which earned themselves the nickname the “Bad Boys.” “Led by a physically aggressive, defensive-oriented core of players, the Detroit Pistons literally fought their way to back-to-back NBA Championships in 1989 and 1990” (Gibbons n.pag.). After years and years of misery and losing, the Detroit Pistons managed to change their identity and the league forever

  • What Is The Difference Between Tupac And Biggie

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    In November 1994, he was shot multiple times in the lobby of a Manhattan recording studio, Quad, by two young black men. Tupac believed his rap rival The Notorious Big, Sean Puffy Combs and deathrow records were all behind the shooting, for which nobody has ever been charged Smalls always denied he knew anything in 2011 Dexter Isaac, a New York prisoner serving a life sentence for an unrelated crime, claimed he was paid to steal from