What is Hip-Hop?

Hip-Hop can be defined as being an expressive up-tempo art style found in different mediums. The most common mediums would include music, graffiti, dancing, and fashion. Some of the key factors that separate it from other art styles would be expressiveness and tempo. Hip-Hop is an expressive art form because it technically has no limitations or parameters. As a result Hip-Hop is solely based on the artist making each art no matter the medium a "snowflake." It's a snowflake because the art reflects their artist in that no two are the same. Hip-Hop also differs from other style forms because of its tempo. Therefore, no matter the medium the art it will have an up-tempo making it standout. This can be viewed in the music having up-tempo beats to graffiti with big vibrant colors that pop to break dancing which includes the whole body and a series of up tempo movements.
The University of Florida has a history of accepting diverse, talented,  and creative young minds. One place where the talent can be viewed at is the graffiti mural outside the university. It represents hip-hop because the mural itself is the representation of the individuality on the campus. The mural possess various different expressive pieces of art by very diverse students. Like most art pieces, the mural seems to have overlapping styles, however when looked closely it is observed that they are all distinct with there own meaning. Moreover, the mural has no parameters because the art pieces on the mural share no common category or similarity except for their individuality. The mural also shares the up-tempo style of hip-hop because the mural stands out with different vibrant colors, styles, and patterns appealing almost aggressive.

Runaway

The scene i am analyzing is the scene where Kanye West is playing the piano at dinner. I think the overall message about that scene is him confessing of his wrongdoings as well as being fed up of people judging him and his action.the factors that led me to this conclusion would be the statement made by the man next to him at the dinner party and there was a sudden change of emotion in his face so he is basically fed up of people judging him and questioning him. The lyrics in his song runaway helps convey the message of his wrongdoings because in his song he says "And I always find, yeah, I always find somethin' wrong, You been puttin' up with' my shit just way too long, I'm so gifted at findin' what I don't like the most" he also suggests that the girl run away from him because it would be the best option. At the same time while questioning his actions he is calling into question the actions of others. Visually during that scene there are a group of ballet dancers dancing to the song in expressive form because they are moving with the beat and their dance correlates with it. The fact that its still a dinner party he chooses to be the entertainment and play the piano and have the ballet dancers when he could've chosen any form of entertainment shows that he is still trying to portray that high art and high class style.

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.” -Maurice Switzer

We had been studying the nervous system at the time for the past week and a half now and now it was time to do a lab on it. Our teacher was absent that day but had left the dissection lab to do anyways with our sub. We were all excited coming in because as a middle school student without physical education this was the highlight of our classes. We walked in and immediately smelled a rotten stench as we sat down and the sub explained that for today’s dissections we were going to dissect baby pigs.  I was in a group with all girls who were disguised at the fact of cutting into a baby pig so I got the luxury of doing the dissection all by myself which I had wanted to begin with. The sub passed out the materials and the lab sheets and told us to follow the sheets and record our results. I designated all 3 girls to a task from recording the results to reading the instructions as I excitedly put on my gloves and other safety precautions and got prepared to go into surgery. We started by first weighing the baby pig and taking its measurement and then I made a shallow lateral incision down the ventral cavity opening the pig’s skin and exposing its muscle system. Moreover I continued the dissection to eventually cutting into the muscular system to expose its inside and finish the dissection. Then the sub challenged us to see if anybody could open up the skull to expose the brain undamaged and there was a group of arrogant white kids who thought of course they could do it. They sat there after the other trying to complete the task and all failed with some cutting too deep messing up the brain, and others getting frustrated and cracking it open giving up. I sat in the corner at the time in the back of the class trying to complete such task and one for them walked over to me demanding me to give him my pig because he had the best grades in the class so if there was anybody who could do it, it would be him even though he failed earlier. He claimed it was mistake and asked me the question of if he couldn’t do it then what made me think I could do it? I simply smirked and went back to work. 20 minutes had passed and it was now 11:26 and the lunch bell rang at 11:30 so I sat there in my sit waiting till the clock struck 11:29. Glancing at the clock strike 11:29 I quietly got up from my seat with my pig on my tray and went over to the young man and placed it right in front of him on his desk and told him Bon appetite as I left to go to lunch. The young man and most of the class sat there puzzled, perplexed, astonished and amazed with a perfectly smooth cut skull in half and a baby’s pig brain in front of them undamaged. What perplexed them the most was not the surgical procedure that had been performed but rather how an African American young man who sits in the back of the class and rarely talked could do something like that when them who were thought of as the smartest and what not couldn’t. That same day would be the day I would go home and watch Gifted Hands by Dr. Benjamin Carson and come to a realization of what I want to pursue in my life as a possible career choice.