Lolita

In class on Wednesday we took a trip to the library learn how to do research through Georgia State’s library website. I put those newly learned tips to the test when I looked up my word which was Lolita. Lolita is a novel that was written back in 1958. It was written by Vladimir Nabokov, who lived in the years between 1899 and 1977, Vladimir Nabokov main character is a precious schoolgirl seduced by a middle-aged man (Oxford English Dictionary). Lolita was only 12 years of age and she was held captive and continually abused (Meyer, Frank S.). The middle aged man name was Humbert. He was a sick individual that found attraction in Lolita. The confused man had a terrible plan to achieve his goal, which was to have Lolita all to himself. His planned was to marry Lolita’s mother, in which he did, the kill her, and drug Lolita and have is way with her. His murder plans did not work, but his wife died anyway in a car accident leaving him with Lolita. He threatens her and bribes her to fulfill his sexually needs. He takes from sleazy motel to sleazy motel so he can perform his sexual fantasies upon her. Soon Lolita ended up pregnant but died shortly after giving birth to a still born child (McGinn, Colin).
Vladimir had to wait for his success because the book rejected by various publishers here in the United States due to the fact of that the book hit so many “wrongs” morally. Even then the Olympia Press finally gave Vladimir his chance (Williams, Gerald). When the novel was finally published it was initially banned in Russia. The book hit the literary mainstream in 1972 even though it was seen as scandalous the erotic bestseller stock grew, and in 1988 it was no longer banned in Russia (Shekhovtsova, O.).
The novel is very popular today.

WHO am I

The author of the piece that I am doing for my paper is Jamal Jenkins better known as the rapper Young Jeezy. The source that I choose to use to find out more information about Jeezy past is on the internet. The world is at your fingertips with our advancement of technology, and any fact can be accessible within seconds. I found a few useful sources that gave me insight on information that I could use in my paper for the ethos appeal.
The process began by me typing in Young Jeezy name in the Google search engine. About 3.2 million hits bout up, and proceed to pick the third listing which was his official def jam site. The site contains pictures, news, tour dates, and other useful information. I clicked on the tab at the top that said biography. My goal was to collect some facts that work in my favor to strengthen the ethos appeal.
Next I clicked on the tab that was listed as Audio. I scrolled down his songs until I reached the one that I was searching for. I listened to the song once again in order to refresh my memory so I could find new ideas and points that I could use as part of my argument.
The advantages of my search are that I have found out more than I originally knew about the rapper and his motivation to become a rapper. I did not know he was a CEO of his own rap label first. Disadvantages did exist, however, on my search to find out more about him. I am not sure to trust the credibility of the different sites. Jeezy has made it known that he was a drug dealer as a youngster, but the different sites try to mask that part of his past for one reason or the other.

Hip Hop Culture

When one thinks of the hip-hop culture of today what usually comes to mind is rappers, girls, money, and clubbing. Images of young African Americans with baggy clothes, a lot of jewelry, big booties, and dancing are usually what are depicted in the minds of many people. American figures such as Jay Z, Lil Wayne, T.I., and Ludacris have dominated the scene of the hip-hop culture so much that we forget that hip hop is not limited to just us Americans.
Hip hop culture is a global movement that involves all types’ people from many different walks of life as well as backgrounds. It is a subculture opened for any other culture, race, or gender to participate in freely. Yes Hip Hop was created in and largely controlled in the States, but it does exist in other countries, provinces, and cities then our own here in America. For example, the artist known as The Streets contributes to what we know as Hip Hop culture. He is a white British rapper that has gain a large fan bas and he has reached a high level of success in UK, unfortunately his success will never one of Biggie or Tupac only because of his individual culture and the one of the States are not the same.
The United States is the Mecca of hip hop and hip hop culture. An artist work usually is a reflection of their larger culture association, and a person like The Streets will not sell many records here because his culture not match the hip hop culture America. What The Streets raps about will be about what his life is like and what he faces from day to day. He will not be able to relate as well as Jay Z can to a young black male living in New York. His culture is reflected by his lyrics in all in songs, and there fore you can say his hip hop culture is the directly defined by his large culture association. Because to be an effective artist of any kind your work will have to be credible, and so his way of life (culture) is a credible source

Peer Review

The peer review that we had on Monday went by quite well in my opinion. I always have like doing this before I turn in my final paper because I get other people’s viewpoint on my paper. Many advantages exist when you let other people read your work, for example, errors could be spotted, holes could be filled, and ideas can be forged. Plus people are usually bias when comes to their own paper, and they think everything is right. Another reason why peer review sessions help me because they force me to read back over my paper and correct my errors, whereas if there was no session I probably would get lazy and wing it hoping that I didn’t make many errors.
A few negative things about the session on Monday were I was confused on the questions that asked “What were three strengths/ weaknesses as a believer and What were three strengths/ weaknesses as a doubter. In my opinion the two questions were pretty much asking the same things. Another minor problem is it is kind of hard to fit in time to read each others papers, comment on them, and have discussion in the 50 minute class time, but overall the peer review was a great tool