#genra discussion

[emmie-time]

I think a lot of the problems people have is when they think of the horror genre they think of jumpscares and only jumpscares, they don't think about all the other potential avenues for horror; like the unreliable narrator, the sudden tonal shift, the atmospheric horror, the feeling of dread you get when youre in an unfamiliar place or when youre confronted with the abject cruelty of a premis, things that are scarey but in a way that sticks with you beyond the creepy bugaboo in your closet. Because as media consumers, they've been conditioned to refer to non jumpscare horror as thriller or suspense. There are so many other kinds of horror and I encourage everyone to explore the depth of the medium.

I can’t believe that we have to say this but horror genre is supposed to be fucked up, grotesque, disgusting and deeply unsettling. It is supposed to make you feel deeply uncomfortable and unsafe. And the point of it is that you reach catharsis through the negative emotions it makes you feel. It can also has funny, absurd or tragic elements but the heart of this genre is terror and disgust. it is called fucking HORROR and it is 100% understandable that you don’t like horror genre but saying shit like “if you enjoy Saw you are abnormal” is just funny. Maybe YOU are the one who dislikes horror. Have you ever thought of that

[laetitiahrt]

The creation of Hip Hop

In our lastest chapter of the Negus, we have read about the history of rock and roll from its origin to its "presumed death" in 1976. In this post, I would like to discuss the creation of Hip-hop in the same years of rock and roll’s "decline" 

As we saw in the negus "Musical identities are created out of knowledge and experience of the past". This formula applies to the creation of Hip-Hop.

Hip hop was created in the mid seventies, at New York, in the Bronx during underground african-american parties. At first, the music of this new genra was made by DJs who sampled sounds on disco, soul and funk’s vinyls with turntables. As we can notice, same as rock and roll who emerged from taking from blues "blues continuum", Hip Hop started from taking from disco and funk.

But with those sounds, they created loops to keep people on the dancefloor and as long as possible at parties. The first pioneer of this technique is DJ Kool Herc.

Then during those loops, breaks were introduced for DJs to talk to people and later, they were used to introduce breakdancing battles. As this new genra grew, other techniques and manipulations on turntables were introduced such as scratching which was developped by Grandmaster Flash. Then, those parties began to be transformed in musical performance as the celebrity of DJs began to grow but also as MCs (rappers) began to express themselves on those loops. What were simple interventions to talk to people at first became freestyles and rap battles. And what was just a new way of making underground music became soon mainstream. Hip Hop was not just music but became associated with other street codes : new ways of dressing, talking, making art (graffitis) and dancing (breakdance). Hip Hop became a new subgenre. (Negus, chapter one). Only few artists popped out in the seventies, and the first versions of rap and hip hop that became mainstream were more close to disco and funk than actual rap (as the infuences of disco and funk were still strong but slowly in decline)

We would have to wait the mid eighties - beginning of the nineties to have a real diversification in sounds and rapping, with new generations of rappers from New York but also from the competing West Coast.

If you are interested on the subject, I learned those facts from the HBO TV show/documentary Hip Hop Evolution which retrace the full history of Hip Hop and Rap.

[lyricalfixpod]

Ep 64 | Jajajaja

Sade and Pro kick things off with a recap of Check It! From there they get straight into Donnie finally taking the hint (26:21), Jeezy Verzuz Gucci (28:01), and the duo share strip club stories (42:42).

This week's REACT! is brought to you Russ x Ab-Soul's new video, from there they get into new music (59:18). Sade gives her thoughts on Ty Dolla $ign's new project, which leads into the discussion of the dangers of being a hook singer and the double standard between rappers and singers (1:14:42). Do singers really need to start their career doing features while rappers don't?

After a quick discussion of writing styles and counting bars (1:25:24), the duo get into their favorite show Curb Your Enthusiasm and how Pro IS Larry David (1:36:40).

This week's "If You Don't Know" features music from Yaladysprospect and Genra (2:03:33).

Stay Plugged with The Lyrical Fix Pod Beat by J Flow

[melindaramsarran-blog]

Genra Analysis

\Melinda M. Ramsarran

Professor Coy

English 125: EF3

November 29,2017

 Annotated Bibliography: Nursing

Lunney, M. (2003, July & aug.). Critical Thinking and Accuracy of Nurses' Diagnoses.

           Retrieved November 27, 2017.

This article discusses  the importance of critical thinking to achieve accuracy of

diagnoses, explaining new views of critical thinking, applying critical thinking in the

diagnostic process with a case study and describing strategies for development of

critical thinking. In this article the author discusses how critical thinking is related to a

nurses diagnoses. This article seems to be reliable because the author Margaret

Lunney is an RN, PHD, and professor at the College of Staten Island and The City

University of New York. This article was helpful to me because it gave the viewpoints of

an actual RN, which I aspire to be one day, on critical thinking. Critical thinking is a big

part of nursing because it impacts the choices a nurse will make in a given situation.

The article being from someone that is an RN gives better insight to the field and critical

thinking of nurses.

Riddell, T. (2007, March). Critical Assumptions: Thinking Critically About Critical

Thinking. Retrieved November 27, 2017.

This article discusses how nurse educators can defend their assumptions that

critical thinking can be learned and that critical thinking improves the quality of nursing

practice. The author Thelma Riddell discusses how critical thinking is a big component

of nursing. She also discusses whether critical thinking could be taught and learned.

The last component of the article she discusses is weather critical thinking can enhance

clinical competence. The article seems to be very reliable because the author  is the

Coordinator of BScN Program for Registered Nurses at The University of Western

Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. This article was helpful because Riddell broke up

important components of critical thinking into subtopics and connected them back to

nursing. This kept the article organized and better to understand.