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SHORT ASSIGNMENT

” Accept to begin, that tradition is the creation of the future out of the past.”

-Henry Glassie

Students will select a rap song or songs that were released in the last 6 years.* Avoid R&B or pop songs. The emphasis is on rapping performances for this particular assignment. Identify four different African American oral traditions discussed in Chapter 4 and lecture: toasting, boasting, ritual insults/playing the dozens, and call-and-response technique. I stress that you should select a rap song (or songs) that has more rapping elements than R&B- or pop-singing styles. To complete the assignment you might have to use more than one song and more than one artist. Start looking for potential songs early but wait until you get a sense of how your instructor addresses these oral traditions in class. The assignment is not due for a while.

• (5 points each): Follow the template attached to these guidelines below. Select the specific lyrics that address the verbal art form in question. Explain your rationale in [brackets]. NOTE: if you use genius.com or some other website or source, you must acknowledge whomever you are paraphrasing. Therefore, include a Works Cited page.
  • LEARNING OUTCOME: Completing this portion of the assignment students will apply what they have learned about African American narrative and verbal art tradition recast in a modern context. Students will gain an understanding of the symbolic expressions and narrative conventions that are used in hip hop lyrics.
  • *Here is a suggestion. Students tend to neglect women artists. For the sake of diversity (and to make your essay stand out among the most commonly selected artists) examine the lyrics of female artists, for example, M.I.A.’s 2012 song, “Bad Girls.”

Template: A Very Generic Model Follows Below; I found 3 in one song.

You may draw from up to 4 different songs.

Example:

Boasting is typically the easiest. The others might be more cumbersome. While it is more manageable to find three different songs, I will give you an example in which Jay Z displays elements of three of these verbal art traditions in his 2013 song “Tom Ford”:

Name of song: “Tom Ford”

Name of artist or group: Jay Z

Recording details: Magna Carta Holy Grail (2013)

Boasting: The artist boasts of his prowess in the hook [“Number don’t lie, check the scoreboard”] referring to his records sales and perhaps his marketability, and in the verses “Hands down got the best flow, sound I’m so special/Sound boy burial [MC slang for “killing” the competition; also, sounding is another name for ritual/verbal dueling (for example, “Your Momma” routines) and could be understand as a ritualized insult.], this my Wayne Perry flow [a metaphor likening his lyrical skill to the notorious, killer gangster Wayne “Silk” Perry]” (Note to reader, I did not know the Wayne Perry Reference so I consulted RapGenius).

Name of song: “Tom Ford”

Name of artist or group: Jay Z

Recording details: Magna Carta Holy Grail (2013)

Toasting: The song’s title suggests that it is a song about Tom Ford, and it is in minor ways about the high-end fashion designer; however, the song can also be read as a celebration of all the baaaaaaad folks coming out of Houston, Texas including his wife Beyoncé and her family and even Tom Ford who live there as a boy: “Riding clean fix your hair in my Crown/ Bad Bitch [Complimenting his wife Beyoncé’s prowess], H town [Houston]/ Keep it trill [referring to Beyoncé as “Third Ward Trill” in the credits of this song]”. Like toasting narratives, “baad” is not meant as a pejorative term—quite the opposite. Baad men and baad women are the heroes of toasting narratives; like Shine who was able to survive the sinking of the Titantic and swim to NYC, or Annie Christmas who was stronger and fiercer than the toughest men and still sexually alluring.

Name of song: “Tom Ford”

Name of artist or group: Jay Z

Recording details: Magna Carta Holy Grail (2013)

Ritual Insult: The song, in its entirety targets, trap music artists; i.e. southern trap music rappers that reinforce stereotypes: “Clap for a nigga with his rapping ass/Blow a stack [he can afford to spend money frivolously] for your niggas with your trapping ass [those behaving like minstrels]” The song does not really fit the definition of a “dis rap” because he is not calling out any one artist in particular, but “trapping” suggests an attack at Trap Music-makers like T.I. and Rick Ross and frivolous songs like “B.M.F. (Blowin’ Money Fast)” (2010) .

Name of song: “Bossin’Up”

Name of artist or group: Kid Ink feat. A$AP Ferg and French Montana

Recording details: Almost Home (Kid Ink EP) (2013)

Call-and Response: The call-and-response technique appears in the chorus: “[Call] Bossin’ up, [Response] add it up/[Call] Bossin’ up, [Response] add it up.” The chorus functions to add to the boasting lyrics of the song that celebrate Kid Ink’s prowess.

WORKS CITED

Jay Z. “Tom Ford.” *Genius*. Genius Media Inc. Web. 10 February 2015.

Kid Ink feat. A$AP Ferg and French Montana. “Bossin’ Up.” *Genius*. Genius Media Inc. Web. 10 February 2015.

Rubric

Cultural Connections Rubric

Criteria	Ratings	Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeBoasting	5.0 pts Full Marks 0.0 pts No Marks	5.0 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeRoasting	5.0 pts Full Marks 0.0 pts No Marks	5.0 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeRitual Insulting	5.0 pts Full Marks 0.0 pts No Marks	5.0 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeCall-and-Response	5.0 pts Full Marks 0.0 pts No Marks	5.0 pts
Total Points: 20.0

Create an essay of 500-750 words, describing the development of industry, business, and labor after the American Civil War. Address the following:

1. Discuss several of the industries of America’s Industrial Revolution in the post-Civil War period.
2. What made these leaders of industry successful?
3. Explain the origins and growth of labor unions.
4. What did Labor Unions accomplish?

Use a minimum of three of the sources provided to support your assignment and be sure to cite the sources.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Please work on this one problem on your computer using common applications such as Word, Excel, or others)

Selected transactions completed by Equinox Products Inc. during the fiscal year ended December 31, Year 1, were as follows:

1. Issued 15,000 shares of $20 par common stock at $30, receiving cash.
2. Issued 4,000 shares of $80 par preferred 5% stock at $100, receiving cash.
3. Issued $500,000 of 10-year, 5% bonds at 104, with interest payable semiannually.
4. Declared a quarterly dividend of $0.50 per share on common stock and $1.00 per share on preferred stock. On the date of record, 100,000 shares of common stock were outstanding, no treasury shares were held and 20,000 shares of preferred stock were outstanding.
5. Paid the cash dividends declared in (d).
6. Purchased 7,500 shares of Solstice Corp. at $40 per share plus a $150 brokerage commission. The investment is classified as an available-for-sale investment.
7. Purchased 8,000 shares of treasury common stock at $33 per share.
8. Purchased 40,000 shares of Pinkberry Co. stock directly from the founders for $24 per share. Pinkberry has 125,000 shares issued and outstanding. Equinox Products Inc. treated the investment as an equity method investment.
9. Declared a $1.00 quarterly cash dividend per share on preferred stock. On the date of record, 20,000 shares of preferred stock had been issued.
10. Paid the cash dividends to the preferred stockholders.
11. Received $27,500 dividend from Pinkberry Co. investment in (h).
12. Purchased $90,000 of Dream Inc. 10-year, 5% bonds, directly from the issuing company, at their face amount plus accrued interest of $375. The bonds are classified as a held-to-maturity long-term investment.
13. Sold, at $38 per share, 2,600 shares of treasury common stock purchased in (g).
14. Received a dividend of $0.60 per share from the Solstice Corp. investment in (f).
15. Sold 1,000 shares of Solstice Corp. at $45, including commission.
16. Recorded the payment of semiannual interest on the bonds issued in (c) and the amortization of the premium for six months. The amortization is determined using the straight-line method.
17. Accrued interest for three months on the Dream Inc. bonds purchased in (l).
18. Pinkberry Co. recorded total earnings of $240,000. Equinox Products recorded equity earnings for its share of Pinkberry Co. net income.
19. The fair value for Solstice Corp. stock was $39.02 per share on December 31, Year 1. The investment is adjusted to fair value, using a valuation allowance account. Assume that Valuation Allowance for Available-for-Sale Investments had a beginning balance of zero.

Instructions

1. Journalize the selected transactions.
2. After all of the transactions for the year ended December 31, Year 1, had been posted [including the transactions recorded in part (1) and all adjusting entries], the data that follows were taken from the records of Equinox Products Inc.
   1. Prepare a multiple-step income statement for the year ended December 31, Year 1, concluding with earnings per share. In computing earnings per share, assume that the average number of common shares outstanding was 100,000 and preferred dividends were $100,000. Round earnings per share to the nearest cent.
   2. Prepare a retained earnings statement for the year ended December 31, Year 1.
   3. Prepare a balance sheet in report form as of December 31, Year 1.

Please reorganize the paper and tried to write the paper with a thesis instead of showing statistics. My paper is just showing statistics but has no center thesis. And I wanted to analysis Egypt inequality from these statistics. You can add anything that you want, including pictures, new statistics, and new articles.?

Prompt：Egypt inequality

The paper should examine Egypt and use the materials, statistics, and theory taught in the class. After examining the country and determining its current development, you should discuss how to increase development in the country. Explain where resources should be provided and the expected development gain.

Here’s a general outline

1. History and brief backdrop of the country.

2. (Some) statistics used, the values measured, and the meaning of the statistic. You do not have to use all the statics covered in homework or lecture. Your statistics should explain what you think is important to explain. Some statistics are useless in you paper so don’t use them. You do not earn points for including (unneeded) statistics. The reader will not be impressed with papers that include statistics that are not part of the paper. Points will be lost if it appears the paper is full of unneeded statistics.

Statistics: http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/EGY or other official websites

1. Statistics can use:

1. GDP aggregate
2. GDP per Capita
3. rate of inflation
4. rate of unemployment

a. The total fertility rate

b. Total population

c. growth rate of population

d. growth rate of GDP

e. Crude birth rate

f. Death rate

g. Natural increase

h. Poverty Gap Index

i. Income Gap Index

j. Headcount (Poverty) Ratio