Shampoo Film

Shampoo is a film created in the March 13, 1975, directed by Hal Ashby also written by Robert Towne and Warren Beatty(www.imdb.com). From direct quote from a contemporary reviewer Don Druker he says, "A brilliant collaboration involving actor-writer Warren Beatty, co-author Robert Towne, director Hal Ashby, and co-stars Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, and Jack Warden. Genuinely funny (in a terrifying, puzzling, tragic way) this tale of sexual/political hypocrisy in Beverly Hills (circa 1968) raises the inescapable issue of the Nixon era: how can we explain away our responsibility for the moral debacle of the last seven years when our private acts mirror our public postures so unerringly? Highly recommended (www.ejumpcut.org).
Warren Beatty, one of the most well known actors of the 70’s played his role as a hair stylist from Beverely Hills. His expectations were to become a great hair dresser and own his own salon. Other characters featured in this film are Carrie Fisher, Julie Christie, and Goldie Hawn. These specific roles these actors and actresses had to fill in were related to the main character Warren Beatty in a somewhat sexual relationship(www.imdb.com). Shampoo is a drama/romance movie. Winning many awards and being nominated for them such as the Oscars, Golden Globe, and WGA, this film was very significant during the 70’s. You must ask who is behind this film all the way. Well it is the director Hal Ashby, director and film editor. Growing up during his childhood years, he had to face his father’s suicide death and his personal traumas. As he became older, he married at the age of 21 and began his works as being an editor working with directors such as William Wyler. His film making career jump started after that, making other films, In the Heat of the Night in 1967(Katz, 56).

To look for...

Using the internet to find my resources, I typed in at google.com Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, to find many links to websites regarding to the artist. I found a lot of lyrics to songs and music video links. I had to search through out the found search results only to find wikipedia.org contain information on Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. That was my first website that I went into to look up their background in the music business. There was some other relevant websites prior to my search on google.com. One website was at billboard.com, where the same information found on wikipedia.com was also on this website as well. I then went back to google.com to search for Bone Thugs-N-Harmony background information. The results lead me to this one website named www.answers.com where I could find what their albums where and what made them successful. I went to their official website to find their bios of their releases of albums in their years.
I decided to look on the search engine google.com because it is a familiar website where I usually go to find information that I need on numerous topics. Even though google.com can be vague on the feedback I get, the many websites regarding to what I am looking for gives me more of a variety of the topic. I also use wikipedia.com because this website is used a lot by google users. Using yahoo.com I typed in Bone Thugs-N-Harmony to look for more background information. Another search website I went to was ask.com. I looked at these websites because I use them to look for information on other topics from the past and they helped a lot.
Some of the advantages of looking at google.com, yahoo.com, and ask.com are that they have many websites that links to the topic I was looking for. They brought up other search websites that helped me further with my search. I got a lot of the same information on these websites that made the information more legitimate. The disadvantage of using these websites are the time to find some of the information you need because if the topic is vague then the feed back will be great and some of them may not regard to what you are looking for. This process can be very time consuming, but for a better search on a short time, it is better to use a more specific search website such as Galileo.com or sirs.com. These websites will have specific questions or options that narrows down what you are looking for so that they can give you information or the links provided much more efficiently.

“Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur"

Michael Eric Dyson is a known hip hop intellectual as well as religion as a Baptist minister. He obtained his Ph D. in religion at Princeton University. Being a professor he has taught at some of the locations; Brown University, DePaul University, and also University of Pennsylvania. He then settles at Georgetown University teaching English, Theology, and African American studies. Dyson hosted a radio program during January 2006 to February 2007, The Michael Eric Dyson Show, as well as speaking on CNN, National Public Radio, and the HBO television show, Real Time with Bill Maher. He is well educated on the culture of hip-hop music and the roots of African and African-American cultures as long with the American cultures. Michael wrote “Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur” The reason why I choose this author and his book is because I have always liked to listen to Tupac Shakur’s music, even though what he raps about is something I really cannot relate to in a somewhat degree, it is because of his points he is trying to get out to the audience and I really adore his inspiration. He also did not care what the media thought of him and what the public said about his music as a menace and such. I believe this is his words of reality coming from the hood. Michael writes about Tupac Shakur in this book. He begins with the struggles of Tupac’s life growing up with a mother that helped black militancy through social rebellions with force and the president of one of the infamous street gang, Disciple Debs. He lived in a constant struggle between poverty and turning to the streets for a way to make money to survive. What he learned on the streets to all his life experiences along with his family encouraged him to rap in his songs. Since Michael Eric Dyson is well educated professor, wrote many books that influence the African-American culture is well qualified to write about Tupac Shakur.

Hip Hop- SHI 360

From the video of SHI 360, this Israeli Shai Haddad grew up in a town called Haifa, Israel. Only 11 eleven years old him and his family packed together their things only to seek a new home in Montreal, Canada. Shai had to overcome difficulties in a foreign home where language barrier and Anti-Semitism was current. Mostly he was influenced from the experiences of Canada that brought him to the music of the Hip-Hop culture. He started off as a DJ for a club and then graduated from Concordia University. Shai then lunged out with this career to be an artist with words to be spoken through music.
In his video, “Kmo Hayot” you can depict the streets of what seems to be in Israel. There are hustlers who steal to get money in their pockets to people who try to trick you into picking a card and losing your bets. The graffiti is well displayed all around the walls and bums that just sleep the day away. SHI 360 portrays what is Hip-Hop to him in his own style. He presents the graffiti art, the dirty money being trafficked illegally, and the people that struggle to support themselves and family. Hip-Hop in another significant way as to “streets” or “hoods” well fits this video. In the Hip-Hop culture these elements presented in “Kmo Hayot” gives off the troublesome days where bad communities and harsh livings all represent some of the genre of Hip Hop.
Also, SHI 360, in his song, is basically rapping about a story of the streets of Israel and their social and political needs of change. Their influence was mostly from Malcolm X and the African-American communities. Globally Hip-hop is a well known genre composed by rappers, mc, djs, and hip-hop artists. Majority of the rappers in Israel are Muslims and have their religion in parts of their songs to express how they feel about it as well.

Peer Review

I believe the peer review went decently. The reading of one another’s paper and filling out the peer review sheet worked well. We discussed briefly what we liked and disliked throughout the paper. What was making sense and what did not are a few examples. The peer review gave us a good opportunity to see how our paper went and what improvements we needed to get on. I believe what did not work out was the time we had only to discuss each other’s paper. As soon as we finished the reading and answering the questions on the peer review sheet it was already time to discuss. The time we had was not enough to my opinion to actually go well in depth of what we needed to fix. Next time we should have fewer questions to answer and have more time to discuss with each other. Then we can go more into what areas are the weakest and what needs to be more focused on changing to make the paper better. If we can as well, have another day to work on our paper in groups before we turn in our final draft just so we know we are still on the write path on writing the final paper.