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1 Kathleen Tynan, Taylor Ratley Weaver LNG 311 1 May 2011
Dr. Dre
Violent Childhood Andre Young grew up in a small, depressed neighborhood where drug abuse and gang violence was common. He had a young mom, Verna, who had Andre at age 16 and was married a brief while to an abusive drug dealer. Verna took Andre and moved away to raise him right. She told him fast money is not good money, referring to drug dealers. He was too distracted by music to become involved in violence. Andre was born with a love for it and knew how to work a turntable at the age of four. His grandmother would recite poems to him and he quickly committed the words to memory.
Becoming a Gangsta By the time Andre reached high school, he got a job as a nightclub DJ. Andre soon dropped out and worked full time. There he came up with his nickname Dr. Dre, coming from one of his favorite basketball players, Julius Erving, who called himself Dr. J. Dre soon became apart of N.W.A. records and produced an album Dr. Dre s Surgery that sold over 50,000 copies by word of mouth. He also made an album called Straight Outta Compton that went triple platinum and became the first rap album to sell so many copies without radio support. Dre
2 was unfortunately put on house arrest for assault in 1992. A year later he was sentenced to jail for 5 months for drunk driving.
Life of Achievements Making a comeback, he produced the album The Cronic that sold over 4 million copies. The album also won a Grammy for the best solo performance for the single, Let me Ride. Dre was known for setting the standard for gangsta rap. He was named produced and solo artist of the year at the source awards. In 2000 and 2004, Dr. Dre won the legend award. Also in 2000, he won the Lifetime Achievement award at the source Hip-Hop Music Awards. He now works and produces albums and music from his new company Detox. Dr. Dre is now a very wealthy rap producer and worked hard to achieve his goal.
Dr. Dre s Lifestyle
You would think that no one would take a liking to violence, but Andre Young is fascinated by it. Andre grew up in a small, depressed neighborhood in Compton, California. He was always around drugs and gangs since his father was a drug dealer. His father would abuse Andre and his mom, Verna. She soon divorced him and took Andre and moved away. Verna did all she could to raise Andre to not get into gang and drug violence. He was too distracted by his music to get into any of that anyway. Andre dropped out of school and became a DJ at a night club. He then changed his name to Dr. Dre after his favorite basketball player Julius Erving, who called himself Dr. J. He started becoming a part of producing companies and produced many successful albums. He is now producing with Detox and is still
3 producing and making music. Andre has made many life achievements through his inspiration of life on the streets. His inspiration makes his style of lyrics unique. Dre uses a violent, story-telling, rhythmic style to explain the essence of life on the streets. Dr. Dre s violent theme guides you through the life of a gangsta. In the song Fame, he talks about the violent way of fame. Dre states my look is hostile, which puts people at fear. Another example of Dr. Dre s violent style is his use of words. Slain, bullet, and gun, are all panicky types of words. Some other descriptive words including: Executed styles behind men, Rough designer, chubby alcoholic rhymer, and what you need you ll have to borrow, lets the reader imagine what problems and obstacles young men and women have to go through in order to stay safe. Dre gives the background life of a gangster and how tough it is to be one. Another style technique is Dr. Dre s way of telling a story in his music. Most of his music describes the life of a gangster. This celebrates crime, violence, and drug use. The song Fame tells about being famous in the ghetto and that the famous gangsters deserve respect. It describes the life for the famous gangsters, also. This story technique is a way to connect with listeners. Some listeners can relate or connect with the storyline to help them better understand. Overall, Dr. Dre s reasoning for telling a story in his music is most likely to tell about the street life and to inform people, who might not have experienced it, how rough it is. He expresses his feelings through the lyrics by stating a serious message on the dangers that he had to live through growing up.
4 A third style is that of rhythm. Since Dre is an artist of music, he must has many sound devices to make his songs flow. In Fame, he uses internal rhyme frequently throughout the song. For example, Nine is fine, its plays for time. He also uses rhymes at the end of lines to make it come together. Tomorrow and borrow, fame and game, shallow and hallow, are all examples of ways he uses end rhyme to connect the lyrics. The word fame is placed before and after each stanza and is strongly used as repetition. Say my name is also used as repetition. You can tell Dr. Dre is an expert at rhythm through his lyrics. This talent contributes to the unique style of his lyrics and helps him tell the story of life on the streets. The way an author creates his or her style makes their work unique. Dr. Dre invented gangsta rap because he felt the ways of life on the streets should be shared with the people that do not live that type of life. He grab s the listeners attention by using modern points, true facts, and a solid rhythm. Dre creates the song fame to describe what it s like to be a gangster and be famous. He uses his unique style to deliver his purpose of describing the essence of life on the streets.
Emily Dickinson
Growing up- Emily s Family was well known throughout the town of Amherst, Massachusetts. Her father was a lawyer and a college treasurer. Her mother stayed at home to take care of the house but was very active with the community. Even though her family was well known throughout the town Emily felt like she was a nobody. She began writing in her early teens about simple subjects including animals, the beach, nature, and love, but no one really showed any interest of it. Ben Newton was one person who took notice of Emily s poetry and they wrote to each
5 other everyday. A few years later Ben died and she began to write about death. It was Reverend Charles Wadsworth that made Emily triggered her withdrawal from the world. She had fallen in love with him but he dumbed her and that is when she closed herself in form the world.
traumatized state of mind is believed to have inspired her to write non-stop. In 1862 she alone is thought to compose over three hundred poems. Her father died in 1874. The death of her mother in 1882, followed two years later by the death of Judge Otis P. Lord, a close family friend, this all contributed to Dickinson s attack of nerves. Nearly eighteen hundred poems by Dickinson are known to exist, all of them in the form of brief lyrics, and few of them are titled. Only seven poems were published in her lifetime. The editors of the periodicals in which her lyrics appeared made significant altercations, then to make an attempt to regularize the mater and grammar, therefore discouraging Dickinson form seeking and further publication of her verse. Discovering a Star- When Emily past away her sister Lavinia found hundreds of poems and She resolved to publish her sister s poetry and turned to Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd, a friend of the Dickinson s family, for assistance. In 1890 Poems of Emily Dickinson appeared and, even though the reviews were highly unfavorable, the work went through eleven editions in two years. Encouraged by the popular acceptance of Poems, Todd edited and published two collections of Dickinson s verse in the 1890s as well as a two-volume selection of her letters. Emily Dickinson is now known as one of the most famous and well-known poets around the world.
he Inspiration- Emily experienced an emotional crisis in the early 1860s. Her
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Emily Dickinson s Lifestyle
Can you imagine growing up in a popular family, everyone looks up to you; the pressure to be perfect? Emily grew up in this atmosphere. The Dickinson family was very active yet, Emily felt as if she did not belong. She began writing in her early teens, up in her room. She wrote about simple subjects including nature, love, and adventures, yet no one showed any concern. Emily grew up and went off to college at Amherst Academy, and wrote Ben Newton everyday. He was one person to take interest in Dickinson s poetry. They fell in love, but two years later Ben died and that is when Emily began writing about death. Dickinson had withdrawn herself from the world and experienced a emotional crisis. In that given year she composed over three hundred poems. Emily published only seven poems in her lifetime. The reviews were so bad that she never had developed any need to publish anymore of her writing. After her death in 1886, her sister Lavinia found a total of eighteen hundred poems and published them with the help of Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd, a family friend. They published all of the poems. All have similar style; which includes simple structure, playful imagery and casual style. Have you ever looked up at a full moon and picture a perfect face? In The moon was but a chin of gold, Dickinson uses a playful imagery, and personification, which brings the remotest star to earth alive. This style helps the reader, imagine that he or she is in the speaker s shoes while the poem is being read. She describes the moon as if it were a beautiful girl. She uses descriptive language like Her forehead is of amplest blonde and Her cheek like beryl stone, to picture the
7 appearance of the moon. She also tells how great it is to be a remotest star and how you should come and watch as she passes by your twinkling door. Dickinson s imagery tries to tell you that you should take an advantage of such a beautiful sight and a privilege to see. Another stylistic feature the poem The moon was but a chin of gold is casual style. Most of her poems are about something that casually happens frequently. For example, in the poem The moon was but a chin of gold, she talks about the moon changing from a new moon to a full moon. This casual topic, no one really fascinates about, Dickinson takes that idea and brings it to life. She bring everyday objects that we don t notice and put them in a different scenario so they are viewed in a new way, this catches the reader s thoughts about how one simple object or sequence is wonderful. The third aspect in Dickinson s poetry is her formal, structural setup. Each stanza is a sentence, which are four lines each. And every other sentence had end rhyme. This makes the poem fun to read and tune in on. The first sentence in The moon was but a chin of gold, which has a soft clap, loud clap rhythm. Dickinson also uses simple language to help the reader understand what she is trying to say. In Emily Dickinson s style, a reader can relate to her poems in a simple but special way. Emily does not end with a strong message, but she does give the reader a feeling that he of she should slow down and enjoy the simple things in life. People think that poetry and music are very different things, but in reality, they are both very similar. Both artist try to send a message in their writings, use sound devices to make the poetry or lyrics memorable, and each have their own
8 specific style which makes them stand out from everyone else. Either poet or lyrist, both make a significant footprint in the modern society by informing people the dangerous of what happens on the street or just reminding people to take a break and enjoy the simple things in life.
Works Cited
Bolin, Frances. Poetry for young people: Emily Dickinson: New York: Sterling Publishing, 2008. Dickinson, Emily (Elizabeth) (1830-1886). DISCovering Authors. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Gale. Columbia County BOE. 19 April. 2011. Web. Marcovitz, Hal. Hip Hop Dr. Dre : Pennsylvania: Mason Crest Publishers, 2007. Print Salter, Susan. Dre, Dr. (c. 1965- ). Newsmakers. Ed. Louise Mooney Collins. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994. Discovering Collection. Gale. Columbia County Board of Education. 24 April. 2011. Web.
Dr. Dre
Violent Childhood Andre Young grew up in a small, depressed neighborhood where drug abuse and gang violence was common. He had a young mom, Verna, who had Andre at age 16 and was married a brief while to an abusive drug dealer. Verna took Andre and moved away to raise him right. She told him fast money is not good money, referring to drug dealers. He was too distracted by music to become involved in violence. Andre was born with a love for it and knew how to work a turntable at the age of four. His grandmother would recite poems to him and he quickly committed the words to memory.
Becoming a Gangsta By the time Andre reached high school, he got a job as a nightclub DJ. Andre soon dropped out and worked full time. There he came up with his nickname Dr. Dre, coming from one of his favorite basketball players, Julius Erving, who called himself Dr. J. Dre soon became apart of N.W.A. records and produced an album Dr. Dre s Surgery that sold over 50,000 copies by word of mouth. He also made an album called Straight Outta Compton that went triple platinum and became the first rap album to sell so many copies without radio support. Dre
2 was unfortunately put on house arrest for assault in 1992. A year later he was sentenced to jail for 5 months for drunk driving.
Life of Achievements Making a comeback, he produced the album The Cronic that sold over 4 million copies. The album also won a Grammy for the best solo performance for the single, Let me Ride. Dre was known for setting the standard for gangsta rap. He was named produced and solo artist of the year at the source awards. In 2000 and 2004, Dr. Dre won the legend award. Also in 2000, he won the Lifetime Achievement award at the source Hip-Hop Music Awards. He now works and produces albums and music from his new company Detox. Dr. Dre is now a very wealthy rap producer and worked hard to achieve his goal.
Dr. Dre s Lifestyle
You would think that no one would take a liking to violence, but Andre Young is fascinated by it. Andre grew up in a small, depressed neighborhood in Compton, California. He was always around drugs and gangs since his father was a drug dealer. His father would abuse Andre and his mom, Verna. She soon divorced him and took Andre and moved away. Verna did all she could to raise Andre to not get into gang and drug violence. He was too distracted by his music to get into any of that anyway. Andre dropped out of school and became a DJ at a night club. He then changed his name to Dr. Dre after his favorite basketball player Julius Erving, who called himself Dr. J. He started becoming a part of producing companies and produced many successful albums. He is now producing with Detox and is still
3 producing and making music. Andre has made many life achievements through his inspiration of life on the streets. His inspiration makes his style of lyrics unique. Dre uses a violent, story-telling, rhythmic style to explain the essence of life on the streets. Dr. Dre s violent theme guides you through the life of a gangsta. In the song Fame, he talks about the violent way of fame. Dre states my look is hostile, which puts people at fear. Another example of Dr. Dre s violent style is his use of words. Slain, bullet, and gun, are all panicky types of words. Some other descriptive words including: Executed styles behind men, Rough designer, chubby alcoholic rhymer, and what you need you ll have to borrow, lets the reader imagine what problems and obstacles young men and women have to go through in order to stay safe. Dre gives the background life of a gangster and how tough it is to be one. Another style technique is Dr. Dre s way of telling a story in his music. Most of his music describes the life of a gangster. This celebrates crime, violence, and drug use. The song Fame tells about being famous in the ghetto and that the famous gangsters deserve respect. It describes the life for the famous gangsters, also. This story technique is a way to connect with listeners. Some listeners can relate or connect with the storyline to help them better understand. Overall, Dr. Dre s reasoning for telling a story in his music is most likely to tell about the street life and to inform people, who might not have experienced it, how rough it is. He expresses his feelings through the lyrics by stating a serious message on the dangers that he had to live through growing up.
4 A third style is that of rhythm. Since Dre is an artist of music, he must has many sound devices to make his songs flow. In Fame, he uses internal rhyme frequently throughout the song. For example, Nine is fine, its plays for time. He also uses rhymes at the end of lines to make it come together. Tomorrow and borrow, fame and game, shallow and hallow, are all examples of ways he uses end rhyme to connect the lyrics. The word fame is placed before and after each stanza and is strongly used as repetition. Say my name is also used as repetition. You can tell Dr. Dre is an expert at rhythm through his lyrics. This talent contributes to the unique style of his lyrics and helps him tell the story of life on the streets. The way an author creates his or her style makes their work unique. Dr. Dre invented gangsta rap because he felt the ways of life on the streets should be shared with the people that do not live that type of life. He grab s the listeners attention by using modern points, true facts, and a solid rhythm. Dre creates the song fame to describe what it s like to be a gangster and be famous. He uses his unique style to deliver his purpose of describing the essence of life on the streets.
Emily Dickinson
Growing up- Emily s Family was well known throughout the town of Amherst, Massachusetts. Her father was a lawyer and a college treasurer. Her mother stayed at home to take care of the house but was very active with the community. Even though her family was well known throughout the town Emily felt like she was a nobody. She began writing in her early teens about simple subjects including animals, the beach, nature, and love, but no one really showed any interest of it. Ben Newton was one person who took notice of Emily s poetry and they wrote to each
5 other everyday. A few years later Ben died and she began to write about death. It was Reverend Charles Wadsworth that made Emily triggered her withdrawal from the world. She had fallen in love with him but he dumbed her and that is when she closed herself in form the world.
traumatized state of mind is believed to have inspired her to write non-stop. In 1862 she alone is thought to compose over three hundred poems. Her father died in 1874. The death of her mother in 1882, followed two years later by the death of Judge Otis P. Lord, a close family friend, this all contributed to Dickinson s attack of nerves. Nearly eighteen hundred poems by Dickinson are known to exist, all of them in the form of brief lyrics, and few of them are titled. Only seven poems were published in her lifetime. The editors of the periodicals in which her lyrics appeared made significant altercations, then to make an attempt to regularize the mater and grammar, therefore discouraging Dickinson form seeking and further publication of her verse. Discovering a Star- When Emily past away her sister Lavinia found hundreds of poems and She resolved to publish her sister s poetry and turned to Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd, a friend of the Dickinson s family, for assistance. In 1890 Poems of Emily Dickinson appeared and, even though the reviews were highly unfavorable, the work went through eleven editions in two years. Encouraged by the popular acceptance of Poems, Todd edited and published two collections of Dickinson s verse in the 1890s as well as a two-volume selection of her letters. Emily Dickinson is now known as one of the most famous and well-known poets around the world.
he Inspiration- Emily experienced an emotional crisis in the early 1860s. Her
6
Emily Dickinson s Lifestyle
Can you imagine growing up in a popular family, everyone looks up to you; the pressure to be perfect? Emily grew up in this atmosphere. The Dickinson family was very active yet, Emily felt as if she did not belong. She began writing in her early teens, up in her room. She wrote about simple subjects including nature, love, and adventures, yet no one showed any concern. Emily grew up and went off to college at Amherst Academy, and wrote Ben Newton everyday. He was one person to take interest in Dickinson s poetry. They fell in love, but two years later Ben died and that is when Emily began writing about death. Dickinson had withdrawn herself from the world and experienced a emotional crisis. In that given year she composed over three hundred poems. Emily published only seven poems in her lifetime. The reviews were so bad that she never had developed any need to publish anymore of her writing. After her death in 1886, her sister Lavinia found a total of eighteen hundred poems and published them with the help of Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd, a family friend. They published all of the poems. All have similar style; which includes simple structure, playful imagery and casual style. Have you ever looked up at a full moon and picture a perfect face? In The moon was but a chin of gold, Dickinson uses a playful imagery, and personification, which brings the remotest star to earth alive. This style helps the reader, imagine that he or she is in the speaker s shoes while the poem is being read. She describes the moon as if it were a beautiful girl. She uses descriptive language like Her forehead is of amplest blonde and Her cheek like beryl stone, to picture the
7 appearance of the moon. She also tells how great it is to be a remotest star and how you should come and watch as she passes by your twinkling door. Dickinson s imagery tries to tell you that you should take an advantage of such a beautiful sight and a privilege to see. Another stylistic feature the poem The moon was but a chin of gold is casual style. Most of her poems are about something that casually happens frequently. For example, in the poem The moon was but a chin of gold, she talks about the moon changing from a new moon to a full moon. This casual topic, no one really fascinates about, Dickinson takes that idea and brings it to life. She bring everyday objects that we don t notice and put them in a different scenario so they are viewed in a new way, this catches the reader s thoughts about how one simple object or sequence is wonderful. The third aspect in Dickinson s poetry is her formal, structural setup. Each stanza is a sentence, which are four lines each. And every other sentence had end rhyme. This makes the poem fun to read and tune in on. The first sentence in The moon was but a chin of gold, which has a soft clap, loud clap rhythm. Dickinson also uses simple language to help the reader understand what she is trying to say. In Emily Dickinson s style, a reader can relate to her poems in a simple but special way. Emily does not end with a strong message, but she does give the reader a feeling that he of she should slow down and enjoy the simple things in life. People think that poetry and music are very different things, but in reality, they are both very similar. Both artist try to send a message in their writings, use sound devices to make the poetry or lyrics memorable, and each have their own
8 specific style which makes them stand out from everyone else. Either poet or lyrist, both make a significant footprint in the modern society by informing people the dangerous of what happens on the street or just reminding people to take a break and enjoy the simple things in life.
Works Cited
Bolin, Frances. Poetry for young people: Emily Dickinson: New York: Sterling Publishing, 2008. Dickinson, Emily (Elizabeth) (1830-1886). DISCovering Authors. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Gale. Columbia County BOE. 19 April. 2011. Web. Marcovitz, Hal. Hip Hop Dr. Dre : Pennsylvania: Mason Crest Publishers, 2007. Print Salter, Susan. Dre, Dr. (c. 1965- ). Newsmakers. Ed. Louise Mooney Collins. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994. Discovering Collection. Gale. Columbia County Board of Education. 24 April. 2011. Web.
