Coursework Research

http://www.daveyd.com/articleultimatebattlerace.html

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/21/kendrick-lamar-interview-to-pimp-a-butterfly-trayvon-martin

https://web.stanford.edu/class/e297c/poverty_prejudice/mediarace/socialsignificance.htm

http://www.hiphoparea.com/rap/hip-hops-ideologies-of-rebellion.html

http://survivingthegoldenage.com/postmodernism-and-hip-hop/

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/29/joey-badass-they-call-me-marxist-anti-white-gangster-rapper

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6531908/chart-moves-kendrick-lamar-half-million

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUEI_ep9iDs

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/11/kendrick-lamar-to-pimp-a-butterfly-album-cover

http://www.unique-design.net/library/control.html

http://www.irregardlessmagazine.com/the-art-of-writing/pop-cultures-effect-on-society/

http://www.livestrong.com/article/524468-the-effects-of-pop-culture-on-teenagers/

http://youthesource.com/2015/08/20/youth-and-popular-culture-its-all-about-influence-and-interaction/

http://news.stanford.edu/pr/97/971023teenmusic.html

https://musicmagic.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/music-in-society/

https://web.stanford.edu/class/e297c/poverty_prejudice/mediarace/negative.htm

http://www.livestrong.com/article/1005065-influence-effects-rap-music-teens-today/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN2IteZRHvc

http://pitchfork.com/news/60568-kendrick-lamars-alright-chanted-by-protesters-during-cleveland-police-altercation/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUC_DOhfzwQ#t=30

Coursework breakdown

http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/subjects/AQA-W-2625-CA-SONG.PDF

Akala murder runs the globe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Aho9vpqLo

Miss Representation link

Miss Representation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2UZZV3xU6Q

Marxism and Market Liberalism links

Gordon Gecko - Greed is good speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF_iorX_MAw

Capitalism - A love story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBMDvVNhuP8

Milton Friedman - Defending capitalism 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76frHHpoNFs

Captain Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzqSzbrtTao

Bill Gates speaking on Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA1ioym5OYA

The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Television, The drugs if the nation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD9pJzZ1XGI

The high price of materialism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGab38pKscw

Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M (Cash Rules Everything Around Me)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGab38pKscw

Feminism Theories

Female Characters In Fairy Tales;

Dworkin discusses the roles that men and women play in western fairly tales and their implications. for example, she identities that females are particular desirable when they are sleeping (some like snow white and sleeping beauty are practically comatose), She also  points out that good men are likely to fall under the influence of powerful female and harm their children. (E.g. Hansel and Gretel). Woodworking states; 'The good women must be possessed. the bad women must be killed, or punished. Both must be nullified.'

Laura Mulvey; Male Gaze

Mulvey argues that women are objectified in film. She presents the theory that Hollywood cinema (mainly referring to films of the 1940s-'60s) functions as a tool for maintaining patriarchal ideologies. (Men do the watching and women are watched, to over simplify it.)

Naomi Wolf; The Beauty Myth

Naomi Wolf argues that beauty is 'last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact'. Somehow women have been sold the idea that to be beautiful they have to look a certain way. Wolf argues that normative standards of beauty are patriarchal social construct, and women are controlled and limited by them. She states that this standard of beauty has taken over the work of social coercion formerly left to myths about motherhood, domesticity, chastity and passivity, all of which have been used to keep women powerless.

#istandwithAhmed

http://uk.complex.com/pop-culture/2015/09/9th-grade-muslim-student-arrested-making-home-made-clock-bomb-texas

Earlier today Ahmed Mohamed, who is a 14 year old aspiring engineer, was arrested for bringing 'A Bomb' to school. 'The Bomb' was a homemade clock with a digital display, like any other teenager he was proud of his invention and took it to school to show it to his engineering teacher. When the teacher saw it he said 'don't show it to anyone else', taking the advise Ahmed kept it hidden until the alarm on it went off when he was in a different class and the teacher said 'It looks like a bomb' and confiscated it. Later that day he was removed from class by the schools principle along with a POLICE OFFICER. He was taken into interrogation with the officers along with the principle accusing him of making a bomb. The most outrageous part was when one of the officers said 'it looks like a MOVIE BOMB' - what does that even mean!? This isn’t die hard or rush hours, this is real life. Seriously a smashed up ps4 in a bag looks like a bomb.
Several hours went by and he was officially ARRESTED
ON CAMPUS where he was taken into juvenile detention but by then his parents had arrived and took him home.
He still remains suspended even though everyone knows he poses no threat.
As a teenager who's Muslim this kind of thing really gets under my skin because I fear this could happen to my younger brother or your brother or your son. The social fear of a terrorist attack has endangered our religion. If his name was Billy or Jonathan this wouldn't have escalated as far as it did.
This is truly heart breaking; we're supposed to be encouraging people like Ahmed Mohamed to strive and pursuit their dreams. School should be fostering creativity not suffocating it. We've been so indoctrinated to fear one another that we can't spot the difference between the creatives’ from the criminals and worse we act on those assumptions. Ahmed vowed to never bring another invention to school, OK fair enough, but I hope he doesn't stop creating....