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...artists creating murals of the rappers’ names and the shoes. However, instead of showcasing the timeless attributes of early hip hop culture, the video serves only to show how different things are, nowadays. The irony is that, regardless of how many so-called hip hop tropes are thrown across the screen, this song is about shoes that Nike paid these rappers to rap about. And though this is nothing new in the culture, it’s a solemn reminder of the capitalistic nature of rap today as supposed to the more innocent days of floppy disks...
...Spartan boy is bred to militarism. He's taken from his mother and, as the movie says, is "thrown into a world of unspeakable cruelty" (or, as the English call it, boarding school). Spartans are the tough guys, the bully boys, the warrior class, fighting and dying for other Greeks who may lack their mettle. Leonidas chides the Athenians as "those philosophers and boy-lovers...
...unprecedented strides in a midterm election, the Democratic Party morphed into an “in it to win it” race for the White House. How about the race to properly control the Senate or Congress? I know I should blame the dozens of politicians who have thrown in their hat toward a White House bid, but the madness has permeated our campus...
...deal has implications far beyond Texas. The Lone Star State is No. 7 in the world for greenhouse gases (emitting more CO2 than Britain), and TXU is the state's biggest corporate contributor. Those 11 coal-fired plants would have thrown off 78 tons of carbon dioxide a year--double the savings expected from California's Clean Cars legislation, passed last year. The buyout firms promised not only to halt eight of the Texas plants but also to terminate plans for coal-fired operations in New Jersey, Virginia and Maryland--a recognition that momentum is growing in Washington for legislation...
...images of domestic violence that have been thrown out to us are heterosexual, of the woman being the victim and the male being the perpetrator,” he said...