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    tracks.” If Clipping’s music comes off as abrasive, their videos are no different. Their latest music video for “Work, Work,” directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada, was published a few months ago, and has some pretty “f**ked up” scenes of Daveed getting curb-stomped. “We were actually afraid it wasn’t tough enough. It has those cute little rats at the end” says William. “That’s actually how Carlos got us to do the video in the first place. He’s a pretty scary guy, and it took quite a bit of violent intimidation on his part to get us to agree to work with him. Once we got out of that situation, we realized it was a pretty good idea for a video.” The music and music video don’t necessarily reflect on the men within. Jonathon explains that the three are “fairly balanced, but that’s possibly part of the reason we’re all so interested in extreme music. I’m never interested in art that I feel like relates directly to my actual life. I love work feels fantastical, unrealistic, explores emotions and states that aren’t necessarily present in my day-to-day. Maybe if I was a violent or extreme person in my own life, I’d be interested in making pleasant and soothing music.” It could also hint at why the group has a steadfast rule that all rap narrates in second and third-person. Daveed, the group’s MC, says “it seems like such a harsh constraint but it actually has broadened the storytelling possibilities for us without forcing us to sound inauthentic. We don’t have to be limited to…

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    Concepts: Hiding Assessment. Didax Publishing, page 26. The probe will first be probing for the student’s ability to see part-whole number relationships. For each of the students I started off with the number 6 because it was a number in the middle. If a student is not able to master the number 5 the assessment will move backward to assess the number 4, if the student is able to show master of the number 6 then they will move up to the assessment of the number 7. Assessment: With Counters 1.…

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    their spirit. Early sign number 5: Intense arguments 5) Arguments get out of control easily is a sign of intolerance. I have seen this happening with close relatives, but it can also occur with couples. Having different discussions escalating to intense arguments on the regular basis must be drawing from frustrations that probably do not have anything to do with the subject. It is important to get to the root of this negative posture towards having a conversation. Another suggestion is to…

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    to count to 2. While counting on from 9, he added 2 more to get to the answer of 11. Student C was double counting as he solved this problem. Placement within Carpenter’s framework: Student C falls within the ‘counting’ framework. Student C was able to mentally hold the number 9, which shows that he has quotity. He then counted up from there while simultaneously counting on his fingers the number 2. Student C also ignored the time sequence of the problem by starting with the larger number and…

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    crime. When you owe money to a legitimate company and you don’t pay, they send you notices and reminders with due dates and eventually it could go to collections. Organized crime sees violence as a way to avoid all of this. If you owe them money and you don’t pay, when they catch you they will beat you up or worse, make an example out of you and kill you. Basically violence is used as a means to an end for these people. The main problem of this is collateral damage, or the innocent bystanders…

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    From the source, “America’s First Godfather,” Mike Dash talks about how the culture effected the mafia in Sicily. He first started talking about how Morello’s story was not known around the world yet. So, he explained how Morello set up crime in New York in the 1900’s. Mr. Morello was well operated before the mafia was even a big deal to screenwriters. Morello ended up getting imprisoned, then murdered. Mike Dash then goes on to talk about the culture of Sicily, where Morello had lived, had…

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    Most French young men and women who went to prison at that time ended up joining criminal prison gangs and committing serious crimes. For example, in the movie A Prophet, Malik killed Reyeb, but he never served a sentence for that offense. An individual could leave jail being worse than he or she went in. For example, Malik went to the detention center as a young boy who never knew anything about gangs but left this center as an assassin and a gang leader. Prison assassinations were common in…

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    Perestroika Reform Essay

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    However, perestroika did not occur without consequences. The privatization movement of the perestroika reform allowed for the formation of a new class the oligarchs. The lack of legal safeguards of privatization allowed the mafia, which had the financial means and the political connections, to gain ownership and control over key industries of the Russian economy. “The problem is the economic liberalization in Russia, even in the narrowest sense of legalizing private business activity, is far…

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    the work. These improvements Mussolini created, made Italy into a national powerhouse. With increase in chemistry and Mussolini’s knack for gaining land, Italy was able to form a stronger military and was able to gain Ethiopia. Mussolini destroyed the Italian mafia, which had been causing trouble in Italy for years. The mafia brought down the unity of Italy by intimidating anybody, who wronged them. Mussolini did not want people feeling threatened and as a dictator he could not have anybody…

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    equal opportunity to become anything they want, through hard work, determination and initiative. Becoming “American” has been a constant topic brought up in mafia films such as Scarface, The codfather part I and II. The Corleone is a family run and operated business, founded on trust, support and protection. The Godfather displays the dark side of how the American Dream can affect who you become. Michael let the idea of the american dream push them to obtain power and greed which eventually…

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