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In a foodbank near Croydon, Steve is collecting a box a food. It has been a week since he last ate. Steve is one of the 42.5% of foodbank users who are forced to use a foodbank because of benefit changes or cuts. “It was on the x68 and there was accident midway through the journey” he says. “It wasn’t my fault that i was late to the appointement but they changed my benefits anyways. Now Steve is struggling with food and wonders how he will eat next week.

Now that Steves benefits has changed it has affected his two children. Now his children are a part of two of the 63% of children living in poverty who are in a family where someone works. It will affect his children because of their education and their health, Steve’s children who are entitled to free school meals, most of whom do not achieve above C. Now that Steve and his two children are in poverty because of benefits changes, his children are now at risk of suffering severe chronic illness or to have a disability whilst they grow up, this is shown in studies about children living in poverty and them suffering under these circumstance. (One of Steves children is a 1 year old boy and the other one is a 2 year old girl).

The ardous odyssey

odyssey: greek myth odysseus goes on a long journey to go back home after war. On the journey he fights various monsters and has to go through different trials.

Cedric’s monsters are his bullies

Trials: getting into M.I.T

In this essay I will be talking about how Ron Suskind presents the difficulties of Cedric’s education and how he uses language technique in part one and part two. Cedric goes through many difficulties when he is in ballou high and MIT such as receiving abuse from other students, struggling with the work at MIT and violence. Through out the articles Suskind uses various language devices that suggest that it was difficult for Cedric to get an education.

One language technique that Ron Suskind uses is a metaphor we can see this in the quote,  “The arduous odyssey of Cedric”. In this quote Suskind uses metaphor you can see this when he says ‘odyssey of Cedric’. Here he is talking about how Cedric faces difficulties as an individual in his education and how it would be hard for him and he will go through this journey on his own. The word ‘odyssey’ relates to the myth of Odysseus which suggests that Cedric’s journey will be very hard for him. The meaning of the word arduous is that it is painful and this relates back to the essay question because Cedric has to face it by himself and that his education will not be easy to pass.

Another quote that Ron Suskind uses is “crime infested ward”. In this quote Ron is saying that the school and the area is infected with crimes and that the school is not improving. Unlike the previous quote, this quote talks about what happens around Cedric’s area and how crime affects Cedric’s learning. The area that Cedric lives in is getting a virus of crimes spreading around  and it would be affecting Cedric’s learning because he has to concentrate on not being robbed than to be concentrating on his work and also his school is an unsafe learning environment because of anti-social behavior such as murders, robberies and drug dealers.This links back to the essay question because Cedric needs to concentrate on his school and has to try  and avoid drug dealers, murders and robberies.

Another quote Ron Suskind uses is ‘But where i start from is far behind where some other kids are, I have to run twice the distance to catch up’. In this quote Ron suskind uses metaphor based on a race, in a race you need endurance, stamina and speed. Since Cedric went to M.I.T and left ballou high he has to run twice the distance because of how everybody is smarter than him since he went to M.I.T. In this quote the word ‘distance’ stands out

Another language device Suskind uses is a metaphor. We can see this in the quote, ‘Being a minority and a high achiever means you have carry extra baggage about who you are and where you belong.’ Here Suskind implies that the ‘extra baggage’ Cedric has to carry affects in his life and his education. We understand that ‘extra baggage’ could symbolise that Cedric is a minority in his society and has to work twice as hard as everyone else. Suskind uses the term ‘extra baggage’ here because it shows that cedrics ethnicity weighs him down. Finally the word ‘belong’ suggests that just because cedric is black doesnt mean that he should have to change who he is or where he has to go because of that.

Quote: Being a minority and a high achiever means you have to carry extra baggage about who you are and where you belong. That puts them at risk.

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In this essay I will be talking about how hip-hop still has a positive message. People think that studying hip-hop is not good since it has a lot of negativity, but I will be speaking about how hip-hop has a positive message. One positive messages that emcees use hip-hop to criticise the REEL. I will now explain what the REEL is.

Hip-hop started in New York in 1970. Hip-hop came from the black musical traditional which includes Blues, Jazz, Soul.

Before rappers started rapping about getting girls, getting money and having sex all the time, they were rapping about police brutality and issued effecting in the inner city.

Previous emcees that rapped about police brutality and issues effecting in the inner city then since they got more popular Major companies saw the advantage by making money of them and decided to buy smaller labels and change up the lyrics and took control of them. When people listened to emcees rapping about police brutality and issues effecting in the inner city they really didn’t enjoy it but when they heard that some emcees changed there lyrics most people bought most of there records. White suburbans admitted that they enjoy hyper violent lyrics because they think that they are experiencing how black people lived.

Yc the cynic criticise the reel through using repetition. He shows this by saying ‘ I’ll ride for my negus, die for my negus. The repetition of negus is important because the word comes from the Ethiopian language which means royalty. Here Yc the cynic suggest that black people were kings and queens before being slaves. Here, Yc the cynic tries to imply that the word ‘nigga’ is used to casual. In Comparison, the n word is a derogatory word used to put down people of a African origin.

The emcee that we studied was about Mos Def and in the song called Mathematics he says this quote which is “Eight year old found with 9mils”, they got influenced by listening to hip-hop, they think it was necessary to hold it with them because they might want to get involved with the crimes that are happening around the house.

This song by Kendrick Lamar is called The Blacker the berry in this song he is criticising the REEL, I will now explain how it is criticising the REEL now. In the song Kendrick Lamar is trying to spread a positive message to people by saying this line ‘The Blacker The berry The sweeter the juice’. What he means when he says ‘The blacker The berry The sweeter’ he is trying to say that black people are good. He is being the biggest hypocrite because of what happened to them two kids that the police killed. In this song Kendrick Lamar starts the verse with a point of view of an African-American angered because of black people lives being destroyed.

This song by Mick Jenkins is called Martyrs in this song he is criticising the REEL, I will now explain how it is criticising the REEL now. Mick Jenkins is criticising the REEL by saying that black people are following destructive behaviour. In this quote ” I’m just wit my niggas hangings Hangings I’m just with my niggas hanging Hanging” Mick Jenkins is trying to say that there is a double meaning saying that black people can carry on the popular mindset. This quote is a double entrende because of what he says on the quote ” I’m just wit my niggas hangings Hangings I’m just with my niggas hanging Hanging”  by either saying that black people can carry on the popular mindset like continuing what rappers keep on talking about in there songs or other wise being hanged from poplar trees whilst Nina Simone is singing about black people getting hanged.

Kingslee James Daley, or know as Akala has done a freestyle on SBTV which criticises the REEL, I will now explain how it is criticising the REEL now. At the start of his freestyle he says that “Sorry kids let me apologise before I go further Unfortunately I don’t rap about how many man I’ve have murdered” this means that to many kids have listened to what rappers talk about in there raps this part already starts to criticise the REEL and is socially conscious. It is like Akala wanted to make the audience disappointed because he is not rapping about what rappers rap about today in fact he wants people to be socially conscious and see the real world instead of being trapped in the box (what rappers rap about like killing people, getting money and having sex all the time). This quote “When you have been to Brazil and stood in favela streets next to kids holding hand grenades and M16s when you come back to London it ain’t serious” is saying that children in Brazil have to carry heavy armed weapons and explosives to defend them selves whilst when you are back in London it is like children complain about going to school and could be doing great in life. What Akala is saying in this quote “Apparently murdering man has become an aspiration” is that now people think it is normal killing other people since that is what rappers rap about.

So this is going to be the conclusion for my essay and I will now overall explain to you why the REEL is bad and a bad influence to young people like me. So the REEL is a box made by mass media to show a bad image of how young people should be living and do what rappers say in there songs.

One day Maman told me that we are going Morocco with my two Tata for ete  I was excited because that is my first time going to africa  and i get to see realite. I didnt even sleep since I was so excited, we left like at 6am and Maman told me to not wear something that would make you hot since one of my tata told me that it is hot there once we took the train and arrived to gatwick airport it was my first time taking a plane and Maman told me Marly your ears are gonna start hurting and you have to chew gum when the plane starts taking off. We were in a hurry at the same time cause we nearly missed are flight when we were about to take off my Maman gave me a gum so my ears don’t bleed out the plane started moving and then it started taking off my ears were hurting and were bloque my stomach felt like they were coming out my mouth, Maman and my tatas were used to it because they traveled alot of times. Once we were in the air i felt much better and then I just decided to go sleep since i was tired, then when we were about to land it is practically the same thing as taking off, when the all four of us got off the plane the weather was chaud like the heat hit all of us straight once we got out of the airport we waited for our taxi to come by once we got in the taxi we headed to the city is was beau it really had a different change than London like the people there are different. When we arrived at the hotel the lady gave us the key and Maman told me to put the bagage’s away, the rooms  were acutely kind of impressive but then since we were kind of tired from the airplane tout le monde went and took a sieste except me i went to the  piscine they had it was small compared to the one near the house the one in the center was much bigger, so i decided to chill in the piscine for like an hour then i went back to my room and took a sieste. Once we woke up we all went in the shower because we were gonna go eat in a restaurant after me and Maman and my two tatas and with someone that is like a guide and stays with us until we leave then we had to pass were the main things happens in Marrakech literally all the lights were on and the people there are funny and the marche of boisson and nourriture people was trying to convince us of which one to buy but at night time it is a really beau place to be in. The heat would just hit us so hard you can feel it, the food there is so nice i ordered steak and frites it was nice the one thing that disturbes me is that there are flies everywhere where you go, since Maman always brang like african fanta and coke i loved that so much the taste is so different from the one that is all around the world. After me and Maman and my two tatas with the guide we went back to the hotel to go sleep. Next morning we woke up and decided to go out this time we just went exploring once we got you would see animals everywhere you go but the only thing that hits me hard about this country is that when people ask for money I feel so sorry for them because litle garcons and filles and adults try to sell tissues and the older ones ask if they can have money because they just got operated.

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In this introduction I will discuss whether the play is anti-semetic. The  word anti-semetic  means discrimination towards the Jewish communities. It relates to the play because the Christians are discriminatory towards the Jews.The Jews only had a limited of space and were restricted to leaving that place. The word for that is ghetto; in these times it was called the Jewish ghetto. This means that place only belonged to them and it wasn’t a very nice place to live and people there as well.

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The Christians gets everything what they want because the Jews lend them money. When Shylock was speaking to Antonio in act 1 scene 3 he was using powerful words to show that the jews are the same as a Christian. Jessica (Shylock’s daughter) ran away to marry Lorenzo and used up all of her father’s money and after turned into a Christian. Shylock found out she ran away and he was crying for his money rather than his daughter. So it shows that Shylock cares more about his money than his family.

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The court are anti semetic because when the duke was speaking to Antonio he insulted Shylock saying he was uncapable of pity and a stony adversary and a inhuman wretch. Uncapable of pity means Shylock won’t show pity/animals, stony adversay means cold hearted, inhuman wretch means Christians thinks the jews are like animals. It shows that the court are bias because they think that jews are way different than Christians. The Christians have no sympathy for the jews because they think it is right to abuse them. The reason why Christians are so anti semetic towards jews is because throughout Europe during the 16th century is was because that was how they were brought up by their there society and there church which they thought that they were lying demons and evil people.

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When Lorenzo insulted Shylock telling Jessica (Shylock’s daughter) that if her father ever makes it to heaven it is because Jessica converted from being a jew to a christian and the quote is “If e’er the jew her father come to heaven, it will be for his gentle daughter’s sake: And never dare misfortune cross her foot, Unless she do it under this excuse, That she is issue to a faithless Jew”. In the merchant of venice Shylock is called a devil or the devil eight times. Shylock says to Antonio in act 1 scene 3  that “I would be friends with you and have your love” but at this point he is being hypocritical because is that he doesn’t want to admit his feelings.

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This is going to relate to the merchant of venice but i am going to show you how it was during hitlers time. Adolf Hitler did not get his ideas on his own he got them from Shakespeares and other people that hated the jews. So Adolf Hitler during the world war 2 started a thing called the holocaust, when he hated the jews. Instead of saying the jews were a religion he said they were a race like a black race and a white race. Adolf said that instead of them being a human they were the devil and they are eternal jew calling them names like hungry for money, filthy and dirty. He put all the jews in concentration camps and left them dying from starvation and they were carrying contagious diseases that couldn’t be stopped because there was no doctors there to help and do to overworking. So it even proved that when Shylock lost his daughter he was crying for his money and during Adolf Hitlers time they were named hungry for money filthy, dirty.

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Launcelot in the second act was debating if he should get a new employer the problem with that is that he was working for Shylock. Launcelot was thinking to him self, “Certainly the jew is the very devil incarnation” (act 2 scene 2 line 240) then he decided to run away from Shylock rather than continuing working for him. After Launcelot found his father he said this to him,”I am a jew if i serve the jew any longer” (act 2 scene 2 line 104). Before accepting the new job Antonio was discussing about Launcelot’s father being blind and that he reminded himself that Bassanio was much poorer than Shylock, but Launcelot would much rather work for a Christian than a Jew.

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So in my opinion the Merchant of venice is anti-semetic becuase the way they speak to Shylock and the jobs that they can only do which is being a moneylender. They think as them as devils, Shylock’s daughter changing religions whilst they are not allowed to sleep with a Christian and not aloud to eat with a Christian and they also can’t love a Christian as well, spitting on Shylock and burning there turah. So in general from my point of veiw the merchant of venice is anti-semetic.

Lancelot presents how he does not want to be Shylock’s servant any longer. Pg35.  Quotation: “Certainly my conscience will serve me to run from this Jew my master”.

Lancelot father came in the play. Gobbo (Lancelot father) didn’t believe Lancelot was his son. Pg41. Quotation: “I know not what I shall think of that: I am Launcelot, the Jew’s man, and I am sure Margery your wife is my mother.

As the mother pushed her son off the bus she probably felt sorry for him because she probably wanted him to get education and live a better life or she might pick him up again when she comes back from casablanca.

When my mum was speaking to the bus driver and the bus stopped my mum grabbed my hand and pushed me off the bus. I was chasing after the bus until it stopped but I could not keep up with it then the bus drove off leaving dust behind me. I do not know where to go now, well because my mum taught me how to make argan oil I will start selling it for the tourist when they come riding through the highway. Maybe I can sell it to make money to go to a different city. I would probably go Essaouira in a little village called Imswan not far from Essaouira and try and find a place I can stay in. So two days has past and my mum still did not come back for me, i only made like one argan oil bottle but i need to make more before i sell it, to accompany me I found a donkey and one dog they would be a lot of help because the donkey would be able to carry stuff for me and the dog can protect me from danger. When I walk to find food or argan oil I always go pass through small villages sometimes I go there and check but most of the time no one is there a really nice women that I met in a small village gave me like 50 dirhams I was really thankfull but that would not get me to where im going really but i was still thankful for that. The fifth day in the morning just gazing at the beautiful sea and the sun rising up and whilst seeing Pascoe (the donkey) and Riley (the dog) sleeping I looked inside my bag and I made 10 bottles of argan oil, today would be the day I start selling my argan oil because I already have 50 dirhams i will probably only need like 200 dirhams more for the taxi and aswell for food.