Negative Influence of Hip Hop

Hip Hop has had many different stages. Beat boxing, poetic meaningful lyrics and now sex and violence. Hip hop has a tremendous influence on society and especially the youth. They youth are target listeners for most artist. Over the past 30+ years the trends in hip hop are often mimicked around the world from young children and some adults. Hip hop artist are seen as role models and are setting examples for society rather they choose to or not. Young children see the rappers and see that they have money, so they think in order to get money they have to act just as they do.  When yo watch music videos you see guys with big chain and girl with skimpy clothes on, none of which set a good example for the listeners. Violence and sex are a epedemic in the hip hop world. From the way rappers and singers dress to the way they talk eveything they do is put into the spotlight. Music artist need to realize that they are what young people want to become. Lyrics also have a equal amount of influence like the videos. The trendy topics in hip hop today are drugs, money and sex. I strongly believe that if music artist didnt rap about sex and violence our communities would not be what they are today. If we dont have postivity coming from who the youth admires, then how can we  expect our youth to be positive.  youth are in an akward stage where they are trying to figure out who they are and where they fit in and music plays a big part in their decisions. We do still have a few artist that choose to rap about more positive topics but the negative rappers tend to over power them. Our world has become so excepting of negative influences I wonder if we can ever get back on the right track.

When the change in hip hop music came, it took a turn for the worst. I personally prefer not to listen to negative music, so i find my self struggling to find music i can enjoy. I believe that if more people dont speak out about the negative effects of music today it will continue to be developed and our communites will continue to be violent.

Texas Hold Em'

I'm writing this blog today because I just won eighty dollars playing Texas hold em' poker.  Texas hold em' is one of the many poker card games.  Each player recieves two playing cards in a random order and has to make the best of them.  An ace is the highest or best card in the deck and the deuce is the lowest or weakest card in the deck.  Based on those two cards a player is allowed a round of betting at their discretion.  If a bet is placed by any player each player after him or her must match the bet or discontinue the hand and win no money.  Once the bet is placed, the flop comes out.  The flop is a set of three community cards in which each player can use to strengthen their orignal hand.  After that, another round of betting occurs unless everyone checks.  A check is when a player passes the motion to the next player.  Therefore, the next player can either check or bet and so on.  If a player bets then every person following that player must match the bet or raise the bet.  A raise is when a player bets and the person in the next order doubles, triples or places a higher bet.  After those bets have been placed the turn comes out.  The turn is the fourth card on the community that players use to strengthen their orignal hand.  Another round of betting takes place and then the final card comes out on the community which is called the river.  After the river, another round of checking or betting occurs at the players discretion.  When those bets have been placed, each remaining player in the card hand turns over their cards to see who has the winning hand.  Whomever wins the hand recieves all the earnings on the table or in the pot.  The pot is all the money from players betting.
Texas hold em' is a game in which you never really know what another player is holding in their hand.  You basically make blind bets based off of your hand or what you think another person has.  Often times you may see poker players wearing sunglasses or hats to cover their eyes.  This is because some people believe the look in someone's eyes can give them away.  If this is true, sunglasses and hats would be a great disguise.  Although poker is fun to play it can be addictive so I try to play with a set amount of money.  If I win money, I take half of my winnings and play again.  If I lose money I put up more but very little.  If I lose that money then I quit.  As long as I'm winning I continue playing.  Sometimes you have to know when to hold em' and sometimes you have to know when to fold em'!

Cell Phone or Handy Computer

I was watching television early today and noticed they had a new iphone commercial. The commercial advertised the newest iphone which is the iphone 4S. Their marketing feature was the "Siri". The Siri is a application which allows you to locate any information on your phone by voice. You can find out anything from how the traffic is to the closest lock smith near you. Watching the iphone commerical made me think of just how much cell phones have advanced.There was a time when cell phones only could make calls and were the size of your home phone. Now making calls are just the tip of the iceberg. Cell phones have the ability to check emails, weather, facebook, navigation, etc. The competition between phone companies have grown, they force their competition to come up with idea that take cell phone feature to the next level.  The phone are beginning to become more like computers daily. I rarely even use my laptop anymore.It is so much more convienent to just pull my cell phone out and search the web. Having a cell phone that does just about anything a computer can can comes in handy. I wonder what the future holds with the new developments that are discovered in technology daily.

I personally think cell phones today are handy computers.The improvements that are made to cell phones are well needed. I take full advantage of the feature on my cell phone.  They are combining two devices into one. The feature and competition of cell phone companies will definitely continue to rise.

Weather Alert!!!

So, it's going on the middle of October and the temperature is crazy.  Just last week the temperature was eighty degrees the whole week.  This upcoming week is going to bring at least three days in which the temperature will be at least  eighty degrees.  Is global warming really taking a toll on the atmosphere or is this warm, sunny weather just luck?  Either way, I think people really don't mind the global warming atmosphere as long as they get to enjoy the weather.  During the rest of the week the temperature is predicted to drop to mid 60's.  Perhaps we should enjoy the beginning of the week.  After all, it may be the end of the beautiful weather.  We should consider ourselves lucky because normally the temperature would be around 55 to 60 degrees.  Thats a whole 20 degrees warmer.  On the contrary, we might have a late winter due to all the great weather we are receiving.  It could possibly be snow or freezing cold in early april.  It sounds like quite the exaggeration but it's possible if we are having temperatures of eighty in mid october.  The increase in temperature of the earth's atmosphere is causing a lot of people in the illinois area to be very satisfied.