Russell Simmons

Russell Simmons coming from a black community and have been exposed to ganger and drug dealing. Who would have expected that he will be a successful innovator like Ted Turner, who was brought up from a wealthy and educated family, to become a Broadway producer. Simmons does not have an invention mindset to begin with, but he was from an entrepreneurship and with his ability to create opportunity that leads him to innovate on hip hop. Simmons idea was able to bring a change to the racism and discrimination between white and black as well as brought the culture of hip hop into American culture and prosperity. The idea hit him after he gets the opportunity to meet with Eddie Cheba at Charles Gallery who was rapping, where he chants rhymed lyrics over music. He was amazed at what Eddie Cheba does and this event lead Simmons into a promoter and entrepreneur on rap music. Simmons did not limit himself with just doing business of music, he created a culture movement in hip hop fashion, comedy and even poetry, and this give voice to those that were locked out segment of society. Which rap music had also been used to express their issues such as the relations between the police and young black men that other media did not talk about it at the time.…

Legendary hip hop group De La Soul performed at Carmelo Anthony's FAST A/W15 showcase. The showcase was launched in an effort to merge fashion, sports, and technology. The event was presented in MADE Fashion Week's venue in New York, in order to infuse the world of fashion with sports, technology, and business. "Through our relationship with Accenture, MADE Fashion Week continues to explore the frontier of technology and fashion," Jenne Lombardo, co-founder of MADE Fashion Week, said in a…

Six year olds. Teenagers. Adults. Seniors. All of these age groups would come watch Kiss perform. After the show everyone would tell Kiss how much fun they had. Kiss went through all of these troubles and still ended up becoming one of the biggest bands ever. Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley formed Kiss who as a group, created a legacy because of their costumes and behaviour. They had a hard time finding other members, an amazing legacy, and a member going away. The band Kiss was all in separate…

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Simmons. The case of Roper v. Simmons began in 1993, when a minor named Christopher Simmons, who purposed to commit burglary and murder by breaking and entering. Christopher entered the home of a female victim named Shirley Cook. Christopher robbed and murdered the female victim. Christopher was imprisoned by the state of Missouri after he was found guilty of armed robbery and murder in 1993. He was sentenced to death in 1993, when he was only 17. Christopher challenged his remaining death…

The child’s breathing is labored and theirs a look of confusion on the child’s face as tears stream down his cheeks. The warden signals for the drug cocktail to be administered to the child. This juvenile was given the death penalty. In Roper v. Simmons, the Supreme Court reversed a 1989 order, and struck down the death penalty for crimes committed by people under the age of 18. Not a moment too soon. Roper v. Simmons Court Case On March 2, 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court, by a narrow 5-4 vote in…

Value of Philosophy to Individual life by Bertrand Russell. Russell’s goal of his article is to explain the everyday uses of philosophy and how philosophy influences human’s life both directly an indirectly. Russell also discusses how philosophy expands the human knowledge of what could be. Philosophy, according to Russell, frees our minds from the imprisonment of common sense. Therefore, this essay will explain Russell’s work and the point of his argument. Many scientists who study modern…

What in the Tractatus is Wittgenstein Talking About? Early Wittgenstein seems to suggest that sentences of natural science have meaning, without being able to give meaning to the way of which we understand those sentences. This dismisses philosophy as only a tool to help clarify claims of natural science. However, he uses philosophy to come to this realization. He makes the realization that the way he explains his own findings are in fact a violation of those findings stating, “My propositions…

offended to not caring what others thought about where he lived, it also shows how he’s changed as a person from being talked about to a famous Australian poetry winner. The poet does many hand gestures to demonstrate what he’s talking about as he says “in spray can fumes & opals of oil,” and “in kick flips & crossovers, cuts & kebab shops” the poet uses stage directions to create an image in the audiences mind as to what he saw and lived throughout his childhood years, Omar says “the kids of…

I think that the Atlanta Hawks have a very good chance at winning the NBA championship this year. They have a great chance this year because they have played exceedingly well over the course of the season. The Hawks currently have the best record in the NBA at 40-9. They got this incredible record by going on a 19 game winning streak which was recently ended in their games against the New Orleans Pelicans. The only other team close to this record is the Golden State Warriors whose record is…