Issue Report on Captive Breeding and Reintroduction

Wildwood Trust is a venture arranged on the edge of the Forest of Blean, in Kent. Wildwood's point is to utilize the offices in the forest and creature assortment to ‘support down to earth protection ventures in the wild.' There are more than 300 creatures, huge numbers of which are jeopardized, partaking in preservation activities, and living in semi characteristic fenced in areas. The forest is overseen by coppice turn, a procedure that happens at regular intervals where trees, for example, silver birch and sweet chestnut are sliced to ground level and afterward shoots permitted to regrow. This is a fundamental living space for the hazel dormouse. The wood is an inside for hostage rearing and reintroduction for local jeopardized species, for example, hazel dormice and this model will be utilized in this report to clarify these issues. The Hazel Dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) The Hazel Dormouse is local to the field of Britain, overwhelmingly southern England (see figure 2), living in forest regions and situations wealthy in coppice. The mice are an arboreal species; spending most of their life in trees or shrubberies and just living on ground level during winter hibernation. The mice are viewed as a ‘flagship animal types' picked to speak to an ecological reason and raise support thusly profiting different species contained in the environment. The populaces of dormice were appeared to have vanished from seven districts in England by The UK Mammal Society Dormouse Survey in 1984. The decay has been brought about by human obliteration of their forest environment through turn of events, environmental change and weight from different species. Dark squirrels were brought into England and ate the nuts that the dormice benefited from while they slept. Climatic change caused hotter winters bringing about the early arousing of the dormice from hibernation, before the aging of their food, and wetter summers prevented the dormice from rummaging. Dormice are recorded on The World Conservation Union (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species and are ensured by law, under Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981. This demonstration forestalls the slaughtering, harming, upsetting or catching of the dormouse. It likewise makes it unlawful to have or control the creature, harm its asylum and sell or purchase the dormice without a permit. Hostage rearing Hostage rearing is the generation of creatures in restriction under controlled conditions to be discharged into nature. This is significant for preservation of compromised species and is a case of ex situ (out of the normal environment) protection, yet it raises suggestions. Hostage reproducing has occurred at Wildwood for dormice as a major aspect of the national dormouse hostage rearing and reintroduction program. The dormice are housed in a walled in area made of a wooden casing and work covering. Dissimilar to different rodents theirs is a short rearing season having 1-2 little litters of 4-7 posterity. The youthful remain with the mother for 6 two months, making it improbable for more than one litter a year. In every fenced in area the home boxes are kept 1.5m off the ground with security from water and predators, water and food are held tight the side of the enclosure and the floor is secured with leaves and soil. After hibernation the nook is loaded up with parts of vegetation to give 3D space to the creatures to utilize. This gives the perfect conditions to rearing with no distressing food finding. One walled in area can hold up to three people either two females and one male or one rearing pair and their posterity, under one year old enough, and will be kept in similar groupings over winter. Grown-up guys must be set independently as they are regional and will battle. Where do the rearing mice originate from? In November home boxes are checked and, if authorization is conceded from Natural England, wild dormice weighing under 15g can be taken. As these mice are underweight they have less possibility of enduring winter hibernation and can be kept inside during this period in warmed home boxes. Other dormice are stranded or surrendered to save focuses and vets. The Common Dormouse Captive Breeders Group (CDCBG) picks which people breed and what number of are reared yearly, which additionally assists with forestalling inbreeding. The Paignton zoo studbook guardian gives every hostage conceived dormouse a stud book number, and their reproducer will dispense each mouse a nearby ID number. Hereditary qualities At the point when creatures duplicate qualities are passed from guardians to posterity. Hereditary variety is the characteristic contrasts of people, over a populace. A trademark that will give dormice a burden, for instance short teeth, could keep them from opening nuts, so if food was hard to find these mice would kick the bucket and longer teethed mice would flourish. This would make the quality for longer teeth become increasingly normal, which is the premise of characteristic choice. Regular determination, was a hypothesis of Charles Darwin, in which better adjusted creatures would have increasingly possibility of endurance, so getting progressively transcendent. Wildwood might want to save biodiversity which is the colossal variety found inside and among species and environments on Earth. Posterity that are made from similar arrangements of qualities will have comparable qualities to one another. Inbreeding is the reproducing of creatures that share a greater number of qualities than the normal populace, they are connected somehow or another. On the off chance that inbreeding happens the qualities of their young will originate from an exceptionally specific genetic stock, making specific qualities increasingly prevalent inside an animal categories. Inbreeding can prompt deformations and changes just as issues with resistant frameworks and an expansion in hereditary maladies. ‘Inbreeding will in general decrease the quantity of alleles in a populace', from source 1. A studbook for dormice was made in 2006 to monitor mice kept by individuals from the CDCBG. As far as possible inbreeding and continues reproducing to original or wild got creatures. Raisers can utilize the studbook to specifically raise, blending mice from various assortments and various families. This will prevent related mice from overwhelming the genetic stock making more beneficial mice and protecting hereditary assorted variety. Future improvements could incorporate implantation of undeveloped organisms and in vitro treatment (IVF) of the dormice. Specific reproducing could be improved and slowly bothersome qualities or shortcomings reared out. Cloning could be created. Hostage reproducing raises numerous moral, natural, social and financial issues. Moral issues. * There are different moral issues that need thought with respect to hostage reproducing. Creatures must be expelled from their common habitat and put into imprisonment for all intents and purposes bolting them up and numerous individuals feel that there ought not be any obstruction with nature along these lines even to keep away from termination. The facts could confirm that hereditary decent variety has just declined to where it is irreversible. * There could be a case for assurance to empower reproducing in the wild, by in situ strategies for preservation, inside the earth. In any case, hostage reproducing is utilized to hold species and improve numbers and is simpler to oversee. * Selective reproducing increments hereditary variety and produces more advantageous populaces additionally forestalling inbreeding. This diminishes deformations and transformations yet should people meddle with normal propagation? Inbreeding would here and there normally happen and if the populace was kept huge enough this would not regularly occur. Affordable Guests pay an extra charge at Wildwood and this cash goes towards the hostage reproducing plan. In any case, they don't see the program occurring as they would upset the dormice and meddle with hibernation and propagation. It may be the case that except if the program proceeds with inconclusively a great deal of venture might be lost if the numbers keep on declining. Condition Utilizing dormice from various assortments to raise may spread maladies to different populaces of dormice. Reintroduction Reintroduction is discharging hostage conceived creatures into a specific domain to which they were once local and where they will be liberated from human oversight. Typically these populaces experienced decay because of human mediation and will possibly succeed if the reason for the decrease has been survived. The reintroduction is viewed as fruitful if the creature has completely incorporated into the neighborhood populace and made due with no further guide or collaboration from people. Reintroduction ventures must follow rules set out by the IUCN and Wildwood has discharged dormice once more into their characteristic natural surroundings. They utilize a delicate discharge program, step by step utilizing less human intercession. Seven weeks before discharge the litters are wellbeing screened at the Zoological Society and discharged in the event that they finish the assessments. Reintroduction is constrained to once every year as models for appropriate destinations are broad and confused. The populace densities are under 10 grown-ups per hectare in their best surroundings. What does the wellbeing screening test for? The wellbeing screening happens to check the creatures don't have any sickness that could be passed onto wild populaces. Researchers test for: * pathogenic microscopic organisms * Tapeworms (cestodes) * Roundworms (strongyles) * Tubercolosis * Parasites The state of the dormice's jacket, skin, face, privates, feet and incisor teeth are checked and their weight ought to be between 18-24g for summer re-presentation. 8mm Pet-ID microchips are fitted in the dormice under sedative for distinguishing proof later on. Where is a dormouse discharged? A perfect site for the dormice†¦ would†¦ would not†¦ be an old wood with various layers of vegetation, as of now have a dormouse network (guys may execute new dormice) have heaps of undergrowth, have under 100 home boxes in the forest. have deciduous trees, Spot guys under 100m separated, as they are regional. have coppicing occurring routinely, Have related dormice close by to quit inbreeding have fruiting h

The Origins of the Roman Festival Lupercalia

The Origins of the Roman Festival Lupercalia Lupercalia is one of the most antiquated of the Roman occasions (one of the feriae recorded on old schedules from even before the time Julius Caesar changed the schedule). Today is recognizable to us for two fundamental reasons: It is related with Valentines Day.It is the setting for Caesars refusal of the crown that was made undying by Shakespeare, in his ​Julius Caesar. This is significant in two different ways: the relationship of Julius Caesar and the Lupercalia gives us some knowledge into the last a very long time of Caesars life just as a glance at the Roman occasion. The name of the Lupercalia was discussed a great deal in the wake of the 2007 revelation of the unbelievable Lupercal caveâ -where, probably, the twins Romulus and Remus were nursed by a she-wolf. The Lupercalia might be the longest-enduring of the Roman agnostic celebrations. Some advanced Christian celebrations, similar to Christmas and Easter, took on components of before agnostic religions, however they are not basically Roman, agnostic occasions. Lupercalia may have begun at the hour of the establishing of Rome (generally 753 B.C.) or even previously. It finished around 1200 years after the fact, toward the finish of the fifth century A.D., in any event in the West, in spite of the fact that it proceeded in the East for an additional couple of hundreds of years. There might be numerous reasons why Lupercalia kept going so long, however most significant more likely than not been its wide intrigue. Why Is Lupercalia Associated With Valentine's Day? In the event that all you think about Lupercalia is that it was the foundation for Mark Antony to offer the crown to Caesar multiple times in Act I of Shakespeares Julius Caesar, you most likely wouldnt surmise that Lupercalia was related with Valentines Day. Other than Lupercalia, the large schedule occasion in Shakespeares disaster is the Ides of March, March 15. Despite the fact that researchers have contended that Shakespeare didn't expect to depict Lupercalia as the day preceding the death, it sure sounds that way. Cicero focuses to the risk to the Republic that Caesar introduced on this Lupercalia, as per J.A. North-a threat the professional killers tended to on that Ides. It was likewise, to cite Cicero (Philippic I3): that day on which, drenched with wine, covered with scents and exposed (Antony) set out to encourage the moaning individuals of Rome into servitude by offering Caesar the diadem that represented the kingship.Caesar at the Lupercalia, by J. A. North; The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 98 (2008), pp. 144-160 Sequentially, Lupercalia was an entire month before the Ides of March. Lupercalia was February 15 or February 13-15, a period either proximate to or covering present day Valentines Day. History of Lupercalia Lupercalia ordinarily begins with the establishing of Rome (generally, 753 B.C.), however might be an increasingly old import, originating from Greek Arcadia and respecting Lycaean Pan, the Roman Inuus or Faunus. [Lycaean is a word associated with the Greek for wolf as found in the term lycanthropy for werewolf.] Agnes Kirsopp Michaels says Lupercalia just returns to the fifth century B.C. Convention has the unbelievable twin siblings Romulus and Remus setting up the Lupercalia with 2â gentes, one for every sibling. Eachâ gensâ contributed individuals to the clerical school that played out the services, with Jupiters minister, theâ flamenâ dialis, in control, from in any event the time of Augustus. The religious school was called the Sodales Luperciâ and the ministers were known as Luperci. The first 2â gentesâ were the Fabii, in the interest of Remus, and the Quinctilii, for Romulus. Episodically, the Fabii were nearly destroyed, in 479. at Cremera (Veientine Wars) and the most celebrated individual from the Quinctilii has the qualification of being the Roman head at the awful fight at Teutoberg Forest (Varus and the Disaster at Teutoberg Wald). Afterward, Julius Caesar made a brief expansion to theâ gentesâ who could fill in as Luperci, the Julii. At the point when Mark Antony ran as a Luperci in 44 B.C., it was the first run through the Luperci Juliani had showed up at the Lupercalia and Antony was their pioneer. By September of that year, Antony was grumbling that the new gathering had been disbanded [J. A. North and Neil McLynn]. Albeit initially the Luperci must be privileged people, the Sodales Luperciâ came to incorporate equestrians, and afterward, the lower classes. Etymologically, Luperci, Lupercalia, and Lupercal all identify with the Latin for wolfâ lupus, as do different Latin words associated with massage parlors. The Latin for she-wolf was slang for prostitute. The legends state that Romulus and Remus were breast fed by a she-scoundrel. Servius, aâ 4th-centuryâ pagan observer on Vergil, says that it was in the Lupercal that Mars ravished and impregnated the twins mother. (Serviusâ ad. Aen. 1.273) The Performance The cavorting Sodales Luperciâ performed a yearly refinement of the city in the month for cleansing February. Since right off the bat in Roman history March was the beginning of the New Year, the time of February was an opportunity to dispose of the old and plan for the new. There were two phases to the occasions of the Lupercalia: The first was at the site where the twins Romulus and Remus were said to have been found being nursed by the she-wolf. This is the Lupercal. There, clerics yielded a goat and a canine whose blood they spread on the temples of the youngsters who might before long go dancing exposed around the Palatine (or sacrosanct way) otherwise known as the Luperci. The cover up of the conciliatory creatures was cut into strips for use as lashes by the Luperci after the essential galas and drinking.Following the dining experience, the subsequent stage started, with the Luperci going around stripped, kidding, and hitting ladies with their goatskin straps. Stripped or insufficiently clad celebration celebrants, the Luperci most likely ran about the territory of the Palatine settlement. Cicero [Phil. 2.34, 43; 3.5; 13.15] is resentful at aâ nudus,â unctus,â ebriusâ naked, oiled, alcoholic Antony filling in as Lupercus. We dont know why the Luperci were naked. Plutarch says it was for speed. While running, the Luperci struck those men or ladies they experienced with goatskin straps (or maybe aâ lagobolonâ throwing stick in the early years) following the initial occasion: a penance of goat or goat and pooch. On the off chance that the Luperci, in their run, surrounded the Palatine Hill, it would have been unimaginable for Caesar, who was at the rostra, to have seen the whole procedures from one spot. He could, notwithstanding, have seen the peak. The stripped Luperci began at the Lupercal, ran (any place they ran, Palatine Hill or somewhere else), and finished at the Comitium. The running of the Luperci was a display. Wiseman says Varro called the Luperci entertainers (ludii). The principal stone performance center in Rome was to have ignored the Lupercal. There is even a reference in Lactantius to the Luperci wearing sensational veils. Theory proliferates regarding the purpose behind the hitting with the straps orâ lagobola. Maybe the Luperci struck people to cut off any dangerous impact they were under, as Michaels proposes. That they may be under such an impact has to do with the way that one of the celebrations to respect the dead, the Parentalia, happened at about a similar time. In the event that the demonstration was to guarantee richness, it may be the case that the striking of the ladies was to speak to infiltration. Wiseman says that clearly, the spouses wouldnt have needed the Luperci really having sexual with their wives, however representative infiltration, broken skin, made by a bit of a ripeness image (goat), could be powerful. Striking ladies is thought to have been a fruitfulness measure, yet there was likewise a chosen sexual segment. The ladies may have uncovered their backs to the straps from the celebrations origin. As indicated by Wiseman (refering to Suet. Aug.), after 276 B.C., youthful wedded ladies (matronae) were urged to uncovered their bodies. Augustus precluded clean shaven youngsters from filling in as Luperci in light of their power, despite the fact that they were most likely not, at this point exposed. Some old style essayists allude to the Luperci as wearing goatskin undergarments by the first century B.C. Goats and the Lupercalia Goats are images of sexuality and fertility. Amaltheas goat horn overflowing with milk became theâ cornucopia. One of the most licentious of the divine beings was Pan/Faunus, spoke to as having horns and a caprine base half. Ovid (through whom we are predominantly acquainted with the occasions of the Lupercalia) names him as the lord of the Lupercalia. Prior to the run, the Luperci ministers played out their penances of goats or goats and canine, which Plutarch calls the foe of the wolf. This prompts one more of the issues researchers talk about, the way that theâ flamenâ dialisâ was present at the Lupercalia (Ovid Fasti 2. 267-452) in the hour of Augustus. This minister of Jupiter was prohibited to contact a pooch or goat and may have been taboo even to take a gander at a canine. Holleman recommends that Augustus included the nearness of theâ flamenâ dialisâ to a service at which he had before been missing. Another Augustan development may have been the goatskin on befo rehand stripped Luperci, which would have been a piece of an endeavor to make the function not too bad. Flogging Continuously century A.D. a portion of the components of sexuality had been expelled from the Lupercalia. Completely dressed ladies loosened up their hands to be whipped. Afterward, the portrayals show ladies embarrassed by lashing on account of men completely dressed and done running about. Self-flogging was a piece of the rituals of Cybele upon the arrival of blood dies sanguinis (March 16). Roman lashing could be lethal. Horace (Sat., I, iii) composes aboutâ horribileâ flagellum, yet the whip so utilized may have been a more unpleasant sort. Scourging turned into a typical practice in

Joe Magnarelli at Smalls Jazz Club

Joe Magnarelli at Smalls Jazz Club Free Online Research Papers On Thursday, February thirteenth, I went to a club execution at Smalls Jazz Club on 183 W. tenth Street to hear Joe Magnarelli on trumpet play a set with a piano player, bassist, and percussionist. The set kept going longer than an hour and was valued by an enormous crowd packed into the small cellar room. The tunes performed were Mr. Mags, Waltz for Aunt Marie, Ruby’s Weekend, You’ve Change, and Home Changed. My general impression was that the gathering, especially Joe Magnarelli, was incredible yet that I experienced difficulty understanding what was happening in the music. The style of the gathering was more current than what we have concentrated in class, so I didn't have the foggiest idea how to arrange it or comprehend it completely. I noticed, in any case, that they utilized a contemporary rendition of the exemplary New Orleans style by utilizing organized at this point extemporized contrast that was more conflicting and rough than that from the mid twentieth century. As far as the outfit, Joe Magnarelli was plainly the pioneer of the gathering, as he remained before the other three individuals and consistently took the first and last performances of each piece. The other three players, be that as it may, each had their chan ce at taking performances, in spite of the fact that the musician plainly had a greater number of performances than the bassist and percussionist. I accepted that this assignment of performances happened on the grounds that the bass and percussion contained the beat segment, which naturally doesn't give numerous performances, while the piano and trumpet were the tune players. The gathering, generally, switched back and forth between quicker, energetic tunes and more slow, creamier tunes. It was during the peppy melodies that I saw the utilization of the New Orleans antithesis. I quickly, nonetheless, took an inclination to the more slow pieces. I felt that the quick melodies were too â€Å"busy† sounding (New Orleans style gone insane), with each musician’s part sounding so not the same as the rest that any cohesiveness inside the gathering was difficult to delineate. I additionally felt that the parity in the peppy numbers was a little percussion-overwhelming, where the clanking of the hihat penetrated through the remainder of the gathering, in this manner diverting the audience from different parts. Moreover, it was more diligently to choose tunes and subjects in the quicker tunes than it was in the more slow melodies, so I would in general comprehend the types of the more slow tunes better. I especially valued the subsequent melody, â€Å"Waltz for Aunt Marie.† It was a heartfelt tune that permitted Joe Magnarelli to feature his smooth, delicate tone on the trumpet, which was a wonderful difference to his brassier tone utilized in the quicker tunes. One piece of the melody that struck me was its tag: Magnarelli took an unaccompanied performance mostly comprising of a climbing scale and afterward finished with the gathering on the tonic of the key of the piece. This closure shocked me, for I for the most part expect a jazz number to end on a flighty note-i.e., anything other than the tonic. I truly valued that aberrance from standard jazz practice, where a little old style impact was a decent touch to the piece. I addressed Joe Magnarelli after the set to praise on his presentation, especially on his wonderful sound in the more slow tunes. I at that point asked him how it felt to make such lovely minutes while his crowd talked away to such a degree, that the individuals couldn't have valued the refined state of mind of the melody. I asked him this in light of the fact that during the delightful finish of â€Å"Waltz for Aunt Marie,† I experienced difficulty concentrating on the music due to all the clamor around me, along these lines rendering me very unsettled. I referenced to him that I am an old style artist, so I expect total quietness when I perform or go to a show, and I solicited him what he thought from the distinction in convention between the two kinds of music. He reacted that he minds just that his crowd makes some great memories, so he wouldn't like to show up too butt-centric about the clamor level in the club. I inquired as to whether he could ever tell a group of peopl e in put calm down if the individuals were excessively uproarious, and he said no, that jazz makes a more loosened up environment than traditional music and that commotion level is something jazz performers should just arrangement with. He was so overall quite giving of his time that I was truly excited to converse with him. He even requested my name, and when I said Laura, he referenced the tune â€Å"Laura† and said he would play it for me in the event that I at any point came to hear him once more. I was truly moved by his thoughtfulness; it made the entire night advantageous. It additionally caused me to comprehend the affection that exists inside jazz, where the artists play and ad lib from their souls and love the music regardless of any encompassing conditions. Now and then I don't have that equivalent impression about traditional music. 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Rap up the Violence free essay sample

Money is often an issue for teens so they turn to committing crimes to obtain the things they see rapper wearing. In The Music of Violence by John Lingua , it says, many law-enforcement agents say the rap scene stokes gang life, gunplay and bloodletting. The article also says that the makers of the videos and the music insist culture doesnt cause crime, It only documents It. Rap music and videos became popular in the asss, and as history has shown violence was running rampant way before rap hit the scene. In todays society gangs are almost the norm.Low income families sometimes rely on the income that is created by gang violence in order to survive. It is a misconception that young people look up or condone the behavior on rap videos, when really its that they relate to It. In Brent Staples article The Hip-Hop Media he states that female rapper I-II Kim went to Jail for not cooperating with the police. When asked about an incident Involving members of her record label All Kim, according to The Hip-Hop Media, misremembered the events of shootout that took happened at the popular radio station Hot 97 . On the streets not snitching is like an unspoken code. It is not necessarily admiration these teenagers feel, but maybe a sense of being able to relate. Rap music is taking the blame for everything. In the article Study Raps Rap Vided It says that young girls try to emulate what they see on rap videos. Fashion magazines ,TV, and movies have Just as much of a negative affect on young girls as rap music. Many girls today are harming their selves in order to look like the celebrities. The images that Brittany Spears, Lindsey Loan, and Paris Hilton portray are Just as harmful as the lyrics in some rap songs. In the song Ignorant Sit by paper Jay Z he raps Surface the movie did more than Surface the rapper to me. Still that mint the blame for all the sit that happened to me . Are you say what Im spitting, Is worse than these celebrants showing their kitten, are you kidding? Lets stop the bulletin till we all without sin, lets quit the pulpit-Ins. If we are going to hold one form of entertainment responsible for our youths actions and values we should hold them all responsible. The Capital Journal article Hip-Hops Rap Sheet hit the nail on the head by saying rap is a scapegoat for a bigger problem.There are many different kinds of rap music. Some of it is not meant for the immature mind, It is the parents responsibility to determine the maturity level of todays to covet what they see. If rap videos and violent games are all teenagers see, that becomes the role model. With guidance teenagers will distinguish what is reality and what is parameterized for entertainment value. When raising children parents have a responsibility to plant the seed, water the seed, and nurture that seed until it has matured.If good morals and values are instilled in teenagers by the parents rap sic can have the value it is meant to have, entertainment. Belgrade, Squeamish. Youth Violence Regencies. Com. 15 Par. 2008. In this article the author Squeamish Belgrade, Jar. Is states that the term black on black violence, has been change by the media to a more generic term youth violence. as a new approach toward old problem, rather than blaming wayward marginalia communities. He is saying in laymans terms he is saying that this problem has spread from the urban common unities to the suburban communities.Carter, Shawn. Ignorant SSH*T. By Jay Z. Race. Novo. 2007. Ignorant SSH*T. Deaf Jam Recordings, November 2007. This song is talking about people hating Lousy) on Jay Z because of his popularity and success. It also tells how the media says that rap music has a negative affect on the youth. Jay Z states that some movies had more of an affect on him than some rap songs. Also how celebrates do negative things and the media glorifies it Dotting, Randy Study Raps Rap Videos. Healthful News Reporter. 6 Mar. 2006. 25 Par. 008. This articles talks about how Rap music has a negative affect on teenage girls. It tells that girls who watch a high percent of rap videos are ore likely to get in trouble and to contract Studs than girls who watch little or no rap videos. Hip-Hops Rap Sheet. Capital Journal Online. 24 Jan. 2008. 25 Par. 2008 . This editorial is talking about condemning Gangster Rap. It also talks on that may rap music is a scapegoat for a bigger problem in society. How prohibiting Rap music it may create a bigger problem.This editorial hit home because it is written in a newspaper that is close to home, Topeka. Hopkins, Joe C. Gangster Rap. Pasadena Journal. 31 Cot. 2003. 15 Par. 2008. The editorial is talking about Black on Black crime. How the US was so upset when a white police officer slammed a young black man on the hood of a car, no one gets upset with the daily killings in the big cities of young black men by other black men. It also talks about how some rapper promote their image as thugs or pimps. Lingua, John. The Music of violence. palmettos. Mom. 11 June 2007. 23 Par. 2008 . This article talks about how rap videos that are shot in neighborhoods has a negative affect on that neighborhood. How shooting in low income communities only fed in to the stereotype about urban street violence. Micrometer, John H. How Hip- Hop Hold Blacks Back. City Journal. 10 June 2003. 25 Par. 2008. This editorial is manly about how Rap evolved from fun loving dance music to gangster music. It also talks about how black teenagers, mostly male, live their live according to the lyrics in rap music.Reed, William. Rap, Records, Revenues, and Refrain. The Washington Informer. 3 May 207. 15 Par. 2008. This editorial is about how more than a decade after C. Dolores Tucker complained about the offence language in rap music the language is still there. In this article the controversy is weather rap music is part of the First Amendment. Staples, Brent. The Hip-Hop Media- a World Where Really addressing the imprisonment of the rapper Ill Kim for misremembering fact surrounding a case involving members of her rap label.The article does not say that rap music causes violence among teenagers it talk more about one rapper in particular, Ill Kim Staples, Brent. How Hip Hop Music Lost. New York Mimes. 12 May 2005. 25 Par. 2008. This article talks about how the rap music is not only causing violence among teenagers, but that rappers themselves are dying because of so called beefing. Beefing is when two rappers or rap group make song that speak actively about another rapper ore group.