Jamie Foxx ft. Drake - Fall For Your Type

[Jamie Foxx - Verse 1:]

Can I, can I save you from you

cause you know there’s something missing

and that champagne you’ve been sippin’s

not supposed to make you different all the time

it’s starting to feel like the wrong thing to do girl

cause with all that recognition it gets hard for you to listen

to the things that I must say to make you mine

But live girl, have some fun girl, we’ll be fine

trying to convince myself I’ve found one

making the mistake I never learned from

I swear I always fall for your type, yeah (for your type)

tell me why I always fall for your type (for your type)

I just can’t explain this shit at all (fall for your type)

I just can’t explain this shit at all (fall for your type)

(I believe in people like you)

[Jamie Foxx - Verse 2:]

So who am I to judge you on the past, girl

I bet there’s a reason for it all

you say that you’re nothing like the last girl

I just pray that you don’t let me down right now

it’s too late, I’m already yours

you just gotta promise me, hearts won’t break

and end up like before

I swear I always fall for your type, yeah (for your type)

tell me why I always fall for your type (for your type)

[Drake:]

Look, dress hanging off your shoulder, barely sober

telling me how you moving away and starting over

girl, quit playing you just drunk, you just saying shit

oh you dance, dance like how, like ballet and shit

oh, wait, no, I get it girl, I’m with it

I’ve been down this road before and yeah I skidded but forget it

damn, yeah, I wonder why I never learned my lesson

it’s feeling like the second chance and it's the first impression

and I heard it’s nothing new except for someone new

but how you supposed to find the one when anyone will come with you

talking to myself but I never listen,

cuz man it’s been a while, and I swear that this ones different

that’s why I’mma take you anywhere you wanna go

let you meet my friends so they can lecture me again about

how reckless I have been

and I’m slowly running out of all the time that I invest in

making all the same mistakes

and I’m just trying to correct it and I fall...

[Jamie Foxx:]

I swear I always fall for your type, for your type

tell me why I always fall for your type, for your type

I just can’t explain this shit at all (fall for your type)

I just can’t explain this shit at all (fall for your type)

(I believe in people like you)

Kick Rocks!!!

I found myself kicking rocks today literally... it not as bad as people make it out to be, next time someone tells me to kick rocks i'll tell em, i'll love to.

Response 3

Response 3

My view of mass media is that they are there to inform and entertain us. I watched TV and used the internet as a normal America not thinking of what I was being exposed to. For two days I kept a record of the mass media I used and how its effect me and society. Football, boxing, reality shows, music, text messages and oh yeah a lot of commercials, were some of the things I was exposed to. During these two days I tried to stay away from the news because the news is just depressing and they only tell you all the bad things going on in the world. Makes me perceive the world as a terrible place and that it’s full with killers. The major news corporations are run by the government and they say what will be reported to the people. A typical news broadcast goes like this. Good evening and welcome to tonight’s news in the news today murder murder murder and in other news death, and now sports and weather. Even on the newspapers typically the most scandalous things make the front page. People in our society are more interested in all the negative things in life. Thinking as a sociologist I realized that the media has us under their control, by using subliminal messages in TV, internet ads. The subliminals I came across in commercials and ads was that the companies that were selling the product want us to say to ourselves, I need this product to survive and this product is better than those other products out there. For example there are many companies that sell the same water they each say that there water is the best tasting, we’re not really buying the water we’re just buying the brand. That goes for all products companies are selling to us. I would rather buy a pair of Jordan’s than buy a pair of payless shoes just because of the brand. Some of the norms I saw when I watched football and boxing was that people are fascinated with violence. Football is a very violent sport my dad still doesn’t understand why they play it. People cheer at football games when someone receives a hard hit from an opposing player. The way people were gathering around for the Mayweather Ortiz fight was kind of barbaric. People wanted to see someone get beat up not thinking what if one of them get hit so hard they die right in the ring, that would defiantly make the front page news. On worldstarhiphop.com people post their homemade videos of street fights in the back ground you can hear people saying get em, hit him in his head, and cheering when someone get knocked out once again not thinking what if this person dies because of this fight. Another norm I noticed in the media is the use of females and minorities in ads. They use females to push their products on men. For example the axe commercials they use females lightly dressed chasing after a male because he used the body spray. Saying to the males if you use this product you will get females to chase after you too. Minorities are rarely used in ads if so it’s balanced out. Most ads on TV are white males and white females. Which make me think that when the companies design their product they didn’t have they didn’t design it for minorities to use. Another norm that I noticed was that we don’t communicate face to face or voice to voice anymore. I can have a full conversation with my friend that lives two blocks down and continue on with my day. The only thing with texting is that it’s not instant the person could take forever to reply back to you, which always happens to me, and the conversation doesn’t flow like it should. The value that I picked up on is that the football players and other professional athletic sports get paid more than a person that graduated with their doctorates. This says that education in America is not that important no matter how much they say it is. If you have an athletic talent you don’t need four years of college, kids want to grow up to be ball players and not doctors and lawyers anymore. That’s why in previous years NBA players were coming out of high school into the NBA making millions at the age of eighteen or nineteen. Now they changed it you have to have at least two years of college before entering the draft. The effect of mass media on our society is felt every day, from the values of professional sports and not education, to the norms of companies’ views on women and minorities when it comes to their product, and the subliminal messages in their ads. 

Attempt #2

Um...I will be available to meet up with anybody that wants to meet up for the assignment tomorrow Monday Sept. 26 n Tuesday Sept. 27 from the time the sun comes up until 3pm on both days... Oh n I'm doin this from my phone when I get my CPU back I'll follow everybody I'm not being a jerk.

I need a partner!!

Hey if anybody gonna be at The U tomorrow after 11am we can meet up for the assignment or can I join someones group? Don't all answer at once... I feel like am selling myself... I wanna put im a real nice guy at the end but that would be doin too much.

Frank Ocean- Thinking About You

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A tornado flew around my room before you came
Excuse the mess it made, it usually doesn’t rain in
Southern California, much like Arizona
My eyes don’t shed tears, but, boy, they pour

When I’m thinkin’ ’bout you
(Ooh, no, no, no)
I been thinkin’ ’bout you
(You know, know, know)
I been thinkin’ ’bout you
Do you think about me still?
Do ya, do ya?

Or do you not think so far ahead? (Ahead)
‘Cause I been thinkin’ ’bout forever (Oooh, oooh)
Or do you not think so far ahead? (Ahead)
‘Cause I been thinkin’ ’bout forever (Oooh, oooh)

No, I don’t like you, I just thought you were cool enough to kick it
Got a beach house I could sell you in Idaho
Since you think I don’t love you, I just thought you were cute
That’s why I kiss you, got a fighter jet, I don’t get fly it, though

I’m lyin’ down thinkin’ ’bout you
(Ooh, no, no, no)
I been thinkin’ ’bout you
(You know, know, know)
I been thinkin’ ’bout you
Do you think about me still?
Do ya, do ya?

Or do you not think so far ahead? (Ahead)
‘Cause I been thinkin’ ’bout forever (Oooh, oooh)
Or do you not think so far ahead? (Ahead)
‘Cause I been thinkin’ ’bout forever (Oooh, oooh)

Yes, of course
I remember, how could I forget?
How you feel
And though you were my first time
A new feel
It won’t ever get old, not in my soul
Not in my spirit, keep it alive
We’ll go down this road
‘Til it turns from color to black and white

Or do you not think so far ahead? (Ahead)
‘Cause I been thinkin’ ’bout forever (Oooh, oooh)
Or do you not think so far ahead? (Ahead)
‘Cause I been thinkin’ ’bout forever (Oooh, oooh)

Frank Ocean- Swim Good

that’s a pretty big trunk
on my Lincoln Town car ain’t it
big enough to take these broken hearts
and put em in it..
now i’m driving round
on the boulevard trunk bleeding
and everytime the cops pull me over
they don’t ever see them
they never see them

and i’ve got this black suit on
roaming around like i’m ready for a funeral
5 more miles till the road runs out

i’m about to drive in the ocean
imma try to swim from something
bigger than me
kick off my shoes
and swim good
and swim good
take off this suit
and swim good
and swim good
good

got some pretty good beats
on this 808cc beatin
memory seats i’m sitting on stay heated
i would’ve put tints on my windows
but what’s the difference
when i feel like a ghost no Schwayze
ever since i lost my baby

and i got this black suit on
roaming around like i’m ready for a funeral
one more mile till the road runs out

i’m about to drive in the ocean
imma try to swim from something
bigger than me
kick off my shoes
and swim good
and swim good
take off this suit
and swim good
and swim good
good

i’m going off
don’t try stopping me
i’m going off
don’t try saving
no flares
no vest
no fear
waves are washing me

i’m about to drive in the ocean
imma try to swim from something
bigger than me
kick off my shoes
and swim good
and swim good
take off this suit
and swim good
and swim good
good

Response 2

Response Paper 2

            During my twenty five years of existing in this world I have been exposed to different cultures. The cultures I am a part of are African culture, Muslim culture, and American culture. Growing up in an African household is way different than growing up in an American household. I arrived in this great country at the tender age of five. Even though I was in American my parents still raised me and my older sister like we were still in Africa. For instance we had to clean the whole house every Saturday morning afterwards my mom will teach my sister how to cook and sew. The cooking really didn’t get to her head but she picked up sewing really well. Meanwhile I would be getting life lessons from my dad in the living room. He told me things about life in general about God and being a good person and things of that nature. When my dad went to work or just went out for a little bit we have to greet him when he came home, and when we came into the house we have to greet everybody in the house to show a sign of respect. Whatever my dad said that was it, it was a dictatorship in my house. I really appreciate the way my parents raised my sister and I it made us who we are today. When I have kids they well be raised the same way but more lax. Another culture of mine is my religion Islam. My religion was installed in me at a young age, like most people, by my dad he thought me how to pray every time it was time to pray he would call me and I use to pray with him side by side. When Ramadan came I would fast only on the weekend because school was too tempting but eventually as I got stronger mentally I started fasting in school. Trying to grow up in an African household and bringing in American culture didn’t work out so well. I never experienced the joy of sleepovers in either at my house or my friend’s house. I couldn’t introduce my girlfriends to my parent till this day I still can’t. I never had the talk about the birds and the bees with my parents. I remember one time I came home extra late from a party my dad was up and when I open the door he went bed and didn’t do anything. You know that feeling you get when you know you’re going to get a beating but you don’t know when it’s coming, that’s the feeling I had that whole week. The time I experienced culture shock was when I accidentally discovered the car culture. I said accidentally because I was never inserted in cars. I had a green 1999 Mitsubishi Galant and this car really didn’t like me every other week it was something else it was like the car knew my pay cycle. One day I said to myself I am going to learn how to fix cars so I don’t have to pay someone hundreds of dollars to do it for me I can do it for myself. I enrolled in automotive classes at Mercer County while I was taking courses I had to get an internship at an automotive shop. I have never worked around cars or been around people that loved cars before all this was new to me I was just doing it so I didn’t have to spend money anymore. This one guy in the shop knew everything about cars he can tell you what’s wrong with a car just my listening to the engine run, so natural I hung around him to pick his brain and learn from him. I found out that there are two types of car people, mechanics, and tuners. Mechanics help people with there every day needs like breaks, tune ups, tires, and oil changes. Tuners spend a lot of money on their cars to make them go faster you probably seen then or heard them on the road they’re the ones with the flashy cars and loud exhaust they mostly drive Hondas. The role ethnocentrism played is that the tuners believe that their cars are the best things on the road and people with normal cars aren’t really respected. The faster you can make your car go the more respect you gain amongst your peers, but people with too much flash, and the people with already fast cars don’t really get any respect it looked at as cheating like Porsches and Lamborghinis. Now some regular car companies are coming out with care to attract tuners like Scion, Kia, and Nissan just to name a few. Tuners have what they call meets where they gather and talk cars once a week. I attended several of them I came across this guy and his car was extra flashy, not a good thing in the tuner world they call it all show and no go, I asked him how much did you spend to fix up your car and he said 23,000 I was blown away he could have just gotten  new car. This experience opened up my eyes I learned that by trying new things I will be exposed to different people in this world with different attitudes about life.   

Response 1

Response Paper 1

The information that I read in chapters one and two I am anticipating this course will open up my eyes to different perspectives of life and not just seeing things my way or one way. The views and opinions of my classmates will defiantly differ from mine and also be very similar to mine. Even though it just an introduction class I will be able to get an understanding of the bases of all the theories, perspectives, and all the different ways to research a problem by using the scientific method which will help me later on in life. Detectives use the scientific method to solve crimes like homicide for instance. They define the problem, the dead body. They review the literature, by looking up the person’s record to see what kind of person they were, if they had a history of crime. They formulate a hypothesis, was it drug related or a random act of violence. They collect and analyze data, by knocking on door and conducting face-to-face interviews with possible eyewitnesses because somebody had to see something, with the information they gathered they go get the suspect. They develop a conclusion, based on the fact, information they gathered and eyewitness testimony they have enough to close their case. If the suspect confesses or not it doesn’t matter the confession is just because the detectives would like to know why the committed the murder. The study of sociology will contribute to my education by making me become a critical thinker, and by viewing different cultures and my own culture from a different perspective. It will also be a good learning experience for me given the career I want to get into. Sociology would relate to my career goals because out of all the careers in the world the criminal justice career deals with people in their element. By that I mean the way people act at a doctor’s office is not the same way the act on a Friday night on Easton ave. Sociology and law enforcement go hand in hand because laws help or tell people how to behave in society, and if you decide to break the law you will be punished. Like the speed limit for example everybody knows not to go above it if you get caught then you will get punished only if you get caught. As a law enforcer you will have to deal with people in their element like their homes to solve domestic problems or resolve issues with their kids, that’s rather hard because you have to put your feelings and believes aside to help them solve their family problems that you know nothing about and you can’t be bias either. Mainly I just want to focus all my attention and energy on the kids, especially the ones that grow up in a single parent home which sometimes leads to the road of crime, and promiscuous behaviors. I feel like that the problem is the kids are not being supervised at home which leans to destructive behavior in society. I might be wrong and then again am only looking at one side of the issue. I would actually use Harriet Martineau view of acting in a manner that will benefit society. If you think about it children are very impressionable if they see their elders doing things they will grow up doing the same. For instance I have noticed that all my friends that grew up with alcohol in the house ended up drinking at an early age. That’s just what I have noticed among my friends it might not be true for all. The young boys see their favorite rappers and basketball players on television “living the life” and they want to live like that by any means necessary, not knowing that the people they are idolizing worked hard to get where their at. Also there should be no reason a fifteen year old girl is with child in middle school and has to dropout. If kids in single parent homes were supervised or were enrolled in after school programs they wouldn’t choose a destructive lifestyle. I know that I can’t change their cultural capital and social capital but I would just show them another perspective of life and let them know that you don’t have to take this road you have choices. So hopefully this class will be everything that I dreamed of.