{"id":1083,"date":"2020-04-26T19:14:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T19:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2025-05-18T21:27:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T21:27:30","slug":"nicholas-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=1083","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Rodriguez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nBc1Ce0XQzw&amp;list=PLTohzlJSUI2jzYLVvuRIFWLPqUxNpdyuS\">Really Real<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In African American communities, there are a disproportionate amount of people that are affected by generational poverty. Now while many of these people choose to embrace this lifestyle and the things that it has to offer, there are others who try their best to rise above it and make a better life for themselves than what their parents had. Kendrick Lamar\u2019s song \u201cPoe Mans Dreams\u201d is written from the perspective of a man who came from the hood and has since escaped that lifestyle and sees the wrong in his old ways. It is easy to listen to this song and see the surface level messages, but Kendrick makes use of several terms that have a very prominent connotation and uses them to convey something else. Using Kenneth Burke\u2019s Cluster Criticism to analyze the song, it is unveiled that Lamar is trying to persuade African Americans to not accept the circumstances that they were born into and to seek a better life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COMM 441, Rhetorical Criticism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doyle Srader<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 AM &#8211; Noon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1bGDaTBIed9PP4XtLSk7y2R1O1PsFcIjYRDDMtRpoKT0\/edit?usp=sharing\">Return to timetable<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really Real In African American communities, there are a disproportionate amount of people that are affected by generational poverty. Now while many of these people choose to embrace this lifestyle and the things that it has to offer, there are others who try their best to rise above it and make a better life for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=1083\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nicholas Rodriguez&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[49,113,1023,688],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-20","tag-comm","tag-comm-441","tag-poster-spring-20","tag-srader-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}