Fluffy Meets Nikki by Joey G.

Fluffy meets Nikki

A puppy named fluffy is thirsty and hot
Why is the window across open and his is not?
Fluffy tries to remain relaxed and calm
As he licks the bruises on his paw and arm
Is there a way he can open this door?
His little nose was able to in the pet store
The owner comes back with a cold icy drink
Slurps it up, did not care or think

The two get home and Fluffy is left again
The owner gets inside and the conversation began
“ The dogs in the car” he says to his wife
“ Who cares that dumb dog ruins my life”

Later that day a little girl walks home from camp
Passing the house she sees Fluffy’s hair damp
She knocks on the window and says, “Hi doggy”
“I have a pet too, he’s a frog named Froggy”
“You look tired, why are you in here?”
Fluffy weeps and begs as he drops a tear
“ Doggy come with me, come with me”
“I will walk you home to meet Froggy”


The parents see their daughter with Fluffy
Then noticed her eyes a little puffy
“What is wrong Nikki, did he hurt you”
“Mommy he is hurt, what should I do”
The parents notice the dog has been abused
They told Nikki to wait her, but she refused

The vet said that Fluffy was hurt, but will be ok
Nikki knew that Fluffy had feelings today
They can feel pain, be happy or sad
Fluffy was in need for Nikki bad
At home Fluffy wants to play, gives Nikki a bow
He is not thirsty, hot, enslaved or hurt now
He runs around with out any meanings
Wondering how Nikki that day, felt his feelings.


This is a poem I found on the internet (http://www.radiowaves.co.uk/story/17939)


This is a poem about the nasty animal cruelty!

There are so many animals in one world,
Some can't be let free,
Not all animals can be saved,
Not all by me.

That is why we work together,
Making things the right way,
But people do torture animals,
Day by day by day.

People say it doesn't happen,
That all animals are fine,
Well look at pictures of skinny dogs,
Have a look at that K-9.

We can all help stop this,
If we just say,
What happens to these poor creatures,
And that will make their perfect day.


Animal cruelty is reality. This poem is trying to get people to realize that animal cruelty is happening and there is things that you can do. There are many organizations that devote their lives into protecting and helping animals that have or are being abused. It also says “People say it doesn’t happen, That all animals are fine” I believe this is a true statement most people do think this. Even as I was writing my poem my roommates were like why are you doing a poem on that, who even cares. And I said that is why I am, because it is a problem that should be noticed. “Not all animals can be saved, Not all by me” Not all animals can be saved by just a few organizations. The only way these organizations have work with a lot of others supporting them. I never was into the whole animal cruelty thing but then I thought of my own pets. I would never do anything to my two dogs and I do not know how other people do. I also know that my dogs have feelings and it is easy for me to say that because my dogs show me through many signs.
Many people will deny that animals are not being ethically treated until they witness it themselves. Any decent human being will feel a dogs pain if they see the ribs popping out of them. I remember when I was playing baseball a stray dog ran out on to the field. The dog was extremely skinny and you can see the ribs clear. It was like the whole game stopped and just stared at this dog. It hits home when you actually see stuff like this instead of on t.v. with a sad song playing. Animal cruelty can slowly start to stop, but it is going to take more than one person or one poem to do it.

Animal and Human Relationships: Nick Peters

Animals and Human Relationships Over Time: Andres A.

History of Ethnology: Lisa M. and Vanessa W.

Wild World of Wolves: Ashley J. and Logan W.

Christian the Lion: Jorge C.

Kisan Chhotalal's ToonDoo

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Emotional lives of Animals Project

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Jjruggie

Toby and Pongo by Jjruggie | Make Your Own At www.toondoo.com

ELA Project

BigTom1210	Emotional lives of animals project

Henrique Elephante and his emotions by BigTom1210 | Make Your Own At www.toondoo.com

Mr. Turtle Explains Animal Cruelty by Annie Anderson

Mr. turtle explains animal cruelty by alanders | Create your own Cartoon at www.toondoo.com

ELOA Project by Chad Isenhart

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Zack Newman and Sara Rieveley ELOA Project

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Find a current commerical in which a hip-hop artist advertises a product. Discuss the video as it relates to the role of marketing and advertising in the artist’s career. Make sure you provide examples to argue the thesis that hip-hop artists have (or have not) blurred the line between music and merchandise.


In this video Snoop Dogg raps about normal things: making love, getting money, drinking. When his "bosses" come in they advise him to put the words "telephone" "cell service" and other related terms. Whats going on in this video is that dont let telephones ruin your movie, just like they ruined his rap. Basically they are using snoop dogg to promote teens turning their phones off in theaters. Although this is not a product, it is a call to action. There really is no line between music and merchandise or anything else in advertising for that matter when it comes to teens.

Andres Acosta -- Blog Post #5

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In this commercial Ludacris markets the product Pepsi Cola with his rapping. He throws a party in the down south which is where he is from. I think this commercial is a good one because a lot of people like to party and when they party and listen to Ludacris' rap songs they can drink Pepsi because they will automatically think about Pepsi since he promotes it. Both the rapper and the produc win! Whenever someone is drinking Pepsi they could think about the rapper who promotes it and listen to his music and whenever people are listening to Ludacris they think about Pepsi! The product makes the person famous and the person makes the product sell.

Since Rap is very popular in today's youth, Pepsi uses this to their advantage and hire a well known rapper to advertise their product because the youth is a very big part of their sales! This is also why you see most rappers on commercials than rock and pop artists; just because they have become the most famous music genre in the U.S.

Blog Post 5

1. Find a current commerical in which a hip-hop artist advertises a product. Discuss the video as it relates to the role of marketing and advertising in the artist’s career. Make sure you provide examples to argue the thesis that hip-hop artists have (or have not) blurred the line between music and merchandise. Is hip-hop more open to identifying itself with brands? Is hip-hop more entrepreneurial than rock or pop? “…has black talk been used openly, knowingly, and not mockingly to sell products” (Savan 195)?



This commercial was used in the superbowl two years ago and I thought it was awesome. I hate when rappers and other performers whore themselves out to promote a product though. The fact that Busta Rhymes and Missy Elliot were in the commercial did not increase my likelihood to go out and purchase a Pepsi Max. I do however see the recent increase in hip-hop artists being showcased to promote certain products. I believe that when artists do promotions like these, unless they are for a good cause or an extremely awesome product then they are merely "selling out," and not staying focused on what is supposed to be focused on, the music and the fans.

blog 5 Stephanie Kumetz

1. Find a current commerical in which a hip-hop artist advertises a product. Discuss the video as it relates to the role of marketing and advertising in the artist’s career. Make sure you provide examples to argue the thesis that hip-hop artists have (or have not) blurred the line between music and merchandise. Is hip-hop more open to identifying itself with brands? Is hip-hop more entrepreneurial than rock or pop? “…has black talk been used openly, knowingly, and not mockingly to sell products” (Savan 195)?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jubz1Ini-o


This is a video of Beyonce for an direct TV. She is using one of her songs to get people to upgrade to direct TV. She even has a gold necklace with big letters on it that say upgrade. They have blurred the line between music and merchandise, because when you hear a song on the radio that is used a commercial you think of what that song was selling, and the other way around when you see that object being sold you think about the song that they used to sell that merchandise. I believe that hip-hop is more open to identifying itself with brands more then rock or pop.

Blog 5 -- Lisa Melchiorre

2. Find a current commerical in which a hip-hop artist advertises a product. Discuss the video as it relates to the role of marketing and advertising in the artist’s career. Make sure you provide examples to argue the thesis that hip-hop artists have (or have not) blurred the line between music and merchandise.

Is hip-hop more open to identifying itself with brands? Is hip-hop more entrepreneurial than rock or pop? “…has black talk been used openly, knowingly, and not mockingly to sell products” (Savan 195)?



This commercial allows the product, Dr Pepper, to be viewed as “flavalicious” and one that will wake you up in the middle of a lecture class. It aims at college students and for those who know the artist Flava Flave, then they will recognize the singers voice at the beginning of the commercial. I think the commercial helps him promote his popularity and keeps him in the spotlight.
I think that hip-hop has the same value of rock or pop commercials. Pepsi commercials by Britney Spears and other commercials done by other artists have the same popularity. I don’t think that black talk is used to mock products, but is a good way to sell products. I remember when 1-800-ASK-GARY commercial first came out and the woman was saying “Don’t be scared and confused” in “black talk” and so many people talked and mimicked it because it was entertaining.

black talk by nick peters

2. Watch this video about the origins of African-American English. Savran says, "White people (and not just the young) draw from a black lexicon every day, sometimes unaware of the words' origins, sometimes using them because of their origins" (194). Summarize the information in the video and respond to the question, "How has black vernacular shaped the slang you use in your conversations with your peers?"Savran's essay focuses on black talk, but there are many other subgroups of American English. Regional dialects have their own special words and phrases. What special words or phrases from your regional dialect do you use in your conversations with your friends and family members?

The video is stating that black talk is english, just mixed with elizabethan and other types of english. there are many sub genres all over, and each vary slightly. Black vernacular has not really shaped my conversation with peers since I try staying away from anything that others would not understand. sLang that I use is common slang that my age group has grown up hearing. I tend to stay away from it however, since I find it unintelligent to speak or to even hear. I a person cannot pronounce a word properly, that just means they are to lazy and must make up a word to fill in for it. I don't really have any special words or phrases, but I was grown up on the word ya'll instead of you all, but it is a very common word around southern people

Blog 5 Andrew Corke

Find a current commerical in which a hip-hop artist advertises a product. Discuss the video as it relates to the role of marketing and advertising in the artist’s career. Make sure you provide examples to argue the thesis that hip-hop artists have (or have not) blurred the line between music and merchandise. Is hip-hop more open to identifying itself with brands? Is hip-hop more entrepreneurial than rock or pop? “…has black talk been used openly, knowingly, and not mockingly to sell products” (Savan 195)?

Awesome! I love rap so this is perfect opportunity to show you my favorite rapper! In this Adidas commercial, my favorite rapper, Young Jeezy (In White) is playing poker against Kevin Garnett –a professional basketball player (In Black). Of course Young Jeezy wins because he is the best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPXciRsgS-0

Sex, Love, Drugs, and Alcohol are all common subject matter in today’s rap. Because of these scandalous behaviors rap is very popular with teenagers in our culture. Rap is also linked with money, and expensive things such as cars. Young Jeezy for example is known for his collection of Lamborghinis, and what he raps about you will have to find out for yourself. Because Hip-hop/Rap’s close connection with such activities it is better and more open to identifying itself with these brands that would promote to teenagers. In this case Hip-hop/Rap is more suitable than Rock or pop in today’s advertising to catch the attention of the viewer. Rap/Hip-hop artists are in no been used mockingly to sell these products, black is in, black is cool, and our president is black. Id like to share a drawing I made recently because I thinks it ironically goes with a quote I picked up from the story. “We can be part black (the part presumed to be cool and soulful, real and down, jazzy or hip-hop, choose your sound) and be part white (the privileged part, the part that has the luxury to easily reference other parts). 

Black Talk Origins

2) The short video basically went over the origins of black vernacular. Black talk originated in the US during the eighteenth century when slavery was at its peak. The slaves would speak English but blend native African and Elizabethan into their speech. The language known as gulla, drops the word "is" and replaces doesn't with don't. It also consists of different grammatical features. Whites had always thought that the black slaves were not capable of speaking English because they did not speak all of the words. When in fact, they were merely adding to it.

"How has black vernacular shaped the slang you use in your conversations with your peers?"
I really think that black vernacular has shaped the way I speak with my peers. I have always noted that the majority of African Americans speak differently than myself and have wondered why. I had always though that the reason was because they were unintelligent or just simply chose to. In most cases, I avoid black terminology because I feel uneducated if I speak it. I do from time to time throw in some terminology to be funny or when I’m joking around. What everyone else might call a “grilled cheese,” in my family, we call it a cheese toastie.

Blog 5 Kisan Chhotalal

The commercial represents Diddy selling Pepsi. It relates to marketing because if they see him advertise it then that will boost Pepsi’s sales and will make them more profit. I feel that hip hop artists are kind of blurring the image because while they are promoting the product, they are also trying to promote themselves and their music so more people will listen to them. But besides all of that the video that he promoted makes people want to go out and buy a Pepsi. They feel that buy advertising a Pepsi can listening to music will help improve sales on not only the product, but the artists music as well. So basically its a win win situation, but really its just to help him get more endorsements and more money.

This commercial is a great example of how hip-hop is affecting not only our youth but everybody in society. Now this is not necessarily a bad thing. But this commercial has absolutely nothing to do with its product until the very last few seconds. They're advertising Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson more so than their own product (which is probably smart because their product stinks) which proves the fact that hip-hop artists have definitely "blurred the line between music and merchandise!" If people see 50 Cent, a multi-million dollar recording artist, drinking, or endorsing this product, they are not going to care about the taste or quality of it; all they know is that their idol is drinking it so they must do the same.
Hip-hop is definitely open to identifying with brands. I can think of so many songs just about different types of shoes…Mario – “Nikes Fresh Out The Box”, Nelly – “Air Force Ones”, and who could forget Run DMC’s “My ADIDAS”? How can they not be identifying with brands? I can only find one rock song about shoes so it seems to me that Rap/Hip-hop is much more entrepreneurial.

Sara Rieveley Blog Post 5 Black Talk

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ilHt1gorOI


This commercial use Ludacris, Kanye West, and The Game, three very popular and well known hip-hop artists to promote boost mobile. The commercial has the three hip-hop artists communicating from various places on boost mobile phones. For example, Kanye West is in a recording studio. They use a catchy song while adding a slogan. The slogan, “Where you at,” was used throughout the song, and is now known as a boost mobile slogan. I believe these types of commercials that use famous and very well known artists sell both the product and the artist. If your favorite artist is on a commercial selling a product, you are more likely to want that product more, but it also works the other way. If you love boost mobile and have that phone already, you may have loved the catchy song, which means you might listen to Kanye West, Ludacris, or The Game. I think both merchandise and music work together to make more products sell. It works! Hip-hop artists definitely identify themselves more with brands then rock and pop, and I believe they are also more entrepreneurial than both. You see many more hip-hop artists in commercials than any other genre. I agree with Leslie Savan the “black talk” has finally started be used openly and knowingly to advertise and sell merchandise, instead of mockingly like it used to. I believe slang has definitely started playing a bigger role in commercials to sell products.

Blog 5 Joey Ruggiero

This commercial tells it all hip-hop artists convey themselves in any way possible. Chris brown... now on trial for the Rihanna beat down isn't a person that I would want to advertise for my company but none the less his commerical does have a catchy ring and does kindof make me want to go out and get some gum. This does how ever blur the image that some hip-hop artists are trying to make for themselves which is not one where they just parade themselves for chewing gum sales. Alot of artists today are though using advertising to boost sales to make people want to listen to their music and to get their name out there. Which is unfortunatley blurring the true hip hop image...