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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-43505894/cerebral-palsy-won-t-stop-me-becoming-a-lawyer 

Daniel Holt has a law degree, an ambition to be a barrister – and cerebral palsy. He says his speech impediment has been seen by some as an issue but that he will fight to work in the only career that has ever interested him. Even though he has cerebral palsy he wants to become a barrister and I think that this is a good thing since it shows a good representation of disability since it shows overcoming adversity.

RIOT - XXXtentacion

Riot by X is a song about how the world is changing and is going down the wrong direction and that we are divided amongst ourselves instead of being united, in addition, it has a lot of reference to ethnicity, prejudice, and discrimination.

The video starts out very dark since X and two other black people are hanging from a tree, with X wearing a gold chain, in addition to this scene, it transitions between different examples of black deaths as a result of discrimination such as Emmett Till and Rodney King and him swinging from the tree. The first bar start out 'You ever seen a nigga hung with a gold chain' this can have multiple interpretations; you can take it at face value since you will never see a black person hung with a gold chain or you could think that X is saying that since the 'gold chain' is a stereotypical representation of black 'gangsters' you would never see it around their necks in death since their possessions don't carry them towards the afterlife furthermore the gold chain could have connotations with status and wealth and the fact that being hung with it means that we carry our wealth with us into death but since it says 'you ever seen' means that its unrealistic you would see it.

 The next prevelant scene is of black men in ski masks with torches this is directly synonymous with the KKK in their white hoods with torches, X then says 'niggas ask for peace in riots then bring violence' he is calling out hypocrisy since black people demand respect from the police and the government yet they still out robbing stores and causing violence even though that may be stereotypical since thats what the media shows on tv and in the news, just how black people are behaving since me personally didnt see white people being on the news for rioting or violence probably because they aren't stereotypically 'oppressed' as an ethnicity.

Throughout the music video there are many scenes of black men being beaten savagely on the count of racism most likely to highlight how recently this stuff was happening and that it is still prevelant since it flashes between different examples with the dates included; in addition to this the music video is shot with much darker lighting to further enhance the lyrics being heard so that there are direct connotations between audio and visual, X also uses very simple shots like close ups and medium shots to see emotions in detail. Even though the song is quite fast paced and short there's the use of slow motion which is a contrast between audio and visual.

Overall the music video is very dark which coincides with the tone of the song.

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Tasnim Lowe says her father has shown no remorse for murdering Lucy Lowe in a house fire in Telford - the town mired in fresh child sex abuse claims. Lucy was 16 and pregnant a second time by Azhar Ali Mehmood, 26, when she died in the blaze in 2000. West Mercia Police said it could not comment on specific cases. Lucy was legally incapable of consent when she was targeted and groomed by Mehmood at 12 years old. The taxi driver was jailed for 21 years for murdering Lucy, and her sister and mother, by pouring petrol inside the house and setting it alight, he was not prosecuted for sex crimes. I think that what the taxi driver did is disgusting since she was 12 years old at the time furthermore he shows no remorse for what he's done, also he murdered the woman who was mothering his children, personally i don't think he should ever get released from jail.

God's Plan ~ Drake

Drake's God's plan is a song (based on the lyrics) is about how it's God's will that he succeeds in life even though people are looking down/hating on him. 

The music video starts with the budget being displayed on the screen which was $996,631.90 to some people this could be taken in a negative manner since it seems to show off how much money was spent however the money was used throughout the music video to be given out and used to benefit others, Stuart hall's reception theory shows that there are three readings of this the preferred reading is that people would be supportive of what Drake's doing for his community 'giving back' in a sense the negotiated reading would see this as both a charity but a way to make himself look better, the oppositional reading would see this as a publicity stunt to make himself look good. In my opinion, Drake already has status since he is one of the most if not the most known artist in the music scene so it wouldn't be necessary to make himself look good however if you are trying to do a charitable thing then why would you flaunt it and not just do it. The music video is actually not specified as a music video but as a film, this could explain why there was more medium and close-range shot which are typically used to connote emotion and feeling which gives a more story-telling aspect towards the whole music video; 

the further shots were typically used to show the setting and area he was in for example the school ground in which he was on a raised platform which gave him a godlike look since he was above everyone and they were all looking up to him praising him for what he had done for them, there is even a line in the song stating "Might go down a G.O.D" I can infer that this might be the point of the video to make him seem like the 'GOD' of hip-hop.

Overall the music video was good and well shot but different people may interpret the meaning of the music video wrong but different people can receive the music video positively or negatively.

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Nikolas Cruz, 19, has admitted carrying out the attack and is charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder. The attack, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, is the deadliest US school shooting since 2012. It has re-ignited long-running debates about tougher firearm restrictions. Cruz has told police that he arrived on campus and began shooting students before abandoning his weapon and escaping, according to court documents. The FBI has admitted it received a tip-off about him last year. Throughout this vicious school shooting many of the children were snapchatting the horrible event which made this story even more devastating since it gave a first person view on their reactions and emotions. I think that without question gun laws should be tighter in America because 'fighting fire with fire' only makes more fire; from these statistics less people with gun ownership has correlation with less deaths. 

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Mo Farah, 34, was travelling from Munich to Ethiopia in preparation for next month's London Marathon when the alleged incident took place. Mo Farah posted a video on Instagram saying "The guy is touching me up like crazy. Pure harassment. Pure, pure, harassment," Farah wrote. He later posted the 47-second video on social media with the caption "Sad to see racial harassment in this day and age. 2018...!!!!"  In my opinion, it's really disgusting to see racial discrimination in 2018 since there have been so many movements and changes trying to end discrimination against other and what makes it worse is that the discrimination was aimed at one of the best runners Britain has ever had. A similar case is when the Jacksonville Jaguars (an NFL team) were kneeling against the national anthem since it doesn't represent African Americans but this was met with scrutiny by many people, for example, talk show hosts (Joe Walsh in particular) practically shrugged it off and said it didn't mean a thing and that they were acting out even though what the Jaguars were actually doing, in my opinion, was pretty brave to go against their country (so to speak) for their civil rights.