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Picture this: you and your friends are kicking it back in the car, taking a long road trip to a destination while listening to the radio. Your favorite song "Wild Thoughts" by DJ Khaled and Rihanna comes on, and you all start belting out the lyrics. Your initial thought it that this song is your new favorite song, but you feel as if you heard it before. What does this even mean...?  In the song "Wild Thoughts" by DJ Khaled ft. Rihanna, one is able to distinguish the beat throughout the song, as well as background song. If you listen closely to the chorus, as well as the whole song the background song is "Maria Maria" by Santana. Yes, of course now when you go to listen to it, all you will hear is the original Santana song.  When dealing with the idea of copyrights, it can be seen in various styles. In writing, art, movement, etc.. but we are focusing on music. In class, we were asked to watch RiP!: A Remix Manifesto, which focused on the development...

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, prevents 24/7 free confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones and best practices for professionals (suicidepreventionlifelin.org).  What caught my eye today in class, when we were discussing the use of the Suicide Prevention Hotline is how helpful one can actually be to a human beings life. It is crazy to think that when one is going through such pain and depression, one phone call allows someone to turn around their life for the better.  In this crazy world we live in at the moment, all we see is hate against the world. When you think about it, if something were to happen within the United States, people wouldn't hate on that specific person they would start to pick at the world itself. Yes, of course that person clearly did something so wrong to have people against them, but we hear sayings such as "the world is such a horrible place", "what is going on in ...

Tuckman's 5 Stages of Group Development: Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, Adjouring. We see this in everyday life and when thinking on how people in my personal life are affected by the 5 stages, my 16 year old brother Matthew is the first thought to come into my head. Growing up and having the dream of following my cousins sports path, his only goal was to succeed in lacrosse. His freshman year of high school, he tried out for his schools lacrosse, making the varsity team, at only 14 years old. Playing with boys who are seniors in high school was intimidating, even I felt nervous for him. Walking into a newly formed team for the new school year, Matthew knew he needed to play his best. Telling me the stories of his first few days made my heart sink to the ground. But as the days went on he told me that the team that was "formed", collected all the boys strengths in order to collaborate and make the best team in the region. Dealing with the stage of "storming...

When looking at the communities of practice, Greek Life in all aspects are important to "group" practices. I was looking at how I am personally involved in certain communities of practices. At first I was going to use how in high school I went to a performing arts school, but then I remembered how involved I am in Greek Life here at the University of Arizona. I am currently involved with the chapter of Pi Beta Phi. I joined Greek Life when I was a freshman and with this only being my second year, I can establish how either being involved in a sorority or fraternity is a prime example of community of practice. Looking back at the process of recruitment, no one was forcing me to do go through this, no one was telling me which house I should choose. Greek Life isn't something that is forced upon someone, it is a choice with your own "team" of 300 other girls, therefore showing the practices of Pi Beta Phi and how we work together as a community of practice. https...