3/10/11 Question number 3

      I am writing my paper on anxiety, depression, and loneliness. I am going to explore why traditional college students into depression and loneliness. My question that I am going to find an answer for: Why do traditional college students end up lonely and depressed? I arrived at this research because sometimes I feel lonely and it makes me depressed at times and I wanted to know how to move towards stopping it for all college students from being lonely. It interests me because I am sometimes lonely and depressed by it and I want to find the reason why some people when they go to college are afraid to meet new people. I wish to explore what is are the common causes of loneliness and depression in today’s college students, and what we can do to try and help college students break out of their “shells” and go meet new people and not be lonely. I think part of the reason for people that are lonely are from a place where they knew everyone and they did not want to meet new people and when they aren’t talking to anyone, and they don’t know how to meet new people and when they have to be in a new place and have to make friends they don’t know what to do. I am like that I have been there and I found my friends through my roommate and my roommates friends and now I have a best friend that lives here on campus and now I don’t feel lonely or depressed anymore. I think I want to find out why I was like when I first moved here.

1)  Select a hip-hop artist (e.g. If you do not listen to hip-hop, any other music genre will do) to investigate. How does h/she establish ethos with his/her audience?

I think that one of the most famous main stream rappers of today is Eminem. He always raps about his life his family and problems he had in the past, he also raps about the things that brought him up from where he was in the past. In his past he has lived through hard times and has had a very troublesome home life. I think that if he raps about this it is very credible because he has been through things most of us have not had to deal with. He also raps about how he loves his daughter even though he cannot be there all the time. He raps about things that he has been through and things that he thinks are right and don’t rap about sex, drugs, money, or killing people. When most rappers rap they only rap about things that are nonrealistic in real life, but Eminem has a way of raping so that it is a real life feeling and a real feel that he has actually experienced all of these things. When I want to listen to a real rap song I go to Eminem because I want to listen to something real instead of listening to something fake about things I will never own. I want to listen to someone that will tell me a story of real event that could happen or could possibly happen in real life.