Wrapping It All Up

Each blog, my topic changed radically. I moved from writing about a topic I took as a joke, to something I really got invested in, which was amazing. When I first started, I watched dumb Youtube videos, of random people doing voiceovers of pictures of Tupac, presenting their own views on the subject. But when I moved to my research topic, I was really invested in it, reading books about Tupac and religion, about Tupac and philosophy.

The only element of my blog incorporated into my blog was the narrative of Tupac’s murder. In my blog, I summed it up poorly, but in my paper I expanded it to make sure it sounded almost like a novel, like a Bible verse perhaps?

My research doesn’t really affect my outside studies, because I’m writing about Tupac. I suppose because I listen to rap music, I’ll be looking more into the lyrics of rap songs today, but other than that I don’t see much connection to my other studies, considering I’m taking science classes.

The biggest change I’ve noticed in my writing is my ability to analyze things. I never was that good at the whole analyzing and making it a paper, I was more into creative writing, which I tried to show in my narrative of Tupac’s murder.

All in all, this whole blogging has been an interesting ride, and never in my life did I think I would write a research paper connecting Tupac and Jesus Christ.

The Struggle is Real

Do you know how hard it is to research a conspiracy theory? How hard it is to have this idea be taken seriously? Honestly, before this blog my friends and I were joking about the Tupac conspiracy and when I told them I was doing an English assignment about it, they all burst out laughing. Even now, a few weeks into this assignment and now I’m writing my research paper about Tupac being a modern day Jesus. The amount of shit I’ve seen people get on internet forums when they propose the idea of Tupac being alive is insane.

Not only has getting taken seriously been a problem for my blog been a problem, but so has finding credible sources for my research paper. Maybe because the connection between Tupac Shakur and Jesus Christ is a little tough to believe. I conducted my research in both books, online journal articles, and through google, which wasn’t easy. It was hard finding books written about Tupac and religion because, frankly, I don’t think you can fill a book with information on that. So I turned to the Internet and research Tupac’s influence today. My research turned me to reading about the hologram used in 2012’s Coachella and Tupac’s “return”at this time. 

I was able to get my research done, but I really had to look. When using the databases, I really had to dig deep, find some good connecting words to search and I think I found some really great sources.

I learned a lot from this process, mainly how easily using a search engine besides Google could piss me off. But I also learned how to use search engines, and the computer nerd in me is thankful that I’ll now know what to do to make my Google searches even better.