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There are a whole load of times when I attempted to persuade my fellow peers into believing a sort of idea that I had believed in. One of the biggest topics that I tend to be very defensive about is the whole media and the image of hip hop in society. During the second semester freshman year, we were required to write and prepare a speech and paper to persuade the audience into one belief. I am very defensive when people start to criticize hip hop and generalize the form of music as gangster, low life and for black people. I used research and experience of hip hop as my type of reasoning to allow the audience to believe what I had to say. Understandably, I had to put up with peoples' ideas and open up my mind to their perspectives, but I took them into account and implemented them into my sorts of reasoning. I eventually explained the way media infects our mind with their own sort of perspective, and played a song commonly played on the radio and compared it to a song that no one has heard but is considered "real hip hop."