Knowledge is a familiarity with someone or something, which can include facts, information, descriptions, or skills acquired through experience or education. It can refer to the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. It can be implicit (as with practical skill or expertise) or explicit (as with the theoretical understanding of a subject); and it can be more or less formal or systematic. In philosophy, the study of knowledge is called epistemology, and the philosopher Plato famously defined knowledge as "justified true belief." However no single agreed upon definition of knowledge exists, and there are numerous theories to explain it. The following quote from Bertrand Russell's "Theory of Knowledge" illustrates the difficulty in defining knowledge. "The question how knowledge should be defined is perhaps the most important and difficult of the three with which we shall deal. This may seem surprising: at first sight it might be thought that knowledge might be defined as belief which is in agreement with the facts. The trouble is that no one knows what a belief is, no one knows what a fact is, and no one knows what sort of agreement between them would make a belief true. Let us begin with belief."
Michael Lee Wesch (born June 22, 1975) is associate professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University. Wesch's work also includes media ecology and the emerging field of digital ethnography, where he studies the effect of new media on human interaction.
Wesch is a cultural anthropologist and media ecologist exploring the effects of new media on human interaction. He graduated summa cum laude from the Kansas State University Anthropology Program in 1997 and returned as a faculty member in 2004 after receiving his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Virginia. There he pursued research on social and cultural change in Melanesia, focusing on the introduction of print and print-based practices like mapping and census-taking in the remote Mountain Ok region of Papua New Guinea where he lived for a total of 18 months from 1999-2003. This work inspired Wesch to examine the effects of new media more broadly, especially digital media. Also as a consequence of this trip, Dr. Wesch has gained some command in the Tok Pisin language, a primary lingua franca of Papua New Guinea.
David Hockney, OM, CH, RA, (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire and Kensington, London.
An important contributor to the Pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century.
Hockney was born in Bradford, England on 9 July 1937 to Laura and Kenneth Hockney and was educated first at Wellington Primary School, then Bradford Grammar School, Bradford College of Art and the Royal College of Art in London, where he met R. B. Kitaj. While he was there Hockney said he felt at home, he took pride and success in his work here. While a student at the Royal College of Art, Hockney was featured in the exhibition Young Contemporaries – alongside Peter Blake – that announced the arrival of British Pop art. He was associated with the movement, but his early works also display expressionist elements, not dissimilar to certain works by Francis Bacon. Sometimes, as in We Two Boys Together Clinging (1961), named after a poem by Walt Whitman, these works make reference to his love for men. From 1963, Hockney was represented by the art dealer John Kasmin. In 1963 Hockney visited New York, making contact with Andy Warhol. A subsequent visit to California, where he lived for many years, inspired Hockney to make a series of paintings of swimming pools in Los Angeles, using the comparatively new acrylic medium and rendered in a highly realistic style using vibrant colours. In 1967, his painting, Peter Getting Out Of Nick's Pool, won the John Moores Painting Prize at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. He made prints, portraits of friends, and stage designs for the Royal Court Theatre, Glyndebourne, La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
I know that things are getting tougher
When you can't get the top off from
the bottom of the barrel,
Wide open road of my future now...
It's looking fucking narrow.
All I know is that I don't know nothing.
We get told to decide.
Just like as if I'm not going to change my mind.
All I know is that I don't know nothing.
Whatcha gonna do with yourself,
Boy better make up your mind...
Whatcha gonna do with yourself boy,
You're running out of time.
This time I got it all figured out:
All I know is that I don't know nothing...
(Lyrics by Operation Ivy)
I know that things are getting tougher
When you can't get top off from the bottom of the barrel
Wide open road of my future now...
It's looking fucking narrow
All I know is that I don't know nothing
We get told to decide
Just like as if I'm not gonna change my mind
All I know is that I don't know nothing
Whatcha gonna do with yourself
Boy better make up your mind
Whatcha gonna do with yourself boy
You're running out of time
This time I got it all figured out:
All I know is that I don't know nothing...
And that's fine.
Choose Choose your side Spit on mine Intolerance is
bliss
Narrow mind You decide So cross me off your list
Now teach me How to be so small but condescending Yeah,
tell me What to be, c'mon, c'mon
I don't know what i want But i know what i don't I
don't want you, don't want you around Don't you mess
with my life Just cause your life's a mess I don't want
you, i don't want you around, yeah
Count Count me out Write me off Thanks for the black
(Take it out on me) Shoot me down (Take it out on me)
Get it on You gotta bleed me dry
Now teach me How to be so spoilt, so full of envy Yeah,
tell me What to be, c'mon, c'mon...
I don't know what i want But i know what i don't I
don't want you, don't want you around Don't you mess
with my life Just cause your life's a mess I don't want
you, i don't want you around
Don't tell me That you see a damn thing from where
you're standing Don't tell me Leave me be, c'mon,
c'mon...
I don't know what i want But i know what i don't I
don't want you, don't want you around Why don't you
just lie low And take your time to grow? Here's all you
[Guru]
Take your time, recline and make your mind up
I feel fine, so I'm gonna wind up
Here's the pitch, check the switch, now watch me
hit you right to this, while I pursue this
desire, to get you, on up to step to
rhythms and rhymes, cause I respect you
Unless you're a biting one, a non-writing one
Reciting some of my lines, although you are blind
you'll see my shadow, rather my silhouette
But I'll be glad though, knowin your pillow's wet
And that you're upset, cause you thought you brought
the answer -- to this dilemma in rap but I'll vamp you with
KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE (echoes)
[Damo D-Ski]
Pure is my thought, my spirit is my heart
I shall embark to spark my fine art
of oratory wisdom, emcees I quiz them
on terms and techniques, then I'll wreck each with speech
I win the science fair, so you don't you try and scare
me with your threats and, idle atrocities
I am the best and yo I am your boss at these
methods and forms of, causin swarms of fans
just to dance, like thunder storms of
what it must take to, crush you or break you
If I dislike you, I may not hate you
It's just that you sound weak when, you think you're speakin
KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE (echoes)
[Guru]
The rhymes are peaceful like yoga, and yo I know the
time must be mine, so I'm gonna throw the
whole kit n kaboodle in, while you sit doodlin
Scribblin, now wipe your mouth cause it's dribblin
That's nasty, so how you gonna get past me?
Whatcha babblin punk? I have to put a rattle in
your hand, and then I'll serve you like an infant
Put a bib on you, and feed you in-stan-taneously
Rhymes that'll be, famous from me
The Keith double-E, cause you're a faker
And I will take the mic from you and make the
brothers and sisters unite, while we relate the
KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE (echoes)
[Damo D-Ski]
I'm glowin with intensity, cause I've been sent to G
off as your boss, because you lack identity
You're quite immature and, you sound very boring
Like a raft I'll bring you back, up onto the shore and
give you time to dry out, while I just try out
my hunch that with one punch, yo I could put that eye out
But violence, is never my first choice
I use my voice to make you rejoice
In agreement with our program, cause there is no man
Who can give you more of this, and you can be sure of this
fact that I'm exact, cause I got it down pat
We are scholars risin, we're exercisin our
KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE (echoes)
(guru)
Take your time, recline and make your mind up
I feel fine, so I'm gonna wind up
Here's the pitch, check the switch, now watch me
Hit you right to this, while I pursue this
Desire, to get you, on up to step to
Rhythms and rhymes, cause I respect you
Unless you're a biting one, a non-writing one
Reciting some of my lines, although you are blind
You'll see my shadow, rather my silhouette
But I'll be glad though, knowin your pillow's wet
And that you're upset, cause you thought you brought
The answer -- to this dilemma in rap but I'll vamp you with
Knowledge knowledge knowledge (echoes)
(damo d-ski)
Pure is my thought, my spirit is my heart
I shall embark to spark my fine art
Of oratory wisdom, emcees I quiz them
On terms and techniques, then I'll wreck each with speech
I win the science fair, so you don't you try and scare
Me with your threats and, idle atrocities
I am the best and yo I am your boss at these
Methods and forms of, causin swarms of fans
Just to dance, like thunder storms of
What it must take to, crush you or break you
If I dislike you, I may not hate you
It's just that you sound weak when, you think you're speakin
Knowledge knowledge knowledge (echoes)
(guru)
The rhymes are peaceful like yoga, and yo I know the
Time must be mine, so I'm gonna throw the
Whole kit n kaboodle in, while you sit doodlin
Scribblin, now wipe your mouth cause it's dribblin
That's nasty, so how you gonna get past me?
Whatcha babblin punk? I have to put a rattle in
Your hand, and then I'll serve you like an infant
Put a bib on you, and feed you in-stan-taneously
Rhymes that'll be, famous from me
The keith double-e, cause you're a faker
And I will take the mic from you and make the
Brothers and sisters unite, while we relate the
Knowledge knowledge knowledge (echoes)
(damo d-ski)
I'm glowin with intensity, cause I've been sent to g
Off as your boss, because you lack identity
You're quite immature and, you sound very boring
Like a raft I'll bring you back, up onto the shore and
Give you time to dry out, while I just try out
My hunch that with one punch, yo I could put that eye out
But violence, is never my first choice
I use my voice to make you rejoice
In agreement with our program, cause there is no man
Who can give you more of this, and you can be sure of this
Fact that I'm exact, cause I got it down pat
We are scholars risin, we're exercisin our
[Originally by Operation Ivy]
I know that things are getting tougher
When you cant get top off from the bottom of the barrel
Wide open road of my future now...
Its looking fucking narrow
All I know is that I dont know nothing
We get told to decide
Just like as if im not gonna change my mind
All I know is that I dont know nothing
Whatcha gonna do with yourself
Boy better make up your mind
Whatcha gonna do with yourself boy
You're running out of time
This time I got it all figured out
All I know is that I dont know nothing...
All the years of the world, all inside of me,
I feel the History in my hands;
the sun on my skin, the power of the sea,
big and white rocks in my old brain.
I need to know my life well,
because this is the key...
I need to know the secret worlds,
so, like a free child.
YOU'RE THE SUN OF MY DAYS,
THE WATER OF MY MIND,
I'M FEELING YOUR LOVE,
THE END OF MY DEEP PAIN.
AND YOU'RE THE MOON OF MY NIGHTS,
THE WATER FOR MY HEART,
I'M TASTING YOUR LOVE,
THE END OF MY DEEP PAIN.
A little experience with my son,
now I know, this is my new book;
and without a saint, without a saint,
I know that things are getting tougher
When you cant get top off from the bottom of the barrel
Wide open road of my future now...
Its looking fucking narrow
All I know is that I dont know nothing
We get told to decide
Just like as if im not gonna change my mind
All I know is that I dont know nothing
Whatcha gonna do with yourself
Boy better make up your mind
Whatcha gonna do with yourself boy
You're running out of time
This time I got it all figured out
All I know is that I dont know nothing...
Yeah, right about now
It's time to get ready for this
Get busy
Word up
It don't stop
Get busy...
Well, it's me Troop De Don
De Champion
Alongside da Paul
What da fuck you want?
Da funk you want
Sharper than Szechwan
we get you on
if your on some other shit
then you'll best be gone
Let's be strong
And party to the earlt morn'
PVD and this guy
called Troop De Don
Y'all people wanna loop da song
It's worldwide Berlin To London,
La to Hong Kong
PVD and this guy
called Troop De Don
It's worldwide...
Get busy...
Knowledge is something we all should obtain
Knowledge
I look at how you live and I see how sad you are
You're the one who brought you down you could've gone so far
Now you just do drugs all day deteriorating fast
And you're so f*cked from shooting dope your veigns are all collapsed
I don't wanna be like you...so I won't
I take a look at my parents and see how they scream and fight
My mother even tells me that she cries herself to sleep at night
Dad's gone to the bottle but he says he's doin' fine
And all my younger siblings are being raised on ugly lies
I don't wanna be like you...so I won't
Once a revolutionary fighting for a cause
Now a successful businessman who'd never break a law
You say "Thank God I grew up I was such a stupid kid"
But if everyone gave up like you no one would ever win
I don't wanna be like you...so I won't
And I won't let anyone tell me what I'm suppossed to be
I won't bow down to authority
I won't compromise I'm gonna stay angry
I won't ever let this world break me
I don't wanna be like you...so I won't
I don't wanna be like you...so I won't
We were 18 and we were on the streets
Never had a worry we always had a place to sleep
With a small tight crew who'll be there til the end
We always felt safe coz we were in the company of Friends
That's brotherhood
And you're my brother
You'll always be my brother no matter what you do
Now we're getting older and many things have changed
Some of us have moved away the memories never strained
With a small tight crew that'll be there til the end
We'll always be together and we'll always be good friends
That's brotherhood
And you're my brother
Just because I'm not too old, it doesn't make me dumb
Coz it seems I know much more than you from my years under the gun
I've seen more than you would think, I've lived my forty fast
And If you think you're better coz you're old you can suck my a**
We've gotta stick together, if we're gonna win this fight
Let's start a f*ckin' movement all we need to do is unite
We've gotta stick together, if we're gonna win this fight
Let's start a f*ckin' movement all we need to do is unite
I don't b*tch about how things work we make things how they are
You just sit and do nothing and show your battle scars
Sure I might be young but I know that I'm not dumb
Please step back and just observe to see what I become
We've gotta stick together, if we're gonna win this fight
Let's start a f*ckin' movement all we need to do is unite
We've gotta stick together, if we're gonna win this fight
Let's start a f*ckin' movement all we need to do is unite
I've bled, and cried, and worked for everything I have
So don't you tell me how to live you're not my f*cking dad
And I will always tell you exactly how I feel inside
The meek inherit nothing and only the strong survive
So if you wander down hill or you think it's fine the way it is
You can stay in the dark we'll move on to better things
So if you wander down hill or you think it's fine the way it is
You can stay in the dark we'll move on to better things
We've gotta stick together, if we're gonna win this fight
Let's start a f*ckin' movement all we need to do is unite
We've gotta stick together, if we're gonna win this fight
Throw me back in tears that you have only shared
I thought this was all your fault but we just stay here in despair
Pledged, once more, forever, then you went and f*cked around
I gave you everything I have and then you let me down
Said you'd love me for all time but that wasn't long ago
Forever's still the time we need, the end's not good enough
Forgiveness is a curse (Oi, Oi, Oi)
Forgiveness is a curse (Oi, Oi, Oi)
Forgiveness is a curse...Cynics don't get hurt
I promised you my heart, you will laugh until I die
My love goes beyond all words coz they both fall from the sky
I had to turn my back on you, but you stabbed me in it first
And I'll never take you back, coz forgivness is a curse
Somethings never fix...and a broken word is one
You say you're nothing without God
Then you kill me off with your war
Many of your tactics have done well
Nobody can tell you how to feel
Straight block the holyness game
Show me the meaning of life
My life's just as thou art
You hand me a gun like a (f*cking) coward
Your fight design is of a failures
You know what you're doing's against Jesus
When you're born you get behind
You get whatever you get
You're only becoming a Jew
so that you don't go to hell
But where we are going here...
Did you know that God is everywhere?
Jesus loves you
Now that I've been said and done
Fallen in the name of fun
I know I'm not the only one
But I'm still all by myself
You overlooked my times of need
Laughed away thoughts of helping me
I guess you thought I'd be all right
When I was the one on top
Today I refuse to live in a hole
But a time not quite too long ago
I was wasting thoughts with my mind closed
My heart was dead
My soul was broke
You put off tragedy for another day
Well my friend that day's today
I hit the ground with outstretched hands
And now I see you weren't my friends
Cuz the ones who'd helped me
Had been there all along
I guess I
I guess that I was wrong
[Chorus]
You can twist it around which way you like
It doesn't really matter who was right
I'm here standing tall again
And now I know my real true friends
Cuz in the end
In the end again I turned out all right
Cuz in the end
In the end again I turned out all right
I turned out all right
Think I'll be sick with all the things you say
But only when you try to you lie and use them everday
You're fighting with yourself...you can't fool me
Someday you will realize...Someday you will say
You thought you were a ruler
It's only a charade
A never ending fight that's going to point you at desparity
I'll fight you with my anger if you don't shut your mouth
Someday you'll realize (gotta learn)
Racism must be stomped out
I know that you were worried but I'm always in effect
Still I'll make you listen to what I have to say
The worst thing there is to fear is the colour of the skin
It's time to take me serious so let's begin
Knowledge!!!
This is the time that we all should live as one brothers
This is the time that we all should live as one sisters
So come along brothers yeah come along sisters U-N-I-T-Y That's unity
Look into the age we are living into be brothers
Look into the age we are living into be sisters
So come along brothers yeah come along sisters U-N-I-T-Y That's unity
Just when I don't think I can take no more
Been disappointed too many times
One of my crew puts their arm around me
And says if I don't give up then I'll be fine
At times in life, I've done so well
I've spent time on the top I've also been in ruins
Demoralized and dropped
That's just the way things are you can never expect more
Half the time you're winning and the rest you're on the floor
This world's as full of beauty as it is of hate
That's just the way it is some things won't ever change
Focus on the positive and use your mind
Don't ever give up and you'll be fine
Some of dem like drugs and some of dem like to fight
Negativity inspired somewhere every single night
Got to set examples for the weak of mind
Don't stop spreading knowledge till the end of time
So many hateful people so many are deranged
It can take its toll on you when life gets rearranged
It's a proven fact that you get what you give
I'm all alone,
I'm all alone,
Sky is white,
The pain is bright,
And I wanna get stoned.
I'm all alone.
Destiny, My destiny,
Dance with me, Dance with me, Destiny,
Destiny, My destiny,
No escaping that's for me,
My mother moans,
get off the phone,
she don't like my fucking tone,
Mama may have,
and Papa may have,
But god bless the child that's got his own,
God bless the child that's got his own.
i have been shown,
My heart of stone,
Feeling it in my broken bones,
Love i can't have
the dad i won't have
the child was left here all alone
i was left here all alone
Destiny, My destiny,
dance with me, dance with me, destiny
destiny, my destiny,
As I write this down
you are lost and I am found
as you swallow the truth
it will be the death of you
now go to sleep and I will follow...
to hold out and watch you die alone
is too much now but fall out
follow where we go
and hunt us down
oh my god
look at what we've done
it's gone now
and everyone will find out
everything is broken
and this is who we are now
as we both die
i'm taking your life tonight
tonight
the darkness traps me in this dream
if waking up to the
hardest part is to believe
we can't go back
oh my god
look at what we've lost
it's gone now
and everyone will find out
everything is broken
and this is who we are now
as we both die
i'm taking your life tonight
tonight
we'll fall away, fall asleep
until it's only you and me
we dream of where we used to be
before our eyes saw what we have seen
we'll fall away fall asleep
until it's only you and me
dream of where we used to be
before our eyes saw what we have seen
as I write this down
you are lost and I am...
gone now
and everyone will find out
everything is broken
and this is who we are now
as we both die
as we both die
I'm taking your life
[guru]
Take your time, recline and make your mind up
I feel fine, so I'm gonna wind up
Here's the pitch, check the switch, now watch me
Hit you right to this, while I pursue this
Desire, to get you, on up to step to
Rhythms and rhymes, cause I respect you
Unless you're a biting one, a non-writing one
Reciting some of my lines, although you are blind
You'll see my shadow, rather my silhouette
But I'll be glad though, knowin your pillow's wet
And that you're upset, cause you thought you brought
The answer -- to this dilemma in rap but I'll vamp you with
Knowledge knowledge knowledge (echoes)
[damo d-ski]
Pure is my thought, my spirit is my heart
I shall embark to spark my fine art
Of oratory wisdom, emcees I quiz them
On terms and techniques, then I'll wreck each with speech
I win the science fair, so you don't you try and scare
Me with your threats and, idle atrocities
I am the best and yo I am your boss at these
Methods and forms of, causin swarms of fans
Just to dance, like thunder storms of
What it must take to, crush you or break you
If I dislike you, I may not hate you
It's just that you sound weak when, you think you're speakin
Knowledge knowledge knowledge (echoes)
[guru]
The rhymes are peaceful like yoga, and yo I know the
Time must be mine, so I'm gonna throw the
Whole kit n kaboodle in, while you sit doodlin
Scribblin, now wipe your mouth cause it's dribblin
That's nasty, so how you gonna get past me?
Whatcha babblin punk? I have to put a rattle in
Your hand, and then I'll serve you like an infant
Put a bib on you, and feed you in-stan-taneously
Rhymes that'll be, famous from me
The keith double-e, cause you're a faker
And I will take the mic from you and make the
Brothers and sisters unite, while we relate the
Knowledge knowledge knowledge (echoes)
[damo d-ski]
I'm glowin with intensity, cause I've been sent to g
Off as your boss, because you lack identity
You're quite immature and, you sound very boring
Like a raft I'll bring you back, up onto the shore and
Give you time to dry out, while I just try out
My hunch that with one punch, yo I could put that eye out
But violence, is never my first choice
I use my voice to make you rejoice
In agreement with our program, cause there is no man
Who can give you more of this, and you can be sure of this
Fact that I'm exact, cause I got it down pat
We are scholars risin, we're exercisin our
Everybodys talking, how the world's changing.
Everybodys wondering, "How far will we run?"
Can you see the train wreck?
People scattered on the ground searching for answer theyve never found.
And all I have is answers
To yesterdays questions.
You shouldve known...
You shouldve known...
You shouldve known
Theres more to life than, "Live for Today".
I can hear them whispering how they all feel lonely.
If they only knew where true love is found.
I can see them dying, falling on the floor.
Everybodys waiting to run out the door.
You shouldve known...
You shouldve known...
You shouldve known
Theres more to life than, "Live for Today".
So slow down.
You just want to be loved.
I hear it all the time.
Everybodys wondering how far will we run...
You shouldve known...
You shouldve known...
You shouldve known