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You guessed it – head!

By leaving out the final rhyme and including this onomatopoeia, Silverstein suggests that the Boa Constrictor in question has finished his meal.

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The repetition present is used to simulate the winding, coiling constriction.

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Neither does Indiana Jones! Our primal fear of these legless reptiles is one biologically ingrained in us from the days of cavemen thousands of years ago (perhaps, then, it is not surprising that “coldblooded” – another adjective which applies to these slithering creatures – can be used to refer to something that is heartless or evil)

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Here the beat switches up to the Phil Collins classic, “Sussudio,” which ties in nicely with the album’s earlier Patrick Bateman reference, given that Bateman in American Psycho delivers one of many musical monologues on Genesis’s discography.

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A lyric not dissimilar to one line from his “1 Train” verse that highlights Bronson’s ability to beat the charges:

The gavel slam, I’m a free man

Bronson makes a direct correlation between this line and the previous line. He has your honor under his armpit (a headlock/choke hold) and in order for the judge to escape he had to tap out (slam the gavel) freeing both Bronson and the judge himself.

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A subtle reference to the institution of slavery by Card.

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The Constitution does, however, give the courts the ability to scrutinize the constitutionality of laws (see: Marbury v. Madison). If there are bad laws made that relate to society, then when courts find them to be in violation of the Constitution, this necessarily means that the courts will have caused societal reform.

Examples of this would be the rejection of laws discriminating against blacks and women, where court cases led to changes in society.

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The Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation’s mission statement is not like the scholarship opportunity being offered by Juicy J, $50,000 to the best twerker.

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Now of course the example of slavery is an extreme option, and certainly not one that should be employed in any sort of argumentative discourse (just like Hitler’s Nazi Germany) but certainly Wheeler has a point.

The U.S. is not a true democracy in the sense that not everyone votes. Instead, people vote for people who vote for them. The primary assumption behind this system (representative democracy) is that the elected representatives will vote in the way that voters wish for them to. This is becoming increasingly not the case in the U.S., where on issues like healthcare, war, and taxes, public opinion is essentially not considered.

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