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The themes of "periferia" (periphery) and "marginalidade" (marginality) are central to Brazilian hip hop. In reference to Derek Pardue's article[8] it is arguable that that most hip hop promoters from the all major hip hop groups around Brazil, several years after the birth of hip hop in Brazilian society, were not very successful in co-modifying their understanding of the reality of favela life within the domestic music economy hip hop promoters in Brazil understand it to have a high sense of reality or one being real/truthful. Thus in terms of place prominent places are some of those which in general, are viewed as the "periphery" periferia, which also include residential areas of the metropolitan areas of São Paulo, Campinas, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba and so on. This is further supported by Sansone Livio in his article[9] as he talks about the influence of the youth culture in Brazilian hip hop and funk. One of the reasons why the periferia is a core of Brazilian hip hop is because, the periphery/periferia turned into a mid-20th century boom of industrialization and place for migration. Additionally, it is also understood to have neighborhoods that vary significantly with regard to safety, architecture, community organization, and services rendered.

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Derek Pardue in his article Hip Hop as Pedagogy examines the themes of "periferia" (periphery) and "marginalidade" (marginality) in relation to hip hop identity as well as its pedagogical value. Pardue proposes that the negative perception of hip hop in relation to gangsterism and criminality may be discarded for a more realistic view of its educational benefits especially with regards to the young people of the favelas. Pardue cites the expansion of CEUs (Unified Educational Centers) into favelas and the employment of hip hop "educationalists" as examples of educational models that build upon earlier social and communal actions initiated (sometimes with state sponsorship) by those from rural Brazil that settled on the outskirts of the major Brazilian cities. Pardue highlights that though mainstream Brazilian culture originally viewed these illegal settlements in a negative way in recent times many hip hop artists and residents from the favelas have formed educational NGOs as well as participating in state sponsored schemes designed not only to improve the lives of those who are economically marginalized but also with a view of promoting hip hop as a positive contribution to citizenship within wider society. Pardue points out that due to the importance of hip hop to the young people of the favelas that its pedagogical value serves not only to benefit those on the periphery but also the national aims of state education as well as establishing links to the wider hip hop community as it exists in other parts of the world.

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Helen Crawfurd (1877–1954) - any women who gets arrested for throwing a brick through the Minister Of Education's window gets my attention.

Helen Crawfurd (9 November 1877 - 18 April 1954) was a Suffragette, political activist and Christian socialist. She was a lifelong peace activist and advocator of equal rights for women. Crawfurd was a member of the Independent Labour Party from 1914 onwards eventually leaving the party in 1920 to join the Communist Party. Her political actions as a militant Suffragette led to her being jailed three times; once for throwing a brick through the window of the Liberal's Minister for Education and later for the same action at an Army Recruiting office as well as a sentence for fighting with police who were trying to arrest Emily Pankhurst at a Suffragette meeting

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Helen Crawfurd (nee Jack) was born in the Gorbals, a slum district in Glasgow to William Jack and ?. Her father William Jack owned two bakeries and was moderately prosperous. She later married ? who was a member of the clergy. She initially trained as a missionary but in ? she joined the militant Suffragette movement WSPU (Women's Social and Political Union) after reading Sartor Resartus, Heroes and Heroes-Worship, Froude's biography of Thomas Carlyle amongst many other tracts and works. After being arrested for throwing a brick through the Minister Of Education's window she was sentenced to ? years (months?) in Holloway Jail where she commenced upon a hunger strike.

In 1915 she took part in the Glasgow Rent Strikes; the protest was the result of inflated rents that many could not afford.

In 1929 she stood for parliament as the candidate of the Communist Party for Bothwell in Lanarkshire, Scotland.