John Lennon and Tupac Shakur

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"John Lennon (1940-1980) and Tupac Shakur (1971-1996) had a number of things in common and a comparison of their thought reveals that what appear to be the greatest differences between them are, in fact, rather similar responses to the world's social problems. Both were artists who achieved enormous early success and were murdered when they were quite young. Both protested, to some degree, the conditions of society and urged their legions of fans to look more carefully at what they were being told by the dominant forces in society. But neither man ever achieved his full potential in terms of what he could do to change the world for the better because each was torn by a high level of ambiguity over the possibility of genuine change and because neither saw himself as a leader. Each of these artists became somewhat trapped by his own success and although there was a great deal to.."

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