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Suli Breaks is a talented spoken word artist from the U.K. He graduated from Sheffield University, located in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, with a law degree. Breaks has put out many spoken word pieces, as videos on his youtube channel, such as “American’t Dream,” “Why I Hate School But Love Education,” and, being examined currently, “I Will Not Let An Exam Result Decide My Fate.” At first, Suli Breaks spent five years going through pubs and building up his audience. After that, Breaks has gained the support of 145,000 subscribers on his youtube channel and over 8 million views of his videos. Breaks has spent his time pursuing his passion, and he has gotten substantial results.

 

First, lets look at Suli Breaks’ scenery. By scenery, I don’t just mean where he’sstanding throughout his video; I mean the people behind him and how he presents this video. The video starts off with his spoken word being played on a radio station, and that several people, the girl in the bookstore, the guy getting a shape up, are listening to this and are being moved by what Breaks is saying. Just take one look at the barber’s face when Breaks says “how many things did you memorize, just to never use them again” and “why is a classroom of individuals tested by the same means.” Breaks wants to show that there are regular people supporting him and his ideals.

 

Now, look at the people behind Breaks when he is actually performing. They are all college kids. You can tell just by how old they look, and that most of them are wearing university hoodies. They standing behind Breaks in support of what he is saying. Representatively, they are the people that Breaks is trying to reach and the people that Breaks has gotten to latch on to his movement with previous spoken word pieces. And finally, take a look at where Breaks is performing the whole spoken word piece. He appears to be in front of some sort of institution, like a library or a university building of some kind.

 

Breaks chooses to base this spoken word piece around the story of a boy and a mother just leaving some sort of report card night. The mother is disappointed with her son because of a poor grade. Breaks chooses this of all situations because we have all been there at one point in our life or another. He chooses his words very carefully too. He uses “pythagorean’s theorem” and “solve for x” in his piece because people will remember those things, but they will not remember how to do it. And, Breaks chooses to focus on math as the main point of what you won’t remember. It’s a perfect setup. Most people don’t like math, and most people forget how to use all the theorems and equations that they learn over years because most people don’t need complex math skills to solve their day to day problems.

 

The whole point of this spoken word piece was to be a follow up to his video, “Why I Hate School But Love Education.” People blew up in debate, and he thought he should address that. His audience, as seen in the background of his performance, are college kids. But, he also wants to reach those “shop assistants” and “entrepreneurs” of all ages. People see that Suli Breaks is just another person. He’s a regular guy trying to make his way; he went to school and graduated with a law degree, but his passion spoke more loudly than his future career, a phenomenon that is all too frequent in our day and age. Breaks wants to band people together so that the institutions of education can realize that there is more than one way to teach kids, there isn’t only the one that they currently put into practice.

 

With 2.9 million views, “I Not Let An Exam Result Decide My Fate” is one of Breaks most popular videos. It bans together those who are good at anything and everything except the current “education” system. It bans together the people who couldn’t survive the outdated, overrated, helpless system that has been in place for over fifty years. Breaks does just that. He invigorates a certain passion in people that roots for the little guy, the underdog. Let’s see how much further Breaks’ video takes the forward thinking of our education system.

 

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