What Is Hip-Hop? A Music, History, Art, and Culture Lesson This lesson, re-posted on Education World with permission from Seattle radio station KEXP, was created by Tiffany Producer-KEXP Documentaries. The entire series of lesson plans appears here. Also see on EducationWorld: Hip-Hop Lesson: DJs and Turntablism
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Watch out when a situation becomes volatile â it is likely to change for the worse suddenly. If you and your best friend have a volatile relationship, you frequently fight and make up. Volatile from Latin volatilis fleeting, transitory always gives the sense of sudden, radical change. Think of it as the opposite of stable. A person who is volatile loses his or her temper suddenly and violently. A volatile political situation could erupt into civil war. When the stock market is volatile, it fluctuates greatly. And in scientific language, a volatile oil evaporates quickly.