Melba Pattillo was a normal girl that just waned to be friends with everyone. When she was of age Melba was given the chance to go to Little Rock Central High. As in her book Warriors Don't Cry. On her first day she was heavily bullied people calling her names and her being it and teased about. A thing that made Melba strong was her belief in god.…
Gitta Sereny’s book, Into that Darkness, explores the life of a man known as Franz Stangl. Stangl was a head Nazi official who ran two death camps, Sobibor and Treblinka, in Austria throughout the Holocaust. After the war was over, Stangl was able to evade the law for nearly 20 years. He went into hiding in Syria until his family, wife and daughters, were able to move to him. They eventually fled Europe and the middle east by taking a transport ship to South America.…
Why? I believe we all have it within ourselves to become a hero, but I also think they life is extremely busy and that slows down or prevents us from finding our inner…
Singer/songwriter/harpist Joana Newsom has just announced that a video for her song "Divers" will be premiering in the coming weeks, but it will be released in a rather unorthodox platform. The title track for her upcoming album (to be released October 23 through Drag City), Divers will be giving an exclusively theatrical release in America from October 16-22, and also in the UK on October 27th. It will primarily screen at theaters renowned for showing independent and art house films, such as the IFC Center in New York City. The video is directed by American filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood), who featured Newsom heavily in his last film, Inherent Vice.…
There comes a time in life when a new human being is being born. It does not matter where he or she is being born, all what matters is that there is a new living creature in the world. On July 22nd, 1997, a new girl was born to Mr. Richard Kusi Appiah and Mrs. Kate Andoh Wilson in a very small town called Santasi located in the heart of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana in West Africa. Mr. Kusi Appiah was a college student at that time while Mrs. Wilson was a food seller in Santasi. Life was not very easy for Mrs. Wilson as she had to raise her daughter as a single parent because Mr. Kusi Appiah had moved to the United States of America.…
Be brave, do what you believe in. Being brave and courageous doesn't just come to you. In order to be brave and courageous you have to take chances, you have to look fear in the eyes and build on it. You might be scared at first too but you must take your chance and become better.…
This song was one of the most powerful songs I’d ever heard. The lyrics told the stories of several people who struggled with mental illnesses. I watched the video several times and became more emotional each time. As…
When most humans face a challenge or adversity they quit, they give because that is the easy route. That is why heroes are not common among people they are usually not known as heroes till they have died. Today's culture is known as when things get rough it is time to run or leave it alone. I look at life that if I do not have any issues or challenges in front of me. I know that the storm is coming it is my job to overcome…
My tragic hero is Whitney Houston. Whitney Houston was born in a middle income neighborhood. Her mother was a gospel singer and her aunts was well known in the R&B music industry. When she was nine years old her mother and aunt took her to a recording studio and then at age 11 and she started singing in different churches. In 1985 Whitney released her first debut album.…
The story I picked is “what you pawn, I will redeem” by Sherman Alexie. I feel like this story related to me and past circumstances that have happened in my life. The story helps me to remember the general choices that I had to make in life. The hard choices that confronted me when growing up. The story brings two distinct ways, the adult way that surfaces with obligation and development and the youthful side that showcases the different adventures the main character has.…
The lyrics above are from the song, “Candles in the Sun” by Miguel. These lyrics are describing how we were all raised to believe we were all created equal (this can also be found in the Bible in Galatians 3:28). The next verse of the song, however, is contradicting because it talks about how we do not treat each other with the notion that all men are created equal. This is a huge social problem in America’s culture and has been for many centuries. From the time of Rosa Parks when she sat in the “white only” section of a city bus, to today concerning the conflicts of unarmed black victims being shot by police officers, color separation is still prominent.…
Have you ever felt lost and lonely with music being the only thing to find you? Well, that’s what happens in The Song Will Save Your Life, an inspirational story from Leila Sales. Follow, Elise Dembowski, as she stumbles into the world of underground music and her life changes forever. Read on and enter the music scene, then listen to the playlist that will lift everyone’s spirit.…
Christian singer Cee Lo Green has released a new song titled “God is a Woman” this week on SoundCloud. The controversial Christian singer’s new song was released on Tuesday to join the celebration of International Women’s Day. In “God is a Woman,” Cee Lo Green describes God as the “mother” of heavenly bodies and land forms, The Christian Post reports. “Manifesto of thought and intention, master of plan, light in every direction encouraged by affection, mother of the moon and stars, matter, and mountainous plains, and even prouder mother of man, a song of praise to echo forevermore, and always,” the description for the song says.…
Gender issues and separations have been a major disadvantage to women all over the world from years past and even some today. Women were not and or still not treated equally to men and we discriminated against them just because of being a different sex. In America, women were not even allowed to vote until 1918. Even slaves were treated equally much sooner before women were. Luckily, today in the United States, women are allowed to vote and are able to have the same rights as men, but there are theories of men getting paid more than women because of being a different gender.…
Fight Song Life is filled with problems, and we overcome all of it. “Fight Song” by Rachel Platten was released in 2014. This song led our society to notice her. It reached No. 7 on the billboard in August (Lindner par.4) and have 230 million views as of yesterday.…