Shawty Lo is an award winning, street rapper known for his counts of hit singles, albums and mixtapes. Rapper Shawty Lo was born Carlos Walker on March 26th, 1976 in Atlanta Georgia. Shawty Lo has been creating music since he was a child, and is considered among today's most talented rappers. He grew up in Bowen Homes projects, one of Atlanta’s poorest neighborhoods. His mother battled with a drug addiction leaving him to be raised by his grandmother.…
Today, I will be talking about the functions of the Terra Cotta Army of Qin Shihuangdi. The Terra Cotta Army was a part of the immense burial tomb constructed for Emperor Qin Shi Huang. It is one of the largest burial complex ever built for a leader in the world. There are over 8,000 life size statues of soldiers buried along with the emperor. Each soldier in the Terra Cotta Army has distinct facial features.…
REXBURG- Brigham Young University-Idaho threatened with shooting after a BYU-Idaho student posted on a popular social media app threatening to “shoot up the school” only to be quickly taken into custody by the Rexburg Police Department. Oct. 26 at about noon, BYU-Idaho was nearly put into danger after 19-year-old Joshua David Tanner posted on the social media app Yik Yak about potentially shooting the school. “I’m going to shoot up BYUI Monday,” Tanner said in his post. When Yik Yak users create an account, they agree to specific rules which include not using the app to bully or target others, and that if a user is to come across any type of post that is threatening or offensive to others, they should down vote the post, or report it.…
Dogs are man’s best friend. They are shining stars! They’re small they’re cute! It’s a Chihuahua! They might be the smallest dogs in world but they’re charming.…
Every leader is given a chance to change things. A leader of a huge empire is given a chance to revolutionize both their territory and the world. This brings up the question of who took the greatest advantage of this. Who affected their land, their people, and the world the most? Who do we need to learn about in textbooks today?…
Since Ai Weiwei’s birth in 1957, his complete life story has sculpted him into the profound artist and social activist that he is today. After his father, a well known poet, was exiled during the anti-rightist campaign, Ai spent his first years in a labor camp. The circumstances of his childhood instilled a voice inside of Ai that would later invigorate his art. Ai explains the conditions of his children as having “no personal rights, no freedom of speech or expression” (Weiwei, 2008). Ai came to the conclusion that these conditions made it impossible for individuals to develop a self-conscious and awareness of esthetic values.…
During his time going to school in France Pot got involved and joined communist circles. In 1953 he ended up losing his scholarship in Paris and decided to go back home to Cambodia intending on building and starting a revolution there. When he was being schooled in Paris he enjoyed the ways of the groups of communist parties that he was par taking in. When he went back to Cambodia to start a revolution he started out small. In 1962, he became his party’s secretary general.…
Chloe Kim is an Korean American snowboarder, born in Long Beach, California in April 23, 2000. Her parents are originally from South Korea. Kim’s father quit his job to drive her to the mountains and also to be able to travel with her when she competes. He started her on a snowboard at 4 years old at the southern California resort of Mountain High and started competing at age 6 as a member of Team Mountain High. She trained in Valais, Switzerland, from 8 to 10 years old before returning to California and training at Mammoth Mountain.…
A young American’s worst nightmare has come true for Xiyue Wang. Imagine going to a foreign country to conduct research for your degree program in college and being arrested and detained in that foreign country on spying charges. Although he was born in China, he became a United States citizen and was a graduate student in history at Princeton University. To make matters worse, at first he was identified as being Iranian-American, to then finally be recognized as an American citizen. Wang is in custody awaiting trial now, his charge being “gathering information”.…
Research Paper on What is a Huipil? For many holidays in my family, we wear the certain garment to represent our traditions and where we come from. With that comes a type of clothing we were for the get together with a garment called a huipil. This garment is something we wear at least once a year for a family party.…
Maya Lin is an American designer, artist, and architect, most known for her historic memorials. One of her goals in design is to focus on elements and demonstrate naturally occurring phenomena’s in nature which can even be seen right here in Grand Rapids at Rosa Park Circle. Using water as her inspiration for the park, she demonstrates each form that it takes right here in Michigan. Her designs have an incredible ability to encourage people to gather together in open spaces while teaching them through art. Her very first design brings people from all over the world to mourn and celebrate the lives lost in the Vietnam War.…
Chloe Kim became an increasingly eminent name in the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. The California native started snowboarding at the age of 4, and became the prevailing female half-pipe champion in the world. Kim won her first medal in the X games at the age of 13, and has since earned 3 consecutive gold medals in the 2015-2016 games. This made her the only athlete in the history of the X Games to hold three gold medals before the age of 16.…
Tamoxifen History: In 1966, the Imperial Chemical Industries Pharmaceuticals (ICI) assigned scientists to find a new emergency contraceptive. The drug they created was called ICI46, 474 and was not effective in its early stages. Despite this letdown, the ability was seen, by a member from the team of scientists, that it could be used to treat Breast Cancer. In the period up to clinical trial testing in 1970, ICI46, 474 was renamed Tamoxifen.…
In the beginning of time there was nothing anywhere. No trees, water, or life. Except Maheo, who lived in the abandoned-like universe. Maheo was a very powerful being who could do just about anything. Maheo decided he should put his tremendous capabilities to use.…
The murder of Hae Min Lee has always been a very mysterious case that leads to millions of dead ends. There is few evidence of anyone doing it, but Adnan Syed was ultimately convicted for the murder of Hae Min Lee. Adnan Syed was the ex-boyfriend of Hae and some say he wanted revenge by killing her with his bare hands, but Adnan can’t defend himself because he has no recollection of that day. They are all wrong, because Adnan Syed is innocent. First of all, Adnan does not have a good motive for killing Hae.…