2006 in music

Bad Luck at Funspot By: Jenny Phung The music stopped, I hear someone announce a game loudly through the microphone as the lights turned on, “Everybody get lined up for some limbo!” Dj Mark announced as I glanced over, at first I didn’t care about limbo, mainly because I've always hated the games at fun spot, like this one time when we played stupid foursquare, but then I saw Matt with Frank’s skate a few moments after when I was thinking to myself about how stupid and unfair I found the games, but then, I thought again for a couple minutes before hesitating myself, wouldn’t limbo be more fun on a 5 wheeler skate? I skated over to Frank and asked for his skate, as he handed me his black oddly shaped skate, I saw that limbo was 5 minutes in already and there’s already a short line. I hurried over to the light reflecting floor that the workers just waxed.…

Everybody has hardships, whether it be physical or emotional. But everyone does not have the courage or strength to push through troubled times, and many people fall short. In the stories “Up the Slide” by Jack London and “Glow in the Dark” by Gary Paulsen, the main characters go through an ordeal, and manage to persevere. While Clay, the main character of “Up the Slide”, faces a physical hardship, the narrator of “Glow in the Dark” faces an emotional ordeal. The themes of the texts are similar…

Abbie Robinson passed away on August 31, 2017. She was born on June 5, 2003 in Des Moines, Iowa and lived with her mom, dad, and two brothers. She died doing what she has always dreamed of doing, skydiving. When Abbie was just a child, she had always wanted to skydive. She traveled to Kauai, Hawaii on a family vacation to complete this dream of hers. Sadly, the parachute didn’t open and she landed breaking almost every bone in her body. When Robinson was a child, she lived in Denver, Colorado…

concerns over guns as some people in America do like what if a gun would to be obtained illegally. However. Something interesting to note is that the U also has one of the lowest rates of death by guns in the world. This contradicts some arguments by people against gun control as the believe countries with less gun control end up having less violence involving guns. Fisher, Max. "A Land Without Guns: How Japan Has Virtually Eliminated Shooting Deaths." The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company, 23…

Persuasive Speech Analysis - Hillary Clinton Speech in Beijing (1995) On September 5th, 1995, Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered the famous line, " human rights are women 's rights and women rights are human rights once for all" (Clinton) during the U.N conferences set in Beijing, China. During her time as the first lady, Hillary Clinton gave this speech on Women Rights as it was leading concern to her. Furthermore, the historical significance, delivery, organization, and persuasive…

Ethel Waters was an american singer and actress born on October 31, 1896 due to her mother being raped at the age of 13. She died on September 1, 1977 due of a kidney failure. She frequently played Jazz, Pop, and Big Band music on the Broadway stage and in concerts. Although she began her career in the 1920s Singing The Blues she didn’t blow up until years later. Waters grew up in poverty and married at the age of 12, while she was still attending school. At 13 she became a chambermaid in a…

that there is a connection between corruption and organized crime. He shines the light on the connection between corruption and crime when he states, “To reiterate, the prevailing patterns of corruption associated with drug trafficking and organized crime not only facilitate the illicit businesses of these organizations, but also effectively handicap official state efforts to control or contain them” (Morris 34). This shines the light that Mexico is a weak state because it is unable to stop…

Hillary Rodham Clinton is the Democratic Candidate running for the position of the President of the United States. The former first lady born on October 26, 1947 in Chicago Illinois, has always been an active advocate of the party. As a young woman she campaigned for the then Republican candidate nominee Barry Goldwater in 1964 and after listening to a powerful speech by Reverend Martin Luther Ling Jr she entered into public service and became a Democrat in 1968. Hilary graduated from Yale…

Steroids should be illegal in professional sports. Steroids should be illegal because they provide an unfair advantage, tarnish a role model’s record, and lead to serious and even unknown health risks. Steroids are, “any of a group of usually synthetic hormones that are derivatives of testosterone, are used medically especially to promote tissue growth, and are sometimes abused by athletes to increase the size and strength of their muscles and improve endurance (Merriam-webster).” Steroids…

A half decade after the conclusion of the National Literacy Crusade, Deborah Brandt composed an analysis on the history of Sandinista education entitled, “Popular Education” in Nicaragua: The First Five Years (1985, edited by Thomas W. Walker). Brandt argued the symbiotic relationship between the militia members of the Sandinista National Liberation Front or the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) and the historically disenfranchised rural peasants through popular education…