A Song of Ice and Fire

The civil rights activist Maya Angelou once said, “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” Often times, people listen to that song without further knowledge on what it may truly mean and fail to take the time to investigate the credibility of that bird. Along with this, us humans sometimes act as parrots, simply imitating any idiotic utterance that is conceived. In the speculative fiction book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the episode “The Monsters…

feeling, which relates to both the supernatural aspects of the play and Macbeth’s mental state. The music in the title screen is called "Lonesome Road". I used this song as it is accurate in reflecting Macbeth. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth decided to place themselves on a lonesome road by murdering Duncan and seizing power. The song itself is deep and invokes the feeling of an epic adventure,…

Which 1980s New Romantic pop group released a song entitled, "Fade to Grey"? Having started out hosting club nights at Billy's nightclub in Soho, founding members Steve Strange and Rusty Egan wanted to tap into the growing New Wave culture of syntho-pop, forming Visage in the late 1970s. Recruiting amongst others, Midge Ure and Billy Curry - whom also performed with Ultravox - the band's first single was a cover of Zager and Evans "In the Year 2525". This record though proved to be a…

soft skills and hard skills. It was not a contest in which one set of skills had to win, and another had to lose, but rather a contest to maintain both skillsets in a healthy balance with each other. Two authors, JRR Martin, the author of A Song of Ice and Fire, and Aristotle, provide insight into the personal challenge that I faced during…

chronicles the life of fictional Caine Lawson, a son of drug dealers trying to escape the dangers of a Watts project neighborhood. F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton, released in 2015, follows the formation of N.W.A. and the biographies of Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and Dr. Dre. Although both directors employ vernacular…

the overall price of her inaugural wardrobe was said to have cost $25,000. She had expensive, but lovely taste. Her favorite color was also the color red, calling it "a picker-upper", and wore it accordingly. She wore read so often that the common fire-engine shade became known as "Reagan red". Nancy also employed two private hairdressers who styled her hair on a daily basis in the White House, even if there were no public events that day. Fashion designers were pleased with the emphasis Nancy…

If you live in America you have probably seen the famous Budweiser Clydesdale commercials come across the TV screen once or twice. The beautiful horses’ trotting around with their white hoofs perfectly composed just makes you want to have an ice-cold Budweiser beer. On the other hand, Bud Light’s new slogan “The perfect beer for whatever happens” tries to portray a party like lifestyle for anyone who’s wiling to give it a try. In fact, the largest brewing company in the United States, Anheuser-…

because I knew that I was going to meet up with some of my best friends and go to S’s house to relax. I snatch my sweater out of Courtney’s locker because I don’t have one of my own, and I practically skip down the halls like a joyous schoolgirl getting ice cream. I finally get outside, and there they are. My 3 best friends, standing in the lawn in front of school, awaiting my arrival. I go over, and the moment I get there, we head off to go to S’s house. It’s a long walk, and none of us know…

a campfire every night where all the girl scout troops would get together and share how they were feeling and how they were liking camp and then we’d sing songs around the fire sign off with the creed and then go to bed. It was fun just arrived roasting hot dogs and marshmallow like you see on tv singing camptown races and all those campy songs. Camp was really very fun other than the many many mosquito bites i suffered and how i sleep in a large echoey room with 60 plus girls half of which…

voice echoed through the caverns. Silence covered the whole crowd of canines. A few yipped and wagged their tails. Joen smiled and took a deep breath in, a proud howl bloomed from his voice. Tens, hundreds, thousands of wolves joined to create a song. The pack of black wolves heard and howled. The valley was filled with the wolf…