Joe "King" Oliver

What’s In A Name? The 2001 film Spirted Away is an animated feature by the well-known Studio Ghibli, about a young girl named Chihiro. Through a series of strange circumstances she can not find her parents and is forced into servitude at a bathhouse for yokai, or monsters and spirits from Japanese folklore. Despite it being geared towards a younger audience as a coming of age story, this movie holds a surprising amount of symbolism and thought-provoking questions. The power of words, so to…

Lydia Jackson Professor April Shoemaker English 101 September 20,2016 The Right to Sleep Living in one of the biggest populated countries in the world can be challenging. There has to be a large amount of hard working women and men to fulfil the needs that come with such large population. Many men and women commit themselves to work long hours to be able to help the sick, solve criminal cases, or just being the average family member working hard to help their family. These men and women work…

bootlegging and gambling operations (“Luciano, n.d.). As Lucania was becoming more popular, he was recruited as a gunman by crime boss, Joe Masseria. The recruitment to Joe Masseria’s gang, resulted in jealousy from another crime boss competing for Lucania’s attention, Salvatore Maranzano. There was no letup of the pressure from both Salvatore Maranzano and Joe “the Boss” Masseria for Lucania to make a decision and join one or the other (Gosch, 1975). Charles was sure that sooner or later, more…

BIG PUN: THE MOST INFLUENTIAL LATINO RAPPER Based on his achievements, I believe that Christopher Lee Rios, a.k.a. Big Pun, was the most influential Latino Rapper of all time. Rios deserves this title because he was the first Latin-American Rapper to: (1) Become a hip hop star, (2) Achieve platinum status, and (3) Be nominated for a Grammy Award. Due to his contributions he implemented in the hip hop industry, he was able to make Latino rap mainstream. This is significant because it has been…

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is an advanced form of the Japanese martial art of the same name. It has been modified by the famous Gracie Family of Brazil to become "arguably the most effective martial art in the world." With the arrival of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu on the martial arts scene, it has forever changed the way fighters train. Without learning the proper ways to defend and execute techniques from the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu arsenal it is difficult to survive against a good Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Fighter.…

On a late Thursday afternoon, I thought it would be have been a nice day to go library and get some books. Being a geeky teenage girl, I love to read anything from a mystery to a good thriller. My day started off great! A big bowl of Frosted Flakes, a bright early morning and a little bit of television. Nothing could go wrong… or could it? “Oh crap, where’s my library card”.I yelled in frustration. I began to search through all my pockets and in between my father’s car seats.After fifteen…

Thankfully in our country the justice system and its processes for juveniles does often differ than that of adults. Every year there are almost 1.7 million teens that go through the justice system (Regoli, R., Hewitt, J., & Delisi, M., 2014). There are certain differences between what they experience in the justice system and that of their older counterparts. A difference in the systems for you and adult is that for the youth there is an absence of legal guilt and an attempt at a…

emotions would be so built up at times, and she wouldn’t know what to do, but use cutting as an immediate release of her stress. This technique stuck with Lovato throughout her teen days, and while on tour in 2010 with the Jonas Brothers, including her ex Joe Jonas, Demi switched back to eating as her coping mechanism. Demi said,” I was literally so emotionally whacked out that I took it out of someone who really meant a lot to me." During her Camp, Rock 2 Tour, Lovato due to her mental illness…

Team Alpha Male team as well as becoming an scout as well. At the age of 37 Urijah Faber has really came along way in his professional fighting career. The California Kid began his professional MMA career in 2003 where fought for promotions like King of the Cage and Gladiator Challenge. Within three fights of his professional career Faber would already win his first championship, the KOTC featherweight championship, but his success would not stop there. In March of 2006 Urijah Faber was…

Most might see her amazing looks and good acting as the biggest part of Marilyn Monroe, but as you look deeper you might see a very troubled girl who could kill herself by overdose. She had a lot of other stuff going on other than just looking good and acting pretty and dumb, she had some very bad troubles that could have eventually led to a tragic death for everyone. Marilyn Monroe was a very iconic and some could say important person to society that led a young difficult life, had a famed…