Joseph Simmons

Legendary hip hop group De La Soul performed at Carmelo Anthony's FAST A/W15 showcase. The showcase was launched in an effort to merge fashion, sports, and technology. The event was presented in MADE Fashion Week's venue in New York, in order to infuse the world of fashion with sports, technology, and business. "Through our relationship with Accenture, MADE Fashion Week continues to explore the frontier of technology and fashion," Jenne Lombardo, co-founder of MADE Fashion Week, said in a statement. Lombardo continued, "This season, we're honored to collaborate with Carmelo Anthony, today's digital athlete, on this unprecedented experiential look into the cross-section of fashion, sports, and technology." The NBA All-Star is the co-founder of Melo7 Tech Partners, which invests in technological advancements in sports and media. "I'm very excited and honored to present this initiative in collaboration with MADE, Accenture, KATALYST LIVE, and Intel," Anthony said in a statement. He added, "We hope to start a dialogue between fashion, sports, and technology through leaders that help guide and nurture future innovation." Fast A/W15 featured fashion-forward athletic gear and sports-inspired devices. Hip hop recording artists Talib Kweli and Nas were on the list as special-invited celebrity guests. It seems fitting that De La Soul would be at an event that promotes innovation and progression. De La Soul are well-known advocates of progressive music. The hip hop trio have…

Six year olds. Teenagers. Adults. Seniors. All of these age groups would come watch Kiss perform. After the show everyone would tell Kiss how much fun they had. Kiss went through all of these troubles and still ended up becoming one of the biggest bands ever. Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley formed Kiss who as a group, created a legacy because of their costumes and behaviour. They had a hard time finding other members, an amazing legacy, and a member going away. The band Kiss was all in separate…

carefree online environment is, unfortunately, leading students to an unconcerned style of writing. For instance, students are forgetting about punctuation rules, capitalization, and even spelling. In accordance with the author, it has been noticed that those teens are having a hard time while switching from a colloquial context to Standard English. I personally understand that this can happen; being that young, students are likely to adapt themselves with the ambiance they are. Nevertheless, I…

Russell Simmons coming from a black community and have been exposed to ganger and drug dealing. Who would have expected that he will be a successful innovator like Ted Turner, who was brought up from a wealthy and educated family, to become a Broadway producer. Simmons does not have an invention mindset to begin with, but he was from an entrepreneurship and with his ability to create opportunity that leads him to innovate on hip hop. Simmons idea was able to bring a change to the racism and…

Simmons. The case of Roper v. Simmons began in 1993, when a minor named Christopher Simmons, who purposed to commit burglary and murder by breaking and entering. Christopher entered the home of a female victim named Shirley Cook. Christopher robbed and murdered the female victim. Christopher was imprisoned by the state of Missouri after he was found guilty of armed robbery and murder in 1993. He was sentenced to death in 1993, when he was only 17. Christopher challenged his remaining death…

In one of the biggest landmark cases of American history, Roper v. Simmons was a case that upended the death penalty for minors, three years after the unfortunate death of Napoleon Beazley. This was monumental for both the American justice system and the general public, because it showed that public sentiment toward the death penalty had shifted massively enough in order to cause change in the legal system. With newly found revelations that the American public was now not okay with the execution…

Children who were accused of terrible crimes, for instance murder, were tried as adults in the 1907s. Until recently in 2005, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Roper v. Simmons that the death penalty cannot be applied to individuals who were under the age of 18 at the time that the crime was committed (Adelman, 2005). The mentally ill and insane are also exempt from the death penalty. In the Ford v. Wainwright case of 1986, the Supreme Court banned the execution of insane persons.…

without parole is a controversial sentencing, before lastly ending on where we stand now with LWOP and what can be done to make it better. Literature Review When regarding life without parole, it’s essential to examine the history of it and how life without parole became so controversial. Currently, the United States is the only country that sentences juveniles to life without parole (Rovner, 2016). This causes severe skepticism from other countries around the world. Within the last twenty…

There is no doubt that the two separate cases of Roper v. Simmons and Thompson v. Oklahoma the act of murder was committed by minors who were tried, convicted, and deserving of a fitting punishment. However, in this analogy between the primary and secondary analogue, the argument of Roper v. Simmons is if a minor under the age of 18 should be sentenced to Capital Punishment, and if doing so is a direct violation of the Eighth Amendment citing cruel and unusual punishment (Roper v. Simmons,…

(Foley, 2004). In Roper v Simmons (2005), the Supreme Court consented that consigning a minor to a death penalty is unconstitutional…