Justin Bieber

The year was 1992 the boy band group Boyz to Men, Michael Jackson, and Whitney Houston were all at the top of the Billboard 100 charts, gas cost a little more than just a dollar, and George W. Bush Sr. was the U.S. president. The cell phone was in its infancy stage, weighing a whopping seventy grams and resembling more of a brick than the modern day smart phone. When engineer Neil Papwort of the Sema Group in the UK sent the first text message of “Merry Christmas” to his colleague Richard Jarvis…

Abortion has become the current hot topic in the United States due to its divisiveness. It is such a controversial topic because of the various norms, values, and institutions that society has constructed. The social norm of getting married and raising children has a heavy influence upon the many young girls that visit the abortion clinics. Furthermore, it is scandalous to be a young single parent. One also has to take into account the difficulty of raising a child on one income. Many girls…

for almost nine years there are certain things that are possibilities and some are dreams and this moment in time felt like a dream. But opening my eyelids and realizing this is not a dream and looking at those beautiful brown eyes and seeing Justin Bieber just a few inches from me in an arena full of thousands of people was unreal to me. As I am singing the song with him I can feel my tears going down my face and I can taste their saltiness. hearing the entire crowd still belting out each lyric…

In his book, Angela’s Ashes, Mr. Frank McCourt says, “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.” This quote can easily be a showcase for what has been occurring in the past, recent years. The face of what will make you succeed in life has been rapidly and continuously changing. It has become much more complicated. Since the very concept of higher education has been introduced, it has been common knowledge and assumption that by attending these expensive,…

As I entered the second semester of my second year of middle school I didn 't feel a sense of belonging and I couldn 't understand why. Was it because I am too friendly? Maybe it is because I’m a girl? Was I flat out weird? What was so wrong with me that I couldn 't fit into crowds of people who supposedly had similar interest as me? It wasn 't always isolation and lack of socialization. I was always the talkative girl in class who was surrounded by friends that would find humor in something as…

After an intermission that was probably only ten minutes but felt like an eternity, the lights at the Fillmore Theater in Miami Beach dimmed and the crowd erupted into deafening cheers and whistles as “The Flood Tour” started. The anticipation for the moment everyone in the audience had been waiting for since they bought their ticket is nearly palpable. Finally, the drummer starts, setting the rhythm, followed by the guitarist and bassist until lastly the vocalist starts singing and the fans…

In my opinion, humans have already interfered too much with nature and the consequences have rarely been positive. As a species we should try and minimise the impact we have on the limited remaining wildlife there is and encourage it to thrive in its originally habitat. Although Zoos do have a role to play in the preserving of animal welfare and the education of the general public, in order for their role to remain valuable they must thoroughly consider the rights and satisfaction of the animals…

U Street Music Hall, a DJ-owned concert venue in Washington D.C., recently celebrated their six year anniversary on March 11, 2016. The venue had DJ Jim E-Stack as the opening act, and featured XXYYXX as the main attraction. XXYYXX is a twenty-year old black electronic dance music artist who challenges stereotypes and uses his racial, age, and gender identity to creatively produce music without the boundaries of modern convention. XXYYXX, otherwise known as Marcel Everett, considers his genre…

Channel Orange One of the artists that has inspired me to produce my own music is Frank Ocean with his second album, Channel Orange. The first time that I ever listened to the album back in 2012, I remember thinking, “Holy shi*t…I have never heard anything like this before in my life.” Telling a song-by-song story, his poetic lyrics about his personal sexuality, strip clubs, pregnancy, wealth, drugs, and corruption show Frank’s slightly strange perception of it all. That is one thing that…

Jazz will always be known as the music of the roaring twenties. Along with those years of great economic prosperity, jazz shined through as a gateway to celebration. With parties being thrown and many people learning about jazz, the genre of music was evolved into many forms of jazz. Additionally, jazz really gave a name to those like Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and Ella Fitzgerald. Among these names came Benny Goodman who was a prime leader in jazz. Benny Goodman performed with many famous…