Master of the Rolls

I was a college dropout. My parents never finished school, I thought school was a waste of time. My dad was successful and he made it looks easy. He always told me to stay in school, that knowledge was power, but I disagreed.Therefore, I decided to earned my Cosmetology license at Paul Mitchell the School Chicago. Furthermore, I worked as a hairstylist in downtown Oak Park, Illinois where I learned about the real world. My mornings were a routine. I’d get up brush my teeth, curl my hair, do my…

Every once in awhile, you get the opportunity to attend something special, emotional and lasting. Last week I attended the 19th Annual Music Master Awards/ Conference/Tribute Concert for The Everly Brothers. I will cherish and remember the conference but especially the concert forever. When I think about it today I have two distinct emotions, joy and a tear. At the conference we saw some very rare footage of The Everly Brothers, film clips from Germany and England not seen by my many until…

the brutality of slavery in the way that 12 Years a Slave did. The story of Patsey and her encounters with a lustful master and jealous mistress represents the horrors female slaves faced. It also shows the trauma mothers endured when they were separated from their children. The film shows the extensive grief that overwhelmed women as their children were sold to different masters. This movie exposed the horrors of…

snot-nosed punks singing about girls, smoking pot and masturbating, the trio of Billie Joe Armstrong (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Mike Dirnt (nee Prichard; bass, backing vocals) and Tré Cool (nee Frank Edwin Wright III; drums, backing vocals) grew into masters of the rock music game. Not only did they make rock history once with 1994s ‘Dookie,’ but they did it again 10 years later with 2004s ‘American Idiot.’ The latter inspired a groundbreaking musical, launching Green Day into a new…

albums were Black Sabbath(1920), Paranoid(1870) and Master of Reality(1971). They were also labeled the “Greatest Metal Band” by MTV and were also placed second in VH1's “100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock”. Rolling Stone magazine even ranked them 85 in their “100 Greatest Artist of All Time” By the end of their career they had sold over 70 million records worldwide. They were also inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006, in addition to these…

Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, is a novel set in October of 1933 during the era of the Great Depression. The story focuses around the Logan family and their experiences as one of the many black families living in Mississippi, which was considered as one of the Confederate states in that time. It was told in Cassie Logan’s point-of-view, who was 9 years old and the only daughter of the family. The Logan Family first finds out about a burning of an African American man by a…

in general and in this sitcom, particularly, has remarkably changed day by day. Women are now controlling their lives, are able to pursue their career without the burden of being a housewife. Also, many modern sitcoms with compelling contents like Master of none such as “Good Girls Revolt,” “Madam Secretary,” “Veep,” etc., also feature the images of powerful, vigorous and passionate women. It notably contributes to breaking down the wall between men and women of representation on…

many disputes and reverse path. Early in life, my parents split up; leaving me with my mother. beginning school, a learning disability forced much struggle within the battle of learning to read, but I persevered through diligence to be an A/B honor roll student throughout grades 1-5. Depression and anxiety paired with severe bullying drastically dropped my attendance and grades as I struggled with the unaccustomed habitat I was forced into. Consequently, I went about a large stint in life with…

However, there is a Dungeon Master or DM, that acts as the storyteller/narrator to describe what situations the group is about to encounter, the result of the group’s decisions, and interpreter/referee of the overall rules of the game. I’ve come to know that DM’s can act as stringently…

Whether it be a struggle through racial discrimination, bullying, or simply being under a foul circumstance, most people have felt persecuted, or singled out at some point in their lifetime by nature. Some may choose to roll over and let their torturers win, allow them to break their spirit and prevent them from achieving what they truly want, but in Invictus by William Earnest Henley, the story of the former is told. The story of a man ravaged by tuberculosis, someone who had already lost one…