Paul Laurence Dunbar

In 1994, a genocide happened in Rwanda between two population, Hutu and Tutsi. The Hutus started killing over one million Tutsis within three month due to the limited resources and food. This conflict was very similar to the World War II, and was the biggest genocide after World War II. Most Hutus were being punished with lifetime in prison, community service, fine and other special reparations are possible. The kild under the age 14 were sent to training camps. Teens at the age of 14-18…

Today, the world has shifted into seeing a prize as a gift that is given instead of earned. They have formed a bad habit of not seeing a point in trying or being motivated without a something to award them with afterwards. Participation trophies are crutches that have begun to take over the minds of those competing. Trophies are made to have a meaning. It is stated that, “Participation awards are place holders in life. They are records of accomplishment” (Priceman). At a young age, many kids…

An overnight sensation, the Beatles! Everyone wants to be an overnight sensation. We want to be unique and for others to recognize this special quality about us. However, the Beatles was a group that was anything but an overnight sensation. Even when replacing the misnomer with “million night misnomer” couldn’t do justice to the inert energy that is underlying this rock band sensation. I view UIC as a larger version of the Beatles. My passion towards the Beatles has left me only with a pile of…

The Beatles—Misunderstood During the interactive periods of the Beatles and their fans, the relationship had progressed, in the words of Devin McKinney, “the honeymoon was over. The marriage had begun” (71). With the Beatlemania period equivalent to the honeymoon stage and the after period the marriage. When performing for their fans, they were once showered with screams of adoring, crazed fans who would be gratified enough to just be in the audience. For the duration of these periods, the…

On November 26, I went and visited an extraordinary places, and that place is called the Grammy Museum. It consists of many things some being exhibits about Michael Jackson, the Ramones and the birth of punk. There was even an exhibit dedicated to the Kingston Trio. All of these exhibits were extremely decorated with a lot of memorabilia. At first I honestly thought that this trip was going to be a bust, but in reality it wasn’t. It was actually very entertaining and fun because it contains lots…

Brian Johnson was born in October of 1947. He is an English singer and songwriter who does lead vocals for the worldwide sensation AC/DC. The band has been inducted into the Hall of Fame and is one of the hugest successes the world of music has ever seen. Here are some facts about the front man. Number Fifteen: Choosing to Continue AC/DC When Bon Scott, the original vocalist, died, the remaining band members considered calling it quits. Realizing that Bon likely would have wanted them to…

he somehow know that he could not make it alone?” That he needed more people to share the dream with. John met Paul McCartney in 1957 at a church function, where Paul impressed John by playing Eddie Cochran’s Twenty Flight Rock. John asked Paul to join the band, which at the time was not called The Beatles but The Quarrymen. Then Paul met George Harrison at an acclaimed grammar school. Paul was impressed with George’s talents and invited him to see the band. At first, John was reluctant to let…

The artist of the Garden of Earthly Delights was created by a flemish painter named Hieronymus Bosch. Bosch was born in the 1450s and burried in on August 9th 1516. His cause of death was unclear but he could have cought pleurisy. He's father and grandfather were also successful painters and besides that there is not much known about his early years except his family owned an art studio in ‘s-Hertogenbosch where he learned the skills of an artis. In his thirties Hieronymus Bosch married Aleid…

Over the years, the struggle of becoming a popular artist in the music industry has gotten more and more competitive. Artists would struggle to find something that made them stand out from the rest, and eventually give up on trying to be illustrious, conforming to the basic chord structures and rhythms of every other popular tune. However, for twenty seven years, the expressionistic band Radiohead has constantly risen above the musical standards, ignoring everything about classical music theory…

The following photo is artwork that depicted the Battle of Jemappes: a battle between French and Austrian troops that took place near Jemappes, Belgium on November 6, 1792 (Rickard). Henry Scheffer, a Dutch/French painter made a rendition of Horace Vernet’s depiction of this event, which was originally created in 1821. Taking a deeper look into the French Revolution and it’s contributing factors, we can see how this battle, like many others, showed the true passion of war and why exactly this…