Sean Astin

Due to the fact that Italy didn’t have anywhere to keep the mentally ill, in 1922, the island was transformed into a mental asylum. The highly disturbed could be kept isolated from the mainland. The hospital was large and had a very impressive bell tower. Right when the asylum opened patients immediately began reporting sightings of the ghosts of the plague victims. Patients would be kept up at night because they were able to hear the tortured cries of the suffering spirits. These complaints…

During a time in which gang activity and hip-hop music were at their peak, one hip-hop artist stood out amongst the crowd. Christopher Wallace, otherwise known as his stage names, Biggie Smalls & Notorious B.I.G., was one of hip-hop’s elite performers during the 1990s. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Christopher George Latore Wallace grew up surrounded by drugs, violence, and rap music. These influences helped inspire Smalls to record hit songs that would appeal to a vast majority of the hip-hop…

Lately, my crew and I have had a very crazy journey. We have done a lot of traveling lately and it has been very frustrating because my crew has not been listening to my commands of what I tell them to do. My crew and I started out our journey my sailing all the way from the land of the Cyclops to the land of Aeolus. I got the chance to meet Aeolus and he is the God of the Wind. I was also very fortunate to receive a tremendously nice gift from the God Aeolus. This gift made me very happy…

Christopher Wallace known as “Notorious B.I.G or even Biggie Smalls” by his many adoring fan. Biggie Smalls passed away on March 9th, 1997 after being shot multiple times. His death is still unsolved, and numerous of people do not understand how. Before he was shot he was leaving a music party event. He was riding in the passenger seat of a Chevrolet Suburban when another car pulled next to them and they had opened fire on the car. According to the autopsy report Biggie was shot a multiple of…

Hey, have you ever wondered about biggie smalls before fame? Or how about his only two studio albums? I will tell you some information you may or may not have known. Biggie Smalls, “The King of New York”, has done many thing in his 24 years of living. In the first paragraph I talked about his early life. Second and third paragraph, i’m talking about his first and second album. Biggie Smalls was born as Christopher Wallace on May 21st, 1972. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York as an only child…

This essay will be mainly based off the scientific aspect of the murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls. Before I start talking about the muders, I am going to talk about scientific aspects of crimes. For different types of crimes such as: murders, drug deals, accidents, etc., science plays a very important role in all crimes. For crimes such as murder, science is the main thing they have to use to figure out what really happened. This type of science is called forensic science, and this is…

The Blindside is a film that deals with the life of Michael Oher as he grew up in a rough neighborhood and got adopted by a more affluent family. Michael goes throw many emotional turmoil and has a hard time fitting in at school and at home as his life with his new family is nothing he has ever encountered. The film shows the progression of Michael Oher throughout his senior year as he becomes one of the more attractive football prospects in the country and opens doors for him to have a future.…

In the world that we live in today, people are always looking to improve their appearance. They use methods such as makeup, plastic surgery, Photoshop, exercise, etc. Certain businesses take advantage of people’s insecurities by trying to look a certain way and make a profit off of it. For example, Muscle Milk, a protein based company, advertises supplements in order to achieve that goal, suddenly making achievable goals possible. Muscle Milk advertisements look to attract mostly the male…

dropped out of school by the time he was 17 years old and began to live his life on the street, selling crack. After serving time in jail for selling drugs, Biggie made some demo recordings on a tape, which eventually reached Uptown Records producer Sean Combs. Combs signed Smalls immediately and they started making music together for Combs’s label Bad Boy Records. In 1994, Biggie came out with his first album titled Ready to Die. The album was incredibly successful and sold over four million…

insight into the human condition that in turn helps us to interpret concepts like isolation in our world. Isolation seemingly defines the character’s lives in the poems 'The Tuft of Flowers' and ‘Home Burial’ from Robert Frost’s ‘The Collected Poems’ and Sean Penn's film 'Into the Wild'. More importantly, it is through the way they overcome their isolation or lack, thereof, that we discover the importance of human relationships in our world. 

Robert Frost’s poem ‘The Tuft of Flowers’ opens with…