The Basement Tapes

mouth was covered in duct tape and my head was throbbing. I wasn’t scared. They haven’t killed me yet so maybe I could leave from this and be okay. I then thought about my grandma. And about how worried she must be. And as I was thinking, I heard the door open and I saw some light come in, along with a man in a ski-mask. I thought it was one of the “bad” men. But it wasn’t. This man bent down and started to untie me from the chair. He let my arms go, and i took the tape off my mouth and asked…

want anybody, according to one aide, ”to feel like they’ve walked into Graceland” when dropping by Paisley Park. He keeps his various awards, including those for his four gold and eight platinum albums, locked in a basement room. But next to it, almost like tablets in a tabernacle, are tapes of an estimated 100 unreleased songs, plus two complete albums — enough to keep Prince in royalties for years, even if he never writes another…

“Haunted Courthouses” By: John G. Browning With the Halloween season approaching, perhaps we should add “courthouse” to the pantheon of traditional scary places. No, not because courthouses can induce bad memories for those who didn’t prevail in their quest for justice. I mean because there are some courthouses that are genuinely scary places – some might even say “haunted.” In a scene straight out of a horror movie, in January 2015 a trial at the Sevier County Courthouse in De Queen,…

Perfection in the World I’ve always wanted a perfect world. Between all the hatred and fighting, kidnapping, and murders, there is chaos all around. I swear world peace is possible behind all this corruption. Voices in my head tell me to fix the problem and be the solution. But that was many years ago. Now, things are very different. CNN headline: Terrorist Attack in France, 9 Killed, not one feeling of remorse. Or little girl raped and murdered, she had it coming. I have absolutely no…

Working on winter break. What a torturous task to go through. While everyone is at home relaxing and spending time with family you’re working nonstop on your feet and watching the clock until you can leave. I sat down with my Dad and interviewed him about his high school experience. He went on and spoke about how he went to football games,6 flags, and work. Growing up in a lower income neighborhood defined him as a person and made him have a positive outlook on life despite the situation he was…

The question, “Who killed JonBenét?” may be as mysterious as, “Was there a person on the grassy knoll?” The murder of JonBenét has spurred at least eight television episodes, mini-documentaries, or special reports - and in September 2016 (during our class), another show which touts new DNA evidence (IMDb, 2016). The more I read, the more confused I became, this was/is a messed up case to say the least. There are so many items to be considered as key elements and critical facts that my…

He was investigating whether the brutality in American prisons was due to the personality of the prison guards (disposition) or if it was due to the prison environment (situational). The experiment was set up like a prison in the basement of the Stanford University Psychology building, he paid people $15 per day to participate in the experiment. The whole experiment was set up as if it was real, the participants were arrested, taken to the prison and went through the procedure as…

November 22, 1963 is a day the United States will never forget, a beloved father, husband and of course the 35th leader of the United States of America, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was assassinated. Lee Harvey Oswald Is the man responsible for this tragic, evil driven loss, or was he? John F. Kennedy was born in Brookline Massachusetts May 29, 1917. Being the 2nd oldest of 9 kids. He was born into one of America's wealthiest families, already destined for a great education and successful life. John…

The guard pulled the tape off of the lock and continued on his rounds. Later that night, the guard returned to the basement and found the lock was taped over again. This time, he didn’t hesitate and phoned the cops. The guard was right to phone the police because while he was making his rounds five men had snuck in and…

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