Big Joe Turner

Many debates, court cases, and articles have been produced the past couple of years debating whether college student-athletes should be paid. I specifically chose this topic because it pertains to me, and I can relate to both sides of the argument. Being a student-athlete at St. Lawrence University, I can attest to how much time athletes put into their sport and all the hard-work put in on a daily basis. On one hand, I see how the student-athlete deems him/herself as a full-time athlete and spend

It was created by Peg Leg Joe who was a conductor of the Underground Railroad to help slaves get to freedom. During this time, many slaves were trying to escape and this song helped them do that. This song could save your life because it told you where to go because many slaves

I Am Sam is the compelling story of Sam Dawson (Sean Penn), a mentally-challenged father raising his daughter Lucy (Dakota Fanning) with the help of an extraordinary group of friends. As Lucy turns seven and begins to intellectually surpass her father, their close bond is threatened when their situation comes under the scrutiny of a social worker who wants Lucy placed in foster care. Faced with a seemingly unwinnable case, Sam vows to fight the legal system and forms an unlikely alliance with

He is an up and coming black man with big dreams and a lust for power and though he isn’t all of what Janie wants for herself, he is a step up from Logan. “Janie pulled back a long time because he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke of far horizon.” Eventually

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Dollar Band and the cheerleaders (along with Big Al) get Crimson Tide fans ready to cheer on the football team as they beat whichever team has traveled to Tuscaloosa today. The football team here is the most infamous of all the sports programs at the university, but certainly not the only successful one. A sharp whistle cuts through the air and my eyes snap to my drum major just in time to see her call “Yea Alabama!”. I throw up my sousaphone, and a few

brown hair into blonde, she started to call herself ‘Marilyn Monroe’ to prepare her acting career. By 1946, Monroe had a successful career as a model. Later in the interview, she told that she dreamt of becoming an actress like Jean Harlow and Lana Turner (Spoto 254), who were the most popular actresses of that times. For her beginning few months, she got no speaking roles in any films. Instead, she was placed as a dancer, singer, and pantomime actress. Because she was also very talented in posing

Morgan Faw Leyrson English 102 4/15/17 Musicians Protective Union Local 627 Possibly the place with the highest concentration of music history in all of Kansas City. 1823 Highland is a small building where jazz music once lived daily; The Mutual Musicians Foundation, or “The Foundation,” has been a home to everything musical. Created to protect the rights of artists in Kansas City, The Foundation was established in 1917 under the name, “Colored Musicians Union,” operated as a center for social

Two heated debates arise when considering faults in modern-day college athletics. The first is in college football whether or not a playoff system should be implemented in order to determine a definite Bowl Championship Series (BCS) Champion. This major issue in college football has been temporarily solved with the approval of a four-team playoff starting in 2014 and ending in 2025 (Dinich 1). Though it remains highly exclusive to the top four ranked teams at the end of the season, there lies an

lastly, his humanitarian efforts benefitted many children all around the world, which traced his nickname of being the King of Pop. Michael Jackson, originally named Michael Joseph Jackson, was born in Gary, Indiana, on August 29, 1958, the fifth of Joe and Katherine Jackson's nine children. His mother,