Floyd Patterson

Every twenty years, since 1908, the Committee of Twelve competed against each other for the privilege of selecting a prominent writer to update, ‘The Road to Glory: the History of the Gotitright Family.’ To minimize stress, on Selection Day, the twelve members of the Committee played numerous rounds of - rock, paper, and scissors, and the victor selected the writer from the Committee’s approved list. Half past noon on the fourteenth of December 2328, Cort West won the final round with rock

The song, “Time” by the band Pink Floyd, is a deep song that has several of hidden meanings. Pink Floyd is known for the meanings behind their songs, and this is one that falls in that category. While when you first look and try to decipher these lyrics, nearly everyone gets the same result, don’t waste time. However,this song is a tragic story of someone who didn’t live life to the fullest and ended up unhappy with the outcome. In the song, the lyrics say, “You fritter and waste the hours in

When one thinks of the term YMCA, what does the connotation bring to mind? When asked this question, Katie Feldmeyer, Director of Healthy Living at the Tri-County YMCA, replied, “To most, the Y is thought of as a gym—a place to go for exercise. For me, my Y experience goes far beyond utilizing its gym on a daily basis. The positive atmosphere―smiles, laughter, and friendly camaraderie—that radiates within the Y makes it one of my favorite places to be . . . The Y is a place where all are welcome

Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon The album The Dark Side of the Moon, by Pink Floyd was an album that pushed the boundaries on multi-tracking and tape looping, as well as mixing in1973. The engineer, Alan Parsons, use many unusual techniques to help create the sound that we know and love. Which landed the album on the charts for 750 weeks. Dark side of the moon was first lead engineering job Alan had with Pink Floyd and only took a year to record. To record this album an EMI console, a 16-track

This song is listed number one because it was one of the first Beatles songs I ever heard at a young age of 11. The Beatles were a very spiritual group and it shows in their work. Many of their songs were based around love and positive energy. The song was originally written by Paul McCartney in order to guide Julian Lennon, John’s son, who was neglected by his father after he began dating Yoko Ono. My father started dating my step mother around the same age I heard the song. Certain lyrics presented

The illegal immigration issue and the security of the U.S. Economy have been two hot topics all over the news during the 2016 election champion. One main solution that now president Trump provided during his champion was building the wall along the side of the US southern border. Although many who voted for that he mostly agree to the idea, many others thought that was bad for the Economy, Globalization, and most importantly the U.S. Economy. Nationwide, a debate on the issue of whether or not U

An Animal 's Home With a great boom, another tree came down, and it seems as though there is no end in sight to them falling. All my life I have seen trees destroyed and new houses going up. My animal friends keep losing their homes for the benefit of people, and I cannot keep watching this horrible thing go on. When I get old enough I will be able to do something about it. My animal friends need their homes; they have done nothing to deserve this. Every year for the last ten years I have watched

Rewards & Conch-equences “Identity is never static, always in the making and never made” (Fuchs). All people struggle with this concept of identity, with who they are. This one concept takes into account every aspect of oneself: an individual’s morals, values, experiences, words, and actions. Therefore, one’s identity is always changing because none of these things are static-they are always changing. William Golding uses certain characters in Lord of the Flies to convey that identity is a

When I had first passed my TSI test that I needed in order to get college classes, I was pretty excited to find out that I was taking art appreciation. At first it was nothing like I had expected, I thought it was just another class. We learn about famous paintings that are very popular in the modern times, stuff dating back a really long time. When he told us that we were going to build an art cafe in the library, I was pretty pumped because I love coffee and I thought it was going to be pretty

Are drugs really the answer to anyone’s problems? “Comfortably Numb,” a song, written by Roger Waters of the band Pink Floyd is about depression, mental health and drug use in the music culture. They write about a person who focuses on escaping his own mind because he can’t bear what is going on in the outside world. The band mate retreats to his inner self and is having conflict with the physical world. “Comfortably Numb” is a song (in it’s generation) that most people, who were having problems