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Charles Manson was a man behind the deaths of nine people in the late 1960s. He was a cult leader manipulated many of his followers to kill innocent people for many absurd reasons: that he was the second coming, that he was both Christ and the Devil, and that Armageddon was coming. Most people saw Manson as a madman. A select few, however, admired Manson for his cunning; to his own followers and in his own eyes, Manson was extremely clever, rather than being insane. In Rog Phillips’ “The Yellow Pill

Riot Fest has begun announcing its lineup for this year’s three day concert extravaganza. The alternative music festival and carnival, which was founded eleven years ago and often contains bands that are native to the Chicago area such as; Fall Out Boy, Alkaline Trio, and Rise Against, will continue unveiling the rest of the lineup in mid-June. Riot Fest & Rodeo kicks off in Denver, Colorado on August 28th at the National Western Complex. As of this morning, the bands that will be participating

In 1962, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister of John F. Kennedy, started ‘Camp Shriver’ on her farm in Maryland. This turned into what we know today as the Special Olympics. Shriver also did a lot of other work to benefit the lives of many people with intellectual disabilities. But before all of that, she was born in 1921 and grew up in Brooklyn, Massachusetts along side her eight brothers and sisters. She went on to attend college at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California where she received a Bachelor

Gypsy Rose Lee will always be remembered through the musical hit Gypsy, composed by Stephen Sondheim and Jule Styne. The most important character which carries the musical all the way to the end is Gypsy’s mother Mama Rose. The musical has come back to Broadway many times in different forms Today’s most recent version of Gypsy is the 2008 musical featuring Patti Lu Pone as Mama Rose. Patti blows most of the past performers out of the water. But Ethel Merman will always be remembered as the original

Her first writing job was for the Missouri Ruralist. She wrote for this magazine until 1930, when Rose convinced her to write an autobiography. “Wrote her first novel when she was 65. She did it, she said, because she wanted to record “the pictures that hang in my memory” (Laura Ingalls Wilder Biography 1). In 1932, when she was sixty five, Laura’s

The movie The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) is based off a true story of Anneliese Michel’s exorcism in the year of 1973. Anneliese died on July 1, 1976 at the age of twenty-six because of dehydration and malnutrition from almost a year of exorcisms; she only weighed sixty-eight pounds

On January 20, 1961, the newly elected president at the time, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, delivered his iconic inaugural address not only to American citizens, but to people listening around the world. In a time when the globe was in a heap of conflict and drama, America and the world were in need of leadership, inspiration, and clear direction. In order to motivate his people towards a better future under his presidency, Kennedy gave a powerful speech formally introducing himself to the world, outlining

Colleen Rua. Gypsy is a musical with book written by Arthur Laurents, music by Jule Styne, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and is based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee. The musical tells the story of Rose as she tries to get her Vaudevillian show consisting of her two young daughters, June and Louise, successful. The first we see of Rose, played in this production by Angela Harrington, is the classic image of an overbearing stage mother as she tells young Louise, played by Hannah Buhman, to “sing

Pop Art is an art movement that emerged in the 1950’s characterized by imagery from pop culture mostly on advertisements and news often using the sense of irony. This movement was more of a cultural revolution using vibrant colors and bold graphics to represent a statement and provide an instant meaning. It has a relation with the abstract expressionism, however it is clearer and has a comic book vibe. Pop art is not trying to confuse you and make you analyze its meaning, on the contrary, it wants

In 1957, the first and only United States President won a Pulitzer Prize for biography; it was titled “Profiles in Courage.” This same President would say in a speech given in Frankfurt, West Germany, “For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past, or the present, are certain to miss the future (Kennedy, 1963)." This President was a visionary, who had creative and innovative foresight, that included the unthinkable at the time, that man