With Christmas right around the corner, it's the perfect time of year to get with your family and watch a Christmas movie. A Roundup article from two years ago discussed the top voted Christmas films by students. This year, I wanted to revamp that article and also add the five worst. DISCLAIMER: these are all my opinion, so if...
Book Review: Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer
After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, many young men and women, deeply affected by this mass slaughter of U.S. citizens, felt a moral obligation to join the military and help in the fight against Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda. One of these young men and women stood out from...
Known for her freshman album, Born to Die, Elizabeth Woodridge Grant, known also by her stage name Lana Del Rey, delivers again with the recent release of her new extended play Paradise, which arrived in stores and online November 9th, 2012. In the album, Del Rey resumes her role as an itinerant femme fatale character, known for her sensual...
7stbabyControl Album Review
Got Wrong Records
Released January 31, 2014
Genre: Hard Rock, Stoner Rock, GrungeBy
7stbaby is a group hailing from the U.K., delivering an innovative take on hard rock. Straddling genres such as grunge and stoner rock, these guys play a heavy style that takes a step in a different direction from...
The film Bohemian Rhapsody tells the life story of English rock band, Queen. Led by singer Freddie Mercury, the band was a hit-maker in the 70s and 80s rock scene, and continues to be a favorite band for many, young and old. With 23 million views on the movie's official trailer, this movie was promoted as the definitive Queen...
The Gaslight Anthem
Get Hurt Album Review
Island Records
Released August 12, 2014
Genre: Punk Rock, Rock n’ Roll, Bar Band
As their careers progress, bands change depending on the direction that they want to go, but that doesn’t mean that they get worse. The Gaslight Anthem is no exception. On “Get Hurt,” the New Brunswick, New Jersey, rock ‘n roll/punk band’s newest release,...
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. was every part the legend that he has become today. In this “towering biography,” Edmund Morris’s Pulitzer Prize winning biography chronicles the life of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. from his birth to his appointment from Vice-President to President of the United States after President McKinley was assassinated, and everything in between (Time Magazine).
This “meticulously researched and beautifully...
I have grown up playing and watching sports all of my life. If it's a common youth sport, I have probably played it. I have watched thousands of hours of sports on television for...educational purposes...yes, that's what I'll go with. The truth is, it is educational because that is the research I have used to write this scientific article.
Through...
