Alyssa Bustamante: Plead Guilty to the Murder of 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten SUNNY MODE EGCC Bad Alyssa or Just a little normal insane girl, for fun I like to cut and kill people, this is how Alyssa Bustamante describes herself on social media in 2009. Alyssa’s life started out as one of sadness, Alyssa, her younger sister and her twin brothers were awarded to their grandmother due to their mother’s battle with drugs and alcohol. Their father was in prison for three felonious assault charges
Utopia On a cold wintery 10 degree fahrenheit day in December Blaize decided he was going to go on a cruise ship with his friends to the Bahamas where the weather has been 75-80 degrees fahrenheit. Blaize likes to spend lots of time outside. He likes to make fires, hunt, fish, snowboard, play soccer, and shoot sports. Blaize and his friends Seth, Matt, Leonard, and Cameron all enjoy many of the same things. We drove from Pennsylvania down to Miami Florida where the cruise ship was to boarded
concert for The Wall was the first live show to adopt media effects, such as lighting, and props as a main part of a live performance which changed all rock stars’ performances forever. The concert helped to create the most popular genre of the 1980s, glam metal. Pink Floyd literally pushed the edge of what concerts were before with their spectacular visuals. Pink Floyd’s The Wall was a pioneer in producing promotional films for albums or songs with the movie. Making a movie for a album was a new idea
a young man called Tony Iommi working in a steel factory in Birmingham when he loses concentration severing the tips of two fingers causing him to de-tune his guitar to make it playable for his injured left hand and this spawned the birth of Heavy Metal music or is this all just a music purists point of view? or is there more to this than the cute stories and our perception that all of these outcomes could have been predetermined by previous events? could it be that we as listeners, consumers and
Glam rock is usually viewed as an inconsequential rock sub-genre. It is often forgotten in the abundance of genres that originated in the 1970s, and it is often neglected completely as a major genre at all in America. Critics slammed the new genre, calling it hype-driven and plastic. One argument held that glam rock was typically seen as insignificant because it did not have a long life, nor did it capture the attention of the world. Glam rock was popular in the UK, but even there, it was short-lived
other and that helps create genre diversity. In the late 20th century, around the 1970’s, the first metal genre song came out by one of the most popular metal bands called “Black Sabbath.” Metal music eventually branched out with different genres of itself and created doom metal, thrash, and glam. Metal was very popular in the 80’s, and in the 90’s it continued. The 90’s came out with grunge metal. Grunge music is described by definition as, “a style of rock music characterized by raucous guitar
multiple cases where music is claimed to be the source of a young individual’s violent behavior. Although there are many factors that go into determining aggression and violence, I was interested if certain genres of music such as rap, rock, and heavy metal and its lyrical content could really cause some violence. It’s a growing epidemic in our country of violent children committing brutal acts on society. Many claim that these violent behaviors can come from violent video games and movies, but is violent
Music are a few things we tend to hear every day. Whether or not it’s from our own ipods, in our cars, or background music to our lives. A song exists for pretty much every feeling and music will be thought of as extremely healing mechanism. Over the years there are various varieties of music that everyone embrace completely different beats, sounds, and evoke different emotions. Such varieties of music is hip hop and rap, alternative music, and rock and roll music. Music incorporates a long line
To deal with bullying from another person can be bad, but what if it was your own father, and possibly even your step-mother. In the game Braid, there are five puzzles, all of which tell a story, the story of the game creator's childhood (this is all just a theory). In the first puzzle it shows a man on top of a woman, the man is reaching for a glass of wine on the table next to them, the woman's face is not shown nor does she ever show up again, so one could infer that something happens to her.
Disco, like many other genres of music, has allowed for the creation of many dynamic cultures. These various sub cultures continue to evolve and flourish over time. Philip Auslander’s book “Performing Glam Rock” talks about a type of music that until this class, I have not heard much about. When I think Glam Rock I think of artists like Prince and Kiss, ...
Mick Rock was a really cool photographer. Mick Rock was born in London, England in 1948. He went to Cambridge Arts College. He first became interested in photography during college. He is well known for photographing people like David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, Queen, The Ramones, Syd Barett, Joan Jett, Motley Crue, The Talking Heads, Crossfade, and Blondie. He was important to the creation of a lot of other rock images, including album covers for Queen’s “Queen II” and “Sheer Heart
The journey through childhood is filled with many experiences. Children often fantasize about their own eventual journey through adulthood; with stars in their eyes, they contemplate the freedom and wonder that greatly differs from their current experience. Some experiences force growth, robbing the childhood experience. Naïve childhood bubbles often burst as they are abruptly hurled head-first into adulthood. Life experience provides the ability to learn and grow or become sour and stubborn. What
to the second track Snakes and Lions which continues this trend for a further five minutes of impressive catchy grooves. We’re then treated to some Gospel…yes that’s right, Gospel. Because why the hell wouldn’t you sample The Louvin Brothers on a metal song? It’s weird, it’s innovative and, funnily enough, as the song happens to be ‘Satan is Real’ it’s not all that out of place for a band who sounds like the personification of the devil horns. I like it. I also like the sample of Anthony Perkins’
Deville, in France, obtained the metal by reducing aluminum chloride with sodium. Aided by the financial backing of Napoleon III, Deville established a large-scale experimental plant and displayed pure aluminum at the Paris Exposition of 1855. Aluminum is a lightweight, silvery metal. The atomic weight of aluminum is 26.9815; the element melts at 660° C (1220° F), boils at 2467° C (4473° F), and has a specific gravity of 2.7. Aluminum is a strongly electropositive metal and extremely reactive. In contact
The Rate of Reaction Of Metals with Acids Introduction In this investigation I will be looking at the rate of reaction between a metal, which will be magnesium ribbon, and an acid. The acids will either be hydrochloric, ethanoic, sulphuric or phosphoric acid. I will be finding out if the activation energy changes depending on whether a strong or weak acid is used. I will also be investigating whether or not there is a change in the order of reaction if a dibasic acid is used instead of a monobasic
Ceramics - Incredible Refractory Materials Introduction First we will start with the definition of refractories and ceramics. Refractories and ceramics are non-metallic materials capable of maintaining physical and chemical stability at high temperatures. Refractories in modern practice are usually ceramic in nature, and are used in a wide variety of primary, secondary and tertiary industries. Wherever an industrial process involves heat in excess of 700 to 800 degrees Fahrenheit (roughly), one
school-related questions to parents who were fumbling through papers to find a retort. Two people caught my attention in the room. They were a girl and a boy sharply dressed in pickle-green uniforms. Their chests were decorated with numerous shiny metals that reflected their accomplishments. The girl's dark brown hair was neatly tied in a bun off of her shoulders, and the boy's was shaven. Their black shoes were so shiny you could see your own reflection in them if you looked. They walked over to
its alloys is brazing. Many different types of pure metals and alloys of brazing filler materials are developed, they are available in a variety of forms, they are foil, paste, sheet, powder, wire, rod etc. This to reduce the difficulties of the process putting them between the base metals as various metals have different physical shapes and properties. The process requires a lot of attention and care in order to minimize the gaps in the metals that are being joined which could lead to failure of
precious metal. A symbol of wealth and prosperity, it has been a value for explorers and adventurers and a lure for conquerors. Today it is vital to commerce and finance; popular in ornamentation, and increasing importance in technology. The nature of gold is diverse. The chemical element gold is a heavy, soft metal. It weighs nearly twice as much as lead. Shiny and deep yellow in color, gold is one of two metals, which are not gray or white when pure. Gold is the most ductile of metals. Properties
Investigating Factors that Affect the Rate of Reaction Between a Metal and an Acid Factors that may affect the experiment + fair test The variables that could affect the rate of reaction are the temperature, amount of magnesium, concentration of acid, surface area of magnesium and volume of acid. The variable I am going to change is the concentration of acid. I am going to measure how long it takes a piece of magnesium(no more than 20m in length) to react in different concentrations of