Brian May

Dylan released his influential album, The Freewheelin’ in May of 1963. This album inspired all the Beatles, but especially inspired John Lennon. A little over a year after the album was released, the group got to meet Dylan for the first time. Bob Dylan had an immense impact on the young band, but the most influential…

glorious career with prospects of a good salary and good benefits, even though not every degree is created equal. People tend to assume that their degree will be their career, and they identify so much with that specialization that they are blind to what may end up being the outcome. Identity is college can be found through multiple means, a degree is not everything, but it is at the same time. One of the most common questions when meeting someone new on campus is, “What is your major?” This…

referred to at the Medieval Warm Period, the earth faced a rise in temperature that altered the climate worldwide. In a New York Times Bestseller, The Great Warming, written by Brian Fagan, we learn how the history of the world a half millennium ago implies that we still are misjudging the power that climate change holds. Brian Fagan, an anthropologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, works his way across the globe to find evidence explaining the interaction of climate change…

school. They are often compared to ‘the walking dead’. Underlying these words is the issue that early school start times may be a contributing factor of children not receiving the proper amount of sleep. A survey of Franklin residents showed that only 40.7% of people get the recommended amount of sleep (8.5-9.5 hours). Students’ lives are tiring enough as it is, and sleep deprivation may be an upcoming problem with early school start times. According to “Greenfield Patch”, “Under the final…

society with many court cases where women charge a man with rape then years go by, and she begins to feel the guilt of lying and eventually confesses to her lies. Years of that man's life were wasted behind those bars for something he had never done. Brian Banks summer of 2002 one of the number football players in America was charged with rape at sixteen years old. Five years later the women who made up this…

grandsons took continued to grow the business into a nationwide retailer (Target). In the 60’s the company developed a new business model wherein they moved from the family owned department store chain into the discount superstore that we know today. May of 1962 the first Target store opened in Minneapolis and has been thriving and expanding ever since, and remains presently one of Walmarts greatest competitors; with a world renowned bullseye logo. Target like many major corporations can be…

had enough money for food, water, electricity, etc. The Walls kids also had paying jobs. *However the Walls family are robust and self dependent.* Even if the kids did work for the community they got paid in small amounts. Jeannette and her brother, Brian, searched for beer bottles that they turned in for little amounts of money even if they were helping the environment and community. According to Jeanette…

food out of the trash to survive, they start to notice that Rosemary is putting on weight somehow, , then one night, both Brian and Jeannette heard chewing and came to the realization that it was Rosemary, after some quick questioning Rosemary says, “It’s my bad gums” (174). Brian then yanks the covers back to discover their mom is chewing on a candy bar while they starved. “ Brian yanked the covers back. Lying on the mattress next to mom was one of those huge family sized candy bars” (174).…

reader that Irene is all too controlling of the lives of those around her, but also that even though she claims it is all for her family, she ironically does it for her own person. The reason she insists her husband continues his career as a doctor may be because of the wealthy lifestyle it allows her to live, and have they moved to Brazil, there would be no more luxury: Irene has two maids working for her while she does close to none of the work and subsequently, because of her lifestyle, she…

to try to actually look out the windshield. I glanced up and saw the one person I wanted to see. Brian, my mom’s boyfriend, was still talking when I screamed, “DAD!?” He looked at me and started to get teary eyed. He had thought I was calling him dad. That was a funny thought. I mean I have only known who my biological father was for about the last two years and in that time period I have known Brian too. I had never imagined calling that man father when I already had two.…