Sarah Bryan
Bio
My main passion is for playing the piano. Currently, I am a music major in Texas and I just recently won one of the most prestigious music awards known as the Clara Freshour Nelson Music Scholarship which is awarded to 15 college freshmans.
Stories (3/0)
To Keep and Bear or Not to Keep and Bear
Through the ages, there has not been so controversial a debate as the one involving an Amendment written by the Founding Fathers to protect the new America from the British monarchy. That debate is about whether gun control is constitutional. Following the ratification of the Second Amendment in 1791, different pieces of historical evidence from the Founding Fathers have been utilized by both liberals and conservatives as support for their arguments, but this essay will focus on only two pieces of evidence. The syntax and the original motive of the Second Amendment’s existence justify right-winged arguments that gun control is unconstitutional, while leftists claim that the ambiguity in the Amendment’s definitions make gun ownership limited to a certain group of people rather than every American citizen.
By Sarah Bryan6 years ago in The Swamp
Mozart vs. Michael
Historians and scientists alike have drawn uncanny parallels between two of the world’s most well-known musicians: Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and “King of Pop” singer Michael Jackson. Both were born as the seventh children in their families and toured their countries as young prodigies. However, these similarities were not what captured the interest of several psychologists, but their personalities, which could be described as eccentric and even related to one another. The psychological likenesses between Mozart and Jackson point to the childhood abuse and pressure they faced.
By Sarah Bryan6 years ago in Beat
Knowledge: Is It Really Power?
Political cartoons are in and of themselves meant to comment through imagery and text on contemporary social issues, evoking a strong emotional opinion in the viewer. In one of Nick Anderson’s political cartoons, a small burqa-clad woman kneels on an open book three times as big as her with the word “Knowledge” inscribed on one of its pages. A large man wearing a hijab towers over her with the words “Boko Haram” written on his chest and he is about to crush the woman with a book captioned “Dogma.” The message conveyed by the cartoon is clear: the education of women in countries taken over by the terroristic Nigerian sect Boko Haram is forbidden by the male overlords who enforce Sharia, or Islamic, Law upon the people. To raise awareness in young men and women about how Boko Haram forbids the education of women, the cartoon uses specific design elements that are emotionally, yet logically, inducing.
By Sarah Bryan6 years ago in The Swamp
