Samples from Sam

During one of my visits to some of the festivals this year, I had gone to one that spoke to me: the Asian Festival. However, even though I did feel that this festival in my soul, it was not because of the fun, but because of the horrible experience I recall seeing the various booths and oceans of people waiting in lines. Whoever coordinated this event should have been sued, honestly, since it did no one a favor waiting in one line for some overpriced desserts, dishes, and pathetic attitude and mockery the cashiers and cooks had treated the people who waited hours in line for. The Howard County fairgrounds was meant to handle a lot of people but seeing as how the event was organized, clearly this was a disorganized event in general. I personally waited one whole hour just to get to a tent that was not even the right one because the line roped to a different one in an S pattern. For one line, it took 2 hours average, seeing as how when I made it to the cashier, the friends that were spre...

When in the course of human events, as societies change and grow as American citizens, the changes in music have risen as a result. Upon asking a stranger, no matter where in the world, usually they would describe American music as Rock and Roll, Jazz, Metal, Rap, and Pop music. Why is that the case? Some would say it is because of notable musicians and artists like Tupac, Louis Armstrong, Justin Bieber, Beyoncé, and Weird Al just to name a few. It is true that these people have revolutionized, popularized the genre of their music, but the true roots stem back to the blues from African-Americans that were predominantly slaves during the 1800s. Historically, blues originated first from the workers on the plantations in the south, picking up hymns and expressing their struggles and pain as a slave working without fairness and proper treatment from their masters. With this and the spiritual songs, chants, and rhythmic storytelling being blended with the African-American suffering, the gen...