Whether it is walking on the ramp in the latest fashion shows or gracing the pages of a popular magazine, many men and women aspire to encompass a modeling career. To reach that success level, many individuals have to attend the casting calls, but merely some people actually get to the next level.

For years, men and women of all ages have had a fascination with superheroes. From blockbuster movies to action figures, comic books and clothing, superheroes are a huge part of American culture. Spiderman made his debut in the 1960's in comic books and soon became an icon to children everywhere.

As years passed, Elise Teresa Lee, now in old age (1997), sitting in her rooms, in a large house her son now owned, she began to get new satisfaction off of the reflection of herself as a mother with a son who owned much property in the city, proper. In the evenings she sat on her wobbly thin legged chair knitting, watching old movies on the television a few feet away, she thought of her son among the men and women of the business class, with her bent heavy small fingers, old and wrinkled, no longer able to straighten them out, with pride. She recalled how her heart had jumped when he finished college, and now he had written three books. It seemed to her unbelievably astonishing...

Soul Train began in 1971, as the first African American music variety show in the history of American television, with a format including a dance club ambiance playing the day's most popular urban music, complete with dancing men and women throughout the show, dressed to impress, along with hosts and performances from among major figures in Black entertainment. Though it initially aired in only the seven cities of Atlanta, Cleveland, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, the show met with a successful start. Within seven months, the show had achieved its goal of airing in syndication in 25...

"All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players" was what the brilliant playwright and poet William Shakespeare said. And he was right. We are all performers in our own way. We perform for our friends, for our jobs, for our families and for ourselves.