Welcome to the struggle!
The System tells a revolutionary story of a young man caught in the brutal reality of poverty and violence. Young Brandon Parks becomes submerged in New York City's underworld of crime. Brandon details his life as he's plagued by the three systems: school, drugs, and prison.
Highly intelligent and confident that he is destined for greatness, Brandon blames society for his failures. Finally, Brandon begins to fight back against the very government that created him.

Reading Abbey was built by King Henry I to be a great architectural statement and his own mausoleum, as well as a place of resort and a staging point for royal itineraries for progresses in the west and south-west of England. From the start it was envisaged as a monastic site with a high degree of independence from the church hierarchy; it was granted enormous holdings of land and major religious relics to attract visitors and pilgrims, and no expense was spared in providing a church comparable in size and splendour with anything else in England. However, in architectural terms, the abbey...