Research MWF 2:00- 2:50 Dr. Aaron Adams “The Culture of Auburn University Football” To the majority of America, Auburn University Football is just a sport. To the thousands of Auburn Tigers fans worldwide, it is so much more than that. Tim Stanfield describes it as “…more than a game…it’s a passion” (Stanfield et al. 61). The culture surrounding Auburn Tigers football is a family and tight-knit community. As Pat Dye, past coach of the Auburn Tigers puts it, “We are close here, and that is part of…
(Luke and Lucy are in the car driving to Nebraska from Washington. Lucy is looking out the window with an emotionless face while Luke is driving. Luke and Lucy have been best friends for a while. Now Lucy has recently ran, away from her dysfunctional and unstable mother to live with her father in Nebraska and dragged Luke into driving her.) LUKE (He takes his eyes off the road momentarily to glance at Lucy.) Are you okay? LUCY Yeah. LUKE You sure you wanna go through…
Author, Steven Pressfield defines resistance as a force that drives us from doing out best, by consuming us with fear about our gifts and talents. Resistance, stops us from doing things that can be good for us because the unknown afterwards is frightening. He characterizes resistance as fast, powerful, and almost addicting. It is circling around us, and yet we have no idea when it is going to hit us. Resistance is not something that we can see, instead it is something that we can feel. A negative…
toward their owners. As there are billions of people around the world of different cultures and nationalities, there is also a great magnitude of dog breeds, ranging from pretentious full breeds to pleasurable mixed breeds with a few irresolute mutts in the mix. These dogs also have varying personalities and appearances, depending on their ages and breeds. As no dog looks or acts the same, each dog has a story of how it came about into the homes of which it belongs. Nobody knows a dog better than its…
characters and a conclusion that resolves the issue and brings together a happy ending. Martha’s Half-Breed doesn’t follow this outline and because it is based on her life it shows a dark reality to this world that the author thought might not be welcomed by the readers, by focusing on her childhood and omitting the other sections he might have thought it would have appealed to a larger audience. Half-Breed starts off with the innocent childhood of Maria as she starts off with a description of how her…
The following information contains my proposal for my Recommendation Report topic. Proposal to Investigate the Flow of Traffic for the Intersection of North Perimeter Road and University Drive. Introduction: More and more students are being accepted into Cal Poly every year and the campus is building more on-campus housing to accommodate for this new population of students and to encourage students to be on-campus. This increase of students causes many problems because already the classes are…
the crossing of cultures creates “half-breeds,” usually bringing disgrace to their family’s name. In Jodi Lundgren’s discourse, “Being a Half-breed”, is about how a girl who struggles with understanding what cultural group she fits into since she is a “half-breed.” Elizabeth Evasdaughter’s essay, “Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Ceremony”: Healing Ethnic Hatred by Mixed-Breed Laughter”, analyzes the fear of change happening on the reservation and the obstacles “half-breeds” are faced with. Teresa Shewry, Cheryll…
This past summer I went to the Dominican Republic for a family vacation for two and a half weeks. As we explored different parts of the island, we decided to stay in this beautiful mountain called “Lomas Linda.” Lomas Linda is known for its unique mountains, diversity in mountain and flowers. While we were in the mountains I felt the cool wind. We went on long drives that led us to a natural river, and we went to one of the biggest orchid collections in the world. The Dominican Republic is known…
Long Road Home Names: Abiona (Mother) Born During a Journey Ainose (Father) No one is greater than God Elo – (Daughter) The bug crawls across my finger so slowly that I get sleepy watching it’s tiny legs crawl up my arm and onto my dirty dress. I get sleepy a lot anymore, though. Without food, I don’t have much energy. This morning I used a lot of my energy getting water for Mama. The bucket is heavy and my muscles are almost too tiny now to carry it all the way to the house. Opening my sleepy…
Mind of Two Manners A man with a split mind, a split task, and even a split heritage. The captain was a half-breed, born directly into the duality that he struggles with throughout the novel. In the beginning, the Narrator is plagued by a task of dual manner in itself, he is assigned to live and learn the American way of life so that he may disguise himself among the ranks of the Republic to work closely with the General himself, while covertly reporting any important information to his fellow communist…