As Cher Horowitz would say, “You see how picky I am about my shoes, and those only go on my feet.” If Clueless took place in 2017 NYC, then this outfit would have been Cher’s iconic, yellow, plaid skirt-suit ensemble. This look has transcended along the ages. Plaid never goes out of style, and neither does our lookbook! Christine of Louis Reign has shared with us that, “My style is edgy with a twist.…
When Justin Turner smacked the game-winning home run for the Dodgers on Sunday night, announcers, sportswriters, bloggers and fans all called it the same thing: a “walk-off.” Unknown as recently as the 1970s and 1980s, the term “walk-off” for a game-ending hit has become as comfortable a part of the baseball lexicon as “balls” and “strikes.” And it’s spreading.…
I stepped into the batters box with trembling hands. The sun beat down on me with rays that could cut through metal. The sweat was trickling down my forehead and into my eyes making it hard to see. The butterflies in my stomach were frantic causing my stomach to do flips. I had to hide my fear and try to focus on the pitcher; however, the other team could sense my tension and started to creep in.…
Last Sunday night was the big ACM Awards and Blake Shelton was there to perform. Blake started out the show by joining Luke Bryan on stage and then performing his own song Came Here to Forget. Country Rebel shared that Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani both had a busy weekend and that could easily explain why she wasn't by his side at the big event. She is working hard on promoting her new music right now. On Saturday night, Gwen was across the country for her Saturday Night Live performance.…
A Long Way Gone Essay The effects of the Civil War were very traumatic; people would be captured and sent back to their villages with arms or legs cut off. Ishmael Beah wrote a book called “A Long Way Gone” which is a memoir about his memories from the war because he was forced to be a boy soldier. The civil war in Sierra Leone was a very cruel war that took place from 1991 to 2002. The R.U.F. was a rebel group from the war and they would capture little boys, train them to kill people, and drug them to not feel sympathy and make them have a lot of energy.…
Is It Enough? Look back at different people’s childhood. Is it filled with memories of no responsibility, spending lazy summers at the pool, or even sleeping until noon some days? For most children in America this is what their childhoods entailed, for the Lost Boys of Sudan, it is quite a different story. The “Lost Boys” spent many years fleeing from country to country in Africa trying to escape the fighting going on in and around their homes.…
The popular Showtime TV show Shameless is a dysfunction portrayal of a family living in Southside Chicago. This show has just about every dysfunctional family aspect you can imagine and it does a good job of correlating real life situations. The parents in the show, Frank and Monica Gallager, are two lowlife junkies that raised a family. Each child they created what made on Different drugs. Fiona was conceived while they were on acid, Phillip (Lip) was conceived while on mushrooms, Ian was conceived while on PCP, etc.…
Lone Wolf’s early life experiences took place within the Native community that had few material resources, and little economic or political control, due to a militaristic federal government imposed program that attempted to indoctrinate American Indians. Beginning in the 1870s, the federal government implemented institutionalized education as a strategy of assimilation. The intent of boarding schools was to force American Indian youths to become United States citizens by removing them from their Native culture. During Lone Wolf’s childhood, the program was implemented across the country, and many public schools barred or discouraged American Indian children from attending. In Montana, Lone Wolf experienced firsthand the boarding school’s military-style…
The Runaway General What happened? In June 22, 2010 Rolling Stone magazine published an article in which McChrystal and his staff made disparaging remarks about US foreign policy about U.S. officials including Vice President J. Biden. Despite the fact that general McChrystal immediately apologized for the article, the scandalous publication reached the POTUS office. On June 2010, General McChrystal had to resign.…
“Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don’t think you can hold on. ”(James Frey). In the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie faces many obstacles that he overcomes.…
A great movie should induce a plethora of different feelings and leave the audience with new knowledge or interest in the story. Good Burger is a wonderful film that hits all of the different emotions and leaves the watcher with burning questions. The main character Dexter crashes his mom’s car during summer and has to pay off the damages. He gets a summer job at a burger restaurant, Good Burger, where he meets Ed, his new friend. Dexter and Ed have to investigate a new burger joint, Mondo Burger, take them out of business, and expose their dirty tricks.…
The Oscar winning movie Castaway directed by Robert Zemecks, starring Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland a worker from Fedex travels to different countries to guide them to get their packages out faster. On Christmas he is summoned to help with packages, eventually his plane crashes in the ocean, he is the only survivor he finds an island and lives on the island for about 5 years before an item washes on shore to help him home. Eventually he builds a raft and a ship finds him on his little nature made raft. He finally gets to go home, to find that his soon to be fiance has married his dentist. Throughout this movie many different things are shown that some people don’t process that is going on until they look back at the movie.…
A recent discussion has came up about how some schools in the eastern part of America have made the rule that if a student isn’t maintaining a 2.00 GPA or higher, their licenses can be revoked. While this is difficult for some people around the country to come up with an agreement on, many people disagree with it. Taking away a student's car for getting bad grades is an unfair idea. Granted, taking away a student's car because they are getting bad grades might make the student try harder in school. Yes, if student notices themselves getting bad grades, it could possibly motivate them to work harder in school and show more effort.…
Thesis: The boundaries of knowledge and the capacity for humans to know is limited in Paradise Lost both because only God is omniscient and there is no point for Adam to understand more than what Raphael is telling him. The want to know or to gain knowledge is compared to an appetite in Paradise Lost. Milton says, “knowledge is as food and needs no less her temperance over appetite to know, in measure what the mind may well contain, oppresses else with surfeit and soon turns wisdom to folly” (216). Adam continues to question the archangel Raphael because gaining knowledge is like eating food, and humans need food to survive.…
“We might just make it. Did that ever cross your brain?” says Tom Hanks in the midst of his 1500 day ‘vacation’ from ordinary life. Robert Zemeckis’ film The Castaway displays Hanks’ character’s solitary life and his countless attempts of reuniting with the world after he becomes stranded on an island for four years after his plane crashes over the pacific due to a terrible storm. The movie is centered around the idea that hope and maintaining psychological health are undeniably the most essential traits for survival.…