The Oakland County Medical Examiner’s Office said Hock’s body was found on the roof of a Home Depot store at a shopping center. The examiner’s office said that it was clear Hock’s body had been there for several days. It’s unclear how she wound up there. Hock’s family last saw the 23-year-old woman on Sept. 6. Her sister Emilie spoke to her that night but hadn’t heard from her since, according to WWJ-TV.…
“The Last Dragonslayer” by Jasper Fforde is a story for kids and adults who like fantasy and mystery. The main message in the text is be yourself. The story takes place in the Kingdom Of Snodd. Tiger asked Jennifer “What really happened to Mr. Zambini? so Jennifer told him the truth about Mr. Zambini saying that one day, Mr. Zambini had no choice but to perform shows for kids, because Kazam was running low on money.…
In the essay “Human Clay” by Chuck Klosterman, he states that “the culture is coarsening” (Klosterman 93). Over time things that were not acceptable back then are now acceptable with the exceptions of mainstream rap music and stand-up comedy. He introduces 2 Live Crew who made very vulgar rap music and a crude stand-up comedian, Andrew Dice Clay Silverstein. The difference between them both was that, for some reason, 2 Live Crew’s music was accepted and tolerated while Clay’s stand-up comedy was not. So, that caused Klosterman to believe that even if Clay were to die he would not make a cultural comeback the reasons being himself, the era, and the type of audience he attracted.…
The Kennewick man is a human skeleton discovered by two college students in July 1996. The students were trying to get a better view of a hydroplane race, so they went along the Columbia river to find a spot. While they were on the river, they noticed something in the water. This turned out to be the skull of the Kennewick man. After they reported the incident, an archaeologist found the rest of the skeleton.…
In the essay Human Restoration by Bill McKibbeh he speaks about how humans live in a “culture that is capable of taking a wolf howl and turning it into a commodity” (172). What I found interesting about this essay is how Mckibbeh delivered the information. Using MLA format which is the format I’m most familiar with he was able to get his point across; by introducing us to the two Timber wolves he saw at the Hilton Hotel in Albany New York. Both of which were on display at a conference to “’draw attention to our proposal to restore the eastern timber wolf to the Great Woods of the Northeast’” (165). Showing us our need to restore nature.…
There are social and cultural expectations that individuals are expected to adhere to in their society. These expectations, or standards, vary based on location, time, and communities. In This reflection will be analyzing how practitioners of a religion adapt to society without losing their true sense of self. The community in which African slaves had to become acclimated with in Cuba was one of division, inconsistency, and coercion (Olmos 34).…
Black women have been oversexualized throughout their existence. Since black women were taken from their homeland of African and brought to this country of America, there has been a constant oppression of black women through the stereotypes that have been created. Stereotypes with different meanings and connotations have been designed to explain and justify the behavior of black women. This ideology of oversexulization falls under the stereotype of the “Jezebel complex” which is the modern-day equivalent of a “freak” currently in today’s society. In Salvage the Bones, Esch’s character portrays characterization portray the Jezebel stereotype among black women and her “situationship” with Manny displays this phenomenon of black girls searching for intimacy through sex.…
Anthony Bourdain was born on June 25, 1956 in New York and grew up in Leonia, New Jersey. He attended Vassar College for two years and graduated from the world-renowned Culinary Institute of America in 1978. Bourdain then moved back to New York, where he worked as a chef in several kitchens such as the Supper Club, One Fifth Avenue, and Sullivan’s and later became an executive chef at Brasserie Le Halles, French Bistro steakhouse in 1998. Bourdain’s career as a restaurant chef gave him credibility as a chef, a writer, and a television show star. He has written articles and books that legitimize him as a person you can trust when it comes to food.…
Two stories Hojoki and Tales of the Heike through various views to provide the different information about the late twelfth century of Japan. In story Hojoki, it focuses on author Kamo no Chomei’s personal experiences to describe a horrible period of time. It shows normal people were struggling for their life while the natural disasters occurred repeatedly. Those disasters including conflagration, whirlwind, famine, and earthquake. The story emphasizes that there were lots of people suffering during that period.…
AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) has taken victim of a multitude of lives in the United States during the 20th century. Many believed that this epidemic was a sign of judgement in relation to the religions they worship. Others viewed this stigma as a curse and that revealing themselves would shame themselves for the rest of their lives. Masami Teraoka is a Japanese-born American artist who began to focus his works on the AIDS epidemic after a close friend’s baby contracted HIV. His artwork, Tale of 1000 Condoms/Geisha and Skeleton, was created in 1989 in the United States.…
The short story, “A Story about the Body,” seems to be about how people look to other’s exterior appearances to love an individual, however that is not necessarily the case. Depending on whose lens one chooses to view the events through, there are many takes on the true meaning of the short story but personally the one take that seems true of both characters revolves around insecurities with physical bodies. “A Story about the Body” does truly give the reader much to mull over with regards to emotions and analysis of both the painter’s body and the composer’s reaction and behavior towards her body. Robert Hass transforms a simple, boy-likes-girl setting into a complex and sensitive situation in so few words. For example, the young…
To attract and keep the attention of the audience in a genre as stale and traditional as still life painting can be a difficult task, but many painters have risen to the challenge in the hundreds of years since its invention. These methods are numerous and involve the exploration of tensions such as those that exist between abstraction and representation, or moralizing versus hedonistic. Considered one of the lowest types of art by the French Academy, Still Life with a Bottle of Rum, Shoes, and Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill are three still paintings that have managed to rise above the typical wave that have been produced by artists of varying skills for centuries. Though looking at each alone does not truly illuminate the reasoning…
Villains are an interesting bunch in that the same person can be seen as both minor/major, or helpful/dangerous. I guess the same could be said about heroes though. Chuck Klosterman, a best selling author, wrote an essay titled “Electric Funeral,” a chapter of I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined), which details villains of today-different types of technocrats. The three “villains” he mainly focuses on are Perez Hilton, Kim Dotcom, and Julian Assange, who each vary greatly on the spectrum of their acts. Hilton is a blogger who likes to post photoshopped pictures and articles, Dotcom created Megaupload, a website to post copyrighted material illegally, and Assange is the head creator of WikiLeaks.…
On March 13, 1900, the severed body parts of Ernst Winter were found, neatly packaged and distributed around the small Polish town of Konitz. Two days earlier, Ernst Winter was brutally murdered; his blood was drained from his body while each of his limbs were cut with a sawblade. The townspeople quickly made two assumptions about the murder: the murderer must’ve been Jewish because of the drained blood and the murderer must’ve been a butcher because of the incredibly precise incisions. This presumptuous criterion led directly to Adolph Lewy, the only Jewish butcher in Konitz. Staying true to their inherent prejudice, the common-people of Konitz associated the murder with a blood libel, which was a barbaric Jewish practice of ritually slaughtering Christian children and baking matzo with their blood.…
Lauren Schletty Prof. Plunkett English 1101 16 November 2017 Silence of the Lambs Horror movies are all about that initial physiological reaction, such as racing heart and sweaty palms. They do this through the use of fear and shocking the audience. One film that does exactly is Silence of the Lambs. A serial killer known as Buffalo Bill is murdering women, and partially skinning them.…