1980 albums

A sizzling pan is pictured as we hear, “This is drugs. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?” The egg is cracked and cooks over the heat. This commercial has been etched in my memory since childhood. The issue of legalizing drugs has been debated even longer. Gore Vidal wrote his article “Drugs: Case for Legalizing Marijuana” in The New York Times in 1970, a full 17 years before the aforementioned commercial hit the television airwaves. Vidal’s piece was ahead of its time, but still…

My trip to SilverWood It was a sunny day while my family drove to SilverWood. Everyone who was in the car wanted to just get out of the car because it's a long way to where we live. But before me and my family went to SilverWood all of us had to go to our hotel to go put all of our materials in the hotel. I wanted to eat and so did my family so after we went to the hotel we went to go eat at Subway. Once we got in Subway it smelt so good the food was so delicious the bread was nice and soft…

Love, love is such a strong word now a day. Before it was just tossed around willy-nilly. You might have said, you were in love when you were with the first person you dated, or maybe the next person after that. However, the thought of it did you really want to be dating that person? Were you really in love? Do you even want to be in love for that matter? Or were you just playing along with the roles that society has given us today. Love isn’t for everyone, and Kipnis’ story “Against Love” and…

Alright that’s it; you just lost your phone.” I painfully surrendered my phone to my mother. But it wasn’t for a bad grade or any other typical teenage mishap; the cause was simple: makeup. Sure I was old enough and had any right to wear it, but her reasoning always remained the same, “Leah, you are too beautiful to wear makeup”. These words I heard over and over again as a child, but I questioned whether other young, African American women were told the same thing. In “Appearance Obsession”…

Lucas sunbathed on the balcony of his two-story house in Eastern Florida. The sun beat down on the ever-growing population of the town. The fact that it was summer meant that it was already hot. That temperature was driven up by Global Warming and what day it was- The Summer Solstice. Normally, Lucas would only go outside today for a few minutes, and following schedule, he had been inside for the rest of the day except for now. The stark white balcony was in deep contrast with the rest of…

For my critique assignment, I decided to focus on the late 90’s film, “10 Things I Hate About You” by Gil Junger that was based off of Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew”. The very first time that I saw this film, I do not even think that it was intentional. I was just casually in my room with the TV on a random channel, and not even paying attention to whatever show or movie was playing. Then I actually started to focus on the film because at the time, I was a huge Batman fan and I saw that…

My 212° Teen Camping Trip As we loaded up the vans to go, I thought, finally, a whole week by myself away from my family! Well, I was not really by myself, because I was going with a large group of sponsors and teens, from my 212° teen church, to Falls Creek, OK, for church camp. Nevertheless, it felt good to be traveling somewhere on my own. Even though I knew it would be a long trip, I planned to have a lot of fun. Thus, when our ensemble of five vans headed out, needless to say, I was…

Regret in a Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol is a Christmas classic loved by generations. It is a tale that has been adapted through the years into many forms because of its strong ability to share morals and show the importance of love, friendship, and family at the holidays . The main character, Scrooge, is a rude and greedy man. Throughout the book he learns that life isn't all about money and material gains. It should be about family, love and what a person does with their life. One…

To be Mad or Not to be Mad? That is the Question. Have you ever thought of yourself as a tragic hero? A tragic hero a great character in a dramatic tragedy who is destined for defeat. “ According to the critic, a tragic hero has three prominent characteristics: (1) a will-power that surpasses that of average people, (2) an exceptionally intense power of feel- ing, and (3) and unusually high level of intelli- gence.”(George Detmold 219) With being a tragic hero, come a tragic flaw. A tragic flaw…

Walking through a spacious green field, filled with beautiful dandelions; I see her… but not like I was anything special to her. I feel peaceful; knowing that I saw her for the last time. I closed my eyes and then… darkness. She was too late. In this response paper the stories “The Moths” by Viramontes, and “The Story of an Hour” by Chopin, have both the interesting theme of death or mortality, I will discuss the common theme by using tone, symbolism, and setting of these two stories. The tone…