Eiffel Tower Essay

This essay examines how race and gender are portrayed in a music video Anaconda by Nicki Minaj from 2014. The issue of representation of the Black community and women is significant, considering a huge impact hip-hop culture has on young people’s perception of social matters (Emerson, 2002, p. 115). Minaj is an influential figure in popular culture - her album The Pinkprint, which is supported by the single Anaconda, debuted at number one on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart as well as a number two…

Nightfall Prologue During the midst of World War II in Germany while a lot of Jews were being killed by the Nazis, many were being saved by a masked helper. This masked helper’s name was Emigër Sizan. He was born to a Jewish mother and a German father. Being the only child, Emigër always tried his best to make as many friends as possible because he never felt love from his parents, and wanted the care and compassion others could offer. He yearned for that feeling of importance in someone…

It has been four of the most rough, amazing and successful years in high school, all that because the right people came into my life. Today, those people became the closest friends to me: my best friends. As a matter of fact, they became my second family. If it weren’t for them, I would still be the quiet, shy and self-hiding person I use to be. Luckily, the way life works with meeting new people, and new places gave me the opportunity to move on from who I once was to outshine myself into who I…

When planning a trip to Paris, there are certain expectations as to where you’re likely to go. The Eiffel Tower is at the tip-top of this very long list. Other items would include Champs-Élysées and the Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame, possibly Versailles if you want to explore a bit. But one of the biggest draws is the magnificence of the Musée de Louvre. The Louvre is awe-inspiring, gorgeous, and gigantic. One tidbit I gathered on the boat ride through the Seine was that it was about a kilometer…

With competition on being the tallest building in the world, Van Alen had his workers secretly assemble a twenty-seven-ton steel tip, or vertex, which exceeded the height of its competition and even surpassed the height of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. Although it did become the tallest building in the world, that prize would soon be lost the next year when the Empire State Building was created. The Empire State Building would total 202 feet taller than the Chrysler Building…

Why Didn 't You Listen To Me? Suicidal attempts were once seen as a federal offense in very few countries law system up until 1961 (England). Around 12.9 out of 100,000 individuals decide to take their own life due to a temporary situation, suicide is an essential topic in today’s society that we often lack a lot of knowledge about and is often disregarded until situations are publicized or too late. There are about 117 suicide deaths a day, many of these cases could be prevented if…

Napoleon made his troop go from Northern Italy into Austria. John Adams is the first president to live in the White House. 1803 Louisiana Purchase was made. Tsar Paul I is assassinated. The Cumberland Road was made to improve western transportation. Johnny Appleseed start teaching pioneers how to plant apple trees. In 1800 Lewis and William Clark expedition began in 1804. Robert E. Lee attends the first West Point Academy with Ulysses S. Grant. Charles Willson Peale establishes…

Taste in beauty is a subjective thing and every person has a different taste. However, Kant and Hume view differently on the taste of beauty. Hume claims “every individual ought to acquiesce in his own sentiment, without pretending to regulate those of others.”(268-269) Whereas Kant thinks even though taste in beauty is subjective, people are still demanding others’ agreement. Thus, taste in beauty is subjectively universal. Hume defines the standard of taste as “a rule, by which the carious…

culturally, connected and site specific contributions to creative economies (Keane 61). Some believe that without art and design being utilized with science and engineering some of the worlds most beautiful buildings and structures, such as the Eiffel Tower, would not exist today (Rossnagle). The buildings that would be built without a sense of art or design would be plain in comparison to the buildings we have now. Linda Keane states in her article that arts teach many valuable lessons…

been given to terrorist which is “Jihadist.” In Yahoo news, Serge Daniel wrote an article entitled “Mali arrests jihadist attack suspects,”(1) The New York Post published an article by Yaron Steinbuch entitled “ISIS planning attack on Big Ben, Eiffel Tower: British jihadist”(2) NBC News published an article entitled “Boston Marathon Bombing Jury Sees Jihadist Material Taken From Tsarnaev Devices,” (3) The media degraded the word Jihad by connecting it to terrorism so it is common sense that…