“What is love? Baby, don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me, no more.” – Haddaway Back in the early 90’s, pop singer Haddaway posed a question about love. In this song, Haddaway explores the dimensions of what it means to love. A little silly, right? It’s hard for one to take this question seriously when all you can picture is a scene from “A Night at the Roxbury”, with Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan simultaneously bobbing their heads to the beat of this infamous song. While I can’t help but bob my head along to this extremely catchy song, I also wander off into an idea of what this song means. It’s a simple question, but I still ask, what is love? Is it comfort in the solace of knowing someone is looking over you and watching out for your well-being?…
He soon starts gambling, drinking and doing drugs. With his money he buys his first zoot suit, as well as getting his first “conk”. Malcolm developed a sort of prejudice of the black community, with the Roxbury Hill blacks being in the shadow of the white man. Which they are dressed as if they are of the same status and using conk to achieve a similar hair style. In a way using artificial ways to define their status. As well as seeing that the Roxbury Hill black has a better quality of life than…
On October 26th, 2006 the Cape Elizabeth Capers departed on the longest 2-hour drive of their life. They ascended to face their biggest opponent of the season. That is the powerhouse team up in Rumford called the Mountain Valley Falcons. The film The Rivals states that the Falcons had made it to the Western Maine Championship 13 times in the last 16 years. Both teams were on a quest for an undefeated season and tonight was their last regular season game. The last place the Capers wanted to play…
His publication, Civil Disobedience, was inspired by his encounter with the law. Henry had to spend the night at a jail for refusing to pay poll tax. Civil Disobedience is Thoreau’s most-known and most influencing essays. The essays were published in 1849 and, all around the world, have inspired many leaders of protest movements. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi were inspired by the essay Civil Disobedience. “If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man” Civil…
Every time at team dinner on Friday nights my coach asks my teammates and I the same thing. He asks, “Who are we? What are we all about? What will they say about us when it’s all over?” The first time I heard him say this as a young freshman I couldn’t really make sense of it because wasn’t around long to hear enough stories about who we are and what we are. But now I have been around for little while and I understand that at that moment he sending a challenge to us to not only go out on…
bar, uniting folks of all ages and backgrounds in a laid-back and warmly familiar atmosphere. Doctors and nurses from nearby Boston Medical Center, city workers, union guys, newspaper reporters, and hard-drinking politicians all come for a few rounds. The customers today are quite different from the customers of 1909, yet they find Foley’s as welcoming a place to quench their thirst as did earlier generations. Perhaps its timelessness comes down to the belief that any place that serves…
equally, have knowledge about themselves and the world around them that "transcends" or goes beyond what they can see, hear, taste, touch or feel. This knowledge comes through intuition and imagination not through logic or the senses. People can trust themselves to be their own authority on what is right. A transcendentalist is a person who accepts these ideas not as religious beliefs but as a way of understanding life relationships. In other words these people were pretty much hippies. In the…
exam only in Mathematics that was not my strength at all. Children that do not pass the oral test would not pass the subject and the subject had to be taken another year. Through high school years, still in Cape Verde Islands, it was based through tests and exams. We had “another big exam” with the same system that we use to get through high school. This time it was to allow us to get to pre-college. At that time, students had to do it because lots of students would get scholarship to go to…
and many Tonys Death of a Salesman. His follow up The Crucible received more acclaim and was also award-winning. The play was believed to be the reason why Miller’s passport was refused to renew by the House of Un-American Activities Committee and why Miller was called to appear before the committee. The reason the play caused suspicion is because it is about the Salem witch trials and is also an allegory of McCarthyism. The committee wanted Miller to tell them what people had been active in…
While state lawmakers work on their local budgets one of the cutbacks effected is the criminal justice system. These cutbacks have a direct effect on the level of services a client or victim needs and is entitled to. Proper training, lack of resources, and ethics all play a role in how police and lawyers represent the general public during a case. The justice system lacks proper resources for police and lawyers, as a result the lack of resources effect proper follow through for evidence…