Alton Brown

I remember sitting on the edge of a wooden brown chair facing the crowded streets outside my favorite cafe on a bright sunny day, phrasing the truth about the past two years of my life word by word. I would fold my short tanned legs underneath me, unfold them, then cross them, then fold them up on the hard wood chair trying desperately to make myself feel more comfortable. The rays of sunlight shining in through the large glass windows in front of me made my olive skin glow, and tips of my…

In late May of 2016, I was referred to as one of several “costumed character” in grammatically troubled, but overall positive TripAdvisor review. My supervisor John King was visibly angry, not at me (this time), but at the visitor. “These aren’t costumes. This isn’t Disneyland.” For three months, I wore period clothing (this was John King’s preferred term and one does not fail to use John King’s term). The period was the mid-nineteenth century. Depending on my scheduled tours and assigned…

Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. led the charge of civil rights despite disagreeing with the basic factors of method and intention. Malcolm X’s famous speech The Ballot or The Bullet remains integral to his methods for attaining his goals. King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail communicates his intentions as well as his celebrated methods of civil disobedience. Malcolm X and King often critiqued the other in their work either in speeches or in writing; in his speech, Malcolm X calls attention to…

1. The changing environment for business affects Google’s ability to communicate in this situation because the lines have become increasingly blurred. The internet provides businesses with platforms by which to communicate with customers in ways that were unheard of before so companies like Google have become more involved politically than they were before. The actions that Google took in this case in choosing to cooperate with the Chinese government might have communicated a politically charged…

4th, H. turned 5 years old. She is the second oldest child in the classroom and the tallest in height at approximately 48 inches tall. Her body build is slim and her arms and legs are long. H. has long, wavy light brown hair that reaches to her mid-back in length. She also has big brown eyes. Next year, H. will be heading to Kindergarten since she currently is a second year preschooler.…

Have you ever wondered how hard it was to be in a gang? S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders tells a story about a 14-year -old boy who learns how to stick together with the ones he loves even in very tough times in life. The book starts with Ponyboy getting jumped by Socs, a rival gang, while walking home from the movies. Ponyboy describes how this gang likes to get drunk and jump the greasers, their gang, for fun. The themes of change, family, and fitting in are shown through hard changes with his best…

Slavery is known to be a dark part in U.S. history, but why should people lie about what clearly happened? Slavery is the condition of forcing people against their will, specifically African Americans, to undertake exhausting labor for an owner of a plantation. In the novel, NightJohn, the main character, Sarny, secretly starts to learn to read and write despite the risks of getting discovered. Although Gary Paulsen’s novel, NightJohn, is considered historical fiction, Paulsen accurately depicts…

Cleveland Browns have been searching for a quarterback for what seems like forever. The Browns have won double-digit games just once since returning to the NFL in 1999, as Derek Anderson went 10-5 as Cleveland’s starter in 2007. To fix their issues behind center, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that the Browns will try to trade for New England Patriots quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, depending on how their draft evaluations go over the next several weeks. But before we get into whether the…

thought to be necessary. This was necessary if they wanted California to continue to grow in the way it was. This stirred up problems with the central valley farmers, due to the fact that they would no longer have excess water for agriculture. Next, Brown wanted to send even more water to Southern California, because people will move there anyways; and by 2010 it is said that almost five million acres were used for domestic water…

It's dark and cold tonight. All I can see is the full moon softly glowing above me and the silhouettes of the trees I run past. The cold wind whips my long, golden brown hair against my face. As I keep running I suddenly feel the earth turn to hard pavement under my feet. I come to an abrupt stop in the middle of the road. I hear an engine and look up just in time to leap out of the way of the blue jeep hurdling down the road. I roll over on the pavement and feel a sharp pain in my side. The…