America's Got Talent

Girl on Fire “She’s just a girl, and she’s on fire...” The song keeps echoing again and again in my brain is “Girl on Fire” by Alicia Keys. I bet you are not new to this song as it peaked at number 11 on the Billboard 100 chart, and with the impressive performance by Angelica Hale these days, it goes viral again. I first listened to it was five years ago when I was still in Hong Kong. Perhaps I did not have much life experience at the moment and I was taking care well by my parents, the song…

his competitors, Prefontaine’s talent and style sent shivers down their spines and made the end result seem a foregone conclusion. For his fans, he had a strange combination of charisma and mystery that gave him an indescribable magnetism. The author of Prefontaine’s biography, Tom Jordan, summed this allure up when he prefaced his book by saying, “There was something about Steve Prefontaine that demanded attention” (Jordan 3). Part of this was certainly his talent; Prefontaine once held the…

Harrison Bergeroen or 2081 has an interesting concept that mainly focuses about equality in the society. People must be forced to be equal to one another in their appearances, behaviors, and achievements by using physical and mental handicaps. The purpose is to protect the self-esteem of less-beautiful, less-talented, less intelligent people, so that those who exceed the standard would not be able to threat or hurt others. After I read the story, the first set of questions that came to my mind…

Jules Tygiel quoted in her book, "Baseball's Great Experiment" a man by the name of C. Vann Woodward as he said, "There is more Jim Crow practiced in the South than there are Jim Crow laws on the books."Jim Crow law forbade whites and blacks from attending the same school, riding on the same sections of trains and buses, receiving the same treatments in hospitals and competing in the same athletic games. It was known that if Black's challenged these laws they would challenge not only everything…

voice, his signature dance moves on stage, and his self image. I agree with Marcus' praise towards Elvis because he is popular for his talent in the entertainment industry and how Elvis became a product of what people wanted him to be. Elvis career slowly developed and changed through many types of genres, Greil states, "The…

in their high school sports, which got them noticed for their talent, making them more successful. Allen Barra talks about the increase…

insults, and does quite a lot of careless action. During Trump’s campaign, Trump mocks a handicap news reporter in South Carolina. The New York Times news reporter Serge Kovaleski, suffers from a congenital joint condition. While rallying, Trump got the audience’s attention to look at Kovaleski before mocking Kovaleski by waving various body parts such as arms and hands, in uncommon angles. This is an act of bullying that is intolerable due to the reality that this condition is not a choice…

I. Introduction : (1 page) As Josie drove down the road with her husband Mark in tow, her car began to sputter. Soon billows of smoke began to emit from her car and she knew she had to stop. She popped the hood, got out the car and began to examine the engine. Mark called out from the passenger side of the car and inquired if she required assistance. He knew better than to stop her while she was diagnosing her car. A few minutes later she stopped tinkering and asked mark to call a tow truck.…

Cultural appropriation, or more commonly known as the misrepresentation of different cultural groups, has been a hotly debated topic in the new media. But did you know that cultural appropriation in America’s music industry has been going on since the 1930s, during the era of Paul Whiteman, a popular Jazz artist? Strangely enough, some of his music was appropriated from black music artists. This act of “theft” has brought about many controversies throughout the years. But more importantly, it…

Baseball is a sport that many consider to be “America’s pastime.” It has been something that has been passed down for generations in families, along with being played across the world. According to Hanson and Ravizza (2007), the players within this specific sport have claimed that they feel the level of performance shown by them is consisting of mental and emotional elements. Since baseball is commonly started at a young age and transformed from the area of deliberate play into practice…