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“Cash Price Katy is my name and bingo is my game. This game is just about to end, with just one more number to call and the moment of truth to come nearer. Let's see who is the lucky one to win that cruise trip”, announced the host of the bingo game. My hands trembled violently like an earthquake had just struck and my heart kept beating faster and faster eager to know if the winner would be me. I had waited eighteen long years to finally be old enough and now that I am finally the right age, I…

Ben for trying to act so fatherly to him. He avoided his uncle Ben’s advises and straight away headed to the wrestling venue. He signed up with the name ‘Human Spider’ even when he got dissed by the person registering him. Before the match, the announcer changed his name to ‘Spiderman’…

American population on this issue. There are some who still do not see why these names and mascots are offensive. John Two-Hawks, a Native American writer and singer, explained how people should view this if they do not understand it. “Sports announcers on TV regularly say out loud the word 'red****s' like it is nothing, when in fact that word is every bit as toxic to us as n****r is to African Americans” (Two-Hawks). People have become desensitized to using a word like Redskins, because…

The Marcusian Conceptions of Automation In his book One-Dimensional Man, Herbert Marcuse argues that automation is a centrifugal tendency that is characteristic of technology itself. For Marcuse, automation can be a benefit, but carries with it some dangerous liability. The negative aspect is that that automation has the potentiality of use by repressive forces in society viz. government, to maintain the existing conditions. In a positive sense however, automation has the ability to yield a…

The Los Angeles Dodgers is a professional baseball team that is a part of the Major League Baseball (MLB). The team is originally from Brooklyn, New York, and the name “dodgers” originated from people who were trying to dodge the trolleys in Brooklyn (Los Angeles Dodgers: Timeline). When the Brooklyn Dodgers came under new ownership of Walter O’Malley, he decided to move the team to Los Angeles, where the Dodgers played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for four years. In 1962, the Los…

“Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.” - John Wayne I had been riding and practicing almost every day during the summer, getting ready to perform at Scioto County’s 4-H Western Horse Show on Wednesday during fair week. My 4-H group members were supportive and enjoyed me being their secretary. My mom and sisters were major characters in my story. My passion for riding grew deeply in the show ring that day. The first show I performed in was the Fun Show on Sunday which starts…

The effort to blend in vastly augmented after the bombing on Pearl Harbor. With little money to make, Iva started working as a broadcast announcer at Radio Tokyo. Radio Tokyo was a broadcast station where she learned how to translate English-language scripts that were drafted for the broadcast to the Allied troops in the Pacific.8 Soon after, her unfortunate life unraveled before…

The novels, 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, depict how tight control over a people skews and diminishes their ideas of independence and free thought. To begin, the societies of the two novels are extensively controlled by their governments to the point where the people are forced into orthodoxy or are incapable of being anything but orthodox. In Orwell's 1984, citizens are expected to blindly follow Big Brother and the Party, who are considered the only reliable…

“Oprah Winfrey’s rise to stardom is an extraordinary story of personal achievement” (“Oprah Winfrey” Notable). Oprah Gail Winfrey was born in Mississippi to her parents, Vernita Lee and Vernon Winfrey, who were never married. When Vernon was deployed to complete his military duties Vernita moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to look for work, leaving Oprah in the care of Vernon’s mother. Oprah’s grandmother lived her life according to the Bible, and raised Oprah to do the same. Oprah spent much of her…

Diary Entry 1 1753 the day that everything changed I woke up I listening to the birds chirp. In my village. A normal peaceful day until that time... My dad yells RUN! George, I am trembling in my spot where I stand. I hear a gunshot I start to run as fast as I could I see my brother who is 2 years younger than me he can’t run as fast. he falls down on the ground. Hurt crying and I try to help him up but im only 12 I can’t do anything they catch us… We left our homeland that day South africa…