Big Day Out

It was a cold and windy night in Big Timber Montana while Dakota was at his favorite bar watching the football game. Dakota is 31 years old and was born and raised in Montana. He grew up learning how to hunt and fish from his father when he was younger. Dakota's mother and father passed away a couple years ago, now Dakota lives by himself in a small ranch just outside the small city of Big Timber about 6 miles away from the bar. Dakota drives a beat up and rusted Ford pickup truck and works at…

Day 1 I recently went on a trip to Europe with my mom, dad, brother, grandma, and grandpa. It was like living out the movie National Lampoon’s European Vacation but with two more people. I experienced a lot of cool and funny stuff throughout the trip and took some pretty cool pictures. So, I thought why not share the experience with you all? Every day I’ll write my experience of each day on my vacation and post pictures as well. The first day might be a bit boring compared to the others because…

It started out in the Billy Rose Music Hall with Bunny Berigan, Gene Krupa and Jess Stacy, and then became a regular on the NBC radio show. Benny’s music was a mix of Southern Jazz and ragtime, and it was a huge hit! The american people loved him and had them play in the Palomar Ballroom in LA. In 1936 the Benny Goodman Trio Got 15 top 10 hits, a few being “Goody Goody” and “You turned tables on me.” Benny appeared as himself in The Big Broadcast of 1937 and released a trademark…

Oceania is controlled by a totalitarian dictatorship. All surrounding superstate are also under totalitarian dictatorships. The Party, the formal name of Oceania’s government, has created a society built on the basis of control and eqaulity. As we find out later, the purpose of all the lies, and brainwashing is solely for power. Not money, not land, but pure power. Similar to North Korea's government, its “Supreme Leader” feeds off the fear and praise of its inhabitants.With two societies…

The man, the myth, the legend- a Big Fish Essay Who is Edward Bloom? In Big Fish by Daniel Wallace, Edward Bloom creates a persona of himself as a way to evade the truth about his life by telling stories to his son, William. But as Edward is dying, William wants to learn the truth about who his father really is, but he finds that Edward is unwilling to share it, which dampens the trust and understanding in their father-son relationship. By the end of the book, Will learns the truth about his…

felt that it was really just not the right fit for me and that there was still something else out there that fit me better. At this point in my journey I knew that I was going in the right direction but was looking for something that was a little less spiritual and maybe more in the how you live and how you see the world direction. It was during this key point that I was watching my favorite movie The Big Lebowski again and started to wonder about some aspects of the movie so I pulled up the…

all of his stuffs are from IKEA. He decorated his house according to IKEA. His house is always tidy and clean. He can not stand the things that not clear or not neat. But he abandons from his house and IKEA. He burns his house one day and all of his goods are burn out. He says: ‘‘It used to be that when I came home angry and depressed, I would just clean my cond, polish my Scandinavian furniture. I should have been looking for a new condo. I should have been haggling with my insurance company.…

The Big Sleep is an interesting novel by Raymond Chandler with many twists and turns throughout the entire plot, with an abrupt plot twist at the very end. The story is set in the in Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, from the point of view of Philip Marlowe, the protagonist. The basic plot of the entire story starts when a private detective, Philip Marlowe, gets hired by a wealthy man, General Sternwood, for a job, which involves the blackmailing of one of his two daughters, Vivian Regan.…

for people and many things to make the world better. Though leading and determination defines heroism, it does not always have to be the bravest ones being a hero. Heroes play a big role in the world by encouraging people to be brave. People look up to heroes. People may think that they are always the ones standing out…

Huffington Post’s article authoritatively described the definition of a trophic cascade as an ecological phenomenon triggered by the addition, or removal of top predators and involving reciprocal changes in the relative populations of predator and prey through a food chain, which often results in dramatic changes in ecosystem structure and nutrient cycling (huffingtonpost.com).” For that reason, in today’s society we have witnessed numerous trophic cascades that occur all over the world,…