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Christmas songs – “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” and “Winter Wonderland” by Bing Crosby – help create a peaceful, ambient atmosphere appropriate for the laidback attitude of that scene, where the party members begin to congregate and catch up with each other. These songs mark the approach of Christmas, a time of festive holidays and quiet comfort of family. In the end, another familiar Bing Crosby Christmas song is played to signal the happy ending of the play: “Let It Snow! Let…

Facebook: A Society of Its Own “Bing, bing, bing”, the quite familiar sound goes off once again from a cellular device. The sound was that of a notification from Facebook; one of the most successful social media sites to this day. This profound internet source has consumed the average person’s daily life. Although it is quite commonly used in today’s society; it has sparked an interesting controversy on whether or not Facebook is having a positive or negative impact. For example, many…

A Look at the Future It is impossible to know exactly what the future will hold, although many creative minds have tried to depict a possibility. One example of this is George Orwell’s 1984. The novel was written in 1949, and depicts a post war world. The government, known as “The Party”, has total control over all of the citizens, watching and monitoring everything they do. The story follows Winston, a man who attempts to fight his repressors within the rigid confines laid out for him. Ray…

June 19th, 1982, Vincent Chin, aged 27, was buried on his wedding day. Just 4 days prior, the young man was celebrating his recent engagement at a bar in Detroit, Michigan. When two white men approached him with racial terms followed by the beating from a baseball bat that caused his life (“Vincent Who”). The beating was brutal enough to be considered as manslaughter. However the sentence was only 3000 dollars and 3-year prohibition (“Vincent Who”). Apparently in the 20th century America,…

1. What is Tin Pan Alley? Where did it originate? Why was it named ‘Tin Pan Alley’? • In the first half of the 20th century, the primary way of selling music was sheet music. Tin Pan Alley was a name given to those who were in the sheet music business: writers and publishers. About a hundred years ago, Tin Pan Alley got its start in New York City. Because of the many song writers plunking out their song ideas on rows of pianos sounded like a bunch of people banging tin cans, the locals began…

Bradbury's Societal Concerns Ray Bradbury, the author of Fahrenheit 451 (451), one of the most challenged books, had many of concerns for the future. With his own society changing he believed that the future societies, or our society, would be on a decline. There is still much to be learned from Bradbury’s book, but there are a lot of similarities between our society and the one Bradbury fears will be coming. Four concerns Bradbury had were the loss of education, individuality, human…

Dave Bing is the last out of the mayors of Detroit, and he was a former basketball star. He took office in 2009 pledging to solve Detroit's fiscal problems, which at that point were already overwhelming. During his term, there were numerous announcements of…

meaningful relationship with the world and each other. Their education according to Clarisse consists of learning answers without asking questions. “but do you know, we never ask questions, or at least most don’t; they just run the answers at you bing, bing, bing, and us sitting there for four more hours of film-teacher” (Bradbury…

endorphins. Endorphins are any of a group of hormones secreted within the brain and nervous system having a number of physiological functions (Bing). Adrenaline is a hormone secreted by the adrenal glands, especially in conditions of stress, increasing rates of blood circulation, breathing, and carbohydrate metabolism and preparing muscles for exertion (Bing). The force of the release of endorphins can lead to an increased drive and even an addiction to getting tattoos in order to repeat the…

Xiao Qiong is unhappily married to Xu Bing. They barely talk to each other, they have never kissed and Xu Bing lives with another man. The main reason that the two got married was to terminate pressure from their parents. Both of their parents have been imploring that they get married and start a family, to not humiliate the family. Another reason that they got married was because Xu Bing did not want anyone to find out that he was gay; in China, homosexual people…