Blue-collar worker

Secrets of Clothes Zachary Trubenbach University of North Texas  1. Discuss how dress in all six scenarios presented in this podcast changed the identities of the wearers. Limited your discussion to a short paragraph for each of the six scenarios. Cass Frankenstein was bullied during his adolescent years. As a result, he turned to clothing as a shield. Somehow, sunglasses with tinted frames which miraculously stopped the bullying. He continues to wear sunglasses religiously. The sunglasses made…

exact style suit my grandpa is wearing. From what can be recognized, it looks like an evening wear style that John Peacock showed for the 1960’s. Peacock’s illustration was described as, “single breasted jacket with single button fastening, long roll collar faced with silk, matching covered buttons, hip-level piped pockets; straight cut trousers. White collared-attached shirt. Black silk bow tie. Black shoes” (1996, p.175). A key identifier for his suit style is the notable difference in fabric…

The play, “For The Loyal” was chosen to be read for our semester final. “For The Loyal,” was written by Lee Blessing. The play has not been out for very long, it was first performed on April 24, 2015 at the Illusion Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. “For The Loyal” takes place at a College University where the young married couple of the play, Mia and Toby reside. Mia is a graduate student whom is with child, while her husband Toby is an assistant football coach for the University football…

dmittedly, the last three things make my blood boil, because they are an eyesore! Pocket square, hence the word SQUARE! Your pocket square should be neat, fold the fabric into a SQUARE! It shouldn’t look like a clown napkin, like you pushed it down into the pocket and slowly pulled it out so it could collapse on your chest. Generally speaking, your tie should JUST reach the waistband of your trousers, or slightly shorter, if you can’t take your jacket off because your tie looks like your…

The term white collar came about from Edwin Sutherland and has risen in notoriety recently. White collar crime has been more spotlighted in the last decade due to the magnitude of money that was stolen from countless innocent people. When the general public thinks about white collar crimes like Ponzi schemes, most of them bring up Bernie Madoff. Madoff was able to steal $50 billion from a myriad of individuals. Madoff is not the only criminal who preys on people and their trust. Allen…

term “white-collar crime” began to be associated with frauds committed by business and government professionals. The phrase was mentioned during a speech given by Edwin Sutherland to the American Sociological Society. Sutherland defined “white-collar” as “a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social stats in the course of his occupation” (White Collar Crime). However, white-collar crimes are described in various ways. The Justice Department characterize white-collar crimes as…

Wolf of Wall Street with the highly talented Leonardo DiCaprio as the notorious Jordan Belfort. The wolf of Wall Street can be used as a visual to show the different topics we talked about in class. This movie is based off of Jordan Belfort a white collar criminal on the streets of long island. There are many instances where what we discussed in lecture/discussion. Crime is now a big seller at the movie theatre and I believe that it can have an impact on a youths mind. The wolf of Wall Street…

Extent of white-collar crime in the United States One of the biggest problems in understanding the extent of white-collar crime is access to data. Gathering data can be very difficult to do, as there are so many different types of white-collar crimes. Estimates of the cost also vary greatly depending on which crimes are included in the list. These crimes are also increasing when compared to street crime. (Desilets, 2014) The skills required to commit these crimes are becoming more common.…

Without African music we would not have some of the most popular genres of music that we have today. African music influence helped create genres like jazz, gospel, blues, soul and even hip hop and reggae. The traditional song and dance created by native Africans spread all over the world as its fusion with other type of song helped create the music we all know and love today. The spread of the African music can be traced to the slave trade that shipped Africans all over the world. The one thing…

thoughts, Hughes felt a deep sense of passion to poetically write of the struggles faced by many impoverished African Americans. During the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes used poetry to convey the African American cultural through a rhythm and blues style about dreams, suffering, the soul, and America. Langston Hughes expresses his concerns of deferred dreams, which were lost during a depressive time in a short masterpiece called “Harlem”. This poem was published in 1951 when blacks…