Bob Ulrich

Spanish speaking countries have lots of cultural differences but music is a big key in cultural differences. There are twenty-one countries throughout the world that consider Spanish their official language. They include Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela. All of these countries have differences in the type of…

The main character Scrooge is a guy who is mean and disrespectful in the begging of the whole story. His name Scrooge means that he is a hard hearted person. His friend Marley was a women who was his business partner who had died in the story represents mankind. The ghost that visits Scrooge means memory, charity, and fear of death. Charles Dickens reminds his readers throughout the story that you should notice the crowd and group of people that you hang out with. In the opening chapter or…

After World War II, and The Vietnam War took place, American citizens were extremely disappointed with the government and how government officials handled situations in Indochina, and throughout the rest of the world. As government officials increased the commitments in Vietnam, American casualties soared. The desire for cultural revolution during and after the Vietnam War caused the creation of new developments of art, theater, propaganda, and advocacy. The preceding ideal of American culture…

If Elvis Presley came up to you ladies out there and said, “C’mon snake, let’s rattle” how high would your heart rate be? ‘Cause I know mine would be through the roof! Who wouldn’t want to dance with such a cool cat known as the King of Rock? Aside from Presley, a big thanks goes out to Alan Freed -- back in the summer of ‘51 -- for crankin’ up the sounds and broadcasting this crazy good music across the Midwest. Ever since Freed exposed those cool tunes, rock ‘n’ roll has been in and out of…

excited that he is not dead and still has time to change. “Really for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh. The father of a long, long line of brilliant laughs!... ‘I’ll send it to Bob Cratchit's!’ Whispered Scrooge,”. This proves he has changed completely and won’t go back to the way he was before. He is done changing for the good and lives happily ever after. Reading A Christmas Carol was really fun. Scrooge changed a lot and…

Although four out of every five people seem, lost all humanity in todays world, Richard LeMieux shows that one person who still has their humanity through his humbiling experience. The purpose of LeMieux’s excerpt “The Lady In Red” serves to illustrate to the reader a world in which people contain no desire to even help out an unfortunate man on the street and he successfully persuades the reader of this horror mainly through pathos appeal. LeMieux and his dog Willow find themselves in a rough…

“Left wing, right wing, chicken wing.” Woody Guthrie was a skilled guitarist who traveled the U.S.A. singing songs and saying famous quotes to inspire people who get put down. He said a very inspirational quote and sang the famous song called “This Land is Your Land”. There are some differences and similarities from what he said and and sang. Both these work of art were meant for everybody who are usually being put down. They were also meant to inspire people. They both were said to make people…

The Shawshank Redemption, widely considered one of the greatest movies of all time, is a film released in 1994 that was based on a short novella written by Stephen King in 1982. The screenplay, written and directed by Frank Darabont, is a period piece, set in the 1940’s, based on a friendship between two cons serving life sentences for murder, in Shawshank State Penitentiary. Andy Dufresne, played by actor Tim Robbins, is a banker who has been convicted of killing his unfaithful wife and her…

A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens, is a story about Ebenezer Scrooge, the protagonist, who learns to change his attitude towards life. First off, Ebenezer Scrooge’s main conflict is that he has to learn how to become a better person, which makes the type of conflict person vs self. In the beginning of the story, he is described as being a harsh fellow, “No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. . .…

“Feeling excluded is not being excluded.” The phrase above is a direct quote from John Gibson’s The War on Christmas. Among the several claims he make, I considered that quote the most contradictory and interesting one of all. Gibson uses it to explain how he, a Christian, does not feel excluded while differing religious observe their own practices, but the idea of Christmas not having the “prowess” as before is threatening. Although the erasure of specific titles to Christmas artifacts (ex.…