Brad Paisley

“People are different”, is an obvious statement. Liking apples more than oranges while understanding others will like oranges more than apples is easy to agree with. However, “People are different”, becomes more interesting as this statement is really examined. James B. Twitchell created the VAL test, a test which identifies what kind of consumer one is. Different types of consumers included in the VAL test are innovators, thinkers, believers, achievers, strivers, experiencers, makers, and…

1.Unstable situation The grandmother, plays a major role in the story by introducing the audience to a very unlikeable person, which in turns, gives a distinctive negative attitude towards her that grows throughout the story. She isn’t very well liked by the family of her son, Baily. Baily’s family tries to ignore the grandmother because she often is a self-interested and conning women. For instance, the grandmother tries to convince the family to go to Tennessee instead of Florida, by adding…

Memoir: The Tragedy of a Family Family is a value most people like to hold. It’s great to know that family is always there for each other, but seeing that family break a part is a sad experience. Great parents doomed to split or divorce is a big event for a family. It, sometimes, fully break families a part. The year 2012 was probably the worst year for me. It was an event I thought would never happen to my family. I always thought my family was going to stay together for the rest of time,…

Imagine waking up one day and your life is heading in a path you regret taking. Who do you turn to in need of assistance? As individuals mature, they realize friends and family are both beneficial to approach for help. Friends and family may both get into arguments and lose connection with each other for a short period of time, but arguments are not worth losing people who have been there through everything. Although friends are more likely to argue with one another, friends are there to support…

Over the duration of my senior summer I was allowed to experience many wonders as I transitioned out of one segment of my life to a new one; however, possibly to greatest experience out of the entire time period of my summer was my family's trip to six flags. We began planning for the trip months in advance saving money, gathering supplies, and making reservations. We toiled through this segment of planing making sure that all of the details of the trip would be perfect. Once all of our details…

September 1851, Tubman made her third trip. She tried to get her husband to come back up North with her, but he decline and told her that he had remarried and did not want to leave. Tubman went to Garret’s house to found there were more passengers to rescue than anticipated. That did not stop her though. Once they reach the safe house of Fredrick Douglas, they remain there until he collect enough money to take them to Canada. After receiving the money, she and her eleven passengers started the…

Babbette Jaquish planted sunflowers and sell the seeds to support the cancer research. She was trying to help herself and others who get cancer, even when she knows that her “body decling over the years” White. She was live positive by trying to do something to herself, her family, and people who get cancer, not sitting and let other feel sorry about her. It also shows how real love affacts others, her family continued what she started doing. also how people feel hurt by losing someone who they…

George Rex Jr married into the Knauss family. This was the backwoods idea of a power couple via the mid 1700's. The Knauss family in America took their ancestry seriously. The family genealogists organized an impressive show in the late 1800's in Pennsylvania. How many people would you consider a complete family reunion? Fifty, seventy-five , even one hundred people? How about twelve hundred people? The Knuass elders leaders organized such a reunion. Their ability to gather information in…

These country songs are awesome. Maybe it's just me, but good songs cross over boundaries appealing to just about everyone, even city slickers like me. These short, country songs are wrapped around catchy stories. 1. SOME BEACH [OFFICIAL VIDEO] Blake Shelton, 2004. Funniest song I've ever seen! Thought I'd share a laugh. For those who don't know, "some beach" is a double entendre. The singer "pictures himself" on some beach not lifting a finger. 2. PEOPLE ARE CRAZY [OFFICIAL VIDEO] Billy…

playing in the background. Brad Paisley became one of my favorite singers, and I knew the words to most of his songs. While thinking about different ideas for this paper, one song stood out to me the most, You Need a Man Around Here. I had never really thought much about the lyrics, but as I started to think about them from a more sociological point of view I saw many examples of gender stereotypes and the ways that society blends the concepts of gender and sex. Paisley sings of man surveying…