Cabbage Patch Kids

The year I got my driver 's license began auspiciously, with the sheikh 's home on Sunset Boulevard burning to the ground on New Year 's Day. It was about a decade after Manson and before Menendez, and the sheikh 's lewdly-embellished statues lining the property reinforced the certainty that all threats came from outside the city limits. I was at my best friend Allegra 's house a half block away when we heard the sirens and went to watch the spectacle. Wearing the Benetton sweaters they 'd…

Nostalgia occurs within many individuals, communities and overall American society. From reminiscing the King of Rock n Roll, Elvis Presley, or even childhood toys like the Cabbage Patch Kids of the 1980’s. Practically in American society, the desire to reconcile and remember past historical figures or life-changing events lead to the construct of memorials and monuments. Building monuments or memorials are for the soul purpose of commemorating a person or event. Groups or an agency, in charge…

The photograph, “The New Mothers”, by Sally Mann is not only a very contradicting photo, but is also viewed by many people to be a contradictory statement. The photograph appears contradictory because through this snap shot, Mann is stimulating the maturity of the children, and fostering the idea that all females will grow up to have a part in motherhood. Mann is challenging the global standpoint of femininity. It is an overall global view today, that whether you get married and then have…

Born November 8th, 1936 in Iowa in an area called “The Cabbage Patch”. The majority of her childhood was stricken by poverty. In the time of the Great Depression she recalls having no money and potbelly stove in her living room. During this time her father was the city marshall, so when one afternoon her father…

thank you so much for this lovely dinner, I’m sorry I missed your call Austin.” Mom goes to hug him and gives him a kiss on the lips making me feel awkward I think Ricky feels the same. Ricky fakes a cough and says "mum.” “I’m sorry these are my two kids that I’ve been telling you about. This is Ricky my 16 teen year old son and this is Sky my 15 teen year old daughter, this is my boyfriend…

He turned a little sideways in his chair to drink his mug of coffee. At the table on his left the man with the strident voice was still talking remorselessly away. A young woman who was perhaps his secretary, and who was sitting with her back to Winston, was listening to him and seemed to be eagerly agreeing with everything that he said. From time to time Winston caught some such remark as 'I think you're so right, I do so agree with you', uttered in a youthful and rather silly feminine voice.…

Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…