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In January 2008, Kirsten Haglund was crowned Miss America. Through this competition, she was able to open up about her teen struggle with anorexia. From a young age, Haglund was struggling from insecure thoughts, but when she began going to a very competitive ballet school, those thoughts became real. In Louie’s running career and war experience, he also struggled with fitting in, survival, and persecution. Through both of their victories, Kristian Haglund and Louie Zamperini have been able to…

The Pyramid Lake War of 1860 was an unavoidable war that stemmed from the years of abuse and mistreat against the Paiute tribe by Euro-American settlers. The Great Basin tribes were being forced into starvation by the Euro-American settlers who flooded into the area and overtook the lands. While the Great Basin Tribes tried to remain peaceful, after years of violent acts against them, they finally stood up against the settlers. The conflict which is considered to be “the single greatest…

Lauryn Hill is a famous songwriter and poet whose work is balanced between sacred and secular. Even though all of her songs and poems are not about religion they still have strong meanings. In 2002 Lauryn Hill released a song called “The Mystery of Iniquity.” Through this song Ms. Hill expresses how the government attempts to hide the their unfair treatment. During the Era of slavery the unfair and brutal treatment of blacks was obvious, but in modern times the government is now hiding the their…

In the 1990s a game series started known as Silent Hill. This game series takes a main character into a town that’s warped by a nightmare landscape. The series itself has many common themes that fit in with Freud’s writing “The Uncanny”. Specifically, the second entry in the series aptly titled Silent Hill 2 is a prime example of the uncanny. Through the series’ regular themes, but also in terms of the double and Unheimlich James’ story unfolds and the player is left with a truly emotionally…

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The Hills Have Eyes was Wes Craven's second directorial film after The Last House on the Left (I'm not counting his stint as Abe Snake directing The Fireworks Woman). Much like The Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes has a gritty, low budget, violent look, having been shot on 16mm film. Given the budget of approximately $230,000, Wes Craven was able to craft a violent, sometimes humorous horror film that to this day is still quite popular among the horror crowd. The film has gone on to…

negating that they are individuals with personalities, and emotions. Lauryn Hill highlights the visibility of women’s sexuality to demonstrate the way that image often undermines worth. Lauryn Hill demonstrates how women often intentionally present themselves in a sexual way when she expresses, “Showing off your ass cause you’re thinking it’s a trend / Girlfriend, let me break it down for you again / You know I only say it cause…

This essay and following presentation is about The Battle of Bunker Hill. It will go over not only the who, what, where, when and why of this battle but will also try to excite you about the incredible way our country began. We were the ultimate underdogs. Hopefully, at the end of this essay you will see a few of the reasons we are called the home of the brave. In June 17, 1775, on a hot summer day, the Battle of Bunker Hill took place. This battle turned out to be the bloodiest battle of the…

Life is an uncontrollable force that drives one in and out of places of comfort and hope at an unsteady pace. Elizabeth Bishop has expressed her experience with the push and pulls of life through her glorious and imaginative works. Throughout Bishop’s writings she expresses the hard young life she endured, her conflicts with her health throughout her life, and her travels. Many of her works were influenced by friends and colleagues as she went from her young education and growing into her years…

Season 1, Episode 1 After watching the first episode of One Tree Hill we have noticed that there is much segregation between Nathan’s crowd and Lucas’s group. We have determined that Nathan is a jerk and does not deserve Peyton, this is because all he wants is girls (and it doesn’t even have to be Peyton), he does not respect her well being. We have realized that Lucas is very interested in Peyton and it seems that he would take very good care of her, plus they have the same interests. In the…