Candace Parker

When I would go to the park, maybe initially they would be like, ‘She's a girl, she can't play.’ But then the next time, they were picking me first for their team. Let your actions speak for themselves. Don't worry about what everybody else is saying. Just concentrate on playing basketball and embrace being a woman and being in sports.” (TIME) Parker is a great role model for women who aspire to take part in women athletics. She’s broken glass ceilings in athletics and proved many, including Gallico, wrong. Towards the end of her response, she mentions to “embrace being a woman and being in sports.” This is meaningful, because while women’s basketball is trailing in popularity behind men’s, she reminds women to be proud of themselves in being in sports even as traditionalists attempt to tear them down. Gallico’s way of thinking also suggests that women are weak and that when they fail, they don’t face it with poise and composure. If anything, women are quite the opposite. They’ve fought years for women suffrage and are more empowered than ever. Our nation’s recent presidential election…

Candace Bushnell is an American television producer and novelist best known for writing a series of chick lit novels. Her best known works are the Sex and the City novels which were adapted from the columns by the same name that she wrote for the New York Observer between 1994 and 1996. Candace was born to Camile Salonia and Calvin L. Bushnell in 1958 Glastonbury, Connecticut. Her father was something of a celebrity in her town having been an inventor of the Air Cooled Hydrogen Fuel Cell that…

Charlie Parker. Despite his short life, his contributions to jazz and bebop persist to this day. Charlie Christopher Parker Jr. was born on August 29, 1920, in Kansas City, Kansas, to Charles and Addie Parker, both of whom worked nighttime jobs, while Parker went to school (Megill,…

The fourth theme reading is titled “Pussy Epistemology is No Match for a Dick” and it’s written by Richard Dalton. In his article, Dalton tackles some heavily debated topics; ranging from atheism, theology, and the clashes between these two very different viewpoints. Dalton starts his article explaining South Park’s carnivalesque attitude towards culture icons and celebrities in general. Dalton lists a couple famous celebrities that South Park have made fun of in the past, most of the lot are…

I am writing to you today out of extreme concern, to be honest, and with deep unease for the youth of this generation. With respect to your show, ‘South Park’ - I find that its impact has a completely toxic effect on not only children but on everyone. South Park episodes are viewed in the millions, and its humor and ideas are communicated worldwide. There is also no age limit to watch South Park episodes, which makes this cartoon even more dangerous. I have found that this show emphasizes on…

An Evaluation of Three Web Sites • Portal to Texas History The Portal to Texas History (http://texashistory.unt.edu/) provides visitors access to a wealth of information about Texas history, in a variety of different formats. Users can search for books, newspapers, photos and maps through a search box at the top of its main page. They may also choose to search “everything”. An “everything” searches for the term “Alamo” displays results including historic photos of the Alamo, recent pictures of…

The Canadian sketch comedy group, Kids in the Hall, had a weekly TV show that first aired in 1988 and ran for five seasons. This group of five men are consistently in each week’s sketches, which focus mainly on absurd situations and, as they are men, often requires them to crossdress to add to the humour. Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a live American late-night show that premiered in 1975 and is still running today, on it’s 43 season. Every episode is hosted by a different celebrity and…

This paper will be going into details of the jazz artist Miles Davis from the beginning of his music career to the end. In 1926 a well-known jazz artist by the name of Miles Davis was born in the city of Alton, Illinois. At the age of 13 Davis quickly developed talents in playing the trumpet. His father introduced him to this instrument and encouraged him into taking private lessons with a close friend of his that directed music at an art school. By High school he was a professional at playing…

Isaac Parker. Remembered today as the “Hanging Judge”, Isaac C. Parker had an impressive thirty-five year career in public service. He became a frontier attorney, later served as a city attorney, state judge, a two year term representative to Congress, and his most notable legacy as a federal district judge in Fort Smith, Arkansas for twenty-one years. Isaac Charles Parker was born October 15, 1838 to Joseph and Jane Parker. He was born and raised near Barnesville, in Belmont County, Ohio.…

anybody would have anything other than peaches and cream to say about me is a mystery” (Chazelle 01:18:10-01:18:24). Fletcher sarcastically adds in the comment about peaches and cream, showing that he realizes that he made many enemies while working at Shaffer. Nieman laughs at this comment which assures us that Fletcher is using sarcasm. Next, Fletcher goes into a monologue of his time at Shaffer: Truth is, I don’t think people understood what it was I was doing at Shaffer. I wasn’t there to…