Chuck Hogan

“He Who Marches Out of Step Hears Another Drum” (133). Based in an Oregon psychiatric hospital and described from the viewpoint of a paranoid schizophrenic known by the name Chief Bromden, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey is a novel of hidden messages. Randle Patrick McMurphy is a rebellious soul and one who marches out of step, and Nurse Ratched, or “Big Nurse”, is the overseer and enforcer of all rules. Due to their polar opposite personalities, McMurphy and Nurse Ratched did not…

Ken Kesey wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in the 1960s, after participating in LSD experiments at a mental hospital in California. The novel is a metaphor for the 60s, taking place in a mental ward run by the controlling Nurse Ratched, who represents the silent majority. Chief, the Native American narrator, lives in silence and isolation until McMurphy, a new patient, defies Nurse Ratched’s authority, drawing parallels to the counterculture. Throughout the novel, Chief sees a fog in the…

Chuck E Cheese Vs Incredible Pizza People get very excited when it comes to choosing entertainment places. They have a lot of things that you can do. The two most popular entertainment places are Chuck E Cheese and Incredible Pizza. They both have many things for the young kids to do. Their parents can even have fun. The entertainment places both have an area that people can go to just to play games. The best thing is the parties, people can have their birthday parties at both places. The best…

basketball shoes change, so do prices. Today, an average price of basketball shoes are 120 dollars. Basketball shoes used to be 60$. There are multiple reasons why the price of basketball shoes have changed. For example, there used to be Converse Chuck Taylor. Now, there are huge companies like Nike and Under Armour. Today there are 100s of sponsorships with NBA pro's making new shoes every year. There are 12 different kinds of Lebron shoes. The price changes on the…

background, and evaluation of promotions and consumer reactions. Where the company are situated in regards to the ‘spectacle’ will also be addressed. Background: “Converse is to footwear, as Coca Cola is to soft drinks” - Richard Copcutt, VP/GM of Chuck Taylor All Stars Converse are a pervasive footwear icon of Western pop culture. The company was founded in 1908 by Marquis Mills Converse, initially intended to sell sports shoes with rubber soles.…

for a quality shoe? How about a fashion icon with a wealth of American history behind it that is instantaneously recognizable by nearly everyone? The All-American Chuck Taylor All-Stars by Converse has flourished through the decades and remains as one of the most popular and fashionable footwear around. Icons established and cemented Chuck Taylors into American culture. In cinema it has many cameos in American classics, in sports it was historically the most popular sneaker, and since its…

representing the USA’s Olympic team for 32 years—8 Summer and winter games-- and represents the USA’s military, you know that lots of money is being made by consumers wanting to have the same sneakers as soldiers and Olympians. This would also make the Chuck Taylor brand lots of money from marketing. A piece of evidence supporting the selling portion of sneakers’ popularity is, according to paragraph 9, “ A pair worn by basketball legend Michael Jordan during game 5 of the 1997 NBA finals sold…

In lecture this week the theme for the readings are based around Popular Culture. The first reading titles “Our Zombies, Ourselves” by James Parker he explains the role of fictional monsters in the popular imagination. Parker’s essay is an extension of Toro and Hogan’s fascination with vampire myths just in reference to zombies. He picks various films and books that depict the elements of a zombie threw the writers eyes. He also chooses to cite a Canadian punk band which shows another variation…

Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan open up with describing imagery of a “Year Without a Summer,” a dark time that gave birth to much darker children, monsters that lurk still in our society to this day. Creatures of the night were fixated and empathetic about our humanity, except for one—vampires. Vampires since the beginning of their creation are perceived as these erotic, sexy, lust evoking, blood thirsty, irresistible terrifying creatures. Creatures that have lost all connection to their…

In his lectures, “The Power of Myth,” Joseph Campbell states that two of the major functions of myth are the sociological and pedagogical. Myth can uphold social orders, and myth can teach people how to live in any circumstances. These two functions are not necessarily separate; in fact, they can intertwine in such a way that the myth itself can uphold a social order by teaching people how to live with that social order, as Walter Lippmann would say, manufacturing consent for that order just by…