Classics

Traveling during the holidays can be hectic; and flying is no exception. WestJet airlines decided to do something different in 2013 for their passengers. They wanted to show their guest that they truly value them and go above and beyond customer service and give their customers a “Christmas Miracle”. The video shows passengers talking to Santa on at a kiosk station telling them what they wanted for Christmas. Requests ranged from a big screen TV to socks and underwear. Once the passengers…

Classic tales have been morphed and changed by time itself. Time twists and turns old stories and creates different versions of them. With these versions people are left to debate about which is better. By denotation a tale is a fictitious or true narrative or story, especially one that is imaginatively recounted. Even though there is a sea of retellings and parodies of the Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain there are two versions that embody this classic tale well. The first one is the podcast…

According to Adam Ragusea, a journalism professor at Mercer University, Mariah Carey’s song is a classic because of the chords, as reported by Vox. Ragusea said there are 13 distinct chords that makes Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You” so special, as reported by Slate. He explains that the chords create a melody that is considered quite Christmassy. Mariah Carey’s song is not only a holiday classic but it is also a holiday staple. And it is because…

determined by things such as usage of emoticons, to the insinuation of the text itself. “Frances and Bernard”, like any typical couple in a classic, face troubles within their relationships, whether it is their family and friends disapproving their choices, or initially struggling to accept a trait in one another. This is similar to one of the well-known classics, Romeo and Juliet. Both couples face disapproval from both or one side by more than one family member of the other. Also, the story…

Steinel offers a different view on the censorship of Catcher in the Rye, stating that she believes that censorship was more based off of the fact that the book depicted postwar America poorly, not that it was obscene. She wrote that “On the surface, then, Catcher in the Rye is a rather mundane novel--it is not immediately clear why it has gained the lasting affection…” (Steinel). She agrees that the book is a bit vulgar and reviews a count of the bad words in the book, showing that “bastards”…

The film ‘Flame’ has been described as controversial due to its particular confrontation of the classic nationalist narrative that suggested that women fighters participated equally with men during the Zimbabwean liberation movement (Barnes 2006, 248). 1967 marked the year when the Second Chimurenga broke out in Zimbabwe after the majority of the ‘black population’ had been denied civil and economic rights for over two centuries (Barnes 2006, 242). The liberation movement also referred to as the…

"Beowulf" is a classic, lyrical poem that has been passed down from generation to generation. Although historians agree that sections of the story are absent, and parts of the story have most likely been modified, the main idea and plot of the story remain significant. After reading and processing the enticing poem, one can easily identify it as a traditional Anglo-Saxon epic poem. "Beowulf" includes many details and examples for which it can be classified as an epic poem. Whether it is the…

models available. • Classics: Modern Triumph engineering has made range of classic motorcycles as reliable, engaging and useable every day. Bonneville, Bonneville T100, Thruxton are some models available in Classics. The most famous name in motorcycling Bonneville stands for freedom, open roads, independence and some of the most stylish motorcycles ever made. There is also an option of ‘Building your own’ Classic range. • Cruiser: Prima facie Cruiser may disguise as Classic, but just one ride…

would not have had to will to learn to read. Frederick Douglass realized first what was expected from him as a slave and then what the whites had access to. Even as a boy he had double consciousness and took advantage of it (Three African American Classics: Narrative of Frederick Douglass, 370). From an early age he had a slave consciousness but that would…

it also leads to the objectification of women as well, which in turn promotes a rape culture. As fairy tales often portray women as objects or hidden treasure for the daring male knight to rescue from the castle in which they are trapped in. The classic fairy tales that Disney has created portrays women as proclin dolls, beautiful yet breakable, and because of that powerless as well. As Leslee Farish Kuykendall and Brian W. Sturm, wrote in We Said Feminist Fairy Tales, Not Fractured Fairy Tales!…