Duct tape

a newspaper deliveryman and a security guard and sometimes as a fisherman. Although he has different jobs, he is very cheap. He takes the easy route as much as possible as he can. For instantly, he uses food stamps to make all his purchases and duct tape to fix everything that gets destroyed. He counts every penny and is very picking about buying things, whatever purchase his family made drove him crazy, especially stuff that they gave away. He would buy family’s appliances from Risky, the guy…

The sticky note has a small section of weak adhesive across the top back, that allows it to stick to surfaces, like a desk or a laptop. As opposed to a stronger adhesive like duct tape, the sticky note is literally “loosely enforced”, representing the leniency of folkway norms. Due to the small, flimsy nature of sticky notes, they tend to get lost from time to time. This represents how an individual can lose folkway norms fairly…

For most of us, bouncing is fun! No wonder there are plenty of trampolines everywhere. From our backyards to indoor gyms, to playgrounds, trampolines were being promoted as an efficient form of exercise for children and even adults. Likewise, trampolines are great for engaging everyone in the family in a fun activity. However, frequent use, extreme weather conditions, liquid and chemical spillage and other physical elements contribute to the fast wear and tear of trampolines. Once you see…

Who Knew? Who knew the day I was looking forward to for the longest of time would be the worst day of my life? Who knew that it would affect the rest of my life? Who knew that I would shed so many tears everyday beyond that point? That’s the thing… nobody did. No one knows when these kind of things are going to happen. There’s no way to prevent them, unless you lock yourself in your room for the rest of your life. Where I am now is not a happy place. Just keep that in mind when I tell you my…

A fifty year old man huddles in an old pickup truck, his ankles are wrapped in old socks and rags that can be seen scattered throughout the truck. There is a half used role of duct tape that he uses to attach a pen to his gnarled hand while he writes. Words and incoherent sentences are scrawled across pages and pages of a yellow legal pad. All of the letters that he writes are directed to the NFL about problems that they have ignored, pushed aside out of greed for money. A light flickers in the…

Additionally, we can see the glorification of serial killers affecting our treatment of criminals and the severity of our jail sentencing. We see criminals getting shorter and shorter jail sentences for these horrific crimes. The justice system with Bates Motel is a direct reflection of what our system is becoming. Just like Norman the criminals are the ones who have power over everything. They hold power of the justice system, the police officers who enforce it, and us the citizens. We have…

Mark Fainaru wrote this documentary to enlighten us on what is really causing the football players concussions. Scientist were figuring out why players life spans were not very long. They bought it to the league which they were denying the true fact that were going on. The League kept denying the subject and tried to cover it up possible ties with the player’s concussions and their suffering on the football field and all the brain injuries. The league covers up the real reason why they are…

Pop filters When recording vocalists, you will most definitely need to place a pop filter between the singer and vocal mic. A pop filter will cut down on the mini-explosions of air that happen when a singer says “B” or “P”. Don’t ever leave this job for a compressor down the line. Pop filters also serve the secret purpose of blocking all spit spray from reaching your prized vocal mic. It is not uncommon to find studios stacking two pop filters depending on the singers style. Here are a couple of…

In a world where technology has overtaken society, people have found it much easier to commit crimes. We've all heard of websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Ebay, and possibly the most talked about for being so dangerous, Craigslist. These are websites where people can interact with one another, but sometimes it may just so happen that you do not know who you're truly talking to. What or who is hiding behind a computer screen on the other side may just be your worst nightmare. Philip Markoff, an…

“After all I am guilty,” William Clyde Gibson, age 59, of New Albany, Indiana, stated two months after pleading guilty and being sentenced to death for the murder of three women. Gibson’s victims included Karen Hodella age 44 of port orange, Florida in 2002, Stephanie kirk age 35 of Charlestown, Indiana in March 2012, and Christine Whitis, age 75 of Clarksville, Indiana in April 2012. Gibson was classified as a sadist and rapist. His preferred method being strangulation, stabbing with a knife…