Eric Burdon

flying over the clouds and the Himalayas. As the passengers admired the view, Eric was thinking about somewhere else. His thought of navigating in 1933 in a beautiful paradise have referred to in James Hilton’s book where he called it Shangri-La, a utopian world separate from us and where only lucky souls can go. Some of these wanted to leave it, but Conway, a character with whom Eric relates and envies, didn’t. Eric Weiner lived in India in the 1990s as he was working as a National Public…

In the book The Geography of Bliss from Eric Weiner, through the first four chapters Weiner visits the Netherlands, Switzerland, Bhutan and Qatar to discover the factors that makes these countries happy. People in both the Netherlands and Switzerland are provided healthcare and education, since both are socially-minded European countries. But one, the Netherlands, has a loose lifestyle, while Switzerland has strict social rules. In the other two countries, Bhutan and Qatar, one focuses too much…

Throughout the history of the United States, periods of radical change in political, legal, and economic systems have been referred to as “Reconstructions.” One of the most prominent was the Reconstruction era following the Civil War. Another two periods of change included the New Deal enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 and the Civil Rights Movement starting in the 1950s. Both the New Deal and the Civil Rights Movement should be considered reconstructions according to two authors…

Eric Foner’s “A Short History of Reconstruction” is an updated, abridged edition of “Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution.” This book redefines how the Reconstruction Era is viewed, in ways historians have not done before. Foner chronologically starts with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 to validate his statement that “Reconstruction was not only a specific time period, but also the beginning of an extended historical process: the adjustment of American society to the end of…

Are we at war? The once cheerful cartoons on the small television monitors get tuned into a muted vivid image of a plane heading toward the twin towers. Than another. Flames begin to blaze as smoke surges through the air, the oxygen we must breathe now. The buildings immediately tilt as our world starts to break, humans’ ordinary humans have a life or death decision to make. But do they really? Because, either way the ones attacked physically need to choose how they’ll die that day. The…

The Cleveland Browns have been searching for a quarterback for what seems like forever. The Browns have won double-digit games just once since returning to the NFL in 1999, as Derek Anderson went 10-5 as Cleveland’s starter in 2007. To fix their issues behind center, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that the Browns will try to trade for New England Patriots quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, depending on how their draft evaluations go over the next several weeks. But before we get into whether the…

food are full of unhealthy food. The two texts, from Uptain Siclair “The Jungle” (1906) and Eric Schlosser “Fast Food Nation” (2011) report the abomination that happen in the meatpacking industry in the United States. Upton Sinclair is an American writer of nearly 100 books, in 1906 became famous for his novel “The Jungle” which describe the conditions of meatpacking industry in US. On the other hand Eric Schlosser was a journalist and became famous for his book “Fast Food Nation”. Nevertheless,…

Ian Conway Famous Person Assignment: Eric Cartman Eric Cartman is a fictional character and one the main protagonists from the TV show South Park. Trey Parker is the voice of Eric Cartman. He lives in a fictional town called South Park, Colorado, United States. He lives with his single mother name Liane Cartman, who spoils him and is considered a “crack whore” meaning she has had sexual relations with other men and was a drug addict. He did have a father name Jack Tenorman but he unknowingly…

Live In What would people do without technology? Technology is the focal point of everybody’s lives. It is used everyday for work, to strengthen connections, or pay for something online. Technology has never been relied upon so much. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and writer Jared Cohen, in their article “Our Future Selves,” argue that technology will offer the world a greater future with the possible connections and productivity it can generate. Professor Lori Andrews counters Schmidt and…

is Acceptable or Unacceptable Child abuse is a topic people are uncomfortable talking about, but it is a fact of life. There is no denying that thousands of children are abused all over the world each year. In “Punishment or Child Abuse?” Michael Eric Dyson asserts that there is a common phenomenon of child abuse in black Americans, and they don’t think their behaviors are wrong. Dyson attempts to bring readers’ attention to this issue and raise their awareness of child abuse. It is…